Malevolence / Legends The Malevolence was a " Subjugator " - class heavy cruiser active during the Clone Wars . It served as the flagship of the Confederate General Grievous . The massive ship was longer than four " Venator " - class Star Destroyers and sported massive ion cannons , capable of disabling enemy ships , mounted on both sides of its hull . The ship was first spotted by Republic forces around 22 BBY by Jedi General Ares Nune and Clone Commander Kite , who were on an inspection in the Phu system . Grievous took the opportunity to fire the ion cannons on Nune ' s fleet , destroying it . High Jedi General Plo Koon led a fleet to engage the " Malevolence " after losing contact with Nune . After destroying Koon ' s fleet , the " Malevolence " was revealed to the Republic after Koon was rescued by Jedi General Anakin Skywalker . Dooku assigned the " Malevolence " to a major clone trooper medical center near the Ryndellia system . En route to the Kaliida Shoals Medical Center , the " Malevolence " destroyed a Republic medical convoy passing through the Ryndellia system . Before the warship could attack the medcenter , however , a group of BTL - B Y - wing starfighter s led by General Skywalker intercepted the massive ship near the medcenter and disabled its ion cannons and hyperdrive with proton torpedoes . Senator Padmé Amidala was taken hostage aboard the " Malevolence " , and Skywalker and High Jedi General Obi - Wan Kenobi left to rescue Amidala . Prior to escaping the warship , Skywalker tampered with the ship ' s navicomputer . Grievous fled on his starfighter after noting that the battle had been lost . The battle droids stationed on the " Malevolence " believed that the hyperdrive had been fixed ; however , the sabotaged navicomputer caused the " Malevolence " to crash into the Dead Moon of Antar . Description . The " Malevolence " was a " Subjugator " - class heavy cruiser . It was 4 , 845 meters long and possessed two twin ion cannons . Once fired , the wave from the cannons would expand over great distances and disable any spacecraft upon impact . After the ion cannon had disabled an enemy warship , approximately 500 turbolasers mounted on the ship ' s enormous hull could fire upon the disabled vessel . The vessel ' s power plant operated by recapturing waste heat and propulsion by - products . The design required a gigantic hull and was required to vent its stored energy on a regular basis , which was adopted to the ion cannons . A panel of experts debated the warship ' s size on the HoloNet News , as many predicted how large the ship was . The massive ship was designed with an internal rail jet system , which served as a hovertrain that transported ammunition , supplies , and sometimes troops throughout the ship . Its cars looked similar to the Multi - Troop Transport . Its computer systems were built with parts from KynachTech Industries . Equipped with sixteen massive sublight engines , the " Malevolence " also had a powerful hyperdrive , and at one point , its commander , the Confederate General Grievous , was told that the " Malevolence " was fast enough to outrun Republic forces . The ship carried two tractor - beam batteries that could pull any freighter or small vessel aboard one of the " Malevolence " docking bays . Complementing the ship , " Vulture " - class droid fighters were on board to eradicate enemy fighters . At least one " Droch " - class boarding ship , nicknamed a " pod hunter , " was aboard the " Malevolence " , and was often deployed with rocket battle droid s to seek and destroy jettisoned enemy escape pods . The " Malevolence " also held General Grievous ' personal starfighter . History . Rise of the " Malevolence " . The " Malevolence " was designed by Ruggle Schmong and built by Quarren Separatists on Pammant . It was the first of its class . The Separatists acquired the design after SoroSuub Corporation rejected it . The vessel was constructed in a huge drydock that Republic operatives could not penetrate . When the " Malevolence " was launched , the operatives were captured . Count Dooku named the " Malevolence " meaning " wishing evil to others . " It served as General Grievous ' flagship prior to his use of the " Invisible Hand " and destroyed dozens of Republic task forces , including the Galactic Republic Fourth Fleet . It was known that the " Malevolence " possessed at least one sister ship , the " Devastation " . The massive " Malevolence " was first spotted by Jedi General Ares Nune and Clone Commander Kite as they took three " Venator " - class Star Destroyers to the Phu system for an inspection . Commanding the " Malevolence " , Grievous took the opportunity to fire upon the Republic forces . The first wave from the cannons obliterated the shields of the Star Destroyer " Laudable " . Nune and Kite tried to evacuate their flagship , though the ship was doomed as the intense fire from the " Malevolence " progressed . After the Jedi Order received word of the new superweapon , Jedi Master Plo Koon volunteered to take several " Venator " - class cruisers to find and destroy the " mystery weapon , " as the " Malevolence " had been dubbed . Aboard the " Venator " - class cruiser " Triumphant " , Koon tracked the " Malevolence " to the Abregado system . Battle of Abregado . When Koon tracked the massive " Malevolence " in the Abregado system , he intended to report as much information as possible on the