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The Battle of Tanaab is a fictional battle from the Star Wars universe that was fought during the Galactic Civil War. It occurred after the Battle of Dubrillion and before the Battle of Xizor's Skyhook.

The Battle of Taanab, while a minor engagement by galactic standards, had a great effect on the career of Lando Calrissian. His utter defeat of the Norulac Pirates helped give Calrissian a heroic reputation, eventually leading the Rebel Alliance to offer him a general's commission before the Battle of Endor.

The Inner Rim world of Tanaab was a backwater agricultural planet, too insignificant for the Imperial Starfleet to put much effort into protecting from regular pirate raids. Shortly after the Battle of Yavin, an armada of Norulac pirate ships arrived in the fringes of the system. Taanab's small defense fleet moved out to intercept them at the Banthal Company's orbiting docks, but with little hope of stopping the raiders.

Lando Calrissian happened to be in a cantina in Taanab's spaceport city of Pandath, observing the situation on a holovid. Suddenly, he declared to the other patrons that he could defeat the pirates singlehandedly. One of the skeptical patrons, Gathal Anager, made a bet with Calrissian. Anager announced that the deed to a Clendoran brewery would be Calrissian's if he made good on his boast.

Calrissian began the battle by hiding his vessel in the ice ring of Taanab's moon, and lying in wait for the pirates. When the pirates were close enough, he intercepted them, ejecting his ship's cargo—a full load of electrified Conner nets—in the midst of the pirate fleet. While most of the pirate vessels were entangled and disabled by the drifting nets, Calrissian used his tractor beams to bash their ships with heavy chunks of ice from the moon's ring. Finally, Calrissian rallied the Taanab fleet, leading them to a decisive and swift victory. Calrissian himself was credited with nineteen kills.

Though the Taanab government offered Calrissian a permanent commission in their military, Calrissian refused. His new brewery sounded like a more lucrative business.

• Daniel Wallace, The Essential Guide to Planets and Moons, Del Rey, 1998.
• Galaxywide NewsNets, Star Wars Adventure Journal, Volume 1, Number 5.

• Battle of Tanaab on Wookieepedia: The Star Wars Wiki