Vikram

"So this is how democracy dies...with thunderous disparagement." "What do you mean? This is exactly how democracy is supposed to work."

- Leto Borian and Vikram

Vikram was a lord and firebrand politician who served in the Galactic Senate of the New Republic and the Centrist Party. He tasked Kherris Quenton with a mission to retrieve information from the Jakku Observatory, and later assumed provisional leadership duties after the decimation of the New Republic in the Hosnian Cataclysm.

History
"So that's what brings me here. A job for Lord Vikram and the other Centrist leadership. I need to find something from the old Imperial Observatory over on the Plaintive Hand Plateau, but no scav is willing to go there."

- Kherris Quenton

Vikram was a member of the Galactic Senate of the New Republic, and was considered a firebrand. He attended the opening ceremony of the Imperial Archives on Coruscant, hearing Senator Leia Organa's speech in the Sovereignty Plaza among other representatives from the New Republic and the Coruscant provisional government. He debated her over rumors that the provisional Populist council had been co-opted by Sluggorn from beyond the Outer Rim Territories, and spoke of mating rituals and sex ichor in the Senate Building. Organa threatened to throw the delegate out for such talk.

Part of the leadership of the Centrists, Vikram was present in the Senate in Republic City on Hosnian Prime when the truth of Leia Organa's parentage was revealed. During the clamor that followed the revelation, Vikram countered Leto Borian when he voiced the belief that democracy was dying, by suggesting that democracy was working exactly as intended. A week later, the shocking footage was viewed by Ben Solo, who was affected by Vikram's words and began considering the failings of democracy.

Vikram and other Centrist leaders dispatched former Imperial officer Kherris Quenton to Jakku on a job to retrieve vital knowledge from the Jakku Observatory at the Plaintive Hand Plateau. Vikram later accused Resistance "terrorists" in the Senate on Hosnian Prime of stoking tensions with the First Order in the Outer Rim Territories. The Murkhana Visualist HoloNet relay node reported on the story.

Following the Hosnian Cataclysm and the New Republic's decimation, Lord Vikram issued a statement on HoloNet News around the time the Centrist purge of the University of Bar'leth was reported on. Reports reached General Organa that Vikram was assuming provisional leadership duties, at a time when other figures made bids for the chancellorshipacross the galaxy. The clone trooper turned pirate Kix voiced the opinion that Vikram was a "would-be Palpatine" while discussing politics with Reveth, and believed he would be unable to compete with Vikram's leadership bid.

Description
"I don't think the New Republic is cut out for its first clone Chancellor right now. I doubt I could compete with a would-be Palpatine like Lord Vikram, anyway."

- Kix

Lord Vikram was a stately individual who espoused a belief in democracy. Some likened him to Sheev Palpatine. He was one of the few members of the New Republic who came close to Leia Organa's stature, alongside the likes of Mon Mothma and Sondiv Sella.

Behind the scenes
Lord Vikram was created by Das Flute, and was first mentioned in his 2016 erotic fiction "The Ways of the Force".