Mission to Haariden The Mission to Haariden took place in 26 BBY . The Galactic Senate and the Jedi High Council dispatched a team of Jedi Knights to the planet Haariden — a world embroiled in civil war — to rescue and retrieve five Republic scientists who had traveled there on an environmental research expedition that emphasized titanite mapping , sponsored by the Galactic Senate . Caught between the planet ' s warring sides , the scientists included Fort Turan ( mission leader ) , Tic Verdun ( scout , Force Blank Granta Omega in disguise ) , Joveh D ' a Alin , Talie Heathe , and Reug Yucon . The Senate sought to defuse the civil war and secure peace by secretly sending a scientific expedition that would examine the planet ' s mineral rights and equitably divide the wealth among both sides of the conflict ; Omega , interested in maintaining the civil war in order to secure the world ' s total wealth for his own galactic business interests , seized the opportunity to infiltrate the expedition team through a Senatorial contact , Sano Sauro of Eeropha . Anakin Skywalker and Obi - Wan Kenobi were assigned to the Jedi rescue mission , along with Master Soara Antana and her Padawan Darra Thel - Tanis , who was wounded in a fierce battle as they protected the expedition team . By mission ' s end , peace was restored to the planet when , ironically , its great volcano Kaachtari erupted , and when Omega ' s machinations were stopped through the actions of Kenobi and Skywalker — though the elusive Omega himself , once again , escaped their grasp . The Mission . Prelude . Beginning in 27 BBY , when the potential for titanite mines was discovered , the Inner Rim world of Haariden was caught up in a civil war over land disputes and future mining rights . It was later discovered that the mineral could , in its synthesized form , produce a key component in bacta — but titanite was extremely rare and hard to mine , usually buried so deep near a planet ' s core that , traditionally , it always cost more to extract than it was ever worth . Arrival on Haariden . During this time of conflict , the political climate of Haariden was volatile , and outsiders were not welcome . Each side in the civil war thought the Senate was in league with the other — thus all visitors were vulnerable to attack . Roving militant patrols posed a constant danger and threat . The warring troop s knew that the new defensive arrivals protecting the scientists were Jedi , but didn ' t care , as they were out for revenge . The militants ' bravado would later shock Kenobi , who paused to wonder at the state of the galaxy in which a world such as Haariden , even only a short time ago , would have respected the Jedi or at least feared the Senate enough not to attack a rescue mission . But as the Jedi team escorted the scientists from their Tenuuri holdout , across Haariden ' s dangerous , war - pocked terrain , they encountered heavy enemy fire in a violent attack by the Haariden squads , and Thel - Tanis was wounded in the leg with a chemically charged blaster bolt . A void in the Force . The Jedi , from the moment they arrived on the planet , had also felt a repressive darkness that seemed to hang in the air and dim the strength and power of the Force . The feeling affected 15 - year - old Skywalker more so , Kenobi detected , as his Padawan was sensitive to the dark side of the Force , feeling it sooner and deeper than Obi - Wan had at his age . Kenobi could also feel a disturbance in the Living Force within the wounded , unconscious Thel - Tanis , which deeply worried him ( as it did Darra ' s Master ) . It was later determined that this dark , foreboding sensation emanated not only from unnatural death on a war - plagued planet but also from Force Blank Granta Omega , masquerading as one of the rescued scientists , " Tic Verdun , " who in the Jedi ' s very presence had somehow been able to hide himself in the Force . Omega had done this the year before , in 27 BBY , on the planet Ragoon VI . As Thel - Tanis was recuperating in a local village shelter , the Jedi team contacted the Jedi Temple on Coruscant , and the High Council committed itself to pressuring the Haaridens for a cease - fire , something , however , that would clearly take some time , as no one on either side of the conflict knew exactly who was in charge . The Temple also promised to send a medic for Darra , but that would take a couple of days . Dark thoughts . Meanwhile , as Kenobi and Antana set out to make a preemptive nighttime strike against the unsuspecting Haariden patrols camped at the edge of the besieged village , " Tic Verdun " approached Skywalker , who was guarding Thel - Tanis , to satisfy the curiosity of a " scientist " about the nature of the Force ( for Omega was a Force Blank , not a Force - sensitive ) . Anakin was grateful that the Force " sustained " him , but at the same time , it seemed so vast , complex , and unfathomably deep that it " frustrated " him and he often felt " lonely . " Picking up on the boy ' s thought , Verdun observed , almost as if