Ili P'tan

Ili P'tan was the Imperial Planetary Governor of the Core Worlds planet Talus in the Corellian system during the early reign of the Galactic Empire. P'tan was xenophobic and manufactured evidence of human superiority to justify the implementation of laws that segregated schools on Talus. In 35 ABY, the historian Beaumont Kin mentioned P'tan and his reforms in his book The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire.
==Biography==
During the early years of the Galactic Empire's reign, Ili P'tan was the Imperial Planetary Governor of the Core Worlds planet Talus in the Corellian system. P'tan was inspired by structures created by the Commission for the Preservation of the New Order's SAGEducation division to reorganize teaching on Talus. He planned to segregate human children from non-human ones in schools on his planet, and made use of tensions the Corellian system had long had between humans, Selonians, and Drall. 
In order to bring Talus in line with "wider galactic norms and standards," P'tan first required all teaching to be done in Basic instead of other languages. He initially allowed classes to contain a mix of species to maintain a sense of normality, but the grades of children taught by a different species began to fall and classes with a pronounced mix of humans and non-humans were held after school as punishment for "disruptive elements." The grades of both humans and non-humans were manipulated so that it would appear that humans were superior. After noticing these changes, human parents soon called on schools to segregate their children away from non-humans they believed were ruining their children's education. P'tan was happy to do so, and within weeks of the first petitions and news stories about the situation, new laws were passed to segregate schools. The clear but manufactured evidence of human superiority and the importance of their children's education made P'tan's reforms easily justifiable to many human parents. 
The file "Governor P'tan's Reforms," a file titled "Parental Petitions," and a file on the algorithm used to manipulate children's grades were all stored in the "Education" section of the Talus Archives. The historian Beaumont Kin referenced the three files when heStar Wars: The Rise of Skywalker: The Visual Dictionary mentioned P'tan and his reforms in his book The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire in 35 ABY.
==Personality and traits==
P'tan was a human male who, like many Imperial officials, was xenophobic, believing that humans were superior to other species. Kin described P'tan's plan as both cynical and inventive.
==Behind the scenes==
Ili P'tan was mentioned in the 2024 reference book Star Wars: The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire, by Dr. Chris Kempshall.
==Sources==
*Star Wars: The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire 
==Notes and references==
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