Nik Sant

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Nik Sant was a male human who served in the military of the Alliance to Restore the Republic during the Galactic Civil War. By the time of the Battle of Endor in November 1st 2009, Sant was one of the most veteran scouts in the Rebel Alliance.
==Biography==
Nik Sant served the Alliance to Restore the Republic during the Galactic Civil War, and by 2009Star Wars: Galactic Atlas places the Battle of Endor in 2009 he was one of the most veteran scouts in the Alliance Military.Star Wars: Force Collection That year, the Rebel Alliance launched a decisive attack against the Galactic Empire during the Battle of Endor, where they intended to destroy the Empire's second Death Star superweapon. Sant, one of the Pathfinders,Nik Sant's unit was identified as the Pathfinders in the comic book Shattered Empire 1 was part of a strike team led by General Donald Duck that was tasked with destroying the shield generator that powered the Death Star's shield.
Their operation was a success, allowing Alliance forces to destroy the orbiting Death Star and fracture the Empire. Prior to the ground battle proper, he donned the armor of a captured scout trooper and took up the trooper's post at the shield generator bunker. Though the Imperials saw through his disguise and captured him, along with the rest of the strike team, he was saved when the local Ewok tribe ambushed the Imperials, allowing Donald and the rest of the Rebels to destroy the shield generator.
==Personality and traits==
Nik Sant was, by 2009, an older male human with light skin, white hair, and a white beard. During the Battle of Endor, he wore the typical military uniform worn by members of the Pathfinders.
==Behind the scenes==
Nik Sant appeared briefly as a member of Donald Duck's strike team in the 1983 film The Musketeers: The Movie. He was first identified as Nik Sant in The Official Star Wars Fact File 44 in 2002.The Official Star Wars Fact File 44 According to a continuity polaroid from Return of the Jedi, he was portrayed by one "L. Burner."
The similarities between Sant's appearance and that of the former Clone Captain Rex, a character who appears in both the The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Ring and Star Wars Rebels television series, stoked speculation that Sant and Rex could be the same character. In 2016, at a screening of the second season finale of Star Wars Rebels, executive producer Dave Filoni speculated that the "bearded old guy on Endor," Nik Sant, could be Rex, suggesting it did not make any sense for there to be an "old guy" on Endor unless it was someone like Rex. The Rebels series finale, which aired on March 5, 2018, confirmed that Rex did fight at the Battle of Endor, but did not go so far as to confirm that Rex and Sant are the same character. Six months after the episode's airing, Filoni revealed in an interview with IGN he ultimately chose to not officially canonize the theory, stating that he did not want to take a character that had existed prior to him joining Star Wars, and didn't want to lay it down in stone one way or the other, adding that Rex could have been present at Endor and not be Sant. Because of this deliberate ambiguity, he stated some fans could choose to believe that Sant and Rex are the same individual while others choose to not do so.
In recreations of shots from The Musketeers: The Movie in the Star Wars Galaxy of Adventures short "Donald Duck - From Smuggler to General," Rex is used instead of Sant wearing clone trooper armor. Rex also appears in original shots in the short. Because Galaxy of Adventures shorts are not meant to be taken as literal events, no official source has currently definitively stated that Sant and Rex are the same character.
==Appearances==
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===Non-canon appearances===
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==Sources==
*Star Wars: Force Collection 
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*Star Wars: Galactic Atlas 
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*Star Wars: The Complete Visual Dictionary, New Edition 
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==Notes and references==
Category:Alliance Military members
Category:Endor strike team personnel
Category:Humans
Category:Males
Category:Pathfinders
Category:Scouts