During the era of the Clone Wars, a quest was embarked upon by Jedi Generals Mace Windu and Anakin Skywalker. Their objective was to scour the remains of the _Venator_-class Star Destroyer Endurance on the planet Vanqor, searching for any remaining survivors of the crash. The Jedi, however, were unaware that bounty hunters, responsible for the sabotage that caused the ship's demise, had already been to the crash site. These hunters had eliminated any clone trooper survivors, leaving behind numerous clone corpses scattered throughout the wreckage. Furthermore, they captured three surviving Republic officers as hostages and set a trap that resulted in Skywalker and Windu being confined within the debris. R2-D2, Skywalker's astromech droid, had to navigate through the gundark-infested crash site, avoiding the bounty hunters, to summon assistance and prevent them from locating the Jedi within the ruins of the bridge. After the hunters destroyed the long-range communications of Windu's Jedi starfighter, not knowing who they were fighting, R2 ultimately had to travel all the way to Coruscant to get help. Plo Koon, a Jedi Master, and Ahsoka Tano, Skywalker's Padawan, journeyed back to Vanqor alongside the droid and the clone troopers of the 104th Battalion to free the trapped Jedi before the Endurance's remains were completely destroyed.