Gallagher was attached to the very tail end of that incident, I think, with the Viceroy. Perhaps another big-name mission to increase Gallagher's fame?
Gallagher frowns.
"But how do you KNOW all of this? You are not in the Jedi Order. You would not be privy to that information, even as an Abbot of Ferradyne."
Gallagher has no further questions about Spiridos.
Scovione's partner was Dooku; in later parts of this story they were accompanied by their Padawans, Qui-Gon and Gundark.
"Paluzzi's story is really one of failure. Every time we met him we were able to foil his plans, although he always got away. We felt quite superior, which played against us. Paluzzi was capable of the most remarkable spite and irrational acts. In our smugness, we thought if we foiled his plans we removed his threat. We drove him to desperation, and so it was he pulled off his most evil act.
"Using an ancient stellar manipulator, he caused the star around the planet Vataan to go supernova with remarkable speed. The evacuation was extremely hurried and many died, and an entire planet of people were left as refugees. Why did we do this? We were investigating some of his links to organised crime there at the time, having just shut down one of this operations. He destroyed the whole world just to deny us that evidence. And, I think, to show us what he was capable of."
He sighs.
"I never told Gundark, that it was our laxity that caused her homeworld to be destroyed. She remembers nothing of it, of course; in earlier work there I had already removed her from the planet as an infant when I saw her force potential."
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"A score or more of Naboo policemen saw an assailaint wielding an unsuual red Lightsabre," says Sienar, "including their elected head of state. Rumours spread. Though if that does not satisfy you... I was on Coruscant two years ago making a presentation to the Senate. I was around when the attemps on the Viceroy's life were made and, though I doubt anyone noticed, I witnessed one of them first hand. I made it my business to be sure about what was going on."
"And what do you think can prevent those deaths, Gallagher?"
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Anyway, after Vataan, they didn't run into Paluzzi for a long time. In fact, they almost hoped he had died on Vataan. But no, in the end he did come back. This time, Dooku and Scovione had their Padawans with them. But Paluzzi had something to even the odds- in these years, he had acquired an apprentice of his own.
"I doubt that," says Sienar. "There is much you do not know. Even about yourself. You should rest now, Gallagher. We shall meet again tomorrow."
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Well, that cannot be proven.
But Scovione relates how this apprentice, who went by the name 'Kalik', turned out to be a far more dangerous person than Paluzzi ever was. He didn;'t realise this until he walked into Kalik's first trap; a lightsabre duel inside a particularly devious hall of mirrors, where each opponent was surrounded by a thousand images of himself and his enemy, and it took amazingly precise force instincts to tell truth from fiction. Kalik himself was already showing himself gifted in the Force, and learning much from Paluzzi. Unlike Paluzzi, Kialik was quite an impressive physical specimen too, and although he was not yet fully experienced, he was keen, talented, and over time proved to have a much sharper mind.
And indeed, as time went by, Paluzzi faded out the pocture and was nevber seen again. Kalik became Scovione's main nemesis and as time went by he became more and more hazardous. Unlike Paluzzi, who was always cleanly dfeated- spite at Vataan aside- whenever you ran into Kalik you always had the idea that whatever you were doing was part of his plan. He was a true master of deception; he knew that the Dark Side went beyond vulgar displays of power and irrational acts. Scovione was never happy after a brush with Kalik. Something always ended up worse than when it started.
The only fortunate thing was that Kalik was always operating far from Galactic centre; he was never posing a true threat to anything major. Though in many ways that troubled Scovione also- he couldn't see what Kalik was working towards. He seemed to have taken control of many of Paluzzi's old criminal interests, but he couldn't imagine Kaiik as being someone happy as a mere crime boss.
Anyway. In the end, Scovione won the long term battle against the Aspidrol smuggling. Along with a Jedi Padawan he had been tasked to look after as he had had some issues in training- named Gallador- Scovione led a mission that finally tore the heart out of the major smuggling ring. Leaving the young Gallador to tie up some of the escaping criminal overlords, Scovione finally had his big confrontation with Kalik; a Lightsabre duel inside a chemical processing plant. He knocked Kalik into a vat of flammable gas which then exploded. He really thought Kalik was dead.