Sifo-Dyas

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Star Wars character
Sifo-Dyas
Portrayed by Not applicable
Position Jedi Master
Homeworld Esiken
Species Human
Gender Male
Affiliation Jedi, Galactic Republic

Sifo-Dyas is a fictional character in the Star Wars universe, created for Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones. He is only alluded to in the Star Wars prequel films, but appears as a character in Expanded Universe material.

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[edit] Biography

Sifo-Dyas was a Jedi, and a former good friend of Master Count Dooku. He had the gift of precognition and predicted the coming Clone Wars, and knew the Galactic Republic would soon face dark times.

Ten years before the events depicted in Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, Sifo-Dyas secretly commissioned (by secret demand from Senator Palpatine) a clone army on Kamino, ostensibly to defend the Republic; at the same time, Palpatine requested that he delete records of the existence of Kamino from the Jedi library archive. Prior to this, Dooku had left the Jedi Order and had fallen in league with Darth Sidious. The Sith Lord informed Dooku of Sifo-Dyas' actions. At Sidious' behest and a final test of his allegiance to the dark side of the Force, Dooku murdered Sifo-Dyas. Sidious intended to use Sifo-Dyas only as a dead-end cover for the order of a clone army.

In Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, Obi-Wan Kenobi travels to Kamino to investigate an assassination attempt made upon Senator Padmé Amidala. The Kaminoan prime minister, Lama Su, informed Obi-Wan that Sifo-Dyas had ordered the creation of a clone army on Kamino. The Jedi Council confirmed it was not aware of the order. Jango Fett, a bounty hunter and father of Boba Fett, told Obi-Wan that he never heard of the name Sifo-Dyas. He also said that he was recruited by a man called Tyranus on one of the moons of Bogden.

By the climax of Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, Sifo-Dyas' army was revealed, as deployed during the Battle of Geonosis. In Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith, it was used as the tool of an act of betrayal to destroy the Jedi Knights, in accordance with Emperor Palpatine's murderous Order 66.

[edit] Behind the scenes

In early drafts of Attack of the Clones, the name of the Jedi who contacted the Kaminoans was Sido-Dyas, pointing to a likely early conceptual connection to Darth Sidious. However, "Sifo-Dyas" appears in one place, apparently as a typing mistake (as the D and F letters are located next to each other on a QWERTY keyboard) that series creator George Lucas later preferred to the original name.

In addition, 'Sido-Dyas' was originally only a false identity for Sidious — there was no real Jedi Master by that name, with Obi-Wan, Yoda and Mace Windu claiming never to have heard of him.

Lucas at one point said he would reveal Sifo-Dyas' backstory in Revenge of the Sith; it is instead explained in the novel Labyrinth of Evil.

His name was changed to "Zaifo-Vias" in Brazil, in order to avoid puns on his name (as Fodias is a conjugation of foder).

[edit] Expanded Universe

Three official books (Revenge of the Sith picture/storybook, Revenge of the Sith Scrapbook, and Galactic Crisis) reveal that Supreme Chancellor Palpatine secretly sends Sifo-Dyas to Kamino to place the order for the clone army. Starwars.com also states that Palpatine, who is also Darth Sidious, masterminds the Clone Wars from its very inception, having arranged the clone army's creation through the "dead-end front" of Sifo-Dyas.

In Star Wars: Visionaries ( a non-canon work), Sifo-Dyas is shown to be a Caucasian man with a small, brown goatee. Also in Visionaries, it is suggested that Sifo-Dyas' blood is used in General Grievous' blood transfusion.

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