- "Beautiful world, Nakadia."
- ―Mon Mothma, to Tolwar Wartol
Nakadia was an agricultural planet in the Expansion Region located just off of the Rimma Trade Route and the homeworld of the Nakadian species. In 3 ABY, Twilight Company destroyed the planet's plastoid factories, where farm crops were made into armor-grade polymers and synthetic resins. In 5 ABY, Nakadia began serving as the headquarters of the New Republic Senate and the galactic capital of the New Republic for a full year cycle.
Description[]
- "Interesting fact about Nakadia. We liberated them from the Empire and now they provide a great deal of the food for our troops. Something about the soil composition—it's just right to grow a variety of crops. It's a pristine environment with a huge food yield for us. The vote to make it a Class A protected planet—well, that was an easy vote. You voted yes. We all did. We came together on that one."
- ―Mon Mothma, to Tolwar Wartol
Nakadia was a terrestrial agricultural world[5] located within an intersecting portion of the Expansion Region[1] and the Trailing Sectors region.[2] It was situated just off of the Rimma Trade Route at the coordinates M-15 on the Standard Galactic Grid.[1] The planet had two moons[3] and a Type I atmosphere[4] that was breathable to various species, including humans. The pastoral air was warm with faint breezes, and the weather included rain. At the peak of day, Nakadia's sky had a violet tinge, while at night, the two moons lit up the sky.[3]
Much of Nakadia's terrain comprised of hills[5] and crop and pasture fields,[3] with forests of neck-high stalks of leafy flora.[5] The planet had a unique soil composition that allowed it to grow a variety of vital crops,[3] including ones which could be processed into plastoid.[5] Due to its pristine environment, the Nakadia was classified by the New Republic as a Class A protected planet. As a result, certain agricultural products like pta fruits were not allowed on Nakadia since they were considered invasive and might disturb the world's protected ecosystem.[3]
History[]
Site of war[]
- "We—you and your squad—destroyed enough biotoxin to save millions. Maybe more. But the Empire has been building its arsenal for decades. How much do you think is stored in dusty armories and warehouses across the galaxy? If I'd known there was any present on Nakadia, I might have chosen a different target. We'll be better prepared next time."
- ―Everi Chalis, to Hazram Namir, on the bioweapons on Nakadia
During the Clone Wars,[3] a galactic war between the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems which spanned 22 BBY to 19 BBY,[8] Nakadia was occupied Separatist Droid Army, which came in waves of battle droids.[3] By the time of the Galactic Civil War between the Galactic Empire, the Republic's successor, and Rebel Alliance, Nakadia supported the Empire's war efforts[7] through its plastoid factories, which processed millions of tonnes of the planet's farm crops into armor-grade polymers and synthetic resins. A warehouse was also established high in Nakadia's hills to store some of the Empire's stockpile of bioweapons. The Empire's development on Nakadia had been assisted with by Everi Chalis, an emissary to the Imperial Ruling Council and honorary Grand Architect of the New Order.[5]
Twilight Company (patch pictured) attacked Nakadia's plastoid factories as part of Operation Ringbreaker.
In 3 ABY,[8] Chalis defected to the Alliance's 61st Mobile Infantry—better known as Twilight Company— and devised a campaign, named Operation Ringbreaker, against the Empire's Kuat Drive Yards. The campaign targeted weaker Imperial logistical hubs to draw redeployments from the Drive Yards. Nakadia's plastoid factories were fourth target of the campaign, and Twilight Company, led by the assumed Captain Hazram Namir, soon deployed there. Twilight squads made covert strikes on the factories under the cover of night before retreating into the forests. In response to the rebel attacks, the Empire deployed airspeeders equipped with bioweapons from the warehouse, which used the toxins to kill many rebel soldiers, including one named Maediyu. After Twilight Company located the warehouse, Namir, wrapped heavily in protective gear, led a taskforce of over a dozen alien soldiers to the bioweapon stockpile and burned the place down. Twilight Company won its operation on Nakadia not long after.[5]
In the meantime, the Rebel Alliance Intelligence Service was vetting Operation Ringbreaker, and General Crix Madine listed Nakadia among the targets in a report on the campaign's first phase that was sent to the Alliance's Commander-in-Chief Mon Mothma. The report later came into the hands of archivist Hendri Underholt, who included it among a compilation of non-electronic documents called the The Rebel Files.[7] Operation Ringbreaker was soon stalled at the planet Sullust, where Namir chose to abandon the campaign after thinking about Twilight Company's goal to make change in the galaxy. In his thoughts, he had looked back at the worlds that his company had left behind, like Nakadia.[5]
New Republic capital[]
The five vote conspiracy[]
- "Nakadia isn't allowing us to land, Senator."
