Nym

"Five thousand credits up front, and you've got your hero."

- Nym

Nym was a Feeorin pirate leader who led the Lok Revenants. Known for his theft and subsequent use of a prototype Scurrg H-6 bomber, the Havoc, Nym's depredations eventually earned him the ire of the Trade Federation, who hired mercenary Vana Sage to capture and imprison him. However, Nym escaped from her imprisonment, only to find that Sage, who had been double-crossed by the Trade Federation herself, wished to ally with him to inflict further damage on the Trade Federation. Furthermore, the starfighter pilot Rhys Dallows, whose homeworld had been invaded by the Trade Federation, and the smuggler Reti joined with them as well. Together, the four launched a number of raids on Trade Federation property, culminating on attacks on the Trade Federation blockade of Naboo and the destruction of a Trade Federation droid production facility on Eos. Those actions earned Nym a pardon from the Republic, though he continued his life of piracy.

Shortly before the outbreak of the Clone Wars, Nym's forces came under attack by the Trade Federation once again, this time in the Karthakk system. With the aid of Reti, his wingman Jinkins, and Jedi Master Adi Gallia, Nym was able to destroy several illegal Trade Federation facilities, including a weapons plant producing a biological weapon known as trihexalon. During this time, he ran afoul of a Separatist-aligned mercenary named Cavik Toth, who was behind the trihexalon production. Undaunted, Nym continued to battle Toth's Sabaoth Squadron as well as the Trade Federation, to the point where he was able to seize back his base on Lok, which had been overrun by the Trade Federation years before. Once he did so, the Feeorin ran his operation from there, into the Galactic Civil War, in which he was seen as a Rebel sympathizer.

Early life
Nym was born during the waning years of the Galactic Republic. A male Feeorin, one of the last of his species, he was orphaned as a child on the tough streets of Lok, a barren and lawless world in the Mid Rim. Nym began to join up with the various pirate crews who frequented Lok's spaceports, and being raised by such harsh criminals tempered his physical skills and abrasive personality. By the time he had reached adulthood, Nym had earned a reputation as a capable pilot and mechanic, a fierce fighter, and a talented tactician. Nym took part in violent free-for-all fights in the Blood Pits of the smuggler's moon, Nar Shaddaa, once going toe-to-toe with a Trandoshan. After winning one contest, Nym received a tattoo; the symbol was at the time meaningless, but would take on signifigance later in the Feeorin's life. Having become well-known and highly respected throughout the underworld, Nym ultimately assembled his own, loyal crew of pirates and cutthroats and took to the space lanes, practicing piracy along the busy hyperlanes that went between the Core Worlds.

Nym quickly became a feared figure along the hyperlanes he plundered. He made every attempt to minimize the bloodshed during his raids, unlike many of his fellow pirates, known for cruelty and violent, relying instead on speed and effectiveness to get the job done. In 37 BBY, Nym was sought out by a Bith engineer named Jinkins, a member of the Nubian Design Collective and the chief designer of its Scurrg H-6 bomber project. The project never took off, however, and the Nubian Design Collective decided to scrap the idea, putting the sole prototype bomber into storage; frustrated at seeing his work scrapped, Jinkins plotted with Nym to steal the fighter. Nym launched his raid on a storage silo on Nubia, and made off with the experimental fighter&mdash;rechristened Havoc, it became Nym's personal raider. Jinkins also joined the Feeorin's band of pirates, making myriad modifications to the bomber, including the installation of formidable "bomblet generators." Jinkins became an important member of Nym's cortege, as did Kole, Nym's Chadra-Fan first mate and co-pilot, and an expert in disguise.

Outfoxed


Nym returned to Lok to construct a stronghold, which his pirate crew operated out of during their years of raiding Trade Federation supply lines along the Rimma Trade Route and the Corellian Trade Spine.

However, when Nym stole a cache of secret Scalphunter prototype weapons, the Federation hired the mercenary Vana Sage to track the pirate down. Nym was tricked by Sage in an attempt to use her as a go-between to sell the weaponry, and he was incarcerated in the bowels of the battleship Stockade. Fortunately for Nym, Kole and Jinkins were adept enough to infiltrate the battleship in the guise of expert torturers, and rescued their captain.