he understood more than he should : " " And you will never truly understand it . . . yet you will spend your life trying . And sometimes you ask yourself , is it worth it ? Is it foolish of you to devote yourself to trying to know the unknowable ? " " To which Anakin countered , repeating a Jedi saying : " " Wisdom is not what we seek . . . Wisdom can only be found " . " Verdun smiled : " We are lucky to have you with us . " Seeming to Anakin both younger and somehow wiser than he ' d at first thought , " Tic " had made him feel better , something which the boy hadn ' t thought anyone was capable of doing . ( Anakin , rather downcast , had felt responsible for Darra ' s injury because of his own overconfidence and lack of trust in the ability of others to protect themselves ; and because of the strike that injured her , Darra had also lost her lightsaber , for which Skywalker also felt responsible . ) Peace talks . Having been able to avoid bloodshed while disarming the Haariden troops , Kenobi and Antana learned that they ' d been paid by " an outlander " to split off from their main unit to attack the Jedi . They then asked the patrols what this wealthy stranger looked like . But , strangely , the troops could not recall his aspect , were oddly unable to remember anything whatsoever about his appearance — which was , Kenobi realized , one of the tell - tale marks of a Force Blank . Even so , the troop captain , Noq Welflet , did know the outlander ' s name , and gave it freely : Granta Omega . Kenobi , feeling a shiver , had already suspected as much , but he could not understand why Omega continued to hunt him and his Padawan . He knew unequivocally that Omega was not a Sith nor a Force - sensitive being . Omega , did , however , enjoy collecting Sith artifacts and somehow knew how to expertly cloak his presence in the Force . To have such a capability , and to become so neutral in the Living Force as to fade from the memory of the people who met him , was testament to Omega ' s power . That he was cunning and viewed the Jedi as despicable was abundantly clear , though exactly " why " was anybody ' s guess . Taking leave of the soldiers , who were weary of warfare but who nevertheless would return to their unit , the Jedi backtracked to the village , regrouped with their Padawans and scientists , then trekked safely to their transport , where all boarded with weary relief . Were it not for Darra and the scientists , Kenobi would have stayed on Haariden with Skywalker to hunt Omega down — for twice attempting to murder Jedi — and bring him to justice . But , once again , justice would have to be postponed . Coruscant conundrums . Arriving back on Coruscant , Kenobi was yet determined to get to the bottom of the Omega mystery . With the help of Temple archivist Jocasta Nu , he discovered that Omega ' s business interests , like his homes , extended across the galaxy ; he had many acquaintances but no friends . The man hid behind a blank wall that he himself created — virtually invisible . As a speciality , he ferreted out rare minerals , bought out their sources , created shortages , and raised their price : he kept his enormous wealth diversified and hidden in countless secret accounts . Yet with all this , Omega remained an enigma , and it would be extremely difficult to track him down . Meanwhile , at the suggestion of Master Yoda , Anakin underwent individualized lightsaber training with Soara Antana , a master of the art ; Soara was a tough teacher whose stern , unadorned instruction Anakin grew to appreciate . She sought to help him deflate his own exalted ego , for it made him weak , endangering others . Through Antana ' s intense routines and matchless direction , Anakin reached a point where he felt for the first time that he ' d glimpsed a future in which his connection to the Force and his lightsaber skills would be so meshed that , one day , he would truly be the best he could be . But in the final test Soara presented him , Anakin failed . In a surprise attack in the Room of a Thousand Fountains after a long , intense day of training , as Anakin was retiring at last to have a meal , she pitted him against his nemesis at the Temple , Padawan Ferus Olin , and the duel was fueled by Skywalker ' s anger . Though Anakin won the fight and technically had never fought so well , Antana advised him that , ultimately , he had lost , for he had not learned the most important lesson of all : " to conquer his emotion by letting it go " . Temple revelations . In his further research on Omega , Kenobi discovered what should have been obvious from the start : that Omega could not have been " specifically " hunting Kenobi and his apprentice on Haariden . In fact , he was already on the planet , absorbed in something else , could not have known the Jedi were there , nor had time enough to plan for his attack . Omega ' s preoccupation at that time had been with the mineral titanite , about which it was only recently discovered that , in its synthesized form , a substance could be extracted from it that