Wat Tambor Wat Tambor was a male Skakoan who was the foreman of the Techno Union and an executive of Baktoid Armor Workshop . During the Separatist Crisis , he pledged the Techno Union ' s resources to the Confederacy of Independent Systems , earning himself a seat on the Separatist Council during the Clone Wars . In the conflict ' s early stages , Tambor was appointed emir of Ryloth and supervised its occupation by the Separatists , which was fiercely resisted by local Twi ' lek freedom fighters led by Cham Syndulla . After defying orders to abandon Ryloth when the tide of battle turned against the Separatists , Tambor was left behind and captured by the Galactic Republic . He was briefly imprisoned on Coruscant before being liberated later in the conflict . As the Clone Wars escalated , Wat Tambor took an interest in the captive ARC trooper CT - 1409 , who had been captured during a battle in the Citadel but was presumed dead by the Republic . Tambor kept an unconscious Echo in a stasis chamber and managed to extract information from Echo ' s mind about a strategy algorithm devised by the Clone Captain CT - 7567 . While officially professing the Techno Union ' s neutrality , Tambor secretly sold the algorithm to the Separatist Admiral Trench , who used it to great effect during a campaign to invade the Republic world of Anaxes . Tambor ' s dealings with the Separatists were exposed by a Republic infiltration team consisting of Rex , Clone Force 99 , and the Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker . During the final days of the Clone Wars , Wat Tambor and the rest of the Separatist Council relocated from the planet Utapau to Mustafar , where they were slaughtered by Darth Vader . Following his demise , the newly - formed Galactic Empire assumed control of the Techno Union ' s assets . Biography . The Separatist Crisis . A male Skakoan from the planet Skako , Wat Tambor left his homeworld at an early age and began a career in technology on the harsh industrial world of Metalorn . He eventually became foreman of the Techno Union , a powerful commercial body that made massive profits from developing new technologies , and an executive of Baktoid Armor Workshop , an arms manufacturer . During the last years of the Galactic Republic , Tambor supported the Secessionist Movement , which eventually developed into the Confederacy of Independent Systems . During the Separatist Crisis , Wat Tambor and several other pro - Separatist corporate leaders , including the Trade Federation Viceroy Nute Gunray , the InterGalactic Banking Clan Chairman San Hill , and the Commerce Guild president Shu Mai attended a secret conference on the planet Geonosis that was hosted by the Separatist leader Count Dooku and the Geonosian Archduke Poggle the Lesser , who oversaw the production of battle droid s for the Techno Union . At the meeting , Tambor pledged the Techno Union ' s resources to the Separatist cause . During the ensuing Battle of Geonosis , the first battle of the Clone Wars , Wat Tambor and other Separatist delegates fled Geonosis in order to escape the advance of the Grand Army of the Republic . Despite the Techno Union ' s support for the Separatist cause , the company still declared neutrality and was even represented in the Galactic Senate by Senator Gume Saam . The Clone Wars . Emir of Ryloth . Early in the conflict , Tambor spearheaded the Separatist invasion of Ryloth , the homeworld of the Twi ' lek species , and supervised its subsequent occupation after being installed as the planet ' s emir by Count Dooku . Setting up headquarters in the capital city of Lessu , the Skakoan and his tactical droid TA - 175 ruled the planet with an iron fist and many Twi ' leks starved as a result of the Separatist occupation . Ryloth was also blockaded by a large Separatist war fleet to deter any Republic attempts to retake Ryloth . When the Senate dispatched reinforcements to retake Ryloth , Tambor ordered the Neimoidian Captain Mar Tuuk to prevent a Republic invasion of the planet . Shortly later , three Republic Navy " Venator " - class Star Destroyers under the command of Jedi General Anakin Skywalker and Admiral Wullf Yularen emerged from hyperspace . However , Tuuk trapped the Star Destroyers by sending four " Munificent " - class star frigates to interdict them . As a result of this counter - attack , the " Venator " Star Destroyer " Redeemer " was crippled while another ship , the " Defender " , was badly damaged . Via hologram , Tambor congratulated Tuuk on his success but warned him not to under - estimate the Jedi General Skywalker . Despite the initial setback , General Skywalker used the crippled " Defender " to ram into Tuuk ' s flagship , a Droid Control Ship . Republic reinforcements under the Jedi Master s Obi - Wan Kenobi and Mace Windu then exited hyperspace with three " Acclamator " - class transgalactic military assault ships carrying substantial ground forces to liberate Ryloth . In response to the planned Republic landings at the Ryloth city of Nabat , Tambor ordered the tactical droid TX - 20 to use captive Twi ' leks as ' living shields ' to deter the Republic ' s clone trooper s and their Jedi commanders from launching a heavy attack . As the Republic ' s Ghost Company advanced into Nabat , TX - 20 unleashed several starved gutkurr s but the Jedi and clones managed to foil this attack . The capture of Nabat enabled the clone army to march on Lessu . In response to Master Windu ' s advance on Lessu , Emir Tambor conferred with TA - 175 . Despite the odds stacked against him , he refused to order a retreat and claimed that Windu did not have sufficient troops to retake the city . Tambor also ordered that all droids be brought into Lessu in order to secure his stronghold and the