Unidentified senator (Bail Organa)

A member of the Galactic Empire's Imperial Senate was loyal to Emperor Palpatine during the Imperial Era. In approximately 2 BBY, the senator informed their peer, the Alderaanian senator Bail Organa, that Palpatine was planning to arrest Chandrilan senator Mon Mothma for treason, as the Imperial Security Bureau had discovered her work in developing the Rebellion against the Empire. Organa pretended to gloat with the senator, as the Alderaanian was publicly believed to be Mothma's political rival. Secretly, Organa was Mothma's ally in the Rebellion, so he dispatched a man to inform Mothma of her imminent danger. She was able to escape the galactic capital planet Coruscant minutes before ISB agents arrived to arrest her. Mothma later recalled the senator's unwitting role in her escape with derision, describing them as a "lapdog" and "swine."

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