Nan

Nan was a female human information broker and member of the Nihil who lived during the High Republic Era. She joined the pirate organization along with her parents when she was a child. After her parents' deaths, she became the ward of the elder Nihil Hague, who taught her how to fight cleverly to make up for her small stature. When she and Hague were stranded at an ancient space station after the Great Hyperspace Disaster, the two concealed their identities as Nihil while taking refuge alongside multiple other starships.
Following the mission in the Berenge Sector, Nan and Chancey Yarrow went from working for the Eye of the Nihil Marchion Ro to work for the Graf family. She returned to the Nihil after the destruction of Starlight Beacon and later became an informant for Ghirra Starros, the leader of the Ministry of Information.
==Biography==
===Early life===
Nan was a human female who lived during the High Republic Era. As a child, she and her parents joined the Nihil, an organization of pirates who ravaged the Galactic Frontier. Nan's mother and father died during a Nihil raid, leaving her in the care of the Zabrak Nihil member named Hague.
Nan believed that it was Hague who truly raised her, as she scarcely remembered her own parents. Hague taught Nan everything she knew as a member of the Nihil.
===Schemes on the Amaxine Station===
Shortly after the Great Hyperspace Disaster, Nan and Hague were marooned in a star system containing the Amaxine space station, which housed Drengir who had been kept dormant for many years. There, the young pirate and her ward kept their Nihil identity hidden, posing as simple refugees. They and others were aided by a group of Jedi including Master Cohmac Vitus, Jedi Knights Orla Jareni and Dez Rydan, and Padawan Reath Silas. Reath and Nan were both in their teenage years, and the girl feigned romantic interest in Reath to learn about the Jedi Order for the Nihil. Some of the refugees attempted to kidnap and traffic Nan as a slave, but she was rescued by Padawan Silas.
Aboard the Amaxine station, several idols kept the energy of the dormant Drengir, imbued with the dark side of the Force, at bay. For a time after the Hyperspace Disaster, the Galactic Republic closed all hyperspace travel except for emergencies. Once that was lifted, the Jedi returned to the Republic capital planet of Coruscant with the idols, believing them to be the source of the dark side energies on the station and seeking to study them in the Shrine in the Depths of the Jedi Temple. However, the Jedi learned that the idols had actually been keeping the Drengir aboard the station dormant and returned to the station to return the idols and once again entrap the Drengir. When they returned, Nan's Storm and stormship had arrived at the Amaxine station, and she and Hague openly displayed as Nihil.
Nan confronted Silas at blasterpoint, but allowed the young man to go free as he had saved her from human trafficking. Later, after Hague and most of Nan's Storm were killed, Nan reported to Eye of the Nihil Marchion Ro.
===Further Nihil operations===
Over the next year, Nan served as a protégée of Ro, for whom she developed romantic feelings. She served alongside Krix Kamerat as a protégé of Ro, and felt a strong rivalry with Krix.
====In the minds of others====
Aboard Starlight Beacon, Reath Silas, who had a crush on the Mirialan Jedi Knight Vernestra Rwoh, pondered how it would feel to kiss Nan, recalling her as a sweet and lonely girl despite her cruelty and status as a pirate. He then reminded himself that she had been fishing for information by feigning kindness, and decided to eat instead of thinking about Nan further.
====Protecting the Oracle====
Nan took on a mission for Marchion Ro to accompany the "Oracle" Mari San Tekka to the Gravity's Heart space station, designed by the physicist Chancey Yarrow. There, she and the Chadra-Fan doctor Kisma Uttersond were treated as prisoners by Yarrow's Nihil before Nan accompanied Yarrow to the Graf family's mobile headquarters, Everbloom. The Nihil set an ambush on Everbloom where they captured the Jedi Padawans Reath Silas and Imri Cantaros as well as Chancey Yarrow's daughter, the hauler Sylvestri Yarrow.
===Information brokering for the Graf family===
Following the Republic attack on Gravity's Heart, Nan and Chancey Yarrow escaped and went back to Everbloom, where Yarrow pressured Nan to become an information broker and spy for the Graf family rather than working for Marchion Ro. Nan had spent several months away from the Nihil after agreeing to work for the Graf family, as a result of Yarrow's choices.
===Fall of Starlight Beacon===
====Prisoner of the Jedi====
Several months after the Republic attack on Gravity's Heart, Nan and Chancey Yarrow were captured by the Jedi near a fleet of Nihil marauders in the Ocktai system during a series of raids led by Jedi Master Avar Kriss. Nan and Yarrow were subsequently transported to Starlight Beacon as prisoners.
As prisoners, Nan and Yarrow were questioned by Master Stellan Gios, in order to determine whether or not the two women were currently affiliated with the Nihil at the time. After Nan proved to Master Gios that her intel was outdated, believing Avar Kriss to still be the marshal of Starlight Beacon, Gios silently noted how Nan took pride in having good information. The Jedi Master determined that Nan particularly liked knowing things that others did not. After questioning the two women, Gios decided that leaving Nan and Yarrow in proximity to one other during their imprisonment would test the bonds that tied them together, before leaving their prison cell.
During her time as a prisoner, Nan contemplated the fact that the Nihil were not coming to save her. She realized that if she ever hoped to rejoin the Nihil, she would have to figure out her own solution to her predicament. Nan realized she wanted Chancey Yarrow to fill the role of a guardian figure left open when her mentor Hague died, coming to the conclusion that Yarrow was nothing like Hague and that the two women were only ever using each other during the time they spent working together.
====Escape====
Both Nan and Yarrow were freed from their prison cell by Nihil loyalists Cale, Leyel, and Werrera. The human woman Leyel declared that the three of them knew Hague, Nan's late mentor, and that they came to help Nan and Yarrow for his sake. In exchange for releasing Nan and Yarrow, the Pau'an man Cale demanded that the two women helped out the three loyalists. Ultimately, Nan and Yarrow killed Cale, Leyel and Werrera during a brief firefight aboard the station.
====Surviving the fall====
Nan managed to survive the destruction of Starlight Beacon, which proved to her that the Nihil were unstoppable, by escaping on the Ace of Staves, a cargo ship previously owned by pilot Koley Linn who was killed during attempts to escape. With Yarrow's death and the fall of Starlight Beacon behind her, she decided to return to the Nihil.
==Behind the scenes==
Nan first appeared in the young-adult novel The High Republic: Into the Dark, which was written by Claudia Gray and published by Disney–Lucasfilm Press as part of the Star Wars: The High Republic multimedia project on February 2, 2021. She was first pictured in concept art by artist Jeffrey Thomas showcased during the fourth episode of the web series Star Wars: The High Republic Show on July 28 of the same year.
==Appearances==
*The High Republic: Into the Dark 
*The High Republic: The Edge of Balance, Vol. 2
*The High Republic: Out of the Shadows 
*The High Republic: Midnight Horizon 
*The High Republic: The Fallen Star 
*The High Republic: The Eye of Darkness 
*The High Republic: Defy the Storm 
*The High Republic: Temptation of the Force 
*The High Republic: Tears of the Nameless 
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*Star Wars: Timelines 
*Star Wars: The High Republic Character Encyclopedia
==Notes and references==
Category:Females
Category:Humans
Category:Individuals with she/her pronouns
Category:Information brokers
Category:Ministry of Information members