"I suppose it's too much to hope that you're the Sith Lord we've been looking for, here to surrender?"

"Alas, no, I am not the Darth you're looking for.  I am, however, firmly in agreement with you that the Sith you currently have running around need to be stopped."

"Always two, there are, it was said. Neither Dooku, nor Sidious, are you. Misled we may have been. Seek to destroy a rival, do you, hmm? No. No, another path, you walk. What know you of the Sith, and how?" 

"No heir of Darth Bane am I, no.  I am a Sith of an old Sith Empire, and quite a heretic of one, at that.  Not quite to the point of a holocron I once found, who had reinvented being a Jedi from first principles, but nonetheless something that, oh, Vitiate, would detest.  The Treaty of Coruscant was new in my time, and it is now three-thousand years gone."

He laughs. 

That doesn't happen as much as it used to. 

"Not even nine hundred years old, am I. And yet better than me, you look."

"Master Yoda. She was the centre of a shatterpoint in the Force, one of the biggest I've ever seen. Please, listen to her."

"Listening I am, my extremely young Padawan."

"Oh, let him have the moment, he believes me.  And joy is a precious thing, when one faces such overwhelming Darkness."

"I was, hm.  Outside of the normal flow of time, for most of the intervening years.  Using an ancient artifact to contain an ancient artifact I hadn't successfully destroyed, in the hope that someone who opened the box would be able to destroy the blasted thing and rid us of the remnants of one of the original Dark Jedi who brought about the first Sith, through their oppression of the ancient Tsis - more commonly known as Sith Purebloods, by my day - but I was not asked for the history lecture, so.

"Thankfully, the Force was with us all, and the last source of the rakghoul plague was destroyed by Master Windu's timely intervention.  Thank you, by the way.

"Then I was informed of the galaxy's current predicament.  And, knowing how a Sith Lord that likes their dramatic gestures like a massive conspiratorial puppet war to weaken opposition and allow him to sweep in as a conquering power thinks...

"We came to a firm suspicion of who the Master is."

In the Force, all things are possible. 

But not probable. There are not many ancient survivals from the Sith Empires out of murky memory, and even fewer convenient heretical Sith, and even fewer it would be wise to work with. She doesn't sense the dark side in this woman, though she doesn't feel exactly like a Jedi either. 

That doesn't mean her story is true at all. 

On the other hand, it is a strange lie to tell...

"And yet fear to name him to us, you do."

"Fear?  No.  But you won't want to believe me if I tell you.  Still, if Master Windu shan't...

"I do not know the man, nor truly the political situation, to be able to confirm this myself.  But when I described the profile I expected, Master Windu immediately named Chancellor Palpatine."

"...Dooku did suggest that the Senate was under the Sith Lord's control. I did not think he meant so... directly. But - Chancellor Palpatine has been before all the Jedi High Council. Surely we would know."

"It was only a guess. But whoever this Sith Lord is, clearly it's possible to hide from our senses."

"In the same room?"

"Subtle, are the powers of the Sith."

"If that is possible, then we cannot trust any presence in the Force, especially not that of Darth Mourne."

"It was my guess, not hers. And it was a shatterpoint in the Force. It has to be important."

"...It is possible that record exists of a character witness, at least.  Celeste Morne was the Jedi who had held that amulet before I tried to destroy it."

"I also wish to point out that I did not have to tell you about my affiliations, and I did so regardless, Councillor...?  In fact, what are all of your names, I only know Master Windu's."

"But yes.  I couldn't pick Chancellor Palpatine out of a lineup at the moment, I've spent most all of the time between Jebble and here in a starfighter's baggage compartment."

"Master Windu is known for his hospitality."

"It was my idea."

"I could be mistaken. But I feel in the Force that I am not."