Palo

For other uses, see Palo (disambiguation).

"I was twelve. His name was Palo. We were both in the Legislative Youth Program. He was a few years older than I… very cute… dark curly hair… dreamy eyes."

―Padmé Amidala, to Anakin Skywalker^[3]

Palo was a Human male artist from the planet Naboo who lived during the rise of the Galactic Empire and during the Galactic Civil War.

Biography[]

Prior to the Clone Wars, Palo served as a member of the Legislative Youth Program on Naboo, along with Padmé Amidala. He and twelve-year-old Padmé had a brief relationship. However, they went their separate ways when Palo became an artist and Padmé continued in politics, although he never fully got over her. A decade later, in 22 BBY, Amidala talked about Palo to her future husband, Anakin Skywalker, teasing the young Jedi by describing her first love in details with a suggestive tone of voice.^[3]

After the Battle of Yavin, Palo was living in the city of Moenia on Naboo. While there, Palo recruited a spacer to carry several tasks such as defend a commoner named Ilsa Shuverin from a flewt, defend the Gungan hermit Jaluka Jianga from an ikopi, and fight five thugs near Moenia.^[2]

Behind the scenes[]

The character was originally set to return as Padmé Amidala's love interest for the Star Wars: The Clone Wars episode "Senate Spy." However, this idea was eventually abandoned when the crew remembered that Palo left politics to become an artist (as mentioned by Amidala in Attack of the Clones). The show's creators also felt that the relationship between Amidala and the "Senate Spy" character had to be more recent than the one between her and Palo, so that the theme of Anakin Skywalker's jealousy would be better supported. Palo was thus replaced by a new character, Rush Clovis.^[4]

Palo also appeared as a non-player character in the 2003 video game Star Wars Galaxies, a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game developed by Sony Online Entertainment and published by LucasArts,^[2] prior to its closure on December 15, 2011.^[5] Palo could be found at a gazebo in Moenia on Naboo where he gave three completable missions. However, these quests were bugged and lacked any text dialogue strings, rendering it impossible to have derived much context from them.^[2]^[6] Palo was eventually removed from the game by its developers relatively early in the game's lifespan.