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The Romulan Republic wrote:That, and Padme has some pretty impressive combat abilities for a young politician with, so far as I know, no military or law enforcement training. Unless its standard for Naboo to train its politicians in combat (which seems unlikely) or Padme went out of her way to learn that stuff in between running a planet/being a senator, that suggests an inherent talent beyond what most people possess.

IIRC Padme and her handmaidens were trained in combat by Captain Panaka.

General Schatten wrote:

The Romulan Republic wrote:That, and Padme has some pretty impressive combat abilities for a young politician with, so far as I know, no military or law enforcement training. Unless its standard for Naboo to train its politicians in combat (which seems unlikely) or Padme went out of her way to learn that stuff in between running a planet/being a senator, that suggests an inherent talent beyond what most people possess.

IIRC Padme and her handmaidens were trained in combat by Captain Panaka.

IIRC that was never said in canon material just legendaries, however I dout that said training was all that extensive, probably equilevant to basic training for soldiers plus little additional training for urban conflicts cause those would be most likely scenario where the queen and/or handmaidens would end in combat.

She had blasters in her throne, it's pretty obvious she was trained in combat tactics.

Padme did have the intuition that Count Dooku was involved in her assassination, an insight that exceeded Yoda and Mace Windu. She might have had some latent Force potential, but in the era where Jedi were common and training was supposed to begin in infancy, there was little reason to try and recruit her even if they recognized her potential. She wouldn't have been as exceptional as Anakin or Dooku.

Or she could just have been politically savvy. Not impossible for an elected queen turned senator.

Purple wrote:Or she could just have been politically savvy. Not impossible for an elected queen turned senator.

Yeah. It would be like modern victim of drone attack said 'it was NATO'. Guessing that doesn't exactly need precognition powers, hell, how it would even work? She'd sense him through all that dark side cloak?

Purple wrote:Or she could just have been politically savvy. Not impossible for an elected queen turned senator.

Dooku being responsible didn't make sense at the time. Everyone thought that he was a political idealist who still had Jedi morals, and the Separatist cause wouldn't have been served by assassinating the senator trying to stop the creation of a Republic military.

The only motivation for the assassination was Gunray's personal grudge.

Eframepilot wrote:

Purple wrote:Or she could just have been politically savvy. Not impossible for an elected queen turned senator.

Dooku being responsible didn't make sense at the time. Everyone thought that he was a political idealist who still had Jedi morals, and the Separatist cause wouldn't have been served by assassinating the senator trying to stop the creation of a Republic military.

The only motivation for the assassination was Gunray's personal grudge.

No, everyone thought that because Dooku successfully snow-jobbed them, combined with what amounts to professional arrogance. The Jedi did not want to admit one of their own was a bad person. Just like cops never want to admit one of their own is a bad person.

Padme, being a savvy politician, can smell a snow-job from a mile away, and does not have a reason to engage in massive self-deception.