Mission to Typha - Dor The Mission to Typha - Dor took place in 25 BBY . Soon after their mission to Mawan , Jedi Master Obi - Wan Kenobi and his sixteen - year - old Padawan Anakin Skywalker were assigned a new mission by Jedi High Council member Master Mace Windu to the planet Typha - Dor , whose rulers had pleaded for the Galactic Senate ' s help . Prelude to peace . Vanqor — the largest planet in the Uziel system — was , in 25 BBY , aggressively pursuing an expansionist policy of invasion . Vanqor was poised to attack and invade Uziel ' s last free planet , Typha - Dor . The system ' s resistance fighters , having pooled together a coalition from the ranks of its worlds , were able to find refuge on Typha - Dor and were staunchly determined to ' hold out ' against Vanqor ' s colonization efforts — its imminent , though unwarranted , invasion . To assist in reconnoitering the enemy fleet ' s secret movements , Typha - Dor had set up a surveillance outpost at an obscure location , upon a remote and nameless moon — known only by its coordinates , TY44 . The satellite ' s packed snow and ice made it almost impossible , however , to get crews in and out . The resistance fighters knew that the Vanqors were close to discovering the crew ' s hidden post . It was therefore critical that news of the enemy ' s plans and the orders to abandon the post reach the crew , which had not been heard from in weeks . Their comm units were perhaps down — or worse , they ' d already been attacked . It thus became the Jedi team ' s mission to ascertain the situation as well as the threat and , if possible , to rescue the ten - member TY44 outpost crew , and return them safely back home . Kenobi and Skywalker had been dispatched by the Jedi Council " alone " in this endeavor , as the Order ' s ranks were being stretched ever thinner by the mounting crises and threats to peace that were developing throughout the galaxy . Anakin , moreover , was still trying to recover emotionally and spiritually from the death of Master Yaddle on Mawan . He had last seen her held tightly by the Force , suspended above him in a night crowded with stars . Having absorbed the power of a bomb with her body , she ' d saved an entire population — and was now " one with " the Force . Skywalker had attended Yaddle ' s memorial service in the Great Hall of the Jedi Temple , and at that time the enormity of her absence threatened to swallow him whole . He had blamed himself for Yaddle ' s death , and he could not reveal to those present the emotion of his grief , which seemed to coil about his chest like a great serpent , squeezing the air from his lungs . Neither could Anakin forgive himself for the mistakes he ' d made . Indeed , he didn ' t know how he ever might get to a place where he " could " forgive himself . Unlike his Master , Anakin had not been able to find a way to live " comfortably " with grief . Somehow after Qui - Gon ' s death , Obi - Wan had been able to continue steadily on . Anakin felt that , because of this , perhaps his Master " didn ' t feel things " " as deeply " as he did ; that he perhaps " felt " " far too much " to ever be a Jedi . For he hadn ' t yet been able to achieve the " distance " from the Living Force that other Jedi were able to maintain . Anakin felt therefore that he needed to find a way to " shut out " his feelings , to seal off or close a door on them , and then possibly be able to press forward . The mission . Arrival on TY44 . Throughout their hyperspace journey , ever since they ' d left the Core in a Galan starfighter , the Master - Padawan team were silent . They hadn ' t spoken , as they flew on navcomputer , headed for the Outer Rim sector of Sertar . Their muted companionship and thoughtful reflection emanated , in part , from Yaddle ' s deeply felt passing ; in part , from the widening expanse of a relationship marred by loss of trust . Though Obi - Wan , through gentle humor and small gestures of encouragement , sought to help Anakin , his Padawan spurned that help . And Anakin himself did not know why . Now , as they approached the gray , clouded satellite - moon above Typha - Dor , Anakin looked forward to what promised to be a difficult mission — one he could " lose himself in . " Easing out of hyperspace , the small starfighter was almost immediately detected by the radar of a large gunship fitted with quad - laser cannons and concussion missiles . Evading the turbolaser cannonfire and tracking missiles , the Jedi dropped through heavy cloud cover to the moon . Landing among its snowy glaciers , they fitted themselves with survival gear , stepped out into the silent cold and wrapped their ship in a camouflage of white tarp . They started out over the frozen landscape covered in thin ice . Obi - Wan ' s mind wandered to brood on the tall , silent boy at his side : when he was Anakin ' s age , the death of a Jedi Master had seemed to him inconceivable . One so strong in the Force as Qui - Gon Jinn he believed could cheat death . He knew better now , of course , having seen Jedi Masters fall . Yarael Poof had recently been lost to the Jedi Council , and now Yaddle ( who , Kenobi was convinced , had foreseen her own death ) . Growing lawlessness in the galaxy had made it a rougher and harder place . Obi - Wan ' s own growing caution , he could sense , would one day conflict with the desires of his headstrong apprentice , but he could not stop what he saw would be inevitable . Yaddle ' s death had increased the distance between him and his Padawan , had changed them both . At the same time , Anakin ' s pure connection to the Force meant that Obi - Wan , in some ways , had little that he could teach him . In other ways , there was still so much that he could offer his young , powerful apprentice . For being a Jedi was far more than " commanding " the Force — it demanded the " inner serenity " needed to access it in the best way . Yaddle ' s death had shaken Kenobi to the core : was it possible that Anakin had " too much " power ? But Obi - Wan could not give up on his Padawan , nor on trying to find a moment to address the tension between them ; he would not allow this concern to get lost in the galaxy ' s teeming troubles or the chaos that surrounded them . Outpost saboteur . Having walked silently through kilometers of icy snow , Anakin and Obi - Wan felt like frozen jujasickles . But through the wind - ruffled snowflakes their electrobinoculars could at last make out the mountain - range outpost rising from the moon ' s glaciers . And while they took great care to avoid detection by the Vanqors , so that the outpost ' s location remain hidden from enemy eyes , they suddenly heard a distant explosion behind them : the enemy had blown up their starship . Now the Jedi ' s stay on the moon might be much longer than they ' d hoped . Through blizzard and deepening shadows , Kenobi and Skywalker made the punishing trek up the glaciers toward the outpost as temperatures began to fall with the coming night . Cable launchers , thermal gloves and gear were indispensable , but their limbs still felt frozen by the time they reached what should have been the holdout ' s coordinates . Anakin was the first to perceive the location of the hidden station . Covered in ice , its outer fasçade made of thick white material that could withstand extreme cold without cracking , the TY44 surveillance outpost appeared at first as nothing more than a massive ice wall . But then the ice groaned , and there appeared out of the glacier - face opening a slender human female with silvery eyes holding a well - aimed blaster — Shalini , the crew leader . As the Jedi were led by Shalini into the holdout , Kenobi advised her that the leaders of Typha - Dor had tried to reach them but that the surveillance group ' s comm unit was down . It had been down for over a month , Shalini confirmed , because of a saboteur among them . With lights illuminating at half - power , the Jedi soon beheld a room of weapons racks , surveillance and data equipment , a blaster - fire damaged communications console — and four other blaster - wielding crew members aiming their weapons their way . Setting them at ease , Shalini introduced her crew to the Jedi : Mezdec , husband of Shalini and first officer , but now also comm officer ( after Samdew , the alleged saboteur , had been shot and killed when Mezdec discovered him attempting to transmit intelligence to the Vanqor fleet ) ; Thik , a weak - looking man ; Rajana , a muscular woman ; and Olanz , a tall , balding man . Kenobi and Skywalker shared with the crew , who were almost out of provisions , the extra protein pack rations they ' d brought with them as they listened to the rest of Mezdec and Shalini ' s story . Mezdec explained that Samdew — their crucial , but now traitorous , senior information systems analyst — had destroyed their comm system right after the crew had discovered the Vanqor invasion plans . He ' d also sabotaged their transport . It was in the middle of the night that Mezdec caught the saboteur , who was at the comm console , attempting to send his first treacherous communication to the Vanqor fleet ( before then , he ' d strictly been in " deep cover , " just until the crew had learned something vital by cracking Vanqor ' s code ) . Realizing he was