But Everyone Remembered

Prolouge

Padmé Naberrie Amidala is a hard person to find. The Emperor made sure of that. Her name is never mentioned in history books. All art depicting her was destroyed. Holos of her speeches disappeared from the archives. Her journals were confiscated in hopes of "coming to understand more about the Jedi rebellion". For all intents and purposes, Padmé Amidala never existed.

That is, until you ask one of the many individuals she worked with in her brief lifetime. Then slowly, if you are very patient and ask the right people, you will come to realize that the young Nubian princess mentioned in a poem is based on a real person. That the daring warrior in the battle of Naboo was actually Queen Amidala. That the Senator who drafted a bill, which could have stopped the changes to the Constitution, was Senator Padmé Amidala. Slowly but surely, with patience and determination, it is possible for an individual to build up an understanding of this elusive figure in history.

This was Princess Leia Organa's goal.

Her father had often spoken highly of a respected colleague and friend of his, never mentioning her name until the last time Bail spoke to his daughter. In the moment, Leia had not noticed, had not cared about finally having a name for the young woman who had frequently populated the stories her father would tell her. But in hindsight, years after the fall of the Empire, that name came to mean more than any other to the young princess. The name Leia Organa had cast off as unimportant and frivolous information came to represent life and bravery to Leia Skywalker.

And that is how it began. With nothing but a name and the stories that her father had so lovingly given her, Leia Skywalker set out to find a woman no one spoke of, but everyone remembered.