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In the latter days of the Great Galactic War between the Galactic Republic and the reconstituted Sith Empire, a Mon Calamari politician served as the Supreme Chancellor of the Republic. The Mon Calamari was in office in 3,653 BBY, when the Empire's Dark Council proposed that the two governments convene to discuss the possibility of a peace agreement. The Galactic Senate agreed to the call for peace, and the Chancellor sent Cerean Senator Paran Am-Ris to represent the Republic in a peace summit on Alderaan.

The summit ultimately turned out to be nothing more than a diversion crafted by the Sith in order to draw attention away from their true target&mdash;the Republic's capital world of Coruscant. While the delegates from the two galactic superpowers began their deliberations on Alderaan, the Empire attacked the capital in a massive invasion that came to be known as the Sacking of Coruscant. During the attack, the leader of the Sith force, Darth Angral, breached the Senate Tower and killed the Supreme Chancellor. As a result of the Sacking of Coruscant and the Chancellor's death, Senator Am-Ris was forced to agree to the Sith-authored Treaty of Coruscant, which firmly placed the Republic as the war's loser.