Raid on Ziro the Hutt ' s Coruscant club The raid on Ziro the Hutt ' s Coruscant club , also known as the raid on Ziro the Hutt ' s nightclub , took place on the galactic capital of Coruscant during the Clone Wars . Senator Padmé Amidala informed her protocol droid , C - 3PO , that she had been captured and detained at Ziro the Hutt ' s palace for discovering the Hutt ' s affiliation with Count Dooku , leader of the Confederacy of Independent Systems . The droid contacted the Coruscant Guard , who sent a team , led by Clone Commander Fox , to storm the palace with the primary objective of rescuing the senator . The raid saw the successful rescue of Amidala and the capture of Ziro . Through the use of Ziro ' s comm equipment , contact was also reestablished with Jabba the Hutt , who had been ignoring communications from the Republic during this time due to his mistaken belief that the Republic intended to wipe out his entire clan . This contact allowed Amidala to prove that the Republic was not plotting against Jabba by exposing Ziro ' s hand in the true plot against him , masterminded by Dooku . Assured of the Republic ' s innocence , Jabba agreed to a treaty between the Republic and his clan , allowing Republic forces safe passage through Hutt Space , giving them access to the Outer Rim Territories , which had been cut off by the Separatists . Prelude . In 22 BBY , Jabba the Hutt ' s son , Rotta , was kidnapped . The Hutt gangster sent a call for help to the Galactic Republic and the Jedi . Because the Republic was in need of the space lanes through Hutt Space to access the Outer Rim Territories , which had been cut off by the Separatists , Supreme Chancellor Palpatine agreed to send Jedi aide to rescue Jabba ' s son . Jedi Master Obi - Wan Kenobi was sent to negotiate a treaty for safe passage with Jabba , while Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker and his recently assigned Padawan , Ahsoka Tano , were dispatched to find and rescue Rotta . Jabba dictated that the Jedi had one planetary rotation to find and return Rotta unharmed to his homeworld of Tatooine , or there would be no treaty . After watching Kenobi leave Jabba ' s Palace , Count Dooku , leader of the Separatists , entered the palace and , by way of misleading evidence , led Jabba to believe that it was the Jedi who had kidnapped his son and were conspiring to destroy him along with his entire clan . After Dooku had convinced the Hutt of the Republic ' s betrayal , Jabba angrily refused to take any communication from the Office of the Supreme Chancellor . Republic Senator Padmé Amidala went to the palace of Ziro the Hutt on Coruscant to sway him into contacting his nephew , Jabba . She hoped to explain that the Jedi were in fact trying to help , rather than harm Jabba and his son so that the treaty with the Hutt clan could be established . Ziro rejected Amidala ' s plea for aide , claiming there would be no treaty , and had her seized and escorted out of the palace . Amidala eluded her IG - 86 sentinel droid escort and infiltrated Ziro ' s throne room , where she learned the kidnapping was orchestrated by Ziro and carried out by Dooku ' s Separatist forces . Amidala attempted to sneak out with the information , but she was apprehended by one of Ziro ' s sentinel droid s . When Dooku told Ziro that members of the CIS leadership would pay handsomely for Amidala , the Hutt had her thrown in the dungeon . From her cell , Amidala was able to trick her captors into activating her comlink , allowing her to inform her protocol droid , C - 3PO , that she was being held captive and where she was imprisoned . The raid . C - 3PO contacted the Coruscant Guard regarding Amidala ' s abduction and piloted the senator ' s H - type Nubian yacht to Ziro ' s Palace , accompanied by Clone Commander Fox and five other Coruscant Guards . Meanwhile , Amidala was escorted back to the throne room to face her captor . Ziro felt she was too dangerous to be kept alive after discovering her call for help in the dungeon . Amidala was incredulous that Ziro would be so bold as to kill a senator on Coruscant itself , but Ziro boastfully claimed to be unafraid due to friends he held in the Galactic Senate . At that moment , Fox ' s rescue team blasted their way into the palace , destroying the B1 battle droids guarding the entrance in the process . In the ensuing commotion , Amidala freed herself and destroyed the IG - 86 droid guarding her with an appropriated E - 5 blaster rifle . After the near - miss of a blaster bolt , Ziro slithered off his dais , making for the exit . Taking cover from return fire , the Coruscant Guards made quick work of the remaining security droids . When the last two battle droids were destroyed , Amidala demanded that Ziro stop where he was as the clone troopers surrounded the fleeing Hutt , cutting off his escape . Ziro begged his captors to believe that he was merely an innocent pawn of Dooku , professing to love Rotta , his grandnephew . Aftermath . Using Ziro ' s personal holocomm unit , Amidala was able to contact Jabba the Hutt on Tatooine and inform him of his uncle ' s treachery , forcing Ziro to confess to his nephew his part in Rotta ' s kidnapping . Furious at his uncle ' s treachery , Jabba vowed to have him punished severely , though he was satisfied to let his uncle rot in prison on Coruscant . Unknown to Amidala until she made the call , her timely intervention saved the life of Skywalker and Tano , who had just returned Jabba ' s son safely to him . Jabba , who until that point believed the Jedi meant to destroy him and his clan , had them surrounded and about to be executed were it not for the information provided by the senator . Amidala was also able to forge a treaty between the Republic and the Hutt clan , which would allow Republic forces free and safe passage through Hutt Space , providing them desperately needed access to the Outer Rim Territories . Some time later , the Duros bounty hunter Cad Bane was hired by Jabba and the Hutt Council to free Ziro from Republic custody . They feared that if he remained incarcerated , Ziro might divulge sensitive information to the Republic — a holo - journal record of illegal activities conducted by the Hutt Council members . Bane recruited a team of bounty hunters , infiltrated the Senate Building on Coruscant , and took a group of senators hostage , including Padmé Amidala . In order to secure the safety of the captive senators , Chancellor Palpatine was forced to issue a pardon for Ziro , releasing him from the Republic Judiciary Central Detention Center . As such , Amidala was as instrumental in Ziro ' s release from prison as she was in his capture , which sent him to prison to begin with . Behind the scenes . The raid appeared in the , but was first depicted in two young reader books based upon the movie that were released shortly before it , " " and the . Meanwhile , the raid was only mentioned in the . A flashback to Ziro ' s capture can be seen during the opening narration of " Hostage Crisis , " the season finale for the of the .