Mon Mothma

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**Mon Mothma**, a native of Chandrila, served as an important political figure from the waning days of the Galactic Republic, gaining political prominence in the Separatist Crisis and later the Clone Wars when, along with such allies as the Republic Senators Bail Organa and Padmé Amidala, Mothma became an outspoken proponent of peace between the Republic and the Separatist Alliance. Mon Mothma also spoke out against the increase in executive power given to Supreme Chancellor Sheev Palpatine, who turned the Republic into the Empire at the end of the Clone Wars. When the founding the Galactic Empire replaced the Republic that had existed for millennia, she met with her allies in the Galactic Senate to plant seeds of rebellion against the tyrannical rule of the Galactic Empire.

Mon left the Senate after denouncing the Emperor, which was soon followed by the establishment of the Rebel Alliance. She played a vital role in the Galactic Civil War, such as recruiting Jyn Erso, who led Rogue One into stealing the plans to the first Death Star. After the Battle of Yavin saw the destruction of the Death Star, Mothma led the Alliance through the war. The Battle of Endor, which Mothma helped plan with Alliance Command, saw the end of Emperor Sheev Palpatine's reign and left the Empire in chaos. After the victory of Endor, the rebellion formed into the New Republic with Mothma elected as the first Chancellor of a New Senate. The end of Mothma's chancellery brought a close to a period of unity, with several political factions fighting over the best future for the galaxy.

## Biography

### Early Life

#### Aspiring Politician

**Mon Mothma** was born forty-six years before the Battle of Yavin into a political family, her father was an arbiter-general in the Galactic Republic and her mother Tanis Mothma was the Governor of their homeworld of Chandrilla. During the winter on Chandrilla, when Mothma was fifteen, she fell in love and discovered the sport smash ball and her parents' imperfections. Because of that, she decided to turn her back on the family's political dynasty to become a historian. However by the next summer, her moment of rebellion had been forgotten, and she ended up returning to politics, both because of family pressures and a genuine love of governance. Twenty-seven years before the Battle of Yavin, she joined the Galactic Senate of the Galactic Republic, becoming one of the youngest Senators to date. It came as little surprise that she would follow in their footsteps and become a Senator.

### Senator of the Republic

#### Fall of the Republic

Mon Mothma became a member of the Loyalist Committee, a group of Senators tasked by Supreme Chancellor Sheev Palpatine to maintain the integrity of the Galactic Republic during the political Separatist crisis that saw the formation of the Separatist Alliance. After the Clone Wars broke out between the newly-formed Galactic Republic's Grand Army and the Droid Army of the Separatist Alliance, Mon Mothma remained a member of the Loyalist Committee but became an outspoken opponent of the war with the Separatists. Mon Mothma, along with friends and allies like the Senator Padmé Amidala of Naboo and the Senator Bail Organa of Alderaan, came to fear that the Galactic Republic's push to defeat the Separatists made it blind to the toll that the war would take on the Republic. She warned that wartime measures, such as the increasing scope of the emergency powers that the Galactic Senate gave the Supreme Chancellor, were a threat to democracy. It was the desire of Mothma and her allies to find a peaceful solution to the Clone Wars, and Mothma served as a mentor to Amidala as the young senator became one of the leading advocates for peace in the Republic.

In the final days of the Clone Wars, Chancellor Palpatine continued to amass more executive powers. Sheev Palpatine was given control of the Jedi Council and had appointed Governors to oversee all of the star systems in the Republic. A small group of concerned senators, including Mothma, Amidala, and Organa, met in Organa's office at Cantham House to discuss the developments. The group would refuse to allow a thousand years of democracy to end without fighting, and Mon Mothma assured the group that they were not like the Separatists trying to leave the Republic, but rather they loyalists hoping to preserve the democracy of the Republic. Bail Organa began to explain that he and Mon were starting to put together an organization to push back against Chancellor Palpatine, but Amidala cut him off, saying that she understood and that some things were best left unsaid. It was decided that the group would not discuss their plans with any outsiders, including family, without the agreement of the entire group. This simple meeting would eventually set the spark for a highly secret rebel movement. The Clone Wars came to a close following the deaths of Dooku and Grievous.

#### Birth of the Empire

With the revelation made by Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker that Palpatine was secretly Darth Sidious, a Dark Lord of the Sith who had manipulated the entire conflict to gain power over the Republic, the Jedi Mace Windu and three other Jedi Masters attempted to arrest the chancellor, but the Dark Lord killed them all and seduced Skywalker to the Dark Side of the Force, anointing him as Darth Vader. Having found justification to eliminate his enemies, Palpatine declared the Jedi Order to be enemies of the Republic and ordered Darth Vader and clone troopers across the galaxy to destroy the Jedi. A disfigured Chancellor, injured in his confrontation with Master Mace Windu, spoke to the Senate about the so-called Jedi betrayal and proclaimed that, in the interest of stability and security, the Galactic Republic would be reorganized into the Galactic Empire. The worst fears of Mothma and her allies were confirmed. Amidala died soon thereafter, and Mothma and Organa continued to prepare to forge a resistance movement to oppose the rule of the Galactic Empire.

