Teckla Minnau Teckla Minnau was a human female handmaiden to Senator Padmé Amidala during the Clone Wars . Biography . On Naboo . Shortly before the Clone Wars , Senator Padmé Amidala returned to Naboo under the protection of Jedi Padawan Anakin Skywalker . She stayed at her Varykino estate , where she was attended by Teckla Minnau . During one dinner , Teckla served Skywalker a plate of fruit . The Clone Wars . Amidala ' s Aide on Coruscant . During the Clone Wars , Teckla was present on Coruscant when an attack by the Separatists left the planet without power . The attack prompted certain members of the Galactic Senate to support a bill that would increase the Republic ' s spending on the clone army . Following a Senate debate on the proposal , Minnau accompanied Padmé from the Senate Building back to her office in the Senate Office Building . Minnau brought back a datapad and waited while Padmé spoke with her close allies , Senators Bail Organa and Onaconda Farr about defeating the troop increase bill . A night later , when Padmé , bruised and battered after a run - in with bounty hunter s , returned to her apartment , Minnau treated her facial wounds with an antiseptic . Though Minnau suggested that she 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 Padmé , who was losing hope with her prospects of defeating the bill . At Padmé ' s request , Minnau stayed at the apartment and spoke to Padmé of the effects such spending was having on her family , who were living with limited power and bathing water in a small village on Naboo . This prompted Padmé to deliver a speech in the senate , to which Teckla was witnessed . The senator told her fellow delegates about Teckla and her family , and cited them as an example of the great suffering the Republic ' s military spending was causing to its people . Because of Teckla ' s story and the senator ' s words , the bill was defeated . Negotiations on Scipio . Later during the war , Teckla escorted Padmé on a mission to Scipio , the headquarters of the InterGalactic Banking Clan . Amidala sought to secure a new loan from the Banking Clan to aid refugee s who had been displaced from their homes by the war . Minnau accompanied Amidala to 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 Senate Commando s remained outside , Minnau followed the senator 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 . Both Padmé and Teckla were surprised to see Rush Clovis enter the rotunda . That night , Plain showed Padmé and Teckla to their guest quarters , and Teckla thanked Plain before he left . Immediately thereafter , Teckla noticed someone creeping up behind Padmé and shouted a warning . Padmé , having smuggled an ELG - 3A blaster pistol into the Neutral Zone , aimed her blaster at the intruder : Clovis . He told Padmé that he needed her help , and though Teckla protested , the senator 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 the senators . Clovis pleaded with Padmé to pressure the Core Five into opening access to the Main Vault , then escaped on a hover sledge that he had parked several meter s beneath the balcony . After the local Muun authorities arrived to verify that Amidala was safe , Teckla saw the security agents off . The next morning , after Amidala successfully negotiated access into the Main Vault , the two Naboo women accompanied Clovis aboard the executive shuttle to his personal residence in a remote area outside the city . There , the three discussed a 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 . The next morning , the three met the Core Five at the Main Vault . 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 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 second s later , Minnau ' s explosive activated , compromising the entire power grid and allowing Amidala to surreptitiously retrieve the required data files from the Vault mainframe . The Muun authorities ' following investigation into the power grid failure , Teckla ' 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 . Teckla had light skin and blue eyes , and often kept her hair covered under her handmaiden cowl . She was a quiet presence in Senator Amidala ' s household , often performing tasks unnoticed in the background . Despite this , she was on hand to deliver advice to the senator when needed .