Tundra Dowmeia

**Tundra Dowmeia** was a male Quarren who represented the planet of Mon Cala in the Galactic Senate during the Clone Wars.

## Biography

### Early Life

Dowmeia was born on the watery planet of Mon Cala. He was born to an upper-class Quarren family and grew up in the liberal and harmonious Quarren and Mon Calamari inhabited city of Calamassa.

### Becoming Senator

In 22 BBY, the senator of Mon Cala, fellow Quarren, Tikkes Purmisku, abdicated his role to join the Confederacy of Independent Systems. Dowmeia was elected as Tikkes's successor, therefore becoming senator of Mon Cala.

Dowmeia was present at a summit of the Senate where Chancellor Palpatine was granted emergency powers to help resolve the Separatist Crisis. Dowmeia and his aides, Zil Topur and Nor Wedd, clapped at this motion. This, however, led to the Clone Wars.

### Demotion

> *"In light of everything that has ocurred, I'm faced with no other choice but to step down from my role as senator for Mon Cala. Political tensions between my own race, who, as a majority, support the confederacy, and the Mon Calamari, who have remained loyal to the Republic, have led to me becoming a lesser candidate to form diplomatic relations on behalf of all our people. I wish the greatest success to my successor."* - **Tundra Dowmeia**
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In 21 BBY, with the growing unrest on Mon Cala and the formation of the Quarren Isolation League, King of Mon Cala; Yos Kolina, formally asked Dowmeia to step down as senator for the planet. The Mon Calamari Meena Tills took his place, leading to accusations of xenophobia, ultimately further worsening the crisis.

A year later, Dowmeia, who was serving as a negotiation point between the two sides, was forced to enter hiding after the murder of King Kolina. As a result, civil war erupted out on Mon Cala, which was solved after intervention from the republic's Clone Army.

### Return to the Senate

In light of the brief civil war that erupted out on Mon Cala, the newly-crowned 83rd King of Mon Cala, Lee-Char, returned Dowmeia's role as senator, alongside Tills, allowing for equal representation of both the Quarren and Mon Calamari politically.

In 19 BBY, Chancellor Palpatine was abducted by General Grievous of the CiS, immediately plunging the entire republic into chaos, triggering the Battle of Coruscant. Palpatine was shortly afterwards rescued by Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker, who crash-landed Grievous's flagship, the Invisible Hand onto the surface of Coruscant. Both Dowmeia and Tills were among the senators who welcomed Palpatine upon his return to the Senate Office Building.

Dowmeia and Tills both later signed the Petition of 2000, a petition formed to dissolve Palpatine's emergency powers upon the end of the conflict. Both Tills and Dowmeia became members of the Delegation of 2000, a group of over 2000 legislators, who were unhappy with the continuation of the war and wanted Palpatine's emergency powers returned to the Senate as quickly as possible.

Dowmeia later attended a performance at the Galaxies Opera House, attending a performance of Squid Lake, which he recieved free tickets to, as the performers were a touring Mon Calamari company. He attended the opera alongside a female Twi'lek. In a corridor, they were passed by Jedi Knight, Anakin Skywalker, who was on his way to meet with Chancellor Palpatine.

### Declaration of the New Order

Both Tills and Dowmeia were on Coruscant during the events of Order 66 and Operation Knightfall. They witnessed the smoke from the Jedi Temple drifting across the Coruscanti skyline from their residence at the Senate Apartment Complex.

Dowmeia and Tills were shortly thereafter called to an emergency session of the senate, in which Supreme Chancellor Palpatine announced the dissolution of the Galactic Republic and the reorganisation of it into the Galactic Empire.

### Arrest

The day after the declaration of the new order, the newly-formed Galactic Empire conducted a series of arrests on so-called 'enemies of the state', constituting sixty-three senators, all of whom had been consignatories of the Petition of 2000. The majority of those arrested were non-human senators representing Outer Rim planets. Both Tills and Dowmeia were among those arrested, when their residence on Coruscant was raided by clone troopers of the Coruscant Guard. Alongside the two senators, their aides, staff and security were also arrested on grounds of harbouring and supporting treasonous individuals. Dowmeia's chief aide, the mysterious Cellheim Anujo, was arrested alongside the group.

Dowmeia and Tills were swiftly incarcerated without a trial on grounds of treason. Timi Rotramel, a Mon Calamari male was put into the senate as their replacement, however, not by the King, as had been tradition, but rather by the Empire.

### Incarceration

Dowmeia, Tills and other arrested senators were incarerated in a new high-security wing of the Imperial Judiciary Central Detention Center in the Military District of Coruscant.