Sifa-Dias ?

[Irishman26]

i believe sifa-dias is palpatine. it makes sense that he took a dead jedis name, he was trying 2 protect himself so he wouldn't get caught.

[obi]

I think its Dooku. Palpatine had too much work on his hands to go off and get some army started, so he sent his minion.

[Irishman26]

but u 4get at the time maul was still palps apprentice, so dooku couldn't have done it cause he wasn't evil yet.

[obi]

but dooku had already left the order.

 

And perhaps Palpy forseen the end of his apprentice, but did nothing to stop it.(because he knew it would work better for him in the end)

[Irishman26]

if palp did c his apprentices death and did nothing hes a moron lol

[Norin Radd]

Remember what Obi Wan said when the Prime Minister of Kamino asked him about Sifa Dias? Obi-Wan said that he had been killed nearly ten years before, thereby acknowledging that he really did exist. I think Dooku, being a former Jedi, assumed his identity, but, Sifa Dias was not an alias, he must have really existed. Since it was after Darth Maul's death, Dooku would have already been Palpatine's apprentice.

[Jake]

i think sifadias and sidius are similar enough (and theres one time when obi wan's on the transmitter where mysterious static makes it "si*chh*adius") that that would be the "clever twist"

 

sort of how the "clever twist" in episode 1 was that padme and amidala were the same person.

 

of course by "clever twist" i mean thing which makes no sense and doesn't read properly until you've seen the movie twice but is apparently some big breakthrough story point.

[ET Warrior]

by mysterious static, you mean the static that happens in most holo-transmissions? I think is Dooku, because it was a man named Tyrannus who recruited Jango, and we know that Tyranus IS dooku, so it would also make sense that Dooku placed the order

[SteveDallas]

He really existed, but for the sake of what happened in the movie, ordering the clone army, I think it was Dooku impersonated Dias - here's why (more guesses from Mr. Dallas)

 

Dias died around the time Dooku left the Jedi order. If it was the real Syphos Dias then the Jedi would know, yes? So it was someone impersonating Dias. Why Dooku and not Sidious? Cuzz the existance of the planet was wiped from the central library and Yoda (or someone) said only Jedi could have done that.

 

Dooku placed the order, wiped the planet from the library, let the Clone Army build to the time of Episode II when the Emperor would need it to squash the separtist (whose flame Dooku was fanning).