Capture and revenge
The Trade Federation eventually hired mercenary Vana Sage to capture Nym. She was successful in doing so, after luring him to deliver a cargo of illegal Merr-Sonn Headhunter blaster carbines, seizing his bomber and imprisoning him on a remote space station. However, shortly after Sage returned from a mission where the Trade Federation had attempted to eliminate her, Nym escaped. Sage tried to tell him about a droid factory on Eos, but Nym was less than grateful. He secured the mercenary in the very cell which she had held him and reclaimed the Havoc, heading back to his base on Lok.

Once there, Nym plotted a raid against a Trade Federation convoy near Lok. He and his forces were able to bring down a Trade Federation superfreighter in spite of considerable Trade Federation resistance. Nym's Revenants were able to fend off several groups of Scarab-class droid starfighters and Vulture droid starfighters, and even the arrival of a Trade Federation missile frigate was unable to stop the piracy. Nym guarded the ship while his crew scavenged its cargo, a droid control transmitter that was set for use in the Trade Federation droid army. Once the cargo was obtained, Nym flew cover for the pirate craft carrying it, fending off still more droids until the pirates could escape to Nym's base. However, the Trade Federation response to the theft of the transmitter was to send an invasion army to Lok, precipitating the First Battle of Lok.

Nym's Revenants were sent out to destroy waves of AATs, droid starfighters, and Trade Federation droid bombers intent on attacking his base in a night assault, aided by the defenses in the base. Nym also flew cover for his returning scouts, including the Bith mechanic Jinkins, the last scout to report back to base. The pirates launched several decoy freighters in order to draw off Trade Federation pursuit. However, as more droids approached, Nym evacuated his base, fending off the Trade Federation long enough to plant charges inside the base to destroy incoming C-9979 landing craft. However, one of the pirate freighters suffered engine damage and, unable to take off, was destroyed.

Nym, his base lost and thirsty for vengeance, returned to the station where he had left Sage, only to find that she had already been freed by the smuggler Reti and a Naboo starfighter pilot named Rhys Dallows. As all of them desired to strike against the Trade Federation, they teamed up, heading for the droid factory that Sage had previously discovered on Eos. First, Dallows and Reti had to clear out the orbital defenses situated above the planet. They did so and also assaulted a small freighter convoy departing the planet. Once that was done, Nym and Sage proceeded down to the surface of Eos.

There, Nym used the heavy weaponry on his Havoc against a number of targets: The Trade Federation landing pad, the command center, manufacturing plant, power station, factory, and an orbital defense cannon. The Trade Federation attempted to stop Nym and Sage by launching a number of Hunter-Seeker droids from Droid dispensers, but they were unable to stop Nym from completely destroying their facility. The bombs of the Havoc packed enough explosive power to demolish every key building on the facility, and Nym was glad to pay the Trade Federation back. However, the four pilots soon realized that there was trouble on Naboo, and headed there next.

Strikes on Naboo
Arriving in orbit over Naboo, Dallows, Sage, Nym, and Reti launched a strike on a Trade Federation freighter convoy. While Nym and the others held off the fighters, Reti boarded one of the Trade Federation superfreighters and reprogrammed a wing of Scarab droids to aid his companions. Furthermore, he was able to obtain a large cargo of munitions from the freighter and load them onto his ship, the Zoomer. Meanwhile, Nym, Dallows, and Sage attacked the rest of the convoy and its escorts, knocking out several Trade Federation missile frigates that were attempting to stop their thievery.

From there, while Dallows and Reti made a supply run to assist the beleaguered Naboo resistance, Nym and Sage attacked part of the Trade Federation droid army that was en route to the Battle of Grassy Plains. Their efforts helped win the battle, and Nym earned a pardon from Supreme Chancellor Palpatine himself. For a time, Nym took a job with the Republic Special Task Force to advise its pirate-fighting patrols, but soon returned to his old ways. Some time later, he was involved with a cantina brawl on Commenor and weapons sales on Sullust, before turning up once more on Rodia in 26 BBY, helping Jannik the White win a ceremonial battle against Cairn Clan. Nym next was hired to eliminate Sol Sixxa from Maramere. However he found that he and Sixxa both desired to overthrow the Trade Federation.

Battling on Maramere
"Eat plasma, Neimoidian!"

- Nym to Harro Ruuk

Shortly before the Clone Wars, Nym and his forces were operating out of the Karthakk system. However, while on Maramere attempting to steal codes to an orbital prison station, he and the Revenants came under attack by a number of Trade Federations watercraft and starfighters. Thankfully for him, his old smuggler acquaintance Reti along with Jedi Master Adi Gallia, arrived and fended off the Trade Federation craft long enough for Nym's forces to steal the codes and evacuate. Nym was reluctant to trust Gallia, but she was able to persuade him that she was there to help investigate illegal Trade Federation activities in the system.

