Jedi Council: Acts of War (film)

Jedi Council: Acts of War (also known as Star Wars: Jedi Council - Acts of War) is a 2000 American animated epic space opera film written by and Peggy Nicoll, and directed by  and Guy Moore. Based on the by, this film featuring several of the Jedi Masters, including , , and. It is set less than a year before the Battle of Naboo in ', and 33 years before the Battle of Yavin in ', telling the story of a Jedi task force sent to the Yinchorri system to settle a conflict.

Produced by and its animation division Lucasfilm Feature Animation, the film was distributed by  and it was released in the United States on June 21, 2000. Upon its release, it received mostly positive reviews from critics, who praised several of its action sequences, while also deeming its overall quality uneven in its animation.

Plot
In 33 BBY, the Yinchorri—a warlike species in the Expansion Region—launched an invasion of non-Yinchorri settlements outside their home territory during the Yinchorri Uprising. Yinchorri attack ships assault Mayvitch 7, one of the moons of Amador in the Chalenor system where the Immalians maintained a mining operation. The Yinchorri quickly massacred the defenders but one of the soldiers managed to send a distress transmission to the Jedi Order. Four days later, this transmission was played during a meeting of the Jedi Council at the Jedi Temple on Coruscant. By then, the Yinchorri had seized control of the moon and the system. Jedi Master Mace Windu addressed the Jedi Masters and surmised that the raids were carried out by the Yinchorri rather than pirates.

The Yinchorri were recent members of the Galactic Republic's Senate and they had obtained interstellar capabilities through illicit means. The Jedi Council then proceeded to discuss the Yinchorri threat. Earlier, the Order had dispatched two Jedi—Jedi Knight Naeshahn and her Padawan Ebor Taulk—on a mission to Yinchorr, the species' homeworld. However, they were murdered and their mutilated bodies were delivered to the door step of Supreme Chancellor Finis Valorum's chambers. Prior to their deaths, the two Jedi envoys found that the Yinchorri were immune to Force manipulation and that their society was divided into two castes: a ruling intelligentsia and a warrior caste. The Yinchorri's recent acquisition of cortosis technology was also a source of further concern among the Jedi leadership.

Later that night, the two members of the underground Sith Order Darth Sidious and his Zabrak apprentice Darth Maul watched the Jedi Temple from an unidentified skyscraper. Sidious had orchestrated the upcoming confrontation between the Jedi and the Yinchorri species in order to bring about two changes that would be beneficial to Sith interests. Sidious viewed the Force-resistant Yinchorri as a threat to his future ambitions and wanted to use another enemy to bring them down. He also wanted several Jedi to die in the Yinchorri Uprising in order to lessen the Jedi threat to his plans to destroy the Republic. Maul wanted to play a part in Sidious' Yinchorri plans but Sidious wanted to conceal the presence of the Sith for the moment. Instead, they would work through intermediaries like the Yinchorri and the Devaronian mercenary Vilmarh Grahrk, a smuggler who had supplied arms to the Yinchorri.

During a conversation via hologram, the Devaronian explained to his Sith master Sidious that he had arranged for an upcoming confrontation between the Yinchorri and the Jedi. Vilmarh had leaked intelligence of the upcoming Jedi visit to the Yinchorri. Through his services, Vilmarh had developed a close partnership with Darth Sidious but the Sith Lord refused to let him see his face since he reasoned that it was better that few knew of his true identity as Senator Palpatine of Naboo. The following day, the Jedi Order assembled a mission to the Yinchorri system. Prior to their departure, Master Giett and the Padawans K'Kruhk and Obi-Wan Kenobi played a game that involved rotating three white stones and one black stone under four cups. The object of the game was to keep track of the black stone but also helped test the Jedis' Force sensing abilities. Master Giett won the game by using his superior mastery of the Force to cloud his competitors' perceptions by tricking them into following their own expectations and assumptions.