was a key component in bacta . Moreover , one of Omega ' s vast land holdings was on the planet Thyferra ( the only place the alazhi plant grew , to produce alazhi lotion — bacta ' s main ingredient ) , thereby opening up the way for Omega to corner the galactic market on bacta . Indeed , one of the Republic scientific expedition ' s aims was to map the mineral to get a complete picture of where the titanite deposits were , in order to persuade the planet ' s two warring sides to come to an agreement . But Omega was a native of Nierport Seven ( a small moon orbiting Eeropha in the Colonies , less than a day ' s travel from Coruscant ) and a star student , whose own scientific training had been superb : graduating in 33 BBY from the All Science Research Academy on Yerphonia , to launch straightaway into his planned ventures , he never had made it a practice of employing many people . Neither did he himself anymore require a scientific team , nor did he wish for the Republic ' s science team to submit its report to the Senate ( that report would stay unfinished and inconclusive as long as the fighting on Haariden continued , and so prevented the scientists from completing their tests ) . Skywalker , on his way back to the Temple from an intensive early - morning training session with Antana , noticed a man dressed in deep blue veda cloth sitting on the edge of the Senate fountain . The man waved to him , and Anakin was astonished to realize that it was Tic Verdun , one of the scientists from Haariden . But he looked completely different from the weary and disheveled scientist that he ' d remembered . Greeting Anakin warmly , Tic expressed his regret at Haariden ' s warring tribes that might have been placated , perchance , had his expedition team been able to finish their tests and report to the Senate — for then the titanite deposits , in knowing their true extent and where they lay , might have been equitably divided among both groups , to the satisfaction of all . Tic then informed Skywalker of " another scientist " he ' d run into , who was performing his own tests on the planet . If they could contact him , Tic explained , they might yet find a way to resolve the crisis : his name was Granta Omega . Surprised that Verdun knew of Omega , Anakin disclosed that the Jedi desired to contact him as well . Tic offered to pursue any lead he might find at a small Coruscant reunion he was attending with friends and science and business associates , and then let Anakin know of his findings by inviting him to meet with them also . The boy , as he bid Tic farewell and continued to the Temple , remained enthusiastic : he wouldn ' t , while he conducted research of his own , tell his Master yet , " for wouldn ' t it be amazing if he were the one to find Omega ? " Moonscape inquiries . Arriving alone on the cold , desolate satellite of Omega ' s youth , Obi - Wan Kenobi began his investigation in earnest . Entering the " Food and Drink " café , situated like the rest of the settlement around its refueling station , Kenobi treated the patrons he approached with a round of their native Claing juice . While he found many who had known Granta Omega as a youth , none knew very much about him . Nor had any ever seen a Jedi Knight on their moon . Even so , Kenobi learned that a young Omega , to attend school , had left Nierport — had left also his mother Tura , who worked at the refueling station and died shortly thereafter . He never returned throughout his growth and training years , not even for his mother ' s funeral . One of the café patrons offered to show Obi - Wan the small , rounded - wall house where Omega had lived . It was now the property of a space pilot . From the bleak , single - room structure with only a stove and a bedroll there was " nothing " to detect or learn — just like Omega himself , a " blank " . But the patrons did disclose that it was the boy ' s own brilliance that got him offworld , certainly not by the financial means of his mother , for she had no means , although she did find him a Eeropha sponsor — the Senator Sano Sauro , who sent Omega to " the scientific institute " . At the hearing of that name Kenobi , unsurprisingly , felt a chill , for Sauro was the ambitious prosecutor who had grilled him mercilessly a decade earlier in the man ' s investigation of Padawan Bruck Chun ' s death . Though at peace now about the tragic incident , Kenobi wasn ' t looking forward to meeting Sauro again . Handing the café patron a few credits for his willing service , Obi - Wan departed the frozen wasteland : he could understand a boy wanting to leave it , how poverty might mark him . But he still didn ' t know why Omega wished to harm the Jedi . But if he could solve that mystery , he was sure he ' d find the man . A Senatorial spurning . Kenobi , upon returning to Coruscant , went directly to the Galactic Senate building to meet with Senator Sauro , a man who had once attacked the Jedi and mocked the Force , whose icy , sneering , and belittling temperament had unnerved him as a young Padawan . But