Refugee Relief Movement The Refugee Relief Movement ( RRM ) was a nonprofit organization originally formed to aid the billions of lower - class inhabitants of Coruscant . It later grew to a disaster aid , relief fund , and resettlement agency operating on planets throughout the Galactic Republic . History . Immediately prior to the Invasion of Naboo , Ruwee Naberrie served as the President of the Refugee Relief Movement . His wife Jobal also worked at the RRM ' s galactic capital headquarters , which consisted of stark offices tucked under a recessed upper level of the Tannik Spaceport — itself a semicircular docking pad located at the edge of the Manarai district and surrounded by towering monads . The spaceport was a haven for crew members that had been drugged or abducted , itinerant workers , and the undocumented migrants of many species looking for steerage passage to distant worlds . During the Separatist Crisis , the RRM ( and its newly - formed subgroup , the Refugee Resettlement Coalition ) oversaw the temporary settlement of those displaced by the closure of worlds joining the Confederacy of Independent Systems . The ten worlds of the Coalition were Naboo , Monastery , Kalarba , Cerea , Sneeve , Bimmisaari , Durkteel , Ord Tessebok , Garos IV , and Ord Varee . Former chancellor Finis Valorum presided over the opening of Alderaan to refugee settlement . Palpatine ' s proposal for an RRM volunteer . When she was a girl , Padmé Amidala , the Naberries ' daughter , wished to work for the RRM and became one of its young volunteers , helping to evacuate , before its destruction by a supernova , Shadda - Bi - Boran . Indeed , it was in 33 BBY that Senator Palpatine of Naboo visited the RRM headquarters to speak with the Naberries about their daughter Padmé , who had accompanied her parents from Naboo on their visit to Coruscant . As the adults conversed , the attractive , dark - haired young volunteer , along with her ' lovesick ' friend Ian Lago ( son of Kun Lago , King Veruna ' s Prime Councilor ) , directed the loading of antigrav - palleted foodstuffs into the bay of a waiting freighter . Palpatine , who arrived at the port in a sky - cab that he ' d hailed from the Senate Plaza , had just come from his wedge - shaped offices behind the Senate Building ' s Rotunda , where he ' d met that afternoon with the revered Jedi Master Dooku who had privately announced to him his intentions to leave the Jedi Order ( Dooku , brooding in the aftermath of the Jedi debacle that was the Battle of Baltizaar , in which his former Padawan had been abducted by the Bando Gora cult , could no longer abide the poor decisions of the Order ' s ' archaic ' High Council with regard to the indolent , ' wretched state of the Republic ' — which he felt needed to be ' torn down and built up again from the ground up , ' an action that possibly required a civil war , he ' d told him ) ; their meeting together was also the occasion that an authentically surprised Palpatine first heard of the ancient Jedi prophecy of a redeemer , or ' chosen one , ' who would bring balance to the Force and restore order : Dooku had expressed to the Senator his belief that the Jedi could fulfill the prophecy on their own if they were but willing to " unleash the full powers of the Force . " Palpatine announced to the Naberries that his purpose in coming to the docks was urgent : for if Naboo stood a chance of combating King Veruna ' s riches - inspired alignment with the Trade Federation ' s stance that the galaxy ' s free - trade zones be taxed , he would have to be challenged and beaten in the coming election by " the right candidate . " The Naberries , of course , knew immediately that Palpatine was suggesting that that candidate be their 13 - year - old daughter , the Princess of Theed , who , in Palpatine ' s eyes , was eminently qualified . As one who had enjoyed more popular support in Theed than any governor had enjoyed in generations , Padmé had become a member of the Legislative Youth Program at age 8 , a full Apprentice Legislator at 11 , and had gone on to engage in significant refugee work . Naboo , after all , had historically elected younger Queens than Padmé , and hers could be a reign that would last 50 years . The Naboo constitution , Palpatine pressed , had a provision that would allow the monarchy to become hereditary for a worthy dynasty : " And what more worthy family is there than the Naberries ? " The Senator reinforced his counsel by reminding them that the citizens of Naboo were exasperated with monarchs like Tapalo and Veruna , and that " Padmé would allow Naboo to reinvent itself . " She , moreover , would not have to take a stand on the issue of free trade zone taxation , but rather campaign only against corruption and secret deals , and the embarrassing position in which Veruna had placed Naboo . Increasingly , he told the Naberries , though he ' d helped put their monarch on the throne , Palpatine had found himself in recent years opposite Veruna on practically every issue , including the library the King built and the credits he lavished on creating a space force for Naboo during his 12 - year reign . The Senator assured them that Veruna could be defeated and that he would lend them not only his , but also the Supreme Chancellor ' s unqualified support to ensure that Padmé was successful in her campaign . " Faced with Padmé as competition , " Palpatine concluded , " perhaps Veruna will see the light and abdicate . " In the end , the Naberries , delighted to learn that Chancellor Valorum knew of their daughter , were in accord with Palpatine ' s proposition and would present it to Padmé . Years later , having been elected and served for nearly a decade as the Queen of Naboo , Padmé ( now Senator Amidala ) and her Jedi protector , Anakin Skywalker , covertly journeyed from Coruscant to Naboo on an RRM vessel .