Lott Dod

""I object! There is no proof!""

- ―Lott Dod Lott Dod was a male Neimoidian senator who represented the Trade Federation in the Galactic Senate.

Naboo Crisis
When the Trade Federation invaded Naboo, Senator Palpatine and Queen Amidala of Naboo came to the Senate and asked for help. Lott Dod objected and said there was no proof. Many senators agreed with him and Amidala left the Senate unsuccessful. However, she managed to win back her planet from the Trade Federation, exposing Lott Dod's lies.

Battle of Geonosis
Ten years later, Lott Dod accompanied Nute Gunray to the planet Geonosis, where they pledged the Federation's allegiance to Count Dooku's Separatist Alliance. Dod later attended the failed execution of Amidala and two Jedi, which led to the first Battle of Geonosis. During the battle, Lott Dod and Gunray fled into a war room, overseeing the battle via holograms. Dod told Gunray that they needed to get their starships into space, and the two Neimoidians left.

Battle of Ryloth
When the Separatists invaded and blockaded the planet Ryloth, Alderaan senator Bail Organa and Gungan representative, Jar Jar Binks, went to negotiate with the Toydarians, Count Dooku sent Lott Dod to intervene. When Dod arrived, he claimed that he was there to make sure that nothing jeopardised the treaty between Toydaria and the Federation.

When Organa asked the Toydarian king if they could use Toydaria as a humanitarian base for the people of Ryloth, Dod mentioned the Separatist blockade over Ryloth and the Toydarians helping Ryloth would damage their neutrality. This resulted in a debate between Organa and Dod. In the end, the Toydarian king secretly sided with the Republic and agreed to help Ryloth. By the time Dod found out, there was nothing he could do.

The Blockade of Pantora
When the Federation blockaded the planet Pantora, Lott Dod did everything he could to legalise the blockade in the Senate. The Neimoidian politician informed the Senate that the Pantoran government was in debt to the Federation, warranting a blockade until the matter could be settled. However, Pantoran senator Riyo Chuchi and Jedi Padawan Ahsoka Tano uncovered a plot orchestrated by the commanders of the Trade Federation's blockade, administrator Sib Canay to capture the Pantoran Chairman's daughters. In the Senate, Dod revealed that Sib Canay was acting on his own accord and that the Federation's blockade had ended.

Attempted murder of Senator Amidala
In 22 BBY, Lott Dod conspired with Banking Clan senator Rush Clovis and Geonosian Archduke Poggle the Lesser to build a new droid factory. The Jedi Council eventually came to suspect that Clovis was working with the Separatists and had Naboo senator Amidala spy on him. She accompanied him to Dod's home on Cato Neimoidia.

Dod quickly figured out that Amidala was a Republic spy and poisoned her with a drink. However, his plan was foiled when Clovis helped Amidala and held Dod at gunpoint, threatening to kill him if he refused to hand over the antidote. One of Dod's aides handed over the antidote. However, moments after, Dod and Poggle confronted Clovis with a squad of battle droids while Amidala and Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker travelled to Coruscant with the droid factory plans that Amidala had stolen.

Deregulation of the banks
In 21 BBY, as a result of high clone trooper casualty rates, a bill calling for an increase in military production was introduced into the Senate by Senator Gume Saam of the Techno Union. However, many other senators opposed to the bill. After the session, Dod met with Saam and Muun Nix Card. All three were upset that the bill didn't pass. Dod blamed Amidala. The three contacted Count Dooku to help them carry out their plot of attacking Coruscant. Dooku left General Grievous in charge of the mission.

Grievous dispatched several demolition droids, who infiltrated Coruscant during a session in the Senate and bombed the power generator, preventing the members of the senate to vote. Saam blamed the attack on the Separatists, causing many of the senators to want to deregulate the banks.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: The Phantom Menace (First appearance)
 * Star Wars: Attack of the Clones
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Supply Lines
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Senate Spy
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Sphere of Influence
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Heroes on Both Sides
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars - The Rise of Clovis
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Crisis at the Heart