### Restoration of Democracy

The rebellion would emerge in the years following the rise of the Galactic Empire, when several resistance movements developed across the galaxy to oppose Imperial rule. One such group was the crew of the starship *Ghost*, which had operated on the Outer Rim world of Lothal before becoming part of a wider rebellion against the Empire. In time, these various resistance movements were united under Mothma and Organa's leadership. They also had help from Ahsoka Tano, who had become a key figure in the emerging rebellion by acting as a contact for rebel cells. Under Mothma and Organa's guidance, these cells became the Rebel Alliance. Mon Mothma fled from her home planet after she had been branded a traitor by the Empire for giving a speech condemning the Ghorman Massacre. Mothma also resigned from the Imperial Senate due to her dissatisfaction with the Imperial Senate's failure to rein in the Empire's wrongs. In the years ahead, Mon Mothma would shepherd the Rebel Alliance from a hidden base on Yavin 4. But the need to strike strongly against the Empire became urgent when the Rebel Alliance learned of an Imperial superweapon of great power.

Mothma tasked Jyn Erso, daughter of Death Star designer Galen Erso, to contact extremist Saw Gerrera, as well as her father, in an effort to discover a weakness in the battle station. Ultimately, the leading council of the rebellion would vote not to attempt a covert operation to secure the plans but Erso, with a small band of rebels, took matters into their own hands and went to Scarif, home of the Imperial data center that housed the Death Star schematics. When Mon Mothma discovered this deception, she did not block it. Instead, she readied the rebel fleet to support Erso and receive the data transmission, resulting in the plans coming into the care of Leia Organa. Not long after this, Emperor Palpatine then had officially disbanded the Imperial Senate and Bail Organa was killed when the Death Star destroyed the planet Alderaan. Mothma went into hiding, serving as the political leader of the Alliance. Four years after the Battle of Yavin, Death Star II was being built, and as such the rebellion made plans to destroy Death Star II. Mon led the briefing of the rebels before the Battle of Endor, knowing that it was their best chance to defeat the Empire by destroying its weapon and its leader.

### Chancellor of a New Republic

#### Ending the Galactic Civil War

The Rebel Alliance transformed into the New Republic in the months following the victory in the Battle of Endor. The Senate was reestablished and headquartered on Chandrila, as the Republic felt that Chandrila represented a world with big ideas that the New Republic would need in order to be successful. Mon was elected as the first Chancellor of the New Republic Senate, and, to her great reluctance, the charter of the chancellor included the emergency powers that had once been given to Palpatine during the Clone Wars. It was Mon Mothma's intention to do away with those powers, believing them to be a poison to democracy. Mothma also planned to propose a massive military disarmament once the Galactic Civil War came to end, hoping to cut the size of the New Republic fleet by ninety percent. The other percentage would go towards training and supporting local militias, which would be responsible for the defense of their worlds. She proposed to put these ideas on the agenda of the first meeting of the reconstituted Senate. After the decisive Republic victory at the Battle of Jakku, Mothma received word that Grand Vizier Mas Amedda had extended a hand for peace.

#### Era of Peace and Democracy

Mon Mothma accepted Mas Amedda's offer and enlisted the help of her advisers. During the meeting, Mas Amedda signed the terms of surrender and the Galactic Concordance. Per the terms, the surviving remnants of the Empire were ordered to cease fighting and the Imperial government was dissolved. Mon Mothma also issued a further declaration designating all surviving Imperial officers as war criminals. Non-combatant functionaries within the Imperial government were given conditional pardons provided they complied with the articles of the Galactic Concordance. Grand Vizier Mas was pardoned and tasked with leading the Coruscant provisional government. The Galactic Concordance formally ended hostilities between the New Republic and the defeated Galactic Empire. The treaty forced the Empire to remain inside predetermined territories within the Core Worlds and the Inner Rim. Mothma urged the Republic to remain vigilant in the event that the conflict returned, and temporarily kept the New Republic fleet on wartime funding and alert status.

Once it became clear that the war was over, and the Imperial Remnants vanished in the Unknown Regions, the Senate fulfilled Mothma's goal and passed the Military Disarmament Act. Some time during her tenure, Mon Mothma further reformed the Senate by establishing that member worlds would act as the Senate's capital on a rotating basis. Rotating the capital, and in particular keeping it off of Coruscant, did much to convince member worlds that the New Republic would be different from predecessor governments. For years she led the fledgling democratic republic, holding together the many factions that flocked to its membership. As the New Republic weathered one threat after another, Mothma’s charisma and leadership proved essential. Sometime later, Mon Mothma became ill and stepped down as Chancellor. However, her successors lacked Mothma's charisma, and failed to create that same political consensus as she did. In her absence, the New Republic fell into chaos and the Galactic Senate became divided into Populists and the Centrists.