Teckla Minnau / Legends Teckla Minnau was a Human female from Naboo who served as a handmaiden to Senator Padmé Amidala . Born in the city of Parrlay , Minnau attended a private school in Naboo ' s capital of Theed with her half - sister , Nandi . In 32 BBY , when the Trade Federation invaded the planet and attacked Theed , Minnau fled to an outlying marsh village , where she waited out the invasion . Though she was separated from Nandi for the duration of the Federation ' s occupation , they were reunited at the Naboo people ' s victory celebrations . The half - sisters entered into service to Senator Amidala , and in 22 BBY , they managed her family ' s Lake Country residence of Varykino . At the dawn of the Clone Wars later that year , Minnau was sent to Coruscant to become part of Amidala ' s staff at the Naboo Embassy . While raising children in the difficulties of wartime , Minnau provided moral support for Amidala during her career in the Republic Senate , particularly during Amidala ' s campaign against a military increase bill . In the final month of the war , Minnau accompanied Amidala on a mercy mission to Scipio , the headquarters of the InterGalactic Banking Clan . During the ensuing negotiations , Amidala was forced to collaborate with Banking Clan representative Rush Clovis , a former colleague and old flame , who suspected the Core Five leadership of corruption but so far lacked evidence to prove his claims . Minnau and Amidala agreed to help Clovis gain access to the Banking Clan ' s Main Vault , but while covertly sabotaging the Vault ' s power generator , Minnau was shot and killed by the bounty hunter Embo . Her actions allowed Amidala and Clovis to gain the necessary evidence and expose the Core Five as embezzlers . Biography . Early life on Naboo . The Human female Teckla Minnau was born in the city of Parrlay , Naboo , to a middle - class merchant family during the reign of the Galactic Republic . She grew up with her half - sister , Nandi , and they formed a close relationship in a childhood that was largely free of incident . They were eventually sent to Naboo ' s planetary capital of Theed , where they stayed at the household of their law clerk brother , Rehtul Minnau , and attended a private school to be instructed in the ways of hospitality , history , etiquette , and the arts . In the year 32 BBY , the Trade Federation invaded Naboo , and Theed was attacked . Just hours after the Federation assault , as gun battles raged through Theed ' s streets , Minnau and Nandi accompanied members of the Royal Naboo Security Forces in fleeing to nearby swamps . The half - sisters were separated while doing so , and for several days , Minnau had to avoid Federation bombing runs and Single Trooper Aerial Platform patrols . After reaching a marsh village , Minnau waited out the rest of the invasion there until Naboo had been liberated by forces led by Queen Padmé Amidala and Gungan Boss Rugor Nass . During the celebrations of the Naboo victory , Minnau was reunited with Nandi , and they went on to complete their schooling . Within a decade of the Invasion of Naboo , Minnau and Nandi became employed as servants of Amidala , who had since risen to be Naboo ' s representative in the Republic Senate . While Amidala worked in the Senate on the galactic capital of Coruscant , Minnau and Nandi remained on Naboo to manage the senator ' s family estate , Varykino , in the Lake Country , where they worked as resort waitresses . In 22 BBY , after being targeted by a series of attempts on her life , Amidala returned to Naboo with a Jedi bodyguard , Anakin Skywalker , and decided to stay at Varykino . Minnau and Nandi waited on Amidala and Skywalker at the estate during the pair ' s dinner , serving freshly hand - picked shuura fruit after their meal and then returning to clean up the pair ' s plates . The Clone Wars . Aide to Amidala . It was only a short time later that the Clone Wars broke out across the galaxy , and Minnau was subsequently recalled to join Amidala ' s staff at Coruscant ' s Naboo Embassy . In her new position as a handmaiden for Amidala , Minnau was once again separated from Nandi . By 21 BBY , Minnau had begun to raise children of her own . Because of the war , the district where her family lived had sparse access to running water and electricity , to the point that her children had no light to read or study by at night and could only bathe every two weeks . Despite those hindrances , Minnau remained a loyal aide to Amidala , striking up a close relationship with her while also gaining her trust . Following a Senate debate on a proposal to escalate clone trooper production , which would sustain and expand the Republic ' s war effort against the Confederacy of Independent Systems , Minnau accompanied Amidala from the Senate Building back to her office in the Republic Executive Building . Minnau brought back a datapad and waited while Amidala spoke with her close allies , Senators Bail Prestor Organa and Onaconda Farr , about defeating the troop increase bill . A night later , when Amidala , bruised and battered after a run - in with bounty hunters , returned to her Naboo Embassy apartment , Minnau treated her facial wounds with an antiseptic . Though Minnau suggested that Amidala report the incident to the Jedi High Council , the senator refused , as she knew that her assailants had been trying to prevent her from voting against the troop increase . Minnau provided moral support for Amidala , who was losing hope with her prospects of defeating the bill . At Amidala ' s request , Minnau stayed at the apartment to tell her about the war ' s effect on her family , a conversation that Amidala took to heart . When Organa was injured by the same bounty hunters who had attacked Amidala , he was unable to deliver