Riyo Chuchi

Riyo Chuchi was a female Pantoran politician who hailed from her homeworld of Pantora — a moon in orbit of the icy wasteland planet, Orto Plutonia — and represented her people in the Galactic Senate of the Republic during the pan-galactic Clone Wars. After the fall of the Republic and subsequent rise of the Galactic Empire, Chuchi would continue to serve her homeworld in the Imperial Senate, though she secretly harbored sympathy towards the growing Rebellion. 
In the first year of the Clone Wars, Chuchi accompanied Pantora's Chairman Chi Cho, along with Jedi Generals Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi, to Orto Plutonia to investigate the loss of communication with the Republic outpost stationed there. While on the planet, her responsibilities as Senator were marginalized by Cho, who simply used her as a mouthpiece to convey his orders to the two Jedi. It was eventually discovered that Orto Plutonia was inhabited and that its Talz population was the cause of the communications disruption. Chairman Cho held a great disdain for the Talz and attempted to wipe out the Plutonian tribe, but was instead killed in the process. Chuchi was able to negotiate peace between the Pantoran government and the Talz of Orto Plutonia, before she eventually returned to the Republic's capital of Coruscant to resume her senatorial duties.
Later in the war, Pantora was blockaded by the Trade Federation megaconglomerate under the pretense of debt collection. During the crisis, the daughters of the newly-elected Pantoran Chairman, Notluwiski Papanoida, were kidnapped by bounty hunters working on behalf of Federation representatives, who were interested in pushing Papanoida to ally his world with the Confederacy of Independent Systems. Chuchi took it upon herself to find Chairman Papanoida's missing daughters with the aid of her good friend and Skywalker’s Jedi Padawan Ahsoka Tano. The two visited the Trade Federation vessel in orbit of Pantora to search for the kidnapped Papanoidas but were only successful in finding Chi Eekway Papanoida. However, they did overhear a conversation confirming that Trade Federation supervisor Sib Canay planned the blockade and kidnappings on behalf of the Confederacy, successfully using that information to bring an end to Pantora's commercial isolation.
Chuchi continued to serve Pantora during the Clone Wars, surviving an assassination attempt by the sniper Shonn Volta and being one of the most vocal proponents of a peaceful end to the war. After the destruction of the Jedi Order at the end of the war, and Supreme Chancellor Sheev Palpatine's proclamation of a New Order, Chuchi was among those in the Imperial Senate who remained skeptical of him, but wise enough to keep her feelings quiet. She, along with fellow Senators Mon Mothma, Lux Bonteri, and Bail Organa, were among those in opposition to the Emperor, though their power to challenge Palpatine's authority remained very minimal.
==Personality and traits==
Riyo Chuchi was a Pantoran female with long light-purple hair and her race's trademark gold-yellow eyes, blue skin, and yellow tattoos. She was relatively short and rather young during her time as a senator. 
Chuchi was a firm believer in the use of diplomacy. When she first became a senator, she had a timid personality and submitted completely to Chairman Cho's more dominating air, attributable to her limited experience and implied age. By the time of the Blockade of Pantora she had become a stronger individual and was able to successfully blackmail a Trade Federation envoy into lifting the blockade. Chuchi was also good friends with Ahsoka Tano and Padmé Amidala, and by extension Jarik Shan despite never meeting him. She showcased her trust in them by asking fellow Senator Bail Organa to seek their aid in keeping her daughter safe if the Sith discovered her to be Force-sensitive.
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