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"That's right, Master Tachi. This will be a day the Senate will long remember. A bloodbath."

- Granta Omega to Siri Tachi.

In 24 BBY the galactic criminals Granta Omega and Jenna Zan Arbor led an attack on the Senate Building on Coruscant. The attack saw 21 Senators, as well as 24 aides and guards, killed.

Prelude
"I have been tracking Granta Omega and Jenna Zan Arbor, both of whom are familiar to you. What if they were behind this latest scheme? What if it is merely a smokescreen for their real plan?"

- Obi-Wan Kenobi to Senatorial aide Tyro Caladian.

In 24 BBY, Jedi Knights Obi-Wan Kenobi and Siri Tachi with their Padawan apprentices Anakin Skywalker and Ferus Olin, respectively, embarked from the Mid-Rim planet Romin, near the Perlemian Trade Route, in pursuit of Jedi arch-enemy Granta Omega and mad scientist Jenna Zan Arbor. Zan Arbor had, along with deposed Romin dictator Roy Teda, escaped from an uprising of the Romin people aboard a star yacht navigated by con-artist Roper Slam and his gang. The Jedi tracked the criminals to the Mid-Rim planet of Falleen, near the Corellian Run, where they hoped to find and apprehend and Granta Omega, with whom Zan Arbor and Teda were rendezvousing, for they'd discovered that the malicious trio were plotting a devastating operation against the Republic.

Believing themselves to be on the brink of finding Omega within his secret drug-manufacturing and testing facility on the outskirts of Falleen's capital city, the Jedi teams were unexpectedly summoned back to Coruscant by Jedi High Council member Master Mace Windu, who informed them that the Galactic Senate, based on a growing tide of anti-Jedi feeling among its members, was considering withdrawal of its sponsorship of the Jedi Order.

Windu and the Jedi teams met with Chancellor Palpatine, who informed them that leading the charge of the anti-Jedi faction was obscure Nuralee Senator Bog Divinian, husband of Kenobi's friend Astri Oddo. In speaking with Senatorial aide Tyro Caladian (also a longtime friend of the Jedi Knight), Kenobi began to firmly believe that Granta Omega was behind the debate to withdraw Senatorial support of the Jedi and that the Senate argument was in some way connected (although it perhaps served only as a deceptive smokescreen) to the major criminal operation the Jedi knew Omega had been planning with Zan Arbor. It was shortly thereafter that the Jedi found evidence suggesting that Omega and Zan Arbor were indeed planning a major treasury heist of crystalline vertex, to take place at the inaugural ceremony for the All Planets Relief Fund in the Bank of the Core Plaza.

Ultimately, however, the heist—carried out by the Slam gang—served only as a diversion to the plaza of all Senate security personnel from Omega and Zan Arbor's true target—the assassination of Chancellor Palpatine, who was presiding over the full-Senate debate in the Galactic Senate Building on whether to bar the Jedi Order from further action on behalf of the Senate. Indeed, Omega proved to be the mastermind of the debate itself, for it was the result of a petition that originated with Omega's early sponsor, Eeropha Senator Sano Sauro (his power-hungry eyes set now on the Republic Chancery), and brought to fruition by Jedi-shamed Senator Bog Divinian and Jedi-deposed dictator Roy Teda. The conspirators hoped to eliminate both Jedi interference and Palpatine in a single day.

Although the evil plot was ultimately foiled by the Jedi, and Senate support of the Order was not only retained but strengthened, the attack on the Senate Building left 46 individuals dead, and Granta Omega and Jenna Zan Arbor managed, once again, to escape the reach of the Jedi and Republic justice.

Flight to Falleen
Obi-Wan Kenobi felt as if he'd been chasing an elusive shadow for years. In fact, he had. A shadow in the form of one man—Force Blank Granta Omega. Time after time, he'd found him, fought him, lost him, then found him, only to lose him again. And the Jedi Master had vowed each time that the encounter would be their last. Two Jedi teams had sped from Romin to the Mid-Rim world of Falleen in their pursuit of Omega. The galactic criminal's flight with mad scientist Jenna Zan Arbor and Romin's deposed dictator Roy Teda begged a showdown, which Kenobi felt was near. This arch-enemy who wished to destroy the Jedi Order had to be stopped once and for all. But like the other encounters with Omega, Obi-Wan sensed that it wouldn't come in a manner of his own choosing.

