Investigation into the framing of the Jedi

During the early weeks of the Galactic Empire, an investigation into the framing of the Jedi was carried out by Senator Bail Organa in about 19 BBY sometime after the Great Jedi Purge and the senatorial arrest of the Delegation of 2,000. He investigated the Jedi Order's supposed attempted coup, seeking evidence from Imperial Intelligence, although he knew all the evidence to be false and is seemingly assisted by Intelligence officer Haki Zeophrine, unaware she alongside others have begun spying on him. Learning of a Separatist's supplies cache with a database possibly able to prove forgery of official documentation involving the Jedi Order, Bail went to Eyo-Dajuritz. Concurrently, Zeophine had learned of Signal Section flagging Bail, intriguing her to continue his assistance in the case she learns of a true conspiracy and Queen Breha Organa becomes aware of her husband being spied on.

On Eyo-Dajuritz, they encountered Saw Gerrera's guerilla fighters and Soujen Vak-Nhalis as they sought the cache to arm themselves and are captured as prisoners. Clone troopers are also deployed to suppress the existence of the cache and Bail reluctantly works with Gerrera and Soujen, the latter to finds raw data that can used as evidence to showcase forgery of documentation regarding the Jedi Order. Haki betrayed the team but a bombing separated her from Bail and Soujen as well as Saw's guerillas. Both teams managed to escape but Haki was killed by clone troopers, inadvertently suppressing the extent of Bail's treason towards the Empire. Later on Coruscant, Bail was given plausible deniability as a victim when Soujen pretends to take him prisoner before escaping. Learning of espionage efforts on himself following reuniting with his wife Breha and later friend Senator Mon Mothma, Bail enlisted the former's aid in finding Soujen despite her initial resistance against a formal investigation of the Jedi due to being a unpopular endeavor. From assistance with Senator Tychon Nulvolio, Mothma finds Soujen, who instead opts to attempt to assassinate Palpatine, forcing her to kill Soujen with his self-destruct mechanism.

Soujen's death erased evidence able to showcase doubts of the Jedi coup conspiracy, forcing Bail and Mothma to reassess a strategy against the Empire. Despite his attack on Center One, Mothma and Bail initiated an unofficial alliance with Saw Gerrera. However, to show outward loyalty to curtail espionage efforts against them and his knowledge gained from the investigation, Bail publicly supported the Imperial Rebirth Act, framing it around denouncing Gerrera and his militia as a terrorist to hide his own involvement with attack on Eyo-Dajuritz, professing the Senate's commitment in ensuring protections against future insurgency, and claiming Mothma's actions were a careful coordinated effort to help the Empire, solidifying their "public support" of the Empire.

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