Numa

Numa, a female Twi'lek, was born in 26 BBY and raised on Ryloth, a planet situated in the Outer Rim. She shared a modest home in the small town of Nabat with her father and mother. At the age of five standard years, the galaxy's Clone Wars reached Ryloth when the Confederacy of Independent Systems launched an invasion of her homeworld. The droid army of the Confederacy invaded numerous population centers, imprisoning and subjugating the inhabitants. Nabat was also a target, and during the initial phases of the occupation, Numa's residence was severely damaged, resulting in the deaths of her parents. To survive and evade detection by the droids, Numa sought shelter within the town's extensive network of underground sewer tunnels.

Later, the Galactic Republic initiated the Battle of Ryloth to liberate Ryloth from the Confederate occupation. During this battle, "Waxer" and "Boil", two clone troopers from Ghost Company of Jedi General Obi-Wan Kenobi's 212th Battalion, were on a reconnaissance mission in Nabat when they heard a sound in an alley. Upon investigating, they were surprised to discover Numa, a young Twi'lek girl. Initially, Numa was afraid of Waxer and Boil, mistaking them for droids because of their full body armor and helmets. She even bit Boil's finger when he attempted to comfort her.

After the trio managed to avoid being detected by a Separatist recon droid, Waxer and Boil removed their helmets and offered Numa a ration bar, assuring her of their good intentions and explaining that they were flesh and blood, just like her. Upon seeing their identical faces, she recognized that they were like brothers. She pointed at each of them and said "nerra" in Twi'leki, which meant brother. Since Waxer and Boil only spoke Galactic Basic Standard and Numa only spoke Twi'leki, they couldn't understand each other verbally. After Numa finished the ration bar, Waxer and Boil decided to continue their recon mission, leaving Numa behind.

Numa chose to follow them, remaining hidden behind the two clones as they moved through Nabat's streets. Waxer and Boil were aware of her presence but continued their mission. Soon, she positioned herself in front of the clones, surprising them with her stealth, and repeated "nerra" while running towards her partially destroyed home. Waxer and Boil followed her, although Boil considered it unwise since they were already late for their meeting with General Kenobi and the 212th Legion and would face consequences for the delay.

Inside her home, Numa was overwhelmed with sorrow, but she found comfort when Waxer located and gave her a tooka doll, though she began to cry. Waxer hugged Numa, promising to keep her safe. Even Boil crouched down to comfort the young girl. Numa then embraced Boil, which surprised him. At that moment, Boil's comlink activated: Clone Commander CC-2224 "Cody" was calling. The two troopers realized they were in trouble and quickly left Numa's home, wondering how to explain Numa to Cody and Kenobi.

However, Numa noticed several fierce Rylothian carnivores approaching them. TX-20, a tactical droid and leader in the Confederate occupation of Ryloth, had unleashed a gutkurr hunting pack. Two gutkurrs chased the trio back into Numa's home, so Waxer and Boil held the front doors shut while firing on the beasts with their DC-15A blaster rifles. Numa, meanwhile, searched for an escape route, remembering the secret passage under a trap door in the back of her former home. She got the troopers' attention, so they backed up and followed Numa down the hatch and escaped the gutkurrs. The trio made their way through the tunnels and soon emerged again above ground in a different Nabat neighborhood right near Jedi Master Kenobi and Commander Cody, Waxer and Boil's superior officers. Numa hid behind Boil's legs until Kenobi crouched down and spoke to her in Twi'leki, inquiring as to whether Numa could lead the 212th through the tunnels to where the other Twi'leks were being held prisoner. Numa said that she could and grew very excited.

