Mas Amedda (MauriceCanon)

Mas Ammeda was a blue Chagrian who served as the Vice Chancellor for the Galactic Republic during the administration of Chancellor Valorum and Chancellor Palpatine. During Valorum's administration, Valorum was voted out from office following a Vote of No Confidence by Padmé Amidala in his leadership during the Trade Federation's invasion on Naboo. Ammeda, retained his position under the new Chancellor Sheev Palpatine. Mas Amedda would preside over the senate during senate sessions and worked behind the scenes to ensure that the orders of Chancellor Palpatine would be adopted. At the end of Palpatine's administration, thousands of discontented star systems declared their intention to secede from the Republic, sparking the Separatist Crisisand creating a political atmosphere that kept the Supreme Chancellor in power. Amedda was instrumental in helping concentrate authority in the Office of the Chancellor at this time—efforts that culminated with the creation of the Grand Army of the Republic as tensions between the secessionist Confederacy of Independent Systems and Republic devolved into the galaxy-spanning Clone Wars.

During the Clone Wars, Mas Amedda worked to appose peace with the confederacy and supported the Republic occupation on Mandalore. At the end of the Clone Wars conflict, Amedda and Sly Moore accompanied Palpatine as the chancellor used his authority to declare the Jedi Order enemies of the state and transform the Republic into the First Galactic Empire, declaring Palpatine as its ruler and Emperor. As the Senate became an increasingly irrelevant body, the Chagrian transitioned to a new role as Grand Vizier the Empire. He worked as Palpatine's personal assistant and representative in the Galactic Senate, he would also be a face of the public and he gained a lot more power with his new title attending to all of Palpatine's duties as well as the second command of the Galactic Empire behind Palpatine. He also became acquainted with the Sith Lord Darth Vader, who used to be the Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker and had a neutral relationship with meeting with him several times. He also met Grand Admiral Thrawn after his promotion to Admiral who like Palpatine took special interest in him and became good acquaintance with and recommended his promotion to Grand Admiral to the Emperor following Thrawn's victory on Batonn.

In this station he oversaw a rapidly expanding military and civilian bureaucracy and served as the administrative right hand to the newly anointed and increasingly reclusive Emperor Palpatine. The Empire's oppressive and abusive reign was eventually opposed by the Alliance to Restore the Republic during the Galactic Civil War—a rebellion that achieved its greatest victory, when the Emperor and many other Imperial leaders were killed at the Battle of Endor. Following the death of the Emperor Palpatine and Darth Vader, Mas became the head of the Empire as he attempted to lead the remaining remnants. However, Coruscant was under attack by Rebel Alliance due to most of the Imperial Military were send and busy with other planets due to the death of the Palpatine and Darth Vader, all Imperial planets were revolting. Despite Amedda's best efforts, he was captured by the Rebel Alliance and all Imperial forces were forced to surrendered as he signed the treaty formally the Empire by signing the Galactic Concordance, thereby ending the Galactic Civil War and the New Republic was established.

Clone Wars
Throughout the Clone Wars, the Republic struggled with a number of systems that, despite being members of the Senate, resisted any participation in the war effort and openly rejected Jedi and military assistance. These worlds banded together in the Council of Neutral System under the leadership of Duchess Satine Kryze of Mandalore, who was particularly critical of the Republic's increasing militarism. However, when agents of the Mandalorian Death Watch terrorist organization allied with the Confederacy and threatened to topple Kryze's government, Amedda and Palpatine pushed the Senate to authorize an occupation of Mandalore.

During a session of the wartime Senate, Amedda presided over the chamber as senators debated the potential threat that Death Watch posed to the people of Mandalore and the virtue of a Republic occupation. Duchess Kryze, having traveled to Coruscant to attend the session, forcefully argued against intervention and asserted the right of her people to remain neutral in the war. Speaking from the podium, Amedda dismissed her claims as unreasonable idealism, but Kryze held firm. Ultimately, Palpatine and Amedda won the debate when they presented to the Senate a prerecorded holographic testimony from the late Mandalorian Deputy Minister Jerec. Although Jerec was an ally of the Duchess, his testimony which had been doctored as part Sidious's scheme to drag Mandalore into the war claimed thatR the Republic military needed to intervene as Kryze was unwilling to admit that her pacifist crusade had failed.

The vote on the resolution to invade Mandalore was scheduled for the following day, but after an attempt on Kryze's life, Amedda and Palpatine advanced it to that evening. The two of them met with the Duchess during the vote but neglected to inform her that the Senate was currently deciding the fate of her world. Instead, Amedda argued with Kryze that the assassination attempt was further evidence that her administration was incapable of managing the Death Watch threat without Republic assistance. By the time the meeting was over, the Senate had approved the resolution and the Republic military prepared for an invasion of Mandalore.

That night, Kryze was accused of murder when an informant was killed after providing her with Jerec's undoctored testimony. The Duchess went into hiding overnight but was able to deliver the holodisc to Senator Amidala, who presented Deputy Minister Jerec's true testimony to the Senate the following day. The undoctored footage proved that Jerec had in fact supported Mandalore's neutrality and Duchess Kryze, a revelation that convinced the Senate to rescind the approval for occupation. In the aftermath of their defeat on the Mandalore issue, he Vice Chair and Chancellor met with Kryze, Amidala, and the Jedi to offer the Duchess a formal apology. The two then joined Senator Amidala to discuss the logistics of ratifying the Senate's vote.

Amedda later presided over congressional sessions focused on the Trade Federation's blockade of Pantora, wherein Pantoran senator Riyo Chuchi argued before the Senate that the Federation was working in league with the Confederacy to persuade her people to secede from the Republic. Federation representative Lott Dod denied the claims, falsely asserting that, as neutralists, the conglomerate's affiliation with the Separatists remained strictly commercial and that the blockade was merely an effort to force Pantora to fulfill its trade debts. Amedda and Palpatine were again present when, days later, Dod was forced to apologize to Chuchi when it came to light that the blockade was indeed a scheme orchestrated by Trade Federation Viceroy Separatist Council member Nute Gunray.