Mon Mothma

Mon Mothma is a Human female politician and revolutionary leader who served in the Galactic Senate and later Imperial Senate as the Senator from her homeworld of Chandrila. In 20 BBY, she asked the Jedi Council to send a Jedi Knight to Corulag to investigate the involvement of the Turquoise Horizon smuggling ring to several political assassination on Chandrila; the Jedi assigned to this mission was Newt Liryas. Following the Great Jedi Purge, Mon Mothma assisted Newt in escaping from Imperial forces, though she lost contact with him shortly afterwards and assumed he had died, until they encountered each other again several years later.