Hazram Namir

"I've been doing this longer than most of them."

- Hazram Namir, to Micha Evon

Hazram Namir, briefly named Donin and Umu Seven was a human male soldier from the planet Crucival. During his early life he fought for various factions that managed to seize a dominant amount of power on his homeworld. However, after the Galactic Empire used him and many others as cannon fodder against the Alliance to Restore the Republic, he decided to join the other side to get his revenge against them.

After three years in the Alliance's Sixty-First Mobile Infantry Namir eventually became First Sergeant and led his own squad. They ended up rescuing an Imperial governor named Everi Chalis on Haidoral Prime. Chalis offered information on the weak points in the Empire's war machine in return for asylum in the Alliance. Her information proved useful to the Sixty-First during their campaign on Coyerti and their gamble to secure resources for their damaged CR90 corvette, the Thunderstrike.

Namir and two other soldiers eventually came to escort Chalis and the Sixty-First's captain, Micha Evon, to Hoth, for a strategy conference. However, the Empire soon discovered the rebel presence on Hoth and invaded. Namir and Chalis were able to survive the battle and make it back to the Sixty-First but Evon and the other two were killed. Namir took command in Evon's place and Chalis forged a new plan for them, named Operation Ringbreaker. Namir led the Sixty-First through this campaign on multiple planets until the Thunderstrike was shot down on Sullust, leaving them stranded. Namir prepared his company for an inevitable attack and they held out until the Imperial forces were defeated.

Early life
Hazram Namir grew up on the planet Crucival. His father fought in the Clone Wars for the Confederacy of Independent Systems but after they lost the war, he retired from fighting. After, he told Namir about the Clone troopers he fought against and how the Galactic Republic made them in batches. Following the Clone Wars, Crucival fell into civil war between various power hungry factions that had spawned from the outcome of the war. The fighting left the planet isolated from the galaxy, excluding a transmitter tower operated by the Galactic Empire. Although the Empire too did not integrate with the planets residents and killed anyone that came close to their tower.

The Malkhani Insurrections
"I'm here to serve the clan.''" "''I guess you are. Just don't get your hopes up. Take it one fight at a time."

- Hazram Namir and a veteran soldier

By 6 BBY, the Malkhanis, led by Warlord Malkhan, were the most powerful faction. Namir's father told him that they were no different to any other faction on Crucival, warning him that they would only fail. However, Namir thought he was wrong and left him to join the Malkhanis. There, he received four gifts: The first was his new name, Donin; the second was ink-rubbed brands to prove his new name; the third was a serrated knife; and the final was a blaster, something that was rare on Crucival due to their separation from the rest of the galaxy. His masters assured him that the blaster was the most precious of the four gifts, especially as it only had a dozen shots left in it.

Forty-seven days into the Malkhani Insurrections, Namir was stationed at a hilltop behind a low stone wall. He and the poeple around him were there to fight an opposing force which had taken a nearby quarry and threatened the Malkhanis territory. Although victory was inevitable for his side, Namir questioned his own survival. While he was hiding behind cover, he heard a howling noise and aimed his gun over the wall. He found nothing in front of him and a man behind him pointed him upwards to a TIE fighter heading towards the Empire's transmitter tower. The man warned him that messing with the Empire would get them all killed but Namir already new that. The enemy, however, appeared shortly and Namir aimed over the wall to see them approaching in the yellow grass below. Most of them carried spears but some lugged blaster cannons the size of tree branches and both sides opened fire immediately.

Serving the Creed
"You can still come back. There's enough room and enough food. I can hide you from the Creed&mdash;I know I can.''" "''The Creed serves us meat and honey and wine every night. When I wake up, I smell fruit instead of someone's waste in the street. I made oaths to them. Why would I ever go back with you."

- Hazram Namir's father, and Hazram Namir

Namir thought he would be serving the Malkhanis forever. But he was proven wrong when the Warlord Malkhan's Lieutenants made claims to his cache of weapons. The bloodletting after had been worse than anything Namir had seen prior. However, he was lucky enough to find the Opaline Creed quickly after. When he joined them, he was given the name Umu Seven, Umu after the second son of the Hieroprince and seven because there were six other Namir's in the Creed. During his time there, he befriended a girl called Pira Ten. She became family to him, and sometimes he pretended he saw an alien, which excited her because non-humans were never seen on Crucival.