Kenobi was a Master Jedi Knight now , not easily intimidated — a disciplined composure that now proved quite useful , for he found that Sauro had not changed at all : he still loathed the Jedi and , unlike his fellow Senators , utterly refused to help them . But what he " was " able to learn from Sauro ' s assistant on his way out of his office was that the Senator had " headed " the committee that oversaw Haariden ' s mapping expedition . Racing to the Senate archives , Obi - Wan scanned the laborious minutes of the Senatorial committee meetings that had finalized the expedition ' s details , including its long - debated funding , but also the names and qualifications of the appointed team of scientists . Kenobi discovered that the final name , Tick Verdun , had been added at the last minute at the suggestion of Senator Sauro himself . Kenobi remembered that " Verdun " had been the group ' s scout , able to break away from the rest of the scientists for hours at a time ; moreover , as the Senate records revealed , he had graduated from the same scientific institute in the same year as Granta Omega . Returning again to the Temple , Obi - Wan received confirmation from Jocasta Nu of what was already clear to him : the scientist and the Force Blank were one and the same . Indeed , the only bit of information that the Temple archivist could find was that " Tic Verdun " recently served on a Senatorial expedition to Haariden ; the name was clearly an alias . Seeking out his Padawan to tell him the news , he learned from Master Antana that Anakin had left that morning after their last training session together for an appointment with one of the scientists they ' d protected on Haariden : Tic Verdun . False friends . Skywalker , in his meeting with Verdun and his friends , learned many clues that he felt would allow him to piece together the Granta Omega puzzle and surprise his Master . Most informative was the detailed account of Omega given him by a young scientist named Mellora Falon ( only a couple of years older than Anakin ) , who had just graduated from an elite scientific institution . She ' d met Omega on an expedition to the planet Uriek . Beyond his weakness for pastries , especially sweesonberry roll s , and his ability to cite the Core Worlds ' best pastry makers , Omega ' s favorite seaside vacation house , Anakin learned , was surrounded by sweesonberry bushes . Sipping Mellora ' s superbly brewed tea , Anakin suddenly was aware of a disturbance in the Force , which he realized had been there for some time . " But among friends , " he wondered . He must be confused : for after Saora ' s reprimand that morning , he was now questioning his connection to the Force and doubting many other Jedi sensitivities and abilities he ' d thought he was beginning to master . His mind began to cloud , his vision blurred , and he struggled to stay awake as a grogginess overtook him . Tic Verdun was suddenly standing above him , telling Anakin that all they ' d just revealed to him about Omega had been a " lie " — including , moreover , any information they ' d disclosed about Tic ' s friends , who now confessed themselves to be " simply a group of " ordinary " beings interested in the " extraordinary " . We have a common interest in " the Force " . " In fact , Falon and Verdun were the only true scientists there . To Anakin all of them collectively appeared to be , no matter their feigned or affected friendliness , a Sith cult — which was only confirmed when Mellora withdrew from her white robes a Sith artifact : a small pyramidal cube . She told Anakin that Omega had given it to her , and Skywalker then knew it to be the source of the disturbance he ' d felt . Nausea rose in his throat , and he realized how incredibly foolish and naïve he ' d been — he wasn ' t in fact " tired , " he was " drugged " . They reassured him , notwithstanding , that they had no wish to harm him , only to study him . " But why Tick Verdun , a respected scientist , " Anakin wondered . But then he realized that he really didn ' t know a thing about Verdun , except that he ' d liked him , that his courage and warmth and intellect and understanding had been appealing to him . And now he knew why : " he ' d been utterly deceived " and was at that moment in the presence of Granta Omega himself . Reclamations . Omega proceeded to carry on what amounted to a one - sided conversation , really , with the intriguing Jedi Padawan he ' d managed to drug and capture , about what he perceived to be the right uses and true value of the Force . But it wasn ' t long before the Force itself surged anew through Anakin ' s almost comatose body , for he ' d glimpsed in Mellora ' s hand Darra ' s lightsaber , which she ' d lost when she was wounded back on Haariden — and which Anakin had vowed he would recover for her . Activating now his own lightsaber as he leaped to his feet , he called upon the Force to quickly disarm the foolish girl who ' d audaciously challenged him . And while he fended off admirably the efforts of his room of attackers , he