Point of No Return " Point of No Return " is the thirteenth episode of the , and aired on January 12 , 2013 . This episode marks the final appearance of Meebur Gascon . Official description . " " R2 - D2 and his team must stop a sabotaged Jedi cruiser from destroying a crucial Republic conference . " " Plot summary . D - Squad docks with a " Venator " - class Star Destroyer in orbit of Abafar . Though the droids are confused as to why the ship ' s hangar blast doors are closed and at the lack of crew presence , Colonel Gascon dismisses their concerns . Upon arriving on the bridge , however , they discover that the clone officers are merely holograms . Suddenly , the ship jumps to hyperspace and it comes to light that the ship has , in fact , been commandeered by Confederacy droids . D - Squad escapes the bridge and evades their pursuers in the hangar control room . WAC - 47 uses the body of a fallen droid to send their pursuers in the wrong direction . D - Squad then takes note of a device in the control room , which R2 - D2 , identifies as a bomb trigger , as the hangar blast doors open to reveal rows of rhydonium canisters . It becomes clear that the Confederacy intends to use the Star Destroyer as a way to destroy the vessels of the Republic Navy . However , Gascon has no intention of stopping them , wanting to get off ship as soon as it exits hyperspace . As D - Squad makes its way back to the hangar , Artoo spots a rabbit droid spying on them and captures her . Upon bringing his captive to present to the squad , the rabbit droid identifies herself as BNI - 393 , nicknamed Bunny . She reveals that she and surviving Republic droids have been in hiding on the shuttle in hopes that D - Squad would take them off ship , as none of them are designed to pilot a shuttle . D - Squad then ask as to the Confederacy ' s target . Bunny admits that she only knows that the Star Destroyer is bound for a space station in the Carida system . Gascon panics , identifying it as the location of the Republic Strategy conference , an event he helped arrange before being assigned to D - Squad . The Jedi Council and high ranking Republic officers will be there and if the Confederacy succeeds , they could cripple the war effort . However , they cannot send a warning because all communications are being blocked . Before they candecide on their next course of action , Gascon spots a buzz droid spying on them and they all give chase . They chase the buzz droid to one of the gun batteries , only to be greeted by a whole swarm of them . Artoo manages to create a ring of fire around his friends to keep the buzz droids from getting at them , but he can not take out all of them because there are too many . M5 - BZ then races to the airlock controls . Everyone quickly magnetizes their feet to the deck to avoid being sucked out , but Beezee isn ' t so lucky and is sucked out into hyperspace along with the buzz droids . Artoo quickly closes the airlock . Gascon then gives a short speech , promising that they will not let Beezee ' s sacrifice be in vain by stopping the Separatists . Gascon comes up with a plan for D - Squad to escape on the shuttle while Artoo reprograms the trigger mechanism to detonate prematurely . But their plan is hit with complications , as a super tactical droid goes to arm the detonator while battle droids pursue D - Squad . Gascon and U9 - C4 draw their fire while Artoo tussles with the super tactical droid . As everyone gets on the shuttle , Gascon refuses to leave Artoo behind , but WAC initiates liftoff . Ultimately , Artoo gets up the upper hand and successfully reprograms the detonator , causing the rhydonium to explode prematurely , destroying the Star Destroyer but saving the Republic fleet at Carida . Gascon manages to contact the space station , informing Anakin Skywalker of Artoo ' s sacrifice . However , Skywalker refuses to believe that his friend is gone . He sends out salvage teams to scourer the wreckage , who retrieve Artoo ' s remains and repair him . Gascon personally commends Artoo ' s bravery and tells D - Squad that he ' d be honored to serve with them again . An excited WAC then tells him that D - Squad has been assigned to Gascon ' s platoon , allowing them to see each other for the rest of the war , much to Gascon ' s chagrin as he sobs with sadness . Continuity . " Point of No Return " was originally reported by " Star Wars Insider " 137 as the twelfth episode of Season Five , but the reported order was revised following the magazine ' s publication . The opening logo for the episode , traditionally yellow , was rendered blue to salute R2 - D2 . The previous three episodes , " Secret Weapons , " " A Sunny Day in the Void , " and " Missing in Action , " which are parts of the arc , also feature this blue opening logo . However , it is not the first time the logo changes color . In last two episodes ( " Brothers " and " Revenge " ) , the logo was painted red , on the reason of the return of Darth Maul . In the middle of the episode , the colonel says , " It´s a trap , " the iconic phrase of " " spoken by Admiral Ackbar . According to the official " Star Wars : The Clone Wars " Facebook page , the destruction of the " Venator " - class Star Destroyer near the end of the episode was the biggest explosion they had ever animated at the time .