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Lorth Needa

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This article is about the Imperial captain. You may be looking for Oola impersonator Dame Needa.
Lorth Needa
Biographical information
Died

3 ABY, Executor[1]

Physical description
Species

Human[2]

Gender

Male[2]

Height

1.75 meters[2]

Hair color

Brown

Eye color

Bluish-green

Chronological and political information
Era(s)
Affiliation
[Source]
Vader: "They are minor criminals! Marginal outlaws! You are inept!"
Needa: "N-no—Lord Vader—please…"
Vader: "And ineptitude is of no use to me or the Empire."
— Darth Vader and Lorth Needa, shortly before the latter's death[src]

Lorth Needa was a fleet officer in the Republic and Imperial starfleets during the Clone Wars and Galactic Civil War.

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[edit] Biography

"I shall assume full responsibility for losing them, and apologize to Lord Vader."
―Needa before his death.[src]

Needa was a veteran command officer, having served in Strike Group Five of the Coruscant Home Fleet during the Clone Wars. During the Battle of Coruscant, Lieutenant Commander Needa served as commanding officer of the Carrack-class cruiser Integrity. He trapped the Invisible Hand as it was trying to escape, and demanded the surrender of General Grievous. During this encounter he refused to believe the General's statements that Supreme Chancellor Palpatine was aboard.[3]

After the conclusion of the Clone Wars, the Republic Navy transitioned into the Imperial Navy, and Needa eventually rose to the rank of captain. Fleet Admiral Kendal Ozzel, commander of the Star Dreadnaught Executor and Death Squadron, placed Needa in command of the Imperial II-class Star Destroyer Avenger. Needa gained a reputation for efficiency in quelling uprisings in the Outer Rim Territories, and Admiral Ozzel assigned Avenger to the "point" position in Death Squadron. Needa became one of Ozzel's closest advisers, and acted as the squadron's de facto second-in-command. Darth Vader distrusted Needa along with Ozzel and his advisers, but after Ozzel's death at Vader's hand for his failure at the Battle of Hoth, Needa was charged with the pursuit of the Millennium Falcon.

Needa is killed by Darth Vader.

The Avenger pursued the Falcon from Hoth. However, Han Solo's light freighter outmaneuvered the Star Destroyer and caused it to nearly collide with pursuing destroyer. After chasing the Falcon into the Hoth asteroid field, the Avenger lost track of the freighter when it sought shelter in a cave on one of the asteroids. Needa informed Darth Vader that the Millennium Falcon had not appeared on their sensors for hours. He asked the Dark Lord of the Sith to consider the damage the Imperial fleet had sustained, but Vader was set on capturing the freighter.

The Millennium Falcon eventually reappeared after discovering that the "cave" it had hidden in was in fact the mouth of a giant space slug. While pursuing the Millennium Falcon out of the asteroid field, the Falcon vanished from Avenger's sensors when Solo cut the ship's power and landed on a blind spot on the conning tower of a Star Destroyer. Seconds later, Vader demanded an update on the pursuit. Needa ordered his ship to rendezvous with the Executor so he could personally apologize for losing Vader's prey.

On the bridge of the Executor, Needa did just that, but Vader telekinetically throttled him to death as he had done so to Kendal Ozzel before. Vader then formally - some would say cynically - accepted the man's apology. Needa's body was dragged from the bridge by two Imperial Navy troopers.

Needa was survived and succeeded by his first cousin Virar Needa, but as a consequence of his failure, members of the Needa family were purged from the Imperial military. Possibily, Needa's failure to capture the Millennium Falcon was partly due to his sympathies to the Rebel Alliance, which he only revealed to his cousin Virar. At least, that was the story Virar gave to save his own skin, upon prompting by his staff. [4]

[edit] Behind the scenes

Lorth Needa was portrayed by Michael Culver in The Empire Strikes Back.

When Needa's body is carried away by the Imperial Navy troopers, he visibly locks his legs in such a way as to help them stand him up easier.

In 2009, Hasbro released a figure of Captain Needa for its 3 and 3/4 inch Saga Legacy Collection. It was Needa's first action figure, although he first appeared in 1980.

[edit] Appearances

[edit] Sources

[edit] Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2  Captain Lorth Needa in the Databank
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (novel)
  4. ↑ X-wing: Wedge's Gamble

[edit] External links

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