a spy , Mezdec said he blasted the console , not wanting to kill the man , but when Samdew turned toward him , he blasted him in the chest . Rajana and Thik , hearing the shots , next rushed in , whereupon Samdew , who ' d fallen , shot Thik in the knee . Rajana then entered and fired the fatal shot , killing Samdew . What none of them knew was that , before he died , the saboteur activated the fire system , which put it into lockdown and sucked all the oxygen out of the sleeping quarters . He ' d disabled the warning siren but not the procedure , which killed the other sleeping members of the crew , who all suffocated ( for , with Samdew ' s undercover mission ended , it was easiest for him just to eliminate the crew ) . They were dead before anyone knew what had happened ; all the crew members , of course , were meant to have been targeted — all originally were meant to die in their beds . Shalini handed Kenobi a small disk to momentarily look at : it contained the details of the enemy ' s plans — troop movements , coordinates , invasion sites . Getting the information to Typha - Dor was now critical . Having destroyed the Jedi starship , it was only a matter of time before the Vanqors found the surveillance outpost . Mezdec , a good mechanic , had yet been unable to fix their sabotaged transport . " Let me try , " offered Anakin — a genius at fixing the unfixable . Precarious partings . Despite the crew ' s lack of confidence in Kenobi ' s Padawan to fix a ship that the very competent Mezdec could not fix in the more than six weeks he worked on it , Obi - Wan would not lose faith . They ignored his attempts to instill hope and make more positive the outpost ambient as they argued among themselves about what ( with the probable failure of the transport repair ) should be their next best step . They suggested arming themselves and returning to the site of the Jedi transport explosion to check for salvageable parts or supplies ; they briefly considered splitting up , with half going to the transport and the rest staying behind . But the risks of ambush and capture , or starvation and death , were too great . With the crew ' s long duration of more than a year spent cooped up together — with the Vanqors hunting them , a saboteur in their midst , and the fear of not making it off - moon — Obi - Wan could understand the tension and the testiness of ' short fuses ' among them , but he wasn ' t too keen on having to listen to it . He excused himself to check on Anakin ' s repair progress in the back hangar . His Padawan had pinpointed the transport ' s problem in a failed power generator : transfer wires from the sublight engine had fused together , completely blowing the fusion system . While he could replace the transfer wires , doing so would trigger a response — the ship would explode . But Anakin was stumped : after all , why would Samdew disable the ship completely , not allowing himself an ' escape hatch , ' as it were ? If he killed all the crew , how would he get off - moon ? A competent spy would never just assume rescue by those whom he worked for , that everything would go as planned . The Jedi deduced , therefore , that he had to have rigged a repair solution for the ship — they just didn ' t know yet what it was . But Kenobi admired Anakin ' s prodigious skills and focus as they worked together to find it : it was as if the engine were an ailing organism that Anakin was coaxing back to life . Medzec had come in to converse with Anakin briefly about the repairs before the young Jedi tested the outcome of his labors : the transport roared to life again . But starting it was just the beginning — he couldn ' t restore full power . Skywalker had to juice up the generator by bypassing the deflector shields and weapons delivery system . Their defenses , including turbolasers , were incapacitated . Their journey would be slow , rough , and exposed . And they were low on fuel , too , which would force them to take the shortest route to Typha - Dor through Vanqor airspace , unfortunately . Even with the odds stacked against them , Obi - Wan marveled at his Padwan ' s good humor and smile , at being challenged : joking together , the mischief seen in the young man ' s eyes lightened Obi - Wan ' s heart . It was a glimpse of the boy he once knew — who could fix things , who had yet to understand and was untroubled by his great personal gifts , who believed in a galaxy of dreams that could come true . " " I can ' t let him lose that spirit . I can ' t let him lose the boy he was " . " Their tension eased just a bit in that light moment , but when he saw sadness again in Anakin ' s eyes , Kenobi realized that the ' fix ' had only been momentary . Things ran too deep now to hope for a more permanent fix between them ; such was no longer possible , it seemed . The shelter now empty , its comm and surveillance suites destroyed , along with their files , to deny any use they might be to the Vanqors , the crew was ready for takeoff . But it was one that would not be smooth . The ship shook as it rose through the hangar ' s retractable roof , then it shuddered over the icy wasteland before shooting into the upper atmosphere . Crash by treachery . Looking at the ship ' s radar , they were safe so far . But Anakin wanted a closer look at the instruments , and so left Rajana at the controls . Mezdec , at the navigation console , sat next to her . Anakin wanted to run a full status check , including a manual one , as takeoff had pulled power from key systems and he wanted to avoid malfunctions . Oddly enough , in running the manual check , he found an indicator green on three power feeds on the escape pod , which showed , moreover , as having two anti - grav generator s . In asking Mezdec about it , he said that the pod was upgraded with an extra anti - grav to serve , should the need arise , as a primary transport back to Typha - Dor , and that Samdew had sabotaged it as well . But his ' explanation ' still didn ' t explain the extra generator and three power feeds , or why there was no console indicator of these things on the auto - check . Mezdec ' s response was that the feed indicators were in the pod itself . Nodding , and promising to check it out , then , Anakin retired to the rear of the ship , to discuss the matter with his Master . Easing into the seat next to Obi - Wan , he told him he ' d found Samdew ' s back door : the pod was double - boosted , something very unusual for this model of ship , and the indicators didn ' t run through the main cabin ' s sensor array . Anakin told Kenobi , too , that there wouldn ' t have been any takeoff problem to begin with if he had checked the pod , for he could have rewired the ship by sucking power from the pod to the transport , then lifted off with full power . Nothing could be done now that they were in flight , but why hadn ' t Mezdec caught this ? He was a skilled mechanic with more than a month to fix it . Obi - Wan responded that something else had bothered him as well : Mezdec ' s blast at the comm console was from such a distance that it couldn ' t have left scorch marks on the panel . When Anakin countered with the spoken testimony of the other crew members and pointed out that Samdew shot Thik , his Master reminded Anakin that he was giving his " impression " of events , not what was actually " said . " Anakin , in reviewing the precise conversation of the sequence of events with his Jedi - mind , realized then that a dying Samdew was actually shooting at Mezdec when he shot Thik , who had merely gotten in the way . What ' s more , they really only had Mezdec ' s word , Kenobi told him , about virtually everything connected with the story . None of the crew witnessed " anything " beyond Thik ' s wounding . Suddenly Shalini had joined them , asking if all was well . She became defensive , however , when Obi - Wan suggested that there was no real evidence that Samdew was the saboteur or that he ' d killed the other crew members , and — rather inefficient for a spy — apparently left no means for his own escape . And when Kenobi suggested to her that there could be another spy , that Samdew might have been innocent for he didn ' t have the chance to defend himself , Shalini ' s incredulity was tinged with hostility . But Thik and Olanz , who ' d now joined them , having caught the gist of the conversation , agreed with the Jedi : that they were all relying solely on Mezdec for their proof . After Obi - Wan requested to see Shalini ' s information disk again , she complied , but it was found to be blank when Kenobi accessed it on his datapad . A shocked Shalini was then urgently asked by Kenobi if the disk had ever been out of her sight . She recalled that Mezdec had wanted , for her safety , to pre - flight check her blaster , emergency supplies , and utility belt ( in which she kept the disk ) . But Shalini told the Jedi of a second disk she ' d not mentioned to Mezdec and that the invasion plans were yet safe . At that moment , Rajana ' s voice announced radar activity of an approaching enemy destroyer . Mezdec , however , had disappeared from the cockpit . Kenobi and Skywalker raced to the emergency pod at the rear of the ship as laser cannonfire erupted — the ship was under attack by a monster assault vessel clad in black