Navik

Navik, known as Navik the Red, was a Rodian of Chattza clan who declared himself Grand Protector of his homeworld Rodia after overthrowing his rivals during an insurrection in 17 BBY. He switched Rodia's capital from Equator City to his homecity of Iskaayuma, seat of the Chattza clan, which led to the city's fastest period of development.
==Biography==
Navik the Red was a Rodian of the Chattza clan from the city of Iskaayuma on the planet Rodia. After its creation in 19 BBY,Star Wars: Timelines the rise of the Galactic Empire caused a swelling clan rivalry on Rodia. This led to Navik eventually seizing his chance to strike against his rivals, overthrowing them in an insurrection in which he captured the Rodian capital, Equator City. Declaring himself Grand Protector of his species' homeworld in 17 BBY, he switched the planet's capital to his homecity, which was also the seat of his clan. After this, Iskaayuma saw its fastest period of development, becoming a massive sprawl that covered the entire Sika Peninsula by the time the Empire reached its peak.
The Rodian fleet was housed in a huge starport in Iskaayuma, which strengthened the power of Navik and his clan, with both maintaining large citadels in the city. However, even during Navik's time in office, the need to represent the best of Rodia was understood and so the Senatorial Palace where offworld dignitaries were met and housed was kept in a beautiful archipelago far from the fumes of Iskaayuma's ugly industrial sprawl.
==Behind the scenes==
In the current Star Wars canon, Navik was mentioned in "Visting Rodia," an article in the Guide to the Galaxy department published in the fifty-eighth issue of De Agostini's Star Wars: Build the Millennium Falcon series that released around February 10, 2016. The character originated in the Star Wars Legends continuity, where he first appeared in "A Hunter's Fate: Greedo's Tale," a story written by Tom and Martha Veitch and published in the 1995 anthology Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina. The character was then first depicted in Legends in a webstrip adaptation of the story written and illustrated by Pablo Hidalgo and released between October 4, 2004 and March 18, 2005.
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==Notes and references==
Category:Chattza Clan
Category:Grand Protectors of the Rodians
Category:Individuals of unspecified gender
Category:Individuals with he/him pronouns
Category:Rodians