Mission to Ansion The Mission to Ansion occurred in 22 BBY . Prelude . While the Separatist Crisis was growing , the Commerce Guild and the CIS were both trying to add planets to their cause . During this period , Ansion became a target . This was due to the fact that Ansion was the linchpin of a complicated series of treaties and alliances , such as the Keitumite Mutual Military Treaty and the Malarian Alliance , that bound together other planets of greater importance . Ansion ' s secession from the Galactic Republic was set , therefore , to cause a chain reaction of exponential consequence that threatened to rip from the Republic a plethora of worlds in forty or more alliance - entwined star systems . The machinations for Ansion ' s secession were headed by Shu Mai , Presidente of the Commerce Guild , under the watchful guidance of the Sith Lord Darth Tyranus , and in league with the Ansionian Senator Mousul . The Hutt Soergg Vosadii Bezhin was the unsavory trio ' s hired contact on the planet . They planned to use Ansion ' s generations - old border dispute that existed between its urban government , the Unity of Community , and the nomadic Alwari tribes to convince a majority of city - states to unite in a collective will that would allow Ansion to leave the Republic . The mission . Arrival on Ansion . Two teams of Jedi — consisting of Masters Luminara Unduli and Obi - Wan Kenobi and their Padawans Barriss Offee and Anakin Skywalker — were sent by the Jedi Order to convince Ansion to stay within the Republic . But from the very first day , they encountered problems . Soergg the Hutt instructed his majordomo Ogomoor , an Ansionian male , to do anything and everything necessary to thwart the Jedi mission . Two days before Obi - Wan and Anakin were scheduled to arrive on Ansion , Luminara and Barriss were attacked by local mercenaries hired by Ogomoor . Although they quickly defeated the first wave of the assault , the second began pushing them back . However , it was at this point that Kenobi and Skywalker arrived , having made good time en route to Ansion . The Jedi quickly defeated the remaining mercenaries , before moving on to meet with the Unity of Community ' s Unity Council . Plan for unity . At that meeting , the Jedi Order ' s diplomatic ambassadors committed themselves to convince the Alwari tribal leadership to share half or more of their land with the industrialized cities , and thereby reach an accord to remain within the Republic . But before they could leave Ansion ' s capital city of Cuipernam to begin their search for the Alwari on the Ansion plains , Barriss Offee was kidnapped by Kyakhta and Bulgan , two of Soergg ' s enforcers . This pair of unfortunate Alwari outcasts ( from the Tasbir clan ) let the Jedi go , however , after the gifted Padawan healed them of their mental infirmities and deactivated the explosive devices that Soergg had implanted in their necks to ensure their compliance . After returning Barriss to the Jedi , Kyakhta and Bulgan agreed to guide the offworlders in their search for the ruling Borokii overclan . Search for the Borokii . Having acquired six purebred suubatar s , the Jedi , along with their Alwari guides , left Cuipernam and began their search . After surviving a brief river - encounter with native gairk s , they met the wary Yiwa clan . Its leader Mazong decreed that before they would help them , however , the Jedi had to prove their worth — prove that they had " souls " , unlike those of the " great but soulless Senate . " To do this , the Jedi were asked to perform at a ceremonial feast held that evening . At the feast , each Jedi gave a heart - felt performance . Barriss went first , giving an astonishing acrobat ics display of movement and light ( using her lightsaber ) , which greatly impressed the Alwari , as well as Skywalker . Anakin next sang a moving , melancholic Tatooine ballad taught to him as a child by his mother . After Kenobi enraptured his listeners with a great hero ' s tale , Unduli , in a mesmerizing display of the Force , manipulated native particles of sand that swirled around her in another fascinating dance of light . The Yiwa were so impressed with the performances that they agreed to give to the Jedi ' s Alwari guides the coordinates that would enable them to find the Borokii faster . Shortly after leaving the Yiwa , the Jedi and their companions encountered a massive swarm of native kyren . These were small but blindly lethal avians that traveled in packs