From there, Nym led the Revenants, Reti, and Gallia to Space Station 1138, the orbital prison whose codes he'd obtained. Fighting his way through hordes of droid starfighters, Nym and his companions flew cover for the Liberator until the larger ship could free Captain Orsai and some of his other Mere Resistance members from the prison. Once that was completed, Nym returned to Maramere to plot his next move. Realizing that the Trade Federation had been using a sizable sensor station in order to spy on his movements, Nym moved to destroy it. Escorting a pair of ships equipped with demolitions charges, Nym and his group blasted their way through the Trade Federation defenses. Engaging starfighters, Trade Federation U-boats, floating mines, laser turrets and tractor towers, Nym's forces were able to successfully demolish the sensor station. Upon its destruction, however, the Trade Federation leader in the Karthakk system, Harro Ruuk, emerged in a large submersible vehicle. In response, Nym and his pirates destroyed this as well after a prolonged fight.

Nym then planned on leading his Revenants, the Mere Resistance, Gallia, and Reti in a strike on a Trade Federation mining facility on Mount Merakan. However, before they arrived there, Gallia received a distress call from the settlement of Point Modie, which was under attack by trihexalon-based weaponry. Gallia went off to save the civilians there, accompanied by Sixxa and Reti, leaving Nym, Jinkins, and the rest of his forces to target the mining facility and the freighters that were there. Though the target was defended by numerous starfighters and missile turrets, Nym was able to destroy the ore extractors and landing pads of the facility, which he surmised was used to mine the components used in producing trihexalon. During this time, Nym and the Revenants learned that they were up against Captain Cavik Toth, the leader of the mercenary unit Sabaoth Squadron.

Raids on Nod Kartha
Gallia and Nym then prioritized the disruption and destruction of all trihexalon production facilities. As such, they next struck at Nod Kartha, where there was a trihexalon plant. However, they first had to punch through the world's orbital defenses. Bringing in two Mere cruisers, the Kethor and the Tritus, Nym's forces arrived over the planet in force. The Kethor was quickly struck by fire from the defensive platforms, leading Nym to rally his fighters to defeat incoming Trade Federation droid bombers before they could destroy the Mere Cruisers. Once the bombers were defeated, Nym's forces struck at the orbital defense platforms, hoping to open a hole in them to grant him access to the planet's surface. Even the arrival of several Sabaoth Frigates and their fighter escorts wasn't enough to stop Nym's squadron, and he defeated the mercenaries. However, during the fray, the bounty hunter Jango Fett arrived in pursuit of Reti, who had to jump into hyperspace to escape Fett, though the bounty hunter pursued him.

Once he arrived on the surface of Nod Kartha, Nym led a commando team to assault a series of shield bunkers protecting the trihexalon plant, planting demolitions in each one to weaken the shield and render the plant vulnerable to assault. With Gallia and Jinkins flying cover, he was able to destroy all five of them despite waves of Trade Federation STAPs, battle droids, and AATs. At the last bunker, Nym ordered his team to fight to the death to defend the charges they had set on the bunker. However, Adi Gallia set her fighter down near the bunker and fought her way inside, defending Nym and his pirates to allow them to retreat. The Jedi Master and Feeorin pirate had just made it out of the bunker when it exploded, eliminating the shield and leaving the trihexalon plant open to assault. Nym then returned to the Havoc to launch a final assault on the plant.

Nym used the Havoc to clear off the landing pad on the plant with the aid of his gunner, Kole, destroying battle droids and laser turrets, to allow Sol Sixxa to land and enter the plant in order to open the hangar doors. While Sixxa did so, Nym fended off waves of Sabaoth fighters and Trade Federation dropships that attempted to reinforce the plant's defenses. Once Sixxa opened the doors, Nym flew the Havoc inside to knock out a transmitter inside the plant. That action exposed five solar reflection towers, which Nym then destroyed to grant him access to the plant's reactor core. Nym then blew up the reactor core with his ship, destroying the weapons plant once and for all. After the battle was won, though, Adi Gallia departed the Karthakk system for Geonosis, having learned that Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi was in trouble there. Nym was sorry to see her go, as the Feeorin pirate had built up a measure of respect for her.