In 4 BBY, on the four-hundredth day of the Tripartite Culture, Namir was heading to the Opaline Creed cloister after running errands when he bumped into his father. Namir did not want to talk to him and continued walking. His father followed and continued talking to him. When Namir tried to make him leave he asked him to come back and live with him again. Namir harshly refused but did not turn around to see his father again. Namir eventually made it to the cloister and he found a bruised thorn pear in his sack, which he new his father would have slipped in. He then entered a grassy area where Pira was. They ate and Umu described another imaginary alien to her.

The Battle of the Tower
"So: Why do you wish to join the rebellion against the Empire?''" "The Empire killed my friends." "You seek revenge then?" "Not really." "''Good. Revenge is a fuel that burns too swifty."

- Gadren, and Hazram Namir

Eventually the creed failed, and Namir drifted from faction to faction, including the Lady of Coins. He also recruited more like Pira, such as Tar and Mishru, who he had fought against until their own masters had fallen and left them to rob passersby on the streets. Namir eventually formed a band of nearly a dozen soldiers, who were ready to stop drifting from war to war. He eventually learned of his fathers death, the man being stabbed in the gut by a child.

One day he and those that followed him were contracted by the Empire to defend the transmitter tower that Namir had steered clear from for so long. Namir thought it was the best opportunity in ages. The Imperials armed them and over a thousand other residents with blasters for an imminent attack from rebels. Soon enough, the rebels layed siege on the defenses, quickly overpowering the citizens despite being outnumbered. The battle was a quick disaster, with most of the armed civilians being killed in the first wave as the Imperials abandoned them and hid under their sheild.

Namir was one of the few natives to survive the ensuing fight. On the fourth day of the battle, he was almost found by a probe droid and ended up injuring his leg trying to stay away from it. Shortly after, he discovered Pira barely alive in a ditch. One of her legs was badly damaged and beyond infected. Namir and sat with her and the last thing they talked about before she died was bread pudding, which the Creed used to serve on their holy days. The next morning, he left her in the ditch and continued crawling through the battlefield to get out. He made it to what was left of the Opaline Creed cloister and, that night, he watched the hills burn from the battle.

The tower fell the next day, Namir spent the following days foraging for food before. Almost a week after the battle, he found a line of people going from the nearby city and towards the ruins of the Empire's transmitter tower. Many of them were armed, and Namir followed them to an off-worlder camp he presumed belonged to the rebels. His suspicions were confirmed when he got to the front he realised that it was a recruitment for the Alliance to Restore the Republic, a rebel faction that opposed the Empire. With nowhere else to go and with no one left on Crucival to fight for, Namir signed on with the Alliance's Sixty-First Mobile Infantry, otherwise known as Twilight Company.

Rising through the ranks
Two months after Namir joined, news went around about the Destruction of Alderaan. Namir was still new to the wider galaxy and asked his friend, a Corellian Besalisk named Gadren, many questions about the Empire. During the Battle of Yavin, Twilight Company was fighting in the honey fields of Vir Aphshire. There he was given the job of sending the report to Captain Micha Evon&mdash;Howl when beyond Evon's earshot&mdash; by Sergeant Fektrin. When he met Howl, Namir walked with him as he talked about the ideology behind Twilight Company fighting the Empire, the idea being fighting for the people.

Namir mingled with the other soldiers of Twilight Company, befriending some like Brand, who had been watching him since he joined, and taking a dislike to others like Zab, who's squad he called "morons who could make a hydrospanner backfire". On late, dull nights, Namir wrote obscene poetry with Twilight Company's comm tech, who later died during the bombardment of Asyrphus. Namir was a skilled fighter, serving in many battles against the Empire during the advancement into the Mid Rim on planets such as Phorsa Gedd and Bamayar. When the alliances forces were overstretched, the advancement was halted and the Mid Rim Retreat began. He and Twilight Company helped evacuate bases and rescue rebel heroes and Generals.

