Japor snippet

Shortly before the Battle of Naboo, the young Anakin Skywalker carved a japor snippet for Padmé Amidala, whom he had become infatuated with on Tatooine. He gave it to her for good fortune, and so she would remember him once he left for the Jedi Order. Seeing it as a representation of remembrance and luck, Amidala wore it as a necklace. Four years after the Battle of Naboo, when she became a senator for the Galactic Republic and passed the Jedi Temple, her hands moved to touch the necklace without even thinking to do so. When Amidala visited her family home during one of the Senate's breaks from meeting, her infant niece Ryoo Naberrie reached up the necklace, which Amidala quickly hid inside her collar to keep out of the baby's grasp.

Years later, after Skywalker and Amidala had fallen in love and secretly married, Amidala still wore the japor snippet around her neck. After her death on Polis Massa, and Skywalker's fall to the dark side of the Force, the japor snippet adorned Amidala's body during her funeral on Naboo. The snippet was later stored inside a glass case, outside Amidala's tomb on Naboo. When Skywalker, now Darth Vader, was investigating the cover-up behind his wife's true death, his search led him to the tomb. Upon seeing the snippet, Vader was reminded of when he first gave the snippet to Amidala. He also thought of the misery he created since, including attacking and wounding a group of Amidala's supporters moments before.

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