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Mothma, Mon

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a native of the planet Chandrila, Mon Mothma grew up in a political environment, as her mother was a governor on Chandrila and her father was an arbiter-general in the Old Republic. Mon Mothma eventually became the youngest person elected to the Imperial Senate at that time. (Leia Organa was the youngest ever to be elected.) She was an outspoken representative, who was one of the first Senators to notice the degeneration of the Old Republic. She was also one of the first to do something about it. As the Clone Wars ground on, Mon Mothma and Bail Organa worked with Padme' Amidala to enact legislation that ensure Chancellor Palpatine relinquished the additional powers he had acquired during the conflict. Their efforts were only marginally successful, and they received only Palpatine's assurances. When the First Battle of Coruscant caught the Republic off-guard, Mon Mothma was the first Senator to openly voice the suspicion that the Jedi Knights had become Palpatine's pawns in the larger game that resulted in his rise to power. Bail Organa managed to convince her otherwise, and joined with her to create the Petition of th eTwo Thousand. It was Senator Mothma who suggested that they bring in Senator Amidala to join their petition, hoping that her relationship with Palpatine might help them push their petition through. However, the Petition of the Two Thousand failed to produce results, and Senator Mothma and her colleagues were forced to watch Palpatine name himself Emperor and institute the New Order. Along with Senators Garm Bel Iblis and Bail Organa, Mon Mothma negotiated the Corellian Treaty following Palpatine's institution of the New Order, and formed the Alliance to Restore the Republic. She became the leader of the Alliance, and her political savvy made her nearly irreplaceable. How domineering attitude, however, created tense situations, and led to the departure of Garm Bel Iblis from the Alliance prior to the attack on Milvayne. Mon Mothma, along with Crix Madine and the Mon Calamarian Ackbar, devised the plans to destroy the second Death Star at Endor, which eventually succeeded. From that point on, Mon Mothma served as the Chief of State for the New Republic. While trying to bring more worlds into the New Republic's fold, she was poisoned by Furgan, the ambassador from the still-Imperial world of Carida. He threw a drink into her face; the drink contained a huge number of carefully-created nanodestroyers which ate away at Mon Mothma's genetic structure. A timely solution was found when the Jedi Healer Cilghal extracted the nanodestroyers, but Mon Mothma no longer felt able to run the New Republic. She asked Leia to take over for her, and retired to her estate on Coruscant. Just before the Yuuzhan Vong invaded the galaxy, Mon Mothma died of natural causes.