Mas Amedda was among the very few that knew of Palpatine’s alter ego as Darth Sidious
and the Sith Grand Plan the Dark Lord was attempting
to achieve through the numerous crises he had orchestrated as Supreme Chancellor.
But unlike Sate Pestage and Sly Moore, two of Palpatine’s other close confidants, Mas
Amedda didn’t come into power knowingly serving
a Sith Lord, but rather was told following the election
of the Naboo senator, as it was decided by the Dark Lord that the Chagrian was fit to
be within the inner circle.
Prior to the election of Palpatine to Supreme Chancellor, Mas Amedda served as Vice Chair
for Finis Valorum, making him the second most
powerful person within the Senate and him having
the power to allow or disallow senators to speak during times of debate.
At first, Amedda came into politics with idealistic, noble hopes to enact great change within the
Senate to diminish the influence of corruption from corporations and turn the political body
back into the voice of the people rather than money,
as it had been turned into during the twilight years of the Republic.
But of course, despite his best efforts in doing everything he could, he was only able
to create unnoticeable change in turning the Senate
back to what it once was during the glory days.
Fully realizing that the man he served as Supreme Chancellor, Finis Valorum, was part
of the larger problem of the corruption that took
place within the Senate, Amedda was more than happy to help his opponent Palpatine take
his position, as the Naboo senator was known to be
someone who didn’t involve himself within the typical elite circles of Coruscant.
As a result, the spark of idealism came back to Amedda with
hopes that the newly elected Chancellor would be
the one to create genuine change for the galaxy for the better.
Of course, once elected to Supreme Chancellor, Palpatine seemed to have fallen to the same
habits of all the Chancellors that came before him, preferring to appease the powerful of
the core worlds over the common people.
This was the last straw for Amedda, who decided to
manipulate Palpatine by making himself appear as an indispensable political ally, while
behind the scenes he would be the one making the
necessary changes to diminishing the corruption within the senate by using the power of the
Supreme Chancellor’s office as his own.
Unknown to Amedda at the time however, Palpatine was fully aware of what the Vice Chair was
trying to do, and only let him continue on with his ambitions because the Chagrian mainly
targeted political opponents of Palpatine, making him a useful idiot to the Sith Lord.
It wouldn’t be until after the destruction of Outbound Flight, that Palpatine would come
to reveal his true self to Mas Amedda, as he came to
believe the Vice Chair of his administration was not
only very useful to handling his political opponents, but would likely share his own
vision of a unified galaxy under a new system of government.
Not only did Palpatine reveal to Amedda of his Sith origins, but also that he had been
fully aware of the manipulations the Vice Chair
attempted on him, and that in reality it was he who
was manipulated this entire time.
These revelations devastated Amedda, who saw all of his hard work those past years amount
to nothing more but a steppingstone for Palpatine
to rise into power.
But the now revealed Sith Lord saw use in Amedda and decided to bring
the now disgruntled Chagrian into his fold, by
convincing him how they both viewed the current state of the Republic as a disgrace to what
it once was, and that a New Order was necessary
to bring it out of darkness.
It was here that Amedda’s beliefs in democracy and the people ruling over themselves came
crashing down in favor of a more centralized government ruled by those who knew what was
best.
“For 25,000 years, democracy had had its chance” Amedda thought to himself, and if
this depressing state of the Republic was what
it ultimately led to, surely it was not a proper system
of government.
Being convinced by Palpatine’s dreams of a New Order of peace and prosperity through
the future Galactic Empire, Amedda ultimately
pledged himself to his new master and became one
of Palpatine’s most important members within his Inner Circle, doing everything as Vice
Chair to advance the Sith Grand Plan and helping realize
the creation of the Sith controlled Galactic Empire.