Nakadia

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Nakadia

Nakadia was anagriculturalplanet in theExpansion Region located just off of theRimma Trade Route and thehomeworld of theNakadianspecies. In3 ABY,Twilight Companydestroyed the planet'splastoidfactories, where farm crops were made intoarmor-grade polymers and synthetic resins. In5 ABY, Nakadia began serving as theheadquarters of theNew Republic Senate and thegalacticcapital of theNew Republic for a fullyear cycle.

Description[]

Nakadia was a terrestrialagricultural world^[5] located within an intersecting portion of theExpansion Region^[1] and theTrailing Sectors region.^[2] It was situated just off of theRimma Trade Route at the coordinates M-15 on theStandard Galactic Grid.^[1] Theplanet had twomoons^[3] and a Type Iatmosphere^[4] that was breathable to variousspecies, includinghumans. The pastoral air was warm with faint breezes, and the weather included rain. At the peak ofday, 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] withforests 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 intoplastoid.^[5] Due to its pristine environment, the Nakadia was classified by theNew Republic as aClass A protected planet. As a result, certain agricultural products likepta fruits were not allowed on Nakadia since they were considered invasive and might disturb the world's protected ecosystem.^[3]

History[]

Site of war[]

During theClone Wars,^[3] agalactic war between theGalactic Republic and theConfederacy of Independent Systems which spanned22 BBY to19 BBY,^[8] Nakadia was occupiedSeparatist Droid Army, which came in waves ofbattle droids.^[3] By the time of theGalactic Civil War between theGalactic Empire, the Republic's successor, andRebel Alliance, Nakadia supported the Empire's war efforts^[7] through its plastoidfactories, which processed millions of tonnes of the planet's farm crops intoarmor-grade polymers and synthetic resins. Awarehouse was also established high in Nakadia's hills to store some of the Empire's stockpile ofbioweapons. The Empire's development on Nakadia had been assisted with byEveri Chalis, anemissary to theImperial Ruling Council and honoraryGrand Architect of the New Order.^[5]

In3 ABY,^[8] Chalis defected to the Alliance's61st Mobile Infantry—better known as Twilight Company— and devised a campaign, namedOperation Ringbreaker, against the Empire'sKuat Drive Yards. The campaign targeted weaker Imperial logistical hubs to draw redeployments from theDrive Yards. Nakadia's plastoid factories were fourth target of the campaign, and Twilight Company, led by the assumedCaptainHazram Namir, soondeployed there. Twilightsquads made covert strikes on the factories under the cover of night before retreating into the forests. In response to the rebel attacks, the Empire deployedairspeeders equipped with bioweapons from the warehouse, which used thetoxins tokill manyrebel soldiers, including one namedMaediyu. After Twilight Company located the warehouse, Namir, wrapped heavily in protective gear, led a taskforce of over a dozenaliensoldiers to the bioweapon stockpile and burned the place down. Twilight Company won its operation on Nakadia not long after.^[5]

In the meantime, theRebel Alliance Intelligence Service was vetting Operation Ringbreaker, andGeneralCrix Madine listed Nakadia among the targets in a report on the campaign's first phase that was sent to the Alliance'sCommander-in-ChiefMon Mothma. The report later came into the hands ofarchivistHendri Underholt, who included it among a compilation of non-electronic documents called theThe Rebel Files.^[7] Operation Ringbreaker was soon stalled at the planetSullust, 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[]

In4 ABY, as the tide of the war turned against the Empire at theBattle of Endor, and the Alliance transitioned into the New Republic, headed byChancellor Mon Mothma.^[8] Nakadia was soonliberated from the Empire and became a major exporter of food forNew Republic troops. TheNew Republic Senate also passed a bill designating Nakadia as a Class A protected planet.^[3] After the Empire made anattack on the New Republiccapital world ofChandrila^[9] in5 ABY,^[8] the New Republic chose to relocate its capital to^[9] Nakadia's capitalcity of Quarrow for ayear 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]

