Peppi Bow / Legends Peppi Bow was a female Gungan shaak herder living on Naboo during the final years of the Old Republic . Shortly after the beginning of the Clone Wars , the Gungan ' s herd became skittish when near Naboo ' s eastern swamps , in much the same way they had during the Trade Federation ' s Invasion of Naboo ten years prior . Bow , concerned that the planet may be facing another invasion , contacted the leader of the Gungans , Boss Rugor Nass , who brought her before the Naboo Royal Advisory Council . Bow explained to the Naboo Queen Neeyutnee that she feared battle droids had returned to Naboo — fears that were dismissed by much of the council . She was later vindicated when a patrol of the Royal Naboo Security Forces intercepted a squad of Confederacy of Independent Systems droids . Bow returned to her herd , most of which would later be killed after drinking from a river just outside of Naboo ' s capital of Theed . She learned from Naboo politicians Padmé Amidala and Jar Jar Binks that her animals were the victims of a Confederate biological weapon that had contaminated the river . Bow aided the two in locating the weapon ' s source , and after Amidala and Binks were captured by Confederate forces , she aided Jedi Padawan Ahsoka Tano in locating the politicians . Bow and Tano discovered that they were being held in a secret Trade Federation laboratory beneath the eastern swamps — the same laboratory where the bioweapon was developed . While Tano and Republic forces assaulted the lab , Bow waited in the swamp above to prevent any Confederate forces from escaping the battle . At the end of the raid , Doctor Nuvo Vindi , who was responsible for the bioweapon and the capture of Amidala and Binks , attempted to flee Republic forces , but was stopped by Peppi Bow after she tackled and incapacitated him . Biography . Life as a shaak wrangler . Peppi Bow was a female Gungan native to the Galactic Republic world of Naboo . Prior the rise of the Galactic Empire , she lived on the planet as a herder and wrangler of shaaks — domesticated animals indigenous to Naboo that were commonly used as livestock . Bow resided in the planet ' s capital city of Theed , which was invaded in 32 BBY by the Trade Federation mega - conglomerate . During the invasion , Bow ' s shaaks became skittish and unsettled when in proximity to the Federation ' s battle droid forces . The invasion ultimately met with failure when Queen Padmé Amidala ' s Royal Naboo Security Forces retook the capital from the Trade Federation . For the following decade , Bow continued her life as a shaak wrangler , ushering her herd about the plains outside of Theed . In 22 BBY , after the outbreak of the Clone Wars between the Republic and Confederacy of Independent Systems , she noticed that her shaaks became jumpy and skittish when they neared Naboo ' s eastern swamps . Bow was deeply concerned , and so contacted the Gungan leader , Boss Rugor Nass , and informed him of her worries . Nass arranged for Bow to be brought before the Naboo Royal Advisory Council so she could explain her concerns directly the Queen of Naboo herself . At the time , the throne was occupied by Queen Neeyutnee , who granted Nass and Bow an audience before her council . Before presenting their issue to the queen , the two Gungans waited within the throne room of the Theed Royal Palace while the council held their regular session . When Neeyutnee gave Nass the floor , the Gungan Boss introduced Bow to the Advisory Council and allowed the shaak wrangler to explain her findings herself . Although she was initially apprehensive about addressing the queen , Bow was able to speak before both Neeyutnee and the rest of the council after receiving encouragement from Nass . She informed the queen of her herd ' s strange behavior , which led Neeyutnee to believe it may be the result of predators invading the area . The Gungan insisted that the problem was not predators , but instead that her animals were detecting something in the swamps that caused them to be so jumpy . After Nass questioned her on the history of her animal ' s behavior , Bow explained that the last time they had acted so peculiarly was during the Trade Federation ' s invasion eleven years prior . Both the queen and Naboo Governor Sio Bibble were taken aback by the insinuation that Federation droids had returned to their planet , as the conglomerate had allied itself with the Confederacy in its war against the Republic . Since the Clone Wars supposedly posed no immediate danger to the peaceful world , both Bibble and Officer Chrin of the Royal Naboo Security Forces challenged Bow ' s report , with Chrin going so far as to openly mock her claims . The officer explained to the court that if battle droids had come to Naboo , the sensors that the Security Force had placed throughout the countryside would have detected them . Nass defended Bow ' s claims and Security Captain Gregar Typho reprimanded Chrin for speaking out of turn before volunteering to take a squad of Security Officer s out on a patrol of the plains near the eastern swamps in order to discern the truth . During their patrol , the officers intercepted and destroyed a squad of B1 battle droids and captured an intact T - series tactical droid . The incident confirmed Bow ' s suspicions and alerted the