Note 31
Ten years after the Trade Federation Invasion of Naboo
6 months later
Obi-Wan Kenobi,
I hope that you are well. Anakin told me that you have returned from your most recent mission. I hope it was successful.
I am contacting you because of the recent landing platform tragedy regarding Senator Amidala. Have you heard of it? Someone tried to kill her as she was leaving her ship. Fortunately she used a decoy, and was unharmed. She is the head of the Loyalist Committee…a committee that has recently been heavily attacked by an unknown attacker. I have heard that bounty hunters have been involved in these attacks. Anyway, the Jedi Council was meeting me just before Senator Amidala came in. Everyone in the Senate building heard of what happened on the landing platform.
The thought of losing Senator Amidala would be unbearable.
As you may know, a bounty hunter attempted to kill Senator Antilles (now named Senator Organa). He changed his last name because of these attacks – and the bounty hunter tried to kill Bail and his wife several times. I feared that the same would happen to Senator Amidala. That is why I suggested, in the presence of the entire Jedi Council, that Senator Amidala might be placed under the protection of the Jedi. I further suggested you…since you were assigned to protect her ten years ago. Master Windu said that he would have you report to her. I hope that you accept this mission. It would put me greatly at ease.
Supreme Chancellor Palpatine