
The Geonosians captured Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi, his Padawan Anakin Skywalker, and Senator Padmé Amidala soon after this meeting, and Poggle himself presided over their trials, charging them with espionage and sentencing them to execution at the Geonosian arena. Ten years after their initial meeting, Poggle the Lesser hosted the first official meeting of the Confederacy's leaders in the Stalgasin hive. Poggle the Lesser during the First Battle of Geonosis. They will be much safer there…with my Master." ―Poggle the Lesser and Count Dooku " I will take the designs with me to Coruscant. If they find out what we are planning to build, we're doomed.» «The Jedi must not find our designs for the Ultimate Weapon. Following the procedure, Sheelal was renamed " General Grievous" and was promoted to Supreme Commander of the Droid Armies. Poggle's engineers were responsible for the cyborg body given to the injured Sheelal. Poggle also assisted Count Dooku and InterGalactic Banking Clan Chairman San Hill with another project: the rehabilitation of the Kaleesh warlord Qymaen jai Sheelal. This partnership was lucrative Poggle even took the liberty to create a new B2 super battle droid for the Confederacy. In return, Poggle would be paid large sums of money for his trouble and Geonosis would earn a place on the high order of the new Confederacy. Dooku formed a partnership with Poggle the Archduke would ensure that Geonosis was among the founding worlds of the Confederacy of Independent Systems and would supply a large amount of the Separatist Droid Army. Shortly after the Trade Federation was defeated at the Battle of Naboo, Poggle was approached by the rogue Jedi Count Dooku, revealing himself as Darth Tyranus, the new apprentice of Darth Sidious.

The fact that Poggle and Trade Federation Viceroy Nute Gunray hated each other, but still worked together was a great testament to the influence of the Sith Lord.

Poggle, grateful for Sidious's help, gladly struck a deal with the Trade Federation.

Once Poggle the Lesser was in power In 33 BBY, Darth Sidious's intentions became clear: he wanted control of the droid factories to supply B1-Series battle droids to the Trade Federation for an invasion of Naboo.

Over time, Poggle's rebels finally seized power, and Poggle at last became Archduke of the Stalgasin hive, the ruling hive of Geonosis, and Hadiss was executed in the Geonosian arena. That was until the Sith Lord Darth Sidious came to Poggle's aid and secretly funded his revolution. He sought the position held by then- Archduke Hadiss the Vaulted and organized a revolt against him, which seemed to be of little concern to Hadiss, who easily dealt with the rebels. Originally, Poggle was a member of the Geonosian lower caste, hence his surname "the Lesser".