Prior to the Jedi mission's departure, Master Windu gave the assembled Jedi a rousing speech. After thanking them for volunteering for the mission, he expressed his reluctance to resort to force but stressed that the Jedi had sworn to protect the Republic and could not afford to ignore the threat posed by Yinchorri belligerence nor the cold-blooded murder of two of their Jedi compatriots. He then warned the Jedi to put away any feelings of righteousness and reminded them that while right was on their side, they would carry out justice dispassionately and without rancor. The Jedi mission consisted of twelve Jedi and was made up of three groups, each assigned with a Consular-class space cruiser since there were only three habitable worlds in the system. Mace Windu, Saesee Tiin, Qui-Gon Jinn and his Padawan Kenobi were assigned with visiting the harsh Yinchorri homeworld of Yinchorr while Adi Gallia, Eeth Koth, Tsui Choi and Theen Fida were assigned to the ocean world of Yitheeth. Masters Plo Koon, Micah Giiett, Lilit Twoseas and her Padawan K'Kruhk were sent to Yibikkoror, a tiny world with a dense atmosphere. All three groups would search for a rumored Yinchorri command center.

As the Jedi ships departed, Master Yoda conferred with the Quermian Master Yarael Poof. The latter noted that the former was troubled. Yoda replied that the Yinchorri Uprising marked the first threat to emerge after many years of relative peace. He commented that the Jedi mission was flying into danger but added that those who remained also faced uncertainty. During the journey, Giett and K'Kruhk had a training session in lightsaber combat which involed a cortosis shield. Since the Yinchorri had access to that technology, the Jedi had to know how to deal with opponents wielding cortosis shields. Having jumped out of hyperspace in the Yinchorri system, they were immediately attacked by Yinchorri starfighters, spacecraft that had been stolen from the Golden Nyss Shipyards. The Jedi were disadvantaged since their cruisers were unarmed. However, during the engagement, Gallia's cruiser succeeded in destroying two fighters by tricking a third into destroying them before continuing to Yitheeth.

Meanwhile Windu's cruiser had its shields disabled by an enemy fighter. However, they evaded destruction due to the efforts of Tiin, who made a jump into hyperspace past a planet. To their Yinchorri pursuers, it appeared that their target had made a jump into hyperspace through the planet. By the time they found out, it was too late since the cruiser had headed to Yinchorr. Meanwhile, Micah and K'Kruhk's cruiser was hit by enemy fire but managed to fly towards Yibikkoror while still being pursued by three Yinchorri fighters. Later that day, the Jedi Temple on Coruscant intercepted communications between the Yinchorri fighter groups. One Yinchorri report confirmed that one Jedi cruiser had been shot down by two Yinchorri fighters. A Bith Jedi also cited another report claiming that Mace's ship had been destroyed above Yinchorr. However, other reports claimed that the ship had vanished from their screens. There were also three separate reports confirming that a cruiser had been brought down by direct hits. Yoda was worried by these offworld developments but also expressed concerns of another threat. Meanwhile, several armed Yinchorri warriors arrived on the outskirts of the Jedi Temple's compound on Coruscant.

In an attempt to end the Yinchorri Uprising, the Jedi Order dispatched a Jedi mission consisting of three Consular-class space cruisers to the Yinchorri system. Upon arriving in the Yinchorri system, the Jedi cruisers were pursued and attacked by Yinchorri starfighters but managed to evade their pursuers. Meanwhile, a second Yinchorri strike force prepared for an attack on the Jedi Temple on Coruscant, the capital of the Galactic Republic. Outside the Jedi Temple, the Yinchorri warriors were in position and ready for attack. All of this was being watched from a nearby skyscraper by Darth Sidious' Zabrak apprentice Darth Maul. He informed his master that the Yinchorri had begun their attack.

Meanwhile, outside the Temple, the Human Jedi Knight Jude Rozess was on guard duty when she was suddenly attacked by a Yinchorri donning a flutter-pack. Jude fought him, though her lightsaber was disabled by his powerful cortosis shield. Having immobilized her, he told his comrades to attack before the Jedi were aware of their presence while he attempted to kill Jude. He gripped her with his massive hands and strangled her. However, Jude also killed him by reactivating her lightsaber. Back in the Temple, the Yinchorri task force found that all the sleeping quarters were empty. The troops then entered a chamber where they were met by several armed Jedi, including Jedi Master Yoda. In the end, almost all the Yinchorri were killed while only two Jedi died: Jude Rozess and Tieren Nie-Tan.

