Battle of Teth / Legends The Battle of Teth took place in 22 BBY on the planet Teth during the Clone Wars between the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems . Seeking to gain safe passage through Hutt Space , Count Dooku and the Confederacy kidnapped Rotta , son of the Hutt crime lord Jabba Desilijic Tiure , intending to frame the Jedi Order for the crime . Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker and his recently apprenticed Padawan , Ahsoka Tano , were assigned to retrieve Rotta in order to win the crime lord ' s favor for safe passage through Hutt Space . Skywalker and Tano ventured to the B ' omarr Order Monastery on Teth — where Republic scouts had located the Huttlet — with clone troopers of Torrent Company , while Jedi Master Obi - Wan Kenobi negotiated with Jabba on the crime lord ' s home planet of Tatooine . Unable to land at the Teth monastery because of the presence of battle droids guarding it , Skywalker and Tano deployed their forces in the jungle below and commenced a vertical assault up the cliff holding the monastery using two AT - TE walkers . After Skywalker and Tano had defeated the droids and retrieved the Huttlet , Dark Acolyte Asajj Ventress led several more Confederate units on a renewed assault of the monastery , and the Republic forces were forced to barricade themselves inside the stronghold . The two Jedi went to find a secondary exit to escape the monastery , hoping to find medical support for the Huttlet , while Clone Captain CT - 7567 , nicknamed " Rex , " stayed to command Torrent Company . Ventress and her forces managed to enter the monastery , and all but six clone troopers were killed , the last six — including Rex — being taken captive . With the help of the astromech droid R2 - D2 , Skywalker and Tano located a rear exit in the monastery and confronted Ventress herself before escaping Teth in an old freighter . However , the Jedi were forced to continue directly to Tatooine in the ship , as the main hangar of the " Venator " - class Star Destroyer " Spirit of the Republic " was severely damaged by Confederate Vulture droids , preventing them from boarding . Meanwhile , Kenobi arrived on Teth with reinforcements , in the form of the 212th Attack Battalion and several LAAT / i gunships . Kenobi also dueled with Ventress , and the Dark Acolyte escaped after she discovered that Skywalker had left the system for Tatooine . With the reinforcements , the Republic forces were able to defeat the Confederacy . Prelude . In 22 BBY , the first year of the Clone Wars , both the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems sought access to the hyperspace lanes passing through Hutt - controlled space . Seven weeks into the war , the Confederacy developed a plan to capture Rotta , the son of Hutt crime lord Jabba Desilijic Tiure , and received secret assistance from Jabba ' s uncle , Ziro Desilijic Tiure . The Confederacy sought to frame the Republic and the Jedi Order for the crime and return Jabba ' s son to him themselves , planning to win the crime lord ' s favor as well as access to the hyperspace lanes . Ziro himself sought to take Jabba ' s place as leader of the Hutt clans . Once the Jedi had recovered Rotta , the Confederate Head of State , Count Dooku , planned to use a protocol droid , 4A - 7 , to record a hologram of Rotta in the Jedi ' s possession , and Dooku would be able to deceive Jabba with the recording . After granting the Confederacy access through Hutt Space , Jabba would take action against the Jedi and the Republic and be imprisoned for his crimes . The Dark Acolyte Asajj Ventress kidnapped Jabba ' s son on his home planet of Tatooine , spiriting him away to the planet Teth — specifically to a B ' omarr Order Monastery that Ziro had previously seized . Unaware of the involvement of both the Confederacy and his uncle in the situation , Jabba employed bounty hunters to find Rotta , in addition to requesting the help of the Republic and the Jedi Order . However , the only Jedi who could be spared for the mission were High General Obi - Wan Kenobi and General Anakin Skywalker , who were at the time battling Confederate forces on the planet Christophsis . The bounty hunters hired by Jabba tracked Rotta to the Teth monastery . However , they were captured and decapitated , and their heads were sent back to Jabba . Republic Advanced Recon Force trooper scouts also tracked the Huttlet to Teth , and upon the conclusion of the Battle of Christophsis , Kenobi left to negotiate with Jabba on Tatooine on the Republic ' s behalf . The Jedi were given