Tikkes

"How long will those decisions take? It's taken two years just to table the vote. By the time we determine which sector and planetary forces will contribute to the military, there may not be any systems left in the Republic. If Palpatine thinks this issue will go away with this vote, he's more naïve than I thought."

- Senator Tikkes on the Military Creation Act Tikkes was a male Quarren politician who originally served as a senator for the Mon Calamari System during the final days of the Galactic Republic. He originally represented the people of the system in the senate but, eventually had them withdraw and secede from the Republic where he joined the Confederacy of Independent Systems.

Tikkes made his first appearance in the Star Wars prequel trilogy first appearing in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace and later appeared again in Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones and Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith. He makes a bigger appearance in the expanded universe where he plays a much bigger role.

Corruption in the Senate
Tikkes was born on Dac in the Mon Calamari system and became a businessman at some point in his life. As a businessman, he quickly found out that he could make a huge profit by representing the Mon Calamri System in the Galactic Senate and so, he ran a campaign to become the  system's representative in the senate and amassed huge profits along the way while also using other's profits to support his own campaign which resulted in him winning and becoming the system's senator and representative.

After being elected as senator, Tikkes traveled to coruscant where he was around during the last term of Supreme Chancellor Finis Valorum. During his days in the senate, Tikkes had supported the chancellor's sanctions against the Yinchorri species and prior to the Eriadu Trade Summit, Tikkes was a supporter of the Trade Federation mostly due to the profits he had earned from the company. In 33 BBY, Tikkes was invited to an unofficial audience with Senator Orn Free Taa of Ryloth where the senator revealed that he'd delayed an accusation against Chancellor Valorum due to a crisis and was hoping to remove him from power.