Mission to Andara The Mission to Andara took place in 25 BBY . Prelude . Infighting in the Galactic Senate between Senator Berm Tarturi , the Senator for Andara , and Sano Sauro , the Senator for Eeropha , over redistribution of trade routes had caused them to become bitter enemies . Andara was the biggest and most influential planet in the Andaran system . As such , it dominated and monopolized the best trade routes . By 25 BBY , Rana Halion was the ruler of Ieria , second largest planet in the Andaran system , and the leader of the opposition against Andara . She demanded a new treaty to address the imbalance of trade routes , as well as official representation in the Senate . To complicate matters , Gillam Tarturi , son of the Senator , had been been kidnapped . Gillam attended the elite Leadership School on Andara . Because the school ' s security system was highly advanced and sophisticated , Gillam ' s disappearance was a mystery . Senator Tarturi suspected that his son ' s kidnapping was motivated by a desire to injure him personally while distracting him from Senatorial business . And he believed Rana Halion was behind it . The Mission . The Jedi High Council , in 25 BBY , sent the Padawans of Jedi Masters Obi - Wan Kenobi and Siri Tachi — Anakin Skywalker ( now 16 years old ) and Ferus Olin — on a mission to the Leadership School on Andara to investigate the disappearance of Gillam Tarturi , son of Berm Tarturi , the Galactic Senator . They were also to keep alert for anything they might discover concerning a renegade squad of young mercenaries that used the school , it was believed , as their training ground , and that very possibly had some connection with the missing student . Once the Padawans had arrived at the school ( situated on the outskirts of Utare , Andara ' s capital city ) and had been matriculated under fake transfer - student identities , Anakin and Ferus both agreed to spy on a boy named Reymet Autem , who seemed to know his way around the school ' s security system . Anakin was later approached by a girl named Marit Dice . She explained to Anakin the school ' s scholarship program , one that was administered solely for appearances , giving no thought to the actual welfare of the scholarship students themselves . The school administrators seemed to be concerned solely with catering to the needs of the children of the galaxy ' s rich and powerful who were under their care . Meanwhile , Obi - Wan Kenobi had remained behind on Coruscant to investigate possible Senatorial ties to the kidnapping . After visiting with both Senator Tarturi and Svivreni Senatorial aide Tyro Caladian , he came to believe that Rana Halion possibly may have formed an alliance with Tarturi ' s enemy , Senator Sano Sauro , who even then was battling Tarturi in the Senate over trade - routes redistribution . This proved correct when Kenobi had the Jedi Temple ' s finest security expert , Alam Syk , run a trace on Tyro ' s comlink after tracking Sauro ' s movements down to one of three favorite secret - business haunts , where he was rendezvousing with Halion . When she showed up on time , but Sauro didn ' t , Kenobi suspected the trace . Later , when Obi - Wan confronted Sauro directly about his evasive surveillance of Caladian , he simply evaded the charges further and threatened to call security . Kenobi told him simply that his threats revealed his fear and that he ' d be back ; but when Obi - Wan discovered , with Temple archivist Jocasta Nu ' s help , that the mercenary student group was indeed connected to the kidnapping ( via the squad ' s secret Andaran bank account , into which Halion was making deposits ) , he changed his investigative focus to the Leadership School squad alone . Kenobi was soon on a starship bound for Utare . At the Leadership School , Marit had invited Anakin to join her and her friends , Rolai Frac , Ze , Tulah , and Hurana , in a friendly swoop race competition . Anakin won the race , earning the respect of all of Marit ' s friends . They then explained to him that they were a united group , that , in order to survive in the galaxy , they accepted special missions from various planetary figures , because they certainly couldn ' t rely on the school for a good reference . Immediately upon that disclosure Anakin felt a surge of excitement , as it appeared that he ' d finally discovered the secret squad that , according to Master Mace Windu , had been involved in various intra - planetary disputes , possibly even assassinations — and which also may have kidnapped Gillam . Marit invited Anakin to join their clandestine group , which met for their morning and evening meetings in a little - used storeroom near the students ' quarters . As for the missions themselves , they were able to avoid security by carrying them out on their " free days " from school . A few days after the swoop race , the squad received a mission proposal , or request , from Rana Halion , the ruler of Ieria . The group voted and agreed to accept the proposal . They