Rikel (Centerpoint Station)

"Hey. Watch this."

- Rikel's last words before firing Centerpoint

Rikel, known as Vibro to many, was a male crewman aboard Centerpoint Station in 40 ABY.

Marriage
Rikel was a male who was secretly married because neither her family, nor his, approved of them being together. Early in the Second Galactic Civil War his wife was arrested during a security sweep on Coruscant, and was later found dead. This instilled in Rikel a hatred for Coruscanti, and for their Galactic Federation of Free Alliances.

Firing of Centerpoint Station
"Think of the station as a body. It has a brain. We're a second brain trying to take over the body, and the first brain is resisting. We take over an area, and the brain retaliates by doing something to foul us up. In this case, we assumed control of the trigger finger. ... and when we fired, to retaliate, to mess us up, it stuck its thumb in our eye."

- Rikel to Prime Minister Koyan

Later in the war, Rikel was able to get a position on Centerpoint Station as the head technician in the fire-control chamber under his nickname, Vibro, which he liked more than his own name. After Centerpoint Station fired on the Anakin Solo and the Galactic Alliance Second Fleet in an attempt to kill Jacen Solo, one of the joint Chiefs of State of the Galactic Alliance, Centerpoint had a few malfunctions. After Prime Minister of the Five Worlds Sadras Koyan asked what had happened, Vibro gave him a more simplistic explanation of what had happened to the station.

The Anakin Solo was not destroyed by Centerpoint Station, Solo was not killed, and the Galactic Alliance found out that the station was operational again.

Destruction of Centerpoint Station
With the knowledge that Centerpoint Station was operational once again, Colonel Solo formed a plan to retaliate—the Galactic Alliance would capture the station, and use it to force Confederation worlds to surrender, ending the war. The Jedi could not allow Solo to have control of the station, nor anyone else, and planned to destroy it at the same time that Solo was attempting to capture it. To this end, Jedi Master Kyp Durron escorted the scientist Toval Seyah, who had extensive knowledge on the station and its systems, around the station.

As the battle drew on, Prime Minister Koyan tried contacting Chief of State Cha Niathal, in an attempt to force Niathal to surrender. When she didn't answer, Vibro suggested they blow up Coruscant anyway, fueled by his desire to avenge his wife's death, and suggested that since the Confederation had reconnaissance ships in the area, they would be able to get recordings of it. Koyan was aghast at such a statement, but received an incoming holocomm transmission from Denjax Teppler. After their private discussion, Koyan instructed Vibro that until hearing from him again, Vibro was to take orders from Teppler and Admiral Delpin, and that they would probably give him the chance to fire on Coruscant.

Vibro was not privy to the conversation between Koyan and Teppler, but he followed Koyan on the station's security cams until Koyan boarded an Alliance shuttle. No one had heard what Koyan had told Vibro, so Vibro took the opportunity to fire Centerpoint Station. Once the power source was ready, Vibro got the attention of his fellow technician, and pressed the button. This caused Centerpoint Station to target itself, because Seyah was able to reprogram the star data in Centerpoint's systems, and reset all the other coordinates as the center of Hollowtown.

Personality and traits
Rikel was a male with yellow-skin, long hair tied into a braid, and a beard. After marrying his wife in secret, she was arrested on Coruscant and later found dead. This drove him to hate all Coruscanti, and the Galactic Alliance to which they belonged. He would go as far as attempting to destroy their planet with Centerpoint Station in revenge, making all Coruscanti off Coruscant planetless, but doing so caused his own death. Rikel was also fond of caf, and after his eighth cup of caf would embody his own nickname.

Behind the scenes
Rikel was created by Aaron Allston for the novel Fury, which was released on November 27, 2007 as a part of the Legacy of the Force series. He was also mentioned in the The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia, published in December 2008, under the entry for "Rikel", as well as "Vibro" (which refers to Rikel).

Appearances

 * Fury