Nokk

"I don't like it." "You don't like anything, Nokk. You're famous for it."

- Nokk and Winloss

Nokk was a Trandoshan who worked as a hunter with her husband Winloss. After being exiled from her clan, she swore to a life of non-violence, hunting to capture rather than to kill. She and Winloss were hired by Doctor Chelli Aphra as part of Aphra's attempt to escape being eaten alive by the Shadowfang Beast. Nokk and her husband survived the ordeal, but were abandoned by Aphra before they could be paid.

The two later received a new job from a disguised Cornelius Evazan, who tasked them with the destruction of the assassin droid 0-0-0. While initially refusing, Nokk discovered Aphra was with the droid, and decided to take the offer. She and Winloss found their targets on Milvayne, being hunted by the undead vigilante Tam Posla and the assassin droid BT-1. Nokk intervened and impaled Posla through the chest. While Aphra and Triple-Zero managed to briefly escape them, the hunters eventually led the fugitives into a trap, capturing them. Before Nokk and Winloss could take their captives away, the Coalition for Progress, in response to the disorder caused by the chase, fired on the city, forcing the hunters to escape from their crashing speeder.

Early life
"My clan exiled me and drowned my sisters because I refused to skin a newborn Wookiee."

- Nokk

When Nokk was young, her clan forced her to skin a newborn Wookiee, which she refused to do. As a punishment, Nokk's sisters were drowned and she was exiled. She was later married to the human Winloss, and the pair of them took jobs as hunters together. As a hunter, Nokk refused to kill any innocent creature due to her traumatic past.

At some point, Winloss paid a promiscuous tutorial droid on Tatooine to learn pickpocketing routines, which irritated Nokk.

Hired by Aphra
"Look, I didn't want to demoralize you, but&mdash;truth is&mdash;" "&mdash;we're not the first hunters you've hired."

- Chelli Aphra and Nokk

When the archaeologist Doctor Chelli Aphra was swallowed alive by the Shadowfang Beast while attempting to steal an idol from a temple on X3-299-11, she hired several hunters to subdue the creature and allow her to escape. When all the previous hunters were either killed or fatally wounded in attempt to reach the beast, Aphra contacted Winloss, giving them the job. Nokk and Winloss traveled to the distant world, where they reached the opening to the temple. Aphra contacted the two hunters via hologram, lying and telling them that she represented an individual who wished to have the beast subdued and left alive. Despite feeling that Aphra was untrustworthy, Nokk accepted the job, and she and Winloss entered the temple.

As Nokk and Winloss walked, they argued about what weapons they should use, becoming distracted. Over the holoprojector, Aphra told them to duck. Nokk leapt at Winloss, knocking them both out of the way of a volley of spears that were shot at them. Winloss noticed the corpse of Ro Thran, another hunter who had been killed by the spears some time earlier. Nokk grabbed the holoprojector, demanding Aphra to explain why she knew the spears would be coming. As they dodged several more spears, Aphra explained that the temple they were in was full of many ancient traps. Nokk was distracted by a Vortex of Fiery Dematerialization, which Aphra warned her to look away from. Winloss forced Nokk away from the object, and Aphra continued to lead them through the temple.

Winloss noticed what he thought was the priceless idol, and wanted to take it, but Nokk refused, telling him that they had to uphold their reputation. When Winloss protested, Nokk retold him of her past, explaining why they had to do things the right way. Aphra, who was unable to hear or see them as the holoprojector had been closed, informed them that the idol nearby was fake, and that it would activate a tractor beam device. The hunters look up and saw Trapper Pehk stuck on the device, who warned them not to trust Aphra. Aphra told them that they were standing in one of the Shadowfang Beast's feeding sites, and Nokk turned around to see the beast heading towards them.

She demanded her Vr'gedian tranquilizer harpoon from Winloss, who also noticed the creature. Nokk took the harpoon from Winloss and leapt at the beast, but its scales broke the harpoon, and the creature threw Nokk aside. Winloss shot at the creature, but the blast only charged up its resonance-absorptive shield, causing it to jump up and swallow Pehk, retreating into a cave. Winloss went over to Nokk, asking if she had been hurt. Winloss turned to the hologram of Aphra, demanding to know the truth, but Aphra was reluctant to speak. Nokk interrupted, realizing that they were not the first hunters Aphra had hired. They avoided several more traps as Aphra explained that all their competition was dead, a line of thinking that Nokk did not like.