were to travel to Andara and penetrate the planet ' s airspace . After Anakin told Ferus all of the details , Ferus refused , saying that it would be seen as an unprovoked attack on Andara , and he asked Anakin to join him in contacting Obi - Wan . Anakin was angered by Ferus ' response , but , knowing his duty as a Jedi , reluctantly agreed . After feigning sickness as an excuse to leave class , Anakin retired to his room , where it was planned that he would meet Ferus and contact Obi - Wan . But when Ferus didn ' t show up , Anakin began to worry . Ferus , he soon discovered , had disappeared , and no one had seen him . He ' d simply vanished , it seemed , just like Gillam . Later , in the library , as Anakin was silently debating on whether or not he should contact Obi - Wan , Marit approached him . She told him that they had moved up the mission and that they needed to leave immediately . Deciding that the best way to find Gillam and Ferus was to travel with the squad , Anakin accepted . Siri , upon learning of Anakin ' s situation from Ferus ( who ' d called on an emergency comlink channel before his communication inexplicably cut off ) , met Obi - Wan just as he landed in Utare . She told him that Ferus , too , had now gone missing . Obi - Wan , when he ' d learned that Anakin had gone off with the school ' s secret squad to take part in an airstrike on a non - hostile planet , immediately felt betrayed , as he realized that Anakin didn ' t fully trust him . Now , disguising themselves as the King and Queen of Cortella inquiring about enrolling their own sons , the two Jedi Masters infiltrated the school and , with the guidance of Reymet Autem who led them to an old utility - systems area of the school , soon found Ferus , who had been kidnapped by Gillam and his mercenary squad . Ferus explained to them that the student group planned to start a war between Andara and the rest of the planets in the Andaran system and that Gillam was never really kidnapped to begin with : he ' d staged everything himself to avenge himself of his father . After examining Gillam ' s datapad , the Jedi surmised that Gillam planned to frame his father not only for his supposed kidnapping , but also for his murder . He just needed a body to fill in for himself , and he had chosen Anakin to assume that role . After learning of the true aims of the squad ' s " mission " — that it was not , in fact , " non - hostile , " but would instead involve " live - target " " organic damage " — Anakin immediately resolved to sabotage it by disabling the squad ' s laser cannon capacitors on Halion ' s Ierian starfighters , modified Delta - 7 " Aethersprites " . Unfortunately , Anakin was caught by Marit in the attempt . She alerted the rest of the squad , and Anakin was soon surrounded . Gillam revealed himself to Anakin and explained the purpose of his kidnapping scheme . After a brief confrontation , Anakin disarmed the entire squad , including Gillam . But when Rana Halion , who ' d stepped back into the hangar after an earlier introduction , found Anakin armed with his lightsaber and ready to fight , she summoned ten battle droids to deal decisively with him . Anakin , however , in an astonishing display of the Force — one that Kenobi had seen in the great Jedi Masters but " never " in a Padawan — defeated the droids in the end . Finding his center of " stillness " in the Force , Anakin seemed to see time unspool before him like a ribbon , saw it freeze like ice on a river and perceived that he had " infinite time " to do everything required to put down both the droids and the resurgents . Siri and Ferus had arrived with Kenobi , just in time to witness the Force phenomenon that was Anakin Skywalker , and to capture Rana Halion . Anakin ' s profound connection to the Force , shown in his performance , was , quite simply for them also , staggering to witness . The Aftermath . Ferus Olin escorted the secret squad back to their transport , as Siri led a protesting Rana Halion away . The young mercenaries would be questioned by the Senate on Coruscant , to sort out the lies , betrayals , and criminal activity that had occurred within their group . Kenobi and Skywalker were left to speak alone . Despite Anakin ' s amazing performance and connection with the Force , Obi - Wan was torn to the core over Anakin ' s greater failure . He verbally expressed his great disappointment in his Padawan , that Anakin had abandoned any concern for , or any earnest attempt to search for his fellow Jedi learner , Ferus , and gone off instead with a mercenary squad he hardly knew to attack a non - hostile world and to start a war . Obi - Wan outwardly lamented the current state of Anakin ' s training to become a Jedi Knight . Kenobi felt that Skywalker had not only violated an essential part of the Jedi Code , but had also broken something between them as a Master - apprentice team . He felt utterly shaken and betrayed , and the Jedi Master was left with a feeling that he was not used to experiencing — fear .