Battle in the Resettlement Zone laboratory Near the end of the Cold War between the Galactic Republic and the Sith Empire , Imperial Military forces under the command of Watcher One attacked a laboratory of the scientist Doctor Nasan Godera in the Republic Resettlement Zone on Taris . Watcher One , an operative of Imperial Intelligence , was searching for Godera and was successful in using the facility to triangulate Godera ' s location , though after he departed the Imperial soldier s were killed when a young Jedi Knight and a companion arrived at the lab in search of Godera . Watcher One deployed troopers and battle droids equipped with stealth field generators to take the Knight by surprise , but the Jedi emerged victorious and continued the race to locate Godera . Prelude . In 3643 BBY , during the Cold War between the Galactic Republic and the Sith Empire , the Sith Lord Tarnis was killed in a duel with a young Jedi Knight when Tarnis attempted to use the Planet Prison superweapon against the Republic capital of Coruscant . Tarnis ' s death incurred the wrath of his father , Darth Angral , who declared a war of vengeance upon the Republic and the Jedi Order in retribution , and Angral dispatched his three Sith apprentices to capture several Republic superweapon projects that Tarnis — who had been posing as a Republic scientist before his death — had told his father about . Tarnis also conveyed information indicating that Doctor Nasan Godera , a brilliant Republic scientist who had left the Republic after the Treaty of Coruscant ended the Great Galactic War with the Empire a decade prior , was on the planet Taris . Angral therefore dispatched Watcher One of Imperial Intelligence to Taris with a number of Imperial soldier s to retrieve Godera . Watcher One knew of the existence of a number of underground laboratories belonging to Godera , though the facilities were staffed only by droids , and he began searching the planet for Godera himself . However , Republic General Var Suthra dispatched the Jedi Knight who had killed Tarnis ; the Knight ' s Padawan , Kira Carsen ; and the Knight ' s astromech droid , T7 - O1 , to Taris to also look for Godera . The battle . When Watcher One became aware of the trio ' s arrival , he led a unit of Imperial stealth operative s , battle droids , and Imperial Intelligence officers to secure the lab in the Republic Resettlement Zone , the closest facility to the Republic ' s Olaris Reclamation Base , where the Jedi had landed . The Resettlement Zone facility had already been discovered by the Republic , and General Suthra had stationed a small team of four Republic trooper s at the facility to monitor it . His forces quickly wiped out the droid staff and Suthra ' s team , and Godera used the facility ' s tracking relay s to trace Godera ' s bioscan to a laboratory in the Brell Sediment area . He left after destroying the central computer to prevent others from doing the same , leaving his men behind to guard the lab . The Jedi and a companion soon arrived and fought their way through the Imperial forces that they encountered as they descended into the now - wrecked lab , and the two defeated almost a dozen Imperial stealth operatives and battle droids as they cleared the lab of hostiles . An Imperial assassin and two assassin droids attacked the pair on the lower level , but they too were defeated . The assassin had been speaking with Watcher One via a holoprojector , and Watcher One — already on his way to Godera ' s location — addressed the Jedi as the Knight approached the device . The agent also contacted his forces nearby and dispatched a number of operatives and droids to the lab . Speaking to the Jedi , Watcher One began to stall for time so that his operatives could get into place , revealing his knowledge of the Jedi ' s exploits on the Jedi Order ' s homeworld of Tython as a way of undermining the Knight ' s confidence . When the Knight brushed off Watcher One ' s comments , Watcher One ordered his operatives to decloak and take out the Jedi before he terminated the transmission . Despite their advantage of surprise , however , the three Imperial operatives and two droids who attacked the Knight were ultimately defeated by the Jedi and the Knight ' s companion . Aftermath . After defeating Watcher One ' s forces , the Jedi was greeted by Godera ' s droid assistant RE - M0 , who had remained hidden when the Imperials attacked the lab . RE - M0 then repaired the central computer while the Knight reset the external tracking relays around the area . With the droid ' s help , the Jedi tracked Godera ' s biosignature to the Brell Sediment lab just in time to encounter Watcher One ' s forces securing the facility , though Watcher One escaped with Godera in the resultant fight . However , RE - M0 ran a second bioscan on Godera shortly after the Jedi departed , and he was able to detect that Godera had been moved from that lab . He followed the Jedi to the Brell Sediment lab and warned the Knight of Watcher One ' s deception , exposing the Imperial ' s attempt to convince the Jedi that Godera was dead . Behind the scenes . The battle in the Resettlement Zone lab first appeared in " The Architect of Annihilation , " a mission for the Jedi Knight class in " " , a video game released by BioWare in 2011 .