of up to two hundred million . The Jedi party and their suubatar mounts took cover behind some jijite columns until the swarm passed . Shortly after this , they encountered several chawix , carnivorous - poisonous plants that used the wind for travel , in order to chance upon their hapless prey . A new companion . As the Jedi continued their search for the Borokii , Padawan Barriss Offee noticed one day a small creature stealing supplies from them . She followed the little Gwurran into some nearby hillside tunnels , where she encountered its tribe . The many pygmy - sized Gwurran began throwing rocks at her , but stopped after the Padawan mounted a sustained deflection of them with her lightsaber . Upon learning that the intrepid Tooqui had only taken the supplies in order to feed his tribe , Barriss promised the childlike Gwurran a party of sorts , in which the Jedi might teach them a little about not only their wider world , but also the galaxy . It was immediately after Offee ' s reunion with her comrades ( who indeed humored the Gwurran and attempted to satisfy their insatiable curiosity ) that the bold Tooqui said he would like to join the Jedi in their quest . A brief discussion followed in which it was decided that they would permit the bombastic little warrior to join them on their mission . Encounter with the Qulun . Soon thereafter , the group noticed a roving caravan on the horizon , which Kyakhta and Bulgan identified as the Qulun , a non - traditional trading clan . A patrol of Qulun riders came out to greet them , and after learning of their ongoing search for the Borokii , the clan ' s chief trader , Baiuntu , invited the group to their camp to dine with them and sample their wares . As they conversed together within one of the clan ' s portable , self - erecting trade rooms , however , Baiuntu had the strangers drugged , then locked up ( with the exception of Tooqui , who was able to flee the camp and his pursuers , escaping down a kholot hole ) . The obese clan trader later admitted to his captives ( before his untimely demise by a pack of fierce shanh s ) that his deception was inspired by the Soergg - issued promise of a reward to those that prevented the Jedi from returning to Cuipernam until after the Ansionian secession vote was taken . Uniting tribe and city . Despite the taxing delay and setback of the Jedi company ' s capture , the brave Tooqui ( by way of a lorqual stampede ) returned to rescue them all , and soon , following a brief skirmish , they traveled north and caught up with the valley - encamped ruling Borokii overclan . To the clan ' s tribal leaders they were able to at last — with the help of a tuft of fur from an albino surepp — present their proposal . The Borokii elders agreed to it , but only on the grounds that the Jedi settle a conflict that existed between the Borokii and their longtime rival , the Januul , another overclan . The Jedi agreed to " deal " with the Januul , and ultimately managed to settle the conflict diplomatically . They returned to Cuipernam , but were again delayed by Soergg , who had hired mercenary thugs and snipers to dispatch them . Rescued from the Hutt ' s minions by the Bayaar - led Alwari honor guard ( made up of elite warriors from both the Situng Borokii and Hovsgol Januul subclans ) , the Jedi managed to make it to the municipal - hall gathering of the planet ' s Unity Council , which was in the process of voting on the matter of secession . Because the Jedi had effectively settled the border dispute by managing to achieve the sought - after accord with the Alwari overclans , the duly impressed Unity voted to stay within the Republic . Aftermath . Ansion remained a member of the Galactic Republic , and the planet ' s Alwari ruling councils united under the Council of Alwari Elders . Also , the Separatists ' plan of issuing demands to the Republic was delayed ( they had planned to issue demands to the Republic the moment Ansion declared secession ) , though Count Dooku looked upon the Ansion failure as only a minor setback ; the Sith Lord advised Shu Mai that their ultimate success was inevitable and that , for the moment at least , the Separatists would bide their time . Almost immediately upon their return to Coruscant after the mission to Ansion , Obi - Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker were re - assigned to protect Senator Amidala of Naboo , upon whose life yet another attempt had been orchestrated by the re - emergent Sith overlord .