Lynaliskar K'ra Snyffulnimatta

"I hate it when you call me that&hellip;"

- "Sniffles"

Lynaliskar K'ra Snyffulnimatta, also known simply as Sniffles, was a male Elomin who served as the navigator on board the vessel Uhumele, guiding the vessel alongside the pilot, Crys Taanzer. He and the rest of the crew became grounded by Imperial forces on the planet New Plympto shortly after the declaration of the New Order. After the Uhumele took aboard two fugitives seeking to escape the Empire, Jedi Master Dass Jennir and Nosaurian resistance fighter Bomo Greenbark, the crew put together a plan to escape with the pair's help and Sniffles successfully navigated the ship off world when the plan came to fruition.

After their escape, Sniffles and the rest of the crew agreed to help Greenbark rescue his wife and daughter, who had been captured and sold into slavery. With Sniffles still navigating, the group travelled first to the slave world of Orvax IV, where they learned of the death of Greenbark's wife and the location of his daughter on the planet Esseles which they flew to next. On Esseles the group attacked the villa belonging to Dezono Qua, the man who had bought Greenbark's daughter, only to discover she too was dead. Sniffles witnessed Jennir shoot the murderous Qua, who had eaten the young Nosaurian himself, before Greenbark revealed in fury to the group that Jennir was a Jedi. Sniffles was amongst those in the ship's crew who believed a having Jedi with them would be a bad idea, and the group eventually agreed to continue without the Jedi.

First visiting the world of Pizkoss to pick up supplies, but instead losing one member of the crew to Imperial authorities, the crew of the Uhumele next decided to sell Dreypa's Oubliette, a valuable piece of cargo they possessed. The buyer for the cargo was Haka Hai, an old acquaintance of the Uhumele's captain, who operated in the swamps of the world of Mimban. Upon meeting with Hai though the group became involved in a firefight when Hai betrayed them and attempted to steal the cargo, and then one of Hai's men betrayed him, to also try and claim the Oubliette. During the fight Sniffles was killed whilst trying to save Taanzer, jumping between her and incoming blaster bolt.

Biography
"Crys! Get down!"

- Sniffles takes a blaster bolt for Crys Taanzer

By the year 19 BBY Lynaliskar K'ra Snyffulnimatta had come to serve as the navigator on board the Maka-Eekai L4000 transport named Uhumele. On the vessel he served under the Yarkora Captain Schurk-Heren beside the Human Crys Taanzer, who piloted the ship and gave the Elomin the nickname "Sniffles". Taanzer and Sniffles worked together to always keep the ship on time during its regular transport runs. One month after the Declaration of the New Order–the political regime of the newly formed Galactic Empire–the Uhumele and its crew were visiting the planet of New Plympto, where they stayed in a spaceport in an area known as Cadgel Meadows. Whilst the vessel was in the spaceport, all ships landed there were grounded by Imperial forces stationed in the area, whom were engaged in a conflict with the native Nosaurian population. Heren's crew wished to avoid Imperials searching their ship at all costs, but whilst trapped, Sniffles and the rest of the crew came to mistrust another grounded ship named Valance, who the navigator believed would inform the Imperials if any other ship attempted to leave Cadgel Meadows. During one night spent grounded, the Uhumele was boarded by a pair of survivors from the New Plympto resistance who had escaped from a recent battle in an area known as Half-Axe Pass. The pair, seeking to avoid Imperial attention, jumped upon Taanzer after seeing her standing in the open hatch of the Uhumele hoping to prevent her from calling out. However upon entering the ship though the rest of the crew, including Sniffles, held the boarders at blaster-point causing them to release the pilot, who punched one of the boarders before Sniffles pulled her away. Heren then introduced the crew, calling Snyffulnimatta sniffles, much to his annoyance, and explained to the boarders they too wanted to avoid Imperial attention, after which the boarders gave their names, Dass Jennir and Bomo Greenbark, and explained they had come to the spaceport seeking Greenbark's family who had evacuated to the area during the recent battle. Sniffles however chose to leave with Taanzer at this point instead of remaining for further introductions.

