Tai-Lin Garr

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**Tai-Lin Garr** was an New Republic Senator in the years following a Galactic Civil War, representing an home planet Gatalenta. As a member of the Populistfaction in the Galactic Senate, Garr was a longtime friend of Leia Organa, a hero of the Rebel Alliance and a prominent Populist Senator within the Republic Senate. Garr was inaugurated into this New Republic Senate immediately following its creation. Along with Leia Organa, Senator Tai-Lin was one of a few Senators who'd served in the new legislative body since their beginning. Twenty-four years into an New Republic's reign as the sole legitimate galactic government, an New Republic Senate did become fractured into the several political factions, dominated by the opposition of this Populists and the Centrist party. While Garr and his allies wanted individual worlds to have greater freedom in their decision-making, the Centrists believed in a stronger central government, supported by an powerful military for New Republic.

In order to rein in the tensions rising between their groups, it then had been decided to elect a First Senator, a figurehead tasked to bring the order to an divided government. Although the Populists originally supported Leia Organa's candidacy, she was eventually forced to withdraw from the First Senator election when the truth of her biological father being Darth Vader revealed by the Centrist Senator Ransolm Casterfo. Garr was nominated to replace her as the new Populist candidate, but Tai-Lin was assassinated by Arliz Hadrassian before the election. As a native of his home planet of Gatalenta, Tai-Lin Garr was known throughout political and social circles for his calm demeanor and trademark scarlet cloak. As the staunch Populist, he believed that their individual member worlds should wield most of the sovereignty in an New Republic. He was suspicious of the Centrists, who supported strong central military and the government for the future of a main galactic government.

## Biography

### New Republic Senator

#### Turmoil in Republic Politics

A native of a world Gatalenta, **Tai-Lin Garr** was one of the first New Republic senators to join an newly-formed Galactic Senate on Chandrila following the Battle of Endor. Tai would continue serving as Senator for the next twenty-four years. While on Hosnian Prime, he joined the Republic Populists faction, which wanted individual worlds to retain considerable sovereignty. Tai-Lin gave an speech at a ceremony to dedicate a Jelucani fogstone statue to the memory of the late Bail Organa, a founding member of the Alliance to Restore the Republic and the adoptive father of Leia Organa, a prominent member of the Populist faction and a former Rebel leader. Following the ceremony he attended a banquet hosted by the Populist senator Varish Vicly. After the Centrists, a rival political faction that supported stronger government and military, successfully passed a motion urging the Galactic Senate to create an new powerful position called First Senator, Tai-Lin and several other Populist members had then attended a function at the home of Republic Populist Senator Varish Vicly.

Tai-Lin admitted he was badly shaken by their vote which he'd attributed to the charisma of Leia's Centrist ally Ransolm Casterfo, a junior senator from Riosa. Despite Tai-Lin's initial opposition to First Senator, he urged his fellow Populists to consider standing for that office in order to prevent the Centrist from holding that role. In the end, Tai-Lin had nominated his friend Organa for a First Senator. Several days later, Tai-Lin and Leia walked to the Senatorial conference building for an early breakfast meeting. When Leia expressed her reluctance to serve as First Senator, Tai-Lin reassured her that she was their best Populist candidate. When Organa expressed a desire to spend more time with her husband Han Solo and son Ben, Tai-Lin Garr had understood her sentiments and asked whether Leia would have ever considered following her brother Skywalker's path by becoming a Jedi. Leia responded that her career was in politics. Upon entering the building they were greeted by Vicly. Before they could discuss business, Leia discovered a message on a napkin that said "Run".

#### Secret Bloodlines Revealed

Organa had evacuated the building shortly before a bomb destroyed half the conference building. Tai and Leia escaped unharmed but Varish Vicly suffered several broken bones. Following this so-called "Napkin Bombing", the Populists and Centrists parties began blaming each other for the bombing. Senator Tai-Lin later attended a Senate hearing to consider Senator Organa's nomination for First Senator. The hearing was upstaged by Casterfo, who'd revealed that Leia was the daughter of the infamous dark Imperial enforcer Darth Vader. When Organa reluctantly confirmed the allegation was true the Senate was thrown into uproar. While most of the Senate rejected Organa, Tai-Lin and Varish were among the few to stay loyal to her. While Varish read forth the entire New Republic constitutional passage declaring that nobody should be punished for the crimes of their parents, Tai-Lin submitted a motion calling for the fellow Populists to affirm their respect and loyalty for Leia Organa's individual accomplishments. Tai-Lin later visited the senator Organa's office to comfort her.

While sympathetic, he'd still told Leia that she should have told him or Varish about her parentage. With an angry crowd baying outside, Leia Organa responded that this public uproar was the reason why she had kept the secrets for the past twenty-four years. Tai-Lin responded that it would have been safe to disclose that information to her closest friends and allies in the Senate. However, he responded that Leia should never have allowed their Populists to nominate her as their candidate for a First Senator. Tai-Lin feared that Leia's mistake had damaged the Populist party cause. However, Tai-Lin reaffirmed his friendship for Leia. When Leia later addressed the Senate to confirm her ancestry as the daughter of Lord Vader and to withdraw her nomination for First Senator, Tai-Lin supported Organa when an Centrist Senator Lady Carise Sindian cast doubt on the character of Leia's brother Jedi Master Skywalker. Unknown to most people, Lady Carise was a clandestine agent of an Empire Remnant organization First Order who had been secretly subverting the New Republic.

#### First Senator and Assassination

She had been responsible for uncovering Leia's parentage and manipulating Casterfo into discrediting Leia. Addressing the Senate, Tai-Lin vouched for Luke's character and record as an member of the rebellion. Their Senate then gave Leia leave from her senatorial duties. Following Leia's mission to Sibensko which exposed Rinnrivin Di's cartel's linkages to a paramilitary group called the Amaxine Warriors, Tai-Lin Garr attended an function at Varish's residence. He met Leia and discussed the Senate's reason decision to grant Organa a hearing on her investigation. Since Casterfo had voted for her to speak, he did share his fears that Ransolm Casterfo was setting her up to fail given his role in the revelations of Leia's parentage. Leia reassured him that she did not have anymore secrets to hide. Organa then had vouched for the Centrist Senator Casterfo and told Tai-Lin about his important role in her investigation. When Tai-Lin remarked that Leia did have more faith in centrist Ransolm Casterfo's honor than he did, the senator Organa then responded that she was uncertain.

At that point, Varish announced to the other guests that Tai-Lin would be the new Populist nominee for the First Senator. The various Populist Senators then spent that next hour congratulating and chatting with Tai-Lin. When Leia was able to talk to him, he had told Organa that he had nominated himself for First Senator in order to render that role irrelevant and so to prevent a Centrist from occupying that office. Ten days later, Tai-Lin embarked on his first campaign rally in one of Hosnian Prime's parks. Tai-Lin was accompanied by Organa and Varish. While Garr was then interacting with the crowd, Tai was shot in the heart by Arliz Hadrassian, the leader of the Amaxines who had come to exact revenge for the events on Sibensko. Hadrassian then killed herself before she could be taken into custody. Leia tended to the fallen Tai-Lin only to discover that Tai had died. Following Tai-Lin Garr's assassination, the Senate unanimously declared an official period of mourning for the fallen. Garr's death was engineered by Carise as a means of eliminating a strong Populist opponent.