Battle of G ' rho The Battle of G ' rho was the invasion of the remote colony world of G ' rho on the edge of Wild Space by the Ssi - ruuvi Imperium in 2 BBY ; marking one of its first incursions of the known galaxy . Prelude . When Emperor Palpatine made contact with the alien invaders called the Ssi - ruu k , he made a deal with them : In exchange for their battle droid technology , the invaders were allowed to attack smaller colonies at the edge of colonized space . The G ' rho colony was one of these . The system ' s defenses included a System patrol craft , which was lured away before the battle with a faked distress call . This left the planet relatively undefended and ready for the invasion . The battle . The Ssi - ruuk attacked the colony with a force of six ships and took the defenders completely by surprise . Major Brco tried to communicate with the invaders , but all his hails were ignored . When the ships touched down near the Boku Settlement and the Ssi - ruuk invaded one of the domes , Brco ordered the Conjo fighters under the command of Lieutenant Jerriman to attack the enemy ships . Ydra Sibwarra , a force - sensitive fugitive from Chandrila , used this moment to sent a message to her son Dev , telling him to run away and hide . In the end , the fighters proved to be no match for the invader ' s ships . Shortly after the order had been given , G ' rho ' s command center was bombarded with paralysis gas . Trig Kilwallen , Ydra ' s brother , force - sensitive and one of the Conjo pilots , was able to feel the upcoming attack . He and his wife Seni escaped the battlefield , but the colony was quickly overrun and planet occupied by Ssi - ruu vi and P ' w ' eck troops . Only around 150 colonists managed to escape the encirclement and formed a resistance . When Unit Commander Th ' twirirl surveyed the battlefield , looking for refugees , he noticed the small human boy Dev Sibwarra hiding in a ravine . He and four other Ssi - ruuk left the lander and made contact with the boy . Since both couldn ' t understand each other , Th ' twirirl offered Dev some " qrikki " sweets and lured him onboard . Aftermath . Fate of the colonists . Since their technology depended on extracting the life energies of other beings via an agonizing process known as Entechment , most of the surviving Colonists were enteched . While the invasion fleet moved on , they left behind a large ground force and constructed a large entechment facility . After the battle , at first forty - eight colonists were revived to recharge the converters , followed by the continued entechment of similar groups , depending on the needs of energy . Dev Sibwarra was brought to the laboratory of Ptellung , who used this opportunity of a cooperating specimen to measure and probe the young human . After Sibwarra was no longer of any use to him , he gave the boy back to Th ' twirirl , who brought him to the entechment chambers . Ydra Sibwarra had remained her force - senses after being enteched and charged into a coil . When she reached out and found out that her son was about to be enteched , she used her last will to overcharge her own coil as well as several others . That and Dev Sibwarra ' s emotional reaction made Th ' twirirl realize that the boy might have more " entechment energy " than other humans . Fourious about the destruction that the human child had seemingly caused , Entechment Master Yifaii ordered him to be recycled . Despite Yifaii ' s orders , Th ' twirirl decided to keep Sibwarra alive and gave him to Yifaii ' s assistant , Firwirrung . He and Elder Bluescale brainwashed the boy through mind manipulation techniques . However , what astounded them was the boy possessed strange powers to sense others . It was from this boy that the Admiral Ivpikkis discovered that Humans were the galaxy ' s dominant species . He also discovered that humanoids had longer containment time when enteched and could last longer than most other species . Due to Sibwarra ' s Force abilities and his ability to communicate with his fellow Humans , the Ssi - ruuk used Dev Sibwarra to calm the subjects being enteched . The Underground . A few colonists could escape the battle and continued to fight the Ssi - ruuk , Trig Kilwallen and his wife Seni . The Ssi - ruuk continuously swept the planet for any escaped humans . With each day , more and more survivors were captured and enteched . After four months , the resistance had only a few dozen soldiers and two Conjo fighters left . Trig and Seni Kilwallen launched a desperate mission to destroy the entechment facilities , hoping that a peacekeeping force would answer their calls for help . The But four months after the battle the last resistance was finally wiped out . Previous attempts to infiltrate the base had failed due to Ssi - ruuvi weapon scanners and three members of the Underground had been captured . While Trig sneaked into the facility using the force , his wife , still injured form a previous fight , would fly an air strike against the facility . Since the two Conjo fighters had been carefully hidden and not been used in previous engagements , anti - air gun emplacements were not expected . The mission was a success , despite Trig being discovered by two P ' w ' eck soldiers and Seni almost dying due to her injuries . She managed to land somewhere in the woods , hoping to be found by her husband before the Ssi - ruuk would find her . Despite the valiant efforts of the Underground , it seemed unlikely that help ever arrived on G ' rho due to the Imperial cover up that reported no survivors after the initial attack . Imperial cover - up . Emperor Palpatine , who had made a secret agreement with the Ssi - ruuk , covered up the incident and blamed the attack on Rebels . At 32 : 2 : 4 an official statement was released through Imperial HoloVision and Galaxywide NewsNets , stating that the System patrol craft had been lured away by a faked distress call , while the colonists had been massacred by the Rebels . Nonetheless , rumors escaped about this and other incidents and spacers whispered about them in the galaxy ' s cantinas . Behind the scenes . The battle and Dev Sibwarra ' s capture were first mentioned in Kathy Tyers ' " The Truce at Bakura " , but were greatly expanded upon in " The Truce at Bakura Sourcebook " and the included short stories " Strangers with Sweets " and " Last Strike at G ' rho " , also written by Kathy Tyers .