Passel Argente / Legends Passel Argente was a male Koorivar who served as the Magistrate of the Corporate Alliance and a member of the Galactic Senate representing his homeworld , Kooriva in the final days of the Galactic Republic . Following a protracted Separatist Crisis , Argente pledged the Alliance ' s support for Count Dooku and the Confederacy of Independent Systems before seceding from the Republic and taking a seat on the Separatist Council as the Clone Wars drove the galaxy into chaos . Taking the lead on a series of projects and operations during the war , Argente preferred to play a more administrative role during the war , remaining in the background while his more assertive colleagues on the Council planned and enacted their operations . Following the Council ' s move to Mustafar , their mysterious benefactor , Darth Sidious , betrayed them by sending his apprentice , Darth Vader , to slaughter Argente and his comrades . Biography . Early career . A male Koorivar native to the Inner Rim planet Kooriva , Passel Argente entered politics as well as the corporate world at an early age . The head of the powerful mercantile company Lethe Merchandising , a company affiliated with the Corporate Alliance , Argente was also appointed Senator of his homeworld and represented his people in the Galactic Republic Senate . Entering into the Senate during Supreme Chancellor Finis Valorum ' s second term , Argente ' s appointment came on the heels of his rise to Magistrate of the Corporate Alliance . During his years on the Senate floor , Argente was often criticized for graft and corruption , and used his corporate connections to amass great wealth . An outspoken opponent of Valorum and his weak stances on the protection of commerce and trade along the hyperlane s of the Outer Rim Territories , Argente was closely affiliated with other members of the Senate who wished to supplant the Chancellor . In 32 BBY Argente was invited to Rylothian Senator Orn Free Taa ' s box at the Coruscant Opera , joining his colleagues Edcel Bar Gane , Toonbuck Toora and Palpatine for a discussion on Valorum ' s ineffectiveness . Not long after , the Neimoidians of the Trade Federation blockaded Naboo , an event which eventually led the planet ' s queen , Padmé Amidala , to ask for a Vote of No Confidence in Valorum ' s leadership . One of the first to support Amidala ' s vote , Argente was pleased to see Valorum leave and Naboo ' s Senator Palpatine take up the Chancellorship . Continuing to work in the Senate and lead the Corporate Alliance , Argente ' s security was overseen by Enforcer Jerv Riske , a man who accompanied the Magistrate to the planet Barlok in 27 BBY to negotiate a dispute between the Corporate Alliance and Guildmaster Gilfrome over a mining dispute . During the negotiations Argente was staying at the Starbright hotel ; while the negotiations were underway , an assassin attempted to kill Argente , but was thwarted by Jedi Master Jorus C ' baoth . During the two terms of Chancellor Palpatine , a Separatist Crisis plagued the Senate . During this time , Argente ordered an attack on the Fakir system ' s Yirt - 4138 - Grek - 12 to destroy an industrial espionage training facility . Argente issued a holomessage to shareholders of the Corporate Alliance to inform them of the attack and its legitimacy regarding the protection of their holdings . Despite his sometimes questionable allegiances during this time period , Argente was known to have made a sizable donation on behalf of the Corporate Alliance to the Refugee Relief Movement . Joining the Confederacy . In 22 BBY , as the Separatist movement began to pick up momentum , Argente was invited to a meeting on Geonosis by Count Dooku , the leader of the Separatist cause . Accompanied by his aide , Denaria Kee , Argente met with Viceroy Nute Gunray of the Trade Federation ; Techno Union Foreman Wat Tambor ; San Hill Chairman of the InterGalactic Banking Clan ; Commerce Guild Presidente Shu Mai , and several others . Pledging the Commerce Guild ' s full funding and dedicating their enforcement branch to Dooku ' s cause , the group would soon be organized into the Confederacy of Independent Systems . Not long after the clandestine meeting concluded , Geonosis was attacked by the Grand Army of the Republic , under the command of the Jedi Order . While taking shelter in a hidden war room , Argente and the other corporate heads fled the planet once it was clear that the Republic would take the world . Renouncing his place in the Senate , Argente took a place on the Separatist Council , the leading governing organ of the Confederacy . Hoping to maintain a low profile on the war front and remain in the background manipulating events , Argente was not pleased when Dooku forced him to coordinate battles and oversee operations . Argente funded and marketed both anti - Jedi and anti - Republic propaganda , which helped keep the public in Confederate territory pro - war . Vying for power . At the beginning of the war , Passel Argente briefly headed a plot to oust Count Dooku as leader of the CIS . He pushed for an early attack on the cloning facility at Kamino to be headed by his pawn , the Mon Calamari Commander Merai . He hoped that an early victory there would shut down the Republic ' s war - making capabilities before the war even began , and that he would be given credit for winning the war , garnering enough political support to overthrow Dooku . However , both Darth Sidious and Dooku were aware of this plot and arranged to have the Confederacy ' s battle plans leaked to Jedi Knight Quinlan Vos on the Wheel , through Dooku ' s agent Tookarti . As a result , the