During the time of the Clone Wars, Sheev Palpatine, the Supreme Chancellor who was secretly the Sith Lord Darth Sidious, exposed the assignment of the Sith assassin Asajj Ventress on the Moon of Staggec in the Outer Rim Territories. He told this information to a squad of clone troopers, who then tried to ambush the enemy commander. Ventress was on the moon, searching for a Jedi artifact on behalf of her master, Count Dooku. However, she discovered that the artifact was no longer located inside the derelict Staggec Jedi Temple. As she exited, the clones launched their ambush, but Ventress swiftly defeated them. Ventress proceeded to contact Dooku, suspecting him of betraying her location, but she abandoned this idea when Dooku issued a threat. Subsequently, she followed the trail of the artifact, which led her to the planet Naboo.