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- "For my Challenge of the Mind, I will no longer merely assist my father in the Imperial Senate but will also represent our world in the Apprentice Legislature."
- ―Leia Organa
The Apprentice Legislature, also known as the Junior Senate or junior legislative program, was an organization for politically-minded youth that was founded under the Galactic Republic and continued under the Galactic Empire.
History[]
Republic Era[]
Padmé Naberrie, future queen and Senator of Naboo, joined the Apprentice Legislature when she was eight years old[2] where she was given a tour of the Galactic Senate Building and would think of her family home when she was lonely.[3]
However, after she joined the Galactic Senate, Naberrie, now going by the chosen name of Amidala, admitted to Rush Clovis of Scipio that it was still a great difficulty adjusting to the demanding life as a full time senator, especially after having served as queen of Naboo.[3]
Age of the Empire[]
After the rise of the Galactic Empire, due to the declining power of the Imperial Senate, many planets stopped sending representatives to the Legislature. The Apprentice Legislators dealt with real, but minor, issues and the majority hoped for a future career in politics and used the program as an opportunity to form connections. By 3 BBY,[4] only forty worlds still bothered to do send representatives.[1]
On her Day of Demand, Princess Leia Organa stated that she would represent her planet of Alderaan[1] in the Junior Senate[5] for Challenge of the Mind, as part of her trials to become crown princess. At the opening of the Apprentice Legislature that year, Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin served as the guest speaker. When she joined, Organa served alongside Amilyn Holdo of Gatalenta, who she was in a pathfinding class with, along with several other Apprentice Legislators, which had been arranged by Organa's adoptive mother Queen Breha Organa and was taught by Chief Pangie of the Chandrilan Pathfinding Corps. Organa would become friends with Holdo along with several other of the Apprentice Legislators including Harp Allor of Chandrila. Organa's adoptive father, Senator Bail Organa encouraged her to find allies in the Apprentice Legislature which she attempted to do, starting with Allor.[1]
Appearances[]
- Queen's Shadow (Mentioned only) (First identified as junior legislative program)
- Queen's Shadow audiobook (Mentioned only)
- Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones (Appears in hologram) (In deleted scene(s))
Obi-Wan Kenobi — "Part I" (Mentioned only) (First identified as Junior Senate)- Leia, Princess of Alderaan (First appearance) (First identified as Apprentice Legislature)
- Leia, Princess of Alderaan audiobook
- Leia Organa: Ordeal of the Princess (First pictured)
- "The Chronicler" — From a Certain Point of View: Return of the Jedi (Mentioned only)
- Star Wars: The Last Jedi: Expanded Edition (Mentioned only)
- Star Wars: The Last Jedi: Expanded Edition audiobook (Mentioned only)
Sources[]
- Ultimate Star Wars (First mentioned)
- Star Wars: The Last Jedi: The Visual Dictionary
- Star Wars: The Last Jedi – The Official Collector's Edition
- Star Wars: Women of the Galaxy
- Star Wars: Dawn of Rebellion: The Visual Guide
- 'Star Wars: The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire
Amilyn Holdo in the Databank (backup link)
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Leia, Princess of Alderaan
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Ultimate Star Wars
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Queen's Shadow
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Obi-Wan Kenobi — "Part I"