Commerce Guild Punitive Security Forces The Commerce Guild Punitive Security Forces were the security group that protected the members and assets of the Commerce Guild . It was merged into the Separatist Droid Army when the Commerce Guild joined the Confederacy of Independent Systems . History . The Commerce Guild employed a force of security personnel and battle droids whose major function was to keep the Commerce Guild ' s member worlds and systems in line . The organic personnel generally worked separately from the droids , though most of the Commerce Guild ' s droid forces were commanded and maintained by Gossams . In 24 BBY , the Commerce Guild opened an office on the tax - free world of Korriban . Guild members deserving punishment were sent there . But the Guild motivated other corporations to join them by opening new offices of their own in the Korriban spaceport of Dreshdae . But by 23 BBY , local Guild executives were being robbed in their hotels with alarming frequency by black market thieves , as a Jedi coalition team learned from their Korriban informant , Teluron Thacker . Using " rampant local crime against Guild workers " as an excuse , therefore , but in violation of Republic law , the Guild sent to Korriban a droid army , which it placed in the front ranks of its local officers and troops clad in full plastoid armor and battlefield helmets . The droid contingency included " dwarf " and " homing " spider droid s . The aim of the Guild ' s army and security forces on Korriban , beyond protecting the Guild ' s workers from petty crime , was to crush the local black market , for Guild executives were tired of having to buy back their own items from the thieves who stole them . The Commerce Guild Army and Punitive Security Forces on Korriban also got caught up ( surely by the machinations of the Guild with the galaxy ' s re - emergent Sith ) in the pursuit of a Jedi Order coalition team ( headed by Obi - Wan Kenobi ) sent by the Jedi High Council to track down galactic criminals Granta Omega and Jenna Zan Arbor . While the army battled Kenobi and three other Jedi Masters within the Great Sith Temple ' s long - abandoned Sith Academy , the Guild ' s local security forces — the Commerce Guild Army Patrol — led a high - speed chase of the Jedi ( whose Koro - 1 airspeeder was piloted by 18 - year - old Anakin Skywalker ) into the Valley of the Dark Lords , which ended in the scorching demise of each of the patrol ' s cruisers . This pre - Clone Wars state of affairs in the galaxy ' s " cradle of darkness " provided the setting for what was likely the beginning of the corroborative relationship of Guild Presidente Shu Mai and Count Dooku . For , in addition to the " spider droids " , the illegal new " super battle droids " were employed by Dooku ' s alter - ego Darth Tyranus in fending off the Jedi ' s intrusion into the Sith Academy . There , the Jedi Master - " turned " - Sith Lord had set up a base for rendezvousing with Omega and Zan Arbor , to establish an ' alliance ' with them , which , in actuality , was but a " cover " to exploit their uses for his recently established Confederacy of Independent Systems — the Sith - backed prelude to galactic civil war . During the early stages of the Clone Wars , the Punitive Security Forces maintained their original organizational system ; however this was inefficient as the command structures of the various commerce guild armies proved incompatible . Under the command of General Grievous , the Separatist Army was reorganized around task forces specifically created to achieve particular objectives . The army was eradicated when Darth Vader gave the order to shut down the droid forces . The remaining forces were overtaken and destroyed by the Galactic Empire .