WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Marvel's Journey to Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker -- Allegiance #2, by Ethan Sacks, Luke Ross, VC's Clayton Cowles and Lee Loughridge, on sale now.

When the new Star Wars trilogy hit screens in 2015, fans were eager to see how Carrie Fisher's Leia evolved from a Princess to a General and overall new leader of the Resistance. In J.J. Abrams' The Force Awakens and Rian Johnson's The Last Jedi, she certainly lived up to the billing, proving a force to be reckoned with and sticking to the tough, nitty gritty essence of the character George Lucas envisioned in the '70s.

Now, courtesy of Marvel's prelude to The Rise of Skywalker, we're now witnessing Leia in a more diplomatic light than usual, and her latest mission echoes one her mother, Padme Amidala, had in The Phantom Menace.

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In that 1999 film, war broke out on Naboo when the Trade Federation as Darth Sidious/Palpatine's droid army was about to invade. The Jedi were subsequently sent by the Senate to quell the standoff with Qui-Gon Jinn and Obi-Wan Kenobi then rescuing Queen Amidala to protect her, only to end up in the planet's underwater Gungan realm pleading for help. As Amidala said then -- something she'd reiterate in Attack of the Clones -- all politics boils down to is "aggressive negotiations."

Meanwhile, on Naboo, this philosophy inspired her campaign as she begged Jar-Jar Binks and her aquatic comrades to partner with the surface dwellers, something would end up forming an alliance to repel the robotic threat. Of course, they also had young Anakin Skywalker to thank as well for helping bring down their enemies, which sparked the romance between him and the queen.

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In Marvel's Journey to Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker -- Allegiance #2, Leia finds herself in a similar spot after The Last Jedi. She captains the Millennium Falcon and travels from Anoat, the garbage planet the Resistance is holed up on, to Mon Cala, the ocean planet that allied with the rebels during the first trilogy. With Jedi-in-training Rey, in tow, as well as the brave engineer Rose Tico, Leia arrives at her destination under severe duress with the inhabitants not wanting her there for fear of ticking off a bigger enemy, the First Order.

To make matter worse, the squid-like Quarren believe a lack of ships and supplies is the rebels' problem to handle on their own and when the Mon Calarian king Ech-Char tells them he doesn't want to risk helping them as it'll endanger his people, the scene plays out almost identically to how Amidala was rebuffed by Boss Nass in the Gungan kingdom.

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With villains from the Dark Side looking to take out Leia's rebels and Amidala's alliance and regnets who are more focused on protecting their own people, the serendipitous parallels between these two stories are apparent.

The Gungan species took a while to join up and help Amidala's army, but it cost both parties a lot of lives. Hopefully, Mon Cala will come around in an even quicker fashion. No matter what, the fact they entertained the Resistance means that the First Order will come for the ocean planet. As Leia and Amidala both made clear in different eras, when fighting oppressive forces, it's best for them all to band together as early as possible to make some more "aggressive negotiations" in the war to come.

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