Fondor Spaceport Fondor Spaceport was a large orbital spaceport in the space above the planet Fondor . It shared the skies with the Fondor Shipyards . The two - kilometer - long tubular orbital station was lined with 160 pressurized hangar bays and had two deflector - shield projectors — geodesic domes that hugged the station ' s hull - like massive blisters . History . In 23 BBY , Jedi Knight Bultar Swan spent some time at the spaceport while on a mission to settle a conflict between Fondor and its moon , Nallastia . Groodo the Hutt , in collusion with Senator Rodd and Hurlo Holowan , later took over Fondor Spaceport with his Droid Control Army . But his efforts to destroy it were thwarted by the Jedi Order , whose Knights joined with Nallastia ' s Skull Queen , the Margravine Quenelle , to disable the defense shield projectors and handily dispatch Groodo ' s modified high - tech droids . Star power . Ignoring the Droid Control Army ' s order not to land , Jedi Master Mace Windu , piloting a Republic cruiser , drew within 50 meters of the massive spaceport , when the Stars of Nallastia they were carrying caused the spaceport ' s exterior to suddenly illuminate by a brilliant flash of blue light : the deflector shields and their projectors were instantly rendered impotent by the Skull Queen ' s power gems . Following the shuttle tracker of Princess Calvaria , the Queen ' s daughter , Mace steered the cruiser into one of the spaceport ' s hangar bays . Jedi Kit Fisto and Bultar Swan joined Windu and Quenelle to liberate the spaceport . As part of the Hutt ' s Droid Control Army , a GNK power droid modified with a rapid - repeating blaster in its upper casing was encountered by the Jedi strike team . Master Windu handily defeated it with his lightsaber , neatly severing the blaster that had emerged from beneath a lid in the droid ' s upper frame . Also encountered by Windu in a spaceport security office were two specially modified astromech droids — cylindrical - bodied , dome - headed droids with concealed panels to extend a manipulator - gripped fusion - cutter , a cutting tool that emitted a high - energy plasma beam . Master Windu discovered from the security office ' s records that Fondor Spaceport had been infiltrated and seized by a total of twelve unauthorized droids , which had then forced all ' organics ' into Hangar 173 . Mace noted that six droids were currently guarding the captives . Windu had already defeated three enemy droids , which left — in addition to the six in Hangar 173 — three more droids at large elsewhere in the spaceport . The security computer could not ascertain , unfortunately , the location of the three unaccounted - for droids . Hangar 173 . Quickly moving to Hangar 173 , where he indeed found a large group of FX medical assistant droid - guarded captives on the landing pad , Windu advanced high on a catwalk toward the droids — each one equipped with precise manipulator arms and a single primary grasping arm . Indeed , they , like their counterparts in the Droid Control Army that Windu had already dealt with , would not have seemed out of place on a space station under normal circumstances — which undoubtedly was the reason they ' d so easily been able to infiltrate the spaceport . But the present circumstances were far from normal , and instead of wielding medical tools , each FX droid brandished numerous deadly weapons . All six units , moreover , were mounted on treadwell bases , allowing them greater mobility than a standard - issue FX droid . Windu took the controls of the hangar ' s tractor - beam projector to trap three of the FX units in the projector ' s force field and push them through the docking port , out into space , where they tumbled off in the direction of Fondor ' s sun . The droids had been far enough away from the captives for Windu to do this , but the remaining droids were not , and Mace knew that he had to draw their fire away from the beings on the landing pad . Yelling for the captives to get down , he raced along the catwalk as the remaining droids fired their weapons at him . Reaching a service gantry , he noticed an electromagnet ic pincer crane suspended from the hangar ' s ceiling , directly above one of the remaining FX droids . Windu leaped from the gantry , dragging his lightsaber through the crane ' s ceiling mount , and landed on the hangar floor simultaneously with the crashing crane , which crushed the droid . As the two remaining droids rolled toward Mace , the Jedi Master used the Force to push one of them over the edge of a deep , rectangular hydrolift well ( used to transport cargo to different levels ) . Its impact after falling down the shaft produced a satisfying explosion . Princely heroics . As the last FX unit prepared to fire at Windu from its protective cover behind a column , without warning , one of the captives heroically attempted to run at the droid and take it down before it could harm the Jedi . But before he could reach the droid , the FX unit spun and struck him with a stun baton . The young