[ID: An illustration of Riyo Chuchi, a Star Wars character, she is facing in profile, with her hands clasped in front. Her hair is tied up with a golden yellow headband with large white fluffy ear muffs. Her caplet is a deep red with green embroidered vines and small yellow patterned diamonds, it also has a white fur trim. Underneath, she is wearing a long golden yellow skirt with pleats. End ID.]
Jennifer Hale voicing both Aayla Secura and Riyo Chuchi in Clone Wars is funny to me cause most shows she’s in typecast her as Tough Action Chick but in Clone Wars she’s typecast as Blue Chick
Midnight crisis in the Senate pantry! Senator Riyo Chuchi, working late on Republic matters of state, decides to get a late night caf, only to be locked inside the pantry! Public humiliation and deadlines loom! Can Mysterious Voice Person help her??
I.d: it’s a portrait drawing of Riyo Chuchi from Satr Wars. She’s looking at the camera while smiling. She’s wearing the clothes and golden headdress from the first episodes she was in. End of I.d.
I.d: it’s a portrait drawing of Riyo Chuchi from Satr Wars. She’s looking at the camera while smiling. She’s wearing the clothes and golden headdress from the first episodes she was in. End of I.d.
This is a rather telling bit of dialogue, honestly. One would think that the Jedi and the Senate both serve the Republic, as equals, but even this young senator feels sure enough of their power hierarchy to try and order Obi-Wan to do something he does not want to do. After the rise of the Empire, even oppositional senators have more safety than any Jedi. Palpatine may have a special hatred of the Jedi, but I don’t think he’s the type to allow any enemies to run unchecked. It takes him all the way to ANH to build a weapon powerful enough to allow him to destroy a whole planet, and thus eliminate the powerbase of any senators that defy him. Both the Senate and the Jedi are small in number, but their respective social and political power is clearly stratified. This is to say, the Jedi only have that which is afforded to them by the Republic. They are not the political powerhouse that people sometimes make them out to be, and that is one of the reasons it was so easy for Palpatine to turn the whole galaxy against them.
During the Clone Wars, Pantora attempted to petition the Galactic Senate to recognize its sovereignty over its parent planet, Orto Plutonia. However, the Jedi who investigated the matter discovered the Talz who claimed to have been there for generations. The Chairman of the Assembly declared war on the Talz, but died in the ensuing slaughter. After receiving emergency powers, Senator Riyo Chuchi negotiated a treaty between the two peoples.
To many Pantorans, this One-Day War represents both the dangers of political power and the triumph of diplomacy and democracy. It also represents Pantora’s eager, naive, and potent desire to be recognized as a global power and participant in galactic politics. No world or people felt a greater psychic blow than the Pantorans when the Galactic Empire dissolved the Senate.
New tensions are arising now between the Talz on Orto Plutonia and the Pantorans. Since the collapse of the Republic, Pantora has been cut off from the galaxy. It is desperate to secure resources, including the natural resources on Orto Plutonia. The Talz, however, have no interest in allowing industry on their planet. Some Pantorans want to reaffirm Riyo Chuchi’s treaty out of respect for the Talz and the Republic. Others want to educate the Talz and integrate them into Pantoran society and political debates. Still other Pantorans think the treaty only refers to the Talz’s geographic location and that the rest of the planet is fair game. The Talz themselves sense something amiss, as they have reported unauthorized starships landing on Orto Plutonia. Who is piloting them and for what end, however, they do not know.
- Star Wars: Force And Destiny: Endless Vigil. Fantasy Flight Games, 2016. pg. 22.
How delightful it is, to find Riyo Chuchi given the credit she’s due in a sourcebook! And to have an official name for the skirmish seen in S01E15 “Trespass”.
However, this is an interesting way of framing the events of the episode — that the Jedi are called to attest Pantora’s right to sovereignty of a planet that Pantora already considers a protectorate (in this version of events, has the Republic never formally recognized this claim?), not to investigate a mysterious massacre of Republic troops. Yes, the question of Orto Plutonia’s uninhabited status (a status the Jedi are uniquely qualified to determine) falls directly in the lap of this episode’s plot, but that seems in direct opposition to Chairman Cho’s wishes.
