Yeeru Chivkyrie Yeeru Chivkyrie was a male Adarian from the planet Shelkonwa in the Shelsha sector . During the early years of the Galactic Civil War , he was the head of a Rebel Alliance organization named Republic Redux . In 0 ABY , the Shelsha sector ' s Chief Administrator , Vilim Disra , told him that Governor Barshnis Choard planned to make the sector independent , and eventually ally with the Rebel Alliance . Chivkyrie ' s colleagues , the Shining Hope director of planning Thillis Slanni and the Freedonna Kaisu leader Ydor Vokkoli , distrusted Disra and a conflict resulted , which Leia Organa — as a representative of the Rebel Alliance — tried to resolve . Due to missing information , they visited Disra , who left the meeting shortly after the beginning of the conversation . At that point , Chivkyrie realized that Disra had betrayed them and as a consequence , he hid himself and Organa from the local Imperial patrols . When Chivkyrie heard rumors that Darth Vader , Dark Lord of the Sith , had come to Shelkonwa in order to capture Organa , Chivkyrie took refuge in Shelkonwa ' s catacombs per Organa ' s recommendation . Biography . Yeeru Chivkyrie was born on the planet Shelkonwa as a male Adarian into a second - class family . His rank curbed certain aspects of his life — he always had to be polite to first - class individuals and was not allowed to speak in a language that a member of a higher rank did not understand . During the reign of the Galactic Empire , Chivkyrie founded an organization called Republic Redux to fight the Empire , and Republic Redux later became a member organization of the Rebel Alliance . Around 0 ABY , Chivkyrie met several times with Vilim Disra , the Chief Administrator of the Shelsha sector . Disra told him that Governor Barshnis Choard planned to have the Shelsha sector secede from the Empire . In addition , Disra said he could imagine cooperating with the Rebel Alliance . Thrilled with the prospect , Chivkyrie told his colleagues — the Shining Hope director of planning Thillis Slanni and the Freedonna Kaisu leader Ydor Vokkoli — of the plan . However , they saw much risk in the move , and distrusted Disra . Both were strictly against the idea , and threatened to abandon the Rebel Alliance . To resolve the conflict , Rebel leader Leia Organa was sent to Chivkyrie ' s ship to have a disputation with Chivkyrie , Slanni and Vokkoli . Chivkyrie told Organa what Disra had said to him during their meetings . Organa , who saw some advantages in this plan , wanted to know how Choard intended to resist the Empire . Chivkyrie could not answer this question , and so Organa , Chivkyrie and his colleagues went to the Flower Market in Shelkonwa ' s capital , Makrin City , to get the information from Disra . When they arrived , there were some differences regarding the hotel . Chivkyrie preferred the more luxurious variant unlike Organa , who deliberately chose the less luxurious option . Arriving at the Flower Market , the Adarian did not want to utter his companions ' real names , as Leia Organa was one of the most wanted fugitives in the galaxy . Therefore , he named them after the first three letters of the Aurebesh alphabet : Aurek , Besh and Cresh . When Organa asked Disra how many allies he had , the administrator left the meeting , as he was not able to answer the question without investigation . Chivkyrie was annoyed — but not surprised — by Disra ' s behavior and wanted to apologize , but Organa asked him to never contact Disra again . She also wanted to leave the planet as soon as possible . Though Chivkyrie could not understand Organa ' s mistrust , he contacted his pilot . The pilot told him that Choard had just forbidden Humans to leave Shelkonwa . After hearing that , Chivkyrie knew that Disra had betrayed them . Chivkyrie then told his colleagues to flee so that the patrols would not capture them . Slanni and Vokkoli left the planet to protect their people . Chivkyrie decided — against his colleagues ' will — to stay with Organa , because he did not want to leave a guest in danger on his home planet . Knowing that he could no longer keep his social standing , he gave up his name , his home , and his rank to keep Organa alive . His plan was to hide in plain sight , and he looked for a safe job that Organa could perform while they laid low . In the job advertisements , he found what he was looking for : a tapcafe run by the Mungra Vicria . Organa — who had not expected such an action by him — accepted the job . Over the course of the day , the Adarian grew pessimistic due to the fact that patrols were looking for both of them . Around midnight , Chivkyrie and Organa had a conversation about their current situation in a flat provided for employees of Vicria ' s tapcafe , when they heard some housebreakers trying to break into a theater employee ' s house . Organa spotted an Adarian child in the same house , and knowing what housebreakers were capable of when they saw potential witnesses , she felt obligated to save the child . However , Chivkyrie feared for her safety . The Rebel leader planned to snap a pipe next to the window by shooting at its mountings , and then intended to place the pipe ' s end on the theater employee ' s roof and slip down to confront the criminals . After her first shots at the pipe , Chivkyrie saw the housebreakers running away , and Organa returned to the house . The next day , Chivkyrie lost all his confidence in his and Organa ' s survival after he heard that Darth Vader , a Dark Lord of the Sith , arrived in the city . Organa encouraged him , having escaped from Vader quite often before . She reminded him that the stormtroopers would not be searching for him , but rather for her . After this conversation , he hid himself in the catacombs , a place in Makrin City ' s caves that had usually served as a hiding place for outlaws and war criminals throughout Makrin City ' s history . Meanwhile , Organa continued working in Vicria ' s tapcafe until the Rebels Luke Skywalker and Han Solo saved her . Personality and traits . Yeeru Chivkyrie was a sentient who had a large amount of confidence in others . For example , he only saw a small impoliteness in Disra ' s disappearance , as if it had happened several times before , while Organa and the other Rebels were quite sure that Disra had betrayed them . The Adarian only saw the betrayal when he heard that Humans were not allowed to leave Shelkonwa . In addition , it was very important to Chivkyrie that he did not lose his social standing . He disliked the idea of staying the night in a lower - class hotel , but he did not object , as he did not want to make a bad impression . Though he cared a lot about his image , the Republic Redux leader willingly gave up his social reputation just to fight the Empire . During the search by local patrols , he became unsure if the Rebel Alliance could really defeat the Empire , especially when he heard that Darth Vader was leading the search . Finally , when Organa told him that the Empire would not search for him , he regained his confidence . Behind the scenes . Yeeru Chivkyrie ' s first and only appearance was in the 2006 novel " Allegiance " by author Timothy Zahn . Chivkyrie was one of the minor characters portrayed in the novel .