Battle of Abregado / Legends The Battle of Abregado was a space battle that took place in 22 BBY during the Clone Wars . Following the defeat of Jedi General Ares Nune ' s task force in the Phu system at the hands of the Confederate warship " Malevolence " , Jedi General Plo Koon of the Galactic Republic took several " Venator " - class Star Destroyers to find and destroy the ship . Koon tracked the " Malevolence " to the Abregado system , but the warship attacked his fleet with its ion pulse cannon s , and the Star Destroyers were left defenseless . Shortly before the cruisers fell to turbolaser fire , several clone troopers managed to flee in escape pods , and Koon escaped in a pod with Clone Commander CC - 3636 , nicknamed " Wolffe , " Clone Sergeant Sinker , and trooper Boost . Dooku dispatched several boarding craft with rocket battle droid s to eliminate the survivors , as he did not want the survivors to inform the Republic of the " Malevolence " . Only Koon and the three clones in his pod were able to defeat the battle droids who came in search of survivors . Jedi General Anakin Skywalker and his Padawan , Jedi Commander Ahsoka Tano , soon arrived in the system aboard Skywalker ' s personal ship , the " Twilight " , and they rescued Koon and the clones . The " Twilight " encountered the " Malevolence " , but the Jedi and clones successfully evaded a wave from the warship ' s ion cannons by jumping to hyperspace . Their escape brought the knowledge of the nature of the weapon to the Republic . Prelude . In 22 BBY during the Clone Wars , the Confederacy of Independent Systems built a superweapon , the " Subjugator " - class heavy cruiser " Malevolence " , capable of neutralizing all power in its enemies with its ion pulse cannon s . Blasts from the cannons left the ship ' s targets defenseless and vulnerable to turbolaser fire from the " Malevolence " without the ability to use deflector shields . Under the command of General Grievous , the " Malevolence " began a series of strikes on Galactic Republic task forces that left no survivors to tell the Republic of the weapon ' s origins or methods of attack . The attacks did not form a pattern , and the unpredictability of future targets spread fear throughout the Republic . Shortly after the defeat of Jedi General Ares Nune ' s patrol of several " Venator " - class Star Destroyers in the Phu system , the Jedi High Council met with Supreme Chancellor Palpatine to discuss methods to protect more Republic fleets from being destroyed . Jedi General Plo Koon volunteered to take several " Venator " - class cruisers — including his flagship , the " Triumphant " — to find and eliminate the Confederate weapon . Koon ' s forces were supported by the Wolfpack clone trooper squad . The battle . " Malevolence " attack . Plo Koon and his forces tracked the " Malevolence " to the Abregado system and approached the vessel . Koon intended to report as much information on the weapon as possible in case of his defeat , and before proceeding , he contacted Jedi General Anakin Skywalker and his Padawan , Jedi Commander Ahsoka Tano , who were keeping the nearby Bith system secure . The Confederate Head of State , the Sith Lord Count Dooku , had arrived aboard the " Malevolence " to observe General Grievous ' progress , and ordered the Republic task force ' s transmissions to be jammed . After Koon and Clone Commander CC - 3636 , nicknamed " Wolffe , " reported their position to Skywalker and Tano , their communications were cut . Seeing this as an opportunity for another test of the " Malevolence " ion cannons , Grievous ordered the weapon to be fired . The Confederate warship moved to attack Koon ' s fleet , and because they were out of range , the Republic cruisers were unable to open fire . The " Malevolence " discharged its cannons ; as the wave approached , Koon and the clone troopers braced themselves for impact . The wave passed over the fleet and neutralized the cruisers ' shields , and the vulnerable cruisers fell to fire from the " Malevolence " numerous laser cannons . Shortly before the " Triumphant " was destroyed , Plo Koon and several clone troopers were able to flee from the cruiser in escape pods . As Koon ' s fleet was ripped apart , a debris field — from the wreckage of the three destroyed cruisers — was scattered in the Abregado system . The power of the escape pod containing Koon , Commander Wolffe , Sergeant Sinker , and trooper Boost depleted , leaving the pod without life support or access to communication channels . Following the loss of contact from Plo Koon , Skywalker and Tano entered into a holo - meeting with Supreme Chancellor Palpatine and the Jedi Council . Skywalker reported Koon ' s position in the Abregado system before communications had been cut , and suggested that the absence of distress beacons implied that his fleet had been destroyed . Battle groups were reassigned to protect the Republic ' s supply convoys , including Skywalker ' s fleet . The Jedi Council ordered Skywalker to reposition his fleet without searching for survivors of the attack on Koon ' s forces . Admiral Wullf Yularen was to protect the convoys while Skywalker went to scout ahead for enemy activity with Tano in his personal freighter , the " Twilight " . The two headed for the Abregado system , however , as Skywalker intended to search for survivors , against the Jedi Council ' s orders . Skywalker , Tano and the astromech droid R2 - D2 arrived in the system aboard the " Twilight " . Entering the debris field , R2 - D2 activated the ship ' s scanners in search of surviving life forms in the battlefield . High Jedi General Obi - Wan Kenobi contacted the ship , and upon hearing that Skywalker and Tano had not found any survivors , Kenobi ordered Skywalker to rendezvous back with his fleet . R2 - D2 picked up a signal on the emergency channel , and Tano began to put out a signal through the emergency communication channel , trying to make contact with any remaining survivors of the battle . Hunt for the pods . Count Dooku did not want to risk the chance that the survivors would inform the Republic of the " Malevolence " ion cannons and dispatched several boarding craft with rocket battle droid s aboard — nicknamed " pod hunters " — to destroy the escape pods . The battle droids split several of the pods open , leaving the clones inside vulnerable to the vacuum of space . The clones restored the power in Koon ' s pod , and were able to gain access to the