outcome of the First Battle of Kamino was disastrous for the Confederacy , and instead of being hailed as a glorious leader , Passel Argente was deemed responsible for the failure and disgraced , which proved to be a fatal setback to his plans for a coup . Following his failed plot against Dooku , Argente learned that fellow Councilor Wat Tambor , the Skakoan Foreman of the Techno Union , was planning to move against him . Fearing that he would be assassinated , Argente met with a Trandoshan scavenger named Gha Nachkt to purchase a droid to act as a spy for him . Unknown to Argente , Nachkt had already been bought by Foreman Tambor who had given him a spyware - infected RA - 7 protocol droid to present to Argente . Argente kept the infected droid close to him at all times in hopes of detecting any spyware aboard his ship ; all the while unknowingly broadcasting covert business operations directly to Tambor . During one of these meetings , Argente ' s focus on the planet Ryloth piqued Tambor ' s interest in conquering the system , sparking the Techno Union invasion of the planet . Conquering Ukio . Later in the war , Argente began to plot the invasion and conquest of a Republic agriworld called Ukio . Despite the presence of the Grand army and the Jedi Order on the planet , Argente was intent on striking a blow at the Republic and therefore commissioned the T - series tactical droid Doctor to assist in the planning of Project Instinction . When in orbit around the planet , Argente ' s fleet dumped mass amounts of soil harvested from the planet Moorja on the planetary shields protecting Ukio , effectively blocking out the sun . When the Ukians were forced to lower their defenses to allow the soil to disperse , Argente ' s fleet dropped a series of strange weapons onto the planets surface . These devices , when activated , emitted an unusual frequency which caused non - Force - sensitives to act vicious and bloodthirsty . While the Jedi stationed on the planet were able to destroy the devices and knock back Argente ' s attack , stocks invested in the planet ' s food supply plummeted , allowing Argente to effectively conquer the planet and all of its resources , robbing the Republic of a major supplier . Betrayal on Mustafar . As the war dragged on , Kooriva fell to the Republic as well as the other home and purseworlds of the Separatist leadership . As their homeworld ' s would not accept them , the members of the Council were forced to roam about space on their private vessels under the protection of Supreme Commander Grievous . Joining the Council aboard the cyborg ' s flagship , the " Invisible Hand " , the leadership of the Confederacy was sent to the sinkhole world Utapau to await further instructions . Following Dooku ' s death over Coruscant at one of the most tumultuous battles of the war , Argente was present with the other Councilors at the meeting during which Grievous ordered them to Mustafar , a mining planet on the Outer Rim where they were promised safety . Not long after departing Utapau , Grievous was killed by Jedi Master Obi - Wan Kenobi , and the Council took full control over the Confederacy . As the Council arrived on Mustafar , they quickly settled into the dimly lit command center at the mountainside Klegger Corp mining facility . Argente and the other Confederacy leaders were pressed into work at the facility ' s command center , supervising strategy and battle plans from their remote sanctuary . During their stay , the Council received a communications from the mysterious Darth Sidious , the Confederacy ' s shadowy benefactor . Sidious promised that the war was over and that the Republic had crumbled under the Separatist ' s war machine . Advising the Council to remain on the planet , Sidious assured them that he would send his apprentice , Darth Vader , to watch over them . Relieved by the news of victory , Argente and the others anxiously awaited for Vader ' s arrival and their eventual departure from the inhospitable world . Upon Vader ' s landing , the Council and its aides gathered in the facility ' s main command center to greet Vader only to realize soon after he sealed off all of the exits to the facility that he was not there to protect them . Igniting his lightsaber , Vader savagely cut down the guards flanking the doorway before attacking the unarmed Councilors and their aides . Denaria Kee , Argente ' s aide , was quickly stabbed while Argente tried to defend himself . Argente was not swift enough and was killed by Vader ' s saber , suffering a fast decapitation and dying instantly . Soon after his death , the Corporate Alliance relocated its distribution companies to the Corporate Sector ; with the death of Argente , the Corporate Alliance faded into oblivion . Personality and traits . A corrupt and wheedling individual , Argente was often viewed as unaccountable by his peers and colleagues , unwilling to shoulder any responsibility or admit a mistake . Suspicious by nature , Argente did not feel guilty by blaming others for his failures , believing them all in the process of trying to undermine him in every venture he took . Even in his days as a Koorivar Senator , Argente was colored by graft and corruption brought upon by his strong ties to corporate interests . Often one to shirk personal accountability , Argente was more than willing to blame others for his shortcomings and mistakes . Like all Koorivar , Argente prized the shape and size of his cranial horn , a physical feature prized by the race the larger it was . He was completely obsessed with wealth . Behind the scenes . Passel Argente was played by actor Steven Boyle in . and by Marty Wetherill in .