Soon after, the clones launched their offensive. Numa, sitting on Kenobi's shoulder, guided Waxer, Boil, and Kenobi through the tunnels to Nabat's town center, where the Twi'leks were being used as living shields to protect the Confederacy's J-1 proton cannon, which prevented the Republic from launching a full-scale invasion. Kenobi put Numa down and signaled Cody and his troops on the opposite side of the square, who then opened fire on the Confederate B1-series battle droids and other defenses. As the battle raged, Kenobi used his lightsaber to free the Twi'lek prisoners from their stuncuffs and directed them to the tunnels past Numa. Numa watched happily as they passed, once again free, and was found by her uncle, Nilim Bril. The two embraced, happy to see each other alive. Kenobi, Waxer, and Boil continued the fight, destroying the Proton cannons, but the droid TX-20 in an Armored Assault Tank knocked the three Republic warriors to the ground with a laser blast. Numa raced from the safety of her uncle and the other Twi'leks and helped Waxer, Boil, and Kenobi to their feet. While Numa helped Kenobi up, TX-20 aimed his tank's laser cannon at Kenobi and Numa, ready to end their lives. However, the rest of the Twi'leks were inspired by Numa's selflessness and so they took up arms against their droid oppressors, climbing TX-20's tank and ripped his mechanical body apart. Kenobi covered Numa's eyes at the violence, but she peeked out and watched anyway.

With the proton cannons destroyed, massive Republic Acclamator-class transgalactic military assault ships landed on the outskirts of Nabat and released their cargo—thousands of clone troopers, All Terrain Tactical Enforcers, and All Terrain Reconnaissance Transports. Numa and her uncle watched the landing with other Twi'leks. Waxer waved goodbye to Numa, then Boil did likewise. Numa, however, wanted a better good-bye, so she ran over and hugged Boil's leg. He told her not to be afraid because after they liberated the planet they would be back. Numa was sad that they had to go, but was glad she at least had her uncle to watch over her. She then called after them "nerra, nerra" and waved goodbye to them. Waxer and Boil asked Kenobi what "nerra" meant in Twi'leki, and he explained that it meant "brother." The two were amused and waved back to Numa and then continued on their march to liberate Ryloth's capital city of Lessu from the Confederacy.

With the rise of the Galactic Empire, Ryloth was officially designated as a protectorate under the new regime. Numa's prior admiration for the heroic clone troopers quickly turned to disillusionment as she found herself imprisoned. She was later rescued by Cham Syndulla's Free Ryloth Movement and soon became an active member. Her skill with grenades and explosives allowed her to quickly rise in the Movement, with Syndulla himself guiding her.

Three years prior to the Battle of Yavin, Numa had become a key fighter within the Free Ryloth Movement, working under Syndulla. Alongside Gobi Glie, she accompanied Cham on a mission to meet with the Spectres, another rebel group led by Cham's daughter, Hera Syndulla. After docking their Nu-class shuttle with the rebel ship Ghost, Numa and her companions participated in a briefing with the Spectres, where they discussed a plan to eliminate an Imperial Quasar Fire-class cruiser-carrier orbiting Ryloth. Cham advocated destroying the ship, which housed TIE/sa bombers that had devastated Ryloth, to demonstrate the strength of the Ryloth rebels.

However, Hera disagreed with her father's plan, suggesting that they steal the cruiser-carrier for the rebellion. After a heated debate, Cham reluctantly agreed to Hera's plan. Secretly, Cham still intended to destroy the Imperial cruiser-carrier and instructed Numa and Glie to bring a bag of detonators. During the journey to Ryloth, Numa and her Twi'lek comrades pretended to befriend the Spectres. After landing a stolen TIE bomber in the Imperial cruiser carrier, the Ryloth rebels put their plan into action. Under Cham's orders, Numa and Glie stunned the rebels Ezra Bridger, Sabine Wren, Kanan Jarrus, and Garazeb Orrelios while Cham dealt with Hera and her astromech droid Chopper.

After exiting their TIE bomber, Numa and her companions dispatched a squad of stormtroopers that had been sent to the hangar bay. While Cham proceeded to disable the ship's hyperdrive, Numa and Glie headed with their detonators to the munitions rack. Shortly later, they were caught up in a gun battle with stormtroopers. Two of the Spectres, Wren and Orrelios, managed to overpower Numa and Glie by using a rigged mouse droid to stun them. The two rebels then secured their Twi'lek prisoners while the other four rebels convinced Cham to abandon his plan to destroy the Imperial cruiser-carrier.

While Hera reasoned with her father, Wren played the recording to Numa and Glie in an effort to convince them to join forces. After several Imperial reinforcements and TIE bombers attempted to reclaim the cruiser-carrier, Numa and Glie joined forces with Wren and Orrelios in repelling the Imperial forces. In the end, the two rebel forces managed to hijack the Imperial ship and escape the Ryloth system. While leaving, they destroyed an Arquitens-class command cruiser, which boosted the morale of the Ryloth rebels. Having established a working relationship with the rebellion, Numa and her Twi'lek comrades then departed on their shuttle back to Ryloth.

