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The Supreme Chancellor at the time of the Great Sith War was a gray-skinned, mollusk-like sentient male. A member of the Galactic Senate, he became Chancellor after the death of Sidrona Diath in 3,997 BBY. He was a firm supporter of the Jedi, and a friend of Jedi Master Vodo-Siosk Baas and Minister of Defense Netus. Just one standard year into the Chancellor's reign, the Galactic Republic fell prey to a group of unidentified terrorists, who plundered and looted many shipyards for a number of months, avoiding detection and apprehension by the Republic Navy. Rumors abounded that a rogue Jedi Knight was responsible, though the Chancellor dismissed them; he and the Senate refused the Jedi Order clearance to intervene and deal with the supposed rogue Jedi itself.

The Order sent Vodo-Siosk Baas to meet with the Chancellor and the Senate and persuade them to overturn their decision, though as they rendezvoused, Dark Lord of the Sith Ulic Qel-Droma&mdash;a former Jedi, who had been responsible for the terrorist strikes&mdash;launched an attack on Coruscant, capital world of the Republic. The Republic was able to fend his forces off, though, and captured Qel-Droma; the Chancellor decreed that he would be put on trial, held accountable for his crimes, and punished with death. Qel-Droma refused to show regret for his actions at the trial, but before the Chancellor and his fellow Senate members could order his execution, Qel-Droma's fellow Sith Lord Exar Kun forced entry into the Senate Hall. He used the Force to subdue the audience and approached the pulpit on which the Chancellor stood. The Chancellor attempted to attack Kun with his staff; the Sith Lord was too powerful, though, using the dark side to force the Chancellor into telling the congregation that the Senate was a meaningless institution. With that, Kun killed the Chancellor.