As they overcame more traps, Winloss asked what had happened when he had shot at it, but Aphra only warned them of more spears. Nokk, tired of Aphra avoiding answering questions, caught a spear that flew at her, demanding that she answered Winloss. Aphra explained the nature of the Shadowfang Beast and warned them of several thermodrones, which Winloss shot with his blaster. The hunters then discovered the beast's lair, noticing that the real idol had been taken. Aphra told them that the creature had attacked several other hunters at that point, and as she spoke, the creature emerged. Aphra told them to run, but Nokk said not to, pushing Winloss out of the beast's way and into a cavern where they discovered one of their rivals, the Twi'lek hunter Squoxx.

Squoxx asked the two hunters to kill the beast and take him back to King Prana, telling them that they would be rewarded for doing so. Nokk noticed that Squoxx's lekku had been bitten off, and that he would die within an hour. She quietly told Winloss that they should use Squoxx as bait for the creature, and they tied him up, throwing him back into the beast's lair. However, the creature did not take the bait, and Nokk guessed that it was blind and only used its hearing to navigate the caverns. As a distraction, she asked Winloss to run in the opposite direction and shout so she could sneak up behind the beast and subdue it with an electro cudgel. Noticing that the creature's scales had broken from when she hit it with her harpoon, she leapt onto it, hitting the exposed skin with the cudgel. The strike successfully knocked the beast out, and the hunters then asked Aphra about their payment. Attempting to manipulate them into killing the beast while it was subdued, Aphra told them that she would pay them nothing.

Angry at her, Nokk threatened to kill the creature with a crossbow. Aphra taunted Nokk, saying that as an "ethical Trandoshan", she couldn't. Nokk handed the crossbow to Winloss, asking him to do it, but he was unable to bring himself to do it, and threw the crossbow behind him. Squoxx, who was lying on the ground, caught it and shot the Shadowfang Beast, killing it at the same time as he died. Aphra then shot her way out of the creature, revealing that she had been inside it the entire time. As she took off the null suit that had let her survive being eaten, Nokk realized that she had hired hunters because blasters would cause the creature's shield to kill her. Aphra escaped the cave with a jetpack, leaving Nokk and Winloss behind. Winloss then revealed that he had stolen the idol from Aphra with the pickpocketing skills he had learned, and the two hunters walked out of the cave.

A chance for revenge
"Nokk, that's&mdash;that's Aphra. That's the little rat who left us in the terror temple! Nearly got us killed!" "Ssss. I know who she is, Winloss. Why do you think my face is such a vision of incandescent rage?"

- Winloss and Nokk

Some time later, Nokk and Winloss received another job offer, apparently from Princess Leia Organa of the Rebel Alliance, unaware that "Organa" was actually Doctor Cornelius Evazan disguising himself with a pluripleq. As they docked their ship with Evazan's, Nokk was suspicious of the legitimacy of their client. Winloss, however, was confident, so the two hunters met with "Organa". In the disguise of Organa, Evazan requested that they hunt down and destroy the Triple-Zero protocol personality matrix within the assassin droid 0-0-0, claiming it was an enemy of the Rebellion. As a hunter of creatures rather than a killer, Nokk refused, still suspecting that "Organa" was not who she claimed to be.

As she went to leave, she noticed the viewscreen Evazan had been watching, showing a live feed from 0-0-0's photoreceptors. Visible on the screen was Doctor Aphra, who had been linked with the droid via proximity bombs, and forced to stay near him. Both Nokk and Winloss recognized the archaeologist who had almost gotten them killed, and Nokk was angered at the sight of her. "Organa" gave them a new deal, telling them to only incapacitate 0-0-0 but to kill Aphra. Winloss and Nokk accepted instantly, leaving the ship to begin their hunt. As they left, Evazan removed his disguise, expressing his lack of faith for the hunters' success.

The hunters made their way to the planet Milvayne, where Aphra and Triple-Zero were being confronted by the bounty hunter Tam Posla, whose corpse was reanimated by Force-powered gundravian hookspores. Winloss suggested using thermal flechettes, but Nokk instead used her Vr'gedian tranquilizer harpoon to impale Posla. While Winloss expressed his disappointment at not using his choice of weapon and Nokk disagreed, Aphra recognized the hunters with dismay.

