Bec Lawise

Bec Lawise was a Siniteen male politician who served as the Separatist Congress Leader in the Confederacy of Independent Systems. Representing his homeworld of Mileva, Lawise presided as speaker over the Separatist Senate alongside Confederate Head of State Dooku for much of the Clone Wars, an intergalactic conflict between the Confederacy and the Galactic Republic. As the leader of the Confederacy's legislative branch, the amicable Lawise governed with a light touch, devoted to reining in the ideologically diverse parliament during the tumultuous war.

During the Clone Wars, Lawise supported diplomatic initiatives between the Confederacy and Republic, even joining a Confederate delegation to an ill-fated peace conference on Mandalore. In the final year of the war, Lawise and Republic senator Padmé Amidala oversaw the inauguration of Rush Clovis as the head of the InterGalactic Banking Clan on Scipio following a period of fiscal instability. The event took a sharp turn when Dooku, having secretly manipulated Clovis's rise, coerced him to raise interest rates on the Republic. Lawise opposed Dooku's underhanded tactic and was further outraged when he ordered Amidala's arrest, a principled stance that would cost him his life.

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