Naboo to the possibility of a Confederate invasion . Homeworld threatened . After giving her report to the council , Bow returned to her herd . Together with her shaaks , the Gungan journeyed to a river on the plains outside of Theed . Her animals proceeded to drink from the river , but began to honk and snort in alarm . Just as Bow herself was about to drink some of the water , her animals began to fall to the ground , dead . An alarmed Bow realized that the water was somehow contaminated and attempted to push the shaaks away from the river with her electropole , but was too late . Although only six of the animals died immediately , almost every other shaak in her herd fell ill and eventually perished . A short time later , Bow witnessed an approaching vessel touch down near the river . Unaware of its origins , Bow took cover behind a ruin on the river bank and watched as two individuals clad in hazardous materials suits inspected the bodies of her animals . The Gungan was suspicious of their intentions and so attacked them with her electropole ; however , unbeknownst to Bow , the individuals were in fact Naboo ' s senator , Padmé Amidala , and Associate Planetary Representative Jar Jar Binks , who had returned to their planet to investigate the appearance of the battle droids . After forcing Amidala to the ground , Bow turned on Binks , striking him repeatedly before removing his air - tight helmet . As Binks panicked , Amidala recovered and pulled a blaster pistol on Bow . At the senator ' s request , Bow returned the helmet to Binks , who swiftly placed it back over his head . Understanding that the two were just as concerned about the death of her herd as she , Bow informed Amidala and Binks that it was safe to remove their helmets , as the contamination was in the water only , and not the air . Once Amidala dropped her blaster and took off the protective head gear , Bow introduced herself to the two of them before being informed that it was a virus that had killed her animals . Amidala explained that the virus originated in an area surrounded by perlote trees , which Bow was able to identify as the eastern swamps . She gave the two politicians directions to the region and offered to take them there , but Amidala insisted that Bow remain on the river bank and wait for Naboo Security Officers to escort her back to her home in Theed . The shaak wrangler agreed and waited while Amidala and Binks ventured into the swamps . Upon her arrival in Theed , Bow was informed that Amidala and Binks had gone missing while investigating the swamps . As she had been the last person to see the two , Bow was summoned to the Royal Palace to meet with Captain Typho . Typho took the Gungan to the Theed Hangar , where the two of them met with Jedi Generals Obi - Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker and Skywalker ' s Padawan , Ahsoka Tano . Bow explained to the three that Amidala and Binks had been searching for the source of the virus when they went missing . Skywalker ordered Tano to go with Bow into the eastern swamps to begin the search for the senator and representative , while he and Kenobi stayed in Theed to discuss the situation with Typho . Bow and Tano departed , riding one of the Gungan ' s few surviving shaaks to the swamps . During their journey , Tano was informed that the swamp hid a massive underground laboratory , which had been discovered by Amidala before her disappearance . As night fell on Naboo , the two arrived at the swamps and followed the footprints left by Amidala and Binks deep into the perlote trees until they inexplicably stopped . Dismounting their shaak , Bow and Tano attempted to investigate the area , but were interrupted when Bow was raised off the ground by a photoreceptor scope that suddenly extended upward under her feet from beneath the swamp ' s muddy floor . While Bow balanced on one foot atop the scope , Tano maneuvered around it to avoid detection . When she had an opportunity to hide herself and Bow from the scope , Tano jumped up and tackled the Gungan off the scope and threw her behind the base of a large tree . Once the scope descended back into the swamp floor , Tano contacted Skywalker and informed him of the situation in the swamp . The Padawan was ordered to detonate a bunker bomb at one of the laboratory ' s entrance hatches as a distraction for the forces within . Once that was complete , Kenobi and Skywalker would enter the lab with clone troopers of the Grand Army of the Republic to rescue Amidala and Binks and negate the threat of the virus . Before Tano initiated the operation , Bow called her shaak mount to take cover with her behind the tree . While they waited there , Tano used the Force to place a thermal detonator over one of the lab ' s hatches . Once the detonator exploded and breached the lab , Tano prepared to enter , but was stopped by Bow , who wished to aid in the assault . The Jedi Padawan refused her request , instead ordering Bow to wait in the swamp above and to prevent any Confederate personnel from escaping the laboratory . Tano ventured into the complex , followed shortly by Kenobi , Skywalker , and their clone troops . The raid lasted until the following morning , when Naboo ' s sun once again rose over the swamps where Bow waited . After rescuing Amidala and Binks , Skywalker