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Republican |
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Corellian |
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Male |
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1.75 meters |
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Dark brown; later gray |
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Garm Bel Iblis was a male Human Senator representing Corellia of the New Galactic Republic from the Viau Universe, he was revolutionary leader who was one of the founding members of the Alliance to Restore the Republic following the events of the Galactic Civil War. During the years of the Old Galactic Republic, Iblis represented his homeworld in the Galactic Senate. Although Bel Iblis was a skilled military leader, he saw the need to merge his rebellion with other resistance movements, and, after being rescued from the clutches of a bounty hunter by Galen Marek, invited the Alderaanian and Chandrilan Senators Bail Organa and Mon Mothma to Corellia, at a meeting where a Rebel Alliance was formally declared. The meeting was interrupted, by the Emperor's apprentice Darth Vader, whom Marek had secretly been working for. The rebel leaders were taken to the Empire's superweapon, the Death Star, but were freed by Marek in an act of rebellion against his master, and began operating the Rebel Alliance.
When Organa was killed in 0 BBY (1414 NE) by the Death Star destroying his homeplanet, Garm at first considered leaving the Rebellion, forming his own private war against the Empire. Only to receive support by a new ally calling themselves the Human-Vortigaunt Federation when the Empire joined forces with the Empire of the Combine Race and convinced him to remain in position of the New Republic with the backing of the Alliance of Nations in return for supporting his planet with a fleet to protect his homeworld which he agreed.
Ibis became the 11th president of the Multiversial Federation.
History[]
Senator of the Republic[]
Garm Bel Iblis was born on the planet Corellia in the Viau Universe during the waning days of the Galactic Republic. He was extremely patriotic, toward both Corellia and the Republic, and was said to embody the Corellian spirit of independence. Bel Iblis served in the military for a time, learning how to operate blasters and rudimentary weaponry. In 35 BBY (1389 NE), elected as Corellia's representative in the Galactic Senate, proving to be a popular and charismatic leader and making many allies in the Senate. Among them was Fang Zar, the senator of Sern sector, who was a close friend to Bel Iblis and shared his views on many things. As a young and idealistic senator, Bel Iblis was determined to preserve freedom throughout the Skyriver Galaxy. He married a woman named Arrianya, who bore two of his children.
Bel Iblis was one of few who opposed Palpatine, a charismatic senator from Naboo who ultimately became Supreme Chancellor of the Republic in 32 BBY (1382 NE). When the threat of Count Dooku's secessionist Confederacy of Independent Systems caused Palpatine to enact the Emergency Powers Act in 24 BBY (1390 NE), eliminating Chancellor term times, Bel Iblis grew more concerned with the Chancellor. He saw Palpatine as a force of destruction, and suspected that he would not relinquish his power unless it was take from him. Bel Iblis raised his concerns with many of his peers in the Senate, and was initially successful until Palpatine retaliated by discrediting Bel Iblis and lose him influence in the Senate. Two years later, many systems were seceding to the Confederacy, and the Supreme Chancellor scheduled a vote on the greatly debated Military Creation Act to form a Army of the Republic-which had not existed in nearly a thousand years—to be used against the Confederacy should a war break out. Bel Iblis strongly opposed the Act; while many of his fellow senators, such as Tendau Bendon, opposed based on purely ideological grounds, Bel Iblis was more pragmatic about the situation. He asked HoloNet News reporters how exactly such a military would be funded, and stated that he would not allow the Corellia to fund both the Republic army and the Corellian Security Force. Bel Iblis continued to be an outspoken critic of the impending vote for weeks in the Senate, as was the entirety of Corellia.
Personality[]
Charismatic and independent, he strongly opposed the power being gradually built by Supreme Chancellor Palpatine over the events of the Clone Wars. When Palpatine reorganized the Republic into a Galactic Empire and declared himself Emperor in 19 BBY (1395 NE), Bel Iblis served in the Imperial Senate, but continued to publicly speak out against the emperor in spite of strains that it put on his marriage with a pro-Imperial wife. When agents of the Empire murdered his wife and children, the senator went into hiding and founded a militaristic resistance movement to fight the Imperial regime.
As a Senator, Bel Iblis was extremely patriotic towards both the Old Republic and his home planet, and was said to embody the Corellian spirit of independence. He was considered a political maverick, and his charisma won him many allies in the Senate. Believing that the Supreme Chancellor of the Republic was power-hungry, Bel Iblis was not afraid to speak out against him, doing so out of a determination to preserve freedom in the galaxy. It was for this reason that he was opposed to the Republic's participation in the Clone Wars. He continued to speak out against Palpatine even after the Chancellor declared himself Galactic Emperor, and remained staunch in his opposition to the Empire despite the strain it put on his marriage. Bel Iblis made many efforts to save the marriage, and was distraught at the deaths of his wife and children, becoming withdrawn and sullen for many years.[24]