Panaka (MissIzzy)

"And to think, I probably wouldn't have been able to sneak onto his ship, and definitely could never have managed *that* difficult a shot, without all that training he gave me."

- Yané Carinda

Panaka was the head of the Royal Naboo Security Forces in the decade before the Empire, and Moff for the Chommell Sector in the decades after.

Biography
Coming from a locally powerful family on the far side of Naboo, he was originally chosen by then-Princess Amidala to arrange for her security should she be elected Queen, which meant it fell to him to choose her first thirteen handmaidens and begin their training. After her election he saw to the selection and training of the rest of her security forces, and also took over security for the outgoing King Veruna, whose death he took very hard, leading him to develop an elaborate security setup, involving the Queen's handmaidens and decoys. This would prove to save the life of Amidala more than once.

During the Trade Federation invasion and subsequent battle for Naboo, all his work, plans, and cunning paid off. Sabé Andierre, disguised as the Queen, fooled everyone except the two Jedi involved, the Queen and most of her entourage successfully escaped Naboo with the Jedi's aid, those handmaidens remaining behind on Naboo on the Queen's order, though Panaka himself disapproved of this choice, under the leadership of Saché Aeyinson and Yané Carinda wrecked havoc on the Federation, and on returning to Naboo he led half their forces through the palace, with Sabé, who had been his best pupil, leading the other half and deceiving Viceroy Gunray a second time.

Because of this, despite his pessimism and stubborness, both of the final two candidates for Amidala's successor stated their intention of keeping him in his position should they win, and the winner was as good as her word. He also convinced Amidala, who was going on to take a seat in the Senate, to take on his nephew Gregar Typho as her new captain of secutiry.

Unfortunatly, Panaka had become very close to Palpatine, and when he learned of Senator Amidala's secret marriage to Anakin Skywalker, he informed the Chancellor, thus arguably contributing to her eventual tragic death. Amidala's former handmaidens, who believed the Emperor had killed her, amoung other reasons, to prevent her from giving birth to Skywalker's offspring, held him directly responsible, condemned him as a traitor, and attempted to poison him on two occasions, though the first attempt was foiled by one of their own, Rabé Excenil, who got cold feet and betrayed another, Briné Salmune, who had taken on the responsibility of making and administering the poison, ultimately resulting in the death of both women. Thankfully Rabé gave the impression that Briné had been working completely on her own, and nor were any of the other handmaidens connected to the second attempt. Painted by the Empire as a man persecuted for his loyalty, Panaka was made Moff, while the security around him was tightened enough that the former handmaidens were unable to make a third attempt before Eirtaé Lasara's arrest forced the others to flee Naboo.

However, by 3 ABY, he had been made a Grand Moff of an Oversector, which, while did not actually contain the Hoth System, bordered close enough to it that following the Battle of Hoth he oversaw the sweeping of the closest edges in seach of rebel fugitives. The sweep lasted over a year, and eventually picked up a small Corellian gunship with three people on board: Panaka's old prize student Sabé Andierre, and Eirtaé Lasara's widowed husband and son Kitpat Arthi and Morenjj Lasara.

On Panaka's order the three rebels were brought to him, and tried to get Sabé to defect in return for the release of the other two. Though urged by his officers to kill all three, he persisted in his efforts until Yané Carinda came to their rescue. She waited until he was alone with the prisoners and only a few guards, then shot him from the shadows.