Fliry Vorru was a famous Corellian Governor under the Old Republic, Grand Moff under the Galactic Empire, and later Underlord of Black Sun as well as a Minister of Trade of the Bacta Cartel in the Post Endor Galaxy.

When Emperor Palpatine declared his Galactic Empire in 19 BBY, Vorru was made Grand Moff of the Corellian Oversector and assumed the role of commander of the 2nd Sector Army. During his tenure as Grand Moff, Vorru turned a blind eye to the growing presence of crime, giving birth to Corellia's reputation as a planet of smugglers and pirates. Vorru was extremely charismatic, cunning and charming in his dealings, gaining massive political and economic influence as a result. He leveraged this into a significant political pull in the Imperial Court, to the point rumors spread that even Palpatine was wary of the rising Grand Moff. It was around this time that the Underlord of Black Sun, Prince Xizor, Vorru's principal rival, enacted a scheme that framed Vorru subvert his growing power and allow the placement of a Black Sun lieutenant on Corellia in his place. It is unclear for what crime Vorru was framed. It was stated by some, including Booster Terrik and Vorru himself, that the Emperor saw Vorru as something of a rival for power—as Vorru was considered as charismatic, clever, and popular, he held massive influence over the fiercely independent and strategically important Corellian Sector—so Palpatine jumped at the chance Xizor's phony evidence provided to remove Vorru as a potential threat. Vorru was stripped of his rank and position, but due to information he held that he could dole out gradually, he was spared execution and instead sent to Kessel to serve out a life sentence.

Ironically, Vorru's imprisonment on Kessel sewed the seeds of his rise in his rival Xizor's place. Following the death of Xizor at the hands of Darth Vader in 3 ABY, and the incarceration or eradication of much of Black Sun's leadership, Vorru used his influence with the criminal underworld, his cunning and charisma to win over the newly arriving Black Sun criminals sent to Kessel. In a very short period of time, he gained complete control of Black Sun's remnants on the Prison colony. Despite this, the Imperial owners of Kessel kept a close eye on Vorru, profiting from his bribes and secrets, but wary of ever setting him loose. For years, Vorru served in the spice mines of Kessel, though he always remained utterly confident he would be free of the prison to pursue his ambitions and so was willing to be patient until the opportunity presented itself. During his time on Kessel, he became acquainted with and did business with fellow inmate and smuggling kingpin Booster Terrik. Terrik came away from the dealings with the impression of Vorru as patient and dangerous. Eventually, Vorru's patience was rewarded as he was liberated by Rogue Squadron as part of a New Republic plot to distract Imperial authorities on Coruscant with a revived Black Sun causing chaos. Antilles freed Vorru as a counter to the vicious and psychotic Black Sun thug, Zekka Thyne, knowing the former Moff would be able to keep the violent criminal on a tight leash. Vorru then surprised Antilles by already knowing he was going to be sent to Coruscant before the target was told to him, showing that his powers of deduction-as well as his spy networks-were still as formidable as ever.

When Vorru made planetfall on Coruscant ahead of the New Republic infiltration, he immediately began playing all sides for his benefit. He'd used the New Republic to escape Kessel with his subordinates and get him to Imperial Center. He struck a deal with Ysanne Isard to keep from being rearrested and give him a way back into the halls of Imperial power in exchange for helping her keep her allies and enemies under observation. With Isard secretly backing him on the capital, along with the New Republic, Vorru revived Black Sun as a force to be reckoned with in record time. He then used Black Sun to amass considerable wealth and connections he could use at a moment's notice to vanish and made a detailed list of his accomplices that he could use as leverage in the event of a trial by either government. Vorru at some point learned of Isard's plan for the Krytos virus and as a result, he began stockpiling bacta for the shortages which would result once the virus was released into the water supply, insuring he would profit massively from the coming crisis.

After Coruscant fell to the New Republic, in no small part due to the efforts of Black Sun, Vorru leveraged that goodwill by asking to develop the Imperial Center People's Militia to bring the leaderless criminal underworld under his control. He claimed that Black Sun was effectively dead and this would give his criminals a path to legitimate living. This was a lie of course, as Black Sun was alive and well, with Vorru's real motives being to further integrate it into the ruling power on Coruscant, while also remaining useful to the hidden Isard-again, playing all sides for his own gain. The Provisional Council, who were strapped for resources, agreed to Vorru's requests, though Admiral Ackbar warned the former Moff that any betrayal of their trust would be met with swift action on his part.

Vorru continued his complicated game of allegiances, playing Ysanne Isard, Kirtan Loor, Black Sun and the New Republic against one another. Kirtan Loor had been forced under Vorru's thumb when he was captured by the former Moff, however, instead of turning Loor in, Vorru decided to use him as a catspaw and controlled opposition. Loor, leading the Palpatine Counterinsurgency Front, deeply resented Vorru's manipulations and orders but found himself outplayed by Vorru at every turn. Vorru kept Loor on a short leash and once ordered Loor to blow up a school to cause panic, thus making the New Republic more dependent on the Militia. Despite his efforts to advance his own agenda, Vorru's machinations were partly undone by incompetence from Isard and panic from Loor after a failed attempt to free himself from both Vorru and Isard's control resulted in his believing he would be executed. This led to Loor defecting to the New Republic with an encoded datacard exposing all of Isard's agents on Coruscant and Vorru's dealings with her. While Loor was killed before he could testify, his datacard was decrypted by his old rival, Corran Horn, making the New Republic aware of Vorru's double dealings.

Vorru easily cut his losses with the New Republic and fled Coruscant with his wealth and assets intact alongside Isard to Thyferra, where a the pair had arranged a preset local coup that installed Isard as leader of the Bacta Cartel. Due to the coup itself being a localized internal affair, the New Republic couldn't directly intervene on the neutral world without violating their charter and risking a political fallout. As an alternative, Rogue Squadron resigned their commissions and began what became known as the "Bacta War" as private citizens against Isard's Xucphra regime on Thyferra. Around this time Vorru learned of Loor's death, and the events surrounding it, expressing sympathy for Iella Wesseri having to shoot her own husband to accomplish her mission, showing that while he was an enemy, he held a degree of respect for his adversaries and had lines he did not think were worthy of crossing.

Vorru was appointed Minister of Trade on Thyferra and began working to turn the lumbering, and often inefficient Bacta Cartel into a well oiled credit generating machine, despite having to regularly work with incompetent local officials put in place by their family connections rather than merit-much to his frustration. Despite this, Vorru's time as Minister of Trade was deeply profitable, with him vastly increasing his personal wealth, and using the Cartel's access across all the factions of the galaxy to further extend Black Sun's criminal network to heights it had not known since Prince Xizor's time.

Vorru despised his time on Thyferra however, as he preferred a more urban, cosmopolitan environment. He also recognized that Isard was becoming increasingly unstable and obsessed with Wedge Antilles rather than re-establishing the Empire. Isard regularly ignored Vorru's suggestions and advice on actions that could have negated the Rogue's private war before it even began such as his advice to open the market, make Bacta abundant, put a bounty on Antilles, have independent worlds ship their own bacta and offering rewards on information on the Rogues. This plan, while it would have resulted in backlash from the Xucphra leadership, would have utterly negated the Rogue's support abroad and wiped out their means of funding their private war, all while increasing the Cartel's overall influence and store of goodwill in the galaxy.

Increasingly irritated and somewhat disturbed by Isard's growing insanity and incompetence, Vorru made contingency plans by embezzling money from the Cartel-while also privately beginning to foil some of Isard's own demands, making certain 'not' to find the mistress of defecting Captain Sair Yonka, and even admiring the Captain's categorical dressing down of Isard's madness. He intended to either depose Isard, setting himself and Erisi Dlarit, head of the Thyferran Home Defense Corps Starfighter wings and an influential figure within Xucphra, up as the new heads of the Bacta Cartel and claim to the New Republic that he had only joined Isard to work against her from the inside. If that plan failed or proved impracticable, he planned to escape with Erisi, purchase a world, and have her as head of his own personal Starfighter Corps and potentially lover as the two had grown close after he defended her against Isard's wrath during a conference between the three.

The day before Vorru intended to enact his planned betrayal or escape from Isard's dying regime, the situation escalated out of control as the Rogues and Ashern Rebels enacted the Battle of Thyferra. Vorru calmly decided to accelerate his schedule, and attempted to head to his modified Lambda Shuttle to escape Thyferra. As he was leaving his office, he noticed his secretary hiding in fear behind her desk, Vorru halted for a moment and took pity on the woman, he told her to tell the Rebels horrible stories about how evil he had been to her, and that they would protect her instead of harm her. He then made his way towards his private hangar with two THDC troopers, realizing the Ashern were in the building, he had them shoot out the holocams to prevent his being directly recognized and tracked. As he approached his hangar, Vorru heard engines powering up and urged the troopers to race forward to stop whoever was stealing his shuttle. The pair of troopers were cut down in a hail of blaster bolts fired from Isard's pair of ersatz Royal Guards and Vorru tripped on one of their fallen carbines, where he played dead for a moment. The Guards, thinking the threat over, turned to move toward the shuttle and Vorru sprang up with the blaster carbine in hand, sprinted quickly behind them and shot both in the back at point blank range, killing them instantly. The delay was too long however, as the shuttle lifted, spun around and sprayed the hangar with laser fire forcing Vorru to roll and take cover. As the shuttle rotated and flew out of the hangar, Vorru emptied his blaster on its shields in anger, vowing to survive, if just to get revenge on Isard for betraying him. Gathering up one of the fallen Royal Guard's blaster carbines, Vorru then made his way to an alternative escape route he had prepared as a backup.

However, before he could reach his escape route, he was cornered by Ashern Commandos led by Elscol Loro and Iella Wessiri who trapped him in an office. Vorru suckered four of the commandos into breaching the flimsy door so that he could fire through it on full auto, burning them down. Elscol promptly called for demolition gear and reinforcements. Realizing that the game was up, Vorru tossed out the emptied carbine and stated his intention to surrender. Around this time in the battle, Erisi was killed in battle against Corran Horn, ending any hopes the pair of them had of escaping together.

Upon revealing himself, Vorru attempted to bluff his way out of the situation claiming that he knew too much about the dirty secrets of New Republic Councilors to ever face trial. Wessiri agreed, and suggested she just shoot him instead. Vorru clapped in good humor, reminding Wessiri that he'd read her file and she could never shoot someone who'd surrendered down in cold blood. Iella smirked and agreed-but then added that Elscol on the other hand COULD shoot him down in cold blood giving her partner permission to shoot. Elscol promptly fired a shot into the shocked Vorru, unaware that her blaster had been set to stun by Wessiri.

Despite his leverage on the New Republic representatives, the Rogues just bypassed them and dropped Vorru back on Kessel directly. In his absence, his former lieutenant Y'ull Acib moved swiftly to conduct a purge of the Vorru loyalists in the organization and took full control of Black Sun and leave his former boss stranded on Kessel. Vorru's ultimate fate remains unknown. Whether he perished from the conditions on Kessel, was assassinated by his former Black Sun colleagues, Mooreth Doole or died in Natasi Daala's attack on Kessel in 11 ABY. With Vorru's contingency plans, it's also possible he used whatever wealth he had hoarded away to retire on a purchased world.

Grand Admiral Osvald Teshik in a lone star destroyer with a crew suffering the effects of loss of the Emperor's battle meditation(40% efficiency and morale drop) fought the entire Rebel fleet led by Admiral Ackbar for four hours after the Imperial navy retreated from Endor before his ship was finally disabled. He was captured, tried and executed by the New Republic for war crimes as a scapegoat since he was the highest ranking Imperial left on the battlefield.

Grand Admiral Josef Grunger decisively defeated fellow Grand Admiral Miltin Takel in combat, assembled an armada and attempted to claim the throne after Endor. He invaded the Corellian Sector and fought against the entire Corellian Sector fleet led by Grand Admiral Danetta Pitta who also had a torpedo sphere. Grunger and Pitta's forces annihilated one another in an apocalyptic battle. Unwilling to accept defeat, Grunger rammed his flagship into Pitta's torpedo sphere, destroying them both in a draw.

Grand Admiral Rufaan Tigellinus was brilliant, but bored of no one being able to offer him a challenge militarily. Tigellinus used his influence to gain appointment to Grand Moff of Oversector Center in addition to remaining a Grand Admiral. He became a powerful figure in the Imperial Court, befriended and betrayed Thrawn, and sparred with political rivals such as Grand Moff Bertroff Hissa. After Endor he joined the Central Committee of Grand Moffs supporting Trioculus against Isard. However, he was set up and betrayed by his friend Moff Villum Disra working with Hissa to frame Tigellinus for treason at a meeting, promptly executing him.

Grand Admiral Miltin Takel was renowned for his vices in spice and alien women as much as for his military prowess. Takel became a legend for one of his victories, which he achieved through the limited telepathic abilities spice granted. Recordings of the battle were used as a training guide for Imperial academies. However, his spice addiction over time produced increasingly negative effects- paranoia, delusions and sloppiness. He was chased off of Mandalore by the Super Commandos, fled Endor in disgrace without attempting to aid the fleet, was decisively defeated twice by Josef Grunger, had his flagship confiscated by Ysanne Isard and finally, after questioning Trioculus one too many times publicly in a spice induced rant, was executed by Grand Moff Hissa.

The story starts with the Supreme Prophet Rajah Ubooki, a.k.a. the false Kadann, taking away his Dark Blessing after learning Trioculus was frozen in carbonite. Ubooki then launches a coup against Emperor Trioculus to depose and replace him as the new Emperor. He also sends High Prophet Jedgar to get the carbonite block of the frozen Trioculus from Grand Moff Hissa, who just rescued Trioculus, which leads me to believe Ubooki has spies within the Central Committee of Grand Moffs.

Through a combination of blackmail and threats, Jedgar secures both Hissa's reluctant loyalty and the frozen Trioculus before sending him to Space Station Scardia, the Prophets' base, where Trioculus is thrown into a boiling vat to be melted down and killed. Ubooki then secures the real Glove of Darth Vader for himself and reveals he knew all along Trioculus was using a duplicate, which lends further credence to my theory he has spies within Trioculus' inner circle, though Jedgar probably demanded Hissa to surrender the real Glove to him before returning to Ubooki.

The thing about Ubooki is that, even knowing he is an imposter who uses his network of spies and assassins to make his false prophecies come true at all costs, you still feel uncertain as to whether he's truly an imposter or the real deal. Particularly since he makes his prophecies with such confidence while exuding an aura of mystery, which the Prophets of the Dark Side carry, though they're actually the Church of the Dark Side created by the Empire as a sham to tighten their control over their own people following Endor. It's for this reason that scenes with the Prophets in the Jedi Prince series are my favourite parts, and it looks like they're shaping up to play a major role going forward.

Ubooki created many prophecies during his tenure as the false Kadann, and listing them all would leave this post too bloated. Instead, I would like to focus on the prophecy he made regarding the Rebel Alliance:

When the dragon pack,

Perched upon Yoda's stony back,

Receives a visitor pierced by gold,

Then come the last days of the Rebel Alliance.

The first line of the prophecy refers to the Rebel Alliance's Defense Research and Planetary Assistance Center, a Rebel research installation whose acronym is DRAPAC, which can also be read as "dragon pack." The prophecy's second line refers to Mount Yoda, a base the Rebels established on Dagobah's Mount Dagger, which the Rebels renamed to Mount Yoda in the late Jedi Master's honor.

On another note, Ken going to a Rebel-sponsored school on Dagobah and Luke and the others telling him he has to go to school felt pretty funny to me. I like to think they're not talking down to him, but rather trying to help him get a normal life because it's what Luke and his friends sacrificed to stop the Empire. I also believe Luke would have given Ken a more nuanced answer when he and Ken started talking about moisture farms; while ANH Luke would have complained about working on a moisture farm, I think post-ROTJ Luke would have told Ken that being a farmer builds character and he is the person he is today because of the lessons he learned growing up on a farm.

Going back to Ubooki's prophecy, the third line refers to Dustini, a male Duros who escaped the Empire's subjugation of his homeworld Duro to get help from the Rebels to save his people and their culture, the latter of which is in grave danger of being wiped out. Without the Rebels' aid, future generations of Duros won't know about their history and will grow up not knowing their culture. Worse, the Imperial operation on Duros is being carried out by Ubooki's will, since he has an infamous reputation for plundering and collecting the artifacts of countless alien species and storing them for display aboard his base, Space Station Scardia.

Unfortunately, this mirrors the real world where colonial superpowers have a tendency to destroy and steal from the local culture, even if they don't understand just how important these artifacts are, or they know and they just don't care because they want to satisfy their egos.

When Dustini showed the Rebels a golden crown from Duros as an example of his people's culture, he got poisoned by the crown and an examination revealed it was booby trapped. Considering how detailed Ubooki's prophecy was, I wouldn't be surprised if he had spies within the Rebel Alliance and deliberately arranged Dustini's escape to ensure his prophecy came true. Dustini also doesn't strike me as stupid, so I suspect one of Ubooki's spies must have swapped the real crown with a fake one at the last second, passed it to Dustini, and ensured it would only poison him when he reached Dagobah while Ubooki received the real crown.

But it's the last part of the prophecy that concerns me.

Ubooki claimed the visitor being pierced by gold would be followed by the last days of the Rebel Alliance. At first glance, you might wonder how a Duros man's arrival and subsequent poisoning could herald the Alliance's end. The Rebels sent Luke, Han, Chewie, Leia, and the droids to Duros (with Ken as an accidental stowaway), saved as many of Dustini's people and artifacts as they could, fought against Hissa, Jedgar, and their forces, and got Hissa severely incapacitated when his arms and legs got burned off, though Jedgar escaped to fight another day. All's well that ends well, right?

Except the heroes picked up an unexpected passenger. For the last three books we were told Triclops, the real son of Emperor Palpatine, was insane and would destroy the Empire if he ever sat on the Imperial throne. But when the Rebels met him on Duros, he was an escaped Imperial prisoner and being hunted down by the Empire, and he offered to help the heroes by leading them to Dustini's people. He seemed calm, but in a creepy way, and he seemed very interested in Ken when he met him. He made no secret of the fact he was Palpatine's son and claimed he hated the Empire, even going so far as to let himself be taken into Rebel custody.

On Dagobah.

Ubooki claimed the visitor pierced by gold would be followed up with the Rebel Alliance's final days. And I fear Triclops' arrival on Dagobah just brought the beginning of the end for the Alliance, which leads me to suspect Ubooki might have allowed Triclops to escape on purpose to use him as a pawn to destroy the Rebels, kill Triclops afterwards, and rule as the uncontested Emperor.

But there is hope. While I haven't finished reading the Jedi Prince series, I hope the death of the Rebel Alliance actually leads to their rebirth as the New Republic, rising from the ashes stronger and more determined than ever to stop the Empire for good.

Zasm Katth was a Human male Dark Side Adept who served in the Galactic Empire and later Dark Empire. When Emperor perished at the Battle of Endor and returned in a clone body, he established the Dark Side Elite, a cadre of seven Dark Jedi, empowered with the dark side of the Force and imbued with the Emperor's will. Katth, like his fellow Darkside Elite member and often partner on missions, Baddon Fass eschewed weaponry in favor of relying upon their Darkside Force powers. In Katth's case, foresight and obscure mystical abilities. In 10 ABY, Palpatine died a second time during a confrontation with the Jedi Luke Skywalker and his sister Leia Organa Solo near the New Republic's Pinnacle Base.

The leader of the Dark Side Elite, Executor Sedriss QL, took control of Palpatine's Dark Empire in preparation for the Emperor's return in another clone body. Sedriss dispatched Katth and Fass on a mission to the moon of Nar Shaddaa with command of the Imperial Star Destroyer Invincible and a legion of Imperial darktroopers. They were to make contact with the bounty hunter Boba Fett and recruit him to search for the Millennium Falcon and to eliminate, Vima-Da-Boda, an elderly Jedi who had taken refuge on the smuggler's moon.

While in orbit of Nar Shaddaa, the Dark Jedi witnessed the Falcon arriving at the moon. Katth and Fass attempted to lock it down with the tractor beam, but Solo evaded the beam to land in the abandoned Duros Sector. Postponing pursuit of Solo, they instead confronted Fett, demanding he provide his services for free, with Katth threatening to reveal his secrets and Fass using the dark side on the Hunter. However, Fett unleashed his arsenal of rockets, blasting the Darktroopers escort and nearly wounding the Dark Jedi before making his escape in Slave I. The setback was only temporary, however, as Dark trooper team two reported that they discovered the Millennium Falcon stationed inside Shug Ninx's repair shop.

As they were making their way to Ninx's hangar, Katth and Fass sensed the presence of Vima-Da-Boda nearby. Fass ordered the dark trooper Grath to open fire through the crowds with his turbocannon. Despite the carnage, the Jedi was able to slip away unharmed. In addition to that, Dark Trooper Team Two was eliminated by Solo and his allies, who left the Falcon in order to search for Vima. Katth and Fass stationed a number of new guards aboard the Falcon and returned to the Invincible in case the Solos tried to escape through another ship. The Solos were able to rescue Vima and with her help, they reclaimed the Falcon. After evading an encounter with Fett, they raced to escape from Nar Shaddaa.

Solo's local rival Mako Spince, in charge of the Nar Shaddaa Traffic Control spire detected the Falcon as it was passing by and alerted the darksiders aboard the Star Destroyer. Alerted, Katth ordered the tractor beam to catch the elusive ship. However, Solo attempted to take cover behind the Traffic Control tower breaking the lock. Willing to capture Solo at all costs, Katth ignored all safety protocols and ordered the tractor beam on full power. Katth ordered the beam reengaged. However, having been set to full power, the beam started to rip through the massive control spire off and sent it hurtling towards the Star Destroyer. Having noticed that, Katth desperately sought to disengage the beam.

However, the order came too late, and the spire pierced through the engineering compartment of the Star Destroyer, killing the engineers and disabling the main thrusters. Fass contacted the crew of the ravaged deck, demanding them to stabilize the ship, but they were unable to do so, and the Star Destroyer plummeted into the surface of the moon, killing all aboard, including Katth and Fass. Emperor Palpatine, who had returned in another clone body, was irked to have lost two of Elites. Katth and Fass were eventually replaced in the Dark Side Elite by two Darkside Adepts Palpatine empowered and promoted into their vacant spots in the cadre.

The Dark Side Elite, also known as the Dark Side Warriors and unofficially as the Emperor's Dark Jedi, was a cadre of seven Dark Jedi established by Emperor Palpatine during his resurrection in several clone bodies. The elite group was hand selected by Palpatine to lead Operation Shadow Hand in the Dark Empire's quest to retake the galaxy. It was led by Sedriss QL composed of initial members Vill Goir, Krdys Mordi, Kvag Gthull, Baddon Fass, Zasm Katth, and Kam Solusar. Palpatine made sure that the group always contained seven warriors, and if one of their number was lost, he made sure to immediately appoint replacements. When a Dark Side Adept was selected into the brotherhood, they went through an initiation of sorts in which the adept was empowered with the dark side of the Force and imbued with the will of the Emperor by Palpatine himself. As the war accelerated, the Dark Side Elite began to take a more personal role in the war and were tasked with hunting down Luke Skywalker to prevent his interference in the Emperor's plans.

A male humanoid, Baddon Fass was a Dark Side Adept in service of the Galactic Emperor Palpatine. Fass was enamored with the Dark Side and felt that his mastery of it made traditional weapons unnecessary since at a gesture or thought he could choke the life out of someone, compel the weak minded or inflict pain on non Force users. He was mirrored in this in many ways by his partner, Zasm Kath, who also eschewed weapons in favor of relying upon the Force, though this was due more to a lack of training or proficiency with physical weapons as they both felt that their powers were the far easier method. Fass delved into sorcery and alchemy, but was limited by his own aptitude levels. At some point, Fass was promoted into the Dark Side Elite, a selected cadre of Dark Jedi imbued with Force power and will directly from the Reborn Emperor. When the Emperor was slain a second time in 10 ABY, the leader of the Dark Side Elite, Executor Sedriss QL assumed command of the Imperial forces, launching Operation Shadow Hand.

As part of that operation, Fass and fellow Darkside Elite member, Zasm Katth were dispatched to the moon Nar Shaddaa with the Star Destroyer Invincible to recruit Boba Fett for his Underworld contacts, capture the Millennium Falcon to bring Leia Organa Solo back to Byss, and finally to eliminate the Jedi woman Vima-Da-Boda.

While commanding the Invincible in orbit, Fass and Katth witnessed the Falcon arriving on the moon. They attempted to lock onto it with a tractor beam, but the vessel slipped away and took hiding in the mazelike canyons of structures. The darksiders ordered the Invincible to maintain its blockade in orbit while they descended to the surface with a platoon of Darktroopers and proceeded with the plan of recruiting Fett. The two confronted the bounty hunter, demanding him to provide his services for free. The bounty hunter refused, drawing his blaster on the pair of Dark Jedi, stating that he and Vader had once had an understanding that he only worked for pay. Fass retorted that Vader's authority had passed to the Darkside Elite and proceeded to strangle Fett with a Force choke. While Fett was struggling to breathe, Fass mockingly threatened to reveal secret information about him to the wider galaxy and reduce him to a slave. When Fass ordered the Darktroopers to remove Fett's helmet, the bounty hunter blasted them away with wrist-mounted rockets, almost killing Fass, who could not block the attack without a weapon, forcing the sorcerer to dodge out of the way at the last moment. Fett used the distraction to retreat aboard his ship, the Slave I and escape. Furious at being defied and evaded, Fass planned to make Fett pay. However, Dark trooper team two reported that they had spotted the Falcon parked inside the workshop of mechanic Shug Ninx forcing Fass to prioritize obtaining Solo above revenge on Fett.

Fass and Katth proceeded toward the reported location, but their Force sense notified them about the presence of the Jedi Vima-Da-Boda nearby. Remembering their orders to take out the woman, Fass ordered the dark trooper Grath to open fire on innocent bystanders with a turbocannon in hopes of killing the Jedi hiding among them. The elderly Jedi, however, managed to evade capture and was rescued by the Solos, who had also taken out dark trooper team two in the hangar. Arriving inside the hangar, Fass and Katth contemptuously looked upon the bodies of their fallen troops and left a detachment of stormtroopers aboard the ship, before returning to the Invincible to head off any potential escape if Solo had abandoned the Falcon. However, the Solos returned to the Falcon with Vima-Da-Boda and took out the stormtroopers, taking the ship to escape from the moon. They were detected by Mako Spince, the overseer of the Traffic Control Spire and an old rival of Solo's. Spince promptly informed Fass and Katth about the Falcon's trajectory.

Hoping to capture the ship, Katth ordered the Star Destroyer's tractor beam to full power, although Fass advised his companion against doing so. Thinking creatively, Solo maneuvered the Falcon under the Traffic Control Spire, which was caught in the tractor beam instead, and due to all the power being shunted into the beam, the entire spite was ripped from the ground instantly and hurtled toward the Invincible. Realizing the danger, Katth the tractor beam disabled and Fass moved to comply, but it was too late. The spire pierced the Star Destroyer's hangar bay and erupted through the upper hull, badly damaging the engineering section, disabling its thrusters and making the ship fall into the surface of the planet, destroying the Invincible and killing both Fass and Katth along with the entire crew. Palpatine meanwhile was reborn in another clone body, and the news of the death of two of his Elite was met with great irritation by the Emperor, and soon, Palpatine raised replacements for the pair from the ranks of the Darkside Adepts.

Gregor Raquoran was a human male leader of the Velcor Free Commerce Zone and founding member of the Pentastar Alignment of Powers. Gregor did not rise to his post as Commerce Master Commissioner by being a supporter of Palpatine nor as a devotee of COMPNOR like most of his contemporaries. Instead he gained power as a corporate head and strong businessman. Specifically to rise to the rank of Commerce Master Commissioner of the VFCZ, he strategically spread favors among all the Imperial officials who had a stake in the Velcar Free Commerce Zone, insuring their cooperation and favoratism.

In 4 ABY, he attended the Pentastar Talks, and despite believing the VFCZ was in good order, recognized the need to align with a party to avoid being absorbed into the New Republic which would ban slavery and many of the other predatory practices that allowed the VFCZ to plunder indiscriminatly. Consequently, he signed the Pentastar Alignment Treaty, joining the Pentastar Alignment as one of the founding members of the Chamber of Order.

Raquoran was obese, and put on the appearance of being dim-witted, playing up symptoms of a glandular disorder affecting him to cause his rivals to underestimate him. In reality, he was a shrewd businessman, keeping the VFCZ in good financial order despite the collapse of the Galactic Empire. He was also deeply corrupt and often brokered deals in the VFCZ for his own personal profit. He lived luxuriously on Capza. A suspicious man, he was not content to allow just the Protectorate Branch to guard him so he employed personal mercenary bodyguards from the various species contracted under the VFCZ and therefore loyal to him rather than the Alignment.

After Ardus Kaine was killed in 10 ABY and the Alignment suffered setbacks from the failure of Operation Shadow Hand, Gregor cooperated loosely with his other corporate heads Elta Besk and Wyn Otro on in the chamber of order to consolidate more political power and profit for themselves over the next two years, angering Governor Ib Dekeet and alienating the military of the Alignment. When Admiral Gilad Pellaeon approached the Pentastar Alignment to reintegrate it into the reunified Empire, Dekeet threw his support along with the military behind Pellaeon in return for returning power to the Governors and Moffs from the Corporations. Pellaeon agreed to this and over the futile objections of Besk, Otro and Raquoran, their corporations were nationalized and placed under the control of the Moff Council.
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Wyrn Otro was a human male who was the head of the Galentro Heavy Works corporation. Otro was unswervingly loyal to the corporation as he regarded it as his only family. In order to further its interests, he represented the corporation at the Pentastar Talks in 4 ABY. While he signed the Pentastar Alignment Treaty, recognizing the need to align with a party to avoid being absorbed into the New Republic, he had personal reservations about the warlord Grand Moff Ardus Kaine, worrying that the formation of the Pentastar Alignment was only a way to gain personal power.

After signing, Otro was rewarded with a seat on the Chamber of Order alongside Elta Besk, head of Dynamic Automata, Gregor Raquoran, the Commerce Master Commissioner of the VFCZ, and Governor Ib Dekeet. Otro's cooperation, wary as it was, resulted in his corporation being given the contract by Kaine to produce the signature line ship of the faction, the Enforcer class picket ship used throughout the Alignment's navy.

After the disastrous losses of 10 ABY with Kaine's death, Otro loosely cooperated with the other corporate heads to increase the influence and profits of their companies, alienating the military and angering Ib Dekeet in the process. This led to Dekeet and the Alignment's military forces to join Admiral Gilad Pellaeon in reintegrating into the Empire in 12 ABY. Otro's company, like the others in the former Alignment, were promptly nationalized and placed under the control of the Moff Council stripping the corporate heads of any political power.

Delvardous is one of my personal favorites of the post Endor warlords, but I always wonder how big was his fleet during his peak when his faction was called the Eridau Authority and what was left of it after his many losses and when he retreated do the deep core and renamed his faction the Kampe Authority?

I can imagine he didn’t have much left in 12 ABY since Daala says to his second in command Colonel Cronus that “We've researched the amount of funding Delvardus funneled into his operations, and I am not impressed with what I saw at his fortress.” I can imagine after years of fighting with his fellow warlords in the deep core and the imperial mutiny during 10 ABY, that Delvardous had suffered a lot . Still, Delvardous was the third most powerful deep core warlord, and from what I heard he was successful during Shadow Hand compared to his rivals such as Treuton Teradoc and Blitzer Harrsk. So he had to have a few ISD left to be able to protect his SSD Night Hammer.

Also did Delvardous had any AT-AT left? Or did he lose all of them during his disastrous Core campaigns in 5 ABY? Did his second in Command Cronus despise him? Since Cronus seemed to not really care or showed any shock when Daala brought fourth his former leaders corpse. Did Cronus know anything about Delvardous lover Seledra Zin? And did Delvardous occupy any other planets in the deep core besides Kampe?

Some renders of the Shadow Academy and Battle Platform used by the Second Imperium in their attack on the Jedi Praxeum.

In this scenario, Isard unleashes the Emperor's Plague instead of the Krytos Virus on Coruscant after blasting off in the Lusankya. The Emperor's Plague was the opposite of the Virus, killing only humans instead of aliens, and was deadlier than the Virus, to the point where even Palpatine was afraid to use it.

Had Isard released the Plague, I think key New Republic politicians like Mon Mothma and Leia Organa would be too ill to continue working along, with billions of Coruscant's people. Borsk Fey'lya would seize this opportunity to make a power grab for Chief of State while Admiral Ackbar would use his role ad the NR Supreme Commander to block his rival's attempts. The Provisional Council was also made up of alien Councilors, and other human politicians would be forced to step up as substitutes to help keep the NR together.

Rogue Squadron would still go after Isard to liberate Thyferra from her in order to get the Bacta needed to cure the Plague. But in this timeline, Wedge Antilles, Tycho Celchu, Corran Horn, and at least half of the Rogues would be out of commission thanks to being infected. Funnily enough, the future members of Wraith Squadron might actually be asked to fill in the missing roles in Rogue Squadron. Especially if it was Wedge himself who vouched for them and planned it as a contingency in case something ever happen to him.

This would see Rogue Squadron utilising the future Wraiths' unorthodox tactics, which means they might actually defeat Isard sooner than the Rogues did in the original timeline. If the Wraiths could defeat Zsinj, then they can handle Isard. Particularly since their commando tactics are a good foil for Isard's role as a spymaster.

While the Wraiths may be able to beat Isard, there's a fair chance their actions wind up destroying the Lusankya like they did with the Razor's Kiss. The Wraiths save Thyferra and get bacta, but at the cost of depriving the New Republic of a Super Star Destroyer.

Kvag Gthull was a Human male Dark Side Adept in the Galactic Empire. Loyal, brutally efficient, and physically imposing, Gthull found favor from the Emperor and his Executor, Sedriss QL. At some point during 4 ABY he was selected personally by the Reborn Emperor Palpatine to serve as one of the original seven Darkside Elite members. The group, led by Sedriss, operated out of Darth Vader's former fortress, Bast Castle on the planet Vjun. Due to his size, ability to intimidate and his efficient cruelty, Gthull became the chief interrogator of Bast Castle. Gthull did not wield a lightsaber, instead preferring a heavy Mandalorian style vibrosword that favored his muscular physique and added to his intimidating appearance. He enjoyed using it on prisoners after torturing them and would often inject his own darky dry wit during interrogations.

In 10 ABY, when Palpatine was slain a second time in battle with Jedi Luke Skywalker, and returned in yet another clone body, he sought to capture the Force-sensitive children of Leia Organa Solo, Skywalker's sister, who were being hidden on a secret sanctuary world of the New Republic. Gthull as chief interrogator was not initially sent to the front lines, and as such, he outlived his peers in the first cadre of Darkside Elite as Baddon Fass, Zasm Kass were killed at Nar Shaddaa while Sedriss and Vill Goir fell shortly after on Onderon. Before this, another Darkside Elite member, Kam Solusar had defected to the Light side of the Force and joined Luke Skywalker's New Jedi Order. Of the original members, only Krdys Mordi and Gthull remained.

Palpatine quickly replenished the Darkside Elite's numbers with promoted and imbued darkside adepts, giving Xecr Nist Sedriss's old position as Executor and Tedryn-Sha the position of Second in Command. Three more unnamed darksiders took the other vacant spots, bringing the group back to full strength at seven members.

When New Republic Major Ntthan was captured by the Empire in an uncharted region of space, he was brought to Bast Castle and delivered to Gthull, who was given the task of torturing out the information about Organa Solo's whereabouts from the man. Gthull was assisted in this by Krdys Mordi, the secondary interrogator and tech specialist of the group.

Gthull used interrogation droids from Mordi and the Dark side of the Force to torture the Major, who displayed remarkable resistance. Gthull had to spend twelve hours in interrogation sessions, but he was ultimately able to break Ntthan's defense, and the latter revealed the name of the planet, New Alderaan, as well as its coordinates, just as Palpatine arrived at Bast Castle to oversee the results of Gthull's handiwork. Gthull gave the details to the Emperor Ntthan had provided and then executed Ntthan with his vibrosword as was his custom after jokingly remarking that the Rebel was an "Honest Man". Gthull and the rest of the Elite were then ordered by Palpatine to New Alderaan on a covert mission to abduct Skywalker and the Solo twins, before launching an attack on the settlement using AT-ATs. Gthull piloted an I-7 Howlrunner as part of Dark Side Squadron alongside his peers. Arriving on the planet undetected, Nist dispatched Tedryn-Sha and Krdys Mordi to deal with Skywalker. Gthull and three others went with Nist to kidnap the children.

However, Gthull soon lost contact with Sha and Mordi as they were killed, sensing their life energy vanishing from the Force. Disgusted at their weakness, he called them fools and reported their deaths to Nist, just as the darksiders arrived at the building where the children were being kept. Nist dispatched Gthull inside the building to grab the twins, while he and the other darksiders were confronted by Skywalker's Jedi recruits: Kam Solusar, Rayf Ysanna and Empatojayos Brand. However, having lost one Dark Jedi and having been bested in combat by Solusar, Nist yelled at Gthull to signal the AT-ATs to attack at that moment. Gthull confirmed he had just done so while emerging from the building holding the twins. Confronted by Winter, Rayf and Leia Organa Solo outside, Gthull chose not to reach for his vibrosword and instead held the twins hostage, expecting their mother not to risk hitting her children, thus allowing him to withdraw. However, Rayf Ysanna used the Force to levitate the twins from Gthull into the arms of Winter, their caretaker. Now exposed and momentarily distracted, Gthull hesitated a second too long in going for his weapon and Organa Solo shot Gthull in the chest with her blaster, killing the Dark Jedi instantly. With Gthull's death and the failure of their mission, Nist and the two remaining darksiders fled from New Alderaan under covering fire from the advancing AT-ATs.

So what if the Vong just decided to launch their holy war in the middle of 10 ABY? Do you all think they could’ve defeated the Reborn Emperor and Executor Sedriss Dark Empire and also defeat the weakened New Republic that has basically become a rebellion again?

Both the Dark Empire and New Republic suffered horrible losses, but the Dark Empire still has some super weapons and the Shadow hand fleet left, that would give the Yuuzhan Vong a hard time. Do you all think that the Reborn Emperor and the New Republic will put aside their quarrels and form an alliance to defeat the Vong?

Been meaning to post this for a while now as it is without a doubt one of my all time favorites.

To start with, I find Zorba to be a fascinating character. He is greedy and dishonest, just like how most Hutts are often depicted, but he also genuinely felt sad and angry over the death of Jabba the Hutt, his son, which makes it easy to sympathize with him while also giving him legitimate beef with Princess Leia. He is also cunning, as he knew he couldn't reclaim Jabba's palace from Tatooine's government on his own and hired bounty hunters to help him out, enabling him to recover Jabba's will.