and silver . By the time the Jedi lightsabers had peeled the emergency - door metal back , Mezdec had already blasted out into space . Even so , Anakin had disabled half of the pod ' s power and cut its comm unit , so that the traitor wouldn ' t get very far very fast . The Jedi charged back to the cockpit to steer clear of the Vanqor bombardment . Dodging torpedos , Skywalker put the transport into a dive . It trembled horribly under its weakened power , and Kenobi , glancing at the starmaps , realized that the closest planet on which to land was Vanqor itself . Suddenly , they were hit by an ion blast , which caused them to lose most of their computer systems . Resolutely the crew opted to risk capture by crash - landing on Vanqor . Obi - Wan suggested they attempt to land on the outskirts of the Tomo Craters , rugged terrain in which they might lose the pursuing enemy . As cockpit alarms sounded and red warning lights flashed , indicating the ship ' s failure , the crew strapped themselves in . Anakin accelerated to get to the planet ' s surface as quickly as possible , but the ship ' s frame shook violently . Red dust was kicked up by the turbulence and the ship slammed into the unforgiving ground , skidding across its surface toward the edge of a high plateau . Barely escaping its careening off into a deep canyon , the embattled ship finally crashed against a giant boulder which brought it to a jolting stop . The crew , though shaken , had sustained only a few cuts , and no major injuries . With the landing ramp damaged , the Jedi used their lightsabers to extricate the crew . Anakin complied with his Master ' s request to turn on his tracking device in case they were separated . All then donned air masks and threw out smoke grenades to give themselves cover as they attempted to race toward the plateau ' s edge , to launch down the canyon on cables . But they realized , too late , that they wouldn ' t make it before the enemy destroyers appeared and began shooting through the smoke . They were forced to turn about when explosions erupted in front of them , racing back towards the ship to secure a measure of cover . Obi - Wan , in rescuing the slow - moving Thik and getting him under cover of a small protective cubbyhole , was separated from the others and forced to take cover in a cavelike opening hidden just under the closed - in wedge - space between two huge boulders . He watched helplessly through a slit in the rock as the others , including his Padawan , were captured by a squad of Vanqor troops and herded onto their starships . As the enemy vessels blasted away , Kenobi calmed his thoughts in the Force , turning them soon towards rescue . Into the Tomo Craters . When the enemy starships had landed , Obi - Wan had seen Shalini move close to Anakin and hand him something , appearing also to whisper something in his ear — he realized she ' d handed Anakin the second disk she ' d spoken of . With his and his captured comrades ' hands now bound behind them as they traveled to some unknown destination , the inaccessible disk seeming to burn against his skin , Anakin thought on those whispered words : " " Take this . It will be safest in the hands of the Jedi . For the safety of my people , please get it back to Typha - Dor " . " Anakin thought then on the words he ' d said to Shalini in reply : " " I pledge my life on it " . " The unknown destination turned out to be a small compound of gray buildings , energy fences and security towers nestled within the rugged - terrain area of deep fissures called the " Tomo Craters . " The compound itself was called " The Tomo Camp , " or in the vernacular of its admitting guard , " paradise . " Anakin was grateful for his garb — he was dressed like the other surveillance crew members in a survival suit , which hid both his lightsaber and his identity as a Jedi . None offered their names to the soldiers as they were searched . And Anakin was able to use the Force to confuse his captors , to avoid confiscation of his cable launcher , his lightsaber , and the secret Vanqor - invasion disk . Even so , they were all stripped of their survival gear and given rough brown tunics to wear before being herded out again with other Uziel - system prisoners into a cold , windy yard bound by fences — extended energy gate s . The craters ' sheer walls — hundreds of meters tall — meant that the only way into the camp was by air . With no ship , Anakin wondered how his Master would rescue him ; Anakin decided he himself would probably have to rely on his own wits and skill , which of course he was fully prepared to do . His time constraint , however , was only " three " standard days — for at the end of that time the invasion ' s due date would hit , according to Shalini — and Anakin suddenly realized that the key to the survival of the entire planet of Typha - Dor lay hidden within his tunic pocket . But he would not make the mistake of his last mission in assuming he was more powerful than he was : Anakin harbored no delusions that he ' d be able by the Force alone to evade the camp ' s heavy security measures , and this time he would not make a move until he was absolutely sure . The prisoners themselves were somehow aware of Typha - Dor ' s precarious situation , for a prisoner from Zilior asked Shalini if the Vanqors had invaded her planet yet . One prisoner had attempted escape and was now dead , but Anakin settled in and began to observe , to discover a way to make that attempt successful . The sole solution Anakin could see depended on reaching the transport pool . But it was a question of timing — slipping somehow through the guards ' overlapping shifts , not to mention the constantly buzzing sentry droids . Anakin ' s plan , which he would carry out that night , was to use his cable launcher to clear the energy fence , sprint thirty meters of open space to the transport pool , slip into one of the lightly guarded ships in need of repair at the pool repair facility , hopefully fix the transport , and finally take off before his absence was noted , to return later to rescue the others . But Anakin himself knew that things rarely went as planned . Meanwhile , Obi - Wan Kenobi , once he ' d seen the starships disappear from view , risked a coded distress call to the Jedi Temple on Coruscant . If they locked on his position , they could send help within a few days . Obi - Wan hoped the brief , scrambled message would reach its destination . Already a risk , a longer transmission was certainly out of the question . Anakin ' s tracking device had beeped steadily , and so Kenobi returned to the crew ship to retrieve from its rear cargo - hold the single , banged - up swoop they ' d been able to allow for weight on board . With transportation now secured , Kenobi only hoped his Padawan was close enough to get to on just a swoop - bike , for it held little fuel . Anakin ' s tracking device led Kenobi over the high plateaus and desert lands surrounding the Tomo Craters . The same distance and rugged terrain by foot would have taken Obi - Wan days to traverse . As the sun slid to the horizon , he hugged the ground to evade scanners and sky surveillance , led on by the tracking device . But then the swoop ' s fuel suddenly read EMPTY and its engine sputtered , forcing Kenobi to land . Still , by his reckoning , at least twenty kilometers from his Padawan , he hid the swoop in a cave and entered the coordinates in his datapad ( for access later , should he find some fuel ) . He then began the long hike over steep slopes of thin - rock shale . Finally Obi - Wan rested when he came within sight of the tracking device ' s transmission . He studied the relatively light security of the camp through his electrobinoculars : he ' d reached the heart of the Tomo Craters . Camp security was correct , as evidenced by its small numbers , not to worry about escaping prisoners , for the steep brutal terrain — if Kenobi managed to get past the cliffs , canyons , and nests of gundarks — only promised a " possibility " of making it to the outskirts of the camp , set on the lip of a sheer - faced crater , its rock wall two hundred meters high , and himself left vulnerable with every centimeter won . So much better to go in by air . But now , " sans " - transport , he sat on a high peak below an outcropping of stone to observe the camp for the rest of the waning evening . The curious doctor . An officer , surrounded by guards and droids , suddenly entered through a gate and picked , from the rows of shrinking prisoners , first one , then another . This was one of the prison ' s infamous periodic " sweeps , " from which it was rumored " no one " ever returned ( something about " medical experiments " in " an unmarked building " ) . The guards herded the selected ones together . The officer then picked Anakin , who knew that if a battle ensued upon resisting , others might die . Beyond this , security might be more lax at the facility where they were taking him . But , indeed , they were led to a building that had no sign . Upon entering , a chemical odor filled the air and the prisoners exchanged uneasy glances . Prodded further along a hallway , they finally entered a bare white room where a holoscreen took up an entire wall . Suddenly , the image flashed up of a med coat - clad human male with a gentle smile and voice , who delivered a brief comforting message about enjoying the " Zone of Self - Containment " into which they had all come , which " zone " would be further explained by " a doctor . " Almost immediately , all within the room began to feel " strange " or light - headed — hence the holo image , Anakin guessed , instead of a real person . His vision blurring , Anakin realized they ' d all been drugged , and , with the rest , he began to slump to the floor , but he caught himself and forced his body to maintain both consciousness and readiness , although his legs felt entirely immobile . Only able to see , not move , Anakin was the sole conscious victim when the masked technicians entered the room and began loading the prisoners onto repulsorlift stretchers . The med workers were shocked when they saw Skywalker still conscious — having never seen such an impervious response to the paralyzing gas before . Noting Anakin ' s stoic face and expression , they tried to placate , telling him that he was sure to enjoy his stay there if he simply didn ' t fight the effects of the substance that had invaded his body . To which Skywalker , grabbing one of them by the collar and bringing his face in close while summoning every ounce of his strength and will , replied : " " Don ' t . . . bet . . . on it " . " Calling out for help , the technician was joined by two others , who were able to strap Anakin to a stretcher — he was weakened enough , slipping in and out of consciousness now , that he couldn ' t fight three med workers . They took Anakin to another room , where they stripped him of his clothes . Unable to summon the Force , he no longer could distract the technicians from finding his lightsaber and utility belt with the hidden disk . When his tunic fell , and everything slipped and hit with a soft thud , it was mere chance that caused a technician to scoop up the entire bundle and toss it in a storage box with the other prisoners ' clothes . Anakin next felt his body lifted and lowered into warm water ; he was told it was simply a bath , and to relax , but he soon fell unconscious . When Skywalker finally awoke , he found himself dry and lying on a sleep couch , dressed in a fresh , dark blue tunic and feeling refreshingly relaxed and energized . The med technician at his side assured Anakin that the evening meal coming up next was " not " drugged , so not to worry . Everyone , workers and patients , ate together . Oddly , Anakin didn ' t seem to care about anything the technician was telling him : every desire seemed calm . He went to meal , wondering simply what would come next , guessing that something surely would , but content to wait until it did . His need to help a nearby planet in peril seemed very distant now : he was sure , however , that " someone else " would help Typha - Dor . He would just pass the time there and see what the Vanqors were up to . After retiring in the comfortable evening air to a flower - filled courtyard , set with large leafy plants and warming lights , Anakin , sitting himself on a bench there , felt something he hadn ' t felt in a great long while , not since he ' d found himself in his mother ' s embrace : " peace " . The feeling recalled to Anakin ' s memory the time he and his Master spent on Belazura . He told himself he ' d fight the feeling soon , when it was urgent and time to escape , but " right now " . . . " would it be so wrong to enjoy it ? " Only a day or so had passed , Anakin realized , since he was drugged . He ' d undergone no other treatments and , to his surprise , was not drugged again nor treated like a prisoner . With only a sleep couch and table , his room was spare , but he had full access to both the sunny area indoors and the outside courtyard . He desired nothing more than to sit there with his face to the warming lights , watching the shadow patterns of leaves on the walls . When he considered escaping , the thought was fleeting . When two med technicians appeared in the garden at Anakin ' s side , they addressed him as " Prisoner 42601 " and told him that someone wished to see him . They led him to a richly adorned office — colorful and luxurious , with septsilk curtains , in stark contrast to the rest of the compound — and left him there , shutting the door quietly behind them . Soon , a young - looking human woman with blond hair stepped into the slightly perfumed air of the office and sat at the corner of what proved to be her own desk ; Anakin had settled himself in a soft chair in front of her . He sensed despite her youthful appearance that she was older , but her face was unlined and smooth ; her eyes were penetrating yet warm , like her smile . She thanked Anakin for coming and introduced herself as the doctor who invented the pleasurable drug he was then experiencing . When she asked Anakin if he was happy there , she suddenly realized , upon seeing the confusion register in his face , that she ' d asked the wrong question — " Are you " content " ? " she rephrased . When he ' d answered " yes , " she told him the reason she ' d asked for him was that she ' d learned of his resistance to the " paralyzing agent " when he first arrived there . Even now , " in the zone , " the principal drug had not erased Anakin ' s memory of being a Jedi ; as such , he didn ' t necessarily trust what this " doctor " had to say . She told Anakin that she appreciated his intelligence , awareness , but that she felt in him a mastery of mind and body she ' d seen before in users of the Force . And " had he heard of it ? " When Anakin answered " no , " she suggested notwithstanding that he might be " Force - sensitive " at least , possessing special abilities . Anakin , now wary , simply wanted to go back to the garden and sit in the sunshine . Acting bored would accomplish this most quickly , he knew . The doctor asked him about " precognition " — seeing or sensing something before it happened . Anakin forced a blank expression . She asked him if , before he came there , his reaction times were unusually fast and if he possessed an unusually strong focus . Anakin answered that he was always first to the dinner table . Impatient , disappointed , altogether frustrated with Anakin ' s maddening responses , Jenna Zan Arbor was now bored herself and dismissed the young man . Retiring to the courtyard , Anakin knew the doctor was not a native Vanqor , nor was she working for them — without question , she was an outlander . But did Anakin " really care ? " The sun was shining , it was warm in the courtyard and almost time for the midday meal . Stealing into Tomo Camp . Obi - Wan observed a clear pattern to the operations being carried out below him : transports flew in and out regularly , ferrying supplies and troops back and forth . As such , Tomo Camp was probably also a kind of base . He wondered if his message had reached the Temple . But what would his next step be if it hadn ' t ? He knew that rescue was paramount , the first order of business : he had to get Shalini ' s disk to Typha - Dor . The transports dipped low on approach , landing just at the edge of the plateau where a short landing pad was surrounded by energy fencing . He now faced getting pummeled by boulders , crashing into a crater hundreds of meters below , being spotted and blasted into thin air — each scenario a likely one . His plan was risky , bordering on foolish . He thought back to the mission ' s start , on how he brooded over being overly cautious and careful in his assignments , weighing each risk , but he ' d come now to the conclusion , after formulating the crazy plan he was about to execute , that perhaps he wasn ' t so careful after all . It took Kenobi hours , even with the help of the cable launcher , to scale the peak . When he reached the top to finally rest , the sun was setting . He had to gather his strength for the task ahead . Across the wide chasm below he saw , without the aid of electrobinoculars , beings moving about in the camp . His plan was to hook his cable launcher onto the underside of a low - flying transport , hitching a ride down to the camp , then dropping to the ground as it landed — if the timing was exactly right . Otherwise , he ' d get bug - squashed against the side of a crater . Under the star - spangled night he at last willed himself to sleep after wrapping himself in his thermal cape ; his worryings about Anakin could not now bar the physical rest he needed , once sleep overtook him . The freshness of the morning air interrupted Obi - Wan ' s dreams : before he woke he could already smell the dawn . Hope glinted in his waking eyes . He made last preparations as he downed a protein cube and tested his cable launcher , for his life depended on its strength . The varying speeds of the first incoming transports were unusable : too fast and too slow . The speed of the third was just right . As the shadow of the mid - size cruiser appeared at the peak , Kenobi let his cable fly to its mark : the transport was large enough that it wouldn ' t feel the jolt of the launcher or the drag of his body . The actual tow down , however , was worse than he ' d expected , the turbulence wrenching his body like a rag doll . In dodging boulders that came up to meet him in the air , he had