Battle of Malastare Narrows / Legends The Battle of Malastare Narrows was a naval engagement that took place at the planet Malastare in 34 BBY . After reaching disputes with Malastarian Dug companies over fuel allocations , the Corporate Alliance elected to blockade Malastare to force an agreement in their favor . To that end the Alliance Admiral Trench blockaded the Malastare Narrows with a corporate fleet , leading the Dugs to appeal for assistance from Supreme Chancellor Finis Valorum of the Galactic Republic . Though publicly demurring to send aid , Valorum feared that the Alliance would triumph if the conflict escalated into a shooting war . Valorum thus equipped Malastare behind - the - scenes with funds for privateer starships , as well as such military " observers " as Captain Wullf Yularen of the Kwymar Sector Forces to overturn the Alliance ' s blockade of the Malastare Narrows . During the ensuing battle between the Alliance and Republic fleets , Trench used his ruthlessly efficient tactics to tear the Republic ships apart , nearly succeeding in eradicating Yularen ' s forces . Eventually , a task force led by Jedi Master Kep - She was sent to intervene and reinforced the remainder of Yularen ' s task force , overpowering Trench ' s flotilla and forcing the Corporate Alliance to retreat from Malastare . Although the vaporization of Trench ' s flagship led to the presumption of his death , he survived the battle and returned to fight Yularen during the Separatist blockade of Christophsis , over a decade later during the Clone Wars . Prelude . In the year 34 BBY , the Corporate Alliance encountered a disagreement about fuel allocations with Dug - run companies on the Galactic Republic – aligned planet Malastare . Not satisfied with diplomatic solutions , the Corporate Alliance resorted to forceful means to settle the dispute on its terms . The successful and ruthless Admiral Trench was thus appointed by the Alliance to oversee an assault on Malastare . After Sikurdian pirates hired by the Alliance seized Malastare ' s fuel tanker s , Trench moved in with a fleet of " Fantail " - class destroyers and Sikurdian privateers to blockade the Malastare Narrows , leading his forces from his flagship . When the Alliance spurned all of their attempts at diplomacy , the Dugs appealed to Republic Supreme Chancellor Finis Valorum to intervene on their behalf in the escalating situation . Despite publicly declining to dispatch aid to Malastare , Valorum feared that the Alliance might claim victory if the hostilities resulted in a shooting war , for the Republic ' s Dustig Sector Forces , which protected Malastare as part of the Dustig sector , had been crippled by corruption and neglect to the point of being unable to provide proper support . With his public refusal to send aid , Valorum turned to private methods to arm the Dugs against Admiral Trench and the Corporate Alliance . Behind the scenes Valorum convinced the neighboring Tyus and Var Hagen sector s to provide aid to Malastare , as well as passing credits to the Dugs to hire privateer starships to match those of Trench . To coordinate the Dugs ' naval defenses , Valorum sent military officers whose publicly stated objective was to " observe " the situation . Among the officers was Captain Wullf Yularen of the Kwymar Sector Forces , a capable commander who had previously battled Sikurdian pirates during his career . Yularen and his comrades marshaled the Dugs ' forces for the impending confrontation with Trench . The battle . Equipped with dozens of starships , including the privateer ships and the forces from the Tyus and Var Hagen sectors , Captain Yularen and his men engaged Trench in battle , opposing Trench ' s own " Fantail " - class destroyer s and Sikurdian privateers over the Malastare Narrows . However , Trench ' s ruthless and efficient tactics soon left Yularen outmaneuvered , nearly wiping out the entirety of the Republic fleet . Yularen and his crew lost a number of good men to Trench ' s forces , though they held out until reinforcements could arrive . In the end a task force commanded by Jedi Master Kep - She — another one of the military " observers " dispatched by Valorum to Malastare — moved in to intervene , saving the remnants of Yularen ' s fleet that were still engaging Trench . In the resulting fight , the Jedi - led task force vaporized Trench ' s flagship . Without Trench ' s leadership the Alliance fleet was forced to retreat from Malastare , resulting in a Republic victory , albeit a costly one . Trench , meanwhile , survived the explosion of his flagship , thanks to an Andoan mineral - fish pressure suit and his natural toughness as a member of the Harch species . Aftermath . By the time the battle was over , Yularen had lost dozens of ships and the majority of his forces in the assault . Even with the Republic victorious and Trench declared dead following the engagement , the battle was considered to be Yularen ' s first defeat . Remembered as a terrible loss for the amount of casualties , the Battle of Malastare Narrows , as it came to be known , sparked political turmoil for Chancellor Valorum , who was already under fire and was left embarrassed by the scandal following the battle . The Corporate Alliance ' s loss at Malastare remained as a lesson for other galactic cartels such as the Trade Federation , which kept note of the Republic ' s response to Malastare in 33 BBY , when it planned an invasion of the Republic world Naboo . Although Trench was presumed dead by the Republic many years later during the first year of the Clone Wars , he continued his career within the Navy of the Confederacy of Independent Systems . Despite his declared death , Trench was still considered to be undefeated . While blockading the planet Christophsis in 22 BBY , Trench again encountered Yularen , himself now an admiral in the Republic Navy , when he and Jedi Generals Anakin Skywalker and Obi - Wan Kenobi attempted to break Trench ' s blockade . With his first - hand account of Trench ' s tactics and maneuvers at Malastare , Yularen came to accompany Skywalker on a mission to deliver supplies through Trench ' s blockade via an experimental stealth ship . The Battle of Christophsis resulted in Trench ' s defeat and the destruction of his then - flagship , the dreadnaught " Invincible " , and Trench was once again listed as killed - in - action . Nevertheless , Yularen doubted that Trench had perished , given the latter ' s survival at the Malastare Narrows . Behind the scenes . The Battle of Malastare Narrows was created for the 2010 episode " Cat and Mouse , " and served as a backstory to explain Wullf Yularen ' s previous history with Admiral Trench . Despite the episode ' s lack of clarification for the chronology of the battle , the " " magazine ' s biographical article on Admiral Yularen placed the battle prior to the Clone Wars . Though the line mentioning Jedi Master Kep - She as the commander of the intervening task force was cut from the final version of the episode , it remained in the script , and Kep - She was referenced in the episode ' s official online guide . It was not until the publication of " The Essential Guide to Warfare " in April 2012 that the battle ' s specific date , background , and aftermath were detailed , specifically in relation to the Corporate Alliance and the Republic response to the blockade of Malastare . " The Essential Guide to Warfare " also identified the Malastare Narrows as the site of the battle , though their canon ical significance was not clarified .