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After the Trade Federation invaded Naboo, Queen Amidala escaped the planet and reached Coruscant, where she told the Senate of the Trade Federation’s attack. Federation Senator Lott Dod protested that there was no proof of her accusations, and the weak Supreme Chancellor Valorum was forced to ask Amidala if she would agree to the appointment of a commission to investigate the charges.

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    • After the Trade Federation invaded Naboo, Queen Amidala escaped the planet and reached Coruscant, where she told the Senate of the Trade Federation’s attack. Federation Senator Lott Dod protested that there was no proof of her accusations, and the weak Supreme Chancellor Valorum was forced to ask Amidala if she would agree to the appointment of a commission to investigate the charges.
    • For Amidala, this meager response was proof that the Senate had become too corrupt and bureaucratic to govern. She angrily denounced the body, then listened gravely as Naboo’s Senator Palpatine craftily proposed a new strategy: call for a no-confidence vote in Valorum.
    • Valorum had been one of Naboo’s allies, but a frustrated Amidala did as Palpatine suggested. The Senate backed her call for new elections – and the prized appointment went to Palpatine. His rise to power had begun.
    • A decade later, the Senate was in turmoil, roiled by fears that systems would leave the Republic to join Count Dooku’s Separatist movement. Amidala, now Naboo’s senator, returned to Coruscant to cast a key vote opposing the creation of a Republic army – and nearly died when an assassin blew up her ship. A grave Supreme Chancellor Palpatine told the Senate of her death – and was relieved to discover Amidala had survived.
    • When word reached the Senate that Dooku and his allies were preparing for war, Naboo Representative Jar Jar Binks spoke up and proposed giving Palpatine emergency powers during the crisis – including the right to create a Republic army. Palpatine vowed to set aside the enormous powers he’d been given as soon as he could, but he was lying – a secret Sith plot to take over the galaxy was advancing.
    • The Clone Wars engulfed the galaxy, but Coruscant and the Senate often seemed unaffected. That changed when the monstrous Zillo Beast broke free of captivity and rampaged across the cityscape, seeking out Palpatine in his Senate office. Republic gunships brought the mighty creature down outside the Senate Building.
    • The Senate was sharply divided by the war, with some senators offering full-throated support for Palpatine while others feared democracy was threatened and sought a peaceful solution. Padmé Amidala was in the latter camp, a position that sometimes left her at odds with her husband, the Jedi General Anakin Skywalker.
    • A major expansion of the war seemed at hand when Palpatine presented a hologram of Mandalore’s Deputy Minister Jerec apparently admitting that his planet needed the help of the Jedi and the Republic to counter Death Watch terrorists. The Senate voted to intervene and the Republic made invasion plans.
    • Mandalore’s Duchess Satine risked her life to reveal that Jerec’s message had been doctored as a pretext for an invasion. With the help of Senator Amidala and Obi-Wan Kenobi, the unaltered message was played for the Senate, and the invasion was called off.
    • When the Trade Federation threatened to invade Pantora, Senator Riyo Chuchi accused the Trade Federation of being in league with the Separatists despite the group’s official neutrality. The Pantoran crisis escalated when the Separatists hired thugs to abduct Chairman Papanoida’s daughters.
    • The war came to Coruscant when a team of bounty hunters led by Cad Bane invaded the Senate, overpowering Anakin Skywalker and taking several senators hostage. Bane threatened to kill the hostages unless Palpatine agreed to release Ziro the Hutt from a Republic prison.
    • Clone troopers secured Palpatine in his office, but only quick action by Anakin saved the senators from death. Bane completed his mission, escaping Coruscant with the freed Ziro the Hutt.
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