Discovery on Haidoral Prime
After nine months of retreating, Twilight Company was on Haidoral Prime where they defeated the Imperial forces in the capital of Haidoral Administrative Center One, named Glitter by the locals. As they began recruiting Haidoral citizens, NAmir broke up a fight between a young girl and two men. The girl called herself Roach and when Namir asked if she really wanted to be called that, she confirmed it. Three hours into the recruit, they received a message, via a Mouse Droid, from an Imperial in the Governor's mansion wanting to defect. Namir was now First Sergeant and he took his squad&mdash;Charmer, Gadren and Brand&mdash;to find this Imperial. They got into the mansion and took out any guards that roamed around there. They then broke into the main control room where all the main officers were with the defector, Governor Everi Chalis. They killed the officers and stunned Chalis, taking her back to Twilight Company's Headquarters, the CR90 corvette Thunderstrike. Chalis offered Howl knowledge on the inner workings of the Imperial war machine in return for asylum within the Alliance.

Coyerti Campaign
Evon decided to test Chalis's knowledge in the Coyerti campaign where she gave them intelligence on a distillery. Namir's first task involved storming an Imperial camp. Namir's squad, including a new recruit named Roach who replaced Charmer, teamed with Sergeant Zab's squad to throw the Imperial forces into chaos. The plan was successful and the camp was destroyed. The second mission for Namir's squad was to take out an AT ST. Their first tactic to take it out was unsuccessful a change of plan managed to submerge the walker in a swamp. Later into the campaign, Namir and his squad were ordered to destroy the distillery Chalis mentioned. They infiltrated the lightly defended place and detonated certain barrels destroying the place. However, the chemicals spread from the explosion and Namir and his squad fell ill. They had to call for a dropship to pick them up before it could kill them and whilst they waited, Brand talked to Roach.

Attacks in the Metatessu Sector
Chalis's information had proved valuable earning her more trust from the officers of Twilight Company. But she also proved to be a burden when Twilight Company was attacked at the edge of the Metatessu sector by an imperial destroyer. They escaped under the cover of the Thunderstrike's escort, the Dornean gunship Apailana's Promise. Thirty hours later, the two ships were ambushed in the Enrivi system by a Light cruiser and a TIE Fighter Squadron. THe two ships decimated the force and moved on again. Nineteen ours later, they were attacked in the Chonsetta system by a dozen TIE Interceptors. Twilight Company had escaped with minor damages but the Thunderstrike's Hyperdrive was leaving a trail of Hypermatter for the empire to follow.

Gathering Supplies
Chalis conjured a plan to launch a Raid on an Imperial heavy freighter to get the necessary supplies for repairs. Twilight Company agreed and attacked a freighter in the Redhurne system. The attack began with boarding the freighter through Boarding pods. They then started clearing the ship of stormtroopers whilst Sergeant Fektrin led a trio of engineers. Fektrin died in the fighting along with one of his soldiers, Cappandar. Namir's squad went in to assist the squad led by Sergeant Maximian Ajax but lost Ajax in the crossfire. The mission was a success and despite the loss of eight Twilight members, Twilight Company could repair the Thunderstrike.

At Echo Base
The Alliance High Command invited Chalis and Captain Howl to Echo Base for a strategy conference. Evon chose Namir and two other soldiers, Roja and Beak to join them and they travelled to the Base on Hoth. In their absence, the rest of Twilight Company would rendezvous to a rebel flotilla in the Elochar sector to finish repairs to the Thunderstrike. Chalis, Howl, Namir and the other two arrived at Echo Base and were greeted by General Philap Bygar, who understood the dangers the High Command had put Twilight Company through. Whilst the conference went on, Namir, Roja and Beak did work around the base with the Alliance Special Forces personnel.

Namir got talking with a special forces soldier called Kryndal who recommended the training for Namir. Namir rejected the offer. Namir wasn't so optimistic about how much Kryndal's passion went for the Alliance and when challenging Kryndal about the ethics of the Galactic Civil War, the man swung at Namir and a fight broke out. Namir was punished for it put on lifting duty for freighters. There he met captain Han Solo, a notorious smuggler and captain in the Alliance. The man was making repairs to his freighter, the Millennium Falcon and Namir was carrying a bin of mechanical parts for the Millennium Falcon. When finished with the repairs&mdash;or given up&mdash;he brought out a bottle of Corellian whiskey and the two had a discussion about their joint view on the war. Once his punishment was over, found Roja and Beak and they talked about how stuck up the Special Forces personnel were. Howl and Chalis then returned with news of their imminent departure. However they didn't have time to leave before the Empire discovered and attacked Echo Base.

