Norath Kev

Norath Kev, a Duros male born on the planet Duro, lived during the time of the war between the First Order and the Resistance. He functioned as a Resistance spy on the Outer Rim planet Varkana, working alongside his astromech droid, 2BR-NTB. The pair became well-acquainted with their assigned world, at one point operating from a building within Vargo Spaceport, where Kev maintained a hidden compartment for his datapad. For a period, the spy monitored black market material shipments to track the First Order's movements. He eventually compiled a list of individuals on Varkana who were working for the First Order as collaborators or dealers.

In 34 ABY, Lechee, the vendor who operated Leechee's Junk Emporium and a First Order collaborator, discovered the spy's connection to the Resistance and decided to report him to the First Order. The First Order dispatched the bounty hunter Ax Tagrin to capture Kev, forcing him and 2BR-NTB to flee through a marketplace to avoid capture. After ascending a set of stairs, they entered a building within Vargo Spaceport, where the spy used his data rod and datapad to activate an open distress call. Kev explained to his droid that the signal could be picked up on any Resistance frequency, but he acknowledged the droid's concerns about the risk involved. As the sound of approaching steps indicated that someone was nearing their building, the Resistance operative quickly hid his datapad and data rod and told 2BR-NTB that they should remain quiet.

Using his vibro-ax, Tagrin easily broke down the room's door and held Kev and 2BR-NTB at blaster-point. Kev stated that he had already activated a distress signal, prompting the bounty hunter to casually shoot at and destroy 2BR-NTB. Kev was saddened by the droid's destruction and cried out for them before turning to Tagrin and bluffing that many Resistance fighters were on their way to save him. However, the bounty hunter indicated that such an occurrence would be welcome, as each prisoner would bring him more money, and he took the spy into custody aboard his ship, the Dalkor Dagger. Lechee was then paid a large sum of credits for turning Kev in to the First Order.

On the supertanker fuel depot Colossus, which was fleeing from the First Order, the Resistance operative Kazuda Xiono received Kev's distress signal and begged for permission to investigate. Although the Colossus's captain, Imanuel Doza, was wary of a potential trap, Xiono, his astromech droid CB-23, the pirate Synara San, and his fellow Resistance operative Jarek Yeager decided to investigate and offer assistance, as the Varkana system was close to their location. After landing on Varkana, the group headed towards the signal beacon activated by Kev, unaware that Tagrin had already captured him.

With CB-23's help, Xiono recovered Kev's datapad and data rod, learning the spy's identity and that he had been sent to Varkana on the Resistance's behalf to track First Order black market activity. Xiono spoke with Yeager about Kev's work on the planet while CB-23 downloaded the data. The group planned to leave shortly after realizing that Lechee—whom they had encountered upon their arrival to the planet—was likely working for the First Order and may have reported their presence on Varkana.

However, before they could leave, Tagrin confronted Xiono and his colleagues, resulting in a brief skirmish in which Kev's datapad was destroyed. The bounty hunter left and went to his ship, planning to trap the group when they inevitably came to rescue Kev. After discussing the matter, Yeager, San, and Xiono decided that if there was any chance Tagrin had captured the Varkana spy alive, they would attempt a rescue. Suspecting Lechee had betrayed the spy, the group confronted the vendor, threatening to rob him until he admitted to reporting Kev to the First Order, indicating that he may have been brought to Tagrin's ship if he was still alive.

Xiono, Yeager, and CB-23 located a dazed Kev in a sealed compartment aboard the bounty hunter's ship and broke his restraints. Although the spy tried to warn them of the impending trap, Tagrin quickly locked the group aboard his vessel. Kev apologized for the group getting involved in such a messy situation, explaining the parameters of his original mission and dejectedly reflecting that losing his First Order contacts list meant his endeavor was a failure. However, the spy was thrilled when Xiono informed him that CB-23 had downloaded a copy of the list.

