Nix Card

Nix Card was a male Muun who served as the InterGalactic Banking Clan's representative in the Galactic Senate. He also was the senator of his homeworld, the Outer Rim Territories planet of Muunilinst. In his time as the envoy of the Banking Clan, he plotted with fellow senators Lott Dod of the Trade Federation, and Gume Saam of the Techno Union after the proposal of a bill that would have deregulated the banks. During their meeting, Saam proposed killing their opponent, Padmé Amidala of Naboo, which Card and Dod dismissed as the Banking Clan and the Trade Federation "were about business not violence." Instead, Senator Card spoke with Count Dooku and the latter's enforcer, General Grievous, urging them to launch an attack on the capital of the Republic, Coruscant. Per their Muun ally's request, the Separatists sent several Infiltrator demolition droids to the planet, where they would destroy the capital's Central power distribution grid.

As the Separatist Senate voted to open peace negotiations, Card convened Dooku, Dod and Saam again, where the Muun told the Sith Lord that it was troubling to see the Serennian's own senate proposing peace negotiaitons. To their relief, the Count assured the senators that an attack would come, and that their corporations would get their fair share and then some of the war's profits. The destruction of the the power distribution grid at the hands of Grievous' demolition droids angered the Senate, ending the peace proposal and assuring Card's healthy income through continued war. Later on, Senator Card attended a slave auction at Zygerria, where he witnessed Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi, and stated that the Jedi were not tough, after all.

Card later visited the planet of Scipio with Amidala, where Amidala and Rush Clovis devised a plan to investigate the missing funds of the bank. As Amidala entered the vault, Card and a squad of Muun guards escorted Clovis. And later, when the vault's power was lost, Card inquired one of the Muun guards on the situation. After the Naboo senator and the Core Five left the vault, Amidala returned to her quarters, only to be arrested by Card for espionage. As Amidala and Clovis escaped Scipio with stolen files that could reveal the corruption of the Muun organization, Card stated that Clu Lesser, the spokesman of the Core Five, alone had allowed the events to happen. After incriminating Lesser, Card spoke with his patron, Darth Sidious, and notified him of Clovis and Amidala's status. The Sith Lord told the senator that they would then continue with the next state of the procceedings, and upon Card's inquiry, he assured the Muun that he would be protected. Upon Clovis' death, Card ceded control of the banks to Palpatine - Supreme Chancellor of the Republic and Darth Sidious' public persona.

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