Sheru Organa (AOLS)

King Sheru Organa, known by the official title of His Eminent Majesty King Sheru XI of House Organa, was the king of Alderaan from 993 to 1,026 AF. His reign was a turbulent but prosperous one, with the planet avoiding much of the violence of the Clone Wars only to witness the rise of the Galactic Empire and the end of it's own planetary independence as the new Emperor eroded away the power of the Imperial Senate. The King did not take Alderaan's loss of freedom lying down and became one of the leaders of the secret galaxy-wide opposition movement to the Empire's rule. This movement would eventually coalesce into a full-scale Rebel Alliance, that would wage a covert war against the Empire on a Galactic scale. Sheru's own daughter, Leia Organa, would become a leader in the Rebellion at the age of 18. This would prove disastrous for Alderaan, as it would lead to Princess Leia being captured by Imperial forces lead by Darth Vader. She would be tortured to reveal the location of the secret rebel base on Yavin IV under threat of Alderaan's destruction by the Empire's new superweapon, the Death Star. Even though she lied to Vader and the Death Star's supervisor Wilhuff Tarkin that the base was on Dantooine, the Death Star was still fired at Alderaan as a show of force, leading to the planet's destruction and the deaths of all it's inhabitants, including King Sheru.