Jennir and Greenbark were allowed to stay on the ship after learning Greenbarks family had been captured and enslaved, and the next day joined the crew in planning how to escape the area. When Jennir suggested that they try and persuade all the grounded vessels to take off at once to avoid any individual ship being immediately shot down, Sniffles interjected that the Valance would reveal the plan when contacted about it, to which Taanzer agreed. This lead to a new plan in which Jennir instead stole a set of Clone trooper armor and then a Alpha-3 Nimbus-class V-wing starfighter which he used to fire on the Valance grounded in the spaceport. As Jennir attacked, Heren announced over open comlink that the Imperials were attacking all grounded vessels which lead to every other vessel in the spaceport taking off to escape damage. Sniffles then successfully navigated the Uhumele off-world despite it coming under attack from V-wings, which Jennir and Ko Vakier, another member of the crew, destroyed. Having escaped the immediate threat, the group agreed to travel to Orvax IV where Greenbarks family had been sold as slaves. Once on Orvax, Sniffles remained on the Uhumele while Jennir, Greenbark and Vakier along with two other crew members, Mezgraf and Meekerdin-maa, searched the slave markets for Greenbark's wife and daughter. The group returned unsuccessful, having found the other Nosaurian women and children sold as slaves, but learning that Mesa Greenbark, Bomo's wife, had been killed trying to prevent their daughter Resa being sold. Jennir alone, then tracked down Orso Meeto, the Chagrian slaver who had sold Resa, whilst Sniffles and the rest of the crew stayed put, keeping Greenbark from escaping and causing trouble due to his grief. Jennir then returned and informed the group that their next destination was the planet Esseles, where a wealthy heir named Dezono Qua had Resa. On Esseles Sniffles joined the crew in enjoying a good quality meal in the capital city of Calamar while waiting for Jennir to gather information on Qua. Having learned that the slave owner lived in his family's isolated fortress–like villa, Jennir told the group that he didn't expect them to help him and Greenbark any further due to the danger involved but the crew of the Uhumele refused to let the pair go alone.

Sniffles and Crys brought the ship to Qua's villa and dropped off the rest of the crew, before landing the ship securely. By the time they left the ship Qua's army of droids had been destroyed or disabled and as they attempted to find the rest of the group they heard the sound of Jennir shooting Qua, having learned that the wealthy man had eaten Resa. The pair reached the crew just in time to hear Greenbark berate Jennir for taking a kill that was rightfully his and the revealing that Jennir was in fact a Jedi. Having learned this new information, Sniffles was amongst the crew members who wanted Jennir out of the crew, whom the Jedi Master obliged, remaining behind at Qua's home while the Uhumele left. With Jennir gone the crew travelled to the world of Pizkoss to pick up supplies, but whilst there were chased by Imperials. Sniffles and Taanzer managed to hastily get the Uhumele off-world, but one member of the crew, the Phindian assistant mechanic and cook Janks, was captured. Whilst on Pizkoss however, Captain Heren had finalized a deal to sell the Uhumele's most valuable piece of cargo, which was unbeknownst to them the Sith artifact named Dreypa's Oubliette, to Haka Hai, an old Ishi Tib college of Heren's who had come to control a gang on the planet Mimban. The Uhumele retrieved their valuable cargo from an Asteroid field where it was hidden and travelled to Mimban to make their sale. Heren however did not trust Hai and so instead brought a fake crate, rigged to explode if opened, with the plan to provide the location of the real crate once he'd been paid. The entire crew then transported the cargo through the swamps of Mimban before arriving at Hai's compound. Once there Heren's mistrust of Hai proved correct, as after greeting the crew the Ishi Tiib's ordered his men to aim their blasters at Heren and his crew. Outnumbered three to one, the crew had no chance of fighting back and Heren agreed to simply leave his old friend the cargo in exchange for their lives. Hai refused but before he could give the order to shoot, one of his men, a Gotal named Lumbra, revealed that he and a large group of Hai's men were betraying him and taking the cargo for themselves. A battle quickly broke out between the two faction of Hai's men, and the Uhumele's crew saw their chance to escape. As he attempted to flee for the exit however Sniffles saw one of Hai's men take aim at Crys. The Elomin flung himself between Crys and the shooter taking the blaster shot in the back and sustaining a fatal wound. As the unwounded Crys crouched over her dying savoir, Sniffles complained that his one act of charity had cost him so much before dying in the pilots arms. Shortly after his death the rest of the Uhumele's crew was captured by Hai's surviving men and the Ishi Tiib had them put to work or thrown in the dungeons to be tortured for the location of the Oubliette, whilst Sniffles body was tossed into the swamps.

