Sano Sauro

Sano Sauro was a Human male. He was a prosecutor for the Galactic Senate and later the senator of Eeropha for a number of decades near the end of the Galactic Republic. He had a number of political confrontations with the Jedi, particularly Obi-Wan Kenobi.

Biography
In 42 BBY Sauro served as the prosecutor for Vox Chun, the father of Jedi hopeful, Bruck Chun. Bruck, who had aided the Dark Jedi Xanatos in infiltrating the Jedi Temple was accidentally killed by Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Jedi Temple. He interrogated Obi-Wan, who was accused of killing Bruck intentionally and fellow Jedi Bant Eerin, who was almost drowned intentionally by Bruck and tried to find them guilty, exaggerating and twisting the truth. However the Jedi were proven innocent despite his attempts.

Over the next few decades, Sauro became Senator of Eeropha. During this time he discovered a young Granta Omega and sponsored him so that he could attend the All Sciences Research Academy on Yerphonia.

A few years before the outbreak of the Clone Wars, Obi-Wan Kenobi discovered that Senator Sauro had ties to Omega; ties that Sauro denied and made sure that Kenobi could not prove. He, in fact, was the head of a committee that sponsored a scientific expedition to Haariden, which was part of a secret plot with Omega to obtain titanite.

A year later, Sauro helped his friend Omega again (as well as himself), this time politically. He and newly elected Senator Bog Divinian began to make anti-Jedi accusations in order to dissolve the Galactic Senate’s support of the Jedi Order. A vote was to be held in the Senate over whether or not the Jedi should be involved in Senate activities. This was all part of Omega and Sauro’s master scheme. By leaking Jenna Zan Arbor’s drug called the Zone of Self-Containment into the ventilation shafts of the Senate, as well as assassinating Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, Sauro’s supporters could easily garner him a seat as the new Supreme Chancellor of the Galactic Republic. This would also give Omega unlimited power in destroying the Jedi. However thanks to the courageous actions of Obi-Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, Siri Tachi, and Ferus Olin, this plot was thwarted. When the actual Senate vote came, Sauro turned his back on Bog Divinian, and against banning funding to the Jedi Order. His reasons for doing this were because he was offered to become Deputy Chancellor by Palpatine himself, which tempted him with more power. Palpatine's true motives for this were to keep a closer eye on Sauro’s actions. In his office, Senator Sano Sauro kept a broken lightsaber sold to him by a Duros and rumored to have belonged to Jedi Master Mace Windu.

In 18 BBY, Sauro had a ship called the True Justice which held speedy trials to quickly put people in prison. Two of these prisoners were Roan Lands and Dona Telamark. During their trial, however, the two were rescued by the Jedi Solace, the Bothan Oryon, and Trever Flume, all friends of Ferus Olin.

Palpatine was aware of Sauro's plans to use Force-sensitive children to train pilots in hope of creating an invincible fleet. He allowed him to keep his plan&mdash;for the time being. But when Sano tried to prevent Ferus' friends from escaping, the Emperor was asking to see him. Sauro soon found himself in a job as a babysitter at the Imperial Academy. He was ordered to find a cadet with undivided loyalty to the Empire on a need-to-know basis project.

Appearances

 * Jedi Apprentice Special Edition: Deceptions
 * Jedi Quest: The Master of Disguise
 * Jedi Quest: The School of Fear
 * Jedi Quest: The Shadow Trap
 * Jedi Quest: The False Peace
 * Jedi Quest: The Changing of the Guard
 * The Last of the Jedi: A Tangled Web
 * The Last of the Jedi: Return of the Dark Side
 * The Last of the Jedi: Secret Weapon
 * The Last of the Jedi: Against the Empire
 * The Last of the Jedi: Master of Deception
 * The Last of the Jedi: Reckoning

Sano Sauro