In the early days of the Clone Wars, Obi-Wan Kenobi and his men were deployed to Ryloth
after the horrid separatist invasion of the planet, where they were tasked with
freeing the local Twi’Lek population from the firm grip of the confederacy.
Once there however, a pair of Clone Troopers named Waxer and Boil came across
a young Twi’Lek girl called Numa, who had lost her parents in the invasion.
So, I’m going to breakdown the story of what happened to Numa and her Parents
just before the separatists invaded Ryloth and causes immeasurable pain to the Twi’lek citizens.
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So, the story begins a short while before the invasion of Ryloth,
and the Innocents of Ryloth Clone Wars episode, where Kenobi and his men land.
Before the arrival of the separatists, Ryloth is a very peaceful land.
Twi’lek children of every colour are able to play in the streets without a care in the world.
The markets of Ryloth are booming and people are able to live very happy lives…
On one warm Ryloth morning, Numa begins to play and run around the streets of the
main market area of Nubat. Numa is having the time of her life with her red Twi’lek friend,
but she begins to run pretty far away from her mother,
who warns her to stay within her vision, and not travel too far away.
As Numa moves just a little bit too far away from her mother, he shouts out to her to tell
her that her Green friend, Lubo has found a small Gutkurr chick. A Really, really tiny one.
And you’ll definitely remember these ferocious creatures from the Clone Wars episode
where Obi-Wan Kenobi is forced to tame them using the rare force Ability known as animal bond.
So far in Canon, we’ve seen Anakin use the ability at the first battle of Geonosis,
to tame a ravenous reek in the arena, Obi-Wan of course on Ryloth and later Ezra Bridger,
who tamed the Fyrnock creatures at Fort Anaxes in Star Wars: Rebels. Ezra actually channelled
the darkside when he initially used this ability, leaving him tired and drained, although later he
was able to master the ability and channel the light side when using it, just like Obi-Wan did.
Following this, Numa’s mother calls out to her daughter, warning her not to touch the creature…
but she is quickly cut off by her friend Tronda, who writhes in pain
and senses that a storm is coming.
Numa’s mother responds to her friend by saying “The skies are clear , Tronda”,
wondering how a storm could possibly be coming in these beautiful conditions.
Tronda however is still firmly confident that she is correct, pushing back on Numa’s mother,
saying “So say your eyes. My bones say different”. I don’t know about you guys,
but I have a small feeling that Tronda may actually be force sensitive, at least very
slightly… Tell me down in the comments if you think this Twi’Lek could be force sensitive.
After this, Numa returns home with her mother and father, and begins to color and relax,
while her parents discuss Tronda’s prediction about the incoming storm.
Numa’s mother tells her father that her day was pretty much the same as all others, but
that Tronda says a massive storm is coming which will bring evil to Ryloth. The father also brushes
off Tronda’s visions, by saying “Tronda… Always seeing things”. Although she doesn’t believe it,
Numa’s mother does begin to become slightly cautious, and asks the father to clear the
shelter… just in case... And you’ll know if you’ve seen the Clone Wars episode, that this
decision right here just saved the life of their daughter Numa, without them even realizing it.
As Numa’s father begins to clear the shelter and prepare it for the ravaging storm which
is supposedly on it’s way, he notices a soft toy down there and scolds Numa for
descending down into the dark, reinforced area without supervision, saying “I think someone
has been in the shelter. Someone who is not allowed to be here Alone. Numa. Come here…”
This is of course the Tooka doll that Numa has hidden in the Clone Wars series.
Numa Sheepishly responds to her father, and he firmly asks how the Toy got into the shelter.
Again, Numa doesn’t want to answer the question, so she lies to her father,
saying that Tooka followed a bright-eye down into the dark shelter to play.
In response to this, Numa’s father says “Don’t Fib, Numa. We’ve told
you before we don’t want you to play in the shelter tunnels alone, you could get lost.