It had been a day since the Jedi had landed and, dressed as space travelers, they had continued their tracking of the three criminals through the booming center of commerce and industry that was Falleen Throne, the planet's capital city. Searching the three-tiered city packed with diverse beings, they could not pinpoint Omega's position, nor did they know why he was on Falleen. He seemed one step ahead again. Kenobi was in danger of repeating the scenario: bursting into an empty room, only to see an escaping transport take off. Obi-Wan's Padawan had somehow escaped this kind of haunting defeat, for Anakin Skywalker didn't contemplate the possibility of failure, though he was haunted by things so deep that they couldn't be shared at one time with his Master. But they worked so perfectly together now and shared, often without speaking, their thoughts and feelings. Sometimes Kenobi even believed that Anakin's dark internal shadow had vanished, was gone, that he was finally at ease with his formidable gifts, and that he'd at last conquered his struggle to accept his role as 'the Chosen One'.

Anakin had been able to confront and release many of his fears while on Romin, where he'd been under the influence of Zan Arbor's secret drug, the Zone of Self-Containment. It could make a being feel blissfully, if dangerously, content, allowing them to forget their cares, or any need to take action. Even so, the criminal scientist hadn't yet learned how to transmit the drug to more than a few individuals at a time. Now, Omega, Zan Arbor, and Teda, with the enlisted help of the Slam gang, were poised to execute a major criminal operation in the Core worlds, and the Jedi suspected they would use 'the Zone' to do it. Along with Siri Tachi and her Padawan Ferus Olin, the Jedi were now in the process of investigating the origins of Falleen's thriving businesses and major corporations, hoping to find any ties to Omega, but weapons merchants hid so often behind other companies that the Jedi weren't investing too much in actually tracing who owned what. Even so, they wanted to investigate a new factory—Blackwater Systems, beyond the city outskirts—already marked by a bad reputation among the Falleens because it had been built so quickly and was the worst on the planet for hiding its illegal practices and making bribes to the government to keep inspectors away.

Hopping on a cloud bus, they arrived at their destination, exiting at the last available stop, then walking the rest of the way in the bitterly cold wind that howled off the plains from distant mountain ice-sheets. They were in the Yellow District—so named for the constant haze of color that hung in the sky from factory-belched toxins. The Blackwater Factory, windowless and built of black durasteel and stone, was at line's end, more than two kilometers from the last cloud-bus stop.

Discovery at Dex's
Siri Tachi and Ferus Olin, meanwhile, had located Omega and Zan Arbor's hideout on Coruscant and requested assistance from Kenobi and Skywalker. As they entered after forcing an entry, they came under attack by droids, which were swiftly defeated. But Kenobi fell into a booby-trap which summoned droidekas to attack the spot Kenobi was at. Once they were disposed of, the four inspected the room and found a garnish that Dexter Jettster was known for. Kenobi and Skywalker set off for Dex's Diner soon after to gather additional evidence.

After speaking with Jettster, Kenobi and Skywalker found evidence that Omega and Zan Arbor planned to heist the All Planets Relief Fund treasury, and that the Zone of Self-Containment, a drug, would be unleashed on the Senate. Kenobi informed Tachi and Olin of their findings while Skywalker was assigned to the Chancellor.

The attack
"Ah, better. Let me explain. I have programmed a hundred seeker droids with the vital information to key Senators as well as to Palpatine. All I have to do is push the button."

- Granta Omega explains his plot to the Jedi During the Chancellor's speech where the latter accepted the treasury, the Jedi soon found that one of the guards looked suspicious, which pushed the Jedi into battle. Only too late did they discover that the true intent of Omega's plan was to assassinate the Chancellor.

With Skywalker assigned to protect the Chancellor and Tachi en route, Kenobi left in pursuit of Omega and Zan Arbor. When he found them in a speeder, he skirmished with the pair. Kenobi needed to retreat when Omega deployed seeker droids on him, and he soon was joined by Tachi and Skywalker, who revealed that he left Olin with the Chancellor.

The team confronted Omega, who instantly fled the scene. Meanwhile, Olin remained with the Chancellor and was fending off seeker droids that sought to shoot him down. As Kenobi noticed Roy Teda being followed by a seeker droid, Olin saved him by slicing it. But Teda aimed a blaster at Olin and attempted to fire, only to be shot by the final droid. A moment later, Tyro Caladian came in for Kenobi, but he was shot down.

Aftermath
Omega and Zan Arbor escaped, and Divinian's appeal to have the Jedi blamed for the attack failed. Divinian was disgraced after his failure and a memorial service was held for the late Caladian. Shortly afterwards, Kenobi and Skywalker would find a list to the places Omega had been too. Sometime after that, they found Omega and Zan Arbor on Korriban. Kenobi had killed Omega in self-defense, but Zan Arbor had slipped away once more.

Appearances

 * Jedi Quest: The False Peace
 * Jedi Quest: The Final Showdown 
 * The Last of the Jedi: Underworld
 * The Last of the Jedi: A Tangled Web