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- "And now, my dear friend Leia Organa Solo tells me about her discovery that Padmé was her mother, and of what became of Anakin. My head is still reeling. I've known Leia ever since we both served in the Imperial Senate, and to think that neither of us ever had the slightest inkling that we were first cousins."
- ―Pooja Naberrie
Pooja Naberrie was a Human female born in the powerful House Naberrie from the planet Naboo. She was the younger daughter of Sola Naberrie and Darred Janren Naberrie, the younger sister of Ryoo Naberrie, and the niece of Padmé Amidala. This relationship made her the first cousin of twins Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa Solo. Sharing the same ideals as her aunt Padmé, Pooja Naberrie followed her example by entering politics some time after the formation of the Galactic Empire. She eventually served as the senator of Naboo in the Galactic Senate. However, after the Imperial Senate was disbanded, she returned to her homeworld and became the leader of the Naboo Resistance against the Empire.
Biography[]
Early life[]
- "I was just a little girl, only four years old, when I first saw Anakin. Oh, my. I thought he was the most handsome man I’d ever seen, and so tall! My memory of him is entirely from a child’s perspective, and I still envision him as a giant."
- ―Pooja Naberrie
Pooja Naberrie was born in the House Naberrie, a prominent family from the Mid Rim planet of Naboo. She was the younger daughter of Sola Naberrie and Darred Janren Naberrie. Similarly to her sister Ryoo, who was named after their mother's maternal grandmother, Pooja received the name of her father's maternal grandmother.[6]
Padmé Amidala introduces Anakin Skywalker to Pooja and Ryoo Naberrie in the first days of the Clone Wars
Pooja spent her childhood with her parents and sister, living in the family home in the Naboo capital city of Theed.[7] As a child, she was considered to be very talkative and like many other young children, she seemed to have a new idea for what she wanted to be when she grew up every week and often spoke of being a senator, a teacher, a starfighter pilot, a tusk cat trainer, and even an astromech droid.[6] It is said that she, like her sister, had a crush on Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker, the future husband of their aunt Senator Padmé Amidala, when he visited the family during the Clone Wars. She also liked playing games with him and asked a lot of questions.[5]
Seven-year-old Pooja attended her aunt's funeral in the first days of the Empire.
In 21 BBY, Amidala had been compelled to miss Pooja's fifth birthday celebrations because of her work in the Galactic Senate. She had sent a gift to Pooja and commed her beloved niece on the day, but she still felt guilty for not being able to be there in person.[8]
Two years later, in 19 BBY, Pooja, along with the rest of the Naberrie family and thousands of other mourners, attended her aunt Padmé Amidala's funeral shortly after the Clone Wars ended.[9] Like the rest of the family, she ignored that Padmé had been killed by Anakin Skywalker when he became Darth Vader. Moreover, the family was not aware that Amidala gave birth to Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa.[5]
Rebel senator[]
- "Welcome. I'm Pooja Naberrie, a Senator of the Old Republic and leader of the Naboo Resistance against the Empire. We are pressed hard, but we fight hard."
- ―Pooja Naberrie, to a Rebel spacer
Years later, some time after the fall of the Galactic Republic and the establishment of the Galactic Empire, Pooja Naberrie entered the world of politics. She was eventually appointed representative of Naboo in the Imperial Senate,[4] replacing the Gungan Jar Jar Binks.[10] Like her aunt,[9] she held the position of senator.[3] This made her a colleague of her cousin, Leia Organa, the senator of Alderaan, and the two became good friends, completely unaware of their familial relationship.[5] In order to ensure Senator Naberrie's security, a woman named Kima Nazith served as Pooja's bodyguard.[11] Pooja Naberrie would hold her position until the Imperial Senate's dissolution[3] in 0 BBY, during the Galactic Civil War between the Galactic Empire and the Alliance to Restore the Republic.[12] Her official duties were then taken over by Quarsh Panaka, the newly appointed Moff of the Chommell sector.[13] The ex-senator later returned to her homeworld where she continued to play a role in Naboo politics by acting as a gray eminence.[14]
Ex-Senator Pooja Naberrie in Dee'ja Peak during the Galactic Civil War
During her senatorial career, Pooja Naberrie became a Rebel sympathizer. Thus, she chose armed resistance against the Empire during the Galactic Civil War and became the leader of the Naboo Resistance by the time of the Battle of Yavin.[3] Her bodyguard Kima Nazith served as her most trusted advisor in the Resistance.[11] At some point, the Naboo Resistance get associated with the Rebel Alliance.[3]
