Almec Almec was a male human from the planet Mandalore , and a one - time believer in the pacifist ways of Duchess Satine Kryze . During the Clone Wars , Almec served as the Prime Minister of Mandalore and did as he thought best to watch over and represent the interests of Mandalore . His dedication became his undoing , however ; when Mandalore declared neutrality in the Clone Wars and became cut off from Galactic Republic aid , Almec established a black market trade network to bring much - needed goods to the Mandalorian people . These smugglers poison ed the people of Sundari with toxic tea , putting numerous children in hospital . Almec was exposed as the leader of the black market network and summarily imprisoned for his crimes . When Darth Maul took over Mandalore , he broke Almec out of prison and reinstated him as Prime Minister , with Almec declaring loyalty to Maul and his Death Watch allies . Following Maul ' s capture and imprisonment by Darth Sidious , Almec saw to it that Maul was rescued and brought back to the Death Watch . Biography . The Clone Wars . Mandalore ' s neutrality . Almec was a native of the planet Mandalore and , for many years , an ally of Duchess Satine Kryze and her pacifist government . By the time of the Clone Wars , Almec had become the Prime Minister of Mandalore and served as the head of the Ruling Council of ministers that comprised the Mandalorian government . During the war , Almec met with Jedi Master Obi - Wan Kenobi , who had been sent by the Jedi Council to investigate rumors that Kryze was building an army and preparing to ally with the Confederacy of Independent Systems ; Kenobi was also an old friend of the Duchess ' . Almec assured Kenobi that the rumors were false , believing that Mandalore would never turn against the Galactic Republic and that Mandalore ' s violent warrior history was confined to the past . Kenobi mentioned his encounter with supposed Mandalorian mercenary Jango Fett , but Almec dismissed Fett as nothing but a mere bounty hunter who had acquired Mandalorian armor through unknown means . During Kenobi ' s audience with the Duchess , Almec spoke out when the Jedi Master presented a recording of a Mandalorian saboteur responsible for an attack on a Republic cruiser , declaring that no Mandalorian would perpetrate such an attack . Although the Prime Minister expressed interest in the whereabouts of the Mandalorian in question , he appeared quite shocked when Kenobi revealed that the man had chosen suicide rather than submit to questioning . It was later revealed that the saboteur was a member of the resurgent group known as the Death Watch — a Mandalorian splinter - faction intent on returning the Mandalorians their warrior past — and that the once - trusted ally Pre Vizsla , the Governor of Mandalore ' s moon Concordia , was leading the group . Following the revelations , Almec was part of the cadre of retainers and guards that escorted Kryze to her personal starship , the " Coronet " , for her trip to Coruscant . There , she hoped to convince the Galactic Senate that the Death Watch did not represent the views of the entire Mandalorian community . While the Duchess spoke on behalf of her people in the Senate chamber , Almec remained on Mandalore . It was there that he received a troubling report from a Mandalorian scout : the Death Watch was amassing an army at their base on Concordia . Almec agreed with the scout ' s assessment that the Death Watch would be unable to take over Mandalore without the popular backing of its residents , although he also surmised that , were the Republic to deploy a military force as they planned to do , it would drive the people to support the Death Watch as liberators standing against foreign oppressors . Left with no other recourse , Almec could only place his trust in Duchess Satine ' s efforts , trust that was rewarded when the Duchess convinced the Senate against sending an occupying force of clone troops to Mandalore . Creating the black market . The Duchess ' efforts successfully allowed Mandalore to remain free of entanglement in the Clone Wars , but it ' s neutrality came at the cost of losing vital Republic aid in the form of supply shipments . In response , Almec took it upon himself to establish a network of black market trade in order to ensure the continuing importation of much needed supplies for the New Mandalorian people . At a later point in time , Senator Padmé Amidala of Naboo came to Sundari , the capital of Mandalore , to assure the government that aide would come from sympathetic parties within the Senate . During her stay , Amidala and Kryze discovered the illegal smuggling ring circumventing the previous loss of Republic trade , when it was revealed to endanger the lives of Mandalorian children . The Moogan smugglers moving the goods had diluted imported tea with the chemical slabin , which in the high doses used by the smugglers proved toxic to its consumers . Almec was informed of this development by Amidala and Kryze , though he reflectively implicated the Death Watch as the party behind the illicit activities . When the Duchess and senator shut down the smuggling ring and brought the issue of the corruption growing in the Mandalorian government