Battle of Hoth
Namir, Roja and Beak were assigned to Perimeter Outpost Delta where they prepared defend it from incoming Blizzard Force soldiers and attack transports. Roja was the first to spot Gozanti-class cruisers and Beak quickly deduced their use of carrying walkers and Namir prompted him to report that in. The first GR-75 medium transport, the Quantum Storm, escaped Hoth with the support of the rebel V-150 Planet Defender. Roja identified the situation to Namir after listening to the comm chatter. Outpost Beta confirmed Beak's suspicions by reporting incoming walkers. The outpost was subsequently destroyed by a dozen shots from AT STs, making it the first rebel outpost to be lost. Imperial scout forces began fanning out and some reached Perimeter Outpost Delta, prompting a firefight. The sole AT ST destroyed the outposts only turret and a female soldier sacrificed herself to ensure it's destruction. The other Imperial forces were either dead or retreating and Namir led the remaining soldiers to an abandoned HAVw A6 Juggernaut, which they took back to the main base.

When arriving back at Echo Base, a sergeant told Namir of the situation they were in and that the rebel ground forces were in full retreat. Namir, Roja and Beak then surveyed the corridors of the base and when reaching the command, they found Chalis stranded with the unconscious Captain Howl. Namir went off to scout the area for a hanger and found bodies including one of Kryndal's friends and who he thought might have been Kryndal himself. When Namir returned to the others they attempted to get to the hanger together when Darth Vader and a Cold assault stormtrooper squad arrived. The group fired at Vader who leaped at Beak and bisected him. Roja then threw a grenade at the Sith Lord which was deflected and knocked out Namir in the impact. When Namir awoke, Howl and Roja were dead and Chalis was swept aside by Vader. Namir and Chalis then fled the system on a shuttle using Chalis's clearance codes.

Meanwhile, the rest of Twilight Company was still with the flotilla and got infiltrated by Imperial spies posing as the surviving crew of the damaged light freighter Trumpet's Call. The spies stormed the bridge and slaughtered the officers before being killed by Brand and Gadren. The rest of the flotilla managed to get away after receiving a distress call from Lieutenant Sairgon before his demise. Twilight Company then fled to Ankhural when they had control of the Thunderstrike again. Namir and Chalis found them there using a list of locations Namir had gotten from Brand a while back.

Operation Ringbreaker
Twilight Company had no officers left, excluding the officers of the Apailana's Promise. Being the most high ranking on the Thunderstrike, Namir took charge and the soldiers soon started calling him captain. The Alliance Fleet was scattered with no orders from the High Command, Chalis decided to take advantage of an opening the Empire had left behind when chasing the rebels into the Outer Rim. Chalis planned an attack on the Kuat Drive Yards. It would require a prelude of attacks on Imperial installations to lure ships away and cost Twilight Company a lot of resources, but theoretically they could pull it off. Chalis called it Operation Ringbreaker and soon began their attacks.

First was the warehouse world of Mardona III where Twilight Company weaved through the underground labrinths planting explosives on tram tracks and other weak spots to the system. During the battle, Charmer and his squad were ambushed by an armoured worm vehical which left only Corbo alive. After questioning the Corbo about the vehicle, Namir led a team to ambush to avenge Charmer and his two unlucky squad members and caught the worm vehicle as the crew was disembarking. The worm vehicle was destroyed that day and it's crew were brutally killed with it. The second attack saw the destruction of the Imperial garrison on Obumubo. After that the Thunderstrike and Apailana's Promise decimated poorly defended Dockyards of Najan-Rovi.

But those victories would be easy compared to their Attack on Nakadia. There, they lost over a dozen Twilight Soldiers to biological weaponry. Namir soon realised the biological weapons came from Coyerti and was very angry at Chalis for not predicting the distillery's re-establishment. Despite the heavy losses, Twilight Company came victorious over the factory there and Twilight Company teared through the Installations on Naator and Xagobah soon after. After sabotaging mining equipment in the Kuliquo belt, Twilight Company had only Sullust and Malastare to go before reaching Kuat.

Stranded on Sullust
The course of the campaign changed when Twilight Company took the factory of Inyusu Tor on Sullust. The Thunderstrike was ambushed by a squadron of TIE Fighters when attempting to pick them up and was shot down. The Apailana's Promise and it's X-wings managed to flee the system intact. This left Twilight Company stranded.

