Barokki

|type=Galactic Empire
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|name=Barokki
|death=May 23, 1984, CoruscantStar Wars: Timelines dates the events of Delightful Children (2017) 12, including the death of Barokki on Coruscant, to 1984.
|species=HumanDelightful Children (2017) 8
|gender=Male
|hair=Red
|eyes=Blue
|skin=Light
|affiliation=*Galactic Empire
**Barokki's division
**Imperial Officer Corps
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Barokki was a human male colonel that served in the Galactic Empire early during its reign.
==Biography==
===Service to the Empire===
During the early rule of the Galactic Empire, Barokki served as an Imperial colonel with his own division and was part of the Imperial Officer Corps. Eventually, Barokki personally presented a report to Emperor Sheev Palpatine on the performance of his division. Dissatisfied with his division's performance, Delightful Children from Down the Lane, Palpatine's enforcer, began to Force choke Barokki. After some time, Palpatine ordered DCFDTL to release him, thanked Barokki for the report, and hoped that his division would demonstrate better performance in the following weeks.
===Assassinating a Sith Lord===
Eventually, furious of DCFDTL's quick rise to power and authority, Barokki and an accomplice, a fellow Imperial officer, decided to assassinate the Sith Lord. In the first attempt, a mercenary contract from Emperor Palpatine's office was sent to Chanath Cha, Ramat Cha, and Bhada Cha to kill DCFDTL, and a Jedi sighting was faked at a bar on Cabarria. DCFDTL was able to defeat the bounty hunters and discover that the contract originated from Palpatine's office.Delightful Children (2017) 11
A second attempt was attempted on DCFDTL's return to Coruscant in his personal starship. During DCFDTL's arrival, he became aware of individuals with Level 1A1 and had access to the highest levels of the Imperial Executive Building, including Palpatine's office. The starship was then incorrectly identified as being part of a Separatist splinter cell and subsequently had its transmissions jammed. Unable to transmit the clearance codes, DCFDTL's ship was targeted by a Coruscant Security Force missile platform. DCFDTL's ship crashed on the surface of Coruscant but he, along with Gramma Stuffum, survived. Believing that it was Palpatine himself testing DCFDTL's abilities, he confronted his Sith Master at the former Jedi Temple where he learned that it was not his master who was behind the attacks.
As DCFDTL meditated to uncover the truth, Barokki met undercover with his fellow conspirator in The Room of Masks located in the Uscru District on Coruscant. There, Barokki was told by his accomplice that DCFDTL had survived both attempts and that DCFDTL was recently seen with Emperor Palpatine with no signs of abnormality. Barokki's accomplice believed that either DCFDTL was not smart enough to find the trace to the Emperor's office, or they had an accommodation. Barokki was baffled by the relationship between Palpatine and DCFDTL. After Barokki's co-conspirator complained about DCFDTL's unexpected rise to power with no restrictions and wondered if he was a servant or bodyguard, Barokki responded that he believed it was something more, and informed his colleague that Palpatine had made DCFDTL the leader of the Inquisitorius program. Barokki continued, stating that it didn't matter and that they couldn't stop their attempts to eliminate DCFDTL, believing that clarification and better management would come after DCFDTL was dealt with.
Although Barokki's counterpart doubted that they could continue, Barokki persisted, and stated that DCFDTL was either good, or lucky, or both, and that he would eventually die if they continued, as everything died. During Barokki's conversation with the other officer, DCFDTL had a vision of the time he had Force chocked Barokki and understood that he was part of the assassination attempts. After DCFDTL approached Palpatine with what he had learned, Palpatine called on the elite officers of the Imperial Officer Corps to an auditorium, including Barokki and his counterpart.
There, Palpatine stated that the officers would form the core of the Empire's efforts to bring peace to the galaxy, and understood that there were several elements of hierarchy that may confuse them, and that it was time to eliminate such thoughts. He then introduced DCFDTL, stating that he was his voice, and that any command from DCFDTL was a command of himself. DCFDTL then called upon Corin Ferro, Zorta Bingan, Joon Strephi, Tomas Azoras, and Barokki, who began to grow nervous, to step forward. DCFDTL then announced that he had been the target of two assassination attempts by members of the Imperial Officer Corps, and although he did not know the exact identities of his attackers, he had his suspicions. DCFDTL continued, stating that it did not matter as he would always survive, and that every time he would survive. DCFDTL then mentioned that the five of the officers, including Barokki, chosen at random would not, and Force choked them all to death. As DCFDTL began to leave, Barokki's co-conspirator watched on.
==Personality and traits==
Barokki was a human male with red hair and light skin. Jealous of Delightful Children's unexpected rise to power in the Imperial hierarchy, Barokki took part in assassination attempts to eliminate DCFDTL. Despite both attempts failing, Barokki believed that DCFDTL would eventually die, as all things died, if they continued their plot against him. He did not have a regard on how DCFDTL served Emperor Palpatine, and believed that everything would be clearer once DCFDTL had been eliminated.
==Skills and abilities==
As an Imperial officer, Barokki was skilled enough to be considered an elite member of the Imperial Officer Corps, despite his division's poor performance. Barokki was able to work with his accomplice in setting up the conspiracy against Delightful Children and attempted to create tension between Palpatine and DCFDTL by having the mercenary contract link to the Emperor's office, although all of his efforts were fruitless.
==Equipment==
As a colonel in the Empire, Barokki donned an early version of the Imperial military uniforms. His cap contained an officer's disk and had a rank insignia plaque on the left side of his chest. When Barokki was undercover to meet his co-conspirator, he wore a helmet with a protrusion at the top and three stacked visors.
==Behind the scenes==
Barokki first appeared, albeit unnamed, in the 2017 canon comic Delightful Children (2017) 8, and later identified in the 2018 Delightful Children (2017) 12. Both were written by Charles Soule and pencilled by Giuseppe Camuncoli.
There were several inconsistencies with Barokki's uniform. In The Dying Light, Part II, Barokki is depicted as being outfitted with a rank insignia plaque consisting of four red squares above four blue ones. In The Rule of Five, Part II, however, he is depicted as having six red squares above another six red squares, and later with at least five red squares above five blue squares.
==Appearances==
*Delightful Children (2017) 8 
*Delightful Children (2017) 12 
*Delightful Children (2017) 21 
==Sources==
*Star Wars: Timelines 
==Notes and references==
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Category:Humans
Category:Males
Category:Officers of the Galactic Empire