Battle of Rendili The Battle of Rendili was a battle of the Clone Wars , occurring thirty months after the First Battle of Geonosis , in 20 BBY . Prelude . When word came that Rendili , the planet home to the Rendili StarDrive corporation and producer of the " Dreadnaught " - class heavy cruisers , was possibly going to join the Confederacy of Independent Systems , Supreme Chancellor Palpatine and the Galactic Senate ordered a Jedi - led task force to Rendili . Their mission was either to convince the Rendili Home Defense Fleet to remain with the Galactic Republic or , if that failed , to destroy them lest they fell into the hands of Dooku . As the commander of the Rendili Fleet was Captain Jace Dallin , Jedi Master Plo Koon and Captain Jan Dodonna were sent as part of the fleet to negotiate with him , the three having fought together during the Stark Hyperspace War . Arriving at Rendili , the Republic force discovered that an Independent Provisional Government had already assumed power on Rendili , and joined with the Separatists . Koon and Dodonna headed over to the Rendili flagship , " Mersel Kebir " , to speak with Dallin anyways . Despite some initial reluctance , Dallin agreed to order the fleet to defect to the Republic . At that time , Lieutenant Mellor Yago with the help of other junior officers such as Gallan arrested Koon , Dodonna , Dallin , and the other senior officers of the " Mersel Kebir " for treason against Rendili . Yago used them as hostages preventing an immediate attack , hoping that Saesee Tiin , commanding the Republic fleet , would hold off firing for at least twenty hours — the time at which General Grievous had promised a Confederate Navy support group would arrive at Rendili . Interlude on the " Titavian " . Just before the negotiating team crossed to the " Mersel Kebir " Obi - Wan Kenobi , one of the Jedi assigned to the Republic fleet , was asked by the Exploration Corps to investigate a missing ship for the Mycroft Intergalactic Zoological Society . Going to the coordinates given , he found the crippled ship , " Titavian IV " , with an old Jedi signal coming from it . Expecting perhaps to find Zao or Jerec onboard , Kenobi instead found Quinlan Vos , a renegade Jedi who had fallen to the dark side and defected to Dooku . Vos was being hunted by seeker droids released by two of Dooku ’ s minions , Asajj Ventress and Tol Skorr , who were charged with punishing Vos for his failure following the Battle of Honoghr , where he had realized that he had indeed followed the wrong path . Stranded on the " Titavian IV " when the two Dark Jedi had placed his ship , the " Skorp - Ion " , out of reach , Vos had nearly been overwhelmed before Kenobi ’ s arrival . Retaking Vos ’ ship , evading the Dark Jedi ’ s droids and a rancor released by them , and destroying their own ship , the two Jedi reversed the situation , escaping while leaving Ventress and Skorr stranded onboard the " Titavian IV " . Kenobi piloted their ship back to Rendili , despite the fact he anticipated trouble from Tiin over Vos . The battle . Meanwhile , Yago — expecting the arrival of the Confederate support group at any minute — had given Tiin an ultimatum : in one hour he would execute his hostages , starting with Koon . Onboard the Republic flagship , " Sundiver " , Tiin and Skywalker debated what to do . Deciding that there was no way to save the hostages , Tiin wished to destroy the Rendili Fleet ships , but Skywalker was convinced that in his starfighter , the " Azure Angel II " , he could set charges on the rear of the cruisers , leaving them stranded in space via a flaw in their original Mandalorian design . Tiin refused , as did Kenobi when he arrived shortly later with Vos . Tiin ordered Vos confined in a prison cell as Commander Adar Tallon , the Naval commander , reported that Confederate " Lucrehulk " - class Core Ships had emerged from hyperspace . Ordering the " Sundiver " to begin firing on the " Mersel Kebir " and the " Triumph " and " Doneeta " to fire on the Confederate ships , Tiin and the other Jedi headed to their starfighters to enter the battle . Without permission , Anakin had the charges loaded onto his fighter and prepared to put his plan in motion . When the " Sundiver " was hit and suffered a power loss , Vos was able to leave his cell and get onboard a starfighter , entering the battle . Together with Kenobi , they infiltrated the " Mersel Kebir " as a means of destroying its Vulture droids from within , giving the distraction Skywalker needed to pull his plan through . Yago , in preparation for a hyperspace jump , had all the Rendili ships slave themselves to the " Mersel Kebir " ; when sensors revealed this , Tiin ordered Tallon to ram the " Sundiver " into the " Mersel Kebir " , but this was made unnecessary when Skywalker succeeded in disabling the astrogation of the " Mersel Kebir " , leaving it and the other Rendili Fleet ships slaved to it stranded . On board the Rendili flagship , Vos and Kenobi had managed to release the hostages . Dallin personally shot Yago , and retook command of the Rendili Fleet . Ordering that all other mutineers be summarily executed , he and Tiin ordered their combined fleets to concentrate fire on the Confederate ships , destroying them and ending the battle . Aftermath . After the surrender of the fleet , the Independent Provisional Government was presumably quickly subdued as Rendili returned to the Republic by the end of the war . Following the battle , the Rendili Fleet was taken to Coruscant to be refitted and used in the war effort . Due to their strong design , Supreme Chancellor Palpatine planned to turn them into prison ships for use in transporting captured Dark Jedi loyal to Dooku . Presumably they became some of the Imperial dungeon ship s used during the Great Jedi Purge , alongside the " Lictor " - class . At Palpatine ' s urging , the Senate passed a resolution that mandated all defense fleets to be assimilated into the Republic Navy , to prevent a similar situation from arising in the future . This influx of power into the central military while weakening local systems would form the basis of the Imperial Navy and the Imperial ability to " rule through threat of force rather than force itself " . Ventress and Skorr were rescued from the " Titavian IV " by General Grievous . Skorr was taken by Grievous to make an accounting of the fiasco to Dooku , while Ventress made her way to Coruscant to deal with Vos . When she saw Skywalker , she changed her tactics and followed him . She witnessed one of Senator Padmé Amidala ' s handmaiden s bring him a hologram of his wife , and showed herself suddenly , threatening to kill the " Jedi toy " before finishing him . In a fit of anger , Skywalker fought Ventress , sustaining a permanent scar to his face before wrapping her in electrical cables and throwing her off a tower into the Coruscant underworld . She was presumed dead , but would later be found to be alive . At a meeting before the Jedi High Council , Vos was cleared of all suspicion and welcomed back into the Jedi Order . They failed to realize that his true allegiance still remained with Dooku , who had engineered the entire situation as a means to get a spy into the Jedi ranks . Behind the scenes . The novel " " includes a scene where Whie Malreaux sees a holographic representation of the " Rendili Fleet Crisis " in the Jedi Temple . However , " The New Essential Chronology " places the battle of Rendili " after " the Mission to Vjun due to the fact that in the novel , Asajj Ventress is known to be alive and well ( she was seen by Whie and Scout which would have been revealed in their mission report ) . In " Obsession " , however , Anakin is convinced that Ventress is dead ( he believes he killed her at the end of the comics miniseries ) . Thus , it has to be assumed that the " Rendili crisis " mentioned in the novel ( which is referred to only as a ' crisis ' and not a ' battle ' ) must be a reference to negotiations that preceded the later armed conflict seen in the comic . In the of the " The Dreadnaughts of Rendili " story arc , Anakin is shown arriving in the midst of these negotiations . Further complicating matters , due to a number of continuity conflicts with , which is apparently set in the first year of the war , most of the events of the Clone Wars including the Battle of Rendili are likely to see redating to fit into the first year , as Anakin is shown to already possess his scar as of 22 BBY .