Bail Prestor Organa (69 BBY-0 BBY) was the Senator of Alderaan in the Galactic Senate towards the end of the Galactic Republic. After the rise of the Galactic Empire in 18 BBY, Organa was one of the founders of the Rebel Alliance, and in 0 BBY he was killed when the Empire's Death Star destroyed Alderaan.
Biography[]
Bail Prestor Organa was from the planet of Alderaan, and he was a member of the royal House of Organa. Bail became the Viceroy and Senator of Alderaan for the Galactic Senate, and he was married to Queen Breha Organa. Organa was a pacifist who supported humanitarian efforts, and the people of Alderaan had no weapons under his rule. Before the Clone Wars, he was opposed to fighting the Confederacy, but he provided humanitarian support to planets affected by the war between the Galactic Republic and Confederacy of Independent Systems. Organa was never a close ally of Chancellor Palpatine, and when the Galactic Empire was formed in 18 BBY during the Great Jedi Purge, Organa attempted to rescue as many of the Jedi Order as he could. This made him an enemy of the Empire, and in 2 BBY Organa was one of the leaders who signed the Corellian Treaty, creating the Rebel Alliance. Alderaan became a center of the alliance, and Organa was one of its leaders. He took in Darth Vader's daughter as "Princess Leia Organa" out of fear that Vader would try to kill his children, and Leia would become a member of the Rebel Alliance, stealing plans for the Death Star to get them to Alderaan.
However, Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin decided to test the capabilities of the Death Star on Alderaan in front of Princess Leia; originally, it was a threat in order to find out the location of the rebel base (which she falsely claimed was on Dantooine), but it became a display of power. Bail, his wife, and everyone on Alderaan were killed when the Death Star fired its green beam at the planet, destroying it.