Plot summary pls?

@@ZKP314it’s a bit complicated. Basically a mercenary working for Darth Maul and Darth Sidious steals precious cargo from a trade federation ship, the trade federation complains to Chancellor Valorum that they can’t defend their ships from pirates, Valorum on the advice of Palpatine organizes a trade summit negotiation between the republic and trade federation, and a terrorist organization representing poor outer rim worlds gets upset that they’re being excluded from the trade summit and try to assassinate chancellor Valorum. They fail the first time, but the same mercenary who robbed the trade federation ship is hired by the terrorist group to do the same thing at the trade summit, the Jedi get involved, try to foil the assassination attempt, but to everyone’s shock, the trade federation droids turn on the directorate of the trade federation and execute them. Nute Gunray then stacks the now vacant directorate with neimoidian sycophants, the Jedi eliminate the terrorist group, and the precious cargo stolen from the trade federation ship at the beginning of the book mysteriously ends up having been invested in Chancellor Valorum’s families companies on Eriadu. He’s changed with corruption and embarrassment and various other crimes, and is stripped of many of his executive powers and disgraced. He insists that he’s been framed and set up, but no one believes him except for his close friend Senator Palpatine.

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@@ZKP314 Cloak of Deception is told in four parts: Dorvalla, Coruscant, The Outlying Systems, and The Inner Circle. Shortly before the Battle of Naboo (32 BBY), Darth Sidious is in the middle of his plans. As Senator Palpatine, he manipulates Supreme Chancellor Valorum and other senators. As the Sith Master, he begins to slowly put the Neimoidians and the Trade Federation in position for his blockade of Naboo. A terrorist group known as the Nebula Front threatens the activities of the Trade Federation. They are protesting the actions of the group and will resort to any means necessary to disrupt the Trade Federation. They have hired Captain Arwen Cohl to carry out terrorist acts against their business, including robbing a Trade Federation ship of aurodium ingots, worth billions in orbit of the planet Dorvalla. However, Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi are hot on the trail of the terrorists. Though Cohl escapes, he is forced to crash-land and all but him and two of his crew members, Rella and Boiny, perish. He later flees in his ship, the Hawk-Bat. Fearing more trouble, the Trade Federation petitions the Galactic Senate to allow them to increase their number of droid fighters, battle droids, and other defenses. Valorum considers this, but only if he can tax some of the trade routes they hold (on advice from Palpatine). This sparks a debate and a summit on Eriadu is scheduled to be held on the matter. Taking extreme measures, the Nebula Front sets plans in motion to assassinate Supreme Chancellor Valorum at the summit to prevent the taxation. Cohl has been hired by a mysterious being known only as Havac. He travels throughout the Outer Rim, hiring several experienced assassins. Unknown to him however, Havac (secretly in league with Darth Sidious) has another plan. Meanwhile, the Jedi Council, along with Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan, steps in to track down Captain Cohl and the would-be assassins. On Eriadu, Cohl dispatches his helpers throughout the capital city. He is ambushed by Havac after realizing the true target. Most of the assassins are captured by the Jedi outside the summit building, but one remains inside. A sniper, he has been given the order to fire at, but miss, Valorum. The Jedi find Cohl and his partner Boiny, who, wounded, agrees to help them. They discover the sniper a second too late, but are surprised when he misses Valorum. Then Cohl remembers the true intent of Havac: to assassinate the Trade Federation Directorate. Cohl tackles Havac and kills him, though he and Boiny are mortally wounded in the attempt. Suddenly, the battle droids draw their blasters, influenced by the single droid present that didn't require a Central Control Computer to act. With a shield activated for safety, the members of the Trade Federation are trapped. The droids kill them all while the crowd watches, stunned. The only survivors were the Neimoidian members, who were away to their ship which had been tampered with. In the ensuing shock, the bill to tax is passed by the Senate. Later, the leading members of the Federation are named. They are all Neimoidians. Darth Sidious later meets Nute Gunray on the bridge of his ship, suggesting they invade Naboo for revenge against Palpatine, who helped pass the bill. Little do they know that it is just part of the Sith Lord's plan for control of the galaxy.

yeah tbh he did quite well and would've won if Anakin didn't literally commit perfidy

@jamesashcroft8170 It's not a war crime if there's no laws against it in universe ;)

@@ninyaninjabrifsanovichthes45 it's not a war crime if you are on the winning side.

