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Oviedo, Lorca

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this man was the Director of Oviedo Engineering, during the last years of the Old Republic. Distinguished by his impeccable clothing and flowing mustaches, Oviedo tried to make a small fortune by negotiating with Wat Tambor of the Confederacy of Independent Systems. Oviedo had already agreed to sell his weapons systems to the Grand Army of the Republic, and was planning to allow the Separatists to use special identification chips in the weapons to track the locations and movements of the Republic's ground forces. In order to ensure the success of this plan, Director Oviedo arranged for a malfunction aboard his starship, while returning from a conference on Aviles Prime. The malfunction forced the ship to revert to realspace near Asturias, where it was attacked by Separatist forces. Oviedo's ship managed to land on the remote moon, as did a handful of the clone commanos assigned to protect him. It was the clones who discovered Oviedo's plans, which might have allowed the sale of rigged weapons to occur, even as it made Oviedo something of a hero for surviving the "attack." Oviedo even tried to bribe the commandos, but their loyalty to the Old Republic was absolute. He was returned to Coruscant by commando Theta-288, the only member of his squad to survive the affair. Unfortunately, Oviedo died from "sudden respiratory failure" before he could be interrogated. It was unclear whether his death was a suicide or not.