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Alongside her senatorial peers Padmé Amidala, Bail Organa, and Onaconda Farr, Mothma championed a movement to reduce and eventually halt the production of clone troopers, to help stop the fighting and let diplomacy resume. When Farr was murdered by his aide Lolo Purs after Amidala's speech championing the cause, Mothma continued to work with the Senate while Organa and Amidala investigated the crime.

With Organa and Amidala by her side, Mothma opposed Supreme Chancellor Sheev Palpatine's abuse of wartime powers toward the end of the Clone Wars, growing increasingly worried that the Chancellor would refuse to relinquish those powers following the end of the conflict. Mothma and her allies in the Senate sought diplomatic alternatives to the prolonged fighting of the war, pushing cautionary legislation in the Senate and reaching out to Separatist politicians, but were ultimately unable to prevent Palpatine from reorganizing the Galactic Republic into the First Galactic Empire. Shortly after that, she lost her friend Amidala.

Following Palpatine's self-proclamation as Emperor, Mothma remained a member of the newly-formed Imperial Senate, however together with Bail Organa and former Jedi Padawan Ahsoka Tano she united rebel cells throughout the galaxy, eventually forming the Alliance to Restore the Republic, which she functioned as the civilian leader of during the Galactic Civil War. Prior to the Battle of Endor, Mothma briefed the squad tasked with destroying the Empire's Death Star II.