Betl Oxtroe

Betl Oxtroe was an officer of the Imperial Starfleet during the Galactic Civil War.

During the later stages of the Galactic Civil War, Admiral Betl Oxtroe made overtures to the New Republic Provisional Council to negotiate an end to the war between the New Republic and the Galactic Empire. She proposed the conversion of the Empire into a constitutional monarchy, with Pallopides assuming the throne as Galactic Empress and with the Provisional Council serving in place of the Imperial advisors&mdash;as Pallopides was only eleven years old, this would have effectively made the Provisional Council the actual leadership in this new proposed Empire.

Before Oxtroe got very far in her negotiations, she was assassinated by a squad of Noghri (at the time, few in the New Republic had even heard of the Noghri; their involvement was learned after the fact). It was never learned who ordered the murder, though it is quite likely that agents of Palpatine, then living in exile on Byss, were behind it. Even then, he was preparing the ground for his own eventual return to the throne, removing potential sources of opposition. Pallopides, it is presumed, was left untouched; quite possibly she was never aware of the significance of the events that had gone on in her name, or what hopes Oxtroe had placed on her.