Citizens ' Resistance The Citizens ' Resistance was a large organization of the desperate , oppressed citizens of the planet Romin , which for many years before the Clone Wars and the rise of the Galactic Empire was ruled by the tyrant - dictator Roy Teda . The organization ' s goal was to increase their power and resources — as they fought off poverty , disease , and death among their people — in order to find the ideal opportunity where chance and fortune met them , to oust Teda from power , replacing his tyrannical government with one based on peace and justice . In 24 BBY , the Jedi Order dispatched a Jedi team to Romin on a mission to track down and capture an escaped criminal of the Republic , mad scientist Jenna Zan Arbor . The Jedi came impersonating a captured criminal gang , the Slams , in order to gain admittance to the criminal - harboring world . Soon after the arrival of the undercover Jedi team , two of its members — Padawans Anakin Skywalker ( as Waldo ) and Ferus Olin ( as Ukiah ) — were captured by stealthy operative s of the Citizens ' Resistance and brought before their leader , a tall ( by the species ' standard ) , slender Romin by the name of Joylin . The resistance group had been informed of the Slam gang ' s arrival and were eager to employ its expert thieves in their imminent revolt against Teda ' s regime , which they hoped would be " bloodless . " Events had coalesced , at last , to coincide with the ideal chance for a successful revolution — a big reception that Teda was hosting at his grand palace for the wealthy criminals he had agreed to harbor on his planet . Members of the Citizens ' Resistance , many of whom lived within the boundaries of the capital city of Eliior , stood behind Joylin — in the shadows of a dank , murky , ill - kept building in one of the far less opulent sectors of the city , which Joylin called " Teda Estates " — as he interrogated Skywalker and Olin , whose " special skills " he was desperate to employ . Joylin ' s rationale for choosing the gang members for his purposes was that they were new to Romin , without ties , friends , loyalties , or any need to betray anyone in order to help his revolutionaries . Already with an undercover ' inside operative ' within Teda ' s palace ( Becka ) , Joylin was careful to impress upon his captives that they were among " the winning side , " as most of Romin ' s wealthy citizens and criminal refugees underestimated " the power of desperation . " Indeed , the only difference between the decaying structure they found themselves then conversing in and those on the other side of the capital ' s Cloudflower Wall was that , within the walls of a typical dwelling outside the city , two or three families were crowded together , living amidst " rampant " disease and unemployment . " " Many of our children die before their second birthday . The ones who survive have no hope of getting better than a menial position , of traveling to the city once a day to rake a lawn , clean a sewer , fix a dataport . . . Every family , every individual , has gone without in order to feed our [ resistance effort ] treasury " . " With enough information now to satisfy their own requirements , the undercover Jedi ended up cutting a deal with the Citizens ' Resistance to steal critical codes from Teda ' s private office ( during Teda ' s reception , on the night of their scheduled revolt ) that would allow the revolutionaries to incapacitate the security systems of the capital that controlled all official agency and residential gates and take over the government . In return , beyond his proposition ' s monetary payment of double the gang ' s going rate and permitting them to be the only criminal group allowed to stay on Romin after its liberation ( with each gang member given " lifetime citizenship " as long as they kept Romin law ) , Joylin agreed to the Slams ' stipulated payment - schedule terms of half paid to them before the revolt and half after , but also that Joylin guarantee the safe passage off - planet of the scientist who was the object of their presence on Romin — Jenna Zan Arbor . The Jedi knew that this arch - criminal of the Republic would be desperate for help when her own security crumbled with Teda ' s collapse . The Citizens ' Resistance knew they had but one chance to sabotage the CIP controls for the droid army that Teda used to control the city and guard the wall ; it all depended on striking a quick and decisive blow simultaneously to capture all of the government officials and Teda himself . Only then , by locking the officials and their personal troops inside their houses , could the revolution be a " bloodless " one . For without the officials and their droid army , the Citizens ' Resistance could easily take control of the planet . On the appointed night of the reception , after Jedi Master Obi - Wan Kenobi was successful in making it past Teda ' s private - office guards and obtaining the tyrant ' s security codes , the Citizens ' Resistance began their revolt by disrupting the capital ' s communication systems from the capital ' s security center , having already earlier infiltrated the tyrant ' s Security Management Control . Even though the volume of sentry droids that filled the skies after Teda ' s government went on full alert was greater than expected , once the CIP was knocked out , they crashed to the ground , lifeless . But then Teda ' s regular army flooded the streets and headed for Cloudflower Wall to quell the gathering resistance . Meeting the army was a mass of beings that had burst through the security gates like a huge moving mountain , marching determinedly toward Teda ' s palace . The raging revolutionaries pushed the army back in a hard battle , looting and vandalizing as they went : they had been deprived of too much for too long , living in fear as they watched their children suffer . Their anger fed upon itself and burgeoned , seeking to destroy what had destroyed them . Monuments fell , buildings were destroyed , trees were hacked down , fires were lit in the businesses that catered to the wealthy , but also in the banks , assembly halls , and even hospitals . Dragged into the streets and slaughtered were citizens who had profitted from Teda ' s regime . As the Jedi could not be everywhere to quell the extreme measures taken , it all , too rapidly , careened out of control . Hoping for the best , lamentably they ' d seen the worst . Guiding cowering workers to shelter , tending to the wounded and preventing further violence where possible , the