Back in the Yinchorri system, the Jedi Masters Micah Giiett and Plo Koon managed to evade their pursuers by discarding the cruiser's frontal salon pod and escape pods as decoys. Thinking that the crew had abandoned ship, the Yinchorri opened fire on these decoy targets. With one of its thre engines damaged by enemy fire, the cruiser descended into the atmosphere of the gas ball Yibikkoror. Meanwhile, Masters Adi Gallia and Eeth Koth's team landed safely on the watery moon of Yitheeth, having managed to elude their pursuers. There, the Aleena Jedi Knight Tsui Choi and his Padawan Anx Theen Fida had a bath in the surrounding oceans. Having finished doing so, the four Jedi left for a nearby settlement on a speeder provided with the cruiser to continue with their mission of looking for a hidden Yinchorri high command.

Having arrived, the Jedi planned to pose as traders selling parts for the new T-21 hyper particle exchange chamber which turned out to be entirely made up by Adi Gallia. Soon, they were under attack by a group of Yinchorr under the Devaronian Olmar Grahrk, the younger cousin of the smuggler Vilmarh Grahrk, who was also working with Darth Sidious. However, the Jedi fought back valiantly and defeated their Yinchorri attackers. They then took Grahrk captive, whom told them that the Yinchorri high command was not on Yitheeth. Gallia then decided to leave for nearby Yibikkoror to aid fellow Masters Giett and Koon who were also under attack from the Yinchorri. Having escaped the Yinchorri while in space, the Jedi cruiser used by the Jedi team under Koon and Giett crash-landed on a floating platform within the gas planetoid Yibikkoror. They managed to fulfill their mission to Yibikkoror but immediately came attack again from more Yinchorri.

"Caught between fire and a precision", Giett called for assistance from Adi Gallia's team, who had also escaped a brush with the Yinchorri. The Kel Dor Plo Koon then suggested to his companions that they traverse through the dense atmosphere on the floating platform. Their Yinchorri pursuers followed them and one fell into the dense sea of gas below, presumably killing him. Knowing that they couldn't rely on Gallia to arrive on time, the Jedi attempted to climb to the top of the platform which was held up by balloons. While climbing up the platform, the Padawan K'Kruhk asked Master Lilit Twoseas about the complex relationship between Masters Giett and Koon.

While the two men were friends and worked towards the same goals, they seemed to taunt and bait each other regularly. Lilit suggested that he ask them himself. K'Kruhk asked Koon who explained that there was no animosity between him and Giett. He explained that their baiting was engendered in mutual respect and their shared experiences of working together on the same assignments. Since two men were close friends, Koon explained that the taunts served as a means of reaffirming their trust by making light of the danger they were facing. He concluded that Master Giett would have been more concerned had he said nothing. Giett concurred with his friend's opinion.

Back on Coruscant, Yoda interrogated the last remaining Yinchorri and asked him the location of the Yinchorri high command. The soldier responded to the Jedi Master by telling him that he did not know since he was only an ordinary soldier. Yoda then turned to converse with Soon Bayts, a Jedi Knight who brought word from Gallia and Koth that their high command was not on Yitheeth and that they were heading to Yibikkoror to help Plo Koon and Micah Giiett. Meanwhile on Yinchorr, Mace Windu's team was safe and they did not engage the Yinchorri in combat at the time. These distractions gave the Yinchorri in the temple enough time to grab his weapon and attempt to shoot the Jedi. Yoda threw him against a wall, presumably killing him. The Jedi then came to the conclusion that the Yinchorri were misguided rather than bloodthirsty and that the attack may have been the work of an unknown party, rather than the Yinchorri themselves.

Back on Yibikkoror, Giett and Koon's mission managed to reach the top of the platform but were by more Yinchorri donning flutter-packs. They headed towards the communications array in an attempt to find cover and set up position there. Their Yinchorri pursuers had ceased firing since they were at top of the balloon envelope and would not risk puncturing it. While Master Giett realized that the Yinchorri wanted to kill them, they were not prepared to destroy their whole city in the process. Giett instead suggested making a stand at the communications arrays in order to force the Yinchorri to fight the Jedi in melee combat. Master Koon concurred with Micah's tactics but fretted that this could mark their last stand if Master Gallia and the others did not arrive in time.

Finding and disable the Yinchorri command center, Jedi Master Adi Gallia's team lands on the watery moon of Yitheeth where they captured the Devaronian mercenary Olmar Grahrk, who was part of a Sith conspiracy to pit the Yinchorri species against the Galactic Republic and their Jedi defenders. Meanwhile, Master Micah Giiett's team lands on Yibikkoror only to be trapped by their Yinchorri pursuers.

