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but in his time away, he'd failed to keep up on local politics vs interstellar news, and hadn't noticed that a punk young royalty candidate running on the freedom-and-peace ticket had won the election for his replacement, due entirely to having the same first name.

bail organa's campaign, hinging on the slogan 'vote for bail, again' was exactly what the alderaanians needed in the dark period leading up the wars, and he won in a landslide against his little respected opponenent, bail bailey, who had totally missed the first-name connection until organa's campaign holos, with his electrode-glinting smile were all over the planet and several nearby systems.

organa had quickly taken the local political scene in a downward slide, removing the flagrant abuses of power and harsh justice bail antilles had kept in place with his iron-fisted rule. finding that in a few short years his lovely tyranny had turned into a shiny, gleaming hippie planet, he tried his hardest to overturn the power-mad organa, but to no avail.

finding himself out of work and out of money, his fishing boat having been sold to finance his failed campaign, he enlisted in the alderaanian navy in the hopes of bringing some old-fashioned discipline to the ranks. unfortunately, now being a planet without a single armed officer, alderaan's entire navy consisted of senator organa's personal starship and crew, and so antilles hunkered down for the long-haul.

by the time the clone wars ended, he'd run away from battle so many times he just wanted a quick release, but it was not to be. he spent the next 18 years ferrying organa's adopted brat around the galaxy while she tried desperately to overthrow the empire. when darth vader's gloved hand crushed his throat for failing to reveal the location of the stolen plans, inside bail smiled as he welcomed the cool kiss of death.

leia was supposed to be named annie, after her father, but as the will to live left her body, padme was left in a delirious state. luke was originally going to be named bail, and was nearly named 'chocolate nougat' but for some quick thinking on the part of obi-wan.

count bail dooku was a promising jedi on the fast track to the council until his former padawan was killed by the sith, causing dooku to go insane, turn to the dark side, join the sith who had killed his padawan, and help destroy all that was good and right in the galaxy.

sean
bail is my middle name