weapon in case of his defeat . After the Confederate Head of State , Count Dooku , arrived aboard the " Malevolence " to watch General Grievous ' progress , he ordered the general to jam the Republic task force ' s transmissions . Koon and Clone Commander CC - 3636 reported information to Jedi General Anakin Skywalker and his Padawan Ahsoka Tano via hologram . However , the nearby " Malevolence " cut their communications . While the " Malevolence " was out of firing range of the advancing Republic fleet , Grievous nevertheless ordered the battle droids to fire its ion cannon , which passed over the fleet and neutralized the Star Destroyers ' shields . As the battle continued , the intense fire from the " Malevolence " numerous turbolaser cannons soon engulfed the vulnerable Republic Star Destroyers . After Koon and several clones jettisoned their fleet in escape pods , Dooku ordered the battle droids to deploy the " pod hunters " to track down and eliminate the survivors . Using the last known report from Koon , Skywalker and Tano emerged from hyperspace in Skywalker ' s commandeered freighter , the " Twilight " , to look for Koon . Both Jedi noticed the large debris field the battle had produced . The pod hunters had destroyed all but Koon ' s pod , but Koon and his clone troopers destroyed those battle droids . Skywalker and Tano rescued Koon and the surviving clones , after which the " Twilight " detected the approaching " Malevolence " , and Koon ordered Skywalker to shut down all of the freighter ' s systems . However , the group left a 2 - 1B surgical droid active , and the " Malevolence " detected the " Twilight " . Koon , Skywalker , and Tano reactivated their ship and fled the area . Grievous ordered the ion cannon to be fired , but failed to stop the Jedi before they entered hyperspace . Thus the Republic learned of the warship and its ion cannons , and despite most of Koon ' s forces being eradicated , Dooku considered the battle a defeat . The Sith Lord was most displeased with Grievous ' failure to prevent the Republic from learning of the warship . His trust in Grievous shaken , Dooku left to discuss plans with his Sith master . Ryndellia conflict . In the Ryndellia system , the " Malevolence " intercepted several Republic " Pelta " - class frigates that were passing through the system . A " Venator " - class Star Destroyer that was escorting the frigates tried to protect the medical convoys ; however , Grievous attacked the Republic medical convoy with the " Malevolence " numerous laser cannons . After the " Malevolence " destroyed the small fleet , one of the frigates evaded the fire and began to escape . Grievous ordered the ship ' s ion cannons to be fired at the fleeing frigate . The electrical ion surge decimated the frigate ' s power , and the " Malevolence " then directed heavy fire at the frigate , destroying it . Count Dooku , who had been watching Grievous ' progress through a hologram transmission , told the cyborg general of the Republic ' s Kaliida Shoals Medical Center , treating over 60 , 000 wounded clones near the Naboo system . Dooku assigned the medical center as the " Malevolence " new target . Grievous was pleased with this new assignment , as it showed that the Count had not lost all faith in him since the defeat at Abregado . Destruction of the " Malevolence " . En route to the medical facility , Dooku contacted Grievous through a hologram transmission , after he received intelligence from his master , Darth Sidious , that the Republic had launched a small group of fighters to attack the " Malevolence " . Grievous noted that the " Malevolence " hyperdrive was not fast and the warship ' s navicomputer was forced to recalculate its coordinates in order to go around the Kaliida Nebula . In an attempt to stop him , Skywalker and Tano retrieved brand - new BTL - B Y - wing starfighter s , nimble bombers manufactured by Koensayr Manufacturing . Their squadron soon left and entered the Kaliida Nebula as a shortcut to arrive at the medcenter before the " Malevolence " , while High Jedi General Obi - Wan Kenobi and his fleet went around the nebula . The massive ship arrived near the medcenter and began to fire on the departing medical frigates . Upon emerging from the nebula , Skywalker led the Republic squadron to engage the " Malevolence " . Vulture droids were dispatched from the " Malevolence " and attacked the Republic group . As they engaged Skywalker ' s bombers , Grievous ordered the battle droids to fire the ion cannon at the approaching group . The ion wave deactivated the Vulture droids and three of Skywalker ' s bombers . However , the Republic squadron managed to damage the two heavy ion cannons , causing them to overload and explode and damaging the ship ' s hyperdrive in the process . After the Republic disabled the " Malevolence " , Count Dooku contacted Grievous and informed him that his master had sent a senator to the warship ' s location . Sidious , using his alter ego of Supreme Chancellor Palpatine , sent Padmé Amidala and her protocol droid , C - 3PO , who were to negotiate a peace treaty with InterGalactic Banking Clan officials . However , Amidala wasn ' t fully aware of the situation , and she and her droid were captured by the " Malevolence " tractor beam , but evaded capture after destroying their ship inside the warship ' s hangar . Firefighting battle droids that were stationed aboard rushed to the