Nava Ra

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> ### Aliases
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> Emperor's Hand, Hand of the Emperor
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> ### Affiliation
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> Galactic Empire (formerly)
> Garm Bel Iblis' movement (undercover)
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> The Coalition
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> Biographical information
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> ### Date of birth
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> c. 23 BBY
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> ### Place of birth
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> Eshan
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> Physical description
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> ### Species
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> Echani
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> ### Gender
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> Female
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> ### Height
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> 1.7 meters
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> "*I don't even know what to think of Nava and what she could be honestly.*" ― Kho'ara
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Nava Ra was a Force-Sensitive Echani woman during the **Imperial Era** and the **New Republic Era**, Nava served the **Galactic Empire** as a prestigious, elite **Hand of the Emperor**, and later as a founding member of **the Coalition**.

### **The Empire**

Born a few years prior to the fall of the Republic, Nava Ra was discovered on Eshan by agents of the Emperor, and was trained secretly directly by Palpatine himself in the ways of the Force. The existence of Nava, as with the other Emperor's Hands, was kept secret from all within the Empire besides Darth Vader and the 12 Imperial Grand Admirals. Throughout her tenure as Hand, Nava went on all kinds of operations throughout the Empire, cleaning up Palpatine's loose ends and destabilizing rebel movements.

### **Infiltrating Garm Bel Iblis' Movement**

One of her missions, at the end of the Galactic Civil War, consisted of assassinating a Kaminoan scientist that had fled one of the Emperor's secret research facilities. She had tracked the scientist to Hosnian Prime, and while intercepting the target, encountered Scalpel Squad. Seeing an opportunity to take down both her original target and subversive rebels, she befriended both the Kaminoan and Scalpel, to the point of firing on an Imperial strike team. While fleeing Imperial forces, news of the death of the Emperor reached the planet, including Scalpel and Nava. With the Emperor dead, Nava decided to abandon the assassination of the scientist and instead opted to go for the head of the rebel group Scalpel belonged to. Over the next few months, Nava aided Scalpel and Garm Bel Iblis' movement, while secretly devising how to subvert the movement and take down Garm Bel Iblis.

### **Heir to the Empire**

After the capture of Scalpel Squad at the hands of Grand Admiral Thrawn, Nava, alongside with Scalpel's Kho'ara, returned to Garm Bel Iblis to report what they had encountered. For quite some time, however, Grand Admiral Thrawn had disappeared once more. With Garm Bel Iblis unable to do anything, Kho'ara and Nava sought out the Jedi Master Luke Skywalker to see if he could help.

On Ossus, the site of Skywalker's Academy, Nava and Kho'ara encountered Ahsoka Tano and Sabine Wren, who had also been hunting for Thrawn, as well as Ezra Bridger. At this time, with the death of the Emperor months behind her, Nava opted instead to turn her anger to a new target, and that was Thrawn, who she assumed was trying to take the Empire for himself with the secretive manner of his operations, and she agreed to help Tano and Wren and Kho'ara track down Thrawn.

After several attempts to liberate Scalpel from Thrawn's grasp for roughly two years, the strike team consisting of herself, Skywalker, Kho'ara, Tano, Wren, Sceptre Team member Min "Jacen" Zilk, Captain Rex, and Commander Cody successfully freed them from a space station over Obroa-skai. From there, the group set off to Raydonia to recruit the rest of Sceptre Team, a team that operated under Garm Bel Iblis up until his defeat over Onderon months earlier.

With a base established, the **Coalition** was officially formed. From there, Nava served as intelligence for the Coalition due to her background with the Empire. She accompanied the Coalition infiltration teams for the attack on Thrawn's *Chimaera* during the **Battle of Thyferra**, where she aided Scalpel in their unsuccessful attempt to gather information from the ship's databanks. She also was present for the defense of the Coalition's second base on Mantero, one of the moons of Serenno, when it was attacked by Thrawn's stealth forces. She also partook in a raid on one of the Emperor's Vault on Subterrel alongside the Black Talon and Yav Yiyar, where the Coalition acquired more funds, and Nava secretly took a replica of the Emperor's yacht *Imperialis*.

Nava aided in planning, and partook in the **Battle of the Nirauan**, where Grand Admiral Thrawn was ultimately captured.

### **Continuing the Coalition**

After the capture of Thrawn, Nava was seen favorably by New Republic officials, and was not detained for her status as a Hand of the Emperor. Nava became an official New Republic citizen, and even registered her yacht as the *Republica*. She continued to serve as a Council Member with the Coalition, secretly cleaning up the last remnants of the Empire, until 11 ABY, when she integrated herself into a deep-cover identity in the Corporate Sector in an attempt to learn where Grand Admiral Thrawn's allies had disappeared to.