could feel his body weakening again and knew he wouldn ' t be able to hold out much longer before darkness overcame him . But then , suddenly , a blue blur appeared through the door as it peeled back metal : Anakin ' s Master had arrived to rescue him . In the midst of Obi - Wan ' s deflection of the group ' s blaster fire , however , Omega released , from a hidden console , five seeker - droids , ordering his fellow cultists to escape through a window . Both Falon and Omega ( who had reclaimed Darra ' s lightsaber ) then headed back to Haariden , where Omega continued his titanite tests , global resource mapping , and setting in motion the ambitious plans that he ' d forecast for the lucrative mineral . Returning Anakin to the Temple for medical treatment , Kenobi next stood before the Jedi High Council to inform them of all that had transpired and what he ' d learned . Holding forth a portable scanner that he had retrieved from Omega ' s quarters , he advised the Council of an imminent , massive eruption of Haariden ' s active volcano , Kaachtari — which would change the planet ' s coastline , spew out with the lava the titanite that had been hidden in its core , and cause a giant tidal wave to cover its land mass . Omega , by using his underwater scanners , planned to mine the titanite from the sea and thereby control the bacta market for the entire galaxy . He had to be stopped , Kenobi asserted , for he harbored no doubt that Omega could and would succeed at this , and " millions would suffer for it " . Obi - Wan further disclosed to the Council that , when Omega was detaining Anakin , he had confessed to him his wish to gain even greater power and wealth than he already possessed in order to attract the attention of the hidden Sith Lord . This was part of the reason that Omega continued to attack the Jedi — to draw the attention of the Sith to his sphere of activity in a bid for power . Only by bringing Omega back to Coruscant for questioning by the Senate might the Jedi thwart his plans . High Council member Mace Windu , however , invited pause in the discussion , suggesting that perhaps the Council might permit said attraction to come to fruition , that they then might be able to themselves track the Sith Lord , to flush him out of hiding before he was ready : for untold " " More millions suffer in our visions of the future , " " Windu countered . " " " " We see much pain . " " While the High Council room then erupted in a flurry of private discussions among its members , it was the quiet , measured voice of Council member Yaddle that brought balance to the debate and confirmed for the Council the right course of action : " " Suffering we cannot allow in order to prevent what we fear . Stop it we must when we can " . " Thus did the Jedi High Council give their approval for Obi - Wan Kenobi and his Padawan to continue with their pursuit of Granta Omega , under justification of both his Senatorial deception and his criminal attempts on two occasions to harm the Jedi ( having once hired bounty hunters to do so ) . The pursuit would need to be immediate , for it now was also a race against the eruption of a volcano . The Jedi duo were off to Haariden by sunrise . Volcanic ends . As Kenobi and Skywalker traveled back to Haariden in a Galan starfighter , Anakin tried to come to terms with Granta Omega ' s evil , which had not announced itself with the loud clanging of an iron fist , but rather it had come cloaked in a highly attractive , seductive " charm " — it disturbed the young man that he ' d felt a real connection with " Tic Verdun , " a genuine kinship and friendship and understanding that made Anakin feel " less alone . " The boy struggled to reconcile his feelings about Omega with the knowledge that he was now tracking down a man whose one desire was " to worship at the heart of evil " — the same evil that had murdered Qui - Gon Jinn : the one being who had saved Anakin from a life of slavery . As their ship traveled through hyperspace , Obi - Wan took a quiet moment to help his sensitive , open - hearted Padawan begin to understand that " charisma " , which might strike one as being an appealing and a virtuous thing , could , in fact , be one of evil ' s " many faces . " As they came out of hyperspace near the planet , Anakin at last felt ready to again face their old nemesis . But as they entered Haariden ' s atmosphere , about an hour before the predicted time of the volcanic eruption , Skywalker again felt the foreboding darkness that seemed to rise up from the planet . It was a world that had been laid to waste by war ; and destruction and death , Anakin remembered , had been everywhere apparent . They landed their craft in the foothills , near an outcropping of trees , a good distance from the eruption zone . Traveling on swoop bikes , they sped toward the distant mountains , one of which rose high above the rest — thrust seemingly from the planet ' s core — its snow - capped peak lost in the clouds : Kaachtari . As they sped over the war - pocked terrain , columns of hot steam rose