Dhowar Repareed

"Savareen, this is Millennium Falcon. We have coaxium that needs to be off-loaded immediately. Like immediately, immediately!"

―Han Solo contacts Repareed in the control tower — 20?cb=20250116042720

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Dhowar Repareed was a human male who worked as an air traffic controller in a village on the Pnakotic Coast of the planet Savareen. He and all the other villagers had their tongues cut out by a mercenary group who would become the Crimson Dawn syndicate when the Savarians refused to pay further tribute to the criminals. Repareed worked as the air traffic controller for the village, which allowed him time to daydream.

In 10 BBY, Repareed received word over comms from the criminal Han Solo that the YT-1300 light freighter known as the Millennium Falcon was about to arrive in the village with coaxium to unload. The air traffic controller then watched it make an emergency landing, after which he sent a message to the refinery to send all the help it could to the Falcon. The vessel's coaxium was then unloaded and processed by the villagers.

Biography[]

Muted daydreamer[]

"My mother once told me about a band of mercenaries that came to a peaceful planet. They had a resource there these men coveted, so they took it. They kept coming back, taking more. Until finally, the people resisted. When they returned demanding their tribute, the people shouted back in one voice, "No more!" The mercenaries didn't like the sound of that, so they cut off the tongue of every last man, woman, and child."

―Enfys Nest — 20?cb=20250116042720

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Four Savarians raise weapons or fists against a humanoid mercenary in a purple hood, who raises an arm after being struck. — Repareed and other Savarians lost their tongues for opposing Crimson Dawn.

Dhowar Repareed was a human^[1] male^[2] who lived in a village constructed in the ruins of the Bis Refinery on the Pnakotic Coast of his homeworld Savareen during the reign of the Galactic Empire. The Savarians revived some of the refinery's machinery and allowed criminals to use it, with the village becoming a shadowport.^[1] When a group of mercenaries repeatedly demanded tribute from the village's occupants, the Savarians eventually resisted and refused to provide more and so the mercenaries cut out all their tongues, including Repareed's. The mercenary group eventually evolved into the criminal Crimson Dawn syndicate.^[3]

Repareed worked for a time at the refinery^[4] but eventually took on the role of the village's air traffic controller instead, overseeing the small number of landing pads around the refinery. As the skies of the Pnakotic Coast were usually clear, Repareed spent a lot of time daydreaming and the other villagers joked that he had the easiest job of them all. Occasionally a stricken starship would arrive and require the air traffic controller's attention, leading to more panicked moments.^[1]

The Falcon arrives[]

"We're here now… see you. I…"

―Han Solo's distorted radio message to Repareed — 20?cb=20250116042720

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Dhowar Repareed sits with his feet up on a counter in the Bis Refinery control tower. — Dhowar Repareed daydreamed while working as air traffic controller.

In 10 BBY,^[5] Repareed's days in the refinery were long done and he intended to spend what time he had left reclining in the relative peace and quiet of the refinery's control tower. He spent an entire day in the tower marking time while lost in thought, staring out across the coastline and to the Emerald Sea beyond it, which made for a far better view then the sight of the long-decaying refinery also visible from the tower.^[4] He was sat with his feet up in the tower when the light on^[3] the tower's antiquated radio^[4] began blinking red.^[3]

The criminal Han Solo then began speaking over partially distorted comms, alerting Repareed to the imminent arrival of the Millennium Falcon, a YT-1300 light freighter that Solo was piloting that had unrefined coaxium on board that needed to be immediately offloaded.^[3] Although Solo's voice wavered in and out, the urgency and near-panic in his tone were clear^[4] and so Repareed sat up^[3] and began typing out a response^[4] by pressing levers on the control tower's terminal. The Falcon then arrived, blowing a swell of dust through the tower^[3] and shaking it on its foundations as the windows rattled,^[4] and the air traffic controller^[3] whipped his head around^[2] to watch the freighter make an emergency landing.^[3]

Revenge on the Dawn[]

"Send help. All you've got."

―Repareed's message to the refinery^[4]

Turning his attention from the Falcon to the refinery, Repareed tapped out a message for the village to send all the help it could muster to the Falcon.^[4] The Savarans were more than willing to aid with the coaxium,^[6] and villagers helped offload the fuel and began processing it while the ship's crew waited for the arrival of their employer: Crimson Dawn crime lord Dryden Vos. However, before Vos arrived, Solo and his companions were confronted by the Cloud-Riders, a biker gang who opposed the Crimson Dawn. The gang's leader, Enfys Nest, explained what the crime syndicate had done to the people of Repareed's village, convincing Solo and most of his allies to give them the coaxium so that they could oppose the criminal syndicates.^[3]

The Millennium Falcon flies away from the Savareen village while the Cloud-Riders and Beckett's gang face off. — Repareed watched the arrival of the *Millennium Falcon* on Savareen, although the ship departed soon after.

Although Solo's companion Lando Calrissian departed the village in the Falcon, the group came up with a scheme to fool Crimson Dawn, with some villagers disguising themselves as the Cloud-Riders so that the real gang members could ambush Crimson Dawn's enforcers when they arrived. When Vos and his associates did arrive, the Cloud-Riders succeeded in taking out the enforcers and Solo and his allies killed Vos, allowing the Cloud-Riders to take the coaxium as agreed.^[3]

Personality and traits[]

Due to the lax nature of his work, Repareed was a fairly mellow individual,^[1] although by 10 BBY he was grizzled and old, with Solol considering him an old fossil.^[4] He had tan skin, black hair, and brown eyes.^[1]

Equipment[]

When the Falcon arrived on the Pnakotic Coast, Repareed was wearing black boots, brown pants,^[3] and a brown apron with an orange, black, and yellow skirt.^[7] He was also wearing a tan shirt under a darker brown jacket and a brown vest, a red belt with pockets full of signal flares, a red headband, a yellow scarf, and a tap-code comlink on his vest for emergencies.^[1]

Behind the scenes[]

"Savareen tower! This is the Millennium Falcon. We have the coaxium, but it needs to be offloaded immediately, and—hang on… what? That's what I'm telling him! Like immediately!"

―Han Solo's alternate dialogue to Repareed in the junior novelization^[4]

Dhowar Repareed first appeared in the Anthology Series film Solo: A Star Wars Story^[3] and was first identified in the reference book Solo: A Star Wars Story The Official Guide, which was written by Pablo Hidalgo.^[1] Both were released on May 25, 2018.^[8]^[9] The scenes on Savareen in Solo were filmed in the Jandia Natural Park on Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands between May 30 and June 9, 2017.^[10] In Solo: A Star Wars Story: A Junior Novel, an adaptation of the film written by Joe Schreiber^[4] and released on September 4, 2018,^[11] Solo's message to Repareed differs from the film and directly refers to the air traffic controller,^[4] although this article assumes the film's version to be the canonical version of the dialogue.^[3]