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Tikkes
Biographical information
Homeworld

Dac[1]

Died

19 BBY, Mustafar[2]

Physical description
Species

Quarren[1]

Gender

Male[1]

Height

1.8 meters[3]

Hair color

None

Eye color

Blue

Skin color

Orange

Chronological and political information
Era(s)

Rise of the Empire era

Affiliation
[Source]
"How long will those decisions take? It's taken two years just to table the vote. By the time we determine which sector and planetary forces will contribute to the military, there may not be any systems left in the Republic. If Palpatine thinks this issue will go away with this vote, he's more naïve than I thought."
―Senator Tikkes, on Military Creation Act[src]

Tikkes was a Quarren senator from Dac during the time of the Separatist Crisis. He became the leading member of the Quarren Isolation League and would defect from the Galactic Republic and join the Confederacy of Independent Systems.

Contents

BiographyEdit

Political careerEdit

Tikkes, a member of the Rim faction,[4] was one of the senators who supported Finis Valorum's sanctions against the Yinchorri.[5] Before the Eriadu Trade Summit, Tikkes was one of the supporters of the Trade Federation, mostly because he profited from this.[4]

Tikkes and his party are attacked on Cophrigin V

In 32 BBY, Tikkes, along with Senators Mot-Not Rab of Tarnab and Onaconda Farr of Rodia, attended to an unofficial audience organized by Senator Orn Free Taa of Ryloth. At that point, Supreme Chancellor Finis Valorum had just finished a crisis and was suddenly accused of corruption. Taa admitted to have delayed the accusation because the situation at that point would allow the Senate to oust and replace Valorum, which was Taa's goal. Tikkes was an opponent of Valorum and approved the idea. When Taa offered to sponsor the candidature of Palpatine as chancellor and Mas Amedda as vice-chancellor, however, Tikkes saw potential problems: Amedda was said to have links with the Trade Federation and Palpatine was not easily manipulable — but Taa convinced him that those were not problems, but opportunities.[4]

Tikkes was once met and saved Adi Gallia, Ki-Adi-Mundi, and A'Sharad Hett from being stuck in space. He was on his way to see the Dark Woman's former sanctuary to buy for himself, though he put it in the guise of being on his constituents' behalf. Tikkes didn't know that he was being targeted by Aurra Sing. He survived the attempt by Sing and witnessed A'Sharad Hett defeat her as well.[6]

Siding with the SeparatistsEdit

"Tikkes' actions are trial enough. Only the guilty flee."
―Senator Orn Free Taa[src]

Shortly before the start of the Clone Wars, Tikkes was implicated as being involved in a slaving ring, along with fellow Senators Bufus Ritsomas, Danry Ledwellow, and Wuja Wojaine. Tikkes was placed under house arrest, and a week later, escaped. It was later learned that he had joined Count Dooku's Separatist movement and he soon became part of the Separatist Council.

His siding with the Separatists prompted a civil war on his homeworld. He was replaced in the Senate by the Loyalist Tundra Dowmeia, a fellow Quarren who later represented the world jointly with Meena Tills.

Prior to the end of the war, Tikkes and his colleagues hid on the planet Utapau. However, days after he arrived, General Grievous sent the entire Council to Mustafar on Darth Sidious's orders, just in time. Tikkes died at Darth Vader's hand when he raided the Mustafar base, wiping out the entire Separatist Council.[2]

Personality and traitsEdit

"XTS was very forthcoming during our search for the truth, and assisted us in every possible means. The tragic incident that occurred last year was the act of a single man, and not a volley launched between competitive rivals, as some of my slanderous colleagues surmised."
―Tikkes[src]

He had a good relationship with fellow senator and Separatist member Po Nudo.

Tikkes once gave Senator Palpatine of Naboo three large pearls from the seas of Mon Calamari, held in the cup-like ends of polished, fossilized trumpet weed. Palpatine kept them on display in his apartment suite in 500 Republica.[7]

Behind the scenesEdit

"It was actually an active decision by our little writing council to not use him in these episodes because we felt by not using him, we would be interfering less with continuity than if we used him in the story."
―Supervising Director Dave Filoni, on choosing to implement Nossor Ri instead of Tikkes in The Clone Wars: Season Four[src]

In the rough draft of the Attack of the Clones script, Tikkes was named Tessek. As that was the version used by James Luceno for the Episode II references he put into Cloak of Deception, the Tessek that appears in that book is presumably now Tikkes.

During production of Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith, the same costume was used for both Tikkes and the Republic Senator Tundra Dowmeia, leading to mild confusion among viewers.

Leland Chee has said that Tikkes did not go to Mustafar to die with the rest of the Council, and that he might have died during the events of the Star Wars: Clone Wars animated series. However, Chee wasn't aware at the time that Tikkes makes an appearance in Labyrinth of Evil, so he didn't die in the series.[8]

Tikkes and Rogwa Wodrata are the only Separatist Council members to not have action figures made in their likenesses.

His name is consistently misspelled as "Tikkas" in the The Clone Wars Campaign Guide.

During production of the episodes from the Mon Calamari arc of Season Four, concept art of Representative Tikkes was created but never used to feature the character due to continuity problems. The concept art of a Tikkes underwater model is featured in the Trivia slideshow in the episode guide for the episode Prisoners.

AppearancesEdit

SourcesEdit

External linksEdit

Notes and referencesEdit

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Databank title.png Tikkes in the Databank (content now obsolete; backup link on Archive.org)
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia
  3. ↑ The Official Star Wars Fact File 134 (TIK1-2, Senator Tikkes)
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Cloak of Deception
  5. ↑ Jedi Council: Acts of War 4
  6. ↑ Star Wars: Republic: The Hunt for Aurra Sing
  7. ↑ The Official Star Wars Fact File 32 (COR12, Coruscant - Palpatine's Apartments)
  8. ↑ Leland Chee on the StarWars.com Message Boards


Members of the Separatist Council
Leader
Dooku · Grievous · Nute Gunray
Council members
Passel Argente · San Hill · Shu Mai · Po Nudo · Poggle the Lesser · Miraj Scintel · Wat Tambor · Tikkes · Rogwa Wodrata
Aides
Sun Fac · Rute Gunnay · Rune Haako · Denaria Kee · Cat Miin · Atai Molec
[edit]
Senator of Dac and the Calamari sector
Unknown

←		 —22 BBY Tundra Dowmeia

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