Personality and traits
"I knew this would happen. The first time I do anything for somebody else, and I get killed for it&hellip;"

- Sniffles dying words.

Lynaliskar K'ra Snyffilnimatta was a male Elomin with crimson skin and white eyes. He was an able navigator and managed to work together with Crys Taanzer to get the Uhumele out of several difficult situations. Snyffilnimatta greatly disliked the nickname of "Sniffles" given to him by the rest of the crew and complained whenever they used it. Quite pessimistic in nature, he assumed the worst outcome would occur from many of the situations that the Uhumele found itself in, believing that if the ship tried to escape the spaceport in Cadgel Meadows, they would be betrayed by the crew of the Valance. Likewise he was amongst the crew members of the Uhumele who wanted to be rid of the Dass Jennir after discovering he was a Jedi, claiming that one bounty on the crews head was enough and that Jennir would only make matters worse. Despite his dower nature, Sniffles was reasonably fond of his crew mate Crys, shielding her from Jennir and Greenbark when they first encountered the pair as strangers. He also chose to take a fatal blaster bolt for her, although as he lay dying he complained that his first act of charity had cost him his life, claiming he had expected something similar would occur. After the Elomin's death, the crew of the Uhumele mourned for Sniffles loss, with Taanzer becoming particularly upset.

Equipment
Whilst a crew member of the Uhumele Sniffles generally wore an open green jacket with yellow lining, bracelets and green pants, although when dining on the planet Esseles he wore blue robes instead. In combat he used a blaster.

Behind the scenes
Lynaliskar K'ra Snyffulnimatta first appeared in Star Wars: Dark Times 1: The Path to Nowhere, Part 1, the first issue of the Star Wars: Dark Times series of comic books and the The Path to Nowhere story arc. The issue, released in 2006, was written by Randy Stradley under the name Mick Harrison and illustrated by Douglas Wheatley. He then appeared as a recurring character throughout the rest of the story arc and in the following arc, Parallels, which was illustrated by Dave Ross and Lui Antonio, and in which he was killed. Sniffles received mentions in a number of later issues of the Dark Times series and also received and entry in the 2009 sourcebook, The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Dark Times 1: The Path to Nowhere, Part 1
 * Star Wars: Dark Times 2: The Path to Nowhere, Part 2
 * Star Wars: Dark Times 5: The Path to Nowhere, Part 5
 * Star Wars: Dark Times 6: Parallels, Part 1
 * Star Wars: Dark Times 7: Parallels, Part 2
 * Star Wars: Dark Times 8: Parallels, Part 3
 * Star Wars: Dark Times 10: Parallels, Part 5
 * Star Wars: Dark Times 11: Vector, Part 5
 * Star Wars: Dark Times: Blue Harvest, Part 1
 * Star Wars: Dark Times 15: Blue Harvest, Part 3
 * Star Wars: Dark Times 16: Blue Harvest, Part 4
 * Star Wars: Dark Times 22: Out of the Wilderness, Part 5