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Oniye Namada
Major Oniye Namada
Appears in: Purge: The Tyrant's Fist
The leading Imperial Security Bureau officer on Vaklin during its insurgency in the early years of the Empire. She worked with Darth Vader to eliminate the insurgency, which was headed by Jedi survivors of Order 66 including Jedi Knight Cho'na Bene.
- Affably Evil: Major Namada. She may be a State Sec officer and commits actions that come with the job, but she's fairly amicable and casual to the locals and some of her colleagues, behavior which is comparable to, say, a police officer in real life. She's also friendly enough to a vendor that she talks with on a daily basis to advise him that he needs to stop giving leeway to rebels instead of threatening to arrest him or anything like that.
- Anti-Villain: While Namada is an Imperial and she is supportive of questionable things including propaganda and censorship, assassination and conspiracy, destruction of ancient works, and so forth, she believes its within the best interest of the people and thinks that they're hurting themselves if they continue to follow the old ways, considering the state of Vaklin.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Towards the end, Namada expresses interest in sending her daughter to the new Imperial Education Center on Vaklin.
- False Flag Operation: Since Namada is already known to the Vaklin public as an ISB officer, she disguises herself in Stormtrooper armor when she kills Bene so that people think it was an understandable situation of protecting a civilian from some loco rather than suspecting that it was a set-up and a conspiracy to kill the Jedi Knight, which would further sour civilian-Imperial relations than it already is.
- How the Mighty Have Fallen: Since simply killing the rebel Jedi would just make a martyr of war out of them by the insurgents, Namada and the Imperials instead have Bene look like a drunken fool and make it look like his killing was to defend a civilian that looked like he was being harassed by him, allowing the Imperials to get away with it scotfree and ruining the image of the Jedi and thus the insurgency.
- Majorly Awesome: She's a major in the Imperial Security Bureau.
- Not So Above It All: An extremely minor case, but it's a bit funny at how immature and brief Namada's response in this conversation sounds in contrast to how professional and casual she is in the rest of the arc.Namada: Save me a sweet roll, Djon?
Djon: Berry and tok nut — last of the morning batch!
Namada: ...I hate tok nuts. - One-Shot Character: She only appears in the Purge: The Tyrant's Fist twoshot series.
- Villain Has a Point: While her methods are obviously morally wrong, Namada points out in her reports that the locals being stuck in the past and giving up their lives to believe in the Jedi is hurting their future and won't get them out of their predicament.
- Villain Protagonist: The series being about Vader, this is expected. Major Oniye Namada, an officer of the Imperial Security Bureau, is a villain deuteragonist by virtue of having an equal amount of covered perspective as our Dark Lord does.