Merica in a nutshell.

He was honorable enough to let the Republic send resources to the people of Ryloth, he was willing to take the deal before he realized it was a ruse for yet another Anakin War Crime

No kidding. It really shows that the jedi were not trained for war at all. They were peacekeepers and monks. Not Warriors, not Soldiers, Commanders or Officers. They don't know the methods or the rules or the reason for either.

@@MagicalMaster their arrogance was their downfall. That along with their blind loyalty to the Senate

@@personalgoogleaccount9694 Not even arrogance. Ignorance was the greater sin.

He was also one of the only separatist leaders who didn’t care about money or count dooku a personal war. He truly believed he was fighting for the freedom of the galaxy. Obi fucked him over

@@nickcozzie6614 There were several like him Admiral Trench, Governor Tawni Ames, the Geonosians, the Umbarans

definitely, plus then you can have a recurring cast that gets humiliated so you can communicate a variety of different morals for the audience, instead of just turning grievous into a slightly more threatening skelethor

Sidious really had something against fishy individuals, didn’t he?

Instead of Having resentful guy design their military space stations . Why get Lok Durd From jail

@@GGBlaster Must have had a force vision about Admiral Ackbar.

Even Palpatine’s biggest mistake was trusting Palpatine

​@@-TheMachineGod- "your overconfidence is your weakness"

he did it so many times that it becomes a pattern. lol

@@user-mn5lk8iw5h rip the republic troops that genuinely surrendered only to be attacked out of fear of it being a false surrender.

Laws of war? You mean of humans, on earth. We have no frame of reference for what the laws of war for the Star Wars galaxy is.

​@@antifurryfoundation55even then it doesn't change the fact that he's not a bad Commander he was a great tactician researched about Anakin Skywalker and even agreed to his little peace treaty and was humble he was a good Commander.

@@antifurryfoundation55there was a charter of military law in the republic. Some Jedi like mace Windu studied it to best apply it, Anakin looked at the war crime example section and thought it was clearly a playbook.

Lord behold they make a game or show where the Protagonist ISN‘T HUMAN! 💀 I think it snows in hell the day they try that. I think I‘ll write a book one day where that’s the case, an alien protagonist… That would be something new for once at least.

@@MajinObamawell in squadrons you can play as a Pantoran

I mean, it _kinda_ balances out by making the Syndullas protagonists in the Ryloth arc? Still weird though, there definitely should be more sympathetic non-human CIS characters.

Counterpoint: Mina Bonteri was a milf

T4* reference. 🧐

(translator's note: "cake" means "keikaku") (translator's note #2: "keikaku" means "plan")

So which modern politician or ruler in our world is most like Palpatine? Opinions open 🙂

@@hackman669 Who knows. Maybe none of them? Since not much seems to go according to their plans, _unlike good ol' Palppy here._

Anyone else notice how our world 🌎 at this time seems like the bad guy Olympics? I mean why does ever major power seem to want to pick a fight right now? World leaders didn't get their coffee or something? Guys we civilians don't want another war. Just normalize relations and make peace. If you want resources trade for it ir buy it.🙄🤔

He's 93.

Yeah, 'mistake' isn't the right term. Especially because perfidy being a war crime is less of an honor thing and more so a this is a bad long term strategic precedent to set. Obi Wan was acting extremely short-sighted and stupid, but CW treats it like it's a brilliant and clever tactic no one has ever thought of before.

Or go into hiding themselves.

Anakin 🤝 Alucard Enthusiastic Walks (Violence)

It was sidious's idea to send them to mustafar, to be fair.

​@@luisemoralesfalcon4716you'd think so but then thatd just been practicing an foreshadowing for a lifetime an nother era later when Anakin/Vader went after Jedi just cuz

You would think he would have been replaced

"Why the fuck you lyin?"

I know it's a typo, but stat wars made me laugh. I just imagine battles between spreadsheets and data analysts.

