During the era of the Clone Wars, Senator Padmé Amidala embarked on a quest to the world of Scipio. While ostensibly there to secure a loan, her true objective was to expose the corrupt dealings of the InterGalactic Banking Clan. Baron Rush Clovis, an old love of Amidala's, found himself and the senator the targets of Embo, a bounty hunter employed by the Sith Lord Darth Sidious. In reality, Embo's assignment wasn't assassination, but rather to scare Clovis and force his departure from the planet, all orchestrated by Sidious as part of his larger scheme involving the Banking Clan.