When the Galactic Senate began debating a bill that would eliminate government oversight of the InterGalactic Banking Clan in order to fund the Republic's military efforts, Amidala suggested opening negotiations with the Separatists to find a peaceful solution to the Clone Wars. [89] She later confessed to Vader that she didn't know why she acted like Padm really knew what was best or if she really knew Vader at all, but decided to put her trust in Padm one final time and tried to see if her final words about their being good in Vader were true. Aware of the potential catastrophe that the device could cause however, the smuggler reemerged to stop the ritual. Dooku then sent them a message informing them Bonteri had been killed during an attack he attributed to the Republic. Padm Amidala was first mentioned in the 1983 film Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi. She lost her true love because Anakin went dark. Later, Tano used her precognitive abilities to expose the imprisoned Hutt crime lord Ziro as the individual who had hired Sing to assassinate Amidala. Padm rebuked Dorm and told Tarmin that they weren't there to hurt anyone; they were on a diplomatic mission, one they hoped would benefit the Clabronians. After surviving an assassination attempt planned by the Trade Federation, she was removed from the capital and sent back to Naboo under the protection of Padawan Anakin Skywalker. [75], When Amidala and Anakin first met, she thought that the nine-year-old boy from Tatooine was an amusing but knowledgeable child. During the ceremony, which was attended by Chancellor Palpatine, the members of the Jedi Council, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Anakin Skywalker, Amidala handed over a symbolic orb to an overjoyed Boss Nass as a symbol of peace between the long-warring peoples. With the consent of Skywalker, Tano traveled to Pantora with Senator Riyo Chuchi and succeeded in rescuing the girls and exposing the Trade Federation's links to the Separatists. During a brief struggle, Sing wounded the Padawan, but was stunned by Amidala with a concealed blaster. While thousands of her colleagues applauded, Amidala was despondent; she remarked, with tears in her eyes, that "this is how liberty dies, with thunderous applause."[5]. Before Amidala left, Satine suggested sending an undercover Jedi agent to investigate the Royal Academy of Government, and Amidala promised to bring the matter before Master Yoda.[39]. Tarmin asked her what was it that she wanted. [70] Providing minor training to the smuggler, Vader was able to coax out the potential of his force sensitivity, which Vader was able to use to finally get access to the Bright Star. When meeting with Panaka Leia wore the jubilation dress that Amidala once wore and upon seeing the princess Panaka became shocked, likely seeing the similarities between Leia and Amidala, and some of the tea in the mug he was holding splashed onto the floor. Following an assassination attempt on the Mandalorian Duchess Satine Kryze, Amidala informed her friend the Duchess that the Galactic Senate had recently voted to occupy Mandalore and that warships were preparing to depart at sunrise. However, Skywalker managed to win the race, beating the reigning champion Sebulba against all odds, and Amidala joined the scenes of jubilation that followed the boy's victory in the Grand Arena of Mos Espa. Padme was led in this orientation by a Republic protocol droid, NON-3. [16], Ten years after the Invasion of Naboo, former Jedi Count Dooku became the public face of a Confederacy of Independent Systems that had withdrawn from the Republic in opposition to the corruption they believed had enveloped the Senate. However, Amidala declined this and stepped aside for her elected successor, Rillata, though Amidala privately supported Jamillia in the election. Amidala granted Tsabin's request to stay in a room in the conservatory instead of in the barracks and the other guards and allowed Tsabin to teach her about keeping her face expressionless and still, something she was accustomed to due to her earlier career as a hallikset player. The medical droid didn't know why, claiming Amidala had lost the will to live, for her body began to shut down for reasons they couldn't explain. Clovis then agreed to get the antidote in exchange for the holodisc. Meanwhile, the Jedi, disarmed, used the Force to see where Solha and his droids sentries were, so he didn't have to fight them, while he traveled across the maze of rooms, and corridors that the factory contained. [39], While visiting a hospital, Amidala and Kryze were horrified to discover that a large number of children had been poisoned by an unknown substance. Upon landing, her cruiser was hit in an assassination attempt by bounty hunter Zam Wesell, who had been hired to kill Amidala by Jango Fett, himself under the employee of Count Dooku. The day that Padm and her retinue returned to Coruscant for her second Senate term, a planetwide catastrophe occurred