In 1 ABY,[15] Imperial High Inquisitor Mal Sikander suspected that Pooja Naberrie could be connected to the Naboo Resistance. This forced the former senator and Kima Nazith to go into hiding for some times in Dee'ja Peak, an isolated city in the Gallo Mountains.[11] While there, Naberrie did not remain inactive. She organized a conclave of Naboo nobles sympathetic to the Resistance in order to convince them to join the rebellion in a more active manner. The meeting was also supported by the Rebel Alliance that sent to Naboo the Bothan Herosk Bal'far, an aide to Mon Mothma and hero of the Rebellion, as a guest of honor; as well as several Rebel operatives to help with the organization. However, the conference was compromised by the Empire even before it started because of a series of unfortunate events. The Rebel pilot Gizda Ramani was shot down the Empire while carrying information about the meeting between the Naboo Resistance and the Rebel Alliance. Herosk Bal'far was identified and wanted by Imperial forces upon arriving on Naboo. RSF Officer Turon Adala who was in charge of the security of the conference was injured in a firefight with stormtroopers in patrol. Finally, Lim Paddu, the Naboo noble the most devoted to the Resistance, was captured by Imperial troops during a random identity check. Thankfully for Naberrie, the Rebel Alliance operatives were able to successfully rescue all these individuals alive, and before the Empire could obtain information from them.[3] In the meantime, Kima Nazith prevented the attempts of Inquisitor Sikander to localize the senator. Nazith and a group of Rebel Alliance operatives assassinated a Gungan informant named Benbul Leedee before he could provide information to the Inquisitor. They also eliminated the bounty hunter Hrodius Goragg who had been paid by Sikander to find the senator. Eventually, the Rebel operatives fought and killed the Dark Side Adept Kunn Kuroosh, a presumed Sith sorcerer, who was investigating Dee'ja Peak.[11] In the end, the conclave of Naboo aristocrats finally started near Dee'ja Peak. Although everything seemed to be going well, Senator Naberrie discovered during the meeting that the servant of one of the conference participants, Melloc Fitzal, was in fact a covert agent for the Imperial Security Bureau. However, the man managed to leave the meeting undetected before the Rebels realized he was a spy. The group of Rebel operatives immediately went after the spy but they were too late to prevent him to join a group of storm commando in the Naboo wilderness. During the ensuring fight, the Rebel strike team was able to kill Fitzal and his escort. Meanwhile, the conference ended without further trouble. The Rebel operatives returned to Pooja Naberrie in Dee'ja Peak who was happy to inform them that all participants returned from the meeting safely.[3]
Helping the RSF[]
- "Good, you're here. Colonel Panaka told me to expect you after you finished assisting Typho. There are two assignments for you. [...] The first is to help investigate a terrorist attack that just took place here in Theed. The second is a bit more personal and I'd like to keep it a bit quiet if possible. A friend, Hugo Eckener, has a dilemma with which he needs assistance."
- ―Pooja Naberrie, to a spacer
Pooja Naberrie working in the Theed Royal Palace
Later the same year, Pooja Naberrie's situation returned to normal so the former senator finally returned to Theed. There, she worked from the Theed Royal Palace in helping the Royal Naboo Security Forces.[16] The same year, she recruited a group of spacer who had previously worked for Captain Typho among the RSF. She first tasked them to help Major Franchels during a terrorist attack in Theed.[17] This finally led to the RSF raid on the Mummer bunker.[18] Naberrie also requested the RSF agents to help Hugo Eckener whose son had been kidnapped. The agents rescued Karl Eckener who was held captive in the Darkwalker Cave.[19] Eventually, Pooja Naberrie tasked the RSF agents to assist Lieutenant Khartoor in hunting the escaped murderer Hunnos Jarkey.[20] Eventually, Pooja Naberrie granted high security clearance to the spacers and gave them access to the RSF mainframe. The spacers then used the RSF database to find clues about the location of an Old Republic astromech droid that was wanted by both the Galactic Empire and the Rebel Alliance.[21]
Later life[]
- "If Leia hadn’t told me herself, I don’t think I ever would have believed that Anakin Skywalker became Darth Vader. It’s just so … so entirely inconceivable that that lovely young man could have become Vader. And yet that’s exactly what happened, isn’t it? To think I held his hand. His good hand. Oh, my."
