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Master Siolo'urmanka was one such, and Master Fay is another. After all, she doesn't take orders from the rest of the Order. If they think about me at all, Dooku and those among the Order who I count as friends will simply think I am following in her footsteps due to my known antipathy for our connection to the corrupt Senate."
"Very good," said Plagueis, smiling politely even as he internally snarled at the mention of Fay. Her continuing presence in the web of the Force was an irritant, not so much personally any longer, but as to how she comported herself and was viewed by the public. Her message of nonviolence and open palm style of diplomacy were dangerous to the Grand Plan, which made Plagueis thankful the stupid woman had removed herself so much from the Jedi Order as a whole. "Now, let's get onto the paperwork."
The Jedi Master sat down, and the two got down to business. Several hours later he walked Plagueis to the subway tunnel which would take him to the landing bay in Tipoca City. They passed by several Kaminoans who did not give them any second glances, such would be rude within their culture. But they were still under observation as outsiders, since offworlders were very, very rare on Kamino.
"Do not come here again, Hugo," Sifo-Dyas whispered harshly as they came to the subway. "I was serious earlier. Your position makes you far too obvious a target for observation. If you have any more questions either send a go-between which won't attract any interest or set up a secure Holonet line."
"I would not trust a go-between," Plagueis said honestly, the first honest comment he'd made all day wearing his Demask mask. "Instead I have already been looking into creating a subroutine in the Holonet relay system."
So saying he held out a small data disk. "That has all the information on using a subroutine that my associates have emplaced into the Holonet signal. Destroy that hard copy once you've memorized the details."
"You are paranoid. Good," Sifo-Dyas said approvingly. "I know I removed all data about Kamino from the Jedi and Senate archives, but even so, better safe than sorry if both have been infiltrated as we fear."
"Indeed. We play for high stakes, the highest anyone could ever envision, and it behooves us to act appropriately," the Banking Clan head said, nodding his flat featured head slightly even as he felt a spark of real amusement at the game he was playing with this fool. "I have to say thank you for believing in me about the measure of corruption. I had long feared that I was the only one who saw the corruption growing among the halls of power, even the Jedi being blind to them."
"The status quo can blind the best of us, but it was not just your warnings about the issue that I am acting on, but the Force itself. The Force has warned me about what is to come, and I will do my part to prepare the galaxy in order to match it."
"As will I, even if I have no force Power." said Plagueis née Hugo Demask. "Farewell, my friend, and may the, the Force be with you? Is that how you say it?"
"Indeed. And may it be with you as well."
So saying Sifo-Dyas turned, walking away briskly as Plagueis entered the subway tram. He was alone on it at the moment, it being deep in the night cycle of this planet at this location. Ah, Sifo-Dyas. So intelligent, so forward thinking, yet still so blind. You see, the Force is truly with me and with my apprentice, regardless of our recent setback and the loss of his assassin, far more than it is with you. As you will soon discover to your cost.
Sifo-Dyas had outlived his usefulness of this point. His being alive and knowing about the clones even now gestating in their tubes was a loose end. And Plagueis, both as a banker and a Sith, did so hate loose ends.
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Sifo-Dyas had known the moment he purchased the clone army from the Kaminoans that he would be on the planet for the long term. As such he had purchased a small, out of the way house, well away from the rest of the population, hidden in a small valley near but not a part of one of the locals' main cities. So out of the way few of the locals even knew it was there. It was a small, bare house, where he could meditate on the Force and remain hidden, Anything else was of no importance to him.
Entering after a swift walk through the bare scrublands around his house, he entered, closing the door behind him as the lights inside the house came on automatically. Then they went out just as suddenly, plunging the house into pitch black darkness.
Wasting no time gaping around him in surprise, Sifo-Dyas twisted to one side of the doorway, activating his lightsaber just in time to intercept a few blaster bolts. Despite his dodge to one side the bolts had come straight at him, which was rather telling. "I do not know who you are, but surrender and I will merely take you prisoner without any injury. If you do not surrender I cannot promise that."
The Jedi's response was another flurry of blaster bolts.
Reaching out with the Force, Sifo-Dyas could sense movement to his right and turned quickly, bringing up his lightsaber again to deflect a few more blaster bolts. A warning of danger through his Force Precognition, however, sent Sifo-Dyas leaping away as the floor underneath his previous position went up in an explosion. A mine in my own house! This attack is no sudden assault then, but calculated.
The confines of the house worked in the Jedi's favor now, however, as he bounced off the ceiling and then off one wall, still deflecting blaster bolts with his lightsaber. They were fired with unerring accuracy, and always came at such an angle that he knew his attacker was always moving just as quickly as Sifo-Dyas, making him unable to deflect the assaults back in his direction, which he would have thought was impossible before this. Whoever is attacking me is very good.
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