Mon Mothma

Mon Mothma

Republic Era
Mon was a young senator in the Galactic Senate of the Republic, and was among the idealist reformers of the Novas during the brief period of political optimism after the election of Sheev Palpatine as Supreme Chancellor. She joined the likes of Padmé Amidala, Bail Organa, Leto Borian, Riyo Chuchi, Chi Eekway Papanoida, Marko Sella, Risi Lenoan, and Kenna Kannu. However, the political realities of compromise, statutory limitations, and bureaucratic inertia set in, and the Novas began to fade, some siding with Dooku in the Secessionist Movement, while others who remained Loyalist became divided over the military issue and increasingly centralizing power in the Chancellor's office.

Imperial Era
A senator in the Imperial Senate and a member of the Loyalist Committee, Mon believed, as Bail did, that it was a source of shame and remorse that crime lords on Coruscant were more legitimate sources of authority than the government itself, seeing the issue as a symptom of moral decay and rot in the Imperial system. She worked hard to ensure the Senate extended whatever protections it could to the downtrodden and powerless.

New Republic Era
"Mon Mothma pimped her out to get the votes to become Chancellor, and Leia never made it herself because by the time Mothma retired, the senators were tired of her overused skills."

- Nellis, to Ben Solo

Mon Mothma became Chancellor of the New Republic in the first years of reform overseen by the First New Republic Cabinet. At the beginning of the New Republic, Mon formed the Observer Corps to replace the Jedi Watchmen in the era of the Clone Wars, once it became clear that Luke Skywalker would disassociate his Jedi order from the government. It was suggested that Mothma pimped Leia out in order to get the votes to become chancellor, though in the year following the Battle of Endor, an electoral schism occurred between Mon and her would-be successor as chancellor, Tolwar Wartol. This crisis was stoked by the interference of Black Sun and the Red Key Raiders, criminal groups which hoped to keep the war with the Imperial remnants going to maximize chaos in the galaxy. Mon and Leia championed the Military Disarmament Act following the Galactic Concordance.

Certain Bothan politicians were opposed to Mothma and her allies, and opened the charge that Voren Na'al's Official History of the Rebel Movements had been scrubbed of details of Leia's enslavement to Jabba Desilijic Tiure during the rescue of Han Solo. A controversial Centrist electoral campaign depicted Mothma as frumpy-looking, in contrast to the glamorous Lady Carise Sindian championed by the political faction with the slogan "Our Women vs. Their Women".

Eventually, Mon retired. By this time, it was thought that the senators were tired of Leia's overused sexual skills Mon had used as part of her campaign to become chancellor. With Mothma's resignation, the prominence of the war generation in the New Republic's leadership gradually faded, as did Leia's political star. The partisan Centrist-Populist crisis engulfed the Senate in the wake of Mon's resignation, leading to the stagnation of the Observers and the New Republic itself.

Resistance Era
As a result of the Disarmament Act she once championed with Leia, the Republic was crippled with a single blow in the destruction of the Hosnian system.

Physical appearance and biology
A controversial Centrist electoral campaign depicted Mon as frumpy-looking.

Personality and traits
As a young senator, Mon was a reformist who worked in a brief period of political optimism.

Mon worked hard to ensure the Imperial Senate helped the galaxy's downtrodden and powerless by extending what protections it could, and felt that the authority wielded by crime lords on Coruscant was a shameful symptom of the moral decay rotting the Imperial system.