strategically important plasma bridge . By this stage , Republic starfighters under General Skywalker had secured the space around Ryloth and General Kenobi had taken the Jixuan desert , allowing the planet ' s southern hemisphere to fall under Republic control . In response to Tambor ' s military presence in Lessu , Mace Windu decided to enlist the help of the Twi ' lek Resistance under Cham Syndulla . Later , Wat Tambor and TA - 175 conferred with Count Dooku , who ordered the Techno Union foreman to retreat with whatever valuables he could and destroy everything else . While Tambor was alarmed by Dooku ' s order , the Count explained that he wanted to use Ryloth to demonstrate the cost of a " Republic victory " to the galaxy . As Republic forces closed in on Lessu , Tambor ordered TA - 175 to prepare his shuttle for departure . Tambor refused to leave until the last of Ryloth ' s treasures had been loaded onto his shuttle . This infuriated Count Dooku who wanted him out of the city before Republic reinforcements arrived . The Separatist leader intended to use several " Hyena " - class bombers to bomb Lessu as part of a " scorched earth " tactic and did not want the Republic to gain a valuable prisoner . In a desperate attempt to slow down Windu and Cham ' s advance , Tambor attempted to use Twi ' lek civilians as living shields . Despite his best efforts , the Republic and their Twi ' lek allies managed to secure control of the plasma bridge and liberate the city . Before Tambor could reach his shuttle , TA - 175 departed on the ship with his looted treasures ; leaving Tambor to be capture by Master Windu and Cham ' s forces . Despite Tambor ' s capture , Count Dooku gave the order for the Hyena bombers to raze Lessu to the ground . When confronted by Windu , the captive Tambor told him that they would perish for the glory of the Separatist cause . However , Dooku ' s Hyena bombers were knocked out of the sky by Anakin and his Padawan Ahsoka Tano ' s starfighter s . Defeated , Tambor surrendered unconditionally to the clone trooper s and Cham ' s Twi ' lek Resistance forces . Dealing with the " Bad Batch " . Following his capture on Ryloth , Wat Tambor was incarcerated in the Republic Center for Military Operations on Coruscant . However , he was later freed from Republic custody and rejoined the Separatist war effort , retreating to the Techno Union ' s headquarters in Purkell , a city on the planet Skako Minor . At some point , Tambor obtained a captured ARC tooper designated CT - 1409 , who had been presumed killed during a mission to the Citadel . Tambor learned that " Echo " was aware of a strategy algorithm that was developed by Clone Captain CT - 7567 . Holding Echo within a stasis chamber , Tambor used the unconscious clone trooper to feed the Separatist Admiral Trench with information on the Republic ' s tactics during the Separatist invasion of Anaxes . Using the strategy algorithm mined from Echo ' s mind , Admiral Trench won several victories on Anaxes and seemed poised to conquer the planet . In response , Rex and a group of clone troopers known as the " Bad Batch " infiltrated a Separatist cyber center . During the mission , they discovered a signal originating from Skako Minor , a world that had declared itself neutral during the Clone Wars . They also recognized Echo ' s voice and deduced he was still alive . Following the clone troopers ' attack on the cyber center , Admiral Trench contacted Tambor to warn him that the Republic had traced the algorithm ' s signal to Skako Minor , cautioning the Techno Union foreman to be ready . The Skaoan resolved to stop the clone rescuers . As expected , Rex , the Bad Batch and the Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker infiltrated Skako Minor . After landing on the planet and making contact with the native Poletec , the Republic infiltrators managed to trace Echo ' s signal to Purkell . Inside the facility , they fought and overpowered several of Tambor ' s D - wing droid sentries and managed to find Echo in the Core Systems room . Before they could access the chamber , the clones were contacted via hologram by a gloating Wat Tambor , who informed them that they had stumbled into a trap . He told them that he had used Rex ' s strategy algorithm to predict every move they had made since their arrival on Skako Minor . When Tambor accused the clones of violating Skako Minor ' s neutrality , Rex responded that the Techno Union had already violated the planet ' s neutrality by bringing a Republic prisoner . Before departing , Tambor praised the clones for doing their part and ordered several D - wing droids to execute the intruders . The clones managed to free Echo from the stasis chamber but found themselves trapped in the tower . By that time , Wat Tambor and several aides had arrived on the facility ' s ground floor . Tambor ordered his droids to prepare the organic decimator , a spherical device capable of disintegrating organic lifeforms . When Skywalker contacted Tambor to bargain for Echo , the Techno Union foreman rejected his offer and instead executed a live Poletec prisoner via hologram . Tambor then issued his next ultimatum to the Jedi : that he surrender or be destroyed . Skywalker and the clones rejected Tambor ' s offer and managed to escape the Core Systems room through an exhaust tunnel before the organic decimator could breach the chamber . As a final " gift " , the intruders planted several detonators which destroyed Tambor ' s machines and research . The foreman was enraged that his prisoner had escaped and at the loss of his machines and years of research . Despite Tambor ' s best efforts to capture the intruders , Skywalker and the clones managed to tame several winged keeradak reptiles and escape to a Poletec village . In response , Wat sent a force of D - wing droids and octuptarra magna tri - droids to destroy them . However , the clones and their Poletec allies managed to trap them in a valley and defeat them . The surviving D - wing droids retreated and informed Wat of the defeat . The foreman regarded the loss of Echo as a devastating blow to the Techno Union ' s profit margins and vowed to find a way to recoup on his company ' s losses . Meanwhile , Skywalker and the clones managed to return with Echo to Anaxes where the Republic devised a plan to defeat Admiral Trench ' s invasion . Despite the serious breach of security on Skako Minor , Tambor decided not to inform Admiral Trench about the loss of Echo . He reasoned that admitting his failure would hurt the Techno Union ' s profit margins . This decision had a catastrophic effect on the Separatist war efforts on Anaxes . With the help of Skywalker , Rex and the " Bad Batch " , Echo managed to fake a signal from Skako Minor and feed Trench with false strategies . The Separatist Admiral dispatched most of his forces to secure the main Republic assembly plant on Anaxes . This enabled Echo to deactivate them . The Republic and Jedi then managed to defuse one of Trench ' s bombs , kill the Admiral , and destroy his fleet . As a result , the Republic scored a victory on Anaxes , which continued to produce warships for the Republic ' s war effort . Last days of the Confederacy . Following the Battle of Coruscant which saw the death of Count Dooku , Wat Tambor and the Separatist Council met with the Separatist military leader General Grievous on the sinkhole world of Utapau . Tambor and the Separatist Council later relocated to the volcanic world of Mustafar , whose natives had a trade agreement with the Techno Union and mined unique and valuable minerals from the planet ' s lava rivers on its behalf . Darth Sidious then informed the Separatist Council that his new apprentice Darth Vader would come and accept their surrender . However , Vader instead executed Tambor and the entire Separatist leadership . Following his death , the newly - formed Galactic Empire assumed control of the former Techno Union ' s assets . Age of the Empire . At some point following the skirmish aboard the Sorca Retreat , Doctor Aphra and the Son - tuul Pride raided Wat Tambor ' s workshop to find out he had acquired the Triple - Zero protocol personality matrix almost a century prior . He became interested in studying it , discovered it was too dangerous to be activated , and sent it to Quarantine World III to be quarantined . Tambor kept the memories of 0 - 0 - 0 and stored them in the Techno Union databanks as part of the Separatists ' Research and Development . After the Clone Wars , the databanks were transferred over to the Empire and shifted into Hivebase - 1 . Personality and traits . Standing 1 . 98 meter s in height , Wat Tambor had green skin and black eye s . Strict and inventive , Wat Tambor had a mind for war machines and was one of the original and most fervent Separatist leaders , having pledging his loyalty and the Techno Union ' s battle droid armies to the Confederacy of Independent Systems after being attracted to the movement by Dooku ' s promises of unlimited pursuit of profits . Despite declaring the Techno Union neutral during the Clone Wars , Tambor was an active supporter of the Separatist cause who channeled substantial resources and information to their war effort . On one occasion , he used the drugged clone trooper CT - 1409 to provide Admiral Trench with CT - 7567 ' s strategy algorithm , which greatly assisted the Separatist campaign to conquer the Republic world of Anaxes . As a businessman , he was concerned with protecting the Techno Union ' s profit margins and minimizing losses to his company by all means necessary . His concern with profits led him to hide news of Echo ' s escape , a catastrophic decision which led to the Republic victory on Anaxes . As both a businessman and military commander , Tambor was known for his ruthlessness and disregard for the lives of other sentient beings . In an attempt to intimidate Anakin Skywalker and Clone Force 99 , Tambor used an organic decimator to vaporize a captive Poletec , a native of Skako Minor . During the Separatist occupation of Ryloth , many Twi ' leks starved under his rule . During a battle in Nabat , he gave orders for Twi ' lek civilians to be used as " living shields " to deter the Republic and Jedi forces . Despite his disregard for sentient lives , Tambor was visibly upset when Skywalker and Clone Force 99 destroyed his laboratory along with its machines and years of research . At the bidding of Count Dooku , Tambor exercised a " scorched earth " policy towards Ryloth by looting the planet ' s valuables in order to show the galaxy the " cost " of a Republic victory . However , his avarice cost him dearly when he refused to evacuate Ryloth until the last shipment of valuables had been shipped ; a decision which contributed to his capture by Master Windu . Behind the scenes . Originally created for the 2002 film , Wat Tambor first appeared in " Cloak of Deception " , a " Star Wars " Legends novel written by James Luceno that was released on May 29 , 2001 . Tambor was voiced by Ben Burtt in " Attack of the Clones " , where he was an entirely computer - generated creation , and Matthew Wood in the canon animated series " " . Concept artist Michael Murnane developed the character ' s look , giving him an art deco quality of simple shapes and clean lines . A line of dialogue originally belonging to Poggle the Lesser concerning the production of battle droids was later given to Wat Tambor , explaining that the Techno Union were the builders of most of the new droid army seen in " Attack of the Clones " .