"And why would that be?"
"They're saying that preliminary scans indicate we are host to a restricted agricultural product. Potentially invasive." - ―Tolwar Wartol is informed by one of his pilots
In 4 ABY, as the tide of the war turned against the Empire at the Battle of Endor, and the Alliance transitioned into the New Republic, headed by Chancellor Mon Mothma.[8] Nakadia was soon liberated from the Empire and became a major exporter of food for New Republic troops. The New Republic Senate also passed a bill designating Nakadia as a Class A protected planet.[3] After the Empire made an attack on the New Republic capital world of Chandrila[9] in 5 ABY,[8] the New Republic chose to relocate its capital to[9] Nakadia's capital city of Quarrow for a year cycle. Before travelling to Nakadia all senators were sent messages to their personal digital folders, reminding them about the world's restrictions against potentially invasive species like certain agricultural products.[3]
Mon Mothma (pictured) brought a pta fruit, which was banned on Nakadia, aboard Tolwar Wartol's cruiser to stall the first senate session on the planet.
Around the same time, the majority of the Empire's forces was discovered to have been amassing at the planet Jakku, near the edge of the Unknown Regions. Mothma brought forward a resolution to attack the Imperial fleet at Jakku, but the initial vote failed when five senators—Ashmin Ek, Rethalow, Grelka Sorka, Nim Tar, and Dor Wieedo—were secretly blackmailed or bribed into opposing by the now allied Black Sun and Red Key Raiders syndicates, which wanted to prolong the war so their operations could continue to benefit. Mothma had suspicions that the Orishen Senator Tolwar Wartol, her main opponent in the senate, could have had a hand in influencing the opposing votes, as the five senators were known to vote with Wartol.[3]
The re-vote on the Jakku resolution was set to take place during the first senate session at Quarrow. Wartol's Ganoidian tri-deck cruiser was one of the last starships to depart from the senate hangar on Chandrila for Nakadia as part of the relocation. In order to delay the session, though, Mothma promptly joined Wartol aboard the cruiser as it travelled to Nakadia, smuggling a pta fruit with her. When Wartol's ship arrived over Nakadia, preliminary scans on the vessel detected the restricted fruit, triggering a scheduled full contamination sweep from Nakadian inspectors. The starship was held in quarantine for the time being, expected to be there up to twelve hours.[3]
Surveillance[]
- "I got something here."
"What? Who? Where?"
"Couple of Nikto. Plus a Klatooinian. They're headed toward Wieedo's ship. They're not armed, but they sure don't look like they're from Nakadia, and neither could be senators. I know scum when I see it." - ―Han Solo and Sinjir Rath Velus
With Wartol's cruiser delayed, five allies of Mothma's—Jom Barell, Conder Kyl, Han Solo, Sinjir Rath Velus, and Temmin Wexley—went to spy on the five senators to find out what had influenced their votes, each of the group being assigned to watch a respective senator. By that point, 327 New Republic senators had arrived at Quarrow with their families, staff and friends. While only senators and other select individuals like journalists, celebrities, and certain business people were allowed onsite, Barell, who had served as a New Republic Special Forces commando, used his position as part of the security to get the other four on the list.[3]
Han Solo (pictured) spied on Dor Wieedo's ship at Nakadia's northernmost spaceport.
That night, Solo was positioned at Nakadia's northernmost spaceport outside of Quarrow, where Senator Wieedo was aboard his Tyrusian sky-sloop starship, while Velus and Kyl, also romantic partners, respectively watched Senators Ek and Tar at the restaurant Izzik's restaurant, across from the Quarrow Senate house, where senators were coming and going. In addition, Barell spied on Senator Rethalow at a local poma-club and Wexley watched Senator Sorka from a balcony while she ran a committee. The five of Mothma's spies reported on their quarries as the night progressed.[3]
As the night approached dawn, Sorka began wondering outside the Senate house and a trio of Black Sun–Red Key thugs paid Wieedo a visit at his ship. Solo reported what he saw to his four accomplices and followed the thugs to the ship, only to be stalked and stuned by a fourth. Meanwhile, Ek and Tar both left Izzik's, Velus and Kyl making separate pursuits. Velus found Ek confronting Tar in and alleyway and went to intervene, only to be incapacitated by a syndicate thug. The thugs additionally captured Kyl and held him in an agricultural warehouse two streets over from the Senate house, giving the man bruises in the process. Elsewhere, Wexley lost sight of Sorka after she suddenly ducked away, and Barell chose to abduct Rethalow from a deprivation chamber in the poma-club and take him back to Solo's ship, the Millennium Falcon.[3]
Truths unveiled[]
- "Our votes were bought. Three of us, anyway. Me, Ek, and Wieedo. […]"
"And the other two? Nim Tar and Sorka? What did they get for their vote?"
