Mission to Oba Diah (pre–Naboo Crisis)

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Mission to Oba Diah

Objective

Resolve a dispute within the Pyke Syndicate and prevent a crime war beneath the streets of Coruscant^[1]

Date

32 BBY^[2]

Place

Oba Diah^[1]

Outcome

At the behest of the Sith, the Pykes kill Jedi Master Sifo-Dyas and capture governmental aide Silman^[1]

Factions
Galactic Republic^[1] Jedi Order^[1]	Pyke Syndicate^[1] Sith (secretly)^[1]

Participants
Jedi Master Sifo-Dyas†^[1] Silman^[1]	Lom Pyke^[1]

Casualties
Sifo-Dyas^[1]

"Tyranus wanted Sifo-Dyas dead. The Pykes were well paid to shoot down his ship."

―Lom Pyke^[1]

Prior to the Invasion 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 the Sith Lord Darth Tyranus, an agent of the Sith Lord Darth Sidious—shot Sifo-Dyas' ship down, as the Sith wanted to hide Sifo-Dyas' involvement in the creation of the Grand Army of the Republic.^[1] The Jedi Master was killed in the crash,^[3] but Silman survived, becoming a prisoner of the Syndicate until being discovered by the Jedi during the Clone Wars.^[1] Taking possession of Dyas' corpse^[3] from the Pykes, Dooku subsequently posed as a Jedi and staged Sifo-Dyas' death on Felucia to conceal what had transpired. Sifo-Dyas's lightsaber was left behind at the crash site, however.^[1]