Tynnra Pamlo

During the reign of the Galactic Empire, the successor state of the Galactic Republic, the human female Tynnra Pamlo represented her homeworld of Taris in the Imperial Senate. Early into the Empire's new reign, the future of the clone armies created under the Emergency Powers Act came into question following the sudden destruction of the Kaminoan cloning facilities by what the official reports blamed on a "cataclysmic storm." Furthering debate over the foundations of the army was a string of insurgencies that were taking place across the Mid and Outer Rims. As advocated by Imperial Navy Admiral Rampart, the Imperial Defense Recruitment Bill, which would phase out the former Grand Army of the Republic in favor of conscripted soldiers, was introduced in the Senate with support from Senator Gani Riduli of the InterGalactic Banking Clan and the representative of the Commerce Guild, and opposition from Pamlo and Bail Organa of Alderaan. Because of continuing uncertainty surrounding the clone troopers, the bill was repeatedly introduced, debated, and tabled with no consensus.

In one debate over the Defense Recruitment Bill, Pamlo asserted that there was a reason why the bill was continually tabled, and that reason was that there were more important issues in the galaxy than the costly creation of a new military. She declared that the Clone Wars were over, but Ridiuli rebuked her, saying that it might be true where Pamlo lived before himself declaring that they all needed to be protected from the insurgents. With no new ground on negotiations, Organa called on Grand Vizier Mas Amedda to explain what stance Emperor Palpatine, who had been absent from most Senate proceedings, had on the bill. When Amedda deflected with a non-answer, Senator Riyo Chuchi came forward and demanded to know why the clone armies had no input in the legislation. Chuchi rhetorically asked how the Senate could defend a bill to commission a new army without a plan to care for their standing one. At this comment, Rampart interjected and defended the bill, saying that provisions would be put in place for the soldiers as their service ended, prompting an exchange between the two over clone representation. Reaching an impasse once again, Organa and Pamlo requested that Amedda table the vote until the provisions were clearly defined, which the Grand Vizier reluctantly did.

After the senatorial session, Chuchi met with Slip, who claimed to have been aboard Rampart's Venator when the admiral ordered the destruction of Kamino's cities. Though the Pantoran wanted Slip to testify before the Senate, he was killed by an assassin before this could come to fruition. Despite this, with the help of a group of mercenary clones called The Bad Batch and former Kaminoan senator, Halle Burtoni, Chuchi brought forth her accusations to the Senate that it had been Rampart who ordered the destruction of the Kaminoan cities. Chuchi then displayed holographic footage of Rampart's participation in the destruction of Tipoca City, to Pamlo's shock. When the Senate broke into chaos with the revelation, an alarm sounded as the Emperor's podium rose from his office below the Senate floor, with Emperor Palpatine himself joining Amedda. The Grand Vizier told the Senate that Rampart's attack was "unprovoked" and ordered the Coruscant Guard to arrest him, then gaveled his staff and called for order. Just then, Palpatine rose from his seat and announced that Rampart would face full consequences but added that the fact that the clones under his command had followed orders to destroy Tipoca City proved that the standing armies needed replacement. Palpatine then officially endorsed the Defense Recruitment Bill, which he said would herald a new era of the Imperial stormtrooper.

Though a member of the Senate, she was also a member of the Alliance to Restore the Republic and served as the Minister of Education in its Civil Government. In that capacity, she worked closely with Rebel Alliance Intelligence Service and received many reports about atrocities carried out by the Empire, including the Siege of Lasan, the sterilization of Geonosis, and actions on Ghorman. She worked with Airen Cracken to release counterpropaganda in hopes of gaining sympathy from resistance groups.

In 3 BBY, she attended Leia Organa's Day of Demand. When the Day of Demand ceremony was over, Queen Breha Organa took the hands of Tynra, thanking her for her presence, instead of congratulating her daughter. Pamlo also attended several dinner parties at the Royal Palace of Alderaan hosted by Bail and Breha which actually served as strategy meetings where they discussed matters such as the assassination of Quarsh Panaka. At one of these dinner parties, Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin unexpectedly joined them, which caused Breha, in an attempt to disguise the true nature of the meeting, to pretend to drunkenly accuse her husband of having an affair with Mon Mothma of Chandrila. Pamlo raised her hand as if to block out the couple due to sitting right next to them.

As the Rebel Alliance continued to gather its forces at their hidden base on the jungle-covered moon Yavin 4, rumors reached the Alliance High Command that the militant rebel leader Saw Gerrera and his Partisans, a rebel group which the Rebel Alliance had cut ties with, had identified a secret Imperial project known as the Tarkin Initiative, which was developing an "ultimate weapon." Though she disagreed with the rumors, Mon Mothma, the civilian leader of the Alliance, had Rebel Intelligence research the Tarkin Initiative, which revealed that the project was under the jurisdiction of the Imperial Security Bureau and was headed by Director Orson Krennic of Imperial Advanced Weapons Research. The rumors of the "ultimate weapon" seemed proven when Intelligence reported that Gerrera was holding an Imperial defector, Ensign Bodhi Rook, at the Partisans' base on Jedha. Rook claimed that he had knowledge of a "planet killer" and that he had been sent to Jedha by scientist Galen Erso.