to activate his launcher to draw himself up closer to the ship , but he couldn ' t be too near its exhausts as it started to land or he ' d be burned to a cinder . Calling on the Force for aid , he became one with the ship , air , and cable , allowing his movement to flow with the ship ' s own grace to bring him in safely : he disengaged the cable and dropped quickly but hard to the perimeter wall , rolling and ducking behind a parked ship . Darting into a nearby utility shed , he donned a pair of greasy coveralls , tossed a servodriver into his pocket , and walked out into a yard full of prisoners . Obi - Wan pretended to inspect the energy fence as he moved down , searching the crowd for Anakin . But he ran into Shalini instead ; he admired her discipline upon noticing him — she gave nothing away . Moving casually over to him , Shalini reported that everyone was okay , but that Anakin had been taken in the recent " sweep " to the unmarked gray building across the compound . Because the camp officials hadn ' t figured out that Anakin was a Jedi yet , Shalini didn ' t think Mezdec had gone to Vanqor . Otherwise , they would have discovered them all by now , if he had . She believed he ' d gone instead to Typha - Dor to deliver fake invasion plans to the rulers there , knowing they ' d believe him . Addressing her worry that Mezdec would destroy them all single - handedly , Obi - Wan assured her that wouldn ' t happen if they could make it to Typha - Dor on time with the second disk she ' d given to Anakin . When a guard suddenly interrupted their conversation with a call for an " attendance check , " they quickly parted ways , and Kenobi went off to search for the unmarked building they ' d carried Anakin off to . Upon finding the building , he called on the Force to guide him . Feigning a maintenance check , Kenobi persuaded the officer on guard to deactivate the security shield and let him in . He quickly traversed the corridors , looking in open doors and windows , until he came to an open courtyard in which he spotted a familiar young man on a bench : Obi - Wan had found his Padawan . But though Anakin appeared to be healthy and okay , something was wrong . " Something was off " . But he hadn ' t the time to analyze it : he had to get Anakin out of there fast . Anakin knew he felt " detached " , that his brain chemistry had been altered , that he ' d been drugged — though he wasn ' t sure how it had been done . He wondered if this was how it felt to be " " one with " the Force . " It was certainly a " peaceful " place to be , so very unlike the battles he often fought within his own mind and heart . And he wondered if it was so terrible to reach this place through a simple procedure , as opposed to years of study and trial . Anakin had long admired and envied his Master ' s " serenity " — now he had it , too . But , looking up to see Obi - Wan enter the garden , these thoughts were now interrupted by his Master ' s rescue . Finding a utility closet , Anakin put on a pale blue medic ' s coat . When Obi - Wan asked where his lightsaber and the disk were , Anakin replied that they were among storage bins where they bathed . Locating the room with the large tubs , they found the bins and retrieved the disk and Skywalker ' s lightsaber . Stealing past the security guard , they headed straight for the landing pad to steal a transport . Picking out a fast - looking starship that could get them to Typha - Dor , Kenobi accessed the cockpit and they both jumped in . Anakin would have to hot - wire it , and even though he was yet in the bubble of his " calm " , he was able to do so , switching the wires and juicing the engine . They shot out of the hangar and away from the camp . Kenobi was right to assume that their escape had been too easy , for a red console light began blinking — Anakin guessed that they ' d failed to enter a security code on the ground . To prevent escapes , the ship was programmed to self - destruct . Estimating they only had about 4 seconds , Anakin increased the speed and headed for the surface . He then quickly cut back on it , leveling out the ship , allowing them to raise the cockpit dome and jump to ground - safety , with the Force pulsing around them . The ship exploded above as they rolled out of the impact , but they continued rolling down a slope to the natural shelter of boulder outcroppings , where they were safely sheltered from exploding metal debris . But they now had a real problem , Kenobi pointed out , for they were in the middle of a Vanqor desert infested with gundarks . But first , Anakin cautioned , they had to deal with a fleet of STAPs and two security transports mounted with laser cannons coming their way . As the only good cover lay in the deep craters , Obi - Wan asked his young Padawan if he ' d rather take his chances with a fleet of STAPs or a nest of gundarks . When the laser cannonfire thundered behind and the two had exchanged a glance , they broke into a run . The answer was clear : they would choose the craters and hope that gundarks weren ' t in them . As they ran and veered from one cave to the next , trying to decide which one they stood to survive best , Obi - Wan felt absolutely no communion with his Padawan , no connection in the Force , as if he were running alongside a total stranger . He knew " something " had happened to Anakin in the medical building , but that Anakin had denied it , evading further discussion . Which had nearly stripped the last vestiges of trust Kenobi had in him . Suddenly an explosion sent Kenobi flying , and he was blasted headlong into a crater ' s abyss . . . into a gundark nest . Gundark nest . Landing hard a hundred meters down into the asteroid pit , Obi - Wan both smelled and heard the gundarks . Kenobi knew well the saying that a gundark ' s cry could freeze a being ' s blood , which he hadn ' t been too sure of , but hearing the cry now was surely not a pleasant sensation . The gundarks ' eyesight and hearing were keen , their sense of smell excellent . They captured and killed their prey with four powerful arms : a massive upper shouldered pair for capture , and a muscled lower pair rising from their chest for crushing and death . But vicious teeth jutting from a lower jaw were equally effective at tearing the head or limbs off their prey . Shredding a victim to pieces of flesh and bone was practically a sure thing if ever a gundark ' s bloodlust was awakened . Kenobi knew that using his cable launcher was a risk , as the crater sides were hundreds of meters high , and the long process of climbing out would bring him in close proximity to the savage beasts . Deep caves peered back at him through the gloom . Had Anakin found shelter from the security droids above ? Suddenly , the roar of gundarks arose from their nesting place , and Obi - Wan moved stealthily away : there was no way , even with the Force , that he could confront their numbers . He needed his Padawan . Glowrods and a launcher he couldn ' t risk . He would have to climb using the crater ' s pockmarked holes as footholds . Kenobi had climbed only a few meters when he felt it : a soft breath brushed his ear — and he knew now the feeling of frozen blood . A worse prospect he couldn ' t have imagined : disaster he ' d met falling into a gundark nest , but now he ' d blundered into one of their young ones : a " catastrophe " . The baby gundark was nestled asleep in a deep wall cavity . Easing his way past , a deafening roar suddenly split the air and the cave began to tremble with the impact of running footsteps . Both mother and baby were now alert . Fully exposed , Obi - Wan lit his lightsaber and backed away to disarm the mother - beast . But her attack was ferocious . Arms reached and clawed , teeth snapped , saliva poured . Heated stench and howling anger filled the cavity . Others came running , and a desperate Kenobi resorted to his launcher . But just as it went flying above to connect , a claw grabbed him and slammed his body to the ground . Obi - Wan rolled away to miss the gundark ' s scoring claws . He summoned the Force to send up a shout : " " Anakin ! I need you ! " " Anakin was at last feeling fissures in the drug ' s " numbing " shroud — moments of clarity , brief flashes of reality — but then he felt a hook lodged deep within his heart , and he was glad to again slip behind the veil . But he had somehow also regained " battle - mind , " and the young Jedi was fighting as well as he ever had . He took down many of the droid - mounted STAPs and Vanqor - mounted swoops . The veil continued to slip more frequently now , but he missed the " calm " and the garden , the " secure " haven ; he loathed to feel again the fear and apprehension , or the pain . Suddenly , Anakin heard the gundarks roar from deep within the crater . . . then also , he thought , his Master ' s call — but it arose from within his heart . There , too , was the hook , tugging dully . His Master needed him now , but so had Anakin " his Master " when he appeared solely , it seemed , to retrieve the disk — not " him " . That pain made him want to grab the shreds of the veil and wrap himself in its unique unconsciousness . " Feeling " was too painful , and he leaped up impulsively to strike down another droid . " A Jedi followed his feelings " , but " therein " was his conflict : for " his " feelings " tortured " him — grief , guilt , resentment , shame . These were all his . . . because of leaving his mother , because of Yaddle , because of Obi - Wan . " Feeling " he didn ' t want : Anakin ' s heart - hook was " love " , and it seared him . It complicated things . Why " feel " again ? . . . Because , Anakin knew , " it was right " . And so he ripped the veil , even as the " zone " drew back , and the Force flooded in , and began to grow . A tide of suppressed emotion he ' d not wanted to feel again washed over him , just as cruelly as the bombardment of laser cannons above . " " Anakin ! " " — his Master ' s cry filled him , and he ran . Accessing the Force , he allowed the power of a final blast to catapult him in the direction of his Master ' s voice — but that was straight into the darkened void of a gundark ' s nest . . . Obi - Wan , raked and battered now , had killed one gundark and mortally wounded another . His weakened limbs were numb , and he felt himself losing the battle . The ravenous beasts were circling , moving in for the kill , and Obi - Wan had no doubt that he would be torn limb from limb . He preferred a less gruesome end for that meditated moment when he would become " " one with " the Force . " Then , suddenly , he felt the Force fill the cavern . A flash of light appeared from above as Anakin shot into the circle of gundarks , his lightsaber at the ready . He plunged his weapon into the soft tissue of a gundark ' s neck , then leaped to sever off a pair of another gundark ' s arms . The beast ' s red eyes blazed as it screamed in agony and retreated . Together , Obi - Wan and Anakin forced the gundarks back to their cave , only to be outflanked by several more coming from another opening . As Kenobi drew the attention of the first group , Skywalker arose amid the second to have one gundark lose a leg , another an eye , and a third to recoil at the slash of its chest . The gundarks retreated , a howling mass . And " Anakin " , Obi - Wan realized , " was back " . The familiar flash of his eyes was bright again . Though both knew the beasts had not given up , Anakin seized his launcher and , grabbing Kenobi as if he weighed nothing , activated the cable . Landing on a free ledge , he activated it again . . . and again . Obi - Wan marveled that " Anakin had planned the journey back on his way down " : it ' s what made his Padawan a great Jedi . Reaching the surface at last , they climbed over the lip of the crater , relieved to have escaped the horrifying nest . Though Anakin had not " fully " dispatched the droid and Vanqor enemy , he was sure he ' d made them think that his blast into the crater had relegated the Jedi to the status of gundark - goners . For " " no one ever survives a gundark nest " . " Treachery exposed . Discussing the options of finding some fuel to return to Kenobi ' s swoop hidden about twenty - five kilometers away or heading back to steal another transport from the Tomo Camp , the Jedi duo reluctantly opted for the camp option knowing they wouldn ' t get too far with the swoop . But then Obi - Wan ' s comlink signaled and , surprised , he picked up to hear a familiar voice : " " Well , I ' m here to rescue your sorry self once again . Honestly , I don ' t know what you ' d do without me " . " It was Siri Tachi , Kenobi ' s longtime friend for whom he held , beneath the joking banter , a deep and abiding respect . And within a few minutes two red - and - white Jedi cruisers had landed to rescue them . Happy to see Siri also , Anakin was less enthusiastic about seeing her Padawan , Ferus Olin , to whom he ' d have preferred practically anyone else in the galaxy to turn up as his rescuer . Since their mission to Andara , things were even worse than normal in their stormy relationship . In the midst of another mission to the Xanlanner system , they ' d received Obi - Wan ' s distress signal and message about the urgent need to reach Typha - Dor . Ferrying the other Jedi team were Jedi Master Ry - Gaul and his Padawan Tru Veld , Anakin ' s best friend . That alone would , for Skywalker , lighten the burden of seeing Ferus again . And Anakin suddenly realized that while in the Zone of Self - Containment his feelings of intense " happiness " had been " blocked out " as well , because of the great pleasure he felt now of seeing his friend Tru — a price had been paid for the Zone ' s " artificial " serenity . Also there was Obi - Wan ' s old Temple - training comrade , Garen Muln , former Padawan of Clee Rhara , the legendary Jedi pilot program leader who had studied at the Temple with Qui - Gon Jinn . Grabbing a medpac , he administered bacta to the gundark wounds Kenobi had sustained while fighting alone . Anakin meanwhile was , to his delight , introduced to Rhara . Soon , all the Jedi teams had boarded their ships . Kenobi and Skywalker boarded Muln ' s ship with Tachi and Olin ( to Anakin ' s dismay ) . But Skywalker was thrilled to be riding with Muln who was , next to Rhara , possibly the best Jedi pilot in the Order . Not only that , Muln invited Anakin to sit in the copilot ' s seat next to him . Rising , the two cruisers shot into the upper atmosphere toward Typha - Dor ; Vanqor ships were everywhere , and they were forced now to evade them in their own airspace . When several enemy starfighters approached , Muln called the challenge a " piece of quinberry cake " and climbed at top speed toward Vanqor ' s two small red moons that were orbiting the planet in tandem . Diving for the space between the moons , Garen and Clee played hide - and - seek with the starfighters , none of which could get a fix on their position . As the enemy prepared to call for backup , the Jedi cruisers appeared suddenly from the moons ' orbital protection and outran them as the enemy gave chase . When a Vanqor military ship with ten escort starfighters next appeared , Muln called this new challenge " a piece of juja - cake , " and , with young Skywalker in rapt awe , was somehow able to evade their huge weapons and cannonfire , without sustaining even a scratch or firing his own weapons . Shooting into hyperspace , the Jedi cruisers , after two hours ' travel , arrived at Typha - Dor . And for Garen , that was pure " sweet cake . " Landing at the planet ' s space center , which lay between the two capital cities , Sarus - Dor and Ith - Dor , the Jedi informed the security officer who met them that they were special envoys on a diplomatic mission from the Galactic Senate with vital information for Typha - Dor ' s " twin rulers " : their planet was on the brink of invasion by a neighboring predatory world . The combined pressure of eight Jedi , after the officer said the invasion had already begun and yet had refused to yield , was ultimately too much for him and his staff : the Jedi were straightaway ushered into the strategic planning meeting of the planet ' s High Council at the space center . Surrounding a circular holomap were the two rulers of Typha - Dor and their aides , along with the planetary generals . Obi - Wan knew the rulers as Talus , a young man , and Binalu , an older woman who had ruled Typha - Dor for many years . They were responsible for the original petition that the Jedi rush to their planet ' s aid , and they greeted the Jedi graciously . As Binalu stepped aside , in the midst of those in attendance Obi - Wan caught sight of Mezdec , who paled when he saw Kenobi . He tried to dismiss the Jedi by telling them that they had no clearance to be attending the Council ' s high - security meeting . Binalu was quick to clarify for Mezdec , however , that the Jedi had been specially summoned to aid in the current crisis . Ignoring Mezdec with a cool glance , Obi - Wan turned to the strategy map and noted that the Typha - Dor had massed all their weaponry and their fleet to " the " " south , " not at all what the " real " invasion plans indicated should be the location for their gathering forces — for Mezdec had , indeed , given the generals false plans , just as Shalini had said . And it was all for the purpose of facing an invasion " that would not come " that their forces were now massing troops and ships in the south , while the Vanqors poised themselves to take over Typha - Dor ' s capital cities in one swift stroke , fully unopposed . Kenobi prefaced his remarks to the High Council by stating that he ' d met Mezdec earlier at the TY44 outpost ; the Typha - Dor native was , in fact , a member of the crew that the Jedi were sent there to rescue . He then asked the generals present if it was too late to recall their ships from the south . Surprised at such a question , in light of the Vanqor invasion plans that Mezdec had delivered to them , they all but dismissed the Jedi , stating that they were grateful for the Jedi Order ' s timely response to their petition for aid , but that they themselves could handle the planned invasion attempt by taking the enemy by surprise . The Jedi , of course , begged to differ , revealing to them all that there were , in fact , " two " versions of the " invasion plan " in existence and that the Typha - Dor generals were in possession of " the wrong one " . Anakin set Shalini ' s holofile spinning , unfolding in pulses of light detail after detail