In 3 BBY,[2] Imperial Moff Quarsh Panaka was assassinated by Saw Gerrera's Partisans on Onoam. He had just been visited by Queen Dalné of Naboo and Princess Leia Organa of Alderaan, the two young women leaving Panaka's chalet mere minutes before it was bombed. On her way into the chalet, Organa took note of a civilian worker wearing a breath mask. She saw the worker fleeing the scene after the bombing. Leia's adoptive parents, Viceroy Bail and Queen Breha, were angry about Panaka's death, as despite Panaka's strong personal loyalty to Emperor Palpatine, he had still been a decent man, and the Organas thought they could have worked together to help vulnerable civilians. Panaka's death, however, prevented him from relaying to Palpatine his suspicions that Leia, adopted daughter of the House of Organa, was the biological daughter of the long-deceased Senator Padmé Amidala of Naboo.[1]
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- Leia, Princess of Alderaan (First appearance)
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 Leia, Princess of Alderaan
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Star Wars: Galactic Atlas places Leia Organa's birth in 19 BBY. The events of Leia, Princess of Alderaan commence just after Organa's sixteenth birthday, which places the events of the novel in 3 BBY.
