Padmé Naberrie (JPT)

"Somehow I’ve never learned to look at you as another Jedi"

- Anakin Skywalker

Padmé Naberrie was a Jedi Knight at the time of the Clone Wars and was instrumental in the fall of Palpatine, discovering his betrayal of the Republic but dying at his hands due to Force-lightning.

Biography
While still a Padawan learner, she was sent with her Master Shakya Devi to mediate the Naboo Crisis. When Devi was killed by Dark Lady of the Sith Darth Maxah, Padmé sent a 913 which was received by Qui-Gon Jinn and his apprentice Obi-Wan Kenobi, they contacted her once they arrived on the planet and assisted in the Queen Nalanda fleeing the planet. She accompanied Qui-Gon to Mos Espa when the ship was forced to land on Tatooine and met Anakin Skywalker. When they arrived on Coruscant, Padmé was relieved of the mission by the Jedi Council but later (due to the intervention of Kuan Yin Nevu) returned to Naboo and assisted Nalanda in her fight to the throne room. Following the Battle of Naboo she was apprenticed to Kuan Yin Nevu.

Ten years later, Padmé, ow a Jedi Knight, was reunited with Obi-Wan and Anakin as a result of the assassination attempt on Senator Nalanda. Consequentally, she and Anakin travelled with the Senator to safety on Naboo where she revealed, not through words but through the Force, the true depths of her feelings for the young Skywalker. She and Anakin came to an agreement not to follow through with their feelings for each other as it was against the Jedi code, a decision further augmented when she acompanied the Senator to to Imbroglio Summit where Padmé's discovered that Jedi Master Renust Nju was a Sith Lord, an encounter that resulted in the loss of her right arm and her lightsaber.

During the Clone Wars, Padmé was involved in quite a few decsive engagements, including the Battle of Aphidna and the Defence of Carlyle. She also tracked the fallen Jedi Shinai-Stel Ardak with Anakin following his sabotage of the Conference of Aphidna and was involved in the Liberation of Naboo prior to the war's end. In the Battle of Coruscant, Padmé came to assist Obi-Wan and Anakin and was able to prevent Anakin killing Count Dooku. She learnt from R2-D2 and C-3PO (who were analysing transmissions from the Invisible Hand) that Supreme Chancellor Palpatine was the Sith Lord Darth Sidious. The data sent on to Senator Bail Prestor Organa of Alderaan, she rushed with Anakin to dispose of the Sith Lord while most of the Jedi (including Mace Windu and Yoda) were dealing with the Purge of the Temple by Renust Nju and the escaped Count Dooku. Anakin and Padmé came to blows after she attempted to kill Palpatine while under the influence of the dark side of the Force. Palpatine convinced Anakin that Padmé would betray him, like all the Jedi had and attempted to kill her with Force-lightning, reminding Anakin of the Force vision he had experienced of Padmé's death. Anakin deflected the lightning with his lightsaber, giving Padmé the opportunity to kill the Sith Lord, though she was hit with the full force of the explosion when Sidious died. In Anakin's arms, Padmé died, telling him with her dying breath that she loved him and not to lose himself because she was no longer there.

Legacy
It took a full three years for Anakin to put Padmé's sacrifice in perspective, he was in a way assisted by the fact that he took Sona Cantari as his apprentice. Bail Organa was another who promised himself that her death would not be in vain, which perhaps led to his assention to Supreme Chancellor following the period of Caretaker Government.

Spirit Life
Padmé first appeared as a Force ghost to Sona Cantari and Han Solo during the Battle of Mantua, assisting them in evading Varicean troops. Anakin at first did not believe Sona, but he later spoke with her in the months after the Fall of Coruscant when he was grieving for the loss of his former Master, Obi-Wan.

Padmé was also one of the Force ghosts that appeared during the victory celebrations at the end of the Galactic Civil War.