Bail Organa

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**Bail Organa** was a member of Alderaan's royal family and the planet's representative to the Senate of the Galactic Republic, who earned respect for his honesty and his commitment to justice. The husband of Queen Breha Organa, Bail remained his homeworld's representative into the early reign of Emperor Sheev Palpatine's  Galactic Empire. He was the adoptive father of Leia Organa, the child of fallen Jedi Knight, Anakin Skywalker and the late Senator, Padmé Amidala of Naboo, the latter of whom was a close friend and colleague of his during the Clone Wars. He would become one of the most important and influential founders of the early rebellion that would eventually become the Rebel Alliance, working secretly with allies such as Mon Mothma and Ahsoka Tano toward the goal that one day a unified rebellion could emerge. He perished along with Alderaan at the hands of the Empire.

## Biography

### Early Career

**Bail Organa** was a politician and member of the royal family of Alderaan. As soon as he entered the intergalactic political arena, he established strong ties with like-minded senators, including Padmé Amidala of Naboo and Mon Mothma of Chandrila. He also became close friends with Finis Valorum, former Supreme Chancellor of the Republic. Due to his honesty and his commitment to justice, Organa gained the respect of his senatorial peers and came to be esteemed as a politician. In spite of his best efforts, the galactic government grew increasingly plagued by corruption, leading malcontents to take extreme action. A loose affiliation led by Count Dooku, formed the Separatist Alliance and declared itself seceded from the Republic.

With the rise of further separatism following the rise of the Confederacy, Organa joined the Senate's Loyalist Committee, the members of which supported the Republic and its leader, Supreme Chancellor Sheev Palpatine. In time, the Separatist Crisis escalated into the full-scale conflict known as the Clone Wars. Organa, opposed to the war but cognizant of its inevitability, became especially active in his devotion to relief missions and other humanitarian operations. In this context, he often worked with members of the Jedi Order, for whom he came to develop a deep respect. Nearing the end of the war, Organa spoke with several Senators such as Mon Mothma and Padmé Amidala about how Palpatine had been given control of the Jedi Council and had been appointed to oversee star systems. They also discussed the possiblity that Palpatine would dismantle the Senate. Organa agreed that they could not let the thousand year old democracy die without a fight. Organa apologized for speaking like a separatist, but Mon Mothma assured him that they were not separatists leaving the Republic, but were loyalists trying to preserve it.

### Dawn of Dark Times

During the attack on the Jedi Temple by the Clone Troopers, Bail Organa arrived and tried to demand access to the Temple. An escaping Jedi was shot down before his eyes by the clones, prompting him to flee to his ship, *Tantive III*, with the intent of intercepting any surviving Jedi. Masters Yoda and Obi-Wan Kenobi were both picked up by Organa, who took them back to Coruscant to warn any surviving Jedi to remain hidden. At the end of the Clone Wars, Chancellor Palpatine transformed the democratic Republic into an authoritarian Empire, bestowing upon himself the title of Galactic Emperor. Organa, along with other dissident members of the newly-refashioned Imperial Senate took steps to form the Rebel Alliance, which sought to restore the concept of democracy to the Galaxy. Following the execution of Order 66, Organa adopted the newborn Leia, daughter of the late Padmé Amidala and the fallen Jedi Anakin Skywalker, in order to protect the child from harm at the hands of the Emperor.

Organa and his wife, Queen Breha Organa, had always wanted a baby girl, and readily raised Leia as an Alderaanian princess. With time, Leia became a politician in her own right and a dedicated member of the Alliance. During the reign of the Empire, Organa remained Senator of Alderaan in the Imperial Senate, though he secretly rebelled against the Empire. Organa was one of the only people in the galaxy who knew the whereabouts of both Yoda and Kenobi after the Purge. Although he eventually let his friend and ally Mon Mothma into his confidence about Kenobi's survival, he did not tell anyone else and even lied to the his rebels allies in later years, telling them that he had been killed during the Purge. Organa knew who Kenobi was protecting and the importance he would one day have in the fight against the Empire. As such, he allowed the Jedi to remain hidden until the time was right. Within the first year of the Empire, Bail Organa began clandestine operations against the Empire by helping planets in need.

