She became the youngest Senator in galactic
     history, even as Palpatine committed more and
 more atrocities in the name of pacifying the
        galaxy.

Leia is at the heart of many of the Rebel
     Alliance's most secret missions, using her
    consular ship, the Tantive IV to travel throughout
  the galaxy with diplomatic immunity. Near
    Tatooine, on a mission to recruit General
 Obi-Wan Kenobi into the Rebellion, she and her
 ship are captured by the Darth Vader's Star
 Destroyer Devastator. Leia manages to get
 top-secret intercepted plans for the Death Star
 battle station to Alliance forces, but not without
 paying a supreme price: the destruction of her
   home planet of Alderaan.

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