Lama Su

Lama Su was a male Kaminoan politician who served as Prime Minister of his homeworld, Kamino, during the final decades of the Galactic Republic until his removal from office during the early Imperial Era. While in office, Lama Su oversaw the production of the clone troopers that comprised the Grand Army of the Republic used in the Clone Wars, a pan-galactic conflict between the Republic and its splinter state, the Confederacy of Independent Systems, unknowingly in league with the Sith Lords who conspired to use the war in their plan to destroy the Jedi Order. The war, however, brought upon numerous failures and setbacks for the Kaminoans, including the death of Jango Fett, whose genetic material was used to create the clones, an attack on Kamino, and the near-exposure of the truth about the clones' inhibitor chips.

The Prime Minister's unknowing association with the Sith and involvement in the Republic's downfall would ultimately become his undoing, as the nascent Galactic Empire that rose in its place saw little use for Kamino's cloned soldiers, instead placing more value and faith in the recruitment of non-clone soldiers loyal to the new regime. Seeing how the situation was slipping away from the Kaminoans, Lama Su worked to maintain Kamino's importance to the New Order but also made plans to smuggle Kamino's most skilled and valued medical and scientific personnel to safety off-planet in case the Empire decided they were superfluous. His plans were uncovered by Imperial Navy Admiral Edmon Rampart, who had the Prime Minister detained for treason. Still, the Empire would require Lama Su's assistance once more in learning how to control his former chief Medical Scientist, Nala Se.

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