10 Star Wars Planets That Were Destroyed
5. Anaxes
Anaxes was the site of one of the major victories for the Republic in the Clone Wars, one which saw the Separatist army begin its final downfall.
This jungle world was a generally peaceful member of the Republic which housed a naval base and shipyards for their fleet. When Admiral Trench attacked the planet with his droid forces, he used his vast military experience and the Republic Army algorithms from captured clone trooper Echo to push the Republic to drastic measures, bringing in Clone Force 99, a.k.a. The Bad Batch.
The strategy worked as Echo was rescued, a planet destroying bomb was defused, and Trench was killed by Anakin Skywalker. Unfortunately, following the end of the war, Anaxes suffered a cataclysmic event which annihilated the entire planet, believed to have been caused by a failed reactor igniting hypermatter, and turned what remained into an asteroid field.
Somehow, the Republic's military base survived the event almost completely intact, which served the Ghost crew well when scavenging for supplies. Although they had to fight off some of the native predators that also managed to survive Anaxes' destruction.