Unidentified OOM command battle droid ( Malevolence ) This OOM command battle droid was an enforcer active onboard the " Malevolence " during the Battle of the Kaliida Nebula . He served under General Grievous , commander of the massive warship . In the ensuing battle , Senator Padmé Amidala became a stowaway onboard in an attempt to escape becoming Grievous ' hostage . He was first seen leading a squadron of B1 battle droids alongside the general , who was searching for the senator and her protocol droid , C - 3PO . While the team patrolled through the halls , Grievous received word that the warship ' s hyperdrive would not be significantly difficult to repair , and he went to report to Count Dooku . Before leaving , he ordered the commander and his squad to continue searching and bring him the stowaways . As a battle ensued on the ship between the senator , battle droids , and the Jedi sent to rescue her , Obi - Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker , the droid located the senator and ordered a B2 - HA series super battle droid to fire at her rail jet . Skywalker managed to save her , however , and the two made their way up to the bridge of the warship . There , the commander asked the status of the hyperdrive ' s repair , as Grievous himself had demanded . Upon learning the procedure was nearly complete , the commander went to inform the general , but was destroyed along with his present colleagues by Skywalker and Amidala . History . This commander droid was an officer aboard the massive Confederacy of Independent Systems warship , the " Malevolence " . He led squads of battle droids under the direct command of General Grievous , who was using the vessel as his flagship . After it had sustained extensive damage , superior Count Dooku informed Grievous of a valuable galactic senator given coordinates that led to the ship ' s location . Grievous was to take the senator hostage in order to force the Republic forces to halt their assault on the fleeing ship . When the senator ' s ship came out of hyperspace , it was caught in the " Malevolence ' s " tractor beam . Despite being caught inside the warship , Senator Amidala and her droid , C - 3PO , evaded capture by destroying her vessel and stowing away in Grievous ' vessel . The general sounded the alarm and began a search for the stowaways . He and his OOM command droid subordinate patrolled the halls with a squad of troops , but were unable to spot the two before they hid themselves . Grievous then received a message from the droids repairing the hyperdrive on the bridge : it would not be long before they would be able to jump to hyperspace . Grievous went to relay this information to Count Dooku , and ordered the commander and his guards to continue searching the hallways and bring him the stowaways . Acknowledging this , the commander and his troops marched off as the general left . The commander eventually split from his team and joined a B2 super battle droid and his officer on the upper levels . The B1 droids soon located Amidala and her droid at the rail jet system , though they managed to escape . While Skywalker went to aid the senator , the OOM commander spotted them below and ordered his B2 commander associate to fire a rocket at the tracks . This created a hole in the tracks , and would ' ve made the senator die in the crash had Skywalker not saved her by pulling her to his rail jet with the Force . After the battle at the rail jet system , the OOM commander made his way back up to the control bridge . He had been ordered by General Grievous to find out the status of the hyperdrive ' s repair . Upon learning that progress was almost complete , the commander went to relay the good news to the general , but trailed off mid - sentence upon noticing Skywalker and Amidala , who swiftly destroyed the commander and his compatriots , with the commander himself being bisected at the waist by the Jedi . As Amidala cleared away the droid bodies , Skywalker programmed the hyperdrive to crash into the nearby moon upon activation as a surprise for the Separatists . The scene was left clear of evidence as the Jedi and senator dragged the bodies of the commander and troops with them into the elevator and left . When the droids attempted to retreat , Skywalker ' s trap sprang and the warship was destroyed , ending its involvement in Count Dooku and General Grievous ' plans . Behind the scenes . Strangely , this droid displays the word " Commander " across its chest in standard English , not Aurebesh . It is unknown if this is merely an oversight by the production team to remove the word from a production model , or whether this was left there intentionally .