only one planetary rotation by the crime lord to retrieve his son and apprehend his captors ; furthermore , if the Republic and the Jedi could not complete the task , the mission would be given to Count Dooku and the Confederacy . Jedi Grand Master Yoda charged Skywalker and his newly apprenticed Padawan learner , Ahsoka Tano , with rescuing Jabba ' s son , and following the scouts ' reports , Skywalker and Tano ventured to Teth . However , the Jedi were also unaware of the Confederacy ' s role in Rotta ' s capture . Skywalker and Tano arrived over Teth aboard an " Acclamator " - class assault ship with a unit of clone troopers and rendezvoused with the Republic scouts . The ARF troopers reported that the monastery was being guarded by at least two battalions of battle droids . Furthermore , the monastery was heavily fortified , and the Republic forces would not be able to land there . Skywalker elected to commence with a ground assault , and the assault ship descended into Teth ' s atmosphere . The transport deployed several LAAT / i gunships with the Jedi and Torrent Company aboard , in addition to several LAAT / carriers bringing two AT - TE walkers . The gunship transporting Skywalker , Tano , and Clone Captain CT - 7567 , nicknamed " Rex , " was piloted by Clone Lieutenant Hawk . The battle . Vertical assault . As the Republic gunships approached the monastery , the droids spotted them and opened fire . Closing their blast shield s , the gunships were able to safely land , and the Republic forces approached the cliff . The droid forces , under the command of an OOM command battle droid , soon sighted Tano and concentrated fire at her ; the Republic forces responded by opening fire on the droids with the AT - TE walkers . In the resulting exchange of laser fire , the Jedi and the troopers were able to reach the foot of the monastery mesa , taking cover in an overhang . The Jedi and clones used vines to ascend the half - mile cliff , and the clone troopers also used the grappling hooks in their blaster rifles , while the two AT - TE walkers used the claws in their footpads to maintain a strong hold on the vertical face . As Skywalker and his troops were ascending the cliff , battle droids launched a ground attack from the rear , but clone troopers on BARC speeders provided mobile combat support and defended the Jedi ' s assault team . Several DSD1 dwarf spider droids concentrated fire at the climbing AT - TE walkers , breaking one ' s grip on the cliffside and sending it off the face . Tano defended the remaining walker by jumping onto its windscreen and rebounding the droid fire . The Republic forces were attacked by several B1 battle droids on Single Trooper Aerial Platforms , and the two front legs of Tano ' s walker lost their grip . Noticing the reeling walker , Skywalker immediately jumped down from above and eliminated the droid pilots by leaping from one STAP to the next , kicking them off one by one , and claiming the last STAP for himself . Ascending the cliff once more , Skywalker used his STAP to eliminate several dwarf spider droids , clearing a path for Rex and Torrent Company , while the AT - TE walker regained its purchase on the cliff face . Skywalker ' s STAP was shot down just short of the landing pad entrance to the monastery . The Jedi managed to leap the remaining distance and destroyed the remaining droids in front of the monastery . Skywalker was assailed by several droidekas deployed from inside the stronghold , but the arrival of Tano and the AT - TE walker stopped the destroyer droids before they could fire a single shot . The monastery was secured ; however , Skywalker and Tano had lost over half their men during the ascent . After a moment of planning with Rex , Skywalker and Tano entered the monastery and encountered 4A - 7 , the Confederate spy droid who had been assigned to gather evidence of Rotta in the Jedi ' s possession . The droid claimed to be the caretaker of the monastery and told them that the droids kept their prisoners in the lower levels . Ordering Rex and his men to stay at the entrance , the Jedi ventured deeper into the monastery to retrieve the Huttlet . Ventress and her droids were waiting , concealed elsewhere in the monastery exterior . The Dark Acolyte prepared to collect the data that her master — Sith Lord Count Dooku — needed to frame the Jedi . Skywalker and Tano entered the dungeons and were assailed by several battle droids . Tano eliminated most of them before the two Jedi located the captured Huttlet . However , the Jedi realized that Rotta was sick and required