Kuat, Onara

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  CW

• Homeworld:
  Kuat

• Species:
  Human

• Gender:
  Female

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From the Expanded Universe

To outsiders, Kuati politics seem labyrinthine and cutthroat. Nepotism, graft, corruption, and cronyism abound and the lines between aristocrat, business executive and politician are blurred.

In the final years of the Republic, this was no more apparent than with Onara Kuat, leading member of the Kuat family and principal director of Kuat Drive Yards. Onara's storied family had been one of the Core Founders, with their world a long an important voice in the Republic, constructing the vast fleet of ships that battled during both the Old and New Sith Wars. By the time of the reign of Valorum, Kuat's Galactic Senator delegate was handpicked by the family, who ensured that their selections always benefited Kuat Drive Yards, and the Kuat family by extension.

Risi Lenoan served faithfully, but then found herself removed from office when questions emerged concerning her bookkeeping and KDY funds. Onara appointed Giddean Danu as Lenoan's replacement, erroneously thinking him to be a malleable political figurehead. Unfortunately, Danu became an irritant in office, with his opposition to the centralization of power and his support for the Jedi oversight of the war.

Onara tried to have him recalled but other members of her family, including her nephew, Kuat of Kuat, believed Danu to an effective advocate of Kuati independence and the motion failed. To make matters worse, Danu even declared his intention to reform the politics of Kuat as well, and began by investigating Onara's family.

Chastened and worried about what secrets would be uncovered, Onara went about seeking other methods to rid herself of the bothersome Senator. At a night at the opera, her friend, Tannon Praji, sympathetic to her plight, introduced her to an associate of his, Ottegru Grey. He said he had a solution to her problems (though he did not elaborate on it), and all it required was her loyalty to Palpatine forever.

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This entry was developed by Hyperspace member Darth NTM.