of the enemy ' s true invasion scheme . If it were allowed to play itself out , the generals themselves would be the ones who would , in the end , be surprised — not the Vanqor warriors , who would waste no time in sweeping in literally unopposed to take over their capital cities . The High General of Typha - Dor , General Bycha , tall and imposing , rose to her informant ' s defense , stating that Mezdec had intercepted the invasion plans and delivered them to her personally . When Mezdec quickly affirmed the General ' s words and , moreover , claimed that he was the only one to escape the outpost alive , Kenobi broke the news to the traitor that , in fact , he was " not " the only one to surface from the ordeal alive : the others had made it out , too . Skywalker stepped forward to deliver the official Jedi accusation of there being a spy in their midst , with his additional strong recommendation that the General issue an order for the scoundrel ' s immediate arrest . Typha - Dor rulers and generals alike were stunned . Such grave assertions could not go unanswered . Obi - Wan pressed , " " You must trust us . . . The fate of your world lies in your hands " . " Mezdec , of course , who pled complete innocence , accused the Jedi of lying — to which Bycha herself , holding Mezdec ' s gaze , queried " what reason the Jedi would ever have of lying " , and ordered his immediate arrest . Mezdec , accordingly , was taken away . Snares for peace . Taking a laser pointer and indicating the map , Obi - Wan had earlier explained in the security council meeting that the Vanqors , in order to give themselves cover , planned to invade through the satellite corridor when the Typha - Dor moons aligned . But that same corridor would also create a window through which the Typha - Dor generals could attack , effectively giving them free reign to trap a majority of the enemy fleet between two of the moons in question . The Typha - Dor stood to be successful , Kenobi maintained , even with a smaller force . With Mezdec gone , the space center security room had exploded in a flurry of activity . The speed with which the generals grasped the situation and moved to formulate a response impressed even Obi - Wan . The Typha - Dor fleet sped to the planet ' s opposite side , there to lie in wait behind its " string of moons , " effectively concealing themselves and ready to strike . While General Bycha worried about Typha - Dor ' s ill - prepared defenses , with no planetary shield and only one planetary turbolaser , Siri Tachi assured her that they yet had the strategic advantage . Firmly holding in their grasp also the element of " surprise , " Obi - Wan pointed out yet another option : they ' d be able to quickly surround the Vanqors moments after the enemy had invaded their airspace , forcing the enemy ' s realization that they could easily be destroyed — the perfect opportunity to force a surrender without any loss of life , to win the war without a battle . A truce " , " after all , only " made sense " for both worlds : Typha - Dor ' s vast resources allied with Vanqor ' s factories and technical innovations , as these combined with the unique contributions of other planets in the Uziel system , could only make for a powerful interdependency . All would learn and profit from one another , collectively making them one of the strongest systems in the galaxy and " a boon to the Republic . " And though the two planets mistrusted one another on a cultural level , General Bycha was told by Clee Rhara — one who knew by experience — that " alliances are rarely built on trust , " but rather on " mutual advantage . " Garen Muln added , too , that rather than face complete annihilation , the Vanqors would probably choose complete disarmament — which , he said , Typha - Dor needed to make one of its conditions of surrender . Binalu and Talus were fully in accord with the new plan . They commanded their High General to get the fleet into position , but it was not to fire a shot unless ordered . The rulers would then speak to Van - Ith , the ruler of Vanqor . Observing battle movements from the space center operations room , the generals , the Jedi , and the Typha - Dor rulers watched tensely as the Vanqor fleet approached . The coalition forces , at the last possible moment , were ordered by General Bycha to surround the Vanqor fleet . Carrying out a perfect execution of snaring the enemy , comm transmissions were then made to the Vanqor captains and their ruler to stand down , or face consequences . The long negotiations that followed resulted in the enemy ' s agreement to surrender and enter peace talks , with Jedi mediation . In the midst of the peace talks , General Bycha was briefed on the Jedi discovery of the prisoner - of - war camp in the Tomo Craters region , where their TY44 crew comrades were still interred . When Kenobi mentioned that his Padawan , too , had been a prisoner there , the General ' s intense gaze rested on Anakin , for she ' d heard rumors of medical experiments being performed on the camp ' s prisoners . She asked Anakin if he had personally witnessed anything of the sort . The young Jedi " hesitated , " and Obi - Wan knew that Anakin had yet again withheld vital information from him . Anakin admitted that he had , in fact , undergone the procedure , called the Zone of Self - Containment by the mysterious doctor who ' d invented and administered it . Seven surprised Jedi faces then turned to Anakin — especially sharp was the gaze of Ferus , who immediately noted that Skywalker ' s Master had not been aware of this occurrence . When asked by Bycha about the drug ' s effects , Anakin said that one felt completely " content " while still fully alert , as though one were " not " drugged , and that a being ' s personal demons or torments didn ' t bother at all . It was then that the General immediately recognized the drug for what it was : " " Crowd control . . . a way to subdue populations " . " She found it difficult to grasp that the Typha - Dor were about to form a partnership with anyone who could , and " would " , do such a thing ; but Rhara was quick to remind her that it was that very partnership that would ensure that they " didn ' t " . Kenobi asked his Padawan how the doctor had administered the drug . Anakin wasn ' t sure , as he knew that they certainly weren ' t " injected " with it , and that , after experiencing the initial but completely different paralyzing drug ( which he ' d remained comparatively unaffected by ) , all beings fed and drank from the same " communal pot " — prisoners " and " med care personnel alike . All couldn ' t have been drugged , as the med care workers had , in fact , seemed " envious " of the prisoners . When Obi - Wan asked him when he had first noticed the drug ' s effects , Anakin recalled that it was right after he ' d been given a bath . Kenobi then guessed correctly that the drug had been transmitted through water . General Bycha seemed to know of drug transmission via water — that it was a difficult and unperfected method — but conceded that all were living in " dark days " wherein unscrupulous scientists poisoned bodies and minds with abandon . This particular scientist had obviously , and alarmingly , perfected the process . Suddenly intrigued , Kenobi asked if his Padawan had actually " seen " the mysterious doctor in charge . Anakin replied that she ' d called for him when she discovered he ' d somehow been able to resist her initial paralyzing agent . The boy suddenly realized she ' d not told him her name . " Did he remember what she looked like " , Obi - Wan asked . Anakin recalled that , though she appeared to him as a young - looking blonde , he sensed she was in truth a woman in her late mid - life . The odd thing , Anakin remembered , was that she ' d guessed that he was Force - sensitive and seemed to " know of herself " a great deal about the Force . Closing his eyes in startled realization , Obi - Wan uttered : " Jenna Zan Arbor . " The Jedi Master ' s past intercourse with that name had been significant , and the other seasoned Jedi looked at him also in surprise , for they had understood Zan Arbor to have been serving time on a prison planet — at least , so they ' d thought ( Kenobi included ) . Himself surprised at " their " surprise , Anakin asked who this person was . Zan Arbor , of course , was an infamous scientist who had hurt the Jedi and the Republic in the past — indeed , she had kept Qui - Gon Jinn as a prisoner in order to study the Force . She ' d led a brilliant career of finding cures to several plagues and saving entire planets — until she herself was infested by both corruption and insanity . Intent on making a galactic fortune , she began " introducing " plagues or viruses so that she would be " hired to cure " vast populations . She was particularly adept at delivering death through water or air systems . And while she ' d indeed made an astonishing fortune , the Jedi had been able to snare her in the end . Using Bycha ' s database , Kenobi quickly checked the prison - world Zan Arbor had been exiled to . A moment later , he whirled around in his chair : she ' d " escaped , " just as he suspected , and was now , once again , a wanted criminal . They had to get to Tomo Camp right away . Turning to