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Human
Female
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Brown
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1.5 meters
Alderaan
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Married
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Once one of the firebrands of the Imperial Senate, Princess Leia Organa of Alderaan would become many other things as her life progressed: councilor, diplomat, leader, wife, mother, and Jedi-Knight-in-training. Along the way, the tragedies of her hidden past blossomed into triumphs of her future.
In the time after the Clone Wars, the Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi arrived at the home of his old friend, Viceroy and First Chairman of Alderaan, Bail Organa. Kenobi's Jedi student, a hotshot young star pilot named Anakin Skywalker, had been seduced by the dark side of the Force and had become the Dark Lord of the Sith, Darth Vader. Kenobi brought with him Skywalker's wife and her young newborn twins, Luke and Leia. Bail sheltered the woman and her daughter in the Royal House while Obi-Wan brought the infant Luke to Tatooine to be raised by Kenobi's brother, Owen Lars.
Leia was adopted into Bail's family and made a princess. She lived in the Royal House in the capital city of Aldera, where the environment was peaceful and serene; weapons and violence had been banned.
Leia has very few memories of her mother, but she grew up with a trio of gossipy aunts --Tia, Rouge, and Celly-- and a playmate named Winter. While Leia was rough-and-tumble, Winter was regal and beautiful; people often thought Winter was the princess, which amused the two girls to no end.
Watching her father work as a senator in the Old Republic, Leia learned the principles of justice and honor. She soon became the youngest senator in galactic history, even as Emperor Palpatine made his ascent to power. Behind the scenes, Bail was working with Mon Mothma and Garm Bel Iblis to formalize a Rebel Alliance against the Emperor. Meanwhile, in the Imperial Senate, Leia became the voice of dissent, constantly challenging Palpatine's new Imperial policies.
Although Bail objected, Leia used her status as a senator to aid the growing Rebellion. She regularly transported food and medical supplies, delivered funds, and recruited new members into the Alliance. On the planet Ralltiir, she had a close scrape when the Imperial lord Tion and Darth Vader almost caught her with a Rebel spy. The injured man told her of a terrifying new weapon that the Empire was building, the battle station Death Star.
Leia and Bail attempted to gain more information about the Death Star from Lord Tion, but at a private dinner with the Imperial, Leia let slip what she knew. Tion threatened her with his blaster, but she wrestled with him. The blaster went off, and Tion was killed. His body was taken to a game preserve, where a suitable accident could be arranged.
When Rebels on Toprawa captured the technical readouts for the Death Star, Leia left aboard her consulate ship, the Tantive IV, to retrieve the plans from restricted space. But the Imperial Star Destroyer Devastator challenged them and they fled into hyperspace, the Devastator fast on their heels.
The Tantive IV had a second mission to complete. Bail Organa had told Leia to find Obi-Wan Kenobi and return with him to Alderaan. Coming out of hyperspace near Tatooine, the Tantive IV was fired upon by the Devastator. Although it made a second desperate run for freedom, the smaller ship was caught in a tractor beam. Knowing the Imperials would board the ship, Leia hurridly placed the stolen data inside an astromech droid named R2-D2, ordering him to find Kenobi in the Tatooine deserts and show him a holomessage she recorded on the spot. Moments later, Leia was stunned by invading stormtroopers, but Artoo and his counterpart, C-3P0, got away in an escape pod.
Darth Vader took Leia prisoner personally. Her diplomatic immunity could not help her now; not only was she caught red-handed in an attempt to help the Rebellion, but the Emperor had just disbanded the Imperial Senate. Aboard the Death Star, Vader used an Imperial interrogator droid to find the location of the main Rebel base from Leia, but it too was ineffective. He used his own powers of the Force as well, but it did no good, so more drastic measures were called into play. Leia felt her defiance melt away away when Grand Moff Tarkin threatened to destroy her home planet of Alderaan unless she told them what they wanted. Quietly, she admitted that the base was on Dantooine.