Lina Soh

Lina Soh was a human female politician who served as Supreme Chancellor of the Galactic Republic during the High Republic Era, holding office from 234 BBY. She was elected into power prior to the Great Hyperspace Disaster, where she oversaw a period of Republic enlargement reinforced by her ideologies of unity and peaceful coexistence. While in office, Soh established several outreach programs, such as the Starlight Beacon space station, which was designed to bring the Outer Rim worlds into the Republic.

At her request, the Jedi Order also established their own outposts within the far reaches of the galaxy, in order to provide assistance to groups or planets that required it. These outposts were also built to function autonomously from the Jedi Temple on the planet Coruscant and the Republic itself.

Soh also focused on bringing star systems into the Republic as membership rapidly increased as Outer Rim exploration went foward. Another part of her efforts on the unification front included the Great Works projects, in which she helmed, as well as included the Beacon's creation and the construction of other communication relays throughout the galaxy. Other projects included the Republic Fair, negotiations for a treaty between the Quarren and Mon Calamari species on the planet Mon Cala, attempts to bring the Togruta empire into the Galactic Republic, and other technological innovations. Soh also oversaw both the events of the Great Disaster and the conflict against the anarchistic marauders Nihil, who were raiding planets on the Galactic Frontier, where she was severely injured during one such attack.

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