Naboo

**Naboo** was a bountiful planet in the Chommell sector of the Mid Rim, in the Trailing Sectors and close to the border of the Outer Rim. It was home to the indigenous Gungan species and a population of humans known as the Naboo. Naboo was pushed to the forefront of galactic politics as the birthplace of the Dark Lord of the Sith Sheev Palpatine, who served as its representative in the Senate of the Galactic Republic.

Under his secret Sith guise of Darth Sidious, Palpatine secretly engineered an illegal invasion of his peaceful homeworld by the Trade Federation in a bid for power. Ostensibly done in protest over the proposed taxation of free trade routes, the Federation's invasion led to an outpouring of support from the Senate for both Palpatine and the newly-elected Queen of Naboo, Padmé Amidala. Amidala led a successful resistance movement and removed the Federation from her world during the Battle of Naboo, while Palpatine subsequently rose to the office of the Supreme Chancellor of the Republic, with Amidala taking his place as the planet's senatorial representative.

Naboo would commit itself firmly to democracy in the intervening years, staying loyal to the Republic during the pan-galactic Clone Wars, which saw several military engagements against the Confederacy of Independent Systems come to the planet. By the time of the war's end, Palpatine had amassed considerable power and proclaimed himself as Emperor of a new Galactic Empire transformed from the Republic. Palpatine's reign would eventually be ended by the Alliance to Restore the Republic, a galaxy-wide rebel movement led by Amidala's twin children, Luke and Leia Amidala Skywalker.

Despite his origins on the planet, Palpatine did not care at all for his homeworld and, following his death, Naboo was named a priority target for Operation: Cinder, a protocol that the Sith Lord had put in place to destroy Imperial worlds should they fail to protect him. Through the intervention of Leia and Queen Sosha Soruna, however, Naboo was spared from ruin and went on to become a member of the successor state to the Alliance, the New Republic.

## **Appearances**

* *Secrets of Jinn* — "The Next Watcher" (mentioned only)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 1: Beginnings* — "Chapter 4: Introductions" (indirect mention only)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 1: Beginnings* — "Chapter 5: Nightmares" (mentioned only)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 2: The Clone Wars* — "Chapter 15: Heroes on Both Sides" (first mentioned)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 2: The Clone Wars* — "Chapter 35: Crisis on Naboo" (first appearance)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 2: The Clone Wars* — "Chapter 36: A Clear Purpose"
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 2: The Clone Wars* — "Chapter 38: Healing" (mentioned only)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 3: Revenge of the Sith* — "Chapter 18: A New Hope"
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 4: A Jedi in Exile* — "Chapter 45: The Nest" (mentioned only)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 4: A Jedi in Exile* — "Chapter 81: Dangerous Curiosity" (mentioned only)
* *Sun and Moon* — "Unpleasant Memories" (mentioned only)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 1: Memories of the Past" (mentioned only)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 2: Tension on Naboo"
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 3: Fall of the Old Masters"
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 4: Anger" (mentioned only)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 5: From Crystal to Lifeblood" (mentioned only)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 7: A Little Problematic" (mentioned only)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 9: Steps into Shadow Pt 2" (mentioned only)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 12: The Holocrons of Fate" (mentioned only)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 31: A False Sense of Security" (mentioned only)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 36: An Inside Man" (mentioned only)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 50: Through Imperial Eyes" (mentioned only)
* *Legacy of Jarik Shan - Volume 5: Rebirth* — "Chapter 52: Old Wounds" (mentioned only)
* *The Chosen One* (mentioned only)

### **Non-canon appearances**

* *The Legend of Reylea - Volume 1: The Avatar and the Force* — "Chapter 14: Visions" (vision to Caran)
* *The Legend of Reylea - Volume 1: The Avatar and the Force* — "Chapter 17: Out of the Past" (mentioned only in vision to Caran)
* *The Legend of Reylea - Volume 1: The Avatar and the Force* — "Chapter 18: Reunion—And Sorrow" (vision to Caran)