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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeremy Ackerman-Yost" data-source="post: 205365" data-attributes="member: 4720">Easy to trace?  I thought Obi-Wan actually got lucky.  He had to go to a well-traveled ex-prospector to figure out where the thing came from.And the first assasination attempt killed the person they thought was the target.  And the worms would have succeeded against anything short of Jedi.  They walked in right under the sensors and the resourceful R2 completely missed them.  I doubt the bounty hunters were already aware that there were Jedi guarding her.  That info would have had to go from Palpatine to Dooku out in Geonosis and back to Jango in considerably less than a day.I really think that Palpatine intended for her to die, but that he saw an opportunity to bring Anakin into the situation, maybe through Sith intuition (if the Jedi have it, why can't the Sith?)And how about this...  She was the biggest opponent of the creation of an army.  If she dies while under the protection of the Jedi and then Palpatine's agents trace her killer back to Kamino, where the Jedi have apparently ordered production of an army without the approval of the Senate, that casts the Jedi in a VERY bad light.  They would be blamed for her death as well as the army, which would not have helped their public image any.  They would even appear to have a motive to kill her, as she's the leader of the group opposing the army.  With the leader of the Separatists being an "ex"- Jedi, it begins to look like the Jedi are the ones orchestrating the war.  Probably to increase their power over the government.Palpy could also use this tactic to turn Anakin, as it would look like the Jedi betrayed Padme, which would turn Anakin inside out and backwards.</blockquote>

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