Padmé Amidala

Padmé Amidala, also known as Padmé Amidala Naberrie, was a human female stateswoman from the Mid Rim planet of Naboo who lived during the Fall of the Galactic Republic. Prior to her career in the Galactic Senate, Amidala was the elected ruler of the Royal House of Naboo. A political idealist, she advocated for the preservation of democracy as well as a peaceful resolution to the Clone Wars. However, her secret marriage to Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker would have a lasting effect on the future of the galaxy for decades to come.
==History==
===Queen of Naboo===
Born in 46 BBY during the Age of the Galactic Republic, Padmé Naberrie was raised by her parents, Ruwee Naberrie and his wife Jobal, on the peaceful Mid Rim world of Naboo. Despite the humble background of the Naberrie family, Padmé was identified early for her potential in public service. Devoting her life to civic duty, she was elected queen and, therefore, adopted the regnal name "Amidala" in 32 BBY. Due to the machinations of her advisor, Senator Sheev Palpatine, Amidala's reign was tested by the Trade Federation's blockade and subsequent Invasion of Naboo. Unable to fight the Federation's army of battle droids without assistance, the queen beseeched the Galactic Senate on Coruscant for help, only to see her efforts hampered by bureaucracy and procedure. Although she ultimately liberated her homeworld with the help of the Jedi Order and the Gungan Grand Army, her decision to cast a Vote of No Confidence against Finis Valorum enabled Palpatine to become the Supreme Chancellor.
===Separatist Crisis===
Following her reign, Amidala joined the Senate and struggled to resolve the Separatist Crisis through diplomacy, becoming a leading voice in the Loyalist Committee by 22 BBY. After surviving an assassination attempt, she was removed from the capital and sent back to Naboo under the protection of Jedi Padawan Anakin Skywalker. Though the Jedi Code deemed attachment and possession unbecoming of a Jedi, the two gradually became closer as their feelings for each other grew.
===The Clone Wars===
In the aftermath of the First Battle of Geonosis, Amidala secretly married her Jedi protector, despite her own reservations about their relationship and the consequences they would face if the truth ever came to light. Their subsequent interactions were limited throughout the Clone Wars, with Amidala continuing to advocate peaceful solutions in the Senate while Skywalker served on the front lines as a Jedi General in the Grand Army of the Republic. As part of her efforts, Amidala traveled with Jedi Padawans Ahsoka Tano and Jarik Shan in secret to the planet Raxus to meet with her political mentor and good friend, Senator Mina Bonteri of Onderon, in order to discuss the possibility of establishing peace talks between the Republic and the Separatists.
In the waning months of the pan-galactic conflict, Amidala revealed to her husband that she was pregnant. As a result of Skywalker's fear of loss, he was seduced by the dark side of the Force, believing that by becoming a Sith Lord he would gain the power to prevent his wife from dying in childbirth. Amidala, who learned of her husband's transformation into a Sith, ultimately died of a broken heart after giving birth to the twins Luke and Leia Amidala Skywalker. With her dying breath, she claimed that there was still good in Skywalker, who embraced the persona of "Darth Vader" throughout the reign of the Galactic Empire.
===Legacy===
During the reign of the Empire, Tano and Shan would be married, with their wedding seeing the light side of the Force manifest Amidala as a spirit, allowing her to be present. Dressed in the same wedding dress she wore in her own marriage with Skywalker, Amidala stood beside the spirits of Morai, Revan, Bastila Shan, and Satele Shan in support of the newlyweds, before returning back to the Netherworld of the Force.
Amidala's children played a major role in the fragmentation of the Empire and the redemption of her husband. Like her mother, Leia entered public service and became a flag-bearer for the democratic ideals of liberty and justice as a leader in the Alliance to Restore the Republic and its successor, the New Republic; Luke, on the other hand, was trained in the ways of the Jedi like his father before him and became a celebrated war hero of the Rebel Alliance. Through Luke's efforts to redeem his father back to the light, Amidala's last words proved true when Anakin killed the Emperor during the Battle of Endor.
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