to Almec ' s attention , the Prime Minister offered to form a committee to further investigate the issue . Not long after , Jedi Padawan Ahsoka Tano was invited to Mandalore in order to lecture at the Royal Academy on the perils of corruption . She was met at the landing platform in Sundari by Almec , Kryze , and a gathering of Mandalorian academy cadets . These cadets — Amis , Lagos , Soniee , and Duchess Kryze ' s own nephew , Korkie — along with Tano , uncovered Almec ' s involvement in the black market trade network , and thus his complicity with the poisonings of Sundari ' s school children . Using the Mandalorian secret service , over which the Prime Minister ' s office held authority , Almec had the cadets and Tano arrested , in addition to Duchess Kryze herself upon learning that she had been informed of his involvement as well . He attempted to have the Duchess sign a confession of conspiracy , but upon being denied , Almec used a shock collar as a means of persuading her . When Kryze refused to yield , he turned his attention to her nephew , Korkie ; Tano and the cadets fought back , managing to overpower Almec and his guards until he could be fitted with a shock collar himself , forcing the Prime Minister to surrender . Almec and his conspirators were placed under arrest , and subsequently imprisoned . Death Watch allegiance . Some time later , after Death Watch allied with crime syndicates and the Sith brothers , Darth Maul and Savage Opress , Kryze was overthrown in a political coup led by Pre Vizsla and was imprisoned in a cell next to Almec . The former Prime Minister refused to apologize for his past actions and mocked Kryze for her beliefs . He was later recruited by the Sith brothers , who had been betrayed by Death Watch , to stand as their puppet ruler once they had overthrown Vizsla . Maul then challenged Vizsla to an honorable death match for the allegiance of Death Watch , which he inevitably won . Almec was reinstalled as Prime Minister and told the general populace that Satine murdered Vizsla . He then began setting up a new administration , and Maul warned the Prime Minister that would be held fully responsible for their failures . Almec was later present in the throne room when Obi - Wan Kenobi was brought before Maul and bore witness to Satine ' s murder by Maul . Darth Maul ' s takeover of Mandalore also led to a conflict between those still loyal to Pre Vizsla , and those who had sworn their allegiance to Maul . During the hostilities , Maul was captured by his former master , the Sith Lord Darth Sidious , and taken to Stygeon Prime where he was imprisoned so the Sith could use Maul for their own purposes . Almec ordered Death Watch forces to pursue the Sith and rescue Maul before rendezvousing on Zanbar . When the rescue was completed , Almec spoke to Maul , who was on Zanbar , via hologram and told the Sith that the prison break was repayment for releasing Almec from prison on Mandalore . Maul would return to Mandalore shortly before the world was sieged by Republic forces led by Tano and Clone Captain Rex . Personality and traits . Almec was a large man , standing at a height of 1 . 89 meter s , and possessed both blond hair and fair skin , in addition to violet - color ed eye s . Almec was a firm believer in the peaceful ways of the New Mandalorians , displaying this by dismissing the supposed Mandalorian Jango Fett as nothing but a common bounty hunter , when questioned by Jedi Master Obi - Wan Kenobi . While he held a high - ranking office in the Mandalorian government , he considered himself a servant of the people . That did not change the fact that he was a shrewd politician , able to correctly deduce the Death Watch ' s plans to rally favor for their cause by instigating a Republic invasion in order to appear as liberators to the Mandalorian populace . Almec was a friend of the New Mandalorians ' leader , Duchess Satine Kryze , and placed a great deal of faith in her leadership abilities , until he was arrested for black market activities . When the Mandalorian people were threatened with starvation after the Republic shut down trade routes to Mandalore in the face of the planet ' s declared neutrality , Almec took it upon himself to find a solution to the problem plaguing his people . To that end , he established an illegal black market trade network to smuggle the needed goods from the galaxy into Sundari , but , in doing so , opened himself up to the risk of greed and corruption . In trying to help his people , Almec instead made it possible for Moogan smugglers to poison innocent children throughout Sundari with toxin - laced tea . He attempted to cover it up , going so far as to turn on the Duchess . He betrayed his pacifistic beliefs by torturing Kryze and threatening to do the same to her young nephew , Korkie . Behind the scenes . Almec first appeared in the " " episode " The Mandalore Plot , " the first in a trilogy of episodes featuring the Mandalorians . He would appear again in the flashback reel at the start of the subsequent episode , " Voyage of Temptation , " before making his second true appearance in the final episode of the trilogy , " Duchess of Mandalore . " Almec is portrayed by voice actor Julian Holloway .