As Nokk and Winloss continued to argue, Aphra remembered their policy of non-lethality, claiming she and Triple-Zero would be safe. However, when the hunters confronted Aphra, Winloss claimed that she had been pointing a blaster at them, and that shooting her would be self-defense. Nokk asked Winloss for their ion-net launcher, but Winloss believed he should be the one to use it. They turned around to notice the assassin droid BT-1, who had been reprogrammed by Posla, about to fire at them. Winloss threw himself and Nokk out of the way, and the two used the ion-net to disable the BT-1 assassin droid, diving aside before he could fire again.

Aphra and Triple-Zero escaped while the hunters were distracted, and Evazan confirmed his doubts about their abilities. Wanting the chase to become more exciting, Evazan broadcast a message across Milvayne City, claiming to provide a bounty on either the capture or death of Aphra and Triple-Zero. Posla, once again revived by the hookspores, pulled Nokk's tranquilizer harpoon out from himself, throwing it aside and resuming his hunt. Posla successfully captured Aphra and Triple-Zero with the help of Vulaada Klam, but Aphra managed to turn the Milvayne Authority officers against him and escaped to a fuelstop, where she repaired Triple-Zero, who had been shot in two by Klam.

At the same time, Nokk and Winloss devised a plan to catch her and end the chase. When Triple-Zero was repaired, Nokk threw another tranquilizer harpoon at the two fugitives, narrowly missing Aphra, who Triple-Zero grabbed before leaping aside and catching onto a passing freighter. Nokk pursued them through the air with a jetpack, firing stun shots in their direction. She threw a harpoon between Triple-Zero and Aphra, separating them. As she was about to throw another harpoon, her jetpack abruptly threw her to the side, where she seemingly disappeared. Triple-Zero, noticing Beetee on a nearby speeder, leapt across to see him, followed by Aphra. However, Beetee was still disabled due to the hunters' ion-net, and had been placed on the speeder as a trap. Winloss, who was driving the vehicle, activated a cage that surrounded the fugitives, and Nokk returned to the speeder, acknowledging the success of their plan.

Unknown to the hunters, Aphra and Triple-Zero's capture angered the viewers of the feed from the droid's eyes, who had come to support them in the chase. A captain of the Galactic Empire's Coalition for Progress, from his flagship Enduring Pride, was ordered to pacify the aggression, firing down into the city. Winloss noticed the rail gun fire, and Nokk tried to move the speeder to avoid it, but the resulting explosion took out one of the engines. As the speeder descended, Nokk and Winloss ejected, leaving their captives trapped in the falling vehicle.

Personality and traits
"Pretty crazy, right? A nonlethal Trandoshan. That's&mdash;that's our gimmick, actually."

- Winloss, to Chelli Aphra

Despite being a Trandoshan&mdash;who were known for their love of violent hunting&mdash;Nokk's past led her to vow to never kill any innocent creature. She was sickened at the sight of the dead Shadowfang Beast, even though it had nearly killed both her and Winloss. However, she had no issue with taking the life of any sentient being who had chosen to risk it, and chose to do so when using a dying Squoxx as bait. She also accepted a job offer that involved killing Doctor Aphra, and was eager to do so for revenge.

As a Trandoshan, she was often hostile to humans, and even found it difficult to show kindness to her husband, Winloss. While carrying out the hunting mission assigned by Aphra, Nokk managed to work out several of the real details of Aphra's plan, leading Aphra to call her a "smart reptile".

Equipment
"We'll use a Vr'gedian tranquilizer harpoon. No lasting damage." "Nuh-uh&mdash;the electro cudgels are way better suited for the big specimens."

- Nokk and Winloss

Nokk utilized several non-lethal weapons, such as tranquilizer harpoons and electro cudgels, weapons that would leave no lasting damage on creatures that she used them on. She wore purple armor and a torn yellow cloak.

Behind the scenes
Nokk first appeared in the 2018 canon comic Doctor Aphra Annual 2: Winloss and Nokk, which was written by Simon Spurrier and pencilled by Caspar Wijngaard.

Appearances

 * Doctor Aphra Annual 2: Winloss and Nokk
 * Doctor Aphra 27: Worst Among Equals, Part II
 * Doctor Aphra 28: Worst Among Equals, Part III
 * Doctor Aphra 29: Worst Among Equals, Part IV