Star Wars: Queen’s Shadow
Padmé stops being a queen and has to work out what she is instead.
Topic
12 entries filed under this topic across the library, the dossiers and the dispatches.
From the library
Padmé stops being a queen and has to work out what she is instead.
The first weeks of the Empire, from inside a Senate that has not yet admitted what happened.
A senate procedural about the republic that is about to lose everything.
Who is involved
Twenty years as the Expanded Universe’s designated political villain, and then the best death in the New Jedi Order.
The last Chief of State of the New Republic and the first of the government that replaced it.
A thousand years of Sith planning, executed by a man whose main weapon was committee procedure.
A founder of the Rebellion who spent years running his own private war rather than serve under Mon Mothma.
A Republic senator who played both sides, and helped bring down Starlight Beacon.
A champion racing pilot who took a desk job rather than tell anyone she was ill.
A politician first, a fighter by necessity, and the character the novels have served best.
A Chancellor with a slogan — "We are all the Republic" — and a decade to find out what it is worth.
Elected at fourteen, obsolete by thirty — the Republic’s conscience, and its most cutting critic.