Skirmish on Rodia A skirmish took place on the planet Rodia around 22 BBY during the Clone Wars . After aiding in the escape of the Hutt prisoner Ziro Desilijic Tiure from Republic custody on Coruscant , the bounty hunter Robonino went into hiding from the Republic and established headquarters on Rodia . Robonino set up an underwater generator to power his modified battle droids , and the surrounding wildlife soon began to suffer from the effects of the device . Rodia ' s senator , Onaconda Farr , requested a Jedi to investigate the disturbances , and High Jedi General Kit Fisto was sent in with a squad of clone troopers . While the clone commander and his forces fought and defeated the droids in the base , Fisto found the underwater generator . Instead of capturing Robonino , Fisto was forced to destroy the generator and allow the bounty hunter to escape . Nevertheless , a Kwazel Maw beast soon appeared and spat out the defeated Robonino right in front of the Republic forces , leading to the mercenary ' s arrest . Prelude . Around the first year of the Clone Wars , the bounty hunter Cad Bane formed a team of hunters to free Hutt crime lord Ziro Desilijic Tiure — who had been arrested for crimes against the Galactic Republic — from the Republic Judiciary Central Detention Center on the galactic capital of Coruscant . The hunters ' mission was successful , and Bane and his team escaped with Ziro . Shortly thereafter , Bane transmitted the monetary reward for the mission into the accounts of his comrades and then ordered the bounty hunters to flee and hide from the Republic . One member of the team , the Patrolian slicer Robonino , traveled to Rodia and established headquarters at an abandoned station on the world . Robonino set up an underwater droid generator to power his modified battle droids , and wildlife in the area soon began to suffer from the generator ' s output . Fearing that the Confederacy of Independent Systems had returned to Rodia , the planet ' s Galactic Senate representative , Onaconda Farr , requested a Jedi to to investigate the disturbances on the planet . High Jedi General Kit Fisto arrived with a squad of clone troopers , and after being directed toward the abandoned station by Farr , Fisto entered the water with several troopers to find what was disrupting the planet ' s wildlife , while his clone SCUBA commander remained on the surface to search the outpost . The skirmish . Entering the abandoned station , the clone commander ordered his forces to spread out , warning his troops to be careful of battle droids that could be hiding in the station . A pair of B1 battle droids noticed the intruders , and the clones were ambushed by B1 and B2 battle droids , as well as BX - series droid commandos and droidekas , all hot - wired by Robonino from the remains of the droid deployment previously sent to Rodia by the Confederacy . The clones were able to cut their way through the base and defeat all of the droids . In the water , Fisto and his clone SCUBA troopers found the droid generator , which promptly targeted two of the troopers with its laser cannons and killed them . Fisto soon caught sight of a fleeing Robonino , and while opening fire with his blaster on the Jedi Master , the bounty hunter launched several thermal detonators toward the Jedi . Fisto was able to redirect the explosives into the droid generator with the Force , destroying the device and disabling the battle droids , but his actions cost him the apprehension of Robonino . Aftermath . Fisto believed that he had made a willing trade in letting Robonino escape in exchange for eliminating the source of the wildlife disruptions . The Jedi Master reported to Farr that it had not been a Confederate outpost creating the disturbances , but rather that of a " skilled vandal " who had caused unintentional consequences on the Rodian wildlife . But then , a native Kwazel Maw creature appeared out of the water and spat out Robonino right in front of Fisto , Farr , and the remaining clone troopers , enabling them to take Robonino into custody . Behind the scenes . The Rodia skirmish first appeared in " " , an issue of the online that transitioned between the and of the 2008 . The battle also appeared in " Swamp Station Sweep " , an online game released on StarWars . com that was based on the events of the comic . The webcomic and the game were somewhat inconsistent with one another . Specific continuity was not established between the comic and game , and it was also implied that Robonino was present both on land and underwater . This article assumes that Robonino was underwater per the events described in the webcomic . Although " The Official Star Wars Fact File " Part 28 states that all of Fisto ' s clone troopers were killed upon finding Robonino ' s droid generator , that conflicts with the events of the webcomic , in which only two troopers were killed . This article assumes that the webcomic ' s version of events is correct .