Tagrin arranged for the First Order's Commander Pyre to pay for the capture of Kev, Xiono, Yeager, and CB-23 and flew to meet at a rendezvous point. Kev insisted they needed to get off the bounty hunter's ship before they met with the First Order, helping Xiono pry open a panel. CB-23 then overloaded the ship's systems, but when Tagrin activated a countermeasure against their tampering, Xiono and Kev were briefly electrocuted and thrown backward. CB-23's efforts resulted in the ship roughly crashing into Varkana's surface, bouncing its passengers around inside on impact. Kev injured his head and leg upon landing, flopping onto the ground after attempting to walk. The spy slowly departed the vessel supported by Xiono, alongside CB-23 and Yeager, walking for a short distance.

However, Tagrin spotted the group leaving and fired on them, with Yeager firing back while Xiono and Kev took cover. San—who had followed the group to the crash site on a speeder bike—arrived and joined the firefight, instructing Xiono to call Captain Doza for an evacuation. Xiono and Kev boarded the pirate's speeder bike and fled the scene with the latter driving as the bounty hunter threw his vibro-ax at them. The bounty hunter captured San, Yeager, and CB-23 shortly afterward by activating a powerful ability of his vibro-ax that filled the night sky with light, leaving Kev and Xiono to wonder what had caused it as they noticed and were unable to contact their colleagues. Xiono called Doza via comm for an evacuation but was informed that the First Order had already arrived in the system, causing Kev to agree with Xiono that their day kept getting worse.

While on the outskirts of Vargo Spaceport, Xiono and Kev began planning to help their captured colleagues after spotting them in Tagrin's custody. Kev felt remorseful about having endangered them by sending out his initial distress call, though his companion assured him that the bounty hunter had likely wanted the signal to be issued to lure in more Resistance members. The pair continued to make their way through the spaceport, with Xiono contacting Doza to explain their colleagues' capture and insist they had a plan to get them back. However, after ending the call, he admitted to Kev that he had no plan to free their friends. Kev was frustrated with Xiono's lack of ideas, and as they continued to evade detection in the spaceport, he insisted they could not continue sneaking around indefinitely. Nearby in the spaceport, stormtroopers showed wanted posters for the Resistance operatives to the fruit vendor Darrb.

Xiono suggested that stormtroopers should be their plan, though Kev did not initially understand what he meant until the former explained that they could ambush two troopers and steal their armor to rescue their friends, who had by then been transferred into the First Order's custody. The spy was skeptical of Xiono's plan with the armor and assumed he would need to come up with a new idea instead. As Xiono hastily departed, he tripped over a container that landed on Kev, causing the latter to yell out in pain. Two stormtroopers noticed the sound and began firing stun blasts at the pair, forcing them to flee through Varkana's streets. The pair decided to hide in Darrb's residence, picking up the alien and carrying him into the building before he could protest.

While Kev held his hands over the vendor's mouth to prevent him from speaking, Xiono promised they would leave shortly and handed him a piece of produce. Darrb struggled to break free in his panic and briefly shouted, causing both Resistance operatives to continue trying to keep him quiet. After the stormtroopers passed by the building's door, Darrb stomped on Kev's foot, causing him to lose his grip and let the vendor run away from them. Following the noise of their scuffle, the pair of stormtroopers demanded to enter the room and broke open the door shortly afterward. The two Resistance operatives quickly positioned Darrb in front of the door and moved out of sight of the door. Upon entering, the troopers found a terrified Darrb standing in front of them, but before they could search the premises, Kev and Xiono used bowls to knock them out.

Although the Varkana spy still had misgivings about their plan, he and Xiono dragged the two troopers out of Darrb's residence and stole their armor. As Kev struggled to fit in the armor properly and complained about its fit, Tagrin tapped into their helmet comms and listened to their plans to rescue Yeager, San, and CB-23. After learning that Xiono intended to return to their shuttle with Kev after freeing their other friends, the bounty hunter went to lie in wait for them there. Meanwhile, the two Resistance operatives slowly traveled through Varkana's streets toward a hangar, with Xiono reassuring Kev that their plan would work, even though he had only used a trooper disguise once successfully before. They eventually joined another group of stormtroopers when ordered to fall in with them. As the group traveled, Kev struggled to keep pace with the others due to the awkward, undersized fit of his stolen armor.