Nym then took the Revenants into orbit of Nod Kartha, in order to salvage parts for an Orbital Defense Cannon. However, a Sabaoth Destroyer arrived and began deploying Sabaoth Squadron tugs, along with Sabaoth and droid fighters, to take the cannon for their own. Nym led his fighters in battle once more, destroying waves of tugs and fighters while his own tugs retrieved parts for the cannon and took them back to the Tritus. However, once all the parts were recovered, three Sabaoth frigates arrived in a final attempt to seize the cannon. Those, too, were unable to stop Nym and the Revenants from escaping with the cannon, though.

Reclaiming his base
From there, Nym took the parts of the cannon to Khons, a moon of Lok, to begin re-constructing it. Before he arrived, though, he learned that several starfighters and the Tritus had failed to make it to Khons due to engine trouble. Instead, Nym had Captain Juno of the Tritus send the cannon parts to Khons via hyperspace tug to begin assembly as soon as possible. However, he first had to destroy the Trade Federation presence there, which included capital ship turrets, missile launchers, starfighters, and Trade Federation missile frigates. Nym, Jinkins, and the other Revenants defeated the Trade Federation forces once more, buying time for the cannon to be assembled. As it was nearing completion, a Trade Federation cruiser arrived insystem and began firing cruise missiles at the cannon. Nym and the Revenants shot down the cruise missiles until the cannon was ready to fire; the weapon completely destroyed the cruiser.

Nym then led the Revenants down to the surface of Lok to reclaim his base, which the Trade Federation had converted into a refueling station. For this battle, he was joined by his old acquaintance Vana Sage. Nym used the Orbital Defense Cannon to good effect during the battle, calling down fire on large Trade Federation targets such as dropships and missile frigates. He then fended off large numbers of AATs and starfighters that emerged from the base in order to cover three transports that were carrying a strike team to assault the base. During the battle, Cavik Toth fled the station in his personal fighter, and was pursued by Sage, while the Revenants continued their assault. Once the strike team, led by Sixxa, blasted open the doors, Nym flew the Havoc inside to knock out the docks inside the base. In the final stages of the battle, though, Lieutenant Bella, Cavik Toth's second in command, emerged in her personal craft and entered the fray. Nym and his forces shot her down, killing her. With the end of Trade Federation and Sabaoth resistance, Nym had successfully reclaimed his base.

Upon learning that Toth had taken a fleet of Hex Deployers and Hex Bombers to the Outer Rim world of Geonosis, Nym sent a message to Gallia warning her of the danger. Nym then led the Revenants to Geonosis, and assisted Adi Gallia in repelling Toth's fleet. Gallia slew Toth in the battle and the hex threat was defeated. Following the Battle of Geonosis, Jedi Master Mace Windu offered Nym a position as commander of the Karthakk system. He declined, preferring to "keep his options open." However, Gallia accompanied him back to the Karthakk system, and he parted on friendly terms with the Jedi.

Galactic Civil War
"Isn't he the pirate who's been raiding supply transports along the Corellian Trade Spine?"

- Dusque Mistflier on Nym

From his base on Lok, he became the leader of his people, and during the Galactic Civil War he was a Rebel Alliance sympathizer, although he never openly supported either side. He attacked transports, usually Imperial, along the Corellian Trade Spine and helped Rebel pilots who became stranded on his planet. While on Tatooine, Commander Oberhaur of the Storm Squadron dispatched their newest recruit on several missions to Lok in order to disrupt Nym's affairs.

In 1.5 ABY, Nym's stronghold was visited by Finn Darktrin, an Imperial agent posing as a member of the Rebel Alliance and Dusque Mistflier, a former Imperial biologist who had been forced to flee the Empire. Darktrin, whom Nym owed a favor, and Mistflier met the Feeorin pirate in a cantina on Lok. Nym was impressed with Darktrin's choice of company, proclaiming that Mistflier was far better than his company on a previous occasion, and asked Darktrin what he wanted. As it turned out, Darktrin wanted a ship to get himself and his companion to the Core Worlds. Nym, however, denied the request, saying that what he owed Darktrin wasn't worth it. He did agree to make a business deal with Darktrin, though. If Darktrin and Mistflier brought back part of a hyperspace map from some corsairs that held it in a nearby camp, Nym said he would provide them the transportation they needed. Darktrin begrudgingly accepted the deal and Nym gave them permission to use his armory for any supplies or weapons they needed for their mission.

