Senator Tanaka Taa was the senator of Ryloth and a descendant of Orn Free Taa. She and Orn Free Taa were alike in many ways, such as their amount of greed was very large and their lust for power was very large. Tanaka had mostly gotten her money from slave trade in secret but was about to lose all of that. The Anti-Slavery Proclamation was about to be signed and she knew that only a few Senators were going to sign it but then she heard that a very influential Togruti diplomat named Ashara Nanostarter , who was the queen of Shili, was going to sign it. If Ashara signs it then almost every other senator would too. Then she came up with a plot to assassinate the queen. Taa had hired the Trandoshan bounty hunter Spotula to assassinate the Nanostarter. Even though the attempt succeeded, Spotula