Nevoota Bee The Nevoota Bee was a Rothana Heavy Engineering " Acclamator " - class assault ship that served the Galactic Republic during the Clone Wars against the Confederacy of Independent Systems . In 22 BBY , the vessel participated in the Battle of Muunilinst , where it served in the role of a starfighter carrier , loaded with 156 V - 19 Torrent starfighters . The vessel carried Jedi General Obi - Wan Kenobi and his Padawan , Anakin Skywalker , into battle . The Jedi - led force won the engagement , capturing the planet for the Republic . Description . The " Nevoota Bee " was an " Acclamator " - class assault ship constructed by Rothana Heavy Engineering for use in the Clone Wars . Measuring 752 meters from stem to stern , the vessel was armed with twelve quad turbolaser cannons , twenty - four anti - starfighter laser cannons , and four bow - mounted missile tubes . Equipped with a 0 . 6 Class hyperdrive , the " Nevoota Bee " , like its sister ships , was designed to travel swiftly to a battlefield and deploy a large number of soldiers . The " Nevoota Bee " carried at least twenty Low Altitude Assault Transport s , mainly stored in overhead racks , but was optimized as a starfighter carrier , carrying 156 V - 19 Torrent starfighters on its vehicle decks . History . With the eruption of the Clone Wars between the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems in 22 BBY , Rothana Heavy Engineering — a subsidiary of Kuat Drive Yards — was responsible for manufacturing the warships and ground vehicles used by the Grand Army of the Republic , including " Acclamator " - class assault ships . Although designed primarily as troop transports , the Republic found the versatile ships able to conform to other mission profiles , including command ships , mobile depots , and commando insertion platforms . The " Nevoota Bee " was one such Acclamator that served a mission profile other than it was designed for , operating as a starfighter carrier with one hundred and fifty - six V - 19 Torrents stationed aboard . Four months after the Battle of Geonosis , the Republic authorized an assault on Muunilinst , the headquarters of the InterGalactic Banking Clan who were a major member state of the Confederacy . The " Nevoota Bee " , along with hundreds of other vessels , ferried the Republic ' s clone trooper army and starfighter forces to the planet . Jedi General Obi - Wan Kenobi and his Padawan , Anakin Skywalker , were aboard the " Nevoota Bee " , and both would be commanding elements of the Republic ' s assault force ; Kenobi would lead the ground assault , while Skywalker would command the fleet ' s starfighter force . As the battle commenced , the " Nevoota Bee " complement of V - 19 ' s , led by Skywalker in his personal Delta - 7 " Aethersprite " - class light interceptor , poured out of the " Acclamator " launch bay and engaged a force of Separatist gun platforms and droid starfighters defending the planet . Soon after , the assault ship ' s gunships launched , ferrying Kenobi and clone troopers to the surface . The Jedi - led clone army won the battle , securing Muunilinst for the Republic . Behind the scenes . The " Nevoota Bee " was first referenced in " The Essential Guide to Warfare " in 2012 , and was linked to the Battle of Muunilinst , an engagement that featured prominently in the " " series . In endnotes for " The Essential Guide to Warfare " posted on his personal Tumblr , Fry states that the naming of the " Nevoota Bee " was both an homage to the World War Two aircraft carriers " " and " " , and a reference to an in - joke from the Star Wars online community in the 1990s . The " Nevoota Bee " was confirmed by coauthor Paul Urquhart to be the same vessel that Anakin Skywalker and his pilots take off from in the second episode of the " Star Wars : Clone Wars " animated series . He stated that he envisioned the Torrent starfighters as being packed onto the hangar deck similar to during the in World War Two . The " Nevoota Bee " joke . The term " Nevoota Bee " originated as an in - joke between Tom Veitch , author of several " Star Wars " comic series ; Rich Handley , author of several " Star Wars " articles ; and Mike Beidler , author of the " Star Wars Literature Compendium " fansite . Veitch reportedly was once asked " What is that buzzing noise in the background of " " ? , " to which he replied , " The Nevoota Bee " — in reality , the noise was likely caused by a bad copy of the film . In an unrelated incident , Handley posted an April Fool ' s Day joke on rec . arts . sf . starwars . misc which announced that a sequel to " Empire ' s End " was being released which involved Emperor Palpatine being reborn inside an insane clone of Chewbacca named Palbacca . Beidler then took the two references and combined them , listing the fictional " Scourge of the Nevoota Bee " trilogy on his website . Accompanied by a fifty - part comic series , it was purported to be written by Veitch and Beidler , with the audiobook renditions read by Handley . The joke circulated throughout the online Star Wars fan community . The planet Nevoota was introduced to Star Wars canon in 1998 in Daniel Wallace ' s " The Essential Guide to Planets and Moons " , while the Nevoota species were first introduced by Abel G . Peña in the article " The History of the Mandalorians " , published in Star Wars Insider 80 in 2005 . The species , a race of intelligent insects , was confirmed to be a nod to the long - running " Nevoota Bee " joke by Peña in a post of the Jedi Council Forums .