Santhou Lazith'chika

"Remember, we are the good guys. No coercion, no extortion, no threats. And hopefully, no killing, unless absolutely necessary to preserve your lives or your ship. May the Force be with you."

- Santhou Lazith'chika

Santhou Lazith'chika was a male alien member of the Rebel Alliance and a main adviser of Lens and Mikka Reekeene of Reekeene's Roughnecks. Lazith'chika had authority over several members of the Rebel Alliance, even if he was only arguably an officer. A member of an unidentified species and secretly a user of the Force, Lazith'chika was considered creepy by Humans in his environment, even if he could not hide his good nature.

Biography
Santhou Lazith'chika was a male alien of an unknown species; he said that his was a long-lived race and that he himself had travelled through the galaxy for more than two centuries, refusing to ellaborate anything else about his background. This claim has not been confirmed by any proof.

A Force-sensitive being, Santhou Lazith'chika had learned to use the power of the Force to a certain extent, following the path different to that of the Jedi Order. In times of the Galactic Empire, Lazith'chika believed that Palpatine's minions could chase him because of his knowledge of the light side of the Force. Lazith'chika thus decided to not demonstrate that skill and to pretend to be a harmless, clown.

At some point, Lazith'chika contacted with mercenary Lens Reekeene and her husband, engineer Mikka Reekeene. The Reekeenes had joined the Alliance to Restore the Republic, with Lens becoming a high-level officer. Lazith'chika kept his past shrouded in mystery for the Reekeenes, but he earned their trust and he became Mikka's main adviser, and Lens's second main adviser after Mikka.

The Reekeenes and Lazith'chika then founded the Reekeene's Roughnecks a guerrilla organization that harassed Imperial forces in the Fakir sector. They intended to attract Imperial attention, diverting their resources from the Alliance main fleet.

The Reekeenes and Lazith'chika were the highest-ranking members of the Roughnecks, briefing the members of any sub-team and answering to questions. Once briefed for a mission, a member of the Roughnecks could not speak with anyone except the Reekeenes or Lazith'chika, as a security measure.

As such, in 0 ABY, Lazith'chika aided Lens Reekeene while briefing the Green squad of the Roughnecks for a diplomatic mission on Abonshee. Reekeene and Lazith'chika used holograms to confere with the Green squad. After Reekene informed the Green squad of their goals and motivation, Lazith'chika informed them about details on the people they were going to contact with and the negotiations they might and might not follow.

Also around this time, a silent, hooded Lazith'chika joined the Reekeenes and Rebel Lieutenant Am Serro onboard the modified freighter Home to hear the report of special operative Tay "Tiree" Vanis's twentieth operation. Vanis had failed to recruit some new agents and he had also reached the limit of missions before mandatory retirement, but Lens Reekeene nevertheless assigned him a new job. Neither Lazith'chika or the other officers objected anything to her.

Personality and traits
Santhou Lazith'chika was a cadaverous two-meter alien with sickly grey skin and eyes bigger than any Human's. Although mostly humanoid, he had an extra joint in each leg and very low corporal temperature. Humans found his look ghoulish. Knowing this, Lazith'chika added to this favoring black robes and behaving in the dismally bombastic way used by gravediggers in B-series holofilms, speaking slowly and pretending to be pessimistic. Nevertheless, Lazith'chika was a warm person and showed this trait after all the disguise.

Lazith'chika had low-level powers of the Force that he refused to publically display. He had also studied the planets of the galaxy, the species inhabiting there and the languages that they spoke.

Although a high-ranking officer of the Rebel Alliance, Lazith'chika refused to wear an identifying patch because he disliked military insignia.

Behind the scenes
Santhou Lazith'chika first appeared in "The Long Shot Campaign", a chapter of the role-playing book Star Wars Campaign Pack written by Paul Murphy and published by West End Games in 1988. "The Long Shot Campaign" was later re-published in 1994, along with another Campàign, in Classic Campaigns. He was first graphically depicted in the webcomic Rookies: Rendezvous (2006) by Pablo Hidalgo.

Lazith'chika's role-playing stats follow the template "Alien student of the Force". One of the features of the template is that the character belongs to a little-known species, in this case exemplified as no other character knows Lazith'chika's species.

Appearances

 * Rookies: Rendezvous