"Threatened. Th-they were threatened. Nim Tar's child was taken. And Senator Sorka's jerba, too." - ―Rethalow and Sinjir Rath Velus
The next morning, Wexley found Velus unconscious in the alleyway, the pair locating Solo as well and debriefing the events that had transpired between them. Barell soon contacted them, having learned about some of the syndicates' conspiracy from Rethalow, and they reconvened at the Falcon. There the captured senator told the other three what he had told Barell, going on to reveal that it was the Black Sun and Red Key Raiders behind all the five opposition votes. In the meantime, Nakadian inspectors were able to complete their full sweep of Senator Wartol's cruiser above Nakadia, the chief inspector talking down Wartol and Mothma about bringing a potentially invasive species like a pta fruit to a protected environment.[3]
The Millenium Falcon (pictured) helped in the Solo and his teams' investigations at Nakadia.
By the time the Nakadian inspectors recalled to their two Nakadian ships, Solo, Barell, Velus, and Wexley were in orbit aboard the Millenium Falcon, hoping to spot Wieedo's ship in order to get another lead on the syndicate alliance plotters. While they were unable to spot any ships to note, Kyl was able to help them from captivity by speaking into his own implanted transceiver tooth while throwing remarks at his captors which was actually a relevant description the syndicate thugs and his location. As this happened, Mothma and Wartol landed at the Quarrow Senate house, and Mothma continued to stall ahead of the senate session to delay the vote further, using an injury from the Chandrila attack to justify a faked limp.[3]
With Kyl's clues, the Millenium Falcon returned to Quarrow and located the warehouse holding the captive by identifying Wieedo's starship docked next to it. With few other options available as the vote was going to imminently take place, Velus mustered a quick plan to break into the warehouse and rescue Kyl. The Falcon blasted a hole into the warehouse's roof and landed on top, Barell, Solo, and Velus stormed inside through the breach, engaging a defeating a number of syndicate thugs and rescuing Kyl and Nim Tar's child, who's abduction had blackmailed the senator into voting oppose. They also learned that Senator Sorka's Jerba, which had also been stolen to blackmail the senator, had been sold to a butcher's black market.[3]
War-ending decisions[]
- "Now what?"
"We finish the was."
"What?"
The vote passed, Mon. The vote passed." - ―Mon Mothma and her advisor Auxi Kray Korbin
Sinjir Rath Velus (pictured) convinced the five bribed or blackmailed senators to change their vote to support taking action on the Empire at Jakku.
With very little time before the vote, it was also discovered that the Black Sun and Red Key thugs had hacked an encrypted line into the five senators' datapads, which Kyl sliced into to gain access to them himself. Velus had his partner send messages to each of the senators, telling Tar and Sorka that their child and pet had been saved, and promising that Mothma would pardon the senators if they changed their votes to support. The vote shortly took place, Mothma giving a speach to try and sway the senators in her favor. Luckily for the chancellor, Velus's messages had convinced the five, and Mothma's resolution to fight the Empire at Jakku was passed by unanimous vote.[3]
With the conspiracy ended, Solo went back to Chandrila aboard the Millenium Falcon, giving Velus and Kyl a lift there as well. The couple had discussed possibly staying on Nakadia a while, but Kyl frowned at the idea, claiming that the agricultural world made Chandrila look like the ecumenopolis world of Coruscant. With the vote passed, the New Republic fleet launched a large-scale attack on the Empire at Jakku. The Battle of Jakku ended with the defeat of most the Empire's forces there, and the Empire as a government officially surrendered and dissolved shortly after with the signing of the Galactic Concordance. The end of the Galactic Civil War was celebrated with food festivals on Nakadia.[3]
After Nakadia's turn, the year cycle process for the change in the New Republic capital's location continued on over the following decades,[9] Chandrila getting another turn[10] in 9 ABY.[11]
Inhabitants[]
Nakadia was the homeworld of the sentient Nakadian species. Nakadia was considered to have a long memory, and as a result of the Separatist droid army's occupation of the world the Nakadians developed a bias against droids[3] that lasted over two decades on.[12] While they generally accepted droids, the Nakadians did not treat them as equal or as sentient. As a result, the Nakadians primarily worked their crops, although agri-droids were not unheard of. Much of Nakadia's technology went towards farm work like aerating soil, injecting micronutrients and harvesting, garbage compactors also being present in Quarrow.[3]
Locations[]
- "It's all just… crops."
