Mak Plain / Legends Mak Plain was a Muun male banker who lived during the years prior to the rise of the Galactic Empire . Plain worked as an official within the Muun - run InterGalactic Banking Clan and represented the Clan ' s loan policies and practices on the Galactic Republic ' s capital world of Coruscant during the Clone Wars between the Republic and the separatist Confederacy of Independent Systems . Around 21 BBY , in the aftermath of a failed peace initiative to end the war and a devastating terrorist attack on Coruscant , Republic Senator Halle Burtoni introduced a bill before the Galactic Congress that would appropriate a loan from the InterGalactic Banking Clan to fund the addition of five million clone troopers to the Grand Army of the Republic . Senators Padmé Amidala and Onaconda Farr , both of whom opposed the bill , met with Plain to discuss the cost of such a loan . During the meeting , Plain revealed that in light of a recent decision by the Senate to deregulate the banking industry , the Banking Clan ' s interest rate on government loans would increase from the original ten percent to a new rate of twenty - five percent . Due to Burtoni ' s campaigning and the fact that the Confederacy had already secured such a loan from the Banking Clan , the military enhancement bill was approved . Biography . Mak Plain was a Muun male who lived during the final years of the Great Peace of the Republic . Like many other members of his species , Plain worked as a banker for the Muun - run InterGalactic Banking Clan — the galaxy ' s largest and most politically powerful financial institution . During the Clone Wars between the dominant government of the Galactic Republic and the breakaway Confederacy of Independent Systems , Plain served the Banking Clan as a loan officer and executive representative on the Republic ' s capital planet of Coruscant . There , the Muun worked out of his office and negotiated government loan settlements with Republic leaders . Around 21 BBY , the Galactic Senate of the Republic debated a bill that would deregulate the galaxy ' s financial institutions so that the government could secure larger loans to further fund the war effort . The legislation , which was partially sponsored by Banking Clan lobbyist Nix Card , passed with an overwhelming majority following a Confederate terrorist attack on Coruscant ' s power generators and the failure of a fledgling peace movement . Immediately after the passage of the deregulation bill , Senator Halle Burtoni of Kamino drafted and introduced a bill that would secure a loan from the InterGalactic Banking Clan to fund the growth and training of five million new clone trooper soldiers . Unbeknownst to many senators , given the recent implementation of lender deregulation , Plain and the Banking Clan would be able to offer the loan with a twenty - five percent interest rate — a dramatic hike from the previous government rate of ten percent . While the debate over the bill raged on Coruscant , the Confederacy , to which the Banking Clan also lent , accepted the new interest rate and secured their own loan to finance the creation of three million more battle droid units . Two senators opposed to the Republic appropriations bill — Padmé Amidala of Naboo and Onaconda Farr of Rodia — met with Plain to investigate the Banking Clan ' s new loan policies and the details of the proposed loan . To the senators ' shock and disgust , Plain divulged that the loan would carry a twenty - five percent interest rate . The Muun tried to temper their revulsion by revealing that the Confederacy had no problem paying at the new rate , but Amidala only questioned Plain ' s motives for allowing the Confederacy to acquire more forces . Although Plain made his home on the Republic capital , he assured the Senator that the Banking Clan had no stake or bias in the war between the Republic and Confederacy . Shortly after his meeting with Amidala and Farr , Plain met with Burtoni in the Republic Executive Building . Despite an impassioned plea to reject the appropriations bill from Amidala to the Senate days later , the legislation passed , and the Republic secured the loan . Although Amidala continued her quest to repeal the bill and cancel the loan , Burtoni ' s legislation stood and the order for the clone troopers went forward . Personality and traits . A Muun , Mak Plain was exceedingly tall for a humanoid , easily towering over the Human Padmé Amidala and the Rodian Onaconda Farr , who stood at 1 . 65 and 1 . 73 meters , respectively . He spoke Galactic Basic Standard with a nasally inflection , and , as was typical of Muuns , he was fair - skinned and lacked head or facial hair . His eyes were yellow in color . During his meeting with Senators Amidala and Farr , he garbed himself in a tight - fitting red shirt underneath a dark vest and floor - length skirt , and crowned his tall head with a banded headdress . Plain was typical of many Muuns — greatly concerned with financial affairs and eager to reap great profit on behalf of the InterGalactic Banking Clan . Although he lived and worked on the Republic capital planet , Plain had no qualms about operating with both the age - old democracy and its opposition , the upstart Confederate movement . This political apathy was widespread in the Banking Clan management and practiced by other Coruscant - based officials , such as Senator Rush Clovis and lobbyist Nix Card . When the Muun was visited by Amidala and Farr , he gladly informed them of the Banking Clan ' s drastic rate hike and used the threat of new Separatist war matériel to convince them of the Republic ' s need for a new loan . After Amidala questioned his loyalty to the Republic , Plain claimed that he and the Clan had no stake in the war — a thinly veiled lie to hide the reality of the profitability of further conflict and bloodshed . Behind the scenes . Mak Plain was introduced to " Star Wars " canon in the eleventh episode of the . The episode , titled " Pursuit of Peace , " first aired on December 3 of 2010 and featured the voice talents of Stephen Stanton in the role of Mak Plain . On December 2 , 2011 , the twelfth episode of of " The Clone Wars " , titled " Slaves of the Republic , " featured a number of Muun background characters on the Confederate - allied Outer Rim world of Zygerria , outside the Zygerrian Royal Palace in a slave market . At least two of these Muuns were identical to Plain ' s appearance in " Pursuit of Peace , " but due to the fact that there were multiple instances of the character model being utilized in the same scene , Plain ' s presence in the episode is uncertain , and has not yet been confirmed by official sources .