on Bromlarch, the planetary aqueduct system being destroyed by seismic activity and threatening the entire farming planet's harvest. Amidala herself had been supportive of Chuchi's efforts to get the Senate to intervene on Pantora's behalf, as the struggle reminded her of her own homeworld's similar plight. The answer is clear: She has lost her will to live. Free Will of humans has always been considered independent of the physical body (sometimes it While viewers expected Padm to die by the end of the prequels, few could have anticipated her cause of death. [88] When Anakin saw the two in Amidala's apartment, he mistakenly believed that Amidala was going to kiss Clovis and brutally attacked him. Phase II Exclusive Reveals, a Visit to Dark Horse Comics, and More! Her visit also coincided with the arrival of a group of Moogan smugglers importing a shipment of tea with a toxic chemical called slabin. Amidala dressed for the part and wore the traditional royal makeup for the first time. Right before Padme was about to deliver two children the medic said She is perfectly healthy but we're losing her for reasons we can't explain. Physical description Amidala heard about the POWs from Representative Vishar Koss who provided her with the intel. Amidala suggested having more than one in her retinue, and Panaka readily agreed. [8] After a lifetime of shielding her heart from romance,[16] she reunited with Skywalker ten years later and fell for him. With thunderous applause. When Padm later confronted Anakin, repulsed by his acts and his self-professed plans to overthrow the new Emperor, he Force choked her in a fit of rage. Additionally, the Naboo had to decide whether or not to install defensive weaponry on the planet. Amidala's ship is caught by the Malevolence's tractor beam. Skin color Obi-Wan Kenobi Leaves Tatooine, Deborah Chow and Moses Ingram Talk Reva, and More! In two weeks, she wanted politicians from nearby planets to meet with her to discuss trade, relations, and the like. Together, the two set off to discover the truth behind Amidala's sudden death. After the battle, Skywalker and Amidala returned to Naboo, where they were secretly married. Skywalker confided his concerns about Rex to Amidala, who advised her husband to trust his Clone Captain. Luke's efforts were eventually successful; Sidious attempted to kill Luke with a barrage of Force lightning, but Vader stepped in to rescue his son and kill the Emperor. Prior to her career in the Galactic Senate, Amidala was the elected ruler of the Royal House of Naboo. With the help of Yoda and Aayla Secura, Skywalker then withstood the fatal toxin attack against the Zillo Beast. Greg Pak'sStar Wars: Darth Vader series picks up that particular plot thread years later, and reveals this closely-knit group became an influential rebel cell, working against the Empire. That night, Amidala, Satine, and one of the Ducal guards infiltrated the pier in question and witnessed the shipment's arrival and the complicity of a customs officer. Before Leia and Queen Daln left Panaka's chalet, Panaka told Leia he would speak to Emperor Palpatine about her saying that he should know that the Organas 'adopted a daughter of such distinction'. As her ship set down in the hangar bay, Amidala rigged it to blow in the hopes that it might take Grievous with it. A political idealist, she advocated for the preservation of democracy as well as a peaceful resolution to the Clone Wars. They managed to locate the sacred place where the Gungans had taken refuge after evacuating their city of Otoh Gunga. All she did was die in a way that wasn't possibly her own fault. Padm Amidala's life was always destined to end in tragedy; she was beloved by Anakin Skywalker, the Chosen One, the man whom Emperor Palpatine had decided tofashion into his Sith Apprentice. On the grassy plains of Naboo, there were Gungan casualties until Anakin Skywalker destroyed the Federation's Droid Control Ship. Please update the article to include missing information, and remove this template when finished. Ironically, though, before her deathPadm set the wheels in motion that would ultimately lead to the Empire's downfall. Mina Bonteri (mentor)[13] At the end of those six months, Organa invited Padm and her retinue to Alderaan on behalf of Queen Breha Organa to spend a week of their furlough before returning home to Naboo. Blaming his failure on the smuggler, he attempted to slice him but the Black Bishop intervened, stopping Vader temporarily and encouraging the smuggler to destroy the Aeon Engine. The pair was taken before Separatist scientist Doctor Nuvo Vindi, who revealed that he had perfected the long-thought-eradicated disease the Blue Shadow Virus, which he planned to release into the galaxy. As a result of Skywalker's fear of loss, he was seduced by the dark side of the Force, believing that by becoming a Sith Lord he would gain the power to prevent his wife from dying in childbirth. En route, the queen revealed to a concerned Master Jinn that she