Upon reaching the hangar, the pair broke off from the group of stormtroopers and stopped in front of a doorway to discuss their next move. However, Pyre opened the door behind them and noticed their startled reactions to his presence, asking the pair for their call numbers. Xiono began to reply but quickly stunned the First Order commander and closed the door, much to Kev's surprise. Kev then told the next group of troopers approaching that the entry behind them was malfunctioning, and he felt relieved when they walked away.

The duo then made their way to the shuttle where Yeager and San were being held and set them free from their interrogation chairs. Xiono introduced Kev to his colleagues, and the latter briefly struggled to remove his helmet before returning the salutations. CB-23—who had escaped on her own—joined them, and Xiono called Doza for an evacuation. However, when there was no reply, Kev questioned if they had left. The group went to their shuttle but quickly fled the vessel after Tagrin ambushed them there, locking the bounty hunter inside.

Tagrin used his vibro-ax to escape from the ship and tossed a flash device at the group, who were regrouping not far outside the shuttle, and used their momentary confusion to close the distance between them. However, CB-23 began operating the vessel remotely and used it to knock out Tagrin, allowing Kev and the others to escape Varkana's surface aboard the shuttle. Now safely aboard, he congratulated Xiono on the trooper disguise plan's success, having been initially skeptical. Kev remained by Xiono's side as the ship gained altitude and evaded First Order TIE fighters with the help of the Colossus's Ace Squadron pilots, who had come to assist them.

Kev was surprised by their arrival, not recognizing the pilots, and was shocked when the Colossus arrived to rescue them. After Xiono and Ace Squadron landed aboard the supertanker fuel depot, the Varkana spy thanked Doza for the rescue on the Resistance's behalf. Afterward, Kev helped Xiono explain that their stormtrooper armor was part of a disguise tactic to the latter's friend, the mechanic Neeku Vozo. Kev also offered for Xiono to depart the Colossus to join the wider Resistance, but he declined, not ready to leave his friends.

Not long after, Doza chose to settle the Colossus on the Outer Rim planet Aeos Prime, hoping to find peace after fleeing the First Order for several months. However, Xiono became restless and contacted Kev to leave the Colossus and rejoin the Resistance in its fight against the First Order. The pair discussed their plans over hologram, with the latter noting that he should leave as quickly as possible. Kev then used a secure channel to transmit coordinates for Xiono to meet near the Outer Rim planet Batuu, relaying his excitement for him to join the wider Resistance after they rendezvoused.

Xiono departed the Colossus in his team's namesake racer, the Fireball, but was attacked by a First Order probe droid not far off Aeos Prime. Though he voiced his regrets about not being able to meet Kev at the rendezvous point in time, Xiono turned back to the planet to warn the Colossus that the First Order was likely coming. Not long after his warning to Doza, the Colossus was forced to flee Aeos Prime when the First Order attacked the world, sending the station on the run again. At some point, the Resistance pilot Poe Dameron met Kev and told the spy about his and Xiono's first meeting, in which the pilot saved the latter in a dogfight against the First Order.

After departing from the Core Worlds planet Chandrila later the same year, Chandrila Star Line's MPO-1400 Purgill-class star cruiser Halcyon made an unscheduled detour to Varkana to pick up a shipment of blasters for Kev, to be delivered to him on the Outer Rim planet Mon Cala. The cruiser's port of call schedule, including the Varkana pickup and the delivery on Mon Cala for Kev, was detailed in the voyage's datapad crew notes and indicated that a spaceport attendant would have useful intelligence on the endeavor.

Kev became a member of the Resistance's Jade Squadron, which was led by Resistance pilot Venisa Doza as its commanding officer. However, due to squadron casualties, only he, the pilot Hugh Sion, and Doza remained. Doza, with her husband Imanuel's approval, arranged for Jade Squadron to journey to the Colossus. Their purpose was to prepare for their upcoming assignment: escorting three Resistance shuttles carrying recruits away from Dantooine, an Outer Rim planet under blockade. Aboard the station, Kev and Sion encountered Xiono, with Sion noting that he and Xiono had previously flown together while serving in the New Republic Defense Force. Xiono boasted about his success in an earlier battle with the First Order, but Kev playfully mentioned that Dameron's account differed.