- ―Conder Kyl, to Sinjir Rath Velus
Much of Nakadia was used for farming, with many crop fields and pastures being present. Its settlements, small compared to other locations in the galaxy, were largely towns and villages.[3] It also included plastoid factories which was supplied by the farms[5] and contributed to the Galactic Empire's war effort.[7] The Empire additionally kept a warehouse atop the planet's hills to store bioweapons, with a launchpad for airspeeders to be deployed with the toxins.[5] Nakadia had multiple spaceports, the northernmost being outside of Quarrow.[3]
The capital of Quarrow had a few thousand inhabitants with its buildings being no more than three stories tall. Quarrow's fibercrete streets were designed for biological only and were unsuitable for droids, speeders, and machines. Much like its daylife, Quarrow's nightlife was relatively quiet, but still offered taverns and restaurants like Izzik's, as well as a poma-club where farmers go to free themselves of "psychological baggage" before the next day's shift in the fields. This was topped with the reduced amount of crime and drama seen in the city. Other notable locations there included the Quarrow Senate house and an agricultural warehouse with docking platforms meant for harvestors and agri-droids.[3]
Behind the scenes[]
Nakadia first appeared in the 2015 novel Battlefront: Twilight Company, written by Alexander Freed.[5] "The Battle of Endor and the Fall of the Empire," a booklet in De Agostini's Star Wars Encyclopedia series[9] that was released on June 29 of 2021,[13] states that Nakadia was located in the Mid Rim Territories,[9] which was formerly an assumption made on Nakadia's Wookieepedia article.[14] This is contradicted by the Star Wars Galaxy Map,[1] a promotional poster which was released at Celebration Anaheim on May 27 of 2022,[15] which places Nakadia in the Expansion Region.[1] This article uses the information from the latter, more recent source.
Appearances[]
- Battlefront: Twilight Company (First appearance, simultaneous with audiobook)
- Battlefront: Twilight Company audiobook
- Victory's Price
- Victory's Price audiobook
- Aftermath: Empire's End
- Aftermath: Empire's End audiobook
Sources[]
- Star Wars: The Rebel Files
"The Battle of Endor and the Fall of the Empire" — Star Wars Encyclopedia- Star Wars Galaxy Map
- SWCA 2022: 7 Things We Learned from the Lucasfilm Publishing Behind the Page Panel on StarWars.com (backup link)
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Star Wars Galaxy Map
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Star Wars Galaxy Map places Nakadia in the area of space Star Wars: The Galactic Explorer's Guide identifies as the Trailing Sectors.
- ↑ 3.00 3.01 3.02 3.03 3.04 3.05 3.06 3.07 3.08 3.09 3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14 3.15 3.16 3.17 3.18 3.19 3.20 3.21 3.22 3.23 3.24 3.25 3.26 3.27 3.28 3.29 3.30 3.31 3.32 3.33 3.34 3.35 3.36 3.37 3.38 3.39 3.40 Aftermath: Empire's End
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Aftermath: Empire's End establishes that Nakadia had a breathable atmosphere that
Star Wars: Build the Millennium Falcon 43 (Secrets of Spaceflight: Types of Atmosphere) classifies as Type I.
- ↑ 5.00 5.01 5.02 5.03 5.04 5.05 5.06 5.07 5.08 5.09 5.10 5.11 5.12 5.13 5.14 Battlefront: Twilight Company
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Victory's Price
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Star Wars: The Rebel Files
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Star Wars: Timelines
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4
"The Battle of Endor and the Fall of the Empire" — Star Wars Encyclopedia
- ↑ The Mandalorian — "Chapter 12: The Siege"
- ↑ Star Wars: Timelines dates the events of "Chapter 1: The Mandalorian" and "Chapter 16: The Rescue" to 9 ABY. The events of Chapters 1–16 must therefore also take place in 9 ABY.
- ↑ Aftermath: Empire's End establishes that the Nakadian bias against droids rooted from the Clone Wars, ended in 19 BBY according to Star Wars: Timelines. Since the latter book also dates the events of Empire's End to 5 ABY, the bias against droids must have lasted over twenty years, which translates to two decades per the sixty-first issue of Star Wars: Build the Millenium Falcon.
- ↑ Star Wars Encyclopedia on De Agostini's official Spain website (backup link)
- ↑ Nakadia. Revision as of 18:03, January 15, 2016 on Wookieepedia
- ↑ Check Out the Star Wars Celebration Anaheim Panel Schedule on StarWars.com (backup link)
- ↑ The Mandalorian — "Chapter 12: The Siege"