It wasn't long before Mistflier and Darktrin returned bearing the map, having successfully defeated the corsairs. They arrived back at Nym's stronghold just as the pirate was being pitched a recruitment spiel to openly work with the Rebel Alliance by smuggler Han Solo and his Wookiee first mate, Chewbacca. Nym insisted that he would stay out of the war, rejecting Solo's offer, but upon seeing Darktrin, he did honor his deal, providing them with a transport and a Mon Calamari pilot named Peralli. Furthermore, he also provided a crate of weaponry for the pair as a parting gift before he sent them on their way to Corellia, escorted by Solo and Chewbacca in their own ship, the Millennium Falcon.

Personality and traits
Fearsome in nature and appearance to many of the galaxy's inhabitants, like all Feeorin, Nym only grew stronger with age. His reputation as a ruthless strategist and combatant even made the Empire hesitant to cross him and his organization. He was raised by criminals in the Outer Rim, and his impoverished youth afforded him time to practice his tactical skills. The Feeorin pirate was later regarded as a brilliant tactician in his own right, and was respected for his abilities. Nym was also unafraid to challenge powerful organizations, such as the Trade Federation, or launch raids deep into the Core Worlds. After his capture by Vana Sage, Nym became even more willing to target Trade Federation facilities and vessels. In battle, he was prepared to sacrifice himself if he believed the cause important. While he was unwilling to stand and fight over the loss of his base during its capture by the Trade Federation, Nym felt that the destruction of a weapons plant producing trihexalon was worth fighting to the last man for, though he and his demolition team were ultimately saved from a group of battle droids by Jedi Master Adi Gallia.

Nym could also be vengeful, such as when he imprisoned Sage even though the mercenary tried to tell him how the Trade Federation turned on her as well. He was prone to fits of anger in combat, often shouting threats over the communication system when his opponents taunted him&mdash;threats that were usually swiftly made good upon. He was also a loyal pirate leader, who looked after his friends and comrades. Nym often placed his own welfare in jeopardy to rescue his assistant, Jinkins, and expressed regret at the loss of others, such as the presumed death of Reti at the hands of Jango Fett. He had a distrust of Jedi, however, although his suspicion towards Jedi Master Adi Gallia did soften after she helped him free the Karthakk system from the Trade Federation. His friendship with Gallia even caused him to bring his Revenants to aid her in battling Cavik Toth over Geonosis, although Toth was also a personal enemy of Nym's.

Another trait of Nym's was his independence. At the onset of the Clone Wars, the Republic offered him a position as commander of the Karthakk system, but he refused the offer. In his rejection, Nym said that he preferred to keep his options open. Years later, during the Galactic Civil War, he rejected another offer, this time from Rebel Han Solo, to join the Rebel Alliance, despite Solo's promises of lucrative rewards and opportunities. However, that did not stop him forming temporary partnerships with people such as Rhys Dallows and even his former enemy Vana Sage in order to strike at the Trade Federation.

Nym enjoyed the company of humanoid females he considered attractive and witty, even those outside his species. He was also willing to honor a debt or a favor that he owed someone, though the extent to which he was return the favor depending on his interpretation of its worth. He was also a businessman, willing to make deals with people in exchange for services or tasks that he wanted performed.

Personal craft
Nym's personal starfighter was called the Havoc. He and his Bith assistant, Jinkins, stole it from Nubian Design Collective and added a lethal energy bomblet generator. After Nym's raiders took the vessel, they heavily modified the craft. At the time of the invasion of Naboo, the Havoc boasted six laser cannons, two bomb chutes for the generator, and automated dorsal turret. It was later upgraded with an advanced version of the bomblets known as the plasma scourge.

Nym added more weaponry to his ship in later years. Shortly before the Clone Wars, the Havoc was loaded with cruise missiles in addition to the bomblet generator, and later also equipped cluster missiles and proximity mines. These heavy weapons allowed Nym to destroy entire bases or freighter convoys with the Havoc, serving him well during his battle against Cavik Toth and the Trade Federation.

Behind the scenes
Nym was voiced by Charles Rocket in both Star Wars: Starfighter and Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter.

Appearances

 * Single Cell
 * Star Wars: Starfighter
 * Starfighter: Crossbones
 * Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter
 * Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided
 * Star Wars Galaxies: The Ruins of Dantooine
 * ''Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds

Notes and references
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