Death Watch hideout / Legends The radical Mandalorian splinter group known as the Death Watch used this hideout on Mandalore ' s moon , Concordia , during their resurgence under the leadership of Pre Vizsla . Vizsla , the Governor of Concordia , established the Death Watch ' s base of operations within one of the abandoned mines left behind on Concordia from the days of widespread " beskar " mining . There , the Death Watch were able to make use of the old mining equipment in the manufacture of armor and weapons for their troops . Around 21 BBY , Jedi Master Obi - Wan Kenobi discovered the Death Watch ' s hidden base . He was captured and held within the base ' s attached mining and production facility , before being rescued by Duchess Satine Kryze , leader of Mandalore ' s New Mandalorian faction . During their escape , Kenobi fought against several Death Watch soldiers before engaging Pre Vizsla in combat , a fight the Jedi Master took the upper hand in until the entry of a trio of Death Watch troopers . Presented with overwhelming odds , Kenobi and Kryze were forced to retreat , but even after being discovered , the Death Watch continued to operate out of their Concordian base . It was there that Vizsla gathered a Death Watch army in preparation for a take over of Mandalore backed by Confederacy of Independent Systems leader , Count Dooku . However , when the Count ' s plan fell through , he ordered his Death Watch allies at the base to stand down and await a time when their forces would be better prepared to strike . Description . The Death Watch ' s hidden base on Concordia was located in one of the abandoned mines built on the moon centuries prior to the Clone Wars . Consisting mainly of a group of curved - roofed buildings , the Death Watch ' s base sat at the bottom of a circular mining quarry . These buildings were equipped with holochart s and holographic comm station s . The Death Watch ' s numerous " Kom ' rk " - class fighter / transports could often be found resting on the ground around the main structure . Attached to the above - ground base and accessible by a nearby lift , was a mining and processing facility , in which the Death Watch used the leftover machinery in the creation of armor and jetpacks for their troops . History . Though Concordia had originally been a Mandalorian agricultural settlement , before the end of Mandalore ' s wars , the Mandalorians transformed their moon into a mining base in search of " beskar " , a nearly indestructible iron capable of withstanding blows from a lightsaber . The extensive mining venture and the numerous mines were eventually abandoned , and over time , left silently inactive . However , in the wake of the death of Death Watch leader Tor Vizsla at the hands of " Mand ' alor " Jango Fett , the radical and violent Mandalorian splinter group fractured and vanished from the face of the galaxy under the Mandalorian principle of " ba ' slan shev ' la " , or " strategic disappearance " . Years later , Tor Vizsla ' s fellow clansman , Pre Vizsla , rose to become the new leader of the Death Watch as it began to make its return to the galaxy . The younger Vizsla was the governor of Concordia , and publicly an avid supporter of the peaceful New Mandalorian faction and friend of the New Mandalorians ' leader , Duchess Satine Kryze . In truth , Vizsla despised both Kryze and her pacifistic government . In one of the abandoned mines that littered the surface of Concordia , Vizsla secretly established a base where the Death Watch could regroup and operate from , in opposition to the New Mandalorians . There , the Death Watch forces utilized the abandoned industrial equipment left behind by the miners in the process of creating Mandalorian armor and weapons for their men . While on an investigative mission to Mandalore during the early portion of the Clone Wars — a galaxy - spanning conflict between the Galactic Republic and the Separatist forces of the Confederacy of Independent Systems — Jedi Master Obi - Wan Kenobi located the Death Watch ' s base while attempting to ascertain the functioning status of the believed inoperable mines . He was attacked , beaten , and captured by a pair of Death Watch soldiers . Before he could be executed , however , Kenobi was rescued by Duchess Kryze and the two made for the surface , unwittingly walking right into the main area of the Death Watch ' s base camp . The two ducked behind a pile of rocks for cover , while a number of Death Watchmen opened fire with blaster rifles and three more attacked the Jedi Master from the air with jetpacks . Kenobi defeated the jetpack - equipped commandos , as the rest of the Death Watch troops evacuated the area aboard their " Kom ' rk " - class fighter / transports , only to be confronted by the Deatch Watch ' s leader , Pre Vizsla . Vizsla and Kenobi battled in a Lightsaber duel of lightsabers — Vizsla using the black - bladed Darksaber that had been passed down in his clan — and when Vizsla ' s skills proved unable to defeat Kenobi , three of his troops attacked the Jedi Master with jetpack - launched missiles . Faced with overwhelming odds , Kenobi fled the base with Kryze . Despite Kenobi ' s exposure of the Death Watch ' s base , the Mandalorian radicals continued to make use of it later days . It was there that Vizsla assembled a Death Watch army in preparation for a masterminded , Separatist - backed takeover of Mandalore in which a Republic occupation of the planet would allow the Death Watch to appear as liberators of the people . To the Death Watch ' s displeasure and Pre Vizsla ' s great anger , the Republic did not send a force of clone troopers to Mandalore and knowing that the Death Watch did not have the strength to hold the planet for little more than a day against the Mandalorian people ' s will , Separatist leader Count Dooku ordered the base ' s assembled army to stand down until a later time . By the time of the Galactic Civil War , the Concordian base was no longer the Death Watch ' s main headquarters . The Death Watch had moved the majority of their operations to a new base , established within a bunker on the forest moon of the Outer Rim world , Endor . Behind the scenes . The Death Watch ' s hideout on Concordia made its first appearance in the twelfth episode of the ' , entitled " The Mandalore Plot . " The Concordia base is the second Death Watch installation introduced in " Star Wars " canon , after the Death Watch bunker on Endor , introduced in the online MMORPG , " Star Wars Galaxies " . During " The Mandalore Plot " ' s first scene at the base , a holochart inside can be seen behind Dooku ' s hologram on which the words " TARGET : PEACE PARK " can be seen in " Mando ' a " letters , foreshadowing the destruction of the Peace Park ' s memorial shrine in the following scene .