In the exposition, Jedi Masters Mace Windu and Qui-Gon Jinn's team land on the Yinchorri homeworld of Yinchorr, a desert world. During the mission, Jinn and his Padawan Obi-Wan Kenobi went on a recon probe of the surrounding area and find that the Yinchorri are mustering their forces. They also confirm the earlier Jedi mission's report that the Yinchorri species are immune to mind control but fail to find any sign of the Yinchorri command center. Instead, they find that Yinchorr is being used as a staging ground for an invasion. The pair narrowly evade a Yinchorri patrol and report back to Masters Windu and Saesee Tiin. Meanwhile, a Yinchorri patrol stumbles upon their Consular-class space cruiser and detonate the vehicle. However, they fail to find the Jedi occupants.

Meanwhile on Yibikkoror, Master Giett's team fight off their Yinchorri pursuers, killing many of the enemy with their lightsabers. Master Gallia's Consular space cruiser arrived above the Yibikkoror balloon city but was unable to land due to a lack of space on the floating platform, which was already swarmed with throngs of hostile Yinchorri. Thus, the four Jedi stole a balloon in their attempt to reach the cruiser. Having reached its docking rig, they were greeted by the Zabrak Jedi Master Eeth Koth who managed to get the Padawan K'Kruhk, Masters Lilit Twoseas and Plo Koon inside. However, before Micah could get it, he came under attack from more Yinchorri donning flutter-packs. Micah then grabbed the balloon and made another jump while the cruiser moved downwards to allow him to descend down the docking rig. The two reunited Jedi teams then departed to Yinchorr to assist Jedi Masters Windu, Jinn, Tiin, and Padawan Kenobi.

Back at the Jedi Temple on Coruscant, Masters Yoda and Yaddle received word from the Jedi teams that they had survived and would rendezvous on Yinchorr. However, the Jedi teams had been unable to find the Yinchorri command center. Yoda and Yaddle both sensed that something "shrouded and obscured" was influencing the Yinchorri Uprising from behind the scenes. The Human Jedi Master Soon Bayts then entered the room to inform his compatriots that Master Gallia's team had taken a Devaronian prisoner named Olmar Grahrk, the cousin of the smuggler Vilmarh Grahrk. That Jedi also speculated that the Devaronians had been engineering the Yinchorri unrest. Meanwhile, the Galactic Republic's Senate was still deadlocked over planning its response to the Yinchorri problem.

At an unknown location of Coruscant, the Sith Lord Darth Sidious learnt about the capture of Olmar and informed his cousin Vilmarh. Sidious threatened the Devaronian with death if the captive Olmar revealed their secret plans to the Jedi. A desperate Vilmarh promised Sidious and his apprentice Darth Maul that he would make sure that his cousin would not disclose anything about the Sith's plans. Gallia's Jedi cruiser traveled to Yinchorr to reinforce Master Windu's team. However, the Jedi were unable to interrogate the captive Olmar since they were already nearing Yinchorr and the Yinchorri had just discovered Windu's hiding place.

The Consular-class space cruiser arrived on Yinchorr in the middle of a battle between Windu's Jedi team and an army of Yinchorri. Since the Jedi were greatly outnumbered, Master Eeth Koth suggested a rescue mission to extract Windu's team. Gallia, Theen Fida and Tsui Choi would stay with the ship while the remaining Jedi would join the battle. Master Koth's Jedi succeeded in opening a second front and diverting the bulk of the Yinchorri force away from Windu's team who were holed up on a hill. Windu's team were then able to descend down the hill and rejoin Koth's team. During the fighting, Saesee Tiin immobilized a Yinchorri tank by killing its driver. While Koth's and Windu's teams were reunited, the Yinchorri force turned its attention to the Consular cruiser. During the melee, K'kruhk's master Lilit was killed by a Yinchorri. In retaliation, her enraged Padawan beheaded her attackers with his lightsaber.

Back on Coruscant, the Supreme Chancellor Finis Valorum concludeds a crisis meeting with several Republic senators who agree to support a blockade and an embargo against the Yinchorri in return for keeping promises that he had made to them over the past five years. Following the meeting, Valorum contacted Master Yoda and expressed his weariness at having to make several concessions in order to gain the necessary votes to support military intervention in the Yinchorri system. Master Yoda sympathized with the Chancellor but commented that his sacrifice was necessary since it was small in comparison to the lives that the Order sacrificed during the mission. Koth and Windu's teams managed to return to the cruiser only to discover a bloodbath. While Gallia's team had managed to fight off their Yinchorri attackers, two Jedi had also been slain: Tsui's Padawan Fida and Master Twoseas.

