Ithorian hyperspace route motion

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"I declare this session open. The floor recognizes the representative from Ithor."
―Chancellor Palpatine, opening the floor for debate on hyperlane issue[1]

A motion was introduced to the Galactic Republic's Senate[1] in 28 BBY[2] by an Ithorian senator, who proposed to make the map to a hyperspace route running through Lesser Plooriod Cluster public, reasoning that Ithorians had used the route for a long time and mapped most of it.[1]

Supreme Chancellor Palpatine opened the Senate floor for debate and allowed an Urce sector human senator and a Trade Federation delegate to argue with the Ithorian senator proposing the initiative. In the ensuing squabbling, the human claimed the route as theirs due to the portion that intersected the Urce sector's territory, while the delegate contested that the Trade Federation had also done mapping work on the route. Senator Padmé Amidala voted in favor of the motion, musing that the Urce sector's inhabitants only held a claim to a part of the route, whereas the Ithorians had been using the route long before the Trade Federation had separately mapped it. However, the motion ultimately failed.[1]

Behind the scenes

The motion appeared in Queen's Shadow, a 2019 young-adult novel written by E. K. Johnston.[1]

Appearances

Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 Queen's Shadow
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Star Wars: Timelines dates the events of Queen's Shadow, including the motion's introduction, to 28 BBY.