planned to unite with the Gungans, the sentient amphibians native to Naboo. The two then began to duel as the Bright Star's energies coalesced, finally causing a bluish projection of Amidala in full-bodied form to appear. Their subsequent interactions were limited throughout the Clone Wars, with Amidala continuing to advocate peaceful solutions in the Senate while Skywalker served on the front lines as a Jedi General in the Grand Army of the Republic. Stin's price was one too many would pay. Although Amidala had no means to stop her descent while sliding down the roof, she was soon caught by Skywalker. [8] Before the Jedi funeral began, she knelt beside Kenobi when he was alone with his master's body and asked him if he was ready, then gave him more time as he requested. [6] Despite the fact that she was completely healthy, she was dying. Tie-ins and spin-offs explored both the Clone Wars and the Dark Times between the trilogies; Darth Vader's "noooooo" moment fromRevenge of the Sithbecame the foundation for an entire comic book run; and Star Warsfilms liberally mixed references to the original trilogy withnods to the prequels. Amidala's parents were furious that Naboo installed any weaponry at all. Padm reveals her pregnancy to Anakin shortly after the Battle of Coruscant. [8] Catherine Taber voiced Amidala in the Star Wars: The Clone Wars film and subsequent TV series. In response to the threat posed by this Separatist Alliance, the Republic Senate debated the proposed Military Creation Act that would allow Supreme Chancellor Palpatine to formally commission a Grand Army of the Republic. She wondered how Vader had looked at her, a spitfire with Padmes eyes and his own simmering rage, and ever doubted she could be anything but his. Amidala asked Stin if there was anything the Republic could do for his people. Determined to not succumb to Trade Federation pressure, she vowed to not sign the treaty and instead worked to organize defenses. [76] Amidala eventually appeared onscreen for the first time in the 1999 film Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace, played by actress Natalie Portman. Tarmin informed her that Grand Minister Stin was waiting for her when the assassin shot him. Amidala was then rescued by C-3PO, who brought in Coruscant Guard Commander Fox and his troopers. Sidious then initiated Order 66, declaring the Jedi to be traitors to the Republic. Realizing that Skywalker loved Amidala, Clovis let himself die in order to save Amidala.[59]. She devoted herself to public service,[20] joining the Apprentice Legislature at the tender age of eight, and she eventually became a junior senatorial adviser. After the skirmish, two clone troopers died from the virus. Sidious informed him that in his anger, he had killed Amidala. However, upon having nightmares about his wife's death, Anakin turned to the dark side of the Force in an attempt to save Amidala and his child. WebShe ultimately died of a broken heart after giving birth to the twins Luke Skywalker and Leia Amidala Skywalker. [98] In Egyptian Arabic, the name "Nabirye" means "Mother of Twins. Tonra decided to join her on this quest. While trying to break the blockade of Federation battleships deployed around the planet, the ship was damaged. Although Amidala had remained composed and calm throughout the day, in private, she grinned with excitement. The remaining Republic forces in the lab began to pick off the droids before they could break out. With the loss of the Malevolence, Grievous fled the battle, and Amidala and her companions reached safety. Marvel Comics and Peach Momoko Reveal New, Bounty Hunting Highlights: 5 of Our Favorite Moments from, Rebels Recon: Inside "The Siege of Lothal", Vader Immortal: A Star Wars VR Series Episode II, Padme's Original Fate In 'Star Wars' Was Much More Badass, The Star Wars Archives: Episodes IIII, 19992005, StarWars.com Fan Spotlight: Momo Naberrie, Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information. [76] Before he died, as he shared moment with his son and was slowly losing his remaining strength, Anakin's final thought had been of his late wife Amidala; he affirmed her right, almost as if she was able to hear him, trying to tell her that their son had come to save him, and he apologized to her for all he had done, dying as the thought was finished. Skywalker, seeing Sidious as the only way to save his wife, pledged himself to the dark side. Light[8] Padm Amidala Naberrie was a human female senator who represented the people of Naboo during the final years of the Galactic Republic. However, she held on long enough to give birth to twins, whom she named Luke and Leia. When Anakin was turned into the robotic creature known as Darth Vader, he asked Emperor Palpatine Unable to fight the Federation's army of battle droids without assistance, the queen beseeched the Galactic Senate on Coruscant for help, only to see her efforts hampered by bureaucracy and procedure. 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