Conqueror - class atmospheric dreadnaught The " Conqueror " - class atmospheric dreadnaught was a huge , circular repulsorlift aerial attack platform utilized by the Confederacy of Independent Systems during the Clone Wars . Heavily armed with dozens of laser cannons and crewed by many battle droids , several " Conqueror " - class dreadnaught s were used by the Confederacy when it invaded the planet Terra Sool . At least thirty - six dreadnaughts were deployed in Terra Sool ' s cloudy atmosphere , fighting against the local militia and a Galactic Republic detachment sent to aid Terra Sool . Although the " Conqueror " - class dreadnaughts easily destroyed many of Terra Sool ' s militia fighters , the platforms were no match for Jedi Obi - Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker , who led the Republic task force . Using their powers of the Force and their mastery of starfighter combat , Kenobi and Skywalker hijacked and destroyed several " Conqueror " - class dreadnaughts during the battle , eventually defeating the Confederates and freeing Terra Sool . Characteristics . The " Conqueror " - class atmospheric dreadnaught was an extremely expensive and large repulsorlift aerial attack platform used in the Confederacy of Independent Systems ' droid army during the Clone Wars against the Galactic Republic . Nearly impenetrable battleships , the dreadnaughts were roughly cylindrical in shape , sporting a flat top that served as both a landing pad and a troop transport area . The Conqueror dreadnaughts had a series of halls and rooms in their interior , including a cockpit on the perimeter of the vessel that housed a large control board that operated the entire aerial platform . The Conqueror platforms were heavily armed , equipped with dozens of laser cannon batteries — including five single - barrel cannons on the dreadnaughts ' top side , as well as a number of dual - barrel laser batteries that lined the dreadnaughts ' upper ringed perimeter . During their service in the Confederacy ' s army , the dreadnaughts carried a complement of at least twenty - four B1 battle droids and B2 super battle droids , and were piloted by a pair of OOM pilot battle droids ; however , the platforms could also be piloted by single Human . History . In 22 BBY — five months after the Battle of Geonosis and the outbreak of the Clone Wars — the Confederacy invaded the planet Terra Sool . The Confederacy dispatched a fleet of at least thirty - six " Conqueror " - class atmospheric dreadnaughts to crush the planet ' s opposition and raze Terra Sool ' s surface . When the Conqueror dreadnaught fleet entered Terra Sool ' s cloudy atmoshpere — along with a number of Confederate Vulture droid starfighters — it was engaged by starfighters of Terra Sool ' s local militia and a detachment of the Grand Army of the Republic that had been sent to Terra Sool to assist in the planet ' s defense . The Conqueror platforms easily dispatched dozens of the militia starfighters , but the dreadnaughts were outmatched by Jedi Knight Obi - Wan Kenobi and his Padawan , Anakin Skywalker , who were in command of the Republic task force aboard their Delta - 7 starfighters . During the battle , the Jedi first encountered a single " Conqueror " - class dreadnaught while fighting off Vulture starfighters over Terra Sool , and Kenobi — deciding to commandeer the Confederate ship — landed his starfighter on the dreadnaught ' s roof , fending off the B1 and B2 battle droids stationed there . Making his way inside the Conqueror platform , Kenobi managed to fight his way to the cockpit and take control of the dreadnaught . In the meantime , Skywalker ' s astromech droid , R2 - D2 , informed the Padawan — who was still fighting off droid starfighters — that it was picking up more droid communications coming from farther away in the atmosphere . Following the Confederate communications to their source , Skywalker found the rest of the Conqueror dreadnaught fleet fighting the Terra Sool militia over a small farming town . Skywalker joined the battle , but his fighter was damaged during the engagement , forcing him to crash - land on a dreadnaught ' s top side . Stranded on the enemy craft , Skywalker fought the battle droids aboard that battleship while Kenobi piloted his captured Conqueror dreadnaught toward the main Confederate fleet . Using the weapons aboard his hijacked vessel , Kenobi destroyed another dreadnaught that was aiming at the one Skywalker was aboard , while the Padawan cleared the remaining battle droids from that aerial platform . Kenobi began to engage the other Confederate dreadnaughts and contacted Skywalker , informing his apprentice that the Confederate fleet had launched two waves of missiles to raze Terra Sool ' s surface . Seeing the oncoming missiles , Skywalker used his mastery of the Force and his lightsaber skills to dispatch the missiles , including grabbing another Conqueror dreadnaught with the Force and moving the vessel in the way of a wave of missiles , destroying both the Conqueror dreadnaught and the missiles simultaneously . Skywalker and Kenobi continued to fight against the Confederacy and eventually defeated the fleet of " Conqueror " - class dreadnaughts by the end of the Terra Sool day , freeing the planet from the invasion . Behind the scenes . The " Conqueror " - class atmospheric dreadnaughts first appeared as unnamed Separatists war machines in " Skywalkers " , a forty - page comic in " " , published by Dark Horse Comics and released September 7 , 2004 . The Conqueror dreadnaught was later given an entry in " The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia " — released December 9 , 2008 — which identified the vessel ' s class name .