A 16 year old Princess Leia and Bail Organa arrived to Coruscant in order to attend a
party at the Imperial Palace on the behalf of Emperor Palpatine himself.
This being her first trip to the capital of the empire, the young Leia wished to explore
the city wide planet and see it's supposed beauty, to which Bail reluctantly agreed in
allowing her to go only if she was accompanied by two guards.
And so Leia went and saw the wonders of Coruscant, being amazed at all that she saw.
Well up until she found herself in a ghetto to which poor non humans were subjected to.
While there she witnessed a Caamasi being rejected into entering a sector of the city
on the attempt of trying to purchase a meal solely because he was not a Human.
Not complying with the stormtrooper’s initial orders, the Caamasi was then beaten down and
arrested.
Witnessing the injustice right in front of her very eyes, Leia called out for the stormtroopers
to stop and to leave him alone.
They told her to mind her own business and to let them do their job, or that they will
be arresting her too if she didn’t back away.
And as she was threatening them with the fact that her father wouldn’t tolerate this kind
of behavior, she was dragged away by her guards to safety and was later escorted back to her
residence on coruscant.
Back at her residence she recounted what she saw and what she tried to do about it to Bail
Organa, who responded to her saying that she shouldn’t have been so reckless in her reaction
and that she should be more careful while on the Imperial Capital.
She then went on a rant on Palpatine, calling him a bully and a dangerous xenophobe, and
that she should speak to him about this incident at the party tonight.
To which Bail eagerly told her to not do that as that would only put her and Alderaan in
jeopardy as the empire would become suspicious of their loyalty.
For his entire career as Senator, Bail Organa went out of his way to portray himself as
a poster boy for the Empire as a means to hide his true intentions as he and a few other
senators secretly constructed an organization which would be later known as the Rebel Alliance.
So he told her to forget about it and to go get dressed for the party later that night,
but she wasn’t too convinced and still appeared to wish to confront the Emperor on the matter.
At the party Leia complained how it seemed like everyone there was just sucking up to
the emperor, to which Bail explained that the purpose of this whole party was just to
display the Emperor’s power and to ensure that being loyal to him was the best choice
a politician could make for their own sake.
Then the emperor made his way towards them, and once Leia saw him she pretty much froze
up.
Palpatine acknowledged Bail and his daughter, complimenting her on the fact that she had
her father’s fire and that he looked forward to seeing her in the Imperial Senate one day,
to which Leia was able to only respond with a nervous thank you.
When Palpatine left them, Bail confronted Leia and asked her if she was all right.
She told him how she felt how evil he was, that there was nothing but pitch black within
him, just overall darkness.
Perhaps she felt the dark side within him through the force.
Bail explained to her that currently Palpatine was too powerful and that confronting him
would have been pointless, and that there were instead other means of combating him.
Underground means.
Giving her a hint of what he has been doing behind the scenes and how he has been undermining
the Empire’s authority for years.
He then told her how he made arrangements to get that Caamasi she witnessed earlier
out of the detention block and that she was welcome to meet him with her guards.
And she did just that, meeting the Caamasi and apologizing to him for his treatment earlier
and that not all Humans were as cruel as the ones he had come across.
And they then became friends, and the Caamasi she befriended represented the people that
she was going to fight for when she was going to be in the Imperial Senate.