General Skywalker enters the room and says "What have you got for me , Maketh? I know it must be important otherwise you wouldn't have summoned me. " Maketh replies " I noticed a pattern. There is a company called Anzo Enterprises that sells a lot of logistical supplies to the GAR. The prices seemed high to me but the markups looked reasonable until I dug into the numbers. They have appeared to set up a number of shell companies as subcontractors to inflate the prices. They have used up to six companies to sell things to the GAR inflating their prices by about 5% on each sale thus inflating the price about 34% on top of their other shenanigans. It is hard to say but I think the GAR is paying them about half again what they are worth. They are providing things that aren't sold on the civilian market such as weaponry and military transport so it is harder to see. It resembles in some ways the Czerka Scandal which caused the Kybar Period and the demise of Czerka. Czerka was one of the most corrupt corporations in Galactic History. It was into slavery. It worked with the Exchange. It had its own employees killed if they talked about their corruption and worked with the Sith out of Koriban. After this came out the senate elected a Jedi as chancellor as they thought he would be less likely to be corrupt.

Jedi Chancellor Odo Oozma , in his arrogance, decided to remake the Republic Economy based on what he thought was the Will of the Force. He said the economy would be as pure and clear as a Jedi's lightsaber emanating from a Kybar Crystal. He tried micromanaging the economy via the Jedi Temples using the force as a guide resulting in the collapse of the economy and the lowest popularity of Jedi in Galactic History. Hard to believe but there was actual starvation even in the Core Region. This is almost unheard of in advanced economies as they know how to plenty of food and have birth control when needed. The Jedi never completely recovered from that farce.

The result was an overcompensating swing towards free markets that resulted in the near plutocracy we had until recently. The economy did recover after the Chancellor was ousted but it had no where to go but up. The marked improvement caused people to go overboard in the other direction. Chancellor Organa and Antilles have both been trying to swing it back the other way but have to be careful . The last thing they want to do is to have people think that the galaxy will return to the Kybar Period."

Anakin replies "True enough, but politics is Bail's problem. Mine is warfare, sad to say. Hopefully this damn war will be over soon and I can spend more time with Padme and the kids. You did a good job. The boost in supplies will help greatly. Chancellor Anilles will certainly be happy to save the money. This war has cost enough without greed making it cost more. Thrawn has been pressing the CIS hard lately and we are really going through the supplies."

Barris was in a good mood. She was gaining power as she expanded the Sith Order under Dooku's guidance. They took only disgruntled Jedi or former Jedi. They didn't have the time to teach them the basics. They need to learn Sith Law and Sith History along with fueling their skills using the power of the Dark Side. IF they were to help rule the Sith Empire they had to know the philosophy used by the government. She took in a number of losers from Agricorps .Although not powerful they were the most disgruntled of the Jedi being rejected as weak by the Order and thus the easiest to turn to the Dark side. Although she did not tell them this she considered them disposable fodder. Still they were more important than non force users. Non force users had to be guided by force users as they were too limited to rule themselves.

Dooku would soon be dead she was sure. It wouldn't be by her hand. She saw no reason to risk her power base, the completely deadly nature of Sith power struggles was another Jedi Lie according to Count Dooku, by challenging him. He was old and certain to die soon , he was getting close to 90 after all. She could bide her time until he was dead.

Count Dooku was looking over prison records. He wanted to make sure the people he used in his experiments were both healthy and not be missed. Murderers, rapists and terrorists could have very physically healthy bodies to experiment with. Using his notes Dooku was able to progress far quicker than Plaugus was ever able to. Plagus made a foundation Dooku could build upon.

This speciman was a female Gungan by the name of Larsa Binks, 3rd cousin to Jar Jar. She was a mass murderer who killed at least 14 people. Completely psychotic she claimed that voices in her head told her to do so. That she was a divine instrument of death . She was chosen by the force to deal death to whomever she thought the force told her to kill. 8 of them were children so she really wouldn't be missed. The Gungans wanted nothing to do with her and were very loud about how she was an embarrassment and better off dead. She was condemned to death and the public would be told her fellow inmates killed her before she made it to the execution chamber. That would be believed. Even most criminals despised child killers and he knew of more than one case where that happened. Her death would extend his life. He discovered a way to retard aging by draining a person's life energy and giving it to himself. In time he should be able to not only retard aging but reverse it. ...