Using what they knew of Rook's intel, High Command approved a raid on Vulpter to learn more about Erso. The raid was successful, and Intelligence reported that Galen was a crystallographer who worked for Director Krennic's project, Celestial Power. They also learned that he was the father of Jyn Erso. Piecing together their various investigations, High Command realized that Project Celestial Power entailed the use of weaponized kyber crystals. A fact-finding mission to the Ring of Kafrene by Rebel spy Captain Cassian Andor confirmed that the Empire had been trafficking kyber from Jedha. Furthermore, Intelligence added to the puzzle the information gathered by the Spectres from Geonosis years earlier, and they hypothesized that the production of the "ultimate weapon" might have been tied to the sterilization of the Geonosian species.

While the Alliance's scientists began speculating on the form a kyber superweapon would take, High Command decided that they needed to extract Galen from the Empire to secure the details of his research concerning the planet killer. If the extraction, dubbed Operation Fracture, proved successful, Organa and Pamlo would bring him before the Senate so that he could testify about the Empire's crimes. However, General Davits Draven protested, as he sought for the elimination of Erso if he proved uncooperative. In order to facilitate Erso's testimony, Draven conceived a plan to recover Jyn Erso, who Intelligence located at an Imperial detention center on Wobani. Because Jyn had formerly been a part of the Partisans, they believed that she could help the Alliance gain access to Rook from Gerrera's camp on Jedha, after which they would find Galen.

The recovery of Jyn from Wobani was a success, and soon after, she, Andor, and the latter's reprogrammed Imperial droid, K-2SO, departed for Jedha. Before long, the Alliance received a brief report from Captain Andor that the Empire's ultimate weapon, the Death Star, had been used to destroy the Holy City on Jedha. Additionally, Jyn had discovered a recording Galen sent to Gerrera through Rook, but the destruction of the Holy City cost Andor's group a hard copy of the recording and resulted in the death of Gerrera.

Using what Jyn had learned from Galen's message, Andor's team, now including Rook and two Guardians of the Whills, Baze Malbus and Chirrut Îmwe, traveled to the Imperial research facility on Eadu. Though the official orders were to extract Galen unharmed, General Draven defied what was asked and ordered Andor to assassinate Erso. The mission went awry, however, as when Draven lost communication with Andor, he sent Blue Squadron to target the base. Jyn learned that Andor planned to kill her father and set out to find him, putting herself in Blue Squadron's strike zone. Andor re-established communication with Base One, but Draven was unable to stop Blue Squadron before their attack on the base, which killed Galen and nearly-killed Jyn and Director Krennic. After securing Jyn, Andor and his team left Eadu and returned to Yavin 4, where Jyn and Rook met with High Command.

Jyn's testimony to the Alliance leaders and Andor's confirmation of the existence of the Death Star created discord among the council. Erso argued that the Alliance had to steal the Death Star's technical readouts from the Citadel Tower on Scarif, from which they would learn how to destroy the weapon through a flaw Galen had deliberately set in its design. Pamlo, however, wanted to disband the Alliance and scatter their forces. Though individuals like Senator Organa and Admiral Raddus supported Jyn's resolve, Senators Pamlo, Jebel, and Vaspar continued to press the issue further. During this, Pamlo asked that if Empire had the means of mass destruction, what chance would the Alliance have against them. Prompted by the comment, Jyn spoke up and called for the Alliance to stand up to the Empire. She told the council that they would condemn the galaxy to an eternity of submission if they failed to act and asked that they send their best troops to Scarif to steal the Death Star plans and destroy the superweapon. However, Pamlo told Jyn that she was asking them to strike the Citadel Tower based on nothing but hope. Jyn, however, responded that rebellions were built on hope. The council then began bickering again, and Mothma disappointedly told Jyn that the Alliance could not take action without High Command's full support.

The Alliance was soon thrown into open war with the Empire when Erso and Andor disobeyed the Alliance's orders and set out to steal the Death Star plans themselves. Creating the Rogue One squad, they departed for Scarif. When Admiral Raddus learned of this, he returned to his ship, the Profundity, and began scrambling the rebel fleet to join the fight. The Battle of Scarif marked the opening of the Galactic Civil War, though it resulted in the deaths of the entire Rogue One team and Admiral Raddus. Around this time, Pamlo traveled back to Coruscant to publicly decry the Imperial battle station before resigning her office.

Tynnra Pamlo was a human female of Tarisian origins, with dark skin, dark hair, and brown eyes. She wore a Tarisian Amulet of the Robb.

The character of Tynnra Pamlo was created for the 2016 film Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, in which she is portrayed by Sharon Duncan-Brewster. Her backstory was fleshed out in Star Wars: Rogue One: The Ultimate Visual Guide, by Lucasfilm Story Group creative executive Pablo Hidalgo.

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