Geonosian Industries Geonosian Industries was a Geonosian company controlled by Poggle the Lesser during the time of the Clone Wars . It was responsible for manufacturing thousands of battle droids and other Geonosian - made weapons for the Confederacy of Independent Systems . It was also a member of the Techno Union . Gordarl Weaponsmiths and Huppla Pasa Tisc Shipwrights Collective fell under the umbrella of Geonosian Industries . Baktoid Combat Automata ' s subcontracted Geonosian foundries were also likely part of the greater company . History . Geonosians , who viewed all sentients without wings as inferior castes , were always slighted by Republic ' s refusal to accept supremacy of their queen . As a result , when Count Dooku expressed great deference toward the queen caste , the Archduke Poggle the Lesser gladly pledged each one of the planet ' s underground factories to the Separatists ' cause and offered his planet as a meeting place for other Separatist representatives . The Republic , however , soon learned of the meeting after receiving a message from Jedi Master Obi - Wan Kenobi , which had been retransmitted by his Padawan Anakin Skywalker on Tatooine . Kenobi was captured during the end of his transmission , and so the Republic sent a force of Jedi to rescue him , commencing the Battle of Geonosis . As battle droids pinned down the surviving Jedi , the Republic ' s new clone army arrived and the battle turned in favor of the Republic . The droid army , as well as the newly formed Separatist Council was forced into retreat and Geonosis fell into Republic hands . Poggle later attended a meeting with Trade Federation Senator Lott Dod and InterGalactic Banking Clan senator Rush Clovis in the former ' s palace on Cato Neimoidia in order to arrange a deal to rebuild the lost Geonosis droid foundries . Clovis ' guest , Padmé Amidala , discovered the true intentions of the meeting , however , and returned the readouts of Poggle ' s new droid foundry to the Jedi Council . A full - scale planetary invasion was soon prepared by the Republic . Poggle later personally administered the Separatist defense from his primary droid foundry , alongside his personal T - series tactical droid , TX - 21 . When Jedi Generals Anakin Skywalker and Luminara Unduli mounted an offense on the foundry , they sent their Padawans , Ahsoka Tano and Barriss Offee through the catacombs below the factory in order to destroy it from the inside . The two managed to commandeer a super tank and destroyed the foundry ' s main generator , causing it to explode . Poggle , however escaped to the Progate Temple to hide in the company of Queen Karina the Great , who planned to use a brain worm to control a newly capture Luminara . Anakin and Obi - Wan Kenobi managed to track down Poggle to the temple and fought their way through legions of Geonosian zombies being controlled by brain worms . The duo captured the Archduke and freed Unduli , escaping as the ceiling collapsed and presumably killed the queen . Poggle was transported to a " Venator " - class Star Destroyer and held in Republic captivity . Poggle managed to escape Republic custody and joined the Separatist Council for its last meetings on Utapau and Mustafar , where he and the rest of the Council were killed by Darth Vader .