Fife is a minor antagonist in the TV series Star Wars: The Clone Wars Season 7, first appearing as a supporting character in the Darth Maul—Son of Dathomir comic series and later serving as the secondary antagonist of the Martez Sisters Arc. He is a majordomo to Marg Krim, the leader of the Pyke Syndicate, and a member of Darth Maul's Shadow Collective.
Biography[]
Darth Maul - Son of Dathomir[]
During the Separatists' campaign against the Shadow Collective, Fife meets with Darth Maul and his forces at the Black Sun's base on Ord Mantell. He comments on how the Separatists are ignorant to the Collective's true numbers and then aids Maul in the Battle of Ord Mantell. The Collective lays a trap for Count Dooku and General Grievous which proves successful with the aid of the Nightbrothers.
Fife and Ziton Moj contact Maul shortly after the Assault on Vizsla Keep 09, concerned about Maul's personal vendetta against the Sith in the face of the Collective's mounting losses. Maul assures them that their respective organizations will be paid and that the galaxy will be theirs once Darth Sidious is dead. During the Battle of Dathomir, Fife and Ziton Moj contact Maul's Mandalorian lieutenant Rook Kast to inform her that the Separatists are launching simultaneous attacks on Shadow Collective strongholds. They demand to speak with Maul but Kast refuses and orders them to fight back against the Separatists. After suffering heavy losses, Fife and Moj decide to pull their respective organizations from the Shadow Collective, leaving Maul and his Mandalorian Supercommandos to fight the Separatists on their own.
The Clone Wars Season 7: Martez Sisters Arc[]
At some point after the Battle of Dathomir, the Pyke Syndicate rejoins the Shadow Collective. When Rafa Martez, her sister Trace Martez, and former Jedi Padawan Ahsoka Tano arrive at the Pyke Palace, they are met by Marg Krim, Fife, and a squad of guards. Unbeknownst to Krim, the trio had ejected their cargo and planned to swindle the former using Tano's Jedi mind trick. However, Fife grew suspicious of Krim's odd behavior and blasted open the crates himself as the girls were leaving. Finding them empty, he ordered several Pyke patrol ships to catch the trio's ship Silver Angel in a tractor beam before it could escape.
After being captured by the Pykes, Ahsoka, Trace, and Rafa were imprisoned while their captors prepared to torture them for the spice's location. However, after Rafa was interrogated and Trace was taken out of their cell, Ahsoka discretely used the Force to deactivate the cell's security and help the sisters escape. The three of them managed to take out a few more Pyke guards before Trace and Rafa were finally found by Fife and a few other guards. Upon capturing them, Fife opened a transmission to Krim, who asked them if they thought they would get away with fooling a Pyke. Rafa attempted to bargain for her and her sister's lives by reminding Krim of the spice's location. But Krim responded by saying that he would torture their friend for the information. Krim then ordered Fife to execute the sisters before ending the transmission.
Back in captivity, Krim gave Rafa an ultimatum; pay her debt or watch her friends die slowly. However, Ahsoka then cut in and offered to make a deal with Krim, feigning ambivalence towards Trace and Rafa's fates. Krim asked her once more for the location of the spice and Ahsoka responded that she didn't know where it was; only that the sisters had hidden it off-world. She then told Krim to give them one rotation to return the spice. If they didn't, she would inform Krim of their family's location. Krim asked Ahsoka what she would get out of this, to which Ahsoka said that she simply wanted her percentage. After thinking it over for a moment, Krim agreed to the terms. Though he also added that if Trace and Rafa didn't return with the spice, then he would torture and kill Tano before doing the same to the sisters and their family. Once the three of them left, Fife told Krim that this was just another deception. Krim then revealed that he knew this, but that he also didn't have much of a choice, since his life depended on regaining that spice as much as theirs. Fife asked Krim if he thought Darth Maul would find out about this mishap, to which Krim responded that he knows since he always knows.
Afterwards, Krim was contacted by Maul, whose Shadow Collective the Pyke Syndicate still served. Krim insisted that the current delay would not change things and that their operations would proceed as planned. Maul then reminded Krim that he was but one small piece in the mechanism he designed. Yet when he faltered, it jeopardized everything. Maul stated that he had more important things to attend to other than the Pyke's incompetence. He then told Krim to make sure there were no more delays. Though if there were, then he was certain Crimson Dawn would love the opportunity to take control of his operation. Once the transmission ended, Fife told Krim that Maul played members of the Collective against one another, to which Krim conceded that this was an efficient way of dealing with their kind of business. Fife expressed certainty that Maul knew of the Pykes' unwillingness to jump to his command. Though Krim then asked Fife if he would like to make that clear to him to which the latter shook his head in fear.
Sometime later, Ahsoka activated a series of detonators she had previously planted throughout the Pyke Palace. While Krim and his guards were stunned by the explosions, Ahsoka, Trace and Rafa managed to escape from the palace. Krim ordered his guards to capture them or they would all suffer the consequences. Though unfortunately for Krim and Fife, Tano and the sisters would evade capture one last time before finally leaving Oba Diah, placing the Pykes in further danger of reprimand from Maul.
