Despite their abilities as Jedi Masters, Moudama and Corobb could not defeat the General and were cut down to become one with the Force. As Palpatine watched, without a doubt he enjoyed seeing the deaths of the Jedi. Secretly a Dark Lord of the Sith named Darth Sidious, Palpatine orchestrated the entire kidnapping attempt indeed the entire war in order to destroy the Jedi and take control of the galaxy. Foul Moudama was neither the first nor the last of what would come to be known as the Jedi Purge.