and Kenobi pursued Doctor Nuvo Vindi to an underground landing pad in the laboratory complex . Vindi — the Confederate scientist who developed the virus — planned to escape the Jedi ' s pursuit by fleeing in a " Sheathipede " - class shuttle , but first tried to delay the two by throwing vials containing samples of the virus at them , which , if broken , would unleash a plague upon the planet . Kenobi safely caught all the vials , but was left within the lab when Vindi raised the landing pad upward through large hangar doors on the swamp floor . Bow was standing directly above the hangar as the doors began to split and open to reveal Vindi ' s escape ship and nearly fell into the widening maw . After jumping to safety , Bow watched as the landing platform brought Skywalker and Vindi into view . Although the Jedi had Vindi at lightsaber point , the doctor was unwilling to surrender and once again attempted to break a vial of the virus and release a plague upon Naboo . Because the doctor was distracted by his own glee for his apparent victory over the Jedi , he did not notice Bow as she climbed atop the landing platform . Just before Vindi was able to open the vial , the Gungan tackled him , causing him to drop both his case of vials carrying the disease as well as the individual vial he had almost opened . Skywalker prevented the individual vial from falling to the ground and breaking while Bow continued her assault on Vindi , striking him repeatedly with her electropole so as to prevent him from reclaiming his case filled with the virus . Despite being defeated , Vindi still laughed while claiming that bombs filled with the virus were about to detonate within the laboratory . His claim proved false , however , as the explosives had already been deactivated by clone forces . At a later time during the Clone Wars , Peppi Bow once again encountered Representative Binks . The Gungan politician had returned to his homeworld to investigate criminals who had been stealing shaaks from local herds . Binks left Bow in order to continue his mission , shortly after which point the shaak herder was approached by Ahsoka Tano , who had come back to Naboo in order to locate Binks . As she was unable to find him herself , she sought the aid of Bow , who led her to the Representative . Personality and traits . Peppi Bow was a pink - skinned Gungan who bound her long , floppy ears together behind her head . She garbed herself in a small teal top of Gungan weave and a short , matching skirt worn over long pink pants , dyed with pom - berry extract . Bow also carried a lengthy electopole , a fambaa - hide carryall , and donned a large , wide - rimmed conical hat . She had a fondness for chewing on straw while riding her shaak mount and was knowledgeable in the fields of shaak husbandry and Naboo flora and fauna . Although she lived in the Naboo capital city of Theed , Bow led a rural life , spending her time alongside her shaaks in the Naboo countryside . An experienced shaak herder , Bow had an innate understanding of her herd ' s behavior and was rightly concerned upon noticing their wariness near the eastern swamps . Although nervous about presenting her findings to the Royal Advisory Council , Bow was reassured by Boss Nass , who urged her to continue her report to the Naboo officials . Despite her efforts to forewarn the Naboo , Bow ' s herd represented the first casualties of the Confederacy ' s bioweapon . She was quick to recognize that the river water was unhealthy and attempted to save her animals from drinking it , but the effects of the weapon were too fast to counteract . She had no knowledge of the virus , but Bow knew that her shaaks were too strong to have been killed by any naturally - occurring substance in the water . Determined to discover the source of the contamination , Bow assaulted Amidala and Binks under the belief that they may have been involved with the contagion . Upon discovering their true intentions , Bow offered to help the two , just as she later offered to assist Tano in locating and infiltrating the Confederate lab . She knew how to handle herself in dangerous situations and dutifully followed Tano ' s orders to remain outside the laboratory and aided in the capture of the man responsible for her herd ' s death — Doctor Nuvo Vindi . Behind the scenes . The Gungan Peppi Bow was created for " Blue Shadow Virus , " the seventeenth episode of the of the . She was first introduced in , an issue of StarWars . com ' s that served as a prelude to " Blue Shadow Virus . " In 2011 , Bow was included in the PSP and Nintendo DS versions of " " , where she appeared as an unlockable character . In " Blue Shadow Virus , " Bow is voiced by Gwendoline Yeo , who has also voiced the Bettie - Bot VJ , Nala Se , and Cato Parasitti for the series . Bow ' s character design was done by artist Wayne Lo , who saw her as more rural than other Gungans , and so provided her with a stock of wheat to chew on in order to achieve a " farm girl look . " As the first female Gungan to be featured prominently in a " Star Wars " work , Bow presented several challenges to the design team , as they experienced difficulties in making a Gungan appear feminine . To supply her with proper gender identification , Lo put Bow ' s long ears behind her head in a clasp , akin to a .