Mission to Assassinate Jenza

The **Mission to Assassinate Jenza** was Asajj Ventress' first mission acting as the apprentice and assassin of Count Dooku. She was tasked with locating Dooku's sister, Jenza, on his behalf. Unknown to Ventress, the mission was an assassination job. In the wake of the Separatist Crisis, Republic Agents had kidnapped Dooku's sister Jenza, hoping to press her for information, thus pushing Dooku to the necessity of having Jenza killed to protect himself and the Sith plot. The mission was successful.

## Prelude

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For years Dooku and Jenza had kept a secret log of transmissions between one another, keeping each other up to date with their lives and actions, having been kept separate from each other by the Jedi and Count Gora. This broke the code of the Jedi, specifically their rules on attachment. Dooku proceeded to break the rules to maintain his relationship with his sister.

Eventually, Dooku would inform Jenza of his involvement in his practise of dark side of the force and allegiance to Darth Sidious. Jenza disagreed with Dooku's path into the darkness, feeling that the "hooded man", unknown to her as Sidious, had corrupted her brother. As the Separatist Crisis arose, and tensions between the Confederacy of Independent Systems and the Galactic Republic rose, Republic Agents lead by Raz Fellidrone hired Glute to kidnap Jenza in a hope to press her for valuable information on Count Dooku. Paranoid that Jenza may reveal Dooku's involvement with Sidious, Dooku became convinced that he must kill Jenza to protect himself and the Sith plot.

Count Dooku located Asajj Ventress, a dathomirian ex-Jedi who had been captured on the planet Rattatak and put into gladiatorial fighting pits by Osika Kirske. Wishing to have his own dark side apprentice and assassin, Dooku went to Rattatak, telling Osika that he wanted to purchase a fighter. After watching Ventress in the pits, Dooku killed Osika, robbing Ventress of her own revenge against the slaver. Enraged, Ventress leapt at Dooku, dueling him in the stands of the pit. Dooku defeated Ventress with ease, knocking her unconscious with a blast of Force lightning. As she awoke, Dooku pledged to teach Ventress the powers of the darkside of the force, adopting her as his apprentice. In fear and anger, Asajj Ventress accepted her new role.

## Recount

#### Dooku's History

In the first several days of her apprenticeship to Dooku, Asajj Ventress was called to Dooku, who gave Ventress a recount of the first time he had met his sister, Jenza, during a celebration on his home planet Serenno and their communications that began as a result via hologram messages. After informing Ventress of his sister, he tasked her with finding Jenza under the guise of protecting her from kidnappers and thugs attempting to do the Count of Serenno political and emotional harm. In truth however, Jenza had been threatening Dooku with incriminating recordings that Dooku wanted destroyed alongside Jenza in an attempt to bury an possible means of Dooku's discovery as a Sith Apprentice.

Dooku gave Ventress a collection of other hologram messages between himself and Jenza as she set out on her mission so that she may study and get to know her target. He also granted her access to his personal airship *Windrunner*, taking her across the planet Serenno to the Spaceport, the last known location of Jenza. While on the ship, Ventress perused the holographic details of the videos provided by Count Dooku. She even located a private datapad within Dooku's desk, containing recounts of Dooku's apprenticeship to Grand Master Yoda.

#### Investigation in the Spaceport

Ventress arrived at the spaceport, leaping from the *Windrunner*, landing in the backstreets of the spaceport. She entered the Portmaster's Office, using a mind trick to send away a spaceport worker, using her lightsaber to threaten the Portmaster, Raz Fellidrone, into giving her entrance to the security systems. Once she had access Asajj confirmed that Jenza had a ticket to Coruscant, however never made her flight. She then used the security camera feeds to locate Jenza, watching as she was supposedly kidnapped by a Crolute with heavy cybernetic enhancement. With this information, Ventress began a search across the spaceport for a Crolute. She asked around inhabitants of the spaceport, vague answers that lead her to the Belsallian Cantina where she waited for the Crolute to appear. After waiting, a waitress droid revealed to Asajj that some of the patrons were part of the Razorclaw Gang, the same gang as the Crolute she searched for. She interrogated the gang members, cutting off numerous limbs as part of her interrogation method. She eventually learned that the Crolute was known as Glute and learned where he lived. Ventress went to his living space, waiting outside for his return after a quick search inside revealed the place to be empty. Eventually Glute showed up to his house where Ventress ambushed him, beginning a small interrogation that ended with Glute being killed, shot in the head by Raz Fellidrone. Ventress recognized the smell of Fellidrone's jetpack fuel from his office, leading her to determine that he had assassinated Glute.

#### Finding Jenza

Asajj infiltrated Raz Fellidrone's apartment, meeting him in his own home. She spotted a booby trapped panel that opened to a secret compartment that Ventress determined held Jenza hostage. When confronting Fellidrone she came to realize that he worked for Republic Intelligence as he resisted mind tricks. She pretended to be caught by Raz' booby trap, allowing him to open the secret compartment safely and reveal Jenza. At this moment, Ventress killed Fellidrone, putting her lightsaber through his chest. She began a process of cutting through Jenza's binds. After freeing Jenza, Ventress informed her master that she had located his target and would need assistance to move the injured woman from the compartment, especially with reinforcement Republic Agents advancing on her position. Dooku began his journey, reaching the apartment just as the Republic Agents entered, force choking them to death.

To protect himself and Sidious, Dooku proceeded to instruct Ventress to execute Jenza, an act that would complete her journey to the darkside, after Jenza had threatened to go to the Jedi to reveal Dooku's connection to "the hooded man", feeling that he had lost his way to the darkness. Ventress complied, igniting her lightsaber blade through Jenza's chest, killing her. Dooku informed Ventress that there must be no evidence, spewing fuel across the apartment with the fuel from Fellidrone's jetpack. Ventress set one of the Republic blasters to overload, leaping from the apartment window as the building exploded, burning the bodies of the Republic Agents and Jenza.

## Aftermath

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As a result of Jenza's death, the Jedi and Republic continued to remain unaware of Dooku's connection to Darth Sidious. Having sent Republic Agents to capture Jenza however, only for them to disappear and for Jenza to be announced deceased or missing would only serve to raise the suspicions of the Republic to the operation conducted by the assassin of Dooku.

## Timeline of Event

* Ventress is tasked with finding Jenza, Dooku's sister.
* Ventress observes holograms of Dooku's childhood to learn about her target.
* Ventress arrives at Serenno Spaceport, finding footage of Jenza kidnapped by a Crolute.
* Ventress finds the Crolute, following the trail from him to Raz Fellidrone, who was holding Jenza in his apartment.
* Raz Fellidrone is killed, stabbed by Asajj Ventress.
* Jenza is found by Ventress.
* Dooku orders Ventress to kill Jenza, an act that would complete her journey into the darkside.
* Jenza is killed, executed by Asajj Ventress.