Battle of Saleucami A battle took place on Saleucami during the Clone Wars between the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems . It took place following Confederate General Grievous ' s capture of Jedi Council member Eeth Koth . Prelude . After the Jedi Council received a message from General Grievous about his capture of Jedi Council member Eeth Koth , Commander Wolffe found a hidden message from Koth . The message said that Grievous was taking his forces to the Saleucami system . Thus , Jedi masters , Adi Gallia , Obi - Wan Kenobi and his former apprentice Anakin Skywalker decided to rescue Koth from Grievous . The Battle . Obi - wan took command of several republic warships . The three Jedi decided that Kenobi would distract General Grievous and lure him onto one of the ships whilst Skywalker and Gallia would sneak onto Grevious ' s ship and rescue Koth , alongside CT - 7567 ( Rex ) and a couple of other clones . However , Grevious anticipated their plans , leaving the tactical droid TV - 94 on the bridge with the captured Koth , as well as several BX - series droid commando s . Grevious then boarded Kenobi ' s ship with several Droids and two IG - 100 MagnaGuard s . He then dueled with Kenobi on the ship ' s bridge , who grew very close to defeating him after taking one of the Magnaguard ' s electrostaffs to use alongside his lightsaber . However , Grevious fled the bridge , and Kenobi contacted Skywalker , who was with Gallia and Koth , having defeated the Commando Droids . Gallia went to help Kenobi , whilst Anakin took Koth back to the shuttle that they had boarded Grevious ' s ship with . Gallia engaged Grevious just as the docking tube started to break . With the help of Gallia , Kenobi and two other clones were able to escape onto Grevious ' s ship just as the Republic ship exploded , killing everyone on it . Skywalker then picked up the two clones , Kenobi and Gallia in the shuttle before flying back to the " Resolute " . Grievous then started to land his forces . However , debris from Kenobi ' s ship crashed into the landing ship as they attempted to land on Saleucami . Grievous and what remained of his forces took to the escape pods . Thus , Kenobi , Took Rex , Cody , and their troops to pursue Grievous while Skywalker would continue fighting the space battle against the separatist forces . Tracking Grievous . After his escape pod landed , Grievous and his forces then attempted to send a distress signal to what remained of their fleet in orbit . However , his escape pod ' s transmitter was destroyed and Kenobi ' s forces landed near them . Thus Grievous and his forces searched for an escape pod with a working transmitter . Kenobi then divided his forces ; Rex would take several of his troopers on BARC speeder through the wetlands while Coyd and Crys would investigate the crash site . As Rex and his troopers went through the wetlands , Rex was shot by a pair of Commando droid snipers . Kix was able to patch up Rex , but was forced to live him at the Lawquane ' s farmstead . Rex then left Jesse in charge and ordered him to continue tracking Grievous down . Late , Rex discovered that the farmer , Cut Lawquane , was a deserter from the Grand Army of the Republic . General Grievous , riding a Reek , made his way to a undamaged escape pod . However , his battle droids were running low on power . They asked Grievous to let them recharge , but the General refused to do so and continued while droids died . Kenobi , Cody and Crys then discovered the locations of the escape pods and continue their search for Grievous . Following a dinner with Cut ' s family , Rex and Cut came under attack by Commando droids . Together , they were able to defeat the droids . Grievous was able to find a pod with a working transmitter and was able to send a signal to the fleet . However , Kenobi , Cody , Jesse , and their forces were able to find him and attempted to stop his escape . Kenobi then confronted Grievous and briefly dueled with him before he made his escape . Following Grievous escape , Kenobi and his forces left Saleucami . Rex then decided to allow Cut to remain with his family and not report him . Rex then left on a Eopie and rendezvous with Kenobi ' s forces .