Author - LukeTano (from the Jedi Council forums)

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Senator Amidala,

If I must say so myself, Nute and Rune didn't seem smart enough to do it the first time. Anyway, maybe the Sith is offering to "help" them again and they're dumb enough to believe him again. Besides, Rune coulda made the whole thing up to trade false info for candy.

Who besides Dooku could have erased that planet to keep us from tracking that bounty hunter, I'm not sure...unless...there was this Twi'leek Jedi who later became a Dark Jedi who had left about 3 years ago. He got killed helping the Separatists, and got killed them because he thought all the Separatists were weak minded and was trying to use mind tricks to make them make him the leader. Anyway, he could have. That's why we're not sure, but Yoda suspects Dooku, but I don't quite see why it has to be Dooku. Still...it's 50/50 it's him that's somehow trying to kill you.

A bounty hunter named J---

That's all we got before the poison dart killed the first one. And the dart was from Kamino. But that system seemed to have been erased. Only a Jedi could do that.

Personally, Master Yoda thinks it's possible Dooku could be the missing Sith apprentice that the Dark Lord of the Sith no doubt got. Something isn't right. He quits. We've only had 21, counting him, quit in the entire history of the Jedi Order! The fact that he's now part of a movement against the Republic. We don't know for sure.

Anyway, Qui-Gon always spoke so highly of him. It's possible Dooku went to the Dark Side, disillusioned over his death and the corruption in the Senate.

Anyway, Master Yoda has a very dark theory about all of this.

He thinks the Dark Lord of the Sith is somehow a judge or a senator. Somebody in the Senate wants you dead. Somebody in the Senate caused a big problem so we had to fire Velorum to get things done. Somebody has ensured Gunray was still Viceroy even after four trails. Somebody in the Senate is hoping for a war. You were right.

One of your colleagues is a traitor. And a master manipulator.

But the Senate is so corrupt it's hard to tell if a senator is corrupt normally or if he's a Sith. Anyway, he might not even be a Senator or a judge anymore, if it's even a he . We've heard of many Dark Ladies of the Sith before.

Whomever it is, he/she still has a lot of influence in the Senate and the courts.

I'm off to Kamino to find out the truth and see if Gunray is indeed involved, as we're pretty sure he is. Nute and Rune are idiots and may have acted against his orders. Anyway, we have had a Jedi go to the Dark Side, we killed her, a few years ago. He could have thought the Sith Lord was going to train her as his new apprentice, and broke into the Temple and did it and then the Sith Lord tricked her and didn't train her. Treachery is the way of the Sith. Dooku told me that. That may turn out to be very ironic, that he said that.

Did you know that the Sith apprentices are actually, according to a copy of a new Sith code made by some guy named Darth Bane and his apprentice Darth Zannah, that the Sith Lord trains and apprentice. When the apprentice knows as much as the master, they fight to the death. If the apprentice wins, he/she becomes the new Dark Lord/Lady. If not, then we all laugh at the master's waste of many years of training. This fight must happen.

"One to have the power and the other to crave it." Also, we have evidence that Bane was in fact killed by Zannah years after writing this code.

Anakin will be taking you to Naboo to hide. I know you don't like it. It looks like the Sith have gotten what they wanted. We can't risk you appearing to stop the MCA in person. Send Jar Jar. We need someone to ensure it, and I don't trust Palpatine. He's done something rather undemocratic. Apparently, he let a new law be passed, without vetoing it, that any attempt on his life will be construed as treason and the perpetrator will be executed without a trial. Even before, treason wasn't so severe that the perpetrator could be executed without a trial. Democracy is crumbling everywhere!

Still....I think he's not corrupt like the other senators and could...for a while...be trusted with emergency powers. But only in the event of a threat of certain eminent attack from the Separatists. And hopefully this new bill is a one-time thing or else things could get more like a dictatorship.

Obi-wan Kenobi