scene of the destroyed ship and began to extinguish the flames . Skywalker and Kenobi planned a rescue and left on the " Twilight " to board the " Malevolence " through an emergency airlock . Grievous and a squad of B2 super battle droids and B1 battle droids soon left the bridge while Amidala contacted Skywalker via a transmission box inside the " Malevolence " . The senator waited until Grievous and his entourage passed by her before entering the internal rail jet room . Noticing that there were intruders , Grievous ordered the battle droids to protect the internal systems of the massive warship and to fix the hyperdrive . Inside the internal rail jet room , battle droids began to attack Amidala and C - 3PO . Skywalker and Kenobi met up with Amidala inside the room , and Skywalker rescued Amidala on a separate rail cart while Kenobi went to rescue her droid , C - 3PO . After Kenobi Force - pushed C - 3PO onto storage containers outside the jet railings , Kenobi entered the hyperdrive room . Grievous confronted Kenobi , though the Jedi Master escaped to the rail jet room . Unbeknownst to Grievous , Skywalker and Amidala entered the bridge and destroyed all stationed battle droids there . As Amidala hid the destroyed battle droids inside a storage room , Skywalker tampered with the warship ' s navicomputer before the two left . Grievous followed Kenobi and engaged the Jedi in a lightsaber duel , but Kenobi escaped again and met up with Skywalker , Amidala , C - 3PO and R2 in the " Twilight " . Seeing that the battle had been lost , Grievous left the " Malevolence " in his personal starfighter , the " Soulless One " . Meanwhile , the droid crew aboard the " Malevolence " , believing the hyperdrive to be fixed , prepared to jump to Sector Four in Confederate space . However , the droids , who were destroyed by Skywalker and Amidala , did not contact the squad of B1 battle droids that were preparing to jump to hyperspace . The battle droids realized that the massive warship wasn ' t responding to the coordinates they entered and contacted Grievous . The general frantically ordered the droids to reset the navicomputer , but they failed to do so , resulting in the destruction of the ship . Grievous managed to escape , and the " Twilight " returned to the waiting Republic ships . The " Malevolence " threat was over . After the vessel ' s destruction , a squad of Republic clone troopers under the command of Captain Lock was assigned to investigate the wreckage . CT - 8863 found computer parts which originated from Kynachi . The squad was later assigned to investigate Kynachi . Rebuilding of the " Malevolence " . Around 21 BBY , the " Malevolence " was rebuilt at Pammant Docks . Before it ever left the docks , however , this successor vessel was destroyed by a Jedi Knight . Commanders and crew . General Grievous was the leading commander of the " Malevolence " , and it served as his flagship . Battle droids maintained and controlled the bridge . Grievous commanded the battle droids ; however , the relationship between Grievous and battle droids was shaken during his time commanding the " Malevolence " . Count Dooku was on board at the time of the Battle of Abregado and acted as an advisor for Grievous . The Sith Lord also served as another commander , and often contacted Grievous via hologram to check in on the general ' s progress . He helped Grievous by orchestrating battle plans , as well as exploiting the maneuvers and attacks of the Republic forces . Behind the scenes . The " Malevolence " was originally based on concept art for a Separatist communications ship meant to be used in . Designed in 2004 , the warship was originally Grievous ' flagship during the Battle of Coruscant , with a design similar to that of the " Invisible Hand " . The idea of the massive warship was dropped , and the " Invisible Hand " became Grievous ' flagship in " Revenge of the Sith " . According to Dave Filoni , supervising director of , the " Malevolence " and its story were based in part on the real - life German battleship " " , which the British hunted relentlessly during World War II . The finished version of the " Malevolence " was designed by Russell Chong and was based upon the GR - 75 medium transport . Originally , the iconic train - like transport system in the center of the " Malevolence " was created so large that the " Malevolence " , to scale , could be flown inside its own train system . In the " The Clone Wars " episode " Shadow of " Malevolence " , " Anakin Skywalker commands the Y - wing bombers to attack the starboard ion cannon , but the port cannon is the one destroyed . Anakin may have meant the cannon on the " bombers " ' starboard side . The explosion takes out both cannons , however . It is possible that the cannons either use the same power generator or are really just one , big , two - way cannon that can fire from either side ; this may have caused the destruction of one side to produce a chain reaction destroying both guns , as well as causing extensive damage to most of the ship . Henry Gilroy has suggested that the reason the " Malevolence " is able to receive holographic communications while in hyperspace is related to the size of the ship ' s internal gravity field . The firing - channel design of the " Malevolence " ion cannon is almost identical to the firing channel of the Death Star in . In 2012 , LEGO released a " Malevolence " warship set .