the seasoned Jedi Masters , Obi - Wan saw that their mere expressions spoke of their support and the services they ' d already pledged to him . Chasing old fears . Once the Galactic Senate had cleared the Tomo Camp operation , the Jedi flew in their cruiser to Vanqor . After they ' d traveled over the rugged landscape and reached the Tomo Craters region , though they ' d not met resistance thus far , laser - cannonfire suddenly exploded around them . But as ever , Garen Muln expertly piloted through wild , erupting explosions . Landing , they charged out through the heavy fire , lightsabers blazing . The camp ' s security droids were handily dispatched , while the guards — armed with blaster rifles , wrist rocket s , and stun batons — were met by a solid flank of advancing Jedi ; any delusions of glory or grandeur they may have harbored that day quickly vanished , giving way to throbbing skulls and limbs . In moments like these Anakin felt something akin to what he ' d felt in the Zone of Self - Containment . Not that he " enjoyed " battle , for it was a " necessity " to an end . But battle " filled his mind " in a way that other things could not . In battle , he was in " the midst " of the Force , which , with other Jedi around him , was especially powerful : " focus " was absolute , making decisions was " easy " , all movement was " fluid " . In battle , he even felt a kinship with Ferus , glad to have him at his side ( though , still , never as a friend ) ; Olin ' s strength and agility were well known , his moves flawless , and he fought for both himself and others , if they needed him , casting his battle - mind like a net , ever ready to respond . He , in fact , saved Anakin ' s life " now " , by smashing to the ground in one swift stroke two of four droids that simultaneously bore down on Obi - Wan ' s Padawan . Now , with the droids reduced to scrap and the guards throwing down their weapons , to mass - surrender , Siri Tachi turned her energies to freeing the prisoners as she sent Ferus with Kenobi and Skywalker to pursue Zan Arbor . The three Jedi raced to the medical building where Anakin had been held , but its halls were empty , and the whole operation appeared to have been quickly abandoned . Zan Arbor ' s office door was wide open , her desk was cleared , her septsilk curtains were gone . Anakin was unsure exactly why he felt " relief " ; he only knew he didn ' t want to face Zan Arbor again , especially not in front of his Master — as if this strange woman held a secret to a part of him he didn ' t want to share . But Ferus , too , Anakin noted , had seen the expression of Anakin ' s relief — just as he " always " seemed to be there , eager to see what Anakin wanted to conceal . Ferus ' tuning in to his fellow Jedi in battle was helpful , but deeply annoying at other times . Realizing they were too late , that Zan Arbor doubtless had heard about the foiled invasion and fled , Kenobi advised his Padawan that they ' d just discovered their next mission : to track down Jenna Zan Arbor . Collectively , the Jedi were chasing an old peril — Zan Arbor ; but Skywalker felt he was also chasing , contrary to his desire , a peril that would lead him inexorably to confront again his deepest , most personal fears . Anakin soon found himself standing on the landing platform in the capital city of Sarus - Dor , admiring a gleaming Gen - 6 starship that the Typha - Dors had loaned them to follow Zan Arbor ' s trail . He felt weary , but , for the moment , comforted by the companionship of his friend Tru . If only he could leave this last mission behind as a mere memory , if only he was not now heading out to find Zan Arbor — not that he feared the scientist herself , but he had no wish to tangle with someone who could put him in the Zone of Self - Containment again . In pondering the idea of " detachment , " the hardest of the Jedi lessons to learn ( " attachment " that was allowed to dictate behavior could lead a Jedi astray ) , Anakin confessed to Tru that he had not yet learned to free himself of it . Tru confessed that neither had he , and maybe that ' s why they were still Padawans . . . " But not to worry , with time " . When Anakin noticed Ferus staring at them , he asked Tru what Ferus ' issue was , for Ferus had scarcely said hello to him since he and Siri had come to help them . Tru said that Ferus had simply wondered why Anakin hadn ' t told his Master that he ' d undergone drug treatment at the camp , for it was " clear " that Anakin hadn ' t told him , and , frankly , they ' d " all " wondered the same thing , for it was indeed strange . For Skywalker , it seemed that Ferus was always meddling in Anakin ' s business , but Tru said that Ferus was only saying out loud what they all thought , including probably also Obi - Wan . But even Anakin himself was unsure , he confessed , of why he didn ' t immediately tell his Master ; it was certainly Anakin ' s intent to tell him eventually . When Ferus came over to advise Tru that it was time to board , Anakin challenged Ferus about why he had always concerned himself so much about Anakin ' s relationship with his Master . In truth , Ferus had for some time doubted Skywalker ' s " loyalty " to Kenobi , stating , moreover , that he felt Anakin was " afraid " to tell Obi - Wan about what happened at the camp because Anakin had actually " enjoyed " the Zone experience , had enjoyed feeling " nothing " , but , more alarmingly , that the Zone ' s pleasurable feeling had " overcome " the Padawan ' s loyalty . Offended on Anakin ' s behalf , Tru asserted that " nothing " ever overcame Anakin ' s loyalty to his Master , that none of it was , in fact , Ferus ' business anyway — for Ferus hadn ' t been there , nor did he know of his own knowledge what had happened , nor did he have any right to judge . Seeming to momentarily struggle against Tru ' s words , Ferus submitted that Tru was right , apologized to Anakin , and admitted that he should not have said what he did . Anakin noted , however , that Ferus hadn ' t said he had been " wrong " , only that he shouldn ' t have uttered what he said and thought . As Ferus boarded the cruiser , Tru lingered , in order to help Anakin feel better about the situation : " " Ferus is the perfect Padawan , remember ? He feels like he has to correct all of us " . " Anakin was genuinely appreciative of Tru ' s efforts and thanked his friend for defending him . Aftermath . Obi - Wan had bid farewell to Clee , Garen , Ry - Gaul and Siri , and seen them off on their cruisers to continue with their original mission that had been interrupted by coming to his and his Padawan ' s aid . He walked slowly to Anakin ' s side to watch the ships jump to maximum speed in the far distance . After a moment he inquired of his Padawan why he ' d used , in the planet ' s security meeting , the word ' torment ' instead of ' trouble ' in his description of , conversely , feeling " content " while in the Zone . Anakin , who felt the need to be transparent with his Master , could not hold back any longer his true feelings : " so " truthful , in fact , that the words he spoke to express them came out in such a manner — choked and aching — that he hardly recognized his own voice . Obi - Wan himself was taken back at Anakin ' s vehemence . The young man said he sometimes wished he was not the ' Chosen One ' because the Force manifested itself so strongly within him and caused him to " feel " " so much . " " Why did the ' Chosen One ' have to be him , and could he refuse the calling , or could Obi - Wan take it away ? " Anakin pled earnestly with his Master to remove his appointed destiny from him , for a deep feeling of " dread " had risen suddenly within him , and the panic he felt " shocked " him , causing him , even now , to utter things he had not meant to say . Anakin hadn ' t even realized that he had harbored such intensely felt emotion , but now the words flowing out of his mouth collectively felt like the truest thing he had ever said , though he knew that at some level the dread had always been there . It ' s just that he wanted the fear and the foreboding to " go away , " weary of living with it while failing , at the same time , to understand it . The depth of Obi - Wan ' s shock and compassion showed in his Master ' s eyes and in the way he gently placed his hands on his Padawan ' s shoulders . He expressed to Anakin that , if it were ever possible , he would bear all of his Padawan ' s burdens for him , but that he could not . He would , notwithstanding , ever continue to help Anakin , and would never leave him . Kenobi ' s words were like a tolling bell in Anakin ' s soul , and his touch brought the boy back to himself . Even though their relationship had weathered some rough winds of late , Anakin must never doubt Obi - Wan ' s commitment to him . A grateful Anakin looked up and pledged " also " his renewed commitment to his Master . Together they walked to their ship in the fresh morning breeze , but as Anakin set his sights to their new mission , the fear returned — freshened and sharpened . For they were tracking the creator of the process that had caused him so much doubt , panic , and reawakened dread . Their current pursuit would bring Skywalker too close to a truth that he did not want to face .