medical attention ; the Confederacy had deliberately infected Rotta with a bacterial infection , intending to make it harder for Rotta to be returned to his father alive . Upon their return to the courtyard exterior , the Jedi placed Rotta in a backpack for easier transport , despite the Huttlet ' s resistance . However , they were unaware that their actions were being recorded by 4A - 7 . The spy droid ' s holograph ic recording was transmitted to Dooku , who showed it to Jabba as proof that his son was in possession of the Jedi and was being inhumanely treated by them . The ruse was successful , and Dooku was able to fool Jabba into believing his deception . Ventress was given a new objective — to recover the Huttlet alive so that he could be delivered to Jabba on the Confederacy ' s behalf . Confederacy counter - assault . Through a holotransmission broadcast through the astromech droid R2 - D2 , Skywalker and Tano delivered a status report to Kenobi . The Jedi suspected the Confederacy ' s involvement in Rotta ' s abduction and also deduced that the Confederacy was using them to convince Jabba — and by extension , the Hutt clans — to join their struggle against the Republic . Before the conference could continue , however , several Confederate C - 9979 landing crafts approached the monastery , deploying vulture droids to attack the Republic forces . As several squads of battle droids approached on foot , the Republic battle group attempted to hold its position . The remaining AT - TE walker defended the monastery entrance with Clone Sergeants Coric and Hez and their squads , while the rest of the Republic forces took cover in the building . The AT - TE walker fell to droid fire , and the Jedi and the clones were forced back into the monastery , barricading themselves inside the stronghold . However , the defense of the monastery caused Skywalker to loose three - quarters of his men . The droids set up a cordon and worked to hack the door controls . As Rotta still required medical attention , Tano convinced Skywalker to look for an escape to find assistance for the Huttlet , while Rex stayed to hold position and command the forces . The Jedi came upon an old Hutt throne room , and R2 - D2 analyzed the building schematics from a link to the monastery ' s systems . Too impatient to wait for the battle droids to hack through the lock , Ventress sliced through the door ' s controls with one of her lightsabers , causing it to open from a safety mechanism . B1 and B2 battle droids surged forward with dwarf spider droids following close behind , and Torrent Company was soon overwhelmed , with only six clone troopers — including Captain Rex — surviving the assault . Ventress ordered the droids to seal all exits , but she was suddenly attacked by Rex , who had been feigning death . The clone captain destroyed an OOM command battle droid next to the Dark Acolyte , but Ventress deflected the clone ' s blaster fire and pulled his blaster out of his hand with the Force . Force - choking Rex , Ventress demanded Skywalker ' s location from the clone but received only defiance in response . Ventress attempted to perform a mind trick on Rex , but the trooper was able to resist her influence and secretly alerted Skywalker to the Dark Acolyte ' s presence via comlink . After Ventress had left to find the Jedi , Rex and the other five Torrent Company survivors were taken captive and put under battle droid guard . Pit fight . When Rex contacted Skywalker , he addressed him as " Anakin " instead of his usual " General Skywalker , " alerting the Jedi that the Dark Acolyte was in the monastery . R2 - D2 was able to find an exterior landing pad at the rear of the monastery , and the Jedi headed toward the exit . However , before they could get far , Ventress arrived with several B2 super battle droids . Surrounded , Skywalker exchanged banter with the Dark Acolyte before R2 - D2 suddenly activated a trap door in the floor , sending all of them plunging down a long chute . Skywalker , Tano , Ventress , and the droids landed in a large , round room , and Skywalker immediately engaged Ventress while Tano dealt with the droids . Skywalker managed to deprive Ventress of one of her lightsabers , only to be knocked down and disarmed himself . Ventress was soon confronted by Tano , who had eliminated the droids . The Dark Acolyte reclaimed her second lightsaber and turned to engage the Padawan , and Skywalker rejoined the fight . As Ventress saberlocked with the Jedi and called on the Force to strengthen herself , Skywalker ordered Tano to escape with Rotta . However , as Tano opened a large door on the side of the room on her way out , she accidentally set loose a captive jungle rancor . Skywalker and Ventress leaped onto the creature ' s back and continued their duel , and the creature rounded on Tano and the Huttlet . Seeing this , Skywalker slashed at the rancor ' s back , causing it to violently buck . A number of battle droids entered the overhead gallery and opened fire on Skywalker as he continued to duel Ventress , but the battle droids above were assailed by R2 - D2 , who pushed them into the arena below . Tano attacked the rancor , stabbing it in the foot , and the rancor threw off the two duelists on its back . The creature rounded on Tano ; however , as it leaned toward her , Tano brought up her lightsaber and drove her weapon into its nose . The rancor fell back in pain , right onto Ventress , and with the Dark Acolyte distracted , the Jedi were able to escape . As Ventress ignited her lightsaber into the rancor ' s rear , the creature reared up and clung to the ceiling , allowing the Dark Acolyte to escape . Republic reinforcements . As Ventress renewed her pursuit of the Jedi , she received word that Republic reinforcements had arrived , in the form of the " Venator " - class Star Destroyer " Spirit of the Republic " under the command of Admiral Wullf Yularen . Kenobi , who was aboard the Star Destroyer , led several squadrons of V - 19 Torrent starfighters in his Delta - 7B fighter . In response , Ventress ordered an OOM command battle droid to launch all of their vulture droids . Kenobi ' s starfighters approached the monastery , and the Jedi and his forces engaged the droid fighters . Meanwhile , Skywalker , Tano , and R2 - D2 arrived at the monastery ' s rear landing pad and signaled an LAAT / i gunship for an extraction . The gunship arrived and hovered near the platform , but before the Jedi and Rotta could board the craft , a Confederate vulture droid swooped in and destroyed the gunship . The vulture droid landed on the platform , and Skywalker and Tano engaged it in combat before severing its legs and sending it off the platform . Skywalker attempted to contact Kenobi for backup but found that the Confederacy was jamming their transmissions . Meanwhile , the remaining six captives of Torrent Company broke free of their battle droid guards , stealing some of the droids ' blasters for themselves . The clones used the fallen AT - TE for cover and engaged the battle droids in a crossfire , and the troopers even went so far as to plant thermal detonators within an eviscerated super battle droid . The droid was sent back into the Confederate lines , and the explosives planted inside of it were remotely detonated , destroying many of the droid ' s unsuspecting comrades . However , the battle droids returned to converge on the clones . After receiving a status report from Rex , Skywalker prepared to head back to help the clones , while Tano believed that they needed to search for a ship to deliver Rotta back to Tatooine alive . Before they could escape , Skywalker and Tano found themselves confronted by a pair of droidekas with Ventress following close behind . R2 - D2 quickly closed the landing pad door , and Ventress immediately began to cut through the door with her lightsabers . Skywalker prepared to retreat into the jungle , but the appearance of two dwarf spider droids stopped him . The droids began to climb up the cliff under the platform and fired at the platform ' s supports , upsetting several can - cells that were nesting under the platform . Skywalker and Tano believed that they were out of options , but Rotta alerted them to the presence of another landing pad on a nearby mesa , with an old freighter docked on it . Skywalker jumped on a can - cell , commandeering it with the Force and intending on using it to get to the nearby platform . Ventress was able to cut through the door and engaged Tano in combat , and after several blows were exchanged , the young Jedi was driven to the ground . As Ventress demanded Skywalker ' s location , Skywalker himself appeared , having successfully gained control of the can - cell . The Jedi attacked the Dark Acolyte with the beast , knocking her backward . As the droids ' fire destroyed the platform ' s supports , Tano and her master flew over to the other mesa on the can - cell with R2 - D2 following with his booster jets . Unable to pursue , Ventress was told by a battle droid that Dooku demanded a status report . The Dark Acolyte took her frustration out on the droid by seizing it with the Force and hurling it off the platform , and she reentered the monastery . 