Some time ago, the Trade Federation forced a Cloodavian industrialist named Trinkatta to secretly build fifty droid starfighters on the planet Isselis in the Darpa sector. She provided Trinkattu with a prototype hyperdrive and had him copy the engine for installation on starfighters. Due to the extraordinary capabilities of the hyperdrive, droid starfighters could be used to launch surprise raids on almost any area of the galaxy. Bama Vuk, Trinkatta's test pilot, hoped to prevent the Trade Federation from acquiring such a powerful weapon. He sent a data card to alert the Jedi Council on Coruscant, informing them of this incident. After Trinkatta's droids loaded the fighters onto the cargo ship, Bama Vuk, along with the droid Leeper, stole it and hid it in the dock of the city of Kalamarna Isselis. After Darth Sidious learned from his Neimodian spies that the trucks had been captured by the Bartokks, he decided that it would be a good idea to punish the killers. For this, he called his dark disciple, Darth Maul