Windu ordered the Jedi to evacuate the bodies of their slain compatriots aboard the ship. He then ordered Tiin to prepare the cruiser for immediate takeoff and to send a transmission to Master Yoda. Upon arriving inside the ship, the Jedi found that Olmar had broken free of his bonds and had headed to the command bridge where he was contacting his cousin Vilmarh. He tried to get his older cousin to help him out and reported that one of the Jedi had been killed. However, Vilmarh was furious that his cousin had contacted him from the Jedi ship since the Jedi would be able to trace his signal and apprehend him. Master Choic apprehended the Devaronian.

Meanwhile, Windu and the other Jedi recovered Lilit's body after fighting off several Yinchorri with the Force. The Yinchorri retreated but then regrouped to launch a second assault on the cruiser. Giett and Koon offered to stay behind and cover their retreat and were joined by Jin and his Padawan Obi-Wan. Windu agreed but reminded that their action was a tactical retreat rather than a last stand. He ordered the Jedi to join him as soon as they could since they did not want any further casualties. Finally, Master Mace Windu's team on Yinchorr was besieged by a Yinchorri army. However, they were reinforced by Gallia and Giiett's teams who helped fight off the Yinchorri. However, during the fighting, Master Lilit Twoseas and the Padawan Theen Fida were killed.

Since the three Jedi teams had found no trace of the Yinchorri command center on the inhabited worlds of the Yinchorri system, Master Yaddle had consulted the holocron of Tharence Wo and found out that there was a fourth world within the star system known as Uhanayih. It was a lifeless rock that translated from the Yinchorri into Galactic Basic Standard as "Within World" and was associated with Yinchorri beliefs about the afterlife. She also suggested that the name was not only use figuratively but carried a literal meaning as well. Master Depa Billaba concurred and suggested that Uhanayih contained a base or city. Master Oppo Rancisis added that this explain why no trace of the Yinchorri base had been found on the other worlds. At that point, Bayts entered the room to informed the other Jedi that Windu was contacting them via hologram.

After interrogating the captured Devaronian arms dealer Olmar Grahrk, the Jedi mission found out that the Yinchorri command center was indeed located on Uhanayih. Windu also told his Jedi compatriots on Coruscant to relay the planet's coordinates to Supreme Chancellor Finis Valorum. Back on Yinchorr, Masters Micah Giiett and Plo Koon's team of Jedi were guarding the battlefield near the Consular-class space cruiser when Giiett was shot in the back by a Yinchorri sniper. The grievously wounded Giiett then told his comrades to move towards one of the Yinchorri tanks. He also reiterated that his comrades should not allow feelings of grief, sentiment, and revenge to distort their judgment. He also urged his Jedi to stop the Yinchorri but warned them against excessive violence. He also prophesied that Master Qui-Gon Jinn and his Padawan Obi-Wan Kenobi were somehow destined to be Jedi of some renown. Finally, he told his friend Koon tha he would miss his company.

Master Giiett opted to remain behind to fend off the Yinchorri reinforcements while his comrades continued their mission to find the Yinchorri command center. As soon as his companions had left, Micah was surrounded by a squad of Yinchorri. He told them to come closer on the pretext of revealing "Jedi secrets" to them. When they did, he told them that the Jedi were not afraid to die for a worthy cause before activating his lightsaber, plunging the blade into the tank's fuel cell. The resulting explosion killed Giiett, and many of the Yinchorri. Giiett's death was transmitted by the Force and felt by his Jedi companions all over the galaxy. Even Darth Sidious himself felt it in the Force. The Dark Lord then ordered his apprentice Darth Maul to contact Vilmarh Grahrk, the cousin of Olmar and an arms dealer working for the Sith Order. However, the Devaronian had already fled along with his relatives. However, Sidious was not worried because he was unable to reveal the existence of the Sith since he did not know the identity of Darth Sidious, who was in fact Senator Palpatine of Naboo.

