Shu Mai/Legends

"Impatience is a potentially fatal disease."

- Shu Mai

Shu Mai was a Gossam from the planet Castell and the Presidente of the Commerce Guild prior to and during the Clone Wars.

Biography
Shu Mai was the Chief of Property Resources for the Commerce Guild when she used an economic depression on her own homeworld Castell to further her position in the guild. She saved the Gossam by rescuing them from the guild's servitude. Instead, she repurchased Castell only to raise the rent and demand more tribute from her own people. Impressed, the Commerce Guild promoted her to the office of Presidente.

Later, Shu Mai stirred up secession on Ansion in the hopes that the resulting separation would further the Commerce Guild's profit. However, the Jedi were able to stop the secession and keep Ansion loyal to the Republic. Shu Mai remained undetected thanks to her position.

She would later be approached by Count Dooku and convinced to secretly aid the Separatists during the Separatist Crisis. Her support of the Separatists would contribute to her run in with InterGalactic Banking Clan Chairman San Hill, as he was also in league with the Separatists, helping them spread anti-Republic propaganda.



Shu Mai was present during a secret Separatist conference on Geonosis, where she pledged her droid and security forces to the Confederacy. During the Battle of Geonosis, her OG-9 homing spider droids and DSD1 dwarf spider droids were mobilized as part of the Confederacy's defense. Shu Mai escaped Geonosis and prepared her armies for war.

Shu Mai later returned to her headquarters on Felucia. When the Republic attacked, she attempted to poison the natives by having a chemical put into the interconnecting waterways of Felucia in attempt to cover her escape. She succeeded in escaping, but the Republic had managed to foil her attempt at poisoning the population of Felucia.

Mai was later relocated, along with the rest of the Separatist Council, to Utapau. After General Grievous returned from the defeat at Coruscant, Grievous, acting upon Darth Sidious's order, relocated the council again, this time to Mustafar. Shu Mai was killed on Mustafar, along with her aide, when Sidious's new apprentice, Darth Vader, cut off her head with his lightsaber after she jumped onto a table in a desperate attempt to flee Vader.

Behind the scenes

 * According to the Revenge of the Sith novelization, Shu Mai tried to plead for her life with Darth Vader, claiming that they were promised a "handsome reward". However, the new Sith Lord decapitated her with his lightsaber, while saying "I am your reward.  You don't find me handsome?"


 * She was voiced in Episode II by Chris Truswell.


 * Her name may be a reference to the manga and anime series Dragonball, where an incompetent villain (Pilaf) has two equally incompetent sidekicks, named Shu and Mai.


 * Shu Mai was known as the "space granny" by ILM animators.


 * The New Essential Chronology incorrectly names her as the Corporate Alliance Magistrate on page 80.


 * "Shu Mai" is also the name of a Chinese dumpling.

Appearances

 * The Approaching Storm
 * Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones
 * CIS Shadowfeed Dispatch 14:3:10 Edition in Star Wars Insider 66
 * CIS Shadowfeed Dispatch 15:3:21 Edition in Star Wars Insider 76
 * Reversal of Fortune
 * Labyrinth of Evil
 * Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith