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Hadran

Rakhari exarch who demands Croden

A Rakhari official in the episode Vortex who tells Benjamin Sisko that the fugitive Croden is an enemy of the state and insists on his immediate return.

Exarch Hadran is an official of the Rakhari, a people of the Gamma Quadrant, seen in the first-season episode Vortex. After the drifter Croden kills a Miradorn on Deep Space 9, Benjamin Sisko and Jadzia Dax travel through the wormhole to make first contact with his homeworld and report the crime.
Hadran answers their hail with open suspicion. He has no wish for relations with strangers, declares Croden an enemy of the Rakhari people and requires that he be handed back for punishment without delay.
The exchange supports what Croden tells Odo on the journey home: that Rakhar is ruled by a harsh regime under which his wives were killed for his political offences. Odo in the end lets Croden and his daughter Yareth go rather than deliver them to Hadran's government.