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"And the Jedi? I thought I felt the arrival of that busybody bitch Fay." The term came easily to Sidious, he loathed Fay with every fiber of his being, she represented the best and worst of the Jedi Order in his opinion, setting aside what her example could mean for the Great Plan. He longed for the day where the Veil was strong enough to fool even her senses and would let them lead Fay to her death.
"You did, and her aura made an already difficult task near impossible. Have you any further information on why she is involved with Dooku and why the two of them were on Tatooine? I checked our sources this morning but they hadn't run down any of Jabba's former enforcers yet." Plagueis replied, already sending out a Force Pull towards a nearby droid, which approached with a hologram globe connected to their computer network.
"No master, I haven't checked since before that young fool Padme arrived." The two Sith were silent as Plagueis inputted the commands to bring up the reports from their underworld spies. Perusing the information they both scowled angrily in their hoods, up even here in the comforting darkness of Plagueis' laboratory cum throne room. "A simple rescue mission? Fay felt these other Jedi's distress, and came with Dooku to rescue them? A last gasp of the Light side of the Force to cause events to go in its favor then."
Plagueis frowned, thinking about that information then about what he had felt during the day as he observed the Jedi Temple. "You might be missing the point apprentice. Fay has a padawan now, when we knew before this that she refused to take one. We have new techniques appearing within the Order with no clear source for them. The Force Shield alone has saved many a Jedi's life over the past few years, not least of which Master Giiett of the council during the Yinchorri uprising we instigated. No, there is something else going on here."
"You think Fay is the source of these new abilities? The Stunning and Shield techniques do seem like powers she could have rediscovered. And the Order could have assigned her a padawan to see if they could be passed on before letting her teach this Clan Saa as a larger test group." Sidious mused. Like most of the Jedi Order the idea of rediscovering old knowledge was more palatable to think than the idea someone could create new ones to the Sith.
"Perhaps…" Plagueis frowned, as he recalled the Light Side phenomenon from years before. Yet it had disappeared into the greater Force, so well he could no longer remember what it was. It could well have been something Fay had discovered and Tholme had helped transport. Yes, that made sense, and Fay was extremely hard to track from a distance, yes…
Yet even as he thought that, an unusual seed of doubt grew within Plagueis for a moment before he shook it off. "In any case, she derailed your assassin's first attempt to kill Jinn, and our plans for Dooku will not occur now. I can still see him causing a schism in the Order, but he will not serve as the large scale threat we need for the end game of the Great Plan."
"I have several other Jedi who might serve master, never fear. You know the one whom I speak of."
"Yes, he will do nicely. He is well liked and respected among the Core Worlds and out to the Inner Rim. Indeed, with him at the helm the war might become far more general than if we went with our original plan with Dooku at the helm." Plagueis mused. "And I think that Sifo-Dyas can still serve. Regardless of the new abilities the Jedi have, Dyas inability to use precognition any longer has made him far more susceptible to suggestion than the man was 20 years ago. I will approach him after the Naboo incident is done with."
"Doing away with Dyas afterward will prove difficult," Sidious warned. "My pawn might not yet be primed by the time it is necessary. Better to use another cutout and come up with another way to make our new 'ally' prove himself in some other fashion."
"Agreed. I will do that myself I think however, I have already placed a tracker on his ship, and once he has commissioned the work myself and Jango Fett will do well enough to get rid of him. Jango's hatred of the Jedi make him easily manipulated despite his strong mind." Plagueis paused, thinking, his Senses spreading out into the Veil for a moment, feeling the flow of it and the future before speaking again, as if to himself. "Yes, the Jedi are becoming worried, now we make them paranoid, reactionary. Such people will be easily manipulated, and will cause trouble for themselves all on their own. Yes, it is time for your assassin to reveal himself."
The Muun looked up then his eyes locking on his apprentice's. "Qui-Gon Jinn must die. He is the foremost proponent of the Living Force theory, and that theory would let the Jedi regain the kind of flexibility that would let them out of the trap our Rule of Two has been working towards since our pawns put the Ruusan Reformation in place."
"However, there is a complication. Mace Windu was sent along with Jinn for some reason I cannot fathom. It has something to do with Fay's presence, something she showed the High Council. With all their auras interfering I could not see what, but he will be with Jinn, his apprentice and the vergence on Naboo."
"Why is the Order allowing the vergence to go with them? That seems unlike the Jedi Order to place such a young tool in danger." Sidious asked.
"Jinn is taking the vergence along. I sense he feels it might be the Order's Chosen One. As if balance would serve them," Plagueis allowed a small sneer onto his normally blank face before going on. "But Windu is a threat, one your assassin might not be able to handle. He needs to stay away from him. And if he could somehow recover the vergence that would be excellent. Though having him in the temple where we can influence him is good enough for now I suppose given his age."
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