As the Consular cruiser departed Yinchorr for Uhanayih, Qui-Gon tried to comfort Mace Windu by telling him not to blame himself since death was the inevitable outcome of war and the Jedi had known the dangers before embarking on the Yinchorri mission. Windu was warmed by Qui-Gon's words but admitted that he still felt guilty about knowing the Jedi had laid dow their lives. Plo Koon intervened to ask whether it was harder to bear guilt or grief. Back at the Galactic Republic's capital of Coruscant, Chancellor Valorum met Jedi Master Yoda outside the Galactic Senate and informed him that the Senate had agreed to dispatch four Republic Navy attack groups to Uhanayih. While Yoda welcomed these new developments, he sensed that Valorum was troubled because he had to make many concessions in order to convince his supporters in the Senate to support a technological embargo against the Yinchorri. According to Valorum, this situation reflected a growing tendency among the Galactic Republic's citizens to view the Jedi as unwanted intruders rather than as protectors.

Eventually, the Jedi arrived at Uhanayih. However, they were met by a massive Yinchorri fleet and soon under attack. Luckily for the Jedi, help came in the form of a Republic Navy fleet consisting of Republic light assault cruisers and armed Corellian Star Shuttles. Soon, much of the Yinchorri fleet had been destroyed or immobilized, allowing the Jedi to make their way to Uhanayih. Master Windu then ordered Qui-Gon to contact the Admiral in charge of the Republic forces and request for an escort for their trip to the Yinchorri high command. Thus, the Jedi cruiser approached the moon with the escort and entered a huge tunnel which led to the Yinchorri base.

Having arrived and seeing no place to land, the Jedi cruiser crash-landed into the high command's war room before the defending Yinchorri could close its blast shutters. Meanwhile, in the war room, one of the Yinchorri remarked to his companion that the Devaronian Vilmarh Grahrk had assured him that the Republic would not intervene. His friend then replied that Vilmarh and his men had fled and then ordered the blast shutters to be shut. However, it was too late. The cruiser wrecked the war room, causing heavy damage to the Yinchorri. The commander would then beg the victorious Jedi not to kill them. Mace Windu then replied by remarking that those Yinchorri were responsible for the chaos and then asked Adi Gallia about what Master Oppo Rancisis had said about the philosophy of "might makes right". Gallia replied by telling him that that philosophy is "often recanted" upon encountering a more powerful foe.

Following the Yinchorri surrender, Valorum contacted the Jedi Council on Coruscant to inform them that a quarantine had been imposed on the Yinchorri system. The Republic authorities believed that Vilmarh Grahrk had been the main instigator behind the Yinchorri Uprising and vowed to apprehend and bring him to justice. However, Yoda believed that both the Devaronian man and the Yinchorri had been pawns of an unknown party. Valorum also expressed the Republic's gratitude to the Jedi Order and explained that he had dispatched a ship to bring home the Jedi team before departing to attend to other matters. The surviving Jedi team landed in Coruscant on a Corellian Star Shuttle carrying their dead to the Jedi Temple where they were presumably cremated. During a debriefing meeting of the Jedi Council, Mace Windu decided to leave the Yinchorri to the Senate and Vilmarh and his accomplices to the Judicial Department.

Due to the death of Micah Giiett on Yinchorr, the Council had to fill his empty seat. Windu recommended the Cerean Jedi Knight Ki-Adi-Mundi as a candidate since he had previously stood in for Giiett and had demonstrated judgment and valor as a former Padawan of Yoda. Windu was reluctant to consider Master Qui-Gon's application since he found him to be headstrong and willful. Master Yoda agreed to consider Mundi's application but expressed that he was still troubled about finding the identity of Vilmarh's true employer. He reiterated that the Devaronian lacked the motive to incite the Yinchorri to revolt against the Republic and thus concluded that he had been working for an unknown party.

This party turned out to be Darth Sidious, the leader of the underground Sith Order which now adhered to Darth Bane's tenet known as the Rule of Two. Darth Maul was uncomfortable that the Jedi had won. However, his Master Sidious disagreed since the Jedi and the Senate had unwitting helped the Sith cause by eliminating the Yinchorri as a potential impediment to the Sith's plans of galactic domination. Maul then expressed his disappointment that he had not been able to go to Yinchorr and kill more Jedi. However, Sidious advised his apprentice to be patient and reiterated that the time would come when he could fulfill his blood lust. For now, he believed that the Sith should relished the resolution of the Yinchorri Uprising as a small victory that the Jedi Council had delivered unknowingly to their Sith opponents.