from great fizzures in the rumbling ground , and as they ascended to the higher altitudes , scalding geysers shot up , one of which Anakin narrowly missed ; the situation was palpably perilous . Soon they spotted what appeared to be a line of soldiers descending the mountain , but it occurred to Kenobi that all should have heeded by now the evacuation order . They swooped swiftly down to give them warning , and saw that it was Captain Welflet leading his troops . Kenobi told Welflet about Omega ' s treachery in giving him and his troops payment in weapons for land that would be useless to them once the lava and waves of the sea covered it ; enraged that the Jedi ' s truth of Omega ' s lust for titanite countered Omega ' s land - use need that he ' d expressed to them ( his need to create a " fish farm " ) , the captain awarded the Jedi with Omega ' s current coordinates : along with Falon , and dressed in white thermal gear , he was still conducting his mysterious tests high above them on a snowy ridge . The groundquakes were intensifying ; they had no time to lose . Racing for the ridge , they spotted Omega packing up his gear , just as he looked up and spotted them . Dashing with Falon to their SoruSuub at the foot of the volcano , they managed to activate the landing ramp as they flew inside . In hot pursuit , Obi - Wan and Anakin angled their swoops and also slid inside , just as the ramp door closed . But they immediately discovered that the pair had flown back out the cargo door as they ' d flown in through the landing portal , and that Omega had placed all doors and engines in lockdown . The cockpit controls were non - functional . As the Master - Padawan team stood utterly helpless before the ship ' s windscreen , they watched the ominous scene unfold before them . A huge groundquake rocked the ship as the once mighty peak suddenly disintegrated before their view , and a massive landslide of rock and dirt and burning lava came barreling down the steep mountainside at frightening speed . Attempting frantically to cut the ship ' s durasteel away with their lightsabers , they found the walls of the hull were unnaturally thick . Within moments , the molten avalache smashed violently against the ship , throwing the Jedi across the cockpit and slamming them into its walls , as it jostled them in its flow towards the sea and a great opposing wave . Suddenly Kenobi was hit with a flash of insight — they were riding a ship " within " a ship . That ' s why the walls were so thick ( he ' d thought of Omega ' s boyhood home on Nierport , with walls thicker than other houses , but not so thick that they didn ' t blend in ) . In moments they ' d felt their way to a patch of thin durasteel and peeled it away to discover another cockpit — the " real " cockpit , with fully functional controls . Strapping in , Anakin gunned the engines and they ' d soon shot through the hot lava and pummeling rock into the clear sky above . Guessing that Omega and Falon would be watching from a safe distance on the coastline , but out of the wave ' s range , they entered the estimated coordinates . Glancing down , they saw commander Welflet and company trapped on the plain below with the volcanic landslide rumbling towards them . Anakin shot downward through the raining lava in a futile attempt to rescue , when the soldiers were suddenly swept away to their deaths . " I wish I hadn ' t seen that , " the shaken Padawan muttered . Looking up from a moment of respectful silence , his Master responded , " Such is the life of a Jedi . " Conclusion . The ship ' s power cells hit , Kenobi and Skywalker were forced to quickly land on a patch of smooth sand near the seacoast . The duo slid out with their swoops into an atmosphere thick with ash and the strong smell of burning metals and molten rock from the planet ' s core . Piloting their swoops away from the ship , they soon approached a high plateau overlooking the sea . Omega had seen them coming : lifting to his shoulder a missile launcher , he released projectile after projectile towards a single target — Obi - Wan Kenobi . Anakin shot past the oncoming missiles to confront Omega on the ground . That ' s when Omega voiced to Anakin his long - held belief that to be personally responsible for the death of a Jedi Master would truly help him to make his mark with the hidden Sith Lord and capture his attention . In the same breath , he declared to the boy his conviction that Anakin Skywalker would one day make a great Jedi Knight — but that he would be even greater if he listened to Omega . Anakin then boldly stepped forward and declared to Omega that he and his Master requested his return to Coruscant with them for questioning by the authorities . Omega declined graciously the " kind invitation , " saying that , regrettably , he was busy . At that moment , Anakin shot out , feet first , to kick Omega ' s swoop over the edge of the plateau . As Omega ' s eyes went wide with shock and disbelief , he fumbled to withdraw a thermal detonator from his tunic as Mellora suddenly came