Nossor Ri/Legends

"Fight for Prince Lee-Char!"

- Nossor Ri betrays Riff Tamson

Nossor Ri was a Quarren chieftain who conspired with the Karkarodon Riff Tamson to make the Quarren allies of the Confederacy of Independent Systems during the Clone Wars.

Becoming a Separatist pawn
About 21 BBY, after the mysterious death of King Yos Kolina, tentions began to grow between the Quarren and the Mon Calamari. Chiftain Nossor Ri was the one leading his people at this time of crisis. Backed by the Confederacy of Independent Systems and convinced by the Separatist envoy by the name of Riff Tamson, who would later be revealed as Yos Kolina's murderer, Ri presented the claims of his people in front of the Mon Cala Council in the Capital. Ri expressed the disagreement of the Quarren to elect Yos Kolina's son Prince Lee-Char as the next ruler of the Calamari system. In the end Nossor Ri, Tamson and the Quarren left the gathering disgruntled by the results of the peace talks. But before leaving the Chieftain approached Lee-Char, who by that point had lost all hope for peace, and Ri expressed his condolences and admiration for Lee-Char's father.

All the happenings were all machinations by Count Dooku and Riff Tamson to bring the planet to the Separatist side of the conflict. Ri had agreed to do so as he felt he was doing what is best for his people. Little that he knew that Dooku and Tamson were planning to put all the inhabitants of Moncala in chains and use them as slaves.

All the events let to the Second Battle of Mon Calamari, which Nossor Ri took part and observed it from away. During the initial attack, the Quarren and Aqua droids retreated. Nossor Ri was puzzled by the situation as he anticipated the droids to be defeated by the Jedi. Tamson showed him the the secret weapons that were going to win the battle. The attack proceeded as planned and the opposing forces were driven into hiding. Although the Quarren were supposed to be part of the last push against the Jedi and the Mon Calamari, Nossor Ri decided to hold off his forces as he felt that Tamson was certain to win. This attitude and disobedience by the Chieftain angered the Karkarodon and Tamson threatened to kill Ri if he does this again.

Search for Lee-Char
After the initial victory, Nossor Ri and Riff Tamson situated themselves at the Central palace of the Mon Cala capital. From there they monitored the situation and started the search for the Lee-Char and his allies. Count Dooku contacted the victors and insisted they press on and take full control of the planet. During the conversation, Ri spoke wi th concern for the captured Mon Calas and wished to know if the women and children will be spared the fate of a slave. Dooku with fury silenced the Quarren leader and insisted all Mon Calas to be sent to work as slaves. This was the first sign that Ri saw of the Confederacy's ruthless policy towards prisoners of war and started to have doubts about his desicion to join the Separatists. All he did at that moment was just to obey the Count's orders.

When the Jedi and Mon Calamari troops tried to escape to the Republic ship on the ocean surface, Nossor Ri was contacted by the one of soldiers that engaged the enemy forces. Tamson pushed Ri aside and ordered the Quarren to allow the Jedi and Prince to get to the ship. Then he sprung the trap and the ship was destroyed in front of the eyes of the Prince to make him loose all hope of escape.

Shortly after that the Jedi disrupted the Separatist communications by destroying a building that housed Dac's Inner-planetary scanners and this was reported to Nossor Ri and Tamson. Ri pointed out that there was nothing on the scope prior to this. As expected, huge force containing mostly Gungan warriors was on the way. But Tamson knew that was going to happen and the chieftain that another attack will come soon. The one group of that featured the Prince himself started to free prisoners, while another engaged droid force at the site of the destroyed scanners. Nossor Ri was left alone at the Palace as Tamson went in search for the Prince. Nossor Ri was informed of both attacks and contacted Tamson to report on the situation. The Quarren leader proposed a retreat of all Separatist forces, but Tamson decided to send Trident-class assault ships to both locations, while he also joined the battle in which the the Prince was present so he could finish him once and for all.

After Riff received news that the Prince was captured, Nossor was shocked to learn that Riff was taking the throne instead of the Quarren. He finally came to realize that serving the Confederacy was his true mistake, and that the Quarren were used since Riff was the one who murdered the King. Nossor Ri was then requested by Prince Lee-Char to turn on his Separatist allies and help Lee-Char drive them from Mon Calmarai. Nossor refused until Lee-Char was about to be executed. Nossor couldn't allow the young prince to die for everything he's done, so he immediately swims and saves him, and orders the Quarren to join Lee-Char and the Republic forces to defeat Riff and the Separatists. After the battle was over, the Mon Calamari and the Quarren were united again, and they were all present where the Prince has become the King of Dac.