4A - 7 , who was preparing to leave on the old freighter , detected the approaching Jedi and contacted Ventress ; the spy droid resolved to delay the Jedi . When the two Jedi reached the secondary landing platform , they encountered 4A - 7 , but the spy droid was given away by the presence of battle droids . Tano eliminated the droids before decapitating 4A - 7 . Still fighting the droid starfighters above , Kenobi and his squadron noticed Torrent Company ' s engagement of the droids on the east side of the monastery and headed over to help them . Marshal Commander CC - 2224 , nicknamed " Cody , " deployed several LAAT / i gunships from the " Spirit of the Republic " — containing troops from the 212th Attack Battalion — to give aid to Torrent Company . Rex and Torrent Company managed to defeat an approaching vulture droid and surged forward , using the fallen droid starfighter for cover . As Kenobi ' s fighter flew over the monastery , he ordered his astromech droid , R4 - P17 , to take control of the fighter . The droids surrounded Torrent Company , but Kenobi fired at them before jumping out of his fighter and joining the Torrent Company survivors . Cody and the reinforcements arrived , and while the gunships ravaged the Confederate C - 9979 landing craft , the clone trooper reinforcements were deployed to assist Torrent Company . Kenobi left to search for Skywalker in the monastery while the clones engaged the droids . Skywalker and Tano headed in the freighter toward the courtyard to reinforce Rex and his men . However , Tano convinced Skywalker of the importance to keep the Huttlet alive and safe . Skywalker reluctantly informed Rex that they would be unable to help him , and the Jedi headed to rendezvous with the " Spirit of the Republic " . However , as they approached the Star Destroyer , the freighter was harassed by several Vulture droids and the cruiser itself , which believed the freighter to be an enemy ship . After receiving clearance from Yularen aboard the Star Destroyer , Skywalker attempted to land the ship on board the rear hangar of the cruiser . However , the Vulture droids forged past the ship and destroyed the hangar before the Jedi could land , forcing Skywalker to take the freighter directly to Tatooine , and Tano emptied the contents of the cargo hold before the ship jumped to hyperspace . Kenobi vs . Ventress . Upon entering the monastery , Kenobi encountered Ventress , who left her two super battle droid bodyguards to fight Kenobi , using the time it took the Jedi Master to defeat the droids to flee . Kenobi followed Ventress into another room , and the Dark Acolyte appeared from above and attacked Kenobi . As the two exchanged lightsaber blows , Ventress pulled off her skirt and flung it at Kenobi , taking advantage of his momentarily blocked sight to lunge at him . However , Kenobi was able to block her oncoming blows . When Ventress disarmed Kenobi and drove a lightsaber toward his throat , the Jedi Master ducked , and after taking hold of her wrists , he was able to drive her backward . Kenobi called his lightsaber back into his hand and continued the duel . Backing Kenobi against a pillar , Ventress lunged forward , but Kenobi ducked , and Ventress slashed the pillar instead of her intended target . After bladelocking with the Dark Acolyte , Kenobi Force - pushed Ventress backward . Continuing the duel , Ventress charged at Kenobi , and the Jedi Master used two pillars to jump onto an upper platform on the side of the room . Ventress followed , and Kenobi affirmed to Ventress that the Confederacy ' s plan to turn the Hutts against the Jedi would not succeed . Ventress retorted that the plan would be effective when the truth died with him , and the Dark Acolyte dragged her lightsabers across the platform as she leaped into the air and unleashed a series of overhand attacks . Kenobi was able to block the blows and countered a powerful downward slash from the Dark Acolyte . Kenobi pushed his adversary backward , and Ventress joined her lightsabers to form a saberstaff . Kenobi leaped through a window to an external rampart of the monastery , and Ventress immediately gave pursuit . However , as Skywalker ' s freighter made the jump to hyperspace , both Ventress and Kenobi sensed Skywalker ' s departure . Enraged , Ventress continued to drive Kenobi backward , but Kenobi was able to disconnect his adversary ' s saberstaff . Kenobi blocked the Dark Acolyte ' s lightsabers and pushed them against the sides of the platform , flicking one out of her hand