Navik

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"Once again, a Mid Rim world is sacrificed in the name of protecting the Core...or Bothawui."

―Navik^[2]

Navik, also known as Navik the Red, was a Rodian warlord who served as the Grand Protector of Rodia during the Galactic Civil War. He gained his nickname from the red birthmark on his face. His given name, "Navik," was Rodese for "dark" and was considered to be a prophetic name.

Biography[]

During the reign of Emperor Palpatine, Navik's tribe, the Chattza, used Rodia's traditional wargames to attack other tribes. He attacked the Tetsu Clan, wiping out many of their members, including Greedo the Elder, and forcing the survivors, including Greedo's son and namesake, to flee the planet to worlds such as Nar Shaddaa.^[1] Not content with exiling them, he tracked down many survivors throughout the galaxy and killed them.^[3]

Displaying ruthlessness and determination, he became Chief Protector of his clan. He was leading attacks personally with his best Protectors. He saw his clan Chattza became dominant on the planet and himself became Grand Protector, displaying the same iron hand.^[4]

When Navik became the Grand Protector of Rodia, he disposed of anyone who opposed him in the government, by exiling or executing them. He moved the capital from Equator City to Iskaayuma, the Chattza settlement. The other clans were so weakened that they retreated to their holdings, and Navik suppressed attempts of some defiant clans to reinforce themselves. He also encouraged the segregation between urban and provincial population.^[4]

Navik tightened traffic around Rodia, enforced by his Rodian Home Fleet, in an attempt to limit the resources and off-world influence of his enemies; part of this policy was the law that incoming ships should land only on four spaceport on the whole planet. As such, the Chattza clan's rivals, the An'yettu clan, were prevented from leaving their island home by Navik.^[4]

During his rule, he ordered off-world Rodian bounty hunters to report to him on their assignments and bosses's actions in order to understand the politics of the Empire and the ecosystem of criminal organizations. Additionally, he kept a neutral stance towards Black Sun; his clanman, Clezo, attained the rank of Vigo, providing Navik with inside information.^[4]

He remained in his position throughout the Galactic Civil War.^[3] Providing bounty hunters to the Empire for its interests, he maintained good relations with the Empire, as well as the planetary Governor; the Imperial Governor was also satisfied with the isolationism and limited traffic Navik imposed on his own planet, and turned a blind eye on the reputed criminal activities of the Rodians. The Empire was aware that the populace feared and hated Navik more than they did the Emperor.^[4]

After the Battle of Endor, Rodia joined the Alliance of Free Planets, though Navik decided not to join the New Republic (possibly fearing a war crimes tribunal). Rodia eventually joined, and Navik appointed himself Senator of Savareen sector to the New Republic Senate. He was later appointed to Borsk Fey'lya's Advisory Council, and voted for defending Bothawui over Corellia, due to Rodia's proximity to Bothawui. During a meeting concerning the Yuuzhan Vong invasion, he was outraged at the loss of the Mid Rim worlds of Kalarba, Druckenwell and Falleen to the enemy, citing that the New Republic favored the Core Worlds and Chief of State Borsk Fey'lya's homeworld of Bothawui. However, Navik showed his own opinions when he blatantly told Jedi Master Luke Skywalker that Tatooine, which was looking at potential invasion, was not his concern.