Kev explained to Xiono that Jade Squadron was on the Colossus because the Resistance struggled to recruit new members to combat the First Order. Inside the station's Aces' Lounge, Doza conducted a briefing on their mission, utilizing a holographic projection of Dantooine created by her astromech droid Torch. The squadron then traveled to Dantooine with the Colossus ace pilots Xiono, Torra Doza, and [Hype Fazon]((/article/hype_fazon) for their task. Fazon and Kev found amusement in Sion's revelation that Xiono nearly faced expulsion from the New Republic Military Academy, despite Xiono's attempts to change the subject.

As they neared Dantooine, Kev alerted Venisa to an approaching First Order TIE fighter squadron. A battle ensued, during which Kev and Sion separated to destroy multiple TIE fighters, while the rest of the escort team paired up to do the same. However, before being killed, a TIE fighter pilot reported the attack on the blockade to Pyre. As Jade Squadron and the ace pilots began to escort three Resistance shuttles carrying recruits off Dantooine, the First Order's Resurgent-class Star Destroyer Thunderer appeared above the planet. Lieutenant Galek's squadron was dispatched to prevent the recruits' escape.

As the Thunderer launched more TIE fighters, Venisa instructed Torra, Fazon, and Kev to safeguard the Resistance shuttles, while she, Xiono, and Sion engaged the enemy ships. Although the group managed to jump to hyperspace with two shuttles, shuttle two was destroyed despite Torra and Kev's efforts. Afterward, Jade Squadron and the ace pilots met up with the Colossus, landing with the two surviving shuttles. Imanuel agreed to extend their stay on the Colossus indefinitely, despite initially only agreeing to a few days. The Colossus then traveled to the Barabesh system to continue avoiding the First Order.

Shortly after, Xiono and Yeager tried to rescue Tamara Ryvora, a First Order TIE pilot who had previously been their colleague on the Colossus, when she wished to defect. However, the rescue failed, and all three were taken aboard the Thunderer, which then headed to the Barabesh system to destroy the Colossus. When Imanuel gathered the station's inhabitants in the cantina Aunt Z's Tavern, Kev listened to the captain's appeal for unity in helping their friends fight the First Order.

After Xiono and Ryvora sent a holographic message to the cantina, urging everyone to flee before the First Order arrived, Kev and the others on the Colossus were touched by their loyalty and chose to assist them. When the Thunderer arrived in the Barabesh system, Jade Squadron and the Colossus's Ace Squadron launched an attack on the Star Destroyer. Kev followed Venisa's lead, dropping ion bombs on the panels near the Thunderer's thrusters in an attempt to disable its engines. Although their initial attacks were ineffective, Jade Squadron managed to score several hits after CB-23 deactivated the Star Destroyer's shields.

Taking advantage of the chaos, Yeager, Xiono, and Ryvora stole a shuttle and escaped from one of the Thunderer's hangar bays. Meanwhile, Kev and his comrades made a final attack on the Star Destroyer's engines, causing them to explode and triggering a firey chain reaction that destroyed the Thunderer from within. Later, Kev joined the Colossus residents in Aunt Z's, celebrating their victory and calling themselves Team Colossus. Within a year, the Resistance defeated the First Order at the Battle of Exegol, ending the galaxy-wide conflict.

Norath Kev, standing approximately 1.83 meters tall, had green skin, gold eyes, and spoke Galactic Basic. Kev was a firm believer in the Resistance's ideals, urging others to join the fight to protect the galaxy from the First Order. He willingly risked his life to escort Resistance recruits off Dantooine and to combat the Thunderer. He demonstrated the ability to build camaraderie and collaborate effectively to achieve shared goals, but he also showed he could operate independently on Varkana. In dangerous situations, Kev pushed himself beyond his limits, such as when he was injured in Tagrin's ship crash and insisted he could walk despite being unable to.

