Mission to Felucia (Sifo-Dyas)

The mission to Felucia was a task assigned to Jedi Master Sifo-Dyas by the Jedi High Council prior to the Invasion of Naboo, where he was tasked with resolving a tribal dispute on the planet Felucia. Unbeknownst to the Council, Sifo-Dyas had been sent on a secret mission to Oba Diah to negotiate with the Pyke Syndicate by Supreme Chancellor Finis Valorum. Sifo-Dyas, accompanied by the Chancellor's aide Silman, departed the negotiations for Felucia, but was assassinated by the Pykes on the request of a man they knew as "Tyranus," secretly the former Jedi Count Dooku, who had, unbeknownst to the Order, dipped into the dark side and started to work with the Dark Lord Darth Sidious, publicly Naboo Senator Sheev Palpatine. The Pykes shot down Sifo-Dyas shortly after the Battle of Naboo.

Dooku and Sidious wished Sifo-Dyas dead in order to take control of the clone army Sifo-Dyas had secretly ordered from the cloners of the remote planet Kamino, as he had foreseen a war coming that would require the Galactic Republic to have an army. Dooku then travelled to Felucia with the body, deceiving the tribal elders into thinking that Sifo-Dyas was still alive and that he was another Jedi who had accompanied him. The Sith Lord then faked Sifo-Dyas' death in the conflict and had his body cremated.

The Jedi Council believed Sifo-Dyas had died on Felucia until the last year of the Clone Wars, when the wreckage of Sifo-Dyas' ship was uncovered on the Oba Diah moon, with his lightsaber still inside — clear proof that he could not have perished on Felucia. Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi were sent to speak with the Pykes, and discovered the true circumstances of Sifo-Dyas' death and that the Sith had been responsible.

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