- ―Pooja Naberrie
Around 36 ABY, Leia Organa met with Pooja Naberrie and told her about her discovery that Padmé was her mother and that the two of them were first cousins. Pooja subsequently recounted to Leia her recollections of Anakin Skywalker. This encounter was later narrated in the book Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force[5]
Behind the scenes[]
The character of Pooja Naberrie first appeared in a deleted scene of Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones. She was portrayed by Hayley Mooy in Attack of the Clones, as well as in a brief scene of Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith.[22]
Star Wars Galaxies[]
Pooja Naberrie also appeared as a non-player character in the 2003 video game Star Wars Galaxies, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed by Sony Online Entertainment and published by LucasArts,[3] prior to its closure on December 15, 2011.[23]
Senator Pooja Naberrie could originally be found in the city of Dee'ja Peak where she proposed six quests to Rebel players. During these missions, the player had to help Pooja and the Naboo Resistance.[3] However, these quests were known to be extensively bugged and very difficult to complete.[3][24] Moreover, Pooja Naberrie declared at some point that she was a senator of the Old Republic.[3] This claim was made impossible by Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith, released after the game, that depicted her as a young child at the moment of the fall of the Republic.[9] Later sources, such as The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia, later retconned she was in fact a senator of the Imperial Senate.[4]
With the release of the "Publish 25," a.k.a. the "New Game Enhancements," on November 15, 2005,[25] the character of "Senator Pooja Naberrie" in Dee'ja Peak was removed from the game while another character, only identified as "Pooja Naberrie" was added near the Theed Royal Palace.[16] The new missions proposed by Pooja were part of the Naboo branch of the so-called "Legacy Quest," the longest quest chain in the game. These quests did not provide any information about Pooja Naberrie herself and did not mention neither her position as a senator nor her role in the Rebellion.[16][21]
Appearances[]
- Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones novelization (First appearance)
- Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones unabridged audiobook
- Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones (Deleted scene)
- Clone Wars Gambit: Stealth (Mentioned only)
- Clone Wars Gambit: Stealth audiobook (Mentioned only)
- Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith
- The Last of the Jedi: Death on Naboo (Mentioned only)
- Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided
- Star Wars Galaxies: Starter Kit
Sources[]
- Star Wars: Attack of the Clones: The Illustrated Companion
- Mythmaking: Behind the Scenes of Attack of the Clones (Indirect mention only)
- Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided: Prima's Official Strategy Guide
- The Official Star Wars Fact File 80 (NAB3, Jobal Naberrie)
- The Official Star Wars Fact File 84 (NAB 33-36, Naboo - Naberrie Family Home)
- The Official Star Wars Fact File 92 (AMI19, Senator Padmé Amidala)
- The Official Star Wars Fact File 105 (NAB 8, Sola Naberrie)
- The Official Star Wars Fact File 140 (FAM 1, Skywalker Family Tree)
- Star Wars Galaxies: Jump to Lightspeed: Prima Official Game Guide
- Star Wars Chronicles: The Prequels
- Star Wars Galaxies: The Complete Guide: Prima Official Game Guide (Misspelled as "Poo'ja")
- Jedi vs. Sith: The Essential Guide to the Force
- Star Wars Annual 2009
- The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia
Star Wars Galaxies Trading Card Game — Galactic Hunters (Card: Pooja Naberrie) (backup link)- Star Wars Galaxies™ Trading Card Game – Pooja Naberrie Tournament Pack Now Available! on the official Star Wars Galaxies website (content now obsolete; backup link)
- Naberrie, Pooja in the Databank (content now obsolete; backup link)
- Naberrie, Ryoona in the Databank (content now obsolete; backup link)
- Naberrie, Sola in the Databank (content now obsolete; backup link)
- Star Wars: Attack of the Clones: The Ultimate Illustrated Guide
- The Official Star Wars Fact File Part 34 (PAN6, Captain Panaka)
- The Official Star Wars Fact File Part 55 (JAR 16, Jar Jar Binks)
- The Official Star Wars Fact File Part 74 (NAB1–2, The Naberries)
Notes and references[]
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External links[]
- Pooja Naberrie on the SWG Wiki
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