the oppositional speech that was to precede the final vote on the clone trooper escalation bill , and the task of addressing the Senate fell to Amidala . Although Amidala was not confident that her fellow politicians would listen to her on account of her partisanship , Minnau , presenting her senator with her formal Senatorial headpiece , convinced her to speak before the Senate by citing the fact that she truly understood the war ' s impact on the Republic citizenry . Minnau followed Amidala to the Senate Chamber , where she watched her address the Senate body . In a speech that was broadcast across Coruscant , Amidala provided a moving account of the war ' s effects on Minnau , an everyday civilian , and her family , articulating her belief that the longer the conflict went on , the more it would consume funds for the people ' s basic services . Her address stirred the Senate , and her colleagues received it with a thunderous round of applause . Because of her speech about Minnau , Amidala won much support in the Senate , though the bill to heighten clone trooper production was ultimately passed . Negotiations on Scipio . In 19 . 1 BBY , the final month of the Clone Wars , Minnau traveled with Amidala on a mercy mission to the planet Scipio , the headquarters of the InterGalactic Banking Clan . Amidala sought to secure a new loan from the Banking Clan to aid refugees who had been displaced from their homes by the war . Minnau accompanied Amidala , a pair of Senate Commandos , and Banking Clan representative Nix Card aboard the GX1 Short Hauler " Valorous " , which landed at the city surrounding the Main Vault amidst the icy mountains of Scipio . Mak Plain , a Banking Clan official , received Amidala , Minnau , and their associates at the entrance to the neutral zone surrounding the Main Vault , where all monetary transactions were conducted free of partisanship to the Republic and the Confederacy . While the Senate Commandos remained outside with the " Valorous " , Minnau followed Amidala and the Banking Clan representatives into the neutral zone and proceeded to the Vault ' s main rotunda . There , Amidala met with the Core Five , the primary leadership of the Banking Clan . As Core Five spokesman Clu Lesser introduced the special representative who would be directly discussing the terms with Amidala , Minnau and her senator were surprised to see Rush Clovis enter the rotunda . Clovis was the former senator of Scipio , and though he had been romantically involved with Amidala a number of years ago , he had been exposed as a war profiteer , having provided funding for a major Separatist battle droid foundry on Geonosis . Amidala outright refused to collaborate with Clovis and blocked further progress until he was removed from the negotiations . That night , Plain showed Amidala and Minnau to their guest quarters , and Minnau thanked Plain before he left . Immediately thereafter , Minnau noticed someone creeping up behind Amidala and shouted a warning . Amidala , having smuggled an ELG - 3A blaster pistol into the neutral zone , aimed her blaster at the intruder : Clovis . He told Amidala that he needed her help , and though Minnau protested , Amidala decided to hear him out and followed him out onto the room ' s balcony to confer privately . Clovis explained that while he suspected there were no financial funds remaining in the banks , the evidence was out of his reach within the records of the Main Vault , to which only the Core Five were permitted entry . Just then , sniper shots fired by the bounty hunter Embo , who was too far away to be identified , narrowly missed Clovis and Amidala , the latter of whom ran back into the suite to take refuge with Minnau . Clovis pleaded with Amidala to pressure the Core Five into opening access to the Main Vault , then escaped on a hover sledge that he had parked several meters beneath the balcony . After the local Muun authorities arrived to verify that Amidala was safe , Minnau saw the security agents off , while Amidala holograph ically contacted Supreme Chancellor Palpatine to discuss Clovis ' s suspicions . When negotiations with the Core Five resumed the next morning , Amidala successfully petitioned the Banking Clan leaders to grant her access to the Main Vault the following day . During a subsequent break from the talks , Minnau and Amidala accompanied Clovis aboard the H - 2 executive shuttle " Scipio " to his personal residence in a remote area outside the city . Inside , Minnau joined Amidala while the latter discussed with Clovis their plan to retrieve the hidden files within the Main Vault . Clovis intended to set off an explosive charge at the Main Vault ' s power generator , which would plunge the entire facility into shutdown . In the brief interlude preceding the backup generator ' s activation , Amidala would use a device to locate the secret data files and download them from the mainframe . Presently , Minnau informed Amidala that she would be retiring for the night , and her senator did the same shortly thereafter . The next morning , Minnau went with Clovis and Amidala to the Main Vault , where they met Plain , the Core Five , and several Muun security agents . After the Core Five had entered the Vault with Amidala , Clovis attempted to sneak off to plant his detonator at the power generator . However , Plain stopped Clovis and pressured him into waiting for Amidala to return , since opening the Vault had been his idea . Noticing Clovis ' s dilemma , Minnau discreetly took the explosive charge from him and undertook his part of the scheme . She proceeded down several levels to the generator superstructure , and once she had glanced around to make sure no one had spotted her , she placed the detonator onto the structure . Unbeknownst to her , a minute seeker