It must be that a requirement of being a reporter here is that you were the top of your creative writing class and they just sit around waiting for something like this to happen so they can toss out the puns they thought up when it wasn't an Apocalypse.
[Hyperion excluding Tenel Ka and Jacen (only because she's not sure if he's still a suspect or not)]
I have the completed list on locator spells. I'm not sure how they'll work with the Force involved because the authors of those books had no idea what that was but hey, you don't know until you try, right?
There is one that I did find that is pretty strong but it, um, involves digging up a dead serial killer and I don't think anyone wants to do that so I just kind of left it in the book and moved on.