Around the same time, the majority of the Empire's forces was discovered to have been amassing at the planetJakku, near the edge of theUnknown Regions. Mothma brought forward a resolution to attack the Imperial fleet at Jakku, but the initial vote failed when fivesenators—Ashmin Ek,Rethalow,Grelka Sorka,Nim Tar, andDor Wieedo—were secretly blackmailed or bribed into opposing by the now alliedBlack Sun andRed Key Raiders syndicates, which wanted to prolong the war so their operations could continue to benefit. Mothma had suspicions that theOrishen SenatorTolwar 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'sGanoidian tri-deck cruiser was one of the laststarships 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 thecruiser 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 restrictedfruit, 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 twelvehours.^[3]

Surveillance[]

With Wartol's cruiser delayed, five allies of Mothma's—Jom Barell,Conder Kyl,Han Solo,Sinjir Rath Velus, andTemmin Wexley—went tospy 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 likejournalists, celebrities, and certain business people were allowed onsite, Barell, who had served as aNew Republic Special Forcescommando, used his position as part of the security to get the other four on the list.^[3]

That night, Solo was positioned atNakadia's northernmost spaceport outside of Quarrow, where Senator Wieedo was aboard hisTyrusian sky-sloop starship, while Velus and Kyl, also romantic partners, respectively watched Senators Ek and Tar at therestaurantIzzik's restaurant, across from theQuarrow Senate house, where senators were coming and going. In addition, Barell spied on Senator Rethalow at a localpoma-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 andstuned 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 anagricultural 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 adeprivation chamber in the poma-club and take him back to Solo's ship, theMillennium Falcon.^[3]

Truths unveiled[]

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 theFalcon. 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, thechief inspector talking down Wartol and Mothma about bringing a potentially invasive species like a pta fruit to a protected environment.^[3]

By the time the Nakadian inspectors recalled to their two Nakadian ships, Solo, Barell, Velus, and Wexley were inorbit aboard theMillennium 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 implantedtransceiver 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, theMillennium 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. TheFalcon 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 andNim Tar's child, who's abduction had blackmailed the senator into voting oppose. They also learned that Senator Sorka'sJerba, which had also been stolen to blackmail the senator, had been sold to a butcher's black market.^[3]

War-ending decisions[]

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 Kylsliced 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 theMillennium 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 theecumenopolis world ofCoruscant. With the vote passed, theNew Republic fleet launched a large-scale attack on the Empire at Jakku. TheBattle of Jakku ended with the defeat of most the Empire's forces there, and the Empire as agovernment officially surrendered and dissolved shortly after with the signing of theGalactic Concordance. The end of the Galactic Civil War was celebrated withfood 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 followingdecades,^[9] Chandrila getting another turn^[10] in9 ABY.^[11]

Inhabitants[]

Nakadia was the homeworld of thesentient 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 abias againstdroids^[3] that lasted over twodecades 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[]

Much of Nakadia was used for farming, with many crop fields and pastures being present. Its settlements, small compared to other locations in thegalaxy, 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 multiplespaceports, 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'sfibercrete 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 apoma-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 the2015 novelBattlefront: Twilight Company, written byAlexander Freed.^[5] "The Battle of Endor and the Fall of the Empire," a booklet inDe Agostini'sStar Wars Encyclopedia series^[9] that was released onJune 29 of2021,^[13] states that Nakadia was located in theMid Rim Territories,^[9] which was formerly an assumption made on Nakadia'sWookieepedia article.^[14] This is contradicted by theStar Wars Galaxy Map,^[1] a promotional poster which was released atCelebration Anaheim onMay 27 of2022,^[15] which places Nakadia in the Expansion Region.^[1] This article uses the information from the latter, more recent source.

Appearances[]

• Battlefront: Twilight Company(andaudiobook)(First appearance)
• Victory's Price: An Alphabet Squadron Novel(andaudiobook)
• Aftermath: Empire's End(andaudiobook)

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 onStarWars.com(backup link)

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