Naboo Queen (restaurant)

Located high above the sprawling Galactic City of Coruscant, the Naboo Embassy acquired the top-level suite of the Senate Apartment Complex during the tumultuous period of the Separatist Crisis. This acquisition was specifically for the benefit of Senator and former queen Padmé Amidala.

Following the attempt to assassinate Senator Amidala upon her arrival on Coruscant for the Military Creation Act vote, the Jedi High Council entrusted Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi and his apprentice, or Padawan, Anakin Skywalker, with her protection. Upon reaching her apartment, Kenobi and Skywalker encountered not only the Senator herself, but also their old acquaintance, Representative Jar Jar Binks, Captain Gregar Typho from the Royal Naboo Security Forces, and Amidala's loyal Handmaiden, Dormé, to discuss the danger at hand.

After Amidala had retired for the night, the Jedi conducted a thorough search of the apartment to better understand its layout and identify potential entry points a would-be assassin might exploit. While Kenobi was occupied with inspecting the rest of the complex, Skywalker secretly collaborated with Amidala to devise their own defensive strategy. As Amidala settled into bed, she instructed her astromech droid, R2-D2, to disable all security cameras within her sleeping chamber. Skywalker would then stand guard outside, relying on his connection to the Force to sense any approaching intruder and swiftly neutralize the threat. With their plan in motion and the cameras deactivated, Master Kenobi returned to the apartment. Incensed that his apprentice had essentially used the Senator as bait, Kenobi argued that they should immediately intervene and reactivate the cameras. However, as their argument intensified, an ASN-121 assassin droid breached the permaglass window of the sleeping quarters, releasing two deadly kouhuns into the room. Sensing the danger before the Senator could be poisoned, Skywalker intervened, bisecting the insects with his lightsaber. As the assassin droid attempted to escape, Kenobi leaped through the window, managing to grab onto the droid, which ultimately led him to the assassin, Zam Wesell.

With the assassination attempt foiled, Supreme Chancellor Palpatine ordered Amidala to return to Naboo, accompanied by Skywalker as her Jedi protector. Meeting the Senator in her sleeping quarters, Skywalker escorted the reluctant woman to the spaceport, where they would travel in disguise as refugees back to Naboo.

After the outbreak of the Clone Wars, Amidala resumed residing in her apartment, dealing with issues related to the conflict with the Confederacy of Independent Systems. On the evening of her return from Geonosis, Knight Kenobi arrived at her apartment early in the morning, dispatched by Grand Master Yoda. Kenobi insisted that Amidala end her secret romantic relationship with his Padawan, emphasizing the dangers of interfering in Jedi affairs. Amidala promised to comply, although she had no intention of doing so. Agreeing to return to Naboo under Skywalker's protection, Amidala and the Jedi secretly exchanged vows on her homeworld.

Throughout the war, Amidala would closely monitor Skywalker's activities whenever he was away, watching from her window, anticipating her lover's return. When he had time, Skywalker would meet his wife at her apartment for their clandestine encounters. During one such occasion, as the pair was about to part, an explosion shattered their peaceful moment. Recognizing the need to fulfill their respective roles as Jedi and Senator, they separated and hastened to assist the Republic.

Early in the conflict, Senator Bail Organa of Alderaan requested a meeting with Amidala early one morning. Quickly preparing herself, she met the visibly disturbed Organa on her veranda's landing platform, ready to hear the information he had received. Alarmed by the mention of the Sith, a clandestine enemy of the Jedi Order unknown to most of the galaxy, including Senator Organa, Amidala contacted the Jedi Temple and requested Jedi Kenobi to come and listen to Organa's information. Learning of a threat from a group known as the Friends of the Republic, Organa described a plot against the Order originating from a group of Sith on Zigoola, a planet located in the depths of Wild Space. To gain further insight, Kenobi revealed that the Sith were indeed active and not merely a myth, posing a threat to all sentient beings. Returning to inform the High Council of Organa's information, Kenobi departed the apartment for the distant Temple. Organa, exhausted and with pending tasks, also departed, hoping he had not betrayed the trust of his informants. After Kenobi and Organa left for Zigoola, Amidala was awoken early one morning by Grand Master Yoda. The ancient Master asked if she would accompany a group of clone troopers to the Sith world and retrieve his wayward Jedi and Organa, because sending a Jedi would be too dangerous. Agreeing to the job, Amidala prepared to leave immediately.

