Ryder Azadi

Ryder Azadi was a human male politician who served as governor of Lothal under the New Republic. Azadi served as the governor of Lothal during the early years of the Galactic Empire's reign over the Outer Rim planet. He returned as Lothal governor in the years after the Galactic Civil War.

Azadi was instructed to find and capture those responsible for the anti-Imperial transmissions originating from his planet within a month of the Empire arriving. However, the governor supported the revolutionary broadcasts of Lothalites Ephraim and Mira Bridger, leading to his arrest and the governor was imprisoned alongside the Bridgers. While in prison, the former governor was labeled as "Prisoner X10." He escaped three years before the Battle of Yavin, after the Bridgers organized a prison break. The Bridgers were killed during their escape, so Azadi returned to Lothal to find their son, Ezra Bridger. Ezra, however, found him first after seeing him and his parents in a vision, so Azadi broke the news that his parents had been killed.

Azadi continued helping the local Spectres rebel cell and Phoenix Cell, which later joined the Alliance to Restore the Republic. In the years leading up to the Battle of Yavin, Azadi became the revolutionary leader of a rebel group that aided the Alliance against Imperial forces on Lothal. Despite his initial misgiving about Ezra's leadership, Azadi would play an important role in the rebels' efforts to liberate Lothal from Imperial rule.

Following the defeat of the Galactic Empire and the end of the Galactic Civil War, Azadi resumed his governorship during the era of the New Republic.

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