Two years before the Battle of Yavin, Grand Admiral Thrawn assumed command of the Imperial counterinsurgency operation against the Free Ryloth movement. By studying Twi'lek culture, art, philosophy, and history, Thrawn developed strategies that led to the capture of Tann Province, the home of the Syndulla clan. While Numa and Cham were riding their blurrg mounts to rendezvous with Hera's crew and Glie, they were pursued by several Imperial scout troopers and an Imperial Troop Transport. Numa and Cham managed to fight off their pursuers long enough for the Ghost to come and pick them up.

Once aboard, Numa, along with Cham and Orrelios, knocked out a scout trooper who had climbed aboard the vessel. Later, Numa attended a briefing where Cham outlined the recent events to Hera and her crew. When Bridger asked what a Kalikori was, Numa explained that it was a Twi'lek heirloom that was valuable to Hera's family. Numa, Glie, Cham, and the other rebels volunteered to take part in a mission to recover Hera's Kalikori from the Syndulla residence, which had become the new Imperial headquarters.

For the mission, Numa and the other rebels staged a diversionary attack on an Imperial patrol in a nearby canyon while Hera, Bridger, and Chopper went to recover the Kalikori. After destroying a troop transport and an AT-DP walker, the rebels fled into the wilderness but were pursued by a second walker. Following a gun battle, Thrawn's second-in-command, Captain Slavin, contacted the two rebel cells to inform them that he had captured Hera and Bridger. He threatened to execute the prisoners if Cham failed to surrender by dawn.

After Cham agreed to surrender in return for his daughter and Bridger's lives, Numa and the other rebels traveled to the Syndulla residence in the Ghost. Cham was about to proceed with the exchange when Hera ordered Chopper to detonate several explosives placed throughout the residence. This knocked out the Imperial forces and allowed all of the rebels to escape. However, they failed to recover the Kalikori, which was retained by Thrawn to add to his art collection. Numa and Glie later mingled with the other Spectres while Hera reaffirmed her love for her father, Jarrus, and her crew.

Numa, a Twi'lek female, possessed turquoise skin and brown eyes. As a child, she displayed resilience, managing to remain hidden in occupied Nabat despite the Separatist military's efforts to kill or capture the population. Initially, she was afraid of Waxer and Boil, believing their armor indicated they were droids. However, she grew to trust and admire them as they helped liberate Nabat. With the rise of the Empire, Numa developed a distrust of outsiders, feeling betrayed by the Empire and the soldiers she had once admired. Her life was largely shaped by war, resulting in a reserved and distant personality, rarely speaking unless necessary.

During her childhood, she spoke only Twi'leki, but by adulthood, she had become fluent in Galactic Basic Standard.

Even as a child, Numa demonstrated the ability to evade the battle droid forces that occupied her home city, even though the rest of Nabat's population had been killed or rounded up. She also possessed knowledge of its expansive sewer system, which allowed General Kenobi to stage an attack against the occupiers.

As an adult, Cham Syndulla considered Numa one of the most skilled warriors in the Free Ryloth Movement, asserting herself as a dedicated agent. She was capable with a blaster pistol and had expertise with many types of grenades, including armor-piercing grenades and frag grenades.

As a child, Numa wore a brown sleeveless dress, brown headdress and brown shoes. When she grew up and became a freedom fighter, Numa wore a tight-fitting black shirt and light brown pants, as well as a beige and black headdress. She wore white-and-orange armor pieces on her left arm, with "BOIL" written on one piece in Aurebesh. She wielded a DC-17 hand blaster.

Numa's voice was provided by Catherine Taber, who also voiced Padmé Amidala in Star Wars: The Clone Wars. Taber suggested in a tweet that Numa might be a descendant of Legends characters Mission Vao and Vette, two other Twi'lek characters she had previously voiced.

On Numa's upper left arm, the word "BOIL" is written in Aurebesh as well as a particular crest in reference to one of the clone troopers that rescued her in Star Wars: The Clone Wars. She also has a faded tooka illustration on her tunic.