Shortly after the Zigoola incident, Skywalker planned to surprise his wife by dropping onto her balcony from a parapet two stories above. Entering quietly through the transparisteel doors, Skywalker found Amidala enjoying a beauty mask and a holozine. After the Jedi caused her to break the mask, Amidala agreed to not reapply it and spend the evening with him. While enjoying a cup of caf, Amidala forced Skywalker to ponder on the worst possible scenario for when the Council discovered their marriage. Having never thought of it, Skywalker only became more unapologetic as he thought about Council member Ki-Adi-Mundi's own family and the hypocrisy of the Council for allowing him to marry out of expedience for the birthrate on Cerea.

Staying at the apartment for several days, Skywalker was alerted one evening on the diverting of the Leveler to the Fath system. Unable to stand by as his men went into a hostile situation, Skywalker quickly packed his satchel and headed for the Outer Rim Territories.

Back from the Outer Rim briefly, Skywalker tried to have dinner with his wife, only for them both to receive a summons from the High Council to deal with a situation regarding the Senator Rush Clovis, and his ties to the Trade Federation. After her return, Organa of Alderaan called on her again, visiting one morning with a report on the top-secret Mission to Lanteeb. Reassuring her that Skywalker and Kenobi were fine, although he wasn't sure himself, Organa left her to her duties on behalf of Queen Jamillia.

Following the battle over Coruscant, Amidala was relieved to see Skywalker recalled from the Outer Rim Sieges again. Returning to her apartment, the pair spent the night together, falling asleep side by side. In the middle of the early morning, Skywalker woke abruptly after having a Force vision in his sleep. Coming to him on her veranda, Amidala stood in silence as Skywalker explained that she would die in childbirth, if his vision came to pass. Vowing to never let that happen, they returned to bed.

Returning home after a long day at the Senate, Amidala praised her waiting husband for his appointment to the Council, though he was bitter over what he saw as just political maneuvering. Changing the subject, Amidala questioned the way the Supreme Chancellor was directing the war, fearing that it was going in the wrong direction. Accusing her of sounding like a Separatist, Skywalker stormed out to meet with his close friend Chancellor Palpatine. Not long after, Master Kenobi arrived on Amidala's doorstep to request an informal meeting. Again, three years after a similar meeting, Kenobi pleaded with Amidala to give up on a relationship with the Jedi, though this meeting was less tense than the one following Geonosis. Promising to do the right thing, Amidala saw the Jedi out as he headed for a special Council meeting regarding the location of General Grievous.

Calling a meeting at her apartment in reaction to the Sector Governance Decree, Amidala met with fellow Senators Organa, Mon Mothma of the Bormea sector, Bana Breemu of the Humbarine sector, Giddean Danu of Kuat, Fang Zar of the Sern sector, and Chi Eekway Papanoida of Wroona. The debate sparked tensions in the group as Eekway said her constituents were ready to force the Chancellor to return his emergency powers to the Senate at the end of the war. Amidala suggested seeking Jedi backing, to which Danu agreed, yet the other Senators, Breemu in particular, strongly rejected. Agreeing to wait on involving the Jedi, the Senators agreed to submit the Petition of 2000 to the Office of the Supreme Chancellor and base future action on his reaction.

While she was away at the Senate, Skywalker broke into the apartment following an unsettling meeting with the Supreme Chancellor, looking for clues concerning the rumors the Chancellor had heard about Skywalker's wife and his former Master being involved in a secret tryst. Sensing the lingering energies of Kenobi's presence, Skywalker interrogated Amidala as she arrived. Eventually realizing the rumors were false and how ridiculous he was being, Skywalker calmed down and left the apartment. After the meeting with the Supreme Chancellor, Amidala returned to her apartment to retire for the evening.

