Governor was a political title used by high-ranking leaders of political territories, including planets, moons, and galactic regions.
In the late Republic Era, Tok was a human who served as a governor for the Galactic Republic. However, Tok actually served as an undercover agent for Count Dooku, who planned to destabilize the Republic. In their governorship capacity, Tok worked to establish a peace between the actively warring Nautolan and Anselmi peoples. In truth, however, Tok was tasked by Dooku with ensuring the war continued to rage so as to hurt the Republic. Sio Bibble was governor of Naboo during the last days of the Republic.
In the Galactic Empire, governors held regional power under the Imperial regime and assumed control over entire star systems, often in the name of stealing their resource wealth. Sector governors were known as Moffs. An Imperial governor could wear a standard Imperial uniform, in the case of Arihnda Pryce, or a white outfit, as donned by Ubrik Adelhard. Imperial governors also wore rank insignia plaques consisting of six blue squares over three red and three yellow. Wilhuff Tarkin was governor of the Outer Rim Territories under his rank of Grand Moff. Beyond the term governor referring to his actual power over the Rim, he continued to be widely known as "Governor" as a honorific title. By 2 BBY, Gar Saxon was the Imperial Viceroy and Governor of Mandalore of his clan, a planet under occupation of the Galactic Empire at the time.
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