Seti Ashgad was a senator who represented[1] the planet[2] Fresia in the Senate of the Galactic Republic during the Clone Wars between the Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems. During the war, there was an increase in death threats and assassination attempts on all Republic senators, with Ashgad simply vanishing.[1] The academic Ashgad Prize shared its name[3] with the senator.[1]
Behind the scenes[]
Seti Ashgad was mentioned in the current Star Wars canon in Collapse of the Republic, a 2019 supplement to Fantasy Flight Games' series of Star Wars Roleplaying products.[1] The character originated in the Star Wars Legends continuity, first appearing in the 1997 novel Planet of Twilight, which was written by Barbara Hambly.[4] Ashgad was then first depicted in Legends in the 1998 reference book The Essential Guide to Planets and Moons, which was written by Daniel Wallace and illustrated by Brandon McKinney and Scott Kolins.[5]
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- Collapse of the Republic (First mentioned)