droid sent by Embo had located her . Embo aimed at her from a long distance away with his bowcaster , and Minnau halted in her tracks when she saw his bowcaster ' s targeting light on her body . She frantically scanned her surroundings , but before she could pinpoint her attacker , Embo fired a single shot that killed her . Mere seconds later , Minnau ' s explosive activated , compromising the entire power grid and allowing Amidala to surreptitiously retrieve the required data files from the Vault mainframe . In the Muun authorities ' following investigation into the power grid failure , Minnau ' s body was found at the scene of the bomb site , and it was concluded that she had sabotaged the power grid . Although Minnau ' s murderer went unidentified , Amidala and Clovis were able to use the recovered data files to expose the Core Five as the masterminds of an embezzling scandal that had depleted the banks . Personality and traits . Standing 1 . 68 meters tall , Teckla Minnau had fair skin , black hair , and blue eyes . A loyal aide to Senator Padmé Amidala , she possessed enough skill in the fields of etiquette and hospitality to serve Amidala and her family . A resourceful individual , Minnau was able to survive the Invasion of Naboo despite being in great danger . She earned Amidala ' s trust and placed the senator ' s needs before her own without complaint . She dutifully tended to Amidala ' s wounds after the senator was injured in an encounter with bounty hunters , and she was of the belief that Amidala should report the encounter to the Jedi Council . Minnau did not support Amidala simply through matters of administration or physical treatment . She was quite concerned for her senator on a personal level , providing words of encouragement when Amidala was losing hope that no one else cared about the ongoing deterioration of democracy within the Senate . Because Amidala was willing to interact with " people like " herself , Minnau believed that her senator was unlike most politicians in that she actually listened to the words of the people , was concerned for the wartime struggles they were going through , and cared about their needs — such principles , Minnau saw , were a strength of Amidala ' s . Minnau was timid at times ; while attempting to comfort Amidala following the bounty hunters ' attempt on her life , she became embarrassed when she felt that she had said too much and subsequently made to leave . However , she stayed when Amidala asked that she tell her about her family and their repercussions from the war . Minnau later mustered up the confidence to convince Amidala to speak before the Senate in place of Bail Organa , citing Amidala ' s trait for understanding the war ' s true effect on the civilian populace . Because of Minnau ' s conviction , Amidala was able to find her own confidence to address the full Senate . Minnau displayed a measure of distrust for Rush Clovis , directly voicing to Amidala her belief that meeting with Clovis was not a good idea . Nevertheless , Minnau agreed to assist Clovis in his endeavor to gain access to the Banking Clan ' s Main Vault . When Clovis was held up by Mak Plain and was unable to plant his explosive charge at the power generator , Minnau even took it upon herself to complete Clovis ' s part of the plan , an action that ultimately cost her her life . She was able to speak Galactic Basic Standard , and her first name was fairly common among Humans . At Varykino , she wore a simple blue dress with a matching head cap . While serving Amidala on Coruscant , she donned a hooded , lavender - colored outfit . During the negotiations on Scipio , she wore a full - length maroon robe . Behind the scenes . The character of Teckla was conceived for " Star Wars " creator George Lucas ' s 2002 film , although she made her first appearance prior to that in author R . A . Salvatore ' s of the film , in which she was identified by her first name . The name " Teckla " was mentioned in the 2003 " Galactic Campaign Guide " as an example of a Human female name , but it was not until 2008 that the character ' s backstory was elaborated upon in a StarWars . com Databank entry by Evan Burger , writing as " Shadowcultist , " through the feature " What ' s The Story ? " In using the surname " Minnau " for Teckla , Burger alluded to the name that actor Nathan Hamill had created for his own character , Rehtul Minnau , in the 1999 film . Minnau received an entry in the 2008 " The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia " and was mentioned in the of De Agostini ' s " " series . In December 2010 , eight years after her original creation , Minnau was given a prominent role in " Pursuit of Peace , " the eleventh episode in the , in which she was voiced by actress Ashley Moynihan . She later appeared in the episode " An Old Friend , " which was released in March 2014 with the series ' . For that episode , actress Anna Graves — who had previously voiced the character Satine Kryze — provided Minnau ' s vocal portrayal . Original fate . " An Old Friend " depicts Minnau dying at the hands of the bounty hunter Embo , contrary to Evan Burger ' s original description of her life in her Databank entry . According to that entry , after Amidala becomes pregnant , Minnau is one of the few beings entrusted with the knowledge of her senator ' s pregnancy , and she becomes a caretaker and nurse to Amidala . Following Amidala ' s death and Supreme Chancellor Palpatine ' s transformation of the Republic into the Galactic Empire in 19 BBY , Minnau returns to Naboo . She marries an aspiring writer and eventually becomes a handmaiden to Naboo ' s Queen Kylantha . This article assumes that the aforementioned portion of Minnau ' s Databank entry has been overwritten , given her death in " An Old Friend . "