man — dressed in mechanic ' s coveralls — was instantly paralyzed , and he collapsed to the hangar floor . " Rench ! " a young woman shouted , as she raced from the landing pad towards the would - be - hero : it was Princess Calvaria , whom Windu recognized from her holographic appearance at the Skull Queen ' s fortress . The FX droid seized the Princess immediately with its three manipulator arms , used the stun baton on her , and she fell limp . Lifting her unconscious form , the droid used four other manipulator arms — aiming one blaster pistol at Calvaria , a second towards the landing - pad captives , a third at Rench ' s motionless form , and a fourth pistol at Mace . The droid ' s black photoreceptor was trained directly on Windu , as if challenging him to make a move , and he knew it would not hesitate to fire any one of its blasters . Soon Swan and Fisto came rushing into the hanger , their lightsabers drawn , and Windu calmly told his allies to lower their weapons . Still clutching the Princess , the FX droid moved slowly back and exited the hangar bay . Mace directed the other Jedi to stay and protect the former captives while he pursued the droid . FX rogue . Tracking the FX unit to the Flight Control hangar , Mace also discovered there the three remaining , previously unaccounted - for droids — they were astromechs , and they were jacked into a broad console . Windu spotted the FX droid as it carried Calvaria into one of the light starships resting at the far end of the hangar ( an ion - powered Incom Corporation landing craft with a large , single - aft thrust vector ) . Just as he was about to run after the droid , he saw on the astromechs ' wide - console monitor a digital image of the spaceport ' s position relative to the planet Fondor , with a ticking numerical counter , and he suddenly realized Groodo ' s plan : having destabilized the spaceport ' s orbit , " the droids were deliberately steering it into Fondor ' s atmosphere " . As the starship angled to take off from the hangar ' s docking port , Mace quickly removed a palm - sized tracer beacon from his utility belt and hurled it at the craft ' s hull , its magnetic grips catching just as the ship blasted out of the hangar . Windu then turned , his lightsaber ablaze , to dispatch the astromechs that had raised from various panels their modified appendages , ready to strike , including micro - laser cannon periscopes raised from their domes . Their fired energy bolts , no match for the skill of the Jedi Master who deftly deflected them , came fiercely back at them , leaving all riddled with holes . Then , in a wide arc , Mace dragged his lightsaber through the droids , severing their domes from their bodies , which he kicked away from the console . He quickly switched the spaceport ' s flight controls over to manual , making several adjustments until the spaceport had entered a safer orbit . When the Skull Queen rushed in , Windu directed her to relay a message to Kit Fisto to have a complete diagnostic run on the spaceport by one of their own astromechs while he went after Quenelle ' s daughter . Rescuing a princess . Sprinting for a Kuat Systems Delta - 6 starfighter , Mace leaped into the cockpit and fired up its engines . Within seconds he ' d shot from the hangar and into space , and obtained a lock through the ship ' s navigational sensor on the tracer he ' d secured to the fleeing vessel . His much - faster ship soon had brought him near the droid ' s vessel and , through his transparisteel canopy , he saw that it was heading for a garish - looking private cruiser with huge decorative fins , its unusually colorful exterior making it especially hideous . But suddenly the Incom craft veered away from the hideous - looking cruiser and curved back toward the spaceport . Windu steered after the elusive droid that was angling its craft for the hangar from which it first exited . As the droid craft did not decrease speed , Mace realized the droid was attempting to crash its ship . Desperate to save Calvaria , Master Windu aimed the dual laser cannons of his Delta - 6 at the landing craft ' s aft - thrust vector and fired . The resultant explosion disabled the ship ' s thruster , but because the vacuum of space offered no resistance , the craft continued on its collision course with the spaceport . Matching the Incom vehicle ' s velocity , Windu brought his starship over the droid - piloted craft and made contact with its hull , which he was able to clamp onto with the Delta - 6 ' s landing gear — claw - like grippers for zero - gravity docking . As he hit the starship ' s inertial dampers , both vehicles , traveling as one , decelerated rapidly , and Mace was able to steer the conglomerate craft into the Flight Control hangar of Fondor Spaceport . The Jedi Master , finding that the FX unit had been deactivated , cut his way through the landing craft ' s locked egress hatch with his lightsaber to free Princess Calvaria , who , though laying motionless on a long seat , had a steady pulse and was unharmed .