Following this, Numa goes to sleep in her Hammock, and is awoken in the early hours of the morning
by the sound of an invasive separatist probe droid shining it’s bright red eye on her face.
She rubs her eyes because of the bright, shining light,
and tragically… she will never see her parents again. They have been
savagely captured by Wat Tambor’s separatist forces, with their fates already decided…
Numa then chases the separatist probe droid through the cold, rocky halls of her house,
before clutching her head in pain from a sound above her. Numa then
continues to follow the probe droid up the nearby ladder, onto the streets above,
where she sees the most tragic view of her life. Her home has been invaded,
and her fellow Twi’Lek people are being enslaved by the separatist droid army. B-1 Battle droids
match the Twi’Lek prisoners forward, with their hands behind their Lekku, knowing that
their home has been taken right from them, without knowing if they will ever be able to take it back.
Only one Twi’Lek was able to see this invasion coming, but she was not able to stop it.
Numa then screams out for her mother and father, but her screams travel into the void,
without response. Sadness overcomes Numa, as she calls for her Tooka doll for one final time,
before looking out over her planet to the sight of war and invasion.
Unfortunately, her parents were taken and executed by the Separatists for unknown reasons.
I’d say there’s a good chance they were executed for putting up a fight, and attempting to protect
their daughter from the incoming droid forces. Maybe their final stand was directly in front of
their home, and they were able to kill the droid forces who were about to raid their home, with
their sleeping daughter inside, and were executed for their heroic actions… All while Numa slept.
After this of course, Obi-Wan Kenobi’s 212th arrive on Ryloth, and the two Troopers Waxer
and Boil are sent on a recon mission to Nabat, where they hear a strange noise.
After investigating the noise, they very quickly discover Numa hiding. Numa was very scared of the
two clone troopers at first, thinking they were both droids because of their very similar helmets,
and body armor, but not long after, she became very friendly with them.
Soon after this, Numa returned to her home with Waxer and Boil,
where she was overcome with horrible pain and grief, remembering the last time she was there,
being the location where she realized her parents had been killed. Thankfully,
Waxer and Boil were able to comfort her by handing back her Tooka doll,
which we just saw in the comic, that she left in the home, before emerging up to the surface.
And for those of you who haven't seen Star Wars Rebels, Numa actually went on to join the
Ryloth Rebel movement, known as the Free Ryloth Movement, which was led by Hera Syndulla’s dad,
Cham Syndulla. During the imperial Era, she fought to freedom against imperial control with Hera’s
father, and throughout her time fighting she wore an arm guard from a trooper of the 212th. This
trooper was Boil. This is an awesome throwback to the Clone Wars, and shows just how grateful
the Twi’Lek people still are for the 212ths action to Liberate Ryloth from the Separatists,
even all these years later. The event is such a major part of Ryloth and Twi’Lek history
that even Cham syndulla himself wears an armguard from a fallen 212th soldier,
left on the battlefield during the battle of Ryloth.
At first, Numa wasn’t on the best terms with the crew of the Ghost because she and Hera’s fathers
had slightly more extreme ideas, including destroying a ship over the atmosphere of ryloth,
as a show of strength for the Rebellion, and even stunned Hera,
Sabine, Ezra and the other Rebels on the orders of Cham Syndulla.
Eventually however, she and Cham syndulla were back on good terms with Hera and her crew,
helping her to recover her Twi’Lek kalikori, which was a highly valued Twi’Lek heirloom
that was passed from parent to child, through generations. According to Twi’Lek tradition,
each parent of a family added a piece of original artwork to the Kalikori to engrain themselves
in the family legacy. Obviously this held no value to outsiders, but to Twi’Lek families,
and especially Hera and Numa, who had both lost parents, it was incredibly valued.
So that is what happened to Numa’s parents before the events of the Battle of Ryloth
and before Waxer and Boil were able to save the young Twi’Lek girl from the onslaught of
the separatists. Thanks so much for watching, really hope you enjoyed the video. Remember to
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