Gregar Typho Gregar Typho was a human male and a captain of the Royal Naboo Security Forces during the Separatist Crisis and the Clone Wars . He served as Senator Padmé Amidala ' s head of security , ensuring her safety at all costs . Typho followed in the footsteps of his uncle , Quarsh Panaka , who was a Naboo Royal Security Forces captain during the Invasion of Naboo . Biography . The Separatist Crisis . During the Separatist Crisis , Captain Gregar Typho accompanied Senator Padmé Amidala on a diplomatic mission to the galactic capital Coruscant to vote against the upcoming Military Creation Act . A growing Separatist movement led by the charismatic former Jedi Count Dooku was challenging the ailing Galactic Republic . In response , loyalist elements led by Supreme Chancellor Sheev Palpatine had introduced legislation to create a Grand Army of the Republic . Due to Senator Amidala ' s high profile , the Senator and Captain Typho had traveled to Coruscant disguised as starfighter pilot s . One of Senator Amidala ' s handmaidens , Cordé , had posed as Amidala and traveled on her diplomatic barge . This ruse enabled Amidala to escape an assassination attempt which claimed the life of her decoy and several members of her entourage . While Amidala was grieving over the fallen Cordé , Typho comforted her by assuring Amidala that the handmaiden had died in the line of duty . Later , Typho went to Amidala ' s apartment on Coruscant to establish security there . The Senator ' s security detail was further augmented by two Jedi : the Jedi Knight Obi - Wan Kenobi and his Padawan Anakin Skywalker , who had a crush on Amidala . Following a second assassination attempt against Amidala by the Clawdite assassin Zam Wesell involving two poisonous kouhun s , Amidala returned to Naboo accompanied by Skywalker . Following these events , Typho remained on Coruscant to protect the Gungan Representative Jar Jar Binks , who took Amidala ' s place on the Senate . Binks sponsored the creation of the Grand Army , which foreshadowed the outbreak of the Clone Wars . Blue Shadow Virus crisis . Captain Typho and his men shot down and captured three B1 battle droid s and a T - series tactical droid . In response , the reigning Queen Neeyutnee summoned Senator Amidala and Representative Jar Jar Binks back to Naboo to request for military assistance from the Galactic Republic . Captain Typho was present when Amidala , Binks , and C - 3PO interrogated the captured tactical droid . Tricking the droid into thinking that it was on a Separatist warship , C - 3PO managed to glean that there was a secret Separatist research installation on Naboo , producing a virus . When the tactical droid realized that it was not on a Separatist warship , Typho raised a blaster at the droid and demanded that it cooperate . Before he could proceed , Binks accidentally destroyed the droid by knocking over some shelves while trying to catch a slug - beetle . Despite this setback , Amidala and Binks deduced that the droid came from Naboo ' s Eastern swamps due to the presence of mud on its chassis and the slug - beetle , which Binks recognized as originating from those swamps . While Amidala and company traveled to the Eastern Swamps to investigate , Captain Typho and Threepio remained behind to examine the other battle droids . While examining a B1 battle droid ' s head , Typho and C - 3PO discovered a hologram of a Separatist scientist named Doctor Nuvo Vindi and quickly relayed this information to Amidala . Meanwhile , Amidala and her companions discovered Dr Vindi ' s laboratory in the Eastern Swamps . Vindi was developing a deadly bioweapon called the Blue Shadow Virus for use by the Separatists . Following a dangerous struggle , Amidala and her companions with the help of the Jedi Kenobi , Skywalker , his Padawan Ahsoka Tano and several Clone trooper s managed to apprehend Vindi and stop him from releasing an airborne strain of the virus . Despite being exposed to the Blue Shadow Virus , Amidala and Binks survived due to Skywalker and Kenobi ' s efforts to obtain an antidote , the root of a reeksa plant from the planet Iego .