Mot-Not Rab/Legends

Mot-Not Rab was a male Tarnab.

Biography
Mot-Not Rab represented a constituency in the Galactic Senate c. 32 BBY.

In 32 BBY, Mot-Not Rab, along with Senators Tikkes of Dac and Onaconda Farr of Rodia, attended an unofficial audience organized by Senator Orn Free Taa of Ryloth. At that point, Supreme Chancellor Finis Valorum had just finished a crisis and was suddenly accused of corruption. Taa admitted to have delayed the accusation because the situation at that point would allow the Senate to oust and replace Valorum, which was Taa's goal.

Rab (correctly) believed the Vote of No Confidence in Supreme Chancellor Finis Valorum was part of some political plot, and thus opposed it. However, he was a member of the Rim faction.

He continued to serve as Senator into the galaxy-wide Clone Wars, which spread corruption and a political war in the Senate itself. During the conflict, the Senate called an emergency session to debate the cost of the war. When fellow Senator Padmé Amidala of Naboo suggested that the Republic negotiate with the Confederacy of Independent Systems, Rab spoke that they could not negotiate with such "animals," declaring to keep the war going and demanded to vote then and there. This caused many Senators to start chanting for the vote. However, Speaker of the Senate Mas Amedda ended the session. Mot-Not Rab was later present during the vote to negotiate with the Separatists, but the vote was stopped due to power failure from a bombing of the Coruscant power generator. Because of this attack, the Senate passed the bill to deregulate the banks so the Republic could increase clone production and rejected the Separatist peace initiative.

Later Rab continued to serve when a new bill was proposed by Senator Halle Burtoni for an additional five million clone troopers (funded by the Banking Clan of course). Rab was attacked by two bounty hunters hired by Count Dooku to scare the Senators out of voting against the bill. In the end Senator Padme Amidala's speech swayed the votes and the bill was turned down.

Behind the scenes
Mot was one of many characters ultimately cut from The Phantom Menace.

In Cloak of Deception, this character's name is written Mot Not Rab without a hyphen; this is also how the character is credited in his appearance in the Star Wars: The Clone Wars television series, in which he was voiced by Dee Bradley Baker.

Mot-Not Rab is an anagram of Tom Barton, the name of Creature Workshop Supervisor Chris Barton's son.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Darth Plagueis
 * Cloak of Deception
 * Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace