Mission to Oba Diah (Sifo-Dyas)

For other uses, see Mission to Oba Diah.

Concurrent

Blockade of Naboo^[1]

Mission to Oba Diah

Objective

Resolve a dispute within the Pyke Syndicate and prevent a crime war beneath the streets of Coruscant^[2]

Date

32 BBY^[1]

Place

Oba Diah^[2]

Outcome

At the behest of the Sith, the Pykes kill Jedi Master Sifo-Dyas and capture governmental aide Silman^[2]

Factions
Galactic Republic^[2] Jedi Order^[2]	Pyke Syndicate^[2] Sith (secretly)^[2]

Participants
Jedi Master Sifo-Dyas†^[2] Silman^[2]	Lom Pyke^[2]

Casualties
Sifo-Dyas^[2]

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

―Lom Pyke^[2]

Concurrent to the blockade of Naboo, Supreme Chancellor Finis Valorum sent Jedi Master Sifo-Dyas on a secret mission to Oba Diah.^[1] 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 a figure known as Tyranus, secretly the former Jedi Dooku and an agent of the Sith Lord Darth Sidious—shot Sifo-Dyas' ship down. The Sith wanted to hide Sifo-Dyas' involvement in the creation of the Grand Army of the Republic.^[2]

By that point, the Naboo Crisis had concluded, with Dooku's decision to shoot down Sifo-Dyas an act of fealty towards Sidious.^[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.^[2] 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.^[2]