The assault on Ziro the Hutt's establishment in Coruscant, alternatively referred to as the attack on Ziro the Hutt's nightclub, transpired on the galactic capital planet of Coruscant during the era of the Clone Wars. After arriving at the nightclub of Ziro Desilijic Tiure, which also functioned as his palace, Senator Padmé Amidala overheard Ziro plotting with Count Dooku, the leader of the Confederacy of Independent Systems. Subsequently, she was captured and confined to the palace's dungeon. From there, she managed to contact her protocol droid, C-3PO, relaying her situation. In response, the droid alerted the Coruscant Guard, who then dispatched a team led by Clone Commander Fox to invade the palace with the primary mission of rescuing the senator.
The operation successfully secured Amidala's freedom and led to Ziro's capture. Furthermore, by utilizing Ziro's comm devices, communication was reestablished with Jabba the Hutt. Jabba had been ignoring communications from the Republic because he mistakenly believed the Republic intended to eliminate his entire clan. This allowed Amidala to demonstrate that the Republic was not plotting against Jabba by revealing Ziro's involvement in the true scheme against him, orchestrated by Dooku. Once convinced of the Republic's innocence, Jabba consented to a treaty between the Republic and his clan. He also granted Republic forces safe passage through Hutt Space, thereby providing them access to the Outer Rim Territories that had been isolated by the Separatists.
In the year 22 BBY, Jabba Desilijic Tiure's offspring, Rotta, was abducted. The Hutt gangster then sent a plea for assistance to both the Galactic Republic and the Jedi. Given the Republic's need for the space lanes traversing Hutt Space to reach the Outer Rim Territories, which had been cut off by the Confederacy of Independent Systems, Supreme Chancellor Palpatine agreed to dispatch Jedi aid to rescue Jabba's son. Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi was tasked with negotiating a treaty with Jabba for safe passage, while Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker and his newly assigned Padawan, Ahsoka Tano, were sent to locate and rescue Rotta. Jabba stipulated that the Jedi had one planetary rotation to find and return Rotta unharmed to his homeworld of Tatooine, or the treaty would be off the table.
After observing Kenobi's departure from Jabba's Palace, Count Dooku, the leader of the Separatists, entered the palace. Using fabricated evidence, he misled Jabba into believing that the Jedi were responsible for his son's kidnapping and were plotting to destroy him and his entire clan. After Dooku successfully convinced the Hutt of the Republic's betrayal, Jabba angrily refused to accept any communications from the Office of the Supreme Chancellor.
Senator Padmé Amidala of the Republic traveled to the palace of Ziro Desilijic Tiure, which also functioned as a club for the Hutt's associates, on the galactic capital world of Coruscant. Her intention was to persuade him to contact his nephew, Jabba, and explain that the Jedi were indeed trying to assist, not harm, Jabba and his son, in order to secure the treaty with the Hutt clan.
Ziro dismissed Amidala's request for assistance, declaring that there would be no treaty. He then had her seized and escorted out of the palace. However, Amidala managed to evade her IG-86 sentinel droid escort and infiltrated Ziro's throne room. There, she discovered that the kidnapping was orchestrated by Ziro and carried out by Dooku's Separatist forces. Amidala attempted to escape with this information, but she was apprehended by one of Ziro's sentinel droids. When Dooku informed Ziro that members of the CIS leadership would pay handsomely for Amidala, the Hutt had her imprisoned in the palace's dungeon. From her cell, Amidala cleverly tricked her captors into activating her comlink, which allowed her to inform her protocol droid, C-3PO, about her capture and location.
C-3PO contacted the Coruscant Guard regarding Amidala's abduction. He then piloted the senator's H-type Nubian yacht to Ziro's club, accompanied by Clone Commander Fox and five other Coruscant Guards. Meanwhile, Amidala was being escorted back to the throne room to confront her captor. Ziro believed she was too dangerous to be kept alive after learning of her call for help from the dungeon. Amidala expressed disbelief that Ziro would dare to kill a senator on Coruscant, the Republic's capital, but Ziro confidently claimed he had nothing to fear due to his connections within the Galactic Senate.
At that precise moment, Fox's rescue team forcefully entered the palace, destroying the B1-Series battle droids guarding the entrance in the process. Amidst the resulting commotion, Amidala freed herself and destroyed the IG-86 droid guarding her using a stolen E-5 blaster rifle. Taking cover from incoming fire, the Coruscant Guards swiftly eliminated the remaining security droids. After narrowly dodging a blaster shot, Ziro slithered off his dais, attempting to escape.
With the last two battle droids destroyed, Amidala ordered Ziro to halt as the clone troopers surrounded the fleeing Hutt, blocking his escape route. Ziro pleaded with his captors, claiming to be an innocent pawn of Dooku and professing his love for Rotta, his grandnephew.
Using Ziro's personal holocomm unit, Amidala contacted Jabba the Hutt on Tatooine, informing him of his uncle's treachery and forcing Ziro to confess his role in Rotta's kidnapping to his nephew. Jabba, enraged by his uncle's betrayal, vowed to punish him severely, starting with allowing Ziro to languish in a prison on Coruscant.
Unbeknownst to Amidala until she made the call, her timely intervention saved the lives of Skywalker and Tano, who had just safely returned Jabba's son to him. Jabba, who had previously believed the Jedi intended to destroy him and his clan, had them surrounded and was about to execute them when the senator provided the crucial information. Amidala also successfully negotiated a treaty between the Republic and the Hutt clan, granting Republic forces free and safe passage through Hutt Space, which provided them with desperately needed access to the Outer Rim Territories.
Following Ziro's arrest, the Republic confiscated all of his possessions. This included the Hutt's bartender droid, BU-11. Designed to serve elite clientele, BU-11 despised serving the thugs who frequented Ziro's club and was relieved to be freed from the Hutt's employment. After overhearing a pair of clones complaining about the bartender at the newly opened 79's, a cantina popular with clone troopers, BU-11 volunteered and was immediately hired.
At a later time, the Duros bounty hunter Cad Bane was hired by Jabba and the Hutt Council to liberate Ziro from Republic custody. They feared that if he remained imprisoned, Ziro might reveal sensitive information to the Republic—specifically, a holo-journal documenting illegal activities conducted by the Hutt Council members. Bane assembled a team of bounty hunters, infiltrated the Senate Building on Coruscant, and took a group of senators hostage, including Padmé Amidala. To ensure the safety of the captive senators, Chancellor Palpatine was compelled to issue a pardon for Ziro, releasing him from the Republic Judiciary Central Detention Center.
The raid was featured in the Star Wars: The Clone Wars film, which premiered on August 15, 2008. However, it was first depicted a month earlier in two young reader books based on the movie. The Battle Begins, written by Rob Valois, and the junior novelization, penned by Tracey West, were both released on July 26. While released on the same day as the junior novelization, the raid only received a brief mention in the film's adult novelization.