Mission to Oba Diah (Sifo-Dyas)

Concurrent to the blockade of Naboo, Supreme Chancellor Finis Valorum sent Jedi Master Sifo-Dyas on a secret mission to Oba Diah. Sifo-Dyas, who was sent without the knowledge of the Jedi Council, traveled with Valorum's aide Silman to resolve a dispute within the Pyke Syndicate, one that threatened to spark a crime war beneath the streets of Coruscant. However, before Sifo-Dyas could negotiate, the Jedi Council requested that he travel to Felucia to resolve a tribal dispute. As he and Silman were leaving, intending to return, the Pykes—at the behest of a figure known as Tyranus, secretly the former Jedi Dooku and an agent of the Sith Lord Darth Sidious—shot Sifo-Dyas' ship down. Sidious, who wanted to eliminate Dyas so that the Sith could take control of the creation of the Grand Army of the Republic, had Dooku betray and kill him.

By that point, the Naboo Crisis had concluded, with Dooku's decision to shoot down Sifo-Dyas an act of fealty towards Sidious. The Jedi Master was killed in the crash, but Silman survived, becoming a prisoner of the Syndicate until being discovered by the Jedi during the Clone Wars. Taking possession of Dyas' corpse from the Pykes, Dooku subsequently posed as a Jedi and deceitfully staged Sifo-Dyas' death on Felucia to conceal what had transpired. Sifo-Dyas's lightsaber was left behind at the crash site, however.

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