House Alde House Alde , was an ancient Great House on the planet Alderaan . Founded centuries before the founding of the Galactic Republic in 25 , 053 BBY , House Alde was the first royal house of Alderaan after Darrus Alde brought centuries of inter - house rivalries and conflict to an end at the ravine later known as King ' s Pass . He was crowned King of Alderaan by the newly - formed Alderaanian Parliament , and the house became known for its preoccupation with preserving the blood and lineage of Alderaan ' s first king . In the century before the Alderaan Civil War , Alde became a steadfast ally of House Organa , and the two houses remained staunchly loyal to the Republic in the fighting that followed Prince Gaul Panteer ' s death . History . Early history . The planet Alderaan was colonized by Humans around the year 27 , 500 BBY , and House Alde soon rose to prominence as one of a number of noble houses that existed on the world . However , centuries after Alderaan ' s settling , during the time when Darrus Alde was the head of House Alde , many of the noble houses on Alderaan were at war with each other , and the combatants gathered for a major battle at a ravine south of the Juran Mountains . Before battle could commence , Alde parleyed with the other noble families and ended the conflict , convincing the houses to abandon their ancient rivalries and uniting them in the first iteration of the Alderaanian Parliament . The Elysium , a towering structure in the Glarus Valley that served as a meeting place for the Parliament , was soon constructed , and Darrus Alde was elected and anointed as the first king of Alderaan within the Elysium ' s walls by the other Great Houses of Alderaan . House Alde soon established an estate , also known as House Alde , in the Juran Mountains , and the ravine where Darrus Alde had stopped the houses ' battle became known as King ' s Pass in his honor . The King ' s Road was established to connect King ' s Pass to the crossroads between the Fornaak River and House Alde , and the road passed through Kingsroad Dale and around Fort Alde , a military outpost of House Alde to the south of the House ' s estate . Alderaan soon joined the Galactic Republic when it was founded in 25 , 053 BBY , and House Alde developed strong ties to the Republic that remained for thousands of years . By the time of the Cold War between the Republic and the Sith Empire , House Alde was the oldest surviving Alderaan noble house , and its members had become obsessed with antiquity and lineage as a result . House Alde prided itself on the purity of the bloodline of King Alde , avoiding " foreign " influences to preserve the blood of Alderaan ' s first king , and their fascination with history left the House isolated and eccentric . However , the House maintained a reputation as the foremost resource on Alderaanian history and lore , operating the Royal Museum of Alderaan on the grounds of the Alde estate , and the House ' s pride and pompous air rarely led to the true arrogance that other noble families possessed , so the House ' s devotion to history was considered unusual and nothing more by other Houses . Sometime before 3743 BBY , House Alde became allied with House Organa , another House that maintained strong ties with the Republic and a House whose ancestors were instrumental in the Republic ' s founding . House Alde maintained an embassy on the grounds of the Organa estate to ensure close relations between the two families . Gregor , Parvin , and their daughter Jaesa Willsaam were servants in the employ of the noblewoman Renata Alde in the years before the Cold War , though the family was taken in by House Organa , and Jaesa became the handmaiden of Geselle Organa before she was recruited into the Jedi Order . The closeness between Houses Alde and Organa extended to familial ties as well ; Geselle was to be married to an earl of House Alde on her eighteenth birthday , though the wedding was postponed and eventually cancelled for undisclosed reasons . The civil war . When the Great Galactic War between the Republic and the Sith Empire ended with the Treaty of Coruscant in 3653 BBY , Alderaan ' s Senator and Crown Prince Gaul Panteer was outraged at the Republic ' s acceptance of the Empire ' s terms , and he withdrew his world from the Republic . However , before Gaul could complete the negotiations to return Alderaan to the Republic in the Cold War that followed the Treaty , he and his mother , Queen Silara Panteer , were murdered by assassins . Bouris Ulgo of House Ulgo immediately laid claim to the vacant throne , and he was challenged by both House Organa and the newly - returned House Thul , which was backed by the Empire . Alderaan was soon engulfed in the Alderaan Civil War , which saw the forty - seven Great Houses break into three factions behind Houses Ulgo , Organa , and Thul . House Alde remained loyal to House Organa , and Count Alde decided to co - fund the Republic superweapon initiative ' s Death Mark laser project when General Var Suthra established the project ' s research center in the Mensaav Laboratory on Alderaan . In 3643 BBY , when the Death Mark project was seized by Imperial forces under the Sith Lord Sadic , the Mirialan spy arrived at the Alde embassy posing as a member of the project who had escaped the Imperial attack . Count Alde himself met with Hark to learn what had happened , and he was soon joined by a young Jedi Knight sent to secure the project and locate the missing Jedi Master Orgus Din . However , during the meeting , Hark marked both the Jedi and the Count with the targeting device for the Death Mark laser , allowing Sadic to kill Count Alde in the middle of the meeting . Captain Yils , head of the embassy ' s security , attempted to arrest the Knight and Hark , but the Jedi was allowed to continue the search for the Death Mark and Orgus Din . During the civil war , Haemon Alde was kidnapped from his Organa protectors by pirates , who forced House Alde to pay a large sum of credits as a ransom . Renata Alde was guarded by her protector Windredd , and she was forced to repeatedly fend off the romantic advances of Duke Kendoh Thul to the point where she ordered Windredd to attack a Sith Warrior who came looking for Jaesa Willsaam when Alde learned that the Sith had come from Kendoh Thul . The Sith ultimately defeated Windredd , and after learning of Willsaam ' s connection to Geselle Organa , allowed Thul ' s aide FimmRess to capture the Lady Alde and bring her to the Duke . Maelrich Alde , a former spy who came out of retirement during the civil war to help defend her House , investigated the efforts of House Rist to set up a satellite relay in the southern Juran Mountains . With the help of Republic operatives in the area , Maelrich disabled the relay and destroyed other Rist equipment in the area , and she had Republic operatives report her success to her nephew Captain Alethios at Wardpost Landa . Baron Alde sought to send a peace offering to Bouris Ulgo , so he arranged for the head of the Sith Lord Darth Bandon — the Sith who killed Ulgo ' s ancestor Trask Ulgo during the Jedi Civil War three centuries earlier — to be delivered to the Royal Museum .