Obituary: Gen. Leia Organa, Veteran of the Rebel Alliance
CORUSCANT – Resistance leaders have officially confirmed the death of Gen. Leia Organa, hero of the Galactic Civil War, who died of heart-related complications on Tuesday. She was 60 years old.
Organa, whose career included membership in the Royal Houses of Alderaan and Naboo, as well as the Republic and later Imperial Senate, was the second woman to hold a high-ranking position in the Rebellion following Adm. Michelle Howard.
A statement released by the Resistance described Organa as, "A consummate professional and role model for all warriors, particularly women. She set a high bar for grooming standards, maintaining not one but two flawless buns that held fast in all tactical situations."
Press officials from the First Order were quick to issue their own statement claiming Organa was an "unrepentant terrorist" who "personally murdered" dozens of Imperial soldiers as well as a local Hutt official on Tatooine, and had also participated in the theft and unauthorized distribution of classi…
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