Poggle the Lesser / Legends Poggle the Lesser was the Archduke of Geonosis before and during the Clone Wars , and was a leading member of the Separatist Council . He would later be killed by Darth Vader , along with the rest of the Council , on Mustafar at the conclusion of the conflict in 19 BBY . As planetary leader of the Geonosians and a member of the Techno Union , Poggle controlled the vast droid factories found on his planet . Biography . Geonosian revolt . Originally , Poggle was a member of the Geonosian lower caste , hence his surname " the Lesser " . He sought the position held by then - Archduke Hadiss the Vaulted and organized a revolt against him , which seemed to be of little concern to Hadiss , who easily dealt with the rebels . That was until the Sith Lord Darth Sidious came to Poggle ' s aid and secretly funded his revolution . Over time , Poggle ' s rebels finally seized power , and Poggle at last became Archduke of the Stalgasin hive , the ruling hive of Geonosis , and Hadiss was executed in the Geonosian arena . Archduke and creating Grievous . Once Poggle the Lesser was in power , Darth Sidious ' s intentions became clear : he wanted control of the droid factories to supply B1 battle droids to the Trade Federation for an invasion of Naboo . Poggle , grateful for Sidious ' s help , gladly struck a deal with the Trade Federation . The fact that Poggle and Trade Federation Viceroy Nute Gunray hated each other , but still worked together was a great testament to the influence of the Sith Lord . Shortly after the Trade Federation was defeated at the Battle of Naboo , Poggle was approached by the rogue Jedi Count Dooku , revealing himself as Darth Tyranus , the new apprentice of Darth Sidious . Dooku formed a partnership with Poggle ; the Archduke would ensure that Geonosis was among the founding worlds of the Confederacy of Independent Systems and would supply a large amount of the Separatist Droid Army . In return , Poggle would be paid large sums of money for his trouble and Geonosis would earn a place on the high order of the new Confederacy . This partnership was lucrative ; Poggle even took the liberty to create a new B2 super battle droid for the Confederacy . Poggle also assisted Count Dooku and InterGalactic Banking Clan Chairman San Hill with another project : the rehabilitation of the Kaleesh warlord Qymaen jai Sheelal . Poggle ' s engineers were responsible for the cyborg body given to the injured Sheelal . Following the procedure , Sheelal was renamed " General Grievous " and was promoted to Supreme Commander of the Droid Armies . Clone Wars . Battle of Geonosis . Ten years after their initial meeting , Poggle the Lesser hosted the first official meeting of the Confederacy ' s leaders in the Stalgasin hive . The Geonosians captured Jedi Knight Obi - Wan Kenobi , his Padawan Anakin Skywalker , and Senator Padmé Amidala soon after this meeting , and Poggle himself presided over their trials , charging them with espionage and sentencing them to execution at the Geonosian arena . Senator Amidala warned Poggle that to execute three officials of the Republic was an act of war ; Poggle scoffed that as a builder of weapons , he was more than prepared for it . The execution did not go as Poggle planned , but despite the prisoners managing to outwit the arena beasts ( and Nute Gunray ' s constant complaining ) , Poggle was satisfied by the display , until Mace Windu and several dozen Jedi arrived to rescue them . Poggle ' s battle droids outnumbered the Jedi and victory seemed assured , until Grand Master Yoda arrived with the newly - commissioned clone army . Poggle and the Separatists retreated to a war room and watched helplessly as the Republic Army , suddenly manned by battalions of clone troopers , engaged their droid army . Poggle ordered his soldiers to retreat and hide , but before he joined them , he turned over plans to the Ultimate Weapon — a secret project he had been contracted to build by the Separatists which would later become the Galactic Empire ' s feared battle station , the dreaded Death Star — to Count Dooku and erased all data from his computers . Following the battle , Geonosis was occupied by the Republic . Second Battle of Geonosis . Later in the war , Republic resources were spread thin , allowing the Separatists to rise up and re - take Geonosis and other worlds . With his planet once again secure , Poggle made a deal with the Trade Federation , and the Banking Clan to fund a new factory complex . Poggle was present at a meeting on Cato Neimoidia along with Senators Lott Dod and Rush Clovis , representing the Trade Federation and the Banking Clan respectively . Poggle and Dod argued that they should receive a larger cut of the profits , but Clovis refused to re - negotiate . To coerce him , Dod secretly poisoned Clovis ' s romantic interest Senator Amidala , there to attend a supposed diplomatic meeting ( and covertly spy on Clovis at the request of the Jedi Council ) . Though Amidala was able to steal the plans to the new droid foundry , the poison quickly incapacitated her , forcing her bodyguard Anakin Skywalker to take her back to Coruscant . Clovis , fearing for Amidala as well as himself , offered to help procure the antidote from Dod and Poggle in exchange for the stolen plans . Skywalker and Clovis attempted to quietly leave Cato Neimoidia , but were confronted by Dod . Though Clovis forced him to give Amidala the antidote , at the last minute , Skywalker refused to take Clovis with them to Coruscant . Clovis remained behind to deal with Poggle , Dod , and a squad of battle droids . It wasn ' t long before the Jedi arrived to shut down the new factory . While Poggle remained inside to oversee production , droids and Geonosian warriors defended the ray - shielded factory from an offensive strike led by Jedi Generals Skywalker , Kenobi , and Ki - Adi - Mundi . Geonosian defenses were stronger than the Jedi anticipated , injuring Kenobi and forcing Skywalker and Mundi to take alternate routes to the factory . As Mundi led his clone troops through a Geonosian - infested cave , Skywalker and his Padawan Ahsoka Tano were forced to take down a large wall armed with turrets . The ground forces were soon reinforced by the arrival of Y - Wing bombers and with the path cleared , Skywalker led a team to disable the Geonosian ' s scanners and allow the AT - TE ' s to destroy the shield generator . Meanwhile , Poggle ' s aide TX - 21 informed him the factory was operating at 50 % capacity and had produced ten garrisons of droid troops . Outside the factory , Skywalker was joined by Luminara Unduli and her Padawan Barriss Offee . Skywalker and Unduli used their troops to create a diversion at the bridge leading into the factory , while Ahsoka and Barriss sneaked in through the catacombs to get inside and destroy the main reactor . In response to the show of force at the bridge , Poggle authorized twenty of his new ray - shielded super tanks to be deployed and forced the Jedi forces to fall back . Inside the catacombs , Ahsoka and Barriss accidentally woke a Geonosian warrior , who quickly informed Poggle of their intrusion . While the two Padawans planted explosives in the reactor room , Poggle and TX - 21 arrived with a super tank and several Geonosian warriors . Poggle left them to deal with the intruders and the explosives were quickly disable , though TX - 21 was destroyed by a detonator placed on the super tank - which remained unharmed . Barriss succeeded in cutting into the tank , and left without detonators , Ahsoka realized the tank would be their best option to destroy the reactor and opened fire . The explosion leveled the factory , but the tank ' s durability allowed Ahsoka and Barriss to survive long enough to be rescued . Following the factory ' s destruction , Poggle fled aboard an AAT , carrying several boxes of cargo . A single box was dropped , but Poggle ordered his droids to leave it behind and continue pressing forward . Luminara managed to find this box and track him to the Progate Temple , the site of heavy bombardment during the Republic ' s initial strike . Though puzzled that he would go there , Luminara followed , but was soon captured by undead Geonosian warriors . Under Poggle ' s command , the Geonosians took Luminara deep into the catacombs beneath the temple , where she was presented to the Geonosian Queen , Karina the Great . Skywalker , Kenobi , and a team of clone troopers led by Clone Commander Cody followed Luminara ' s signal and ventured into the catacombs , only to be attacked by the undead Geonosians . Despite their best efforts , the undead were able to continue fighting even after being dealt mortal wounds , and so Kenobi altered their strategy . As the team entered the Queen ' s chamber , Kenobi noted that Luminara had been taken alive , and decided to try speaking with the Queen ( to the dismay of Skywalker , who still preferred action ) . After Kenobi attempted to negotiate her surrender , Karina explained that she intended to control the three Jedi , using brain worm parasites . As Poggle attempted to insert a worm into Luminara , the clone troopers switched on their lights , disorienting the Geonosians long enough for Anakin to free Luminara and slap a pair of manacles on Poggle . Kenobi took the brain worm so that he could study it later , but dropped it in the confusion and was powerless to stop Anakin from crushing it with his boot . The Jedi fled with the captured Poggle , while clones destroyed the arch supports in the cave to slow down the otherwise unstoppable undead Geonosians , burying them along with Queen Karina . Once Poggle and the Jedi reached safety , Kenobi lamented that he wouldn ' t have a chance to find out how Karina ' s mind control worked . Following his defeat on Geonosis , Poggle