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PATHS OF DESTINY

Ruwee Naberrie
& Jobal Naberrie
The Skywalker self-reliance and
dedication to public service can
be traced to the Naberrie family
of Naboo, who rose from humble
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merchant origins and instilled in C C C C C Corellia
their children the ideal that civic
Naboo service was the fi nest goal to
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which a good citizen could aspire.
Padmé Naberrie
Padmé Naberrie took the royal name Amidala as Naboo’s
elected queen at the age of fourteen, and led her planet
through the crisis of the Trade Federation invasion with
remarkable grace and intelligence for a leader so young. After
two terms as Naboo’s queen, Amidala became a member
of the Galactic Senate. Padmé successfully navigated the
challenges of the complex warren of galactic politics as a
senator, a post that made her days as Queen of Naboo seem
quaint and simple by comparison. But all her strength and
experience could not aid her when she fell helplessly in love Han Solo
with her Jedi bodyguard, Anakin Skywalker. After witnessing A simple job transporting an
Anakin’s turn to evil, suffering violence at his hands, she bore old man and a farmboy with no
their twin children before dying of a broken heart. questions asked saw the smuggler
become entangled with the
Skywalkers, resetting the trajectory
of his life. The principled bravery
Bail & Breha he saw in Luke Skywalker, Leia
Organa, and Ben Kenobi shamed
Organa Solo into discovering his better
Senator Bail Organa and his nature, and the one-time loner
wife Queen Breha Organa threw his full support behind the
were ideal foster parents to Rebellion. His personal devotion to
the infant daughter of Padmé Leia led to love and marriage, but
Amidala, championing the their relationship failed, and Solo’s
same values that Padmé’s own son became the greatest
family held dear. Inculcating betrayer the galaxy had yet seen.
selfl ess devotion to service, a
steadfast faith in the highest
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ideals of liberty and justice, A A A A A A A A A A A Alderaan
and a practical education
in the harsh realities of
political life, they thoroughly
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great leader in her own right.
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Ben Solo
The child of Leia Organa and Han Solo was the heir to the
potential of the Skywalker line, the political training and
connections of the royal House of Organa, and the charisma
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Leia Organa Solo of his father. Yet these powerful infl uences combined to create
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In Leia Organa we see the potential of the Skywalker line united with the training a young man who wrestled with the intense pressures of that
and power of the royal House of Organa. A charismatic leader in the Galactic heritage. What’s more, Ben was raised in ignorance of his evil
Senate and a clever negotiator behind the scenes, Leia became a leader of the ancestor, Darth Vader, and the revelation of that connection
Rebellion against the Empire, just as in the aftermath of the Galactic Civil War only furthered the pressure he felt. Riven with chaotic impulses,
she led the Resistance against the First Order. Her personal life was marred by Ben was not an individual who responded easily to discipline,
a failed marriage to a Corellian smuggler and the horror of seeing her son, Ben and in an impulsive moment of confused self-defense he turned
Solo, become a devotee and champion of all that Leia holds in contempt. on his teacher—and on everything the Jedi had ever stood for.
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