Note 21
Eight years after the Trade Federation Invasion of Naboo
One year later
Jedi Master Mace Windu,
Thank you for allowing Obi-Wan and I to go to QuiQue. We were not the only Jedi that went, but I was glad that you thought of us when designing the team to go there. I wanted to let you know that the space pirating raids have stopped, and there doesn't appear to be anything going on down on the planet either. I think it was a false alarm, and that someone has been trying to distract the Council --- first with Dantooine, and now this.
I did talk to Master Nu about what happened on Dantooine. She told me that all of the artifacts that they found, upon closer examination, were fake. They appeared to be ancient on first glance, but after running tests on the artifacts, they found that they were made recently. That means that someone must have planted this stuff, doesn't it?
Well, this business with Dooku seems to have gotten worse. He has started a group he is calling the Separatists, and has declared himself independent of the Republic! Nute Gunray has joined Dooku's Separatist organization, and he has pulled his planet of Neimodia out of the Republic as well! Obi-Wan thinks that the rest of the Trade Federation will soon follow. On top of that, did you hear of the letter that Gunray sent to Chancellor Palpatine:
I've had it with your mediocre leadership. You promise many things, but they're all lies! I've had enough of waiting for you to help us out! Dooku will make a far better Chancellor than you, Your Most Unworshipfullness! Well, you'll no longer be any trouble to us! Neimodia has left the Republic!
Has the Council found anything more about Dooku and his link with the Trade Federation? Last year you said that you would research it.
Do you have any missions for us to go on?
Anakin Skywalker