Rush Clovis/Legends

"We chose Senator Amidala because she and Clovis entered the Senate in the same year. They served on the same committees. They were...good friends."

- Mace Windu

Baron Rush Clovis was a Human male who served as the representative of Scipio and a delegate for the InterGalactic Banking Clan in the Galactic Senate during the latter days of the Old Republic. Clovis entered the Senate in 25 BBY and quickly formed a relationship with fellow first-year senator, Padmé Amidala. Amdidala, the representative of Naboo and the Chommell sector, served with Clovis on several committees, and the two eventually became romantically involved. Amdidala soon insisted that they keep their relationshop strictly professional however&mdash;a request that was not well received by Clovis.

Clovis continued in his post as senator for a further three years, until the outbreak of the galaxy-wide Clone Wars between the Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems in 22 BBY. As a senatorial delegate for the Confederate-allied InterGalactic Banking Clan, Clovis began clandestine dealings with Separatist interests on behalf of the clan while maintaining his appearance as a Republic Loyalist. In the early days of the war, the Banking Clan invested heavily in the creation of a new droid factory for the Separatist Droid Army to be built on the Outer Rim world of Geonosis. The factory was a joint venture with the Trade Federation, necessitating that Clovis work alongside fellow covert Confederate operative, Senator Lott Dodd. Unbeknown to Clovis, the Jedi High Council suspected him of treason, and so asked his former flame, Senator Amidala, to gather information on his dealings. Under the belief that Amidala was interested in resurrecting their relationship, Clovis allowed the Naboo senator to accompany him to a meeting with Dod on Cato Neimoidia, during which she discovered his allegiance to the Confederacy and his investments in a new Geonosian droid foundry.

Biography
Padmé Amidala and Rush had entered the Senate in the same year and in the same committee. They had a romantic relationship for a brief time, but Padmé eventually broke it off because she wished to keep things professional.



During the Clone Wars, he was the senator of the planet Scipio and an influential member of the Banking delegation. Masters Yoda and Mace Windu of the Jedi Order suspected him of bargaining with the Confederacy of Independent Systems. Since any sign of the Jedi's suspicions would most likely cause a major incident and cause Clovis to raise his security, the Jedi requested Senator Padmé Amidala to spy on him, much to the opposition of Amidala's secret husband Anakin Skywalker.

Padmé invited Clovis to dinner, where he persuaded her to come to Cato Neimoidia with him. In the meantime Clovis had conferred with Lott Dod, who still represented the Trade Federation in the Senate, and Archduke Poggle the Lesser about a new droid foundry erected on Geonosis and stored its coordinates on his private terminal. Only when Padmé was poisoned by Dod did he realize that she had stolen the data, betraying him, but his love for her overruled his commitment to the Separatists, and he helped Anakin, who had accompanied Padmé in secret as a bodyguard, in saving her life. Despite - or because of - this, however, Anakin abandoned him, leaving him to face the furious Dod and Poggle, as well as their battle droids.

Behind the scenes
In "Senate Spy," the Republic characters are initially unsure whether or not the Banking Clan is affiliated with the Confederacy. This is an apparent continuity error, as it was previously established in other sources (Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter, Star Wars: Clone Wars) that the Republic was aware of the organizations' partnership.

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