Kev was a courageous operative, standing up to Tagrin after the bounty hunter destroyed his droid and trusting that other Resistance members would rescue him. However, when Xiono and his team were captured by Tagrin while attempting to save him, he felt guilty for involving them. Despite being captured by Tagrin and put in danger, Kev remained focused on his original mission to track down black market contacts, and he was pleased to learn that CB-23 had saved his work. Xiono, Yeager, San, and CB-23 were willing to risk their own capture to rescue the spy, unwilling to abandon a fellow Resistance member if there was a chance he was still alive.

Kev and Xiono engaged in playful banter on Varkana, with Kev doubting Xiono's ability to devise a successful rescue plan for San and Yeager. Xiono, in turn, respected Kev as a fellow Resistance spy but was briefly irritated when Kev questioned the effectiveness of his stormtrooper disguise plan. While evading First Order forces, Kev used humor to lighten their difficult situation but ultimately expressed his gratitude to Xiono after their successful escape from Varkana. He enjoyed Sion's teasing of Xiono regarding his near expulsion from the New Republic Academy during the mission to Dantooine.

The spy was a proficient operative, successfully compiling a list of First Order black market contacts and collaborators on Varkana. He managed to evade First Order detection for a period and demonstrated the ability to escape capture. The First Order considered Kev a significant threat, assigning him a high-threat level on a wanted poster. Kev possessed technical skills, managing to send an encrypted distress signal despite limited time. Kev was a skilled pilot, both while flying with Jade Squadron on escort missions and during attack runs on the Thunderer.

Kev wore a dusty orange jumpsuit with knee patches, pockets, brown side panels, and a light gray stripe across the waist. His attire included a yellow-and-brown jacket with mud-brown sleeves, a pocketed gray-brown vest with lighter gray accents, and a dark red scarf. He also wore gray-and-black goggles and brown and light gray shoes. On Varkana, Kev used 2BR-NTB, a datapad, and a data rod to carry out his Resistance duties. Alongside Xiono, Kev stole stormtrooper armor and an F-11D blaster rifle, which they used to rescue Yeager and San from the First Order.

Although his Varkana datapad was destroyed, the Resistance operative obtained another one capable of transmitting encrypted coordinates, which he used to arrange a rendezvous with Xiono. As a member of Jade Squadron, Kev wore an orange flight suit with a cream-colored flak vest displaying the Resistance's emblem. His outfit was completed with a gray belt, cylinders strapped to his uniform in a gray band below the knee, and dark gray gloves and shoes. During the mission to Dantooine, Kev piloted a T-70 X-wing starfighter and wore a white flight helmet with an orange-tinted visor, featuring green stylistic accents, two green victory decals, and a Resistance emblem on the side.

Norath Kev made his debut in "The Missing Agent," the twelfth episode of the second season of the animated series Star Wars Resistance. Before the episode aired on December 22, 2019, Kev's starfighter was featured in a trailer for Star Wars Resistance's second season, released on August 14 of the same year. He was first identified in a StarWars.com article announcing the trailer's release, which was published on the same day. The article also revealed that the character was voiced by Daveed Diggs, who later voiced the human Crux in the Star Wars: Visions animated series. Diggs promoted his character on Twitter before the episode aired, expressing his fondness for Kev.

In an earlier version of the script for "Breakout," the thirteenth episode of Star Wars Resistance's second season, which aired on December 29, 2019, Kev and Xiono encountered another spy—the Elomin Amleto—instead of encountering Darrb. Although visiting Batuu's Black Spire Outpost was discussed during Star Wars Resistance's second season, only a mention of Xiono planning to meet Kev near Batuu made it into the final series. The 2024 reference book Star Wars Encyclopedia: The Comprehensive Guide to the Star Wars Galaxy incorrectly spells Kev's homeworld of Duro as "Duros."

Lucasfilm Animation artist Jim Moore created a concept illustration of the character on May 4, 2018. Concept artwork pieces of Kev featuring in a wanted poster and wearing First Order stormtrooper armor were created by Lucasfilm Animation artist Jason Pichon on June 7 and June 8, respectively, of the same year. Moore also created an illustration of Kev in a Resistance flight suit on September 8, 2018. Star Wars Resistance's art director, Amy Beth Christenson, mentioned that Kev and Lechee's designs were based on leftover sketches from the series' pre-production phase.