communication channels . Receiving a signal from another escape pod , Pod 1977 , the Jedi and the troopers soon witnessed its destruction at the hands of the hunters . By this time , the droids had destroyed all the pods except for the one containing Koon and the clones . Noticing the remaining pod , the battle droids approached it and prepared to destroy it . As the Confederate craft neared the last surviving pod , Koon decided to personally confront the droids , as his species was able to withstand the pressure of space for a brief amount of time . Sinker and Boost used their armor suits to receive oxygen and accompanied the Jedi , leaving Wolffe inside the pod to keep the communication signal alive , as it was the only chance for their rescue . The craft latched onto the pod with its " pincers , " and as the rocket droids approached and prepared to slice the pod ' s view hole open , Koon and the two clones attacked the droids . The droids retreated into the craft and activated the craft ' s squeeze mechanism , intending to crush the pod with the craft ' s pincers . Koon used the Force to push Sinker behind the craft where the droids were situated , and the clone eliminated most of the battle droids with his blaster . In the pod , Wolffe picked up Tano ' s signal . He was unable to return a message , however , as the crushing of the pod caused Wolffe to lose the signal . Koon , still outside the escape pod , severed the Confederate craft ' s legs , breaking its grip on the escape pod . Then , Koon Force - pushed the craft away and pulled Sinker back toward the pod . The craft hit a piece of debris from the destroyed " Venator " - class cruisers and exploded , and the loss of contact with the craft alerted the " Malevolence " to the possibility of remaining survivors . Rescue . After Chancellor Palpatine learned of Skywalker ' s absence from the command of his battle group , the Chancellor contacted Skywalker and ordered him to cease his search for survivors , as the displacement of his fleet had left other Republic fleets out of position . However , Tano was able to sense Koon through the Force and took helm control of the " Twilight " , piloting it toward Koon ' s location . Finding Koon and the clones , the " Twilight " deployed its tow cable and pulled the pod and its survivors into its hangar . The clones were tended by a medical droid , while Koon joined Skywalker and Tano on the bridge of the ship , briefing them on the " Malevolence " and its ion cannons . The " Twilight " scanners picked up the approaching " Malevolence " . To avoid detection , Koon quickly ordered all power to be shut down . All systems of the ship were deactivated , including R2 - D2 ; however , the Jedi forgot to power down the medical droid . The " Malevolence " scanners detected the medical droid , and prepared to confront the survivors . As the warship maneuvered to attack the ship , the Jedi realized that they had overlooked deactivating the medical droid . Immediately restoring all power , Skywalker piloted the " Twilight " away from the " Malevolence " , seeking to jump to hyperspace and avoid the Confederate warship ' s cannons . Koon reactivated R2 - D2 , and the droid began to plot a hyperspace course out of the system . As the " Twilight " began its escape , Grievous ordered the ion cannons to be fired , and as the ion wave approached , Skywalker was able to fly the " Twilight " out of the debris field . Skywalker engaged the ship ' s hyperdrive engine , and the Jedi were able to evade destruction at the hands of the " Malevolence " , taking the knowledge of the warship ' s weapons to the Republic . Aftermath . The battle caused a ship graveyard to be erected in the Abregado system from the three destroyed Republic cruisers ; all of Plo Koon ' s forces except for three clones and the Jedi Master himself had been killed . Yet Koon , Skywalker , and Tano were able to give a report to the Jedi Council on the " Malevolence " . Despite the fact that most of Koon ' s forces had been eradicated , Dooku considered the battle a defeat because of the Republic ' s identification of the Confederate weapon . The Sith Lord was extremely displeased with Grievous ' failure ; his trust in Grievous shaken , Dooku left to discuss plans with his Sith Master , Darth Sidious . Eventually , Grievous continued his flagship ' s swath of destruction with a strike targeting the Vanik system . Following the revelation of the " Malevolence " , Skywalker planned to counterattack the warship with Shadow Squadron . The Jedi took the starfighter unit to acquire several experimental Republic BTL - B Y - wing starfighter s from a testing facility on the planet Bormus for the attack . The " Malevolence " obliteration of a Republic medical convoy in the Ryndellia system revealed that Grievous planned to target a secret Republic Outer Rim medical center near the Kaliida Nebula . Intending to engage the " Malevolence " before it could attack the medical base , Skywalker , accompanied by Tano and Koon , led Shadow Squadron on a shortcut to intercept the warship . Behind the scenes . The Battle of Abregado was the subject of " Rising " Malevolence " , " an episode featured in the October 3 , 2008 premiere of the on Cartoon Network . The second episode of the series ' , the episode featured the series debut of Anakin Skywalker , Ahsoka Tano , Plo Koon , and R2 - D2 , as well as several other prominent characters such as Obi - Wan Kenobi , Supreme Chancellor Palpatine , and Jedi Master Mace Windu . The battle also featured the first visual appearance of the " Malevolence " , having been first mentioned in the " " . The events leading into the episode — notably , the battle in the Phu system — were featured in the webcomic " " , released a day before the episode ' s premiere . The battle was officially named in " " . Although the young readers ' book " " claimed that the Battle of Abregado took place just a few days after the Battle of Christophsis , this profession interrupted the more drawn - out chronology between the Battle of Christophsis and the events of other episodes of the television series . This article therefore assumes that " Meet Ahsoka Tano " is in error . The reference book " " erroneously conflates the events of " Rising " Malevolence " " and the following episode , " Shadow of " Malevolence " , " by mentioning a " rescue mission to the Abregado system " that Skywalker and Tano oversaw with a squadron of BTL - B Y - wing starfighters .