A young senator in apparently good health dying would’ve attracted a lot of attention. Very few people knew she was pregnant, so what offical story was released about her passing?
A young senator in apparently good health dying would’ve attracted a lot of attention. Very few people knew she was pregnant, so what offical story was released about her passing?
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You could tell a version of the truth without revealing that she was pregnant or married. “Sudden cardiac arrest due to an underlying cardiomyopathy” is specific enough that most people will be satisfied, especially with all the other craziness happening at the time. And it’s not necessarily a lie – Takotsubo cardiomyopathy, also called “broken heart syndrome,” is probably the closest thing to a real explanation for her death.
To be fair it looked like many important individuals died at the founding of the Empire, and one young senator from a small world that isn’t important enough to be mentioned past the the Battle of Yavin wouldn’t be missed by more than her own people and her immediate political supporters in a galaxy so large. But it would not be a lie to also state that either she was mortally wounded by an Imperial official during a moment of combat with a Jedi or that she had died in childbirth
She was buried in a way that appeared like she was still pregnant so even if the pregnancy was originally a secret, it became public knowledge once she died and the official cause of death was likely complications with the pregnancy.