Namir was struggling to know how they could get out of this situation. The Imperial-class Star Destroyer Herald was on the way and the local ground forces were preparing to attack. However, Namir was aware of a small Sullustan resistance force in the nearby capital city of Pinyumb. So Namir, his squad and Twitch's squad went to the city to find them. They found an abandoned safehouse where they were ambushed by stormtroopers who were searching the place. Twitch's squad was killed off quickly and Twitch abandoned Namir. Namir was then intercepted and captured by a stormtrooper. The rest of Namir's squad fled the city and went back to the rest of Twilight Company. Luckily Namir was quickly rescued by Sullustan resistance leader, Nien Nunb, who took him to the Sullustan resistance safe house. There, Namir met with the rest of the Sullustan resistance.

The Sullustan resistance consisted of three humans and Nien Nunb and could not help Namir very much. Despite that, Namir thought of a plan to take Pinyumb and have Twilight Company make a stand. In was a long shot and would involve trying to rally the scared members of the Cobalt Laborers' Reformation Front, Namir went back to Twilight Company to get the soldiers ready for a defence. But by then, Chalis had taken control and was running an operation to take the Pinyumb spaceport and give Twilight Company a fleet of merchant ships to escape on. Though Namir thought highly of this idea, he could not just abandon the Sullustans he promised to help. He had Gadren take Chalis away and Twilight Company set up defensive lines to make a stand at the factory.

The Siege of Inyusu Tor
The Star Destroyer Herald arrived and the Imperial forces advanced on the factory. The defensive lines set up and held against the ground forces for a certain amount of time but had to draw back to reduce the stress from advancing Imperial forces and the Herald which was shooting at scout and sniper positions. Soon enough the Herald soon found itself under attack by the Apailana's Promise and it's X-wings became distracted from the ground attack. The Imperial ground forces slowly pushed foward eventually being cut off by lava flow forge by Twilight engineers. Chalis escaped ran off on a speeder where she stole a Shuttle and flew up to the Herald. Chalis docked there and was greeted by Prelate Verge and Captain Tabor Seitaron. She then set off around twenty Ion bombs inside the shuttle, crippling the Herald's power. Chalis fought Verge and Tabor shot at them, killing Verge.

Tabor then ordered the Herald to retreat and Chalis escaped. Meanwhile, the ground forces reached the factory where their numbers dwindled until they were eventually defeated. The Sullustan resistance and Cobalt Ladborers managed to take Pinyumb in the meantime. This sparked further resistance on Sullust and the planet was taken. Namir and Twilight Company had taken sullust. They had lost over a third of their troops and the Apailana's Promise was drained and overheated from the battle. But Twilight Company was saved. Namir intended for them to vacate Sullust within two weeks to make them less of an Imperial target.

Personality and Traits
"How do you think you ended up in this mess in the first place? After you won the Clone Wars, the Emperor snatched up power, other leaders missed their chance and started a rebellion. Victory always brings infighting."

- Hazram Namir expressing his point of view of the War to Kryndal and his two friends

Hazram Namir was very pessimistic about the Galactic Civil War. Throughout his life on Crucival, he had seen factions come out victorious and be overthrown by others who sought their power. Namir thought the same thing about the Alliance to Restore the Republic and his belief got him into a fight with a very passionate Alliance Special Forces soldier named Kryndal. During his time at Echo Base Namir met Han Solo, who somewhat agreed with his views. However even Solo thought Namir was quite cynical about some aspects of the war.

Namir joined the rebellion to get back at the empire for killing his friends on Crucival and his main motivation for fighting was for his friends. When first meeting Howl, he recommended pillaging a nearby settlement for supplies. Howl therefore taught Namir that it was about winning the people's hearts and not robbing them. Namir thought to himself many times that if he didn't believe in the rebel cause, then he should leave. He would have left if he didn't care for his friends in Twilight Company so much. Becoming a leader to Twilight Company meant the Twilight Soldiers respected Namir and looked up to him. Namir became very close to his peers during his time as Captain of Twilight Company. When stranded on Sullust Namir refused to leave the Sullustans after seeing the state they were in when going around Pinyumb. Namir had to overthrow Everi Chalis's temporary leadership of Twilight Company in order for his soldiers to stay with him and fight for Sullust.

Behind the scenes
Hazram Namir first appeared as the main character in the 2015 canon novel Battlefront: Twilight Company, written by Alexander Freed.

Appearances

 * Battlefront: Twilight Company