was scheduled to be sent back to Coruscant for trial . Aboard a Republic Cruiser , Ki - Adi - Mundi and Luminara attempted to interrogate Poggle , but the Archduke refused to cooperate . When Skywalker learned that a supply ship carrying Ahsoka and Barriss had been taken over by brain worm - infested clone troopers , he decided to personally interrogate Poggle . Using a protocol droid to translate , Poggle informed Skywalker that mind tricks wouldn ' t work on Geonosians , as the other Jedi had already discovered . Skywalker angrily knocked him down , telling him that he wouldn ' t need mind tricks to get him to cooperate . Poggle defiantly told the Jedi that he would never talk , but Skywalker used the Force to choke and levitate him until Poggle finally explained that the brain worms were vulnerable to cold temperatures . Kenobi and the other Jedi were curious as to how Skywalker had managed to get Poggle to cooperate , but he didn ' t elaborate . The Jedi eventually reached Coruscant with Poggle , where he was transferred into a jail cell within the Republic military base , which is also where fellow Separatists General Whorm Loathsom and Emir Wat Tambor were confined . Death . Poggle later escaped Republic captivity and rejoined the Confederacy as the war began to draw to its close . Following a string of Republic victories , General Grievous ordered the members of the Separatist Council , including Poggle , to remain under his protection . Grievous hid them on Utapau while he prepared a strike on Coruscant ; following Count Dooku ' s death and Grievous ' s failure at Coruscant , Poggle and the other Separatist leaders were sent to a fortified bunker on Mustafar , by order of Darth Sidious . When Anakin Skywalker , now as Sidious ' s new apprentice Darth Vader , arrived on Mustafar , the Separatist leaders discovered that he was sent not to reward the council , but to execute them . Poggle attempted to defend himself using his staff , to no avail , and was quickly sliced in half . Personality and traits . Poggle the Lesser was Human - sized and insectoid like all Geonosians , but his frame was slightly larger than his servants and he had a set of fleshy , beard - like tendrils growing around his mouth as well as a prominent head - crest . At full height , Poggle stood almost as tall as Count Dooku . As a member of the worker caste , Poggle most likely looked like an average Geonosian when he was younger ; it was believed that his current physique was normal for a Geonosian of advanced age , and few outside the higher castes likely ever lived that long . He carried with him a command staff which was rumored to be made from the bones of a murdered political rival — possibly a grim trophy from the execution of Hadiss the Vaulted . Poggle the Lesser was described as " " analytical and pitiless , but also pragmatic … reasonable " " ( in comparison to " monster " General Grievous ) . Among the Separatist Council , Poggle was the only member to be an actual head of state and military , giving him some insight into military strategy . Weaponry was one of Geonosis ' s primary trades and its production increased dramatically during Poggle ' s reign . Poggle the Lesser , like Nute Gunray , was aware of the existence of Darth Sidious , but like Jango Fett , he also knew that Count Dooku was Darth Tyranus . What Poggle didn ' t know , however , was the true identity of Lord Sidious or that the very clones used to attack him were commissioned by Sidious and Tyranus . Though not the most intelligent or diplomatically - versed being , it is notable that the Sith placed a great deal of trust in him , and that he and Count Dooku respected each other mutually ( Dooku ' s solar sailer was a gift from Poggle ) , even if he was , for the most part , unaware of their true intentions . It is especially surprising in light of Dooku ' s Speciesist attitudes . Behind the scenes . Poggle the Lesser was voiced by Marton Csokas in " " . Patrick Pinney provided the voice in " " . He was voiced by Matthew Wood in the . In the , Poggle tried to escape , but lost his head . However , in the , as Anakin Skywalker used his lightsaber to cut through the door of the Separatist command center , Poggle held out his hand as he backed up against a holographic display table . When Vader finished slicing through , he Force pushed the piece of the door toward the holographic display table , crushing the Geonosian between the metal and the table . It is noted that a " juice " flies out of his body as Poggle the Lesser is squashed to death , almost as if he was a bug being whacked with a fly swatter ( and is reminiscent of a menu animation on the " Attack of the Clones " DVD ) . In the DVD commentary , it is to be said that Poggle the Lesser was made to look a lot different than other Geonosians in order to establish the fact that he was leader , just as with Boss Nass and the Gungans .