Escape from Oba Diah

In 19 BBY, late in the Clone Wars, Ahsoka Tano and sisters Trace and Rafa Martez escaped from the planet Oba Diah after incurring the wrath of the Pyke Syndicate. Rafa had been hired by Pyke leader Marg Krim to transport a shipment of spice to Oba Diah from Kessel, but had been forced to bring in her younger sister Trace and Trace's untested, self-assembled ship the Silver Angel after the pilot she had originally hired backed out of the job. Trace invited her new friend, former Jedi Padawan Tano — who was keeping her background and Force powers secret — along for the ride.

However, after Tano found out what the mission was and who Rafa was selling the spice to, the two got into an argument, and Trace, panicking at the thought of losing her starship, impulsively dumped the spice into hyperspace, leaving the three young women in debt to dangerous gangsters. Tano came up with a last-ditch plan to swindle Krim, stealthily using a mind trick on him so the girls could leave with their payment, but Krim's majordomo Fife was not so weak-minded, and had the girls captured after discovering the crates were empty. Now prisoners of the Pykes, Tano, Rafa and Trace made an attempt at escape, but after a run-around through the city near the High fortress of the Pyke Syndicate, they were re-captured, but not before drawing the attention of Mandalorian warrior Bo-Katan Kryze and her Nite Owls, who were scouting the area. Kryze, having encountered Tano before on Carlac, thought she might be a useful ally as they appeared to have an enemy in common.

Tano eventually gave the sisters an opportunity to escape by claiming to want to cut a deal with Krim by herself, asserting that the sisters had hidden the spice offworld and giving them the opportunity to retrieve it, with the threat of retaliation against their family if they failed, Krim being unaware that the sisters had no living relatives. Rafa, touched at the gesture, came up with a plan to steal spice from the Pykes' loading docks to give to the Pykes so they could free Tano. Meanwhile, attempting to escape from their stronghold and destroy their spice refining facility, Tano discovered that the Pykes were working for the Sith Lord Darth Maul. When Tano was recaptured again, Krim and Fife discovered she was a Force-user and assumed she was on an undercover mission for the Jedi and Galactic Republic. When the sisters came back for her, the three were able to escape Oba Diah again, although the truth of Tano's past was revealed to the Martezes. Tano believed that the sisters were safe from retaliation due to her apparent status as a Republic operative. However, after returning to Coruscant, Tano was immediately recruited by Kryze, who had followed them from the Outer Rim, to help deal with Maul.

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