Voren Na'al/Legends

"It has long been a maxim of my profession that those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it."

- Voren Na'al

Voren Na'al was a prominent historian of the Rebel Alliance and New Republic.

Na'al's beginning in the Alliance came while serving as a stringer for the Galactic News Service on the planet Corsin in the Greater Plooriod Cluster. While covering the prestigious swoop races there, a platoon of stormtroopers burst into the press area and placed everyone under arrest. Later, Na'al discovered that the Galactic Empire had deposed the government of the beautiful, life-loving world and replaced it with one dedicated to the New Order, dispensing with civil rights and placing the entire population under a police state. This event drove Na'al into the arms of the Rebel Alliance.

Na'al was placed in the historian corps, under Master Historian Arhul Hextrophon. Hextrophon assigned Na'al to write an account of the Battle of Yavin and the events surrounding it. Impressed with his work, Hextrophon tasked Na'al with generating an executive summary of a 168,000 DSUs report on the growth, organization, equipment, activities and objectives of the Alliance for Mon Mothma herself. Na'al completed the summary in 3 ABY prior to the Imperial discovery of Echo Base, which went on to become the basis for the Alliance's officer training manual. Following the difficult battles of 3 and 4 ABY, Na'al wrote detailed accounts of the Battle of Hoth and the Battle of Endor, which joined his record of Yavin.

After the events at Endor, Na'al was tasked with presenting the report to the Provisional Council of the Alliance of Free Planets regarding the Battle of Bakura. Na'al's report, the conclusions of which advocated suppressing information about the Ssi-ruuk to the galaxy at large and committing a task force to negotiate with the Ssi-ruuvi Imperium from a position of strength, was provocative to say the least.

Voren Na'al was eventually promoted to the positions of Director of Council Research for the New Republic and Assistant Historian to the Republic. He compiled reports on the campaigns of Grand Admiral Thrawn against the New Republic as well of those of the cloned Palpatine. He also began growing close to former New Republic Intelligence agent Rivoche Tarkin, niece of the infamous Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin, who provided him with firsthand accounts of the devastation of Coruscant in her new profession as journalist.

Voren eventually retired as Head of New Republic Council Research, becoming a history professor. He and Rivoche Tarkin were married, and had several children together. Nearly ten years after the destruction of Mount Tantiss, he enlisted the help of one of his students, the Devaronian Pollo Tipn, in investigating for Mon Mothma some unusual reports emanating from the Kathol Sector, reports connected to Grand Admiral Thrawn.

Following the Yuuzhan Vong War, Na'al became the Archivist Emeritus of the Historical Council of the Galactic Federation of Free Alliances. He oversaw the release of the second edition of an important historical chronicle, around the time of the events of the Killik expansion.