### Forging the Rebellion

As the Galactic Empire tightened its grip on the galaxy in the years to come, Organa began quietly aiding rebel cells in the galaxy and identifying those who might help the cause of freedom. He would intercept secure Imperial messages and send cells of rebels to act on his behalf to help citizens being oppressed by the Empire. He had gotten his friend and loyal pilot, Captain Raymus Antilles, to join him in rebelling against the Empire, and the two of them were slowly recruiting the crew of the *Tantive IV* into their cause. All the while Bail groomed his adopted daughter Leia Organa to take his place in both the Imperial Senate and the secret rebellion movement. Fourteenth years into the reign of the Empire, Organa sent his astromech friend R2-D2, accompanied by Organa's protocol droid C-3PO, on a secret mission to gather intel about the group calling themselves the Spectres. After the mission, the droid was returned to Organa by the leader of the group, Kanan Jarrus aboard the *Tantive IV*.

When the Spectres launched a mission to rescue their captured leader from an Imperial fleet over Mustafar, Ahsoka Tano discovered their plan. As TIE fighters from the fleet closed in on them from all sides, a small fleet of Rebel ships, commanded by Tano, emerged from hyperspace and aided the rebels escape. Once onboard the ship, Chopper transmitted a communication from Senator Organa, who was introduced by Hera Syndulla. He told them about the different rebel cells that he and Ahsoka had been contacting around the galaxy and that they were now coming together to unite against the Empire. After learning of the rebellion's losses at the battle on Garel, Organa dispatched Princess Leia, then serving as his aide, along with three Hammerhead corvettes to Lothal to expand the rebel fleet, under the guise of delivering relief supplies to the people of Lothal. Leia planned for the rebels to steal them to conceal Alderaan's involvement with the rebellion.

Not many years later, Senator Organa dispatched Phoenix Leader Hera Syndulla and her rebel crew on a mission to rendezvous with the former Senator Mon Mothma. Mothma had become a fugitive from the Empire after denouncing the Ghorman Massacre and wanted to travel to Dantooine in order to unify the various rebel cells and factions into an Alliance to Restore the Republic. Despite being pursued by Imperial forces dispatched by Grand Admiral Thrawn, the Spectres, Mothma, and Gold Squadron managed to reach Dantooine. Later, Organa along with other rebels including General Jan Dodonna were present at a meeting when his former colleague Senator Mon Mothma gave an impassioned HoloNet speech denouncing the Empire and announcing the formation of the Rebel Alliance.

### Final Days of Resistance

Shortly before the Battle of Yavin, Organa spoke with Mothma following her meeting with Jyn Erso. He believed that the Imperial Senate would not act on whatever proof Erso's father, Doctor Galen Erso had on the weapon. Organa believed that ceding to the Emperor's will had become second nature to members of the Senate. However, Mothma assured him that as long as it stood, the Alliance must try diplomacy first, but be prepared for what would come afterwards. Organa was present at a meeting of rebel forces at their base of operations on Yavin 4 to discuss the rising threat of the new Imperial superweapon, the Death Star. Organa exclaimed his support for Jyn Erso's idea to bring the fight back to the Empire. Following the meeting, Organa briefly spoke to Mon Mothma, informing her that he would be returning to Alderaan to prepare for the coming war that such actions suggested by Erso would bring about. Mothma asked Organa to bring Obi-Wan Kenobi out of his hiding on Tatooine.

Because Bail himself could not recruit Obi-Wan due to being needed to rouse Alderaan to action, he had to send one of his agents to find Kenobi in his place. Mothma asked if he was sending someone he could trust, and Bail replied that it was someone he would trust with his life, his adopted daughter, Leia. After the rebels successfully acquired the plans for the Death Star, Leia was arrested above Tatooine by Darth Vader himself. Back on Alderaan, her father received a falsified report stating that the all those aboard *Tantive IV* had been lost. Princess Leia and Obi-Wan Kenobi never made it to Alderaan, and the planet was about to face certain doom. On a warm evening late in the spring, Bail Organa perished when Wilhuff Tarkin, ordered the complete destruction of Alderaan using the Death Star, annihilating its population including Organa along with his wife who died instantly.