Fang Zar/Legends

A senator of Sern sector, Fang Zar was very outspoken and opposed Supreme Chancellor Palpatine's methods and increasing emergency powers. He was a very close friend of Garm Bel Iblis, and the two shared similar views. Near the end of the Clone Wars, he advocated the ceding of Outer Rim Territories worlds to the Separatists in return for a cessation of hostilities.

Biography
He was selected by Mon Mothma and Bail Prestor Organa to take part in their quiet resistance and he even signed the Petition of 2000, a formal declaration of complaint against Palpatine's policies, and a request to relinquish emergency powers back to the Senate and do away with a newly installed system of regional governors. He was also one of the Senators to present the petition to the Chancellor.

Zar was known to be very close to the senator from Corellia, Garm Bel Iblis, and he served unofficially as Bel Iblis' eyes and ears at the many resistance meetings the Corellian was unable to attend. The two held corresponding views on sectorial autonomy and decentralized government in the Galactic Republic.

When Palpatine assumed the title of Emperor and declared the Jedi enemies of the Republic, he also went after several members of the Delegation of 2,000. Fang Zar was arrested and detained by the newly formed Imperial Security Bureau. Following his release, he fled Coruscant, and was granted temporary political asylum by Organa on Alderaan, where anti-Imperial protests were taking place.

Darth Vader tracked Zar to Alderaan, and, throwing his lightsaber, mortally wounded him as he was about to escape aboard a shuttle. His rescuers, including Jedi Roan Shryne, helped him aboard the Drunk Dancer and set course for Zar's homeworld of Sern Prime. While in transit, a 2-1B surgical droid began surgery in an attempt to save his life, but the damage to major blood vessels from the Dark Lord's lightsaber was too extensive to repair, and Zar died on the operating table.

Behind the scenes
Fang Zar was played by Warren Owens in scenes deleted from the final release of Revenge of the Sith.

Appearances

 * Republic HoloNet News Core Edition 15:3:02
 * Labyrinth of Evil
 * Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
 * Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith comic
 * Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith novel
 * Republic HoloNet News Special Inaugural Edition 16:5:24
 * Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader
 * Millennium Falcon

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