She was awakened by C-3PO as the droid notified her that the Jedi Temple was in flames. Spending the pre-dawn hours watching and sobbing, she rushed to her veranda as Skywalker parked his green interceptor at the docking area and leapt out to comfort his wife. As Skywalker explained how the Jedi had attempted a rebellion, C-3PO talked in hushed tones with the Jedi droid R2-D2, who had accompanied Skywalker from the Temple. They watched as the two Humans discussed recent events and the disbanding of the Order. Amidala voiced her shock as Skywalker told her to avoid her friend in the Senate, as they were under suspicion and she would be in the clear if she kept out of trouble. Numbly, Amidala agreed to wait for his return, as her husband swept out to deal with the Separatist Council on Mustafar. Leaving the apartment for the Senate, Amidala returned as a Senator of the Galactic Empire.

At home again, Amidala was visited by fugitive Obi-Wan Kenobi, landing his DC0052 speeder on the veranda landing platform. Amidala greeted her old acquaintance as he revealed that Palpatine was indeed the hidden Sith they had been searching for. Shocked and disbelieving, Amidala swooned when the Jedi revealed that Skywalker was behind the slaughter of younglings at the Temple. Kenobi sensed that she was indeed pregnant and that Skywalker was the father. Departing without an answer as to where his former apprentice was, the Jedi Master planned to follow Amidala as she left the planet to warn her husband that he was in danger. Contacting Captain Typho, Amidala unknowingly left her apartment for the last time, flying off to her death on the Outer Rim.

Following Amidala's demise, her belongings were removed from the apartment, but it remained in use for the subsequent century. Having weathered the Yuuzhan Vong War, the apartment suite was remodeled, becoming a luxurious restaurant called the Naboo Queen. As of 137 ABY, the restaurant hosted guests such as Moff Nyna Calixte, her daughter Gunn Yage, and her former lover, Admiral Rulf Yage. During their visit, they engaged in a typical family argument before Calixte departed without settling the bill.

The Naboo Embassy meticulously furnished the penthouse suite, a relic of an ancient skyscraper on Coruscant, to accommodate the needs of Senator Padmé Amidala during the Clone Wars. Comprising several rooms, access to the chambers was facilitated by an external turbolift that opened into a compact lobby. Leading into a spacious, low-ceilinged sitting room, the main chamber featured an arrangement of yellow-cream-colored sofas and chairs designed to foster peaceful discussion. The ribbed design of the ceiling and walls arched over the room, allowing natural light to flood in through the floor-to-ceiling clari-crystalline windows and expansive skylights.

On either side of the sitting room, retractable transparisteel doors provided access to small open-air balconies overlooking the Senate District. Small tables were adorned with carefully selected artwork from across the galaxy, including pieces from Amidala's home planet, Naboo. Two hallways leading out of the sitting room provided access to the Senator's private chambers. One hallway led through an antechamber to the bedchamber where Amidala rested after late nights at the Senate. Featuring a large window on one side, the chamber was notably less fortified than those of most Senators of her stature; a mattress lay in the center of the room, with a low table positioned in front of it. A Tarka-Null original was displayed on a small podium in one corner of the room. Opposite the window was a closet, which contained a staircase leading to the veranda.

The lightly furnished veranda, a large pillared area, was accessible via two staircases on either side of a central hallway that extended further into the apartment. Equipped with a sitting area featuring two sofas and a bubbling fountain, the room was illuminated at night by disk-shaped lamps and a small illuminator. A wish globe was placed in a corner, while several hanging orbs and vases decorated the darker areas of the room. At the entrance to the veranda was a small docking area for personal airspeeders. Flanked by two bronzium statues of Shiraya, the moon goddess of Naboo, the veranda's entrance was constantly protected by a particle and energy shield to prevent attacks or accidental falls from the railing-less area. The space between the simple white columns was filled with the plain white drapes that stretched from floor to ceiling.

Jay Shuster conceived the room for Star Wars: Episode II Attack of the Clones, drawing inspiration from the work of Frank Lloyd Wright to fashion the sitting and conversation area where Amidala, Anakin Skywalker, and Obi-Wan Kenobi discussed her safety during Zam Wesell's assassination attempts. The apartment was constructed as a fully explorable set, used in both Episode II and later in Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith.

For Episode III, the apartment was expanded with the addition of the veranda, originally intended to be located on Naboo. Erik Tiemens developed the artwork for the love scene, initially designing a zen garden for the senator. Ultimately, drawing inspiration from Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, orientalists, Pre-Raphaelite painters, and Gerome, the veranda set was approved by Rick McCallum, and Gavin Bocquet created the blueprints.