Wild bantha chase

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"Here, you can hurt the Empire far more than in you're gallivanting across the starlanes on some wild bantha chase."
―Tuden Sal to Jax Pavan[1]

Wild bantha chase[2] or wild bantha hunt[3] was a slang phrase used in the galaxy, which referred to an ultimately pointless activity which distracted someone from a desired objective.[2] The idiom referred to the bantha, a pack animal from Tatooine.[4]

When Obi-Wan Kenobi was sent to Utapau to search for General Grievous at the end of the Clone Wars, he described the hunt to Anakin Skywalker as possibly being "just a wild bantha chase" when Skywalker expressed his opinion that Kenobi would need his help on the mission.[2]

Behind the scenes

The phrase is derived from the real-world phrase "wild goose chase,"[5] which also exists in Legends continuity.[6]

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Notes and references

  1. ↑ The Last Jedi
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith
  3. ↑ Star Wars Galaxies: The Ruins of Dantooine
  4. ↑ Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope
  5. ↑ Premium-Era-real wild goose chase on Collins English Dictionary: "If you are on a wild goose chase, you waste a lot of time searching for something that you have little chance of finding, because you have been given incorrect information." (backup link archived on September 16, 2022)
  6. ↑ Star Wars (1977) 30