Bail Prestor Organa

Bail Prestor Organa of the planet Alderaan was a human male Alderaanian politician, statesman, and revolutionary leader who championed democratic and progressively-minded causes during the decades he represented his homeworld in the Senates of the Galactic Republic and the Galactic Empire. Born Bail Prestor, the once-adventurous young man forsook his familial legacy to marry Breha Organa, Alderaan's queen. Together, the two fought to keep Alderaan strong, with Bail being elected to the Galactic Senate after the Invasion of Naboo in 32 BBY. In the Senate, he built a reputation through his commitment to honesty and justice, forming ties with like-minded senators such as Mon Mothma of Chandrila, Onaconda Farr of Rodia, and Padmé Amidala of Naboo and becoming the Jedi Order's best ally in the Senate. Organa and his faction worked tirelessly to keep the Republic's democratic values alive amid the burgeoning Separatist Crisis.

After the Republic's entry into the Clone Wars against the nascent Confederacy of Independent Systems in 22 BBY, Organa involved himself in humanitarian causes, including leading relief efforts for the embattled peoples of Christophsis and Ryloth and organizing the Alderaan Refugee Conference to address the growing number of refugees displaced by the war. Organa and his allies often led efforts to de-escalate the war and bring about a diplomatic solution, but they faced opposition from militarist senators and corporate entities. His faction's peace initiatives and anti-war legislation often saw failure and pushback, such as the murder of Senator Farr during controversy over a bid to overturn a military funding increase. As the war drew to a close three years later, the Delegation of 2,000, Organa included, petitioned the increasingly authoritarian Supreme Chancellor Sheev Palpatine to rescind his executive wartime powers at the conclusion of the war. To their horror, Palpatine—secretly the Sith Lord Darth Sidious—instead declared the Jedi Order guilty of treason and announced that he would transform the Republic into the first Galactic Empire.

In the chaotic days following the war's end, Bail aided the fugitive Masters Yoda and Obi-Wan Kenobi escape the Empire to go into hiding and adopted one of the now-late Amidala's twin children, Leia, as their father had become the Sith Lord Darth Vader. Under the new regime, Organa continued to serve in the Senate, though it no longer had the same power it had under the Republic. Bail and his allies did what they could to oppose Palpatine's reign politically, but they also became involved in underground resistance. Using Alderaan's wealth and their positions of power to their advantage, Bail and his wife organized clandestine operations to help planets subjugated by the Empire and searched the galaxy for insurgent groups that could lay the groundwork for a revolution. After an encounter with the Jedi-hunting Inquisitorius, Organa recruited former Jedi Padawan Ahsoka Tano to his cause and, with her help, started coordinating the growing number of rebel cells. Over the years, Organa and his allies began secretly crafting a unified rebellion from the vast network of people and resources at their disposal, all the while fulfilling his oath to keep Amidala's children safe from the Sith and Inquisitorius.

As the Empire made increasing attempts to crack down on the various rebel cells scattered across the galaxy, Organa found his influence diminishing and chances for a peaceful settlement gone. In 2 BBY, Mothma publicly denounced the Empire and escaped the Senate, after which their resistance was formally unified as the Alliance to Restore the Republic. While the fugitive Mothma began working directly with the Alliance, Organa stayed a member of the Imperial Senate, but his disillusionment led him to become a part-time member and eventually give his seat to Leia, who discovered her father's rebellion and proudly joined in his fight. As the conflict between the Alliance and the Empire grew, large-scale warfare became inevitable. On the eve of the Battle of Scarif in 1 BBY, Organa dispatched Leia out to Tatooine to bring Kenobi out of exile while he returned to Alderaan to warn his people that there would be no peace. Though the Alliance won its first major victory of the Galactic Civil War at Scarif, Organa and his wife were killed when the Death Star, an Imperial planet-killing superweapon, destroyed Alderaan just days later. Though he did not live to see the Empire's defeat, Organa was remembered as a hero and martyr of the Galactic Civil War.

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