Sifo-Dyas

Sifo-Dyas was a human male Jedi Master from Minashee who commissioned the Kaminoans' creation of the Grand Army of the Republic over a decade before the Clone Wars.

Born around 102 BBY in the Cassandran Worlds, Sifo-Dyas joined the Jedi Order, where he became friends with Count Dooku and the Padawan of Lene Kostana. During his first year as a padawan, Sifo-Dyas learned that he was gifted with the power of foresight, although this would bring him great stress throughout the rest of his life. He became a Jedi Master and gained a seat on the Jedi High Council prior to the Invasion of Naboo. When he foresaw a coming war that would ravage the galaxy, he believed that the Galactic Republic would require an army if it were to prevail. Yet, his peers on the Jedi Council rejected his notions, leading to his removal from the Council. Nevertheless, he pursued his ideas secretly behind the Council's back and contacted the Kaminoan cloners, lying to have the authorization of the Council and the Galactic Senate to raise an army for the Republic. In doing so, he unknowingly entered the crosshairs of the Sith, who set out to assume control of his cloning project.

Around the time of the Invasion of Naboo, Supreme Chancellor Finis Valorum requested Sifo-Dyas conduct clandestine negotiations with the Pyke Syndicate, and he headed for Oba Diah with Valorum's personal aide, Silman. However, under the orders of Sith Lord Darth Sidious, his agent, Darth Tyranus, formerly Dooku, who had already left the Jedi, betrayed him by hiring the Pykes to target Sifo-Dyas' T-6 shuttle. The Pykes shot down his ship over the Oba Diah moon. Sifo-Dyas died in the resulting crash, but Silman survived and was taken prisoner by the Pykes. Consequently, Tyranus (who would become Sidious's apprentice shortly after) and his Sith Master, Sidious, funded Sifo-Dyas' army of clone troopers, hired the bounty hunter Jango Fett to serve as a genetic template, instructed the Kaminoan cloners to add Order 66 to the clones' behavioral modification biochips (which Sifo-Dyas originally intended to be a safeguard against any treacherous orders given to clones), and manipulated the Jedi Order into taking command of the army when the Clone Wars erupted. It was not until years later that the Jedi began to unravel the Sith's conspiracy and unearthed the details of Sifo-Dyas' demise.

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