Certainly is, well spotted! 😅

Lol thanks, the second i saw it i doubled back to check😂

In fairness they did not trust Palpatine lol, and in fact were 100% against him and hated him. They trusted Darth Sidious. None of them (except Count Dooku/Darth Tyranus) knew that Darth Sidious was Palpatine. There’s even a scene in the Cloak of Deception novel where Nute Gunray, Rune Haako and Hath Monchar are complaining to Darth Sidious about how awful and obstructive and annoying Senator Palpatine is, and Darth Sidious assures them that there is much more to Palpatine than meets the eye, and that he will not be an issue for the Trade Federation.

​@@SarastistheSerpent *My God, that's downright savage.* 🤦‍♂️ Bro was literally playing them right to their faces and they didn't know it.

Right on. 😁

When UK needs actors they gi Canadian. 😄

I agree ☝️ with you have a wonderful point.

Yeah I heard he is was supposed to die with his ship but George Lucas liked his character so he wanted hin to survive. Shame we never got to see him again.

Is it a war crime of there's no in- universe Geneva convention?

@@advena996 i get your point, but i'm pretty sure things like white flag predate Geneva convention... and probably Geneva

​@@advena996well, we *do* know that the Rules of Engagement exist in the Star Wars Galaxy and in the Clone Wars episode where Luminara and Ahsoka were escorting Nute Gunray back to Coruscant, the narrator basically said that once he was on Coruscant, he'll be held on trial for his many war crimes. So, if a Geneva Convention *does* exist, I gather that it probably has a different name because every piece of Star Wars media is not set in the Milky Way Galaxy.

@@KyloStimpy I tend to agree with you overall, but I'm not sure that the "no tricks while surrendering" thing is universal. The trojan horse comes to mind. I believe that strategem isn't condemned, but it's been a while since I read the illiad.

@@DoctorWhoKage interesting! I'm guessing that false surrenders aren't against Coruscant's rules then? (I'm guessing Anakin's "enhanced interrogation techniques" were)

Bad move. 😄😃

Because they weren't in control of anything. And also, Dooku was the political, not military leader of the CIS.

Polack

Because he was an Alien; Palpatine's Empire was a Xenophobic, human-centric autocracy. The only reason Thrawn got to the position that he had was because he got results and was smart enough to know how to talk to Palpatine without making him feel threatened, so Palpatine was willing to overlook the fact that he was Chiss.

@@GamerX51there were a few other non-humans in the Imperial military, but if I’m not mistaken, every single one of them (including Thrawn) was promoted directly by Emperor Palpatine himself. That was the only way they were able to have jobs in the imperial military.

For a few reasons: 1. Lok Durd was a Separatist and was therefore against the Republic, and by extension the Empire. 2. Neimoidians were scapegoated by the Imperialist core worlds as being the cause of the war, and the purse worlds and their people were absolutely ravaged by the Empire after the war. Only the Geonosians suffered a worse fate at the hands of the empire. 3. The Imperial military was extremely racist and humanocentric, and virtually no aliens were permitted to join the Empire’s military. The few that were allowed to join, like Thrawn, were only able to do so because Emperor Palpatine assigned them personally. 4. Lok Durd was in Republic custody for most of the war, and was therefore an enemy of the Republic/Empire. 5. Lok Durd made numerous enemies within the Republic military while he was an active Separatist military commander, most notably Orsen Krennic.

@@SarastistheSerpent 3 doesn't matter and 2 simply isn't correct in either timeline, but the rest is true

He WILL press the Win Button at every opportunity.

They wanted survants for wild parties 🥳🎉🤪

Only the CIS Council and a handful of others even knew about him lol, and they were all in on at least part of his plan. It isn't like any actual Separatists knew

Could be another one of his species. Or maybe he escaped the Republic.

​@ALLMINDmercenarysupportsystem I believe it was during Cad Banes escape from prison.

@@lordwintertown8284 Makes sense

@@lordwintertown8284 No, he was in the Republic naval base in the Ahsoka arc.

Basically Dave Filoni fucked up the lore. Disney had to cover for him by explaining that he was broken out somehow (in the heart of Republic territory, it makes no fucking sense, I know). Tambor's participation on Ryloth was pretty nonsensical, and in reality should be ignored. He was the CEO of one of the biggest companies in the galaxy, it makes no sense for him to be leading an invasion force. What would even be his motivation?