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star wars - How could the fireships in RotS know that Grievous' flagship was crewed by friendlies?


In Revenge of the Sith, Anakin and Obi-Wan land on general Grievous' flagship and after some time find themselves at the controls of it with all the bad guys having abandoned ship. They decide to attempt to land on Coruscant and, when approaching the runway, are not only not fired at but even met by fireships that escort them and put out some fires raging on their ship.


How could the fireships, or anyone on the ground for that matter, have known that Grievous' flagship was crewed or at least steered by friendlies? We even see one of the fireship pilots radioing "We'll take you in.", implying he knows who he's talking to. According to this it was not the initial plan to take over the flagship so they could not have been informed in advance.


Is it just implied that maybe R2 made an emergency call?


EDIT:


The answer to this question further extends on the topic.




Answer



Interestingly, there's a slight discrepancy between the Official Junior Novel and Official Film Novelisation. In the former, it's Anakin who contacts the Clone troops flying alongside. In the latter, it's Kenobi and only after the ship is targeted (and shot at) by Republic fighters:



From the film's Junior Novelisation:



Distantly, he was aware of Obi-Wan and Palpatine following his instructions, of R2-D2 taking up a position at the auxiliary controls, but his fingers were already busy with the unfamiliar controls. First, stop the shooting. This switch? No … There. Quickly, he tapped out a message to the Republic’s clone fighters: General Kenobi and I have taken the ship. The Chancellor is safe. Stop firing. He signed it with his name and the code that would mark it as an authentic message, and sent it off.



and the film's Official Novelisation



The cruiser bounced even harder, and its attitude began to skew as a new klaxon joined the blare of the other alarms. “That wasn’t me!” Anakin jerked his hands away from the board. “I haven’t even done anything yet!”



“It certainly wasn’t.” Palpatine’s voice was unnaturally calm. “It seems someone is shooting at us.”


“Wonderful,” Anakin muttered. “Could this day get any better?”



... [shortly afterwards]



“Perhaps we can talk with them.” Obi-Wan moved over to the comm station and began working the screen. “Let them know we’ve captured the ship.”


“All right, take the comm,” Anakin said. He pointed at the copilot’s station. “Artoo: second chair. Chancellor?”


“You have to stand down the surface-defense system, sir! It’s General Kenobi!” Needa insisted. “His code verifies, Skywalker is with him-and they have Chancellor Palpatine!”


“Heard and understood this is,” the Jedi [Yoda] responded calmly.




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