Jedi had by night ' s end established their own villa as a refugee outpost that they guarded against the mob . The sounds of destruction receded as the Romins advanced towards other parts of the city , and by morning ' s light the Resistance workers patrolled the streets , endeavoring to restore order . Joylin had the Slams ' Ubrikkian star yacht fueled and ready for departure at dawn . As theirs was the only transport the Citizens ' Resistance was permitting to leave the planet , the Slams ' were Zan Arbor ' s only choice now . With control of the communication system , Joylin broadcast a victory speech on behalf of the Resistance . Though all had despised living under Teda , yet the liberators themselves had very nearly destroyed the city . But as they began a new government of justice and peace , Joylin warned that the tyrant who had abused their trust , their people , their wealth , their cities , their lands , was still at large . Teda had fled , like the coward he was . The hold of the Citizens ' Resistance on the government was therefore shaky at best , as long as Teda remained at large . The dictator had fled with the few who continued to support him — his chief of staff , General Yubicon , and the galactic criminal Jenna Zan Arbor . As Teda was now a wanted criminal , charged with crimes against Romin , Joylin vowed that unless the tyrant surrendered to the Resistance government , the rest of Teda ' s senior staff and ruling officials would be executed , one by one . Joylin therefore issued a challenge to the ousted ruler , asking him to prove to the planet that he wasn ' t " a monster " by saving those who had been loyal to him and meeting the justice of the people he claimed to love . Joylin called upon Teda to surrender . Should he fail to do so within one hour , his first aide Hansel would be the first to be executed . When the Slams met with Joylin soon after his speech , the new government leader disclosed that , contrary to plan , Zan Arbor and Teda had somehow escaped . The Resistance had tried to trail them , but couldn ' t find where they ' d gone . While Zan Arbor ' s ship was destroyed by rioters when they hit the Teda Landing Platform , Joylin said he " was " able to save " their " ship from the same destruction and even managed to have it refueled . Assuming that the Slams had come for the last half of their payment , Joylin was told by Kenobi ( as Slam ) to keep not only it , but also the " first " half already paid to him , and to put the monies toward restoring the hospital . Noticing the different attire the Slams were now wearing , Joylin was informed by them that they were not , in fact , the Slam gang , but were Jedi , there on the authority of the Galactic Senate . They had come to prevent the Citizens ' Resistance executions from taking place , and when Joylin countered , that , as the leader of Romin , he could do anything he wanted , they reminded him of how very similar his tone was to that of Teda . Despite the extensive " misery " the tyrant had caused , that was not justification for " murder " . A " single being " , moreover , who served at once as judge , jury , and executioner for an " entire people " went against galactic law . Joylin still objected , however , stating that if he didn ' t proceed with the executions , his Resistance could lose control of the government . The Jedi pressed Joylin to delay , for the Senate had approved the assistance of additional Jedi who were , even then , on their way . Joylin ' s objections , furthermore , were sounding more and more like " he was " the government , rather than an " instrument " to preserve the government or prevent its collapse — at which point , Joylin ' s patience was spent , and he ordered the Jedi to leave , or he would have them forcibly removed . Of course , the Jedi knew that no one in the palace had the power to throw them out , yet another " battle " was clearly not productive and would do no good . They left peaceably . Ultimately , both Hansel ' s execution and Joylin ' s own brand of severity were stopped only by the intervention of Jedi High Council member Mace Windu , who had rushed to Romin from the Jedi Temple on Coruscant to help deal with the crisis and to negotiate , on behalf of the Senate , the terms of Teda ' s surrender . The Senate supported the people ' s revolt based on the tyrant ' s many crimes against his own citizens . Master Windu and the other Jedi — who eventually captured Teda and Zan Arbor after a fierce battle outside a planetary prison — escorted the criminals to the headquarters of Romin ' s new government , where Joylin was waiting with his closest advisors . Windu pronounced authoritatively that no executions could take place , that trials must be held and evidence gathered to prosecute properly . For even the Citizens ' Resistance couldn ' t begin a new government using the tactics of the one it had overthrown . As Senate support was crucial to building their new world , and because the Citizens ' Resistance had already accomplished so much , their vision deserved the best chance to flourish . Joylin agreed with such sound reasoning , especially now that Teda had surrendered ( albeit by force , not voluntarily ) , and the planned executions were stopped . Teda , his future altogether precarious , was committed by Joylin ' s guards to a jail cell with the other prisoners of the ousted regime . Sorrowful over the deaths of so many , Windu was yet optimistic and felt the outcome was good : the change on Romin would make a better world . It was later discovered , however , that Joylin had orchestrated a ruse of his own . In fact , the revolutionary leader had " depended " on Teda ' s cowardice " not " to surrender , so that Joylin himself might proceed " unfettered " to execute all of the dictator ' s loyal followers who threatened the new ruler ' s power base , as a precaution to utterly prevent the possibility that they might grow strong again . He never needed Teda " dead " because , as a mere figurehead , " Teda never posed a real threat " . Joylin only needed Teda " gone " . And so , by accepting , just as the revolt began , a bribe from Zan Arbor to permit the escape of Teda and herself offworld , Joylin had effectively accomplished that riddance . Zan Arbor and Teda escaped on the Slams ' star yacht . But unbeknownst to the criminals , the Jedi now tracked their progress towards the galaxy ' s Outer Rim Territories , thanks to a tracking device placed on their ship by Anakin Skywalker before they were able to take flight .