Mission to Tatooine ( Anakin Skywalker ) The Second Mission to Tatooine occurred when Anakin Skywalker was sent to Tatooine , after the Galactic Republic lost contact with their spy , Raala Ponchar . He landed in Mos Espa , where he helped to rid the town of a womp rat infestation . He also fought against Confederate battle droids that had overrun Tatooine and was eventually captured by the bounty hunter Aurra Sing and the Dark Acolyte Saato . Anakin was imprisoned in Jabba ' s Palace , where he found Ponchar and learned that the CIS had made a deal with Jabba to produce a new type of battle droid out of lightsaber - resistant cortosis . They escaped and Anakin stole a skiff . Saato went in pursuit of him and they dueled above the Great Pit of Carkoon . Anakin was victorious and killed her . Prelude . In the days following the Battle of Geonosis , the Jedi Council received some disturbing messages from a moisture farmer on Tatooine named Raala Ponchar . Ponchar said there had been several attacks on Tatooine citizens by a new type of battle droid . Unfortunately , the Council lost contact with her soon after . Concerned and fearing the worst , the Council called Anakin Skywalker to them . Anakin had recently recovered from his duel with Count Dooku , and was sure he was ready for whatever the Council would ask of him . The Council informed Anakin of the situation , and ordered him to go to Tatooine to find Raala Ponchar as well as find out anything he could about the new battle droids . The Mission . Mos Espa and Rat Problems . Anakin landed on the outskirts of Mos Espa . Traveling to the small city , he was forced to battle womp rats and Tusken Raiders . On the way there , he also encountered a number of battle droids who were looking for Ponchar and overheard them mention someone they referred to as Mistress Saato . Anakin eventually arrived at Mos Espa . Once there , he found that womp rats were over running the city . He asked around and eventually found a mysterious woman who told him something was flushing the womp rats out of their cave . She told him she would tell him everything she knew about Ponchar if he helped solve the rat problem . Journeying to the caves , Anakin found that a number of anoobas were flushing the rats out of their nests . This confused him since anoobas didn ' t normally behave that way . He was forced to kill six of the anoobas to pacify the rats . As he left the cave to return to the city , Anakin was confronted by Aurra Sing . He reasoned that Sing had been behind the entire problem , and managed to survive the blast from a thermal detonator she threw at him . Sing fled , and Anakin was forced to fight his way through numerous bounty hunters to get back to Mos Espa . Journey to Jabba ' s Palace . After reaching Mos Espa , Anakin was told by someone that Watto , his former slaveowner , might have information about Ponchar . He journeyed to Watto ' s shop and questioned him . Watto was able to steer him towards the moisture farms outside the city . Crossing the Dune Sea , Anakin was forced to rescue seven farmers who had been captured by Tusken Raiders . Once he reached the moisture farms , he found them in ruins . He also found some of the new battle droids . After defeating several of them as well as other battle droids , he questioned some of the surviving farmers . One of them , Bellek , Ponchar ' s employer , didn ' t want to tell him anything because he was scared of " a witch " who had led the Separatist attack on the farms . Anakin eventually learned that the battle droids came from Jabba the Hutt ' s palace . After crossing the Jundland Wastes , fighting through bounty hunters and battle droids , Anakin reached Jabba ' s palace , where he once again confronted Aurra . But before he could apprehend the bounty hunter , the Dark Acolyte Saato arrived . Before Anakin could react , Saato used the force to choke him into unconsciousness . Saato then had Anakin thrown into the dungeons . Escape . Anakin woke up in a cell in Jabba ' s dungeons . In his cell was Raala Ponchar . After using the Force to bust out , and Ponchar found his lightsaber , Ponchar told Anakin that the Separatists had hired Jabba to transport a metal called cortosis for them . Cortosis was resistant to lightsabers , and the Separatists were using it in their new battle droids . Ponchar also informed Anakin that there were other farmers imprisoned in the dungeons . They decided to split up and rescue the farmers . Anakin moved through the dungeons , slaughtering Jabba ' s guards and security droids while freeing the prisoners . Eventually , he freed everyone he could , and escaped on a skiff . Duel with Saato . Unfortunately for Anakin , Saato followed him on a skiff of her own , and shot his down near the Pit of Carkoon , which was the home of a sarlacc . Saato landed and ignited her lightsabers , saying he would be fed to the sarlacc . A vicious lightsaber duel erupted . Despite Saato ' s skill in combat , she was slain by Anakin . Aftermath . After he defeated Saato , Anakin reported what he had learned to his master and friend , Obi - Wan Kenobi . Kenobi was pleased , but told Anakin to return to Coruscant quickly ; the Separatists had launched an attack on the Galactic Capital .