and into the jungle below . Deprived of one of her weapons , Ventress summoned a vulture droid for an escape before continuing the duel . Kenobi forced Ventress backward , but as he ordered her to surrender , the summoned vulture droid suddenly approached . Ventress escaped aboard the droid starfighter , and Kenobi returned to the courtyard , rejoining the fight . Without Ventress to lead them , and with their troop ships destroyed , the remaining droids were defeated by the Republic forces . Aftermath . Much of the monastery was left damaged from the intense battle that had raged across it . Ventress sent a ship in pursuit of Skywalker ' s freighter , but she recalled it on Dooku ' s order . To assist the Sith Lord in his deception of Jabba , Ventress piloted the vulture droid back to the monastery and reported via hologram to Dooku and Jabba that the Republic had killed Rotta , enraging Jabba further . Although displeased with Ventress ' s failure , Dooku used the situation to his advantage by convincing Jabba that the Jedi were coming to Tatooine to eradicate the Hutt clans and the crime lord himself , and that they sought to gain complete control of Hutt Space without Jabba ' s interference . To please Jabba , Dooku intended to confront Skywalker himself using several IG - 100 MagnaGuards . With the help of a hologram of a 2 - 1B medical droid and medical supplements , Rotta was saved from near death onboard Skywalker ' s freighter . Skywalker and Tano arrived over Tatooine , preparing to land and return Rotta to his father . Several MagnaGuard - flown starfighters attacked the freighter , and the Jedi engaged the droid fighters . Meanwhile , on the galactic capital of Coruscant , Senator Padmé Amidala received word from Supreme Chancellor Palpatine of Jabba ' s erroneous beliefs of the role of the Jedi and the Republic in his son ' s kidnapping . Amidala sought to reopen communications between Jabba and the Republic and decided to enlist the help of the crime lord ' s uncle , Ziro Desilijic Tiure . The senator headed to Ziro ' s Palace , unaware of Ziro ' s allegiance with Dooku and the Confederacy . Ultimately , Teth was removed from direct Hutt control , with the Republic expelling longstanding criminal activity out of the entire system . Behind the scenes . The Battle of Teth appeared in the 2008 and also appeared in the film ' s and , as well as the young reader ' s book " " . The events of Rotta the Huttlet ' s capture were originally a in the 2008 , but after producer George Lucas decided to debut the series with a theatrical release , the episodes were combined with another first season episode entitled " The New Padawan " to form " The Clone Wars " film . Both of the duels that occurred during the battle were featured in the 2008 video game " " . Three notable parts of the battle were cut from the final movie , despite being shown in the promotional material for the film : the duel in the monastery rancor pit , Skywalker and Tano ' s fight with the Vulture droid on the monastery ' s outer platform , and Tano ' s emptying of the " Twilight " cargo hold . Director Dave Filoni later commented that he removed the rancor sequence because rancors were already common in Expanded Universe stories , such as , and he had wanted to tell new stories that " feel " like " Star Wars " without repeating the original " Star Wars " itself . All three scenes were included in the " Deleted Scenes " feature of the film ' s . The duel did not appear in the adult novelization or the film ; however , it was described in the junior novelization , the young reader ' s book " " , and the reference book " " , which canon ized the duel . The fight with the Vulture droid and the emptying of the " Twilight " cargo hold were also featured in the adult novelization of the film , making them canonical as well . The battle droids encountered by Republic forces on Teth were originally supposed to bear purple markings , similar to those stationed in Ziro ' s Palace . Because the droids would not be typical droid army models , it was intended to hint that Ziro was behind the kidnapping of Rotta . However , for some reason , the regular battle droid models were used during the film ' s animation process . The 2009 book " " expanded upon the Battle of Teth , from an appearance by Jedi Master Plo Koon to a more prominent role for Asajj Ventress . However , because of the book ' s composition as a " " installment without a clearly defined canonical path , no single storyline in the book can be treated as officially canon until properly specified as such .