Okay, we need to figure out why someone would want to fake Lennah's orders to his company. It obviously didn't have much to do with the company itself; whoever put him in this position didn't put in their own orders, just synthesized further orders based on Lennah's past advice. Which must have been complicated to set up.
So there must have been something to gain for whoever did this. They wanted information, or something that Lennah had possession of.
Did our Padawans find anything around the base?
Perhaps they didn't want anyone looking for Lennah? If his orders dried up people would get suspicious and start trying to find him.
Although it would be far simpler to just kill him to be honest. Unless whoever did this needed to return for more info but never got the chance to.
Should we be doing things like looking for fingerprints, signs of struggle, etc?
Nothing was found and there is no physical evidence.
Shooting him through the head would have been simpler but you were right in the first place- if Lennah was just dead, people would have gone looking.They may not have found him at your Force-aided speed but it still would have been done, and then the authorities would be looking into his business and recent activities etc. Whoever did this has set up up so well that, ten years later, no-one even realised Lennah was dead, let alone looking for a killer.
Jelena- maybe you have forgotten what kind of force you are up against here... you are talking about tracking a Hutt or Golden Serpent mobster. It's not like that.
So they needed Lennah dead, but without attracting attention.
Which probably means Lennah knew something that someone didn't want anyone else to know and it was someone Lennah dealt with recently at the time in a public enough fashion that further investigation would have been bad.
Which, now looking at it, makes sense. Since the 'Elzair' account is doing what we're doing. Trying to find out what Lennah was up to. Maybe whoever it was was covering their tracks and making sure there was no record of whatever Lennah knew.
I'm suspecting this ties in with his search for the Scrolls, but I'm unsure of the time frame of that endeavor. IE. The time between when he went on that trip and the time he died.
!!! You're right! Can't believe I missed that.
Two possibilities. Lennah set up the auto program himself for whatever reason or there's a third party involved.
If it's the later then someone already knew about Lennah's condition and told no one when the logged in 6 months later... Saar still comes to mind, he got close to Elzair. Not too much of a stretch to think he got his hands on her log in details.
But that still leaves who killed Lennah. How can we figure that out if there are no security records?
You can't get a certain answer to this one, only a workable theory. It's about deducing what you think happened rather than getting conclusive proof.
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The auto-programme needs Lennah's DNA to work through the security, so it is directly connected with him being wired into that chair, i./e. being effectively dead. Why the heck would he do that?
Yes, whoever logged in six months later would have been standing next to Lennah the whole time.
Ah! I thought the DNA scanner was a temporary thing, kind of like an alert that comes up every few hours or something for confirmation, rather then an 'always scanning' thing.
Right, so we pretty much need to figure out a reasonable theory and our Force instincts will possibly tell us if it feels 'right' or not.
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Okay, so, we can disregard the 'Lennah set up the program then someone killed him later' idea, that DNA scanner seems too troublesome, even for someone as paranoid as Lennah.
Which means Lennah was killed, then someone set up the program to cover up the fact he was killed so no one would come looking for him. I'm liking the suggestion that it was to avoid someone looking into his recent activities.
So Lennah either did, or knew something, that someone else didn't like him knowing about. So tracked him down and killed him to keep him silent. Finding him wouldn't be an easy thing to do so it had to be something big enough that someone would put a lot of effort into trying to find him.
However to set up the program they had to know enough of Lennah's business practices to make his fake orders seem less suspicious.
Six months later someone associated with Elzair (Saar?) tracks Lennah down for some reason. (Maybe Saar was looking for info on the Scrolls of Bandomino and what Kuylen got up to, he seems like the kind of guy who'd try keep tabs on these things) They do what we're doing now, looking into what Lennah was doing like this, before leaving shortly after, leaving Lennah alone and telling no one about his state.
Fast forward to now and here we are, trying to figure this mess out.
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That's the gist of what I think has gone down here, considering what we know.
Hard to say without knowing exactly what Lennah was up to and who he was dealing with at the time. The only two unsavory types we do know of are Kuylen and Adelmo.
I'm leaning more towards Kuylen, he was suppose to be considered dead at the time right? Sounds like good reason to cover up Lennah's demise to avoid further scrutiny. He probably never told Saar what happened, why would he need to? That's why Saar poked around later on.
Adelmo is from Thalos, far away from the Republic. No chance of her being identified if Lennah suddenly died, thus no motive to preserve the body.