from behind with her swoop . Omega tossed the detonator at Skywalker as he clumsily leaped aboard Falon ' s swoop , simultaneously releasing by remote control ten black seeker - droids to attack Kenobi , who was just finishing his evasive moves against Omega ' s final launched missile . The droids came at Kenobi " like a flock of deadly attack birds . " Skywalker , meanwhile , had caught the detonator and tossed it as far as he could , its explosion sending shock waves through the air . He leaped to his swoop to now help his Master . Together , Obi - Wan and Anakin battled the seeker - droids as they pursued the fleeing Granta and Mellora . Kenobi , whose swoop had been hit by shrapnel and was smoking from overheating , gracefully balanced on his seat and leaped aboard Anakin ' s swoop while still fending off attack droids . Far out at sea they could see the great wave approaching , as tall as a Coruscant skyscraper and coming at them at more than a hundred kilometers an hour . Omega and Falon were trapped between the Jedi and the wave . Kenobi verbally issued to Omega , once again , the summons of the Senate . When suddenly , Omega tore away from Falon the hovering swoop ' s controls and shot towards the oncoming wave , it ' s rumbling sound at once awesome and eerie . Skywalker followed in pursuit , but doubted that any of them would clear the wave . Suddenly Anakin saw Mellora fall — pushed by Omega ' s foot after she ' d attempted desperately to draw Darra ' s lightsaber to force a surrender . Skywalker swooped down to catch both her and the lightsaber : if he made it through this , his friend ' s weapon would be at last reclaimed . Obi - Wan caught Mellora as Anakin snatched the saber from the air . As the water curled majestically , fearsomely now over their heads , Anakin took a deep breath and plunged into the top of the wave . Calling upon the Force , he willed the swoop engine to obey him . It broke through the water into the air , the lot of them coughing seawater and gasping , in relief and surprise , while in the distance they could see the speck that was Omega . The Jedi had lost him again . But Falon knew where they could find him — for it was the place to which Omega had always retreated after failure or loss . Before she ' d said a word , Kenobi guessed it : Nierport Seven . Aftermath . Obi - Wan had high hopes that they would catch Granta Omega — for they were so close behind him . Leaving Falon with the authorities on Haariden until the Senate could send a ship for her seemed good , but it was obvious she was prepared to lie her way free . Haariden , at least , enjoyed temporary peace , for hostilities had ceased with the eruption . Arriving at Nierport Seven at dusk , they went immediately to Omega ' s boyhood hut , but found it empty : the stove and even the bedroll were gone . They suspected Omega knew that Mellora would tell the Jedi what she knew . But during the flight Kenobi had considered Omega ' s thick - walled ship and how its inspiration had clearly been this satellite home : Obi - Wan recalled his first visit here and how he ' d thought the exterior proportions to be slightly off from what could be seen inside . Feeling along the walls now , as he ' d done in the ship , he located an area of thinness in the stone and cut through , to find it bound to durasteel walls — a hidden room " within " the walls . Climbing through the hole , he and his Padawan found the space was filled with datascreens . They thought they now had him , that all his secrets were at last theirs . The holofile s they accessed were coded , but Kenobi was sure that the Jedi could crack them once they returned to the Temple . It was all there : Omega ' s companies , aliases , text docs , homes , bases of operations , perhaps a fleet of starships in the Outer Rim . But as they read the files . . . they suddenly , horrifically " disappeared " into fragments of light and particles : Omega had initiated a data wipe from wherever he was . And now , it was as if Omega had " never existed , " had " no past , " and was " truly a void " — as a result , he ' d become more dangerous than ever , for he now had " nothing " to lose . But what troubled Obi - Wan the most was how Anakin reacted to what suddenly had become an " anti " - closure of events . The emotion that flit across his Padawan ' s face did not escape him — both " confusion " and " wonderment " were there . Granta Omega had tapped into something that Kenobi could only guess at . Perhaps it was everything that the two seemed to share : similar origins , desolate childhood haunts , abandonment of their pasts , mothers who sacrificed all . But , more probably , it was simply this : Anakin had seen " evil " coupled with " charisma " for the first time and was struggling to understand it . It wasn ' t the cleverness of Granta Omega , nor his desire to impress a Sith Lord , but the " strange pull he had for his Padawan " that worried Obi - Wan Kenobi . And it was " this " that made Omega perhaps " the most dangerous enemy they would ever have to face . "