Sannikov

Name: Urmas Sannikov Homeworld: Corellia Species: Corellian Human Career: Technician Affiliation: Taif Republic

Although he was only a second lieutenant during the Empiricist's fateful trip to the Taif system, Sannikov is the only surviving member of the conspiracy of Republican officers who conspired to stage a mutiny against the Imperial loyalists. Too low-ranking to know anything about the Captain's secret weapon except its existence, he nonetheless became the Captain and nominal commanding officer of the Republic holdouts purely by virtue of being the sole surviving member of the original crew.

Sannikov is an old, cynical and somewhat cowardly man who has been lying to the other members of the Republic for decades, telling them that he is in contact with a fictitious Republic high command who are winning a Galactic War against the Empire. He has told the lie so long that he has half started to believe it himself.

Although Sannikov is not a very good leader, he was a skilled starship mechanic, and it is his prowess with scavenging and repurposing scrap from the wrecked Empiricst that has allowed the Republican holdouts to keep a relatively high level of technology, notably the speederbikes that give them a decisive edge over the superior Imperial forces.