Battle of Kiros A battle took place on the planet Kiros during the Clone Wars between the Galactic Republic against an joint Confederacy of Independent Systems and Zygerrian Slave Empire invasion force . Prelude . In 20 BBY , the Togruta n Artisan colony of Kiros chose to stay neutral during the galaxy - wide Clone Wars . However , the Confederacy of Independent Systems decided to invade and occupy Kiros . Upon seeing the initial invasion , Governor Roshti contacted the Jedi Council ' s Grand Master Yoda for aid . Yoda promised to send help and warned him not to trust Count Dooku , who was present there with his forces . After Roshti and Yoda ended their communication , the Droid Army troops came from their landing crafts . Dooku , a tactical droid , and Zygerrian Commander Darts D ' Nar then came out from the Zygerrian slave ship , " Tecora " . Together , they met Governor Roshti . Dooku assured him that this was a peaceful occupation , not an invasion . He then offered Roshti and his people sanctuary away from the War . Roshti , seeing no other choice , agreed to Dooku ' s offer . In truth , Dooku had made an alliance between the Confederacy and the Zygerrians ' Slave Empire to provide them with slaves . Thus , D ' Nar then had the Droid Army round up all of Kiros ' people . D ' Nar then all the Togrutas shipped to Zygerria where they would sold into slavery at Queen Miraj Scintel ' s slave auction . D ' Nar was then left in command of Droid Army ' s occupation force and had his headquarters in the Governor ' s tower . The Battle . Ten planetary rotations later , the Republic forces arrived led by Jedi Generals Obi - Wan Kenobi , Anakin Skywalker , Jedi Commander Ahsoka Tano , Clone marshal commander " Cody " , and Captain " Rex " . The republic forces then landed on surface . As the Republic landing ship made its landing , the Republic forces deployed AT - TEs , AT - RTs , and their troops . The Jedi and their troops then started their ground assault . Kenobi , Skywalker , Tano and Rex then took several of their troops on BARC speeder s ahead towards the Governor ' s tower . Together they were able to take out several commando droids on Flitknot Speeder Bike s as well the AATs and the rest of the battle droids . Captain Rex was able to destroy the last one with his missile launcher . However , en route to the tower , Rex and Tano saw that there were no people anywhere . They found it suspicious since the Droid Army was not shy about using hostages such as they did during the Ryloth Campaign . As their forces surrounded the tower , Commander Cody then received a message from D ' Nar , who wished to discuss terms of surrender with Kenobi . However , Skywalker did not like the fact the D ' Nar was Zygerrian slave trader and wanted to deal with him himself . However , Kenobi insisted that he should do as D ' Nar wished . Kenobi then had Skywalker contact Admiral Yularen and start a bio - scan to find the colonists . Kenobi then went into the tower and left his com - link on for Skywalker to listen on his discussion with D ' Nar . As Kenobi entered tower ' s office , he interrupted D ' Nar ' s conference with Dooku and Prime Minister Atai Molec , who were surprised that he had not left yet . After Dooku introduced Kenobi to Molec and D ' Nar , he demanded to bring Kenobi to him on his knees . D ' Nar then demanded that Kenobi surrender to him . He told Kenobi that he had planted Thermal annihilator bomb s through out the city . He would detonate them and kill anyone who nearby . D ' Nar then had his tactical droid set one off near the Republic forces Skywalker then canceled the bio - scan and had R2 - D2 scan for bombs . Kenobi then distracted D ' Nar by pretending to surrender . D ' Nar considered killing as revenge for the Jedi ' s termination of their slave empire , but knew Dooku would rather have him alive . Kenobi then offered D ' Nar a chance to fight him in the Zygerrian way without his lightsaber . Thus , the two of them fought each other without their weapons . Skywalker and Tano then too a pair of AT - RTs took disarm the bombs with their lightsabers . The battle droids attempted to inform D ' Nar of this to no avail due to Kenobi destroying his projector . As Skywalker and Tano were about to disarm the last two bombs in a courtyard , they then came under attack by several super battle droids . They were then pinned down by a pair of sniper droids . Skywalker and Tano were unable break through their shields . However , they saw that the droids were vulnerable on their sides . Together they were able to destroy the droids and disarm the last two bombs . As D ' Nar was winning his fight against Kenobi , the tactical droid showed him a message from his battle droids , telling that all the bombs had been disarmed . D ' Nar then took the detonator and tried to set the bombs off to no avail . Kenobi then destroyed the commando droids and retrieved his lightsaber . Kenobi then offered him the chance to surrender again . D ' Nar refuse and decided to set off the last one that was on the back of the tactical droid . As the bomb was going off , D ' Nar made his escape . Kenobi tossed the tactical droids out the tower and the droid was destroyed . Kenobi then told Skywalker and Tano that D ' Nar was escaping to his ship , the " Tecora " . As D ' Nar started to take off , Skywalker and Tano were able to use the AT - RTs to reach the ship . Skywalker was then able to damage one of the " Tecora " < nowiki > ' < / nowiki > s engines . D ' Nar then spotted the two jedi and decided to unleash his pet , a Blixus upon them . Skywalker then fought the creature while Ahsoka stabilized the ship . Tano then went the cockpit where she found D ' Nar . The two them fought until Ahsoka was subdue him . Skywalker was then able to kill the Blixus . Skywalker then went to cockpit and demanded the location of the togrutas . At first , D ' Nar refuse until Skywalker held his lightsaber at his neck . D ' Nar then revealed that his queen was going to have slave auction on Zygerria . Aftermath . Following D ' Nar ' s capture and the destruction of Droid Army occupation force , Kiros was liberated . However , all the colonists were still nowhere to be found . Admiral Yularen that they were no where on the planet . Skywalker , Kenobi , Tano , and Yularen informed the Jedi Council of this . Master Plo Koon believed that the Zygerrians were using the Confederacy to rebuild their Slave Empire . Thus , Kenobi , Skywalker , Tano and Rex undertook a mission to Zygerria to find the colonists . The Republic then returned the colonist to Kiros after finding them on Kadavo .