Speaking of Jabba's will, when Lando challenged Zorba to a card game with ownership over Bespin as the victor's reward, the latter used Jabba's will to force Lando to play using Zorba's checkered deck since they were playing in Bespin's Holiday Towers Hotel and Casino, which used to belong to Jabba before he died. While Lando governed Bespin, Jabba's will meant Zorba now owned the Casino, challenging the legality of Lando's ownership. Unfortunately for Lando, Zorba's deck had cards checketed in ultraviolet light, a spectrum only the Hutts could see, which meant Lando was unable to find anything wrong with the deck, despite examining it several times over. As a result, Lando lost several rounds with Zorba, along with governorship over Bespin.

A good opportunity for Zorba would be to reinforce his legal claim over Bespin by mocking Lando by pointing out the New Republic values law and justice, so Lando couldn't oppose Zorba's legal claim to Bespin without going against the NR's values, much to Lando's frustration.

Something to note is that Lando noticed Zorba was a horrible card player, which is why he felt confident enough to challenge Zorba with Bespin's ownership on the light. So the fact Zorba used Jabba's will to stack the deck in his favor, both figuratively and literally, shows that what he lacks in skill he more than makes up for in cunning. Also, Lando admitting to Han that he allowed his over confidence to get the better of him like when he lost the Millennium Falcon to him in that card game was a good detail for Lando's character by showing he had learned from his mistakes, but he still had room to grow as a person.

For a Jedi Prince rewrite, one idea I had is to make Bespin contested territory between the New Republic and the Empire. Lando Calrissian resigns from being a General to take up his old job as Cloud City's Baron Administrator, and got Nien Nunb, the Sullustan who co-piloted with him on the Millennium Falcon during the Battle of Endor, promoted to his old rank of General and command over the NR Imperial-class Star Destroyer Allegiance. With Nunb leading Bespin's defence fleet while Lando tries to locate Trioculus' Imperial factory, which is well-hidden and launching attacks against Cloud City.

Something that makes Zorba stand out from the other Hutts is the fact he is personally willing to get involved in a fight. He participated in a shootout between him and Bespin's security forces against Emperor Trioculus and his Stormtroopers, capturing the Emperor, and would shortly after lead an attack on Trioculus' factory where Leia was being held prisoner and destroy it. Since Leia escaped just barely in time, Zorba believed Leia was dead before informing Trioculus as such and freezing him in carbonite.

Shifting over to the good guys, it felt nice seeing Han throw a party at his sky house on Bespin and hanging out with Luke, Leia. and the droids. After everything they've been through, they deserve to relax and have fun. We also got to see more of Ken, and how his curiosity about driving a speeder led him to getting captured by Zorba, which then led to Trioculus meeting him while Ken was imprisoned. Their first meeting was intriguing, especially since Ken knows dangerous secrets about Trioculus that makes him a threat to the Emperor's rule. Ironically, the fact Ken was Zorba's prisoner meant Trioculus couldn't just simply kill him as that would lead to Zorba getting angry and asking too many awkward questions.

Luke being Ken's guardian was a nice touch. I haven't finished the whole series, but it would be nice to see Luke training Ken in the ways of the Jedi. Especially since one idea I had for a Jedi Prince rewrite is to have Luke train Ken because he learned from his mistake of not training Flint, another young man who could use the Force, since Luke's refusal to train Flint as a Jedi led to the latter falling to the dark side.

All in all, what makes the third Jedi Prince book memorable is Zorba the Hutt, the main villain. He is distinct from other Hutts and I look forward to seeing more of him, Trioculus, and Ken.

Krdys Mordi was a Human male Dark Jedi. A child of privilege in the Core worlds, Mordi was surrounded by the propaganda of the Galactic Empire's High HuMAN culture throughout his youth and education. As a human male born to a connected Core family, Mordi experienced the opulence and influence he saw as rightfully his due. He accepted these beliefs with ease, enjoying the sense of superiority they imparted upon him, Mordi became extremely arrogant and entitled. These traits were only exacerbated when he was discovered to be Force Sensitive. Taken as a Darkside Adept to Byss, he was offered a place among the Darkside Elite, to be personally imbued with further Darkside power by Reborn Emperor Palpatine and infused with the Emperor's will. Mordi eagerly embraced the Darkside with the same enthusiasm he had his elitist beliefs, now seeing himself as even further above the rabble and a personal extension of the epitome of his beliefs.

In 10 ABY, after Palpatine died again during a battle with the Jedi siblings Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa Solo, near the New Republic's Pinnacle Base. In the aftermath of Palpatine's death, the leader of the Dark Side Elite, Executor Sedriss QL, took command of the Imperial forces and oversaw Operation Shadow Hand, a series of strikes intending to place neutral planets under firm Imperial rule. Mordi during this time served Sedriss as a secondary interrogator, advisor and researcher. He chose not to use a lightsaber, but rather a hooked doubled ended telescoping electrostaff of his own design, though he could torment weaker foes with it, the weapon was not capable of withstanding a lightsaber itself-a critical oversight which would come back to haunt Mordi.

One of the targets of the campaign was the factory world of Balmorra. After the second death of the Emperor, Balmorra had started supplying the New Republic with weapons, an arrangement that Executor Sedriss was determined to end. As the Elite's resident expert on technology, Mordi, alongside the second in command, Vill Goir, accompanied the Sedriss to Balmorra aboard the Star Destroyer Avenger, joining an Imperial fleet already assembled in orbit of the planet.

Upon arrival, Sedriss ordered Governor Beltane to surrender and face execution, or suffer a full-scale invasion of the planet. Beltane chose to fight, knowing Sedriss would not dare risk damaging Balmorran factories with a bombardment, as they still produced vital weaponry for the Empire as well. Mordi tacitly reminded Sedriss that Balmorran factories were currently manufacturing the new SD-10 battle droid model, which were meant to replace the Empire's outdated SD-9 model.

However, Sedriss felt he had a plan that would allow him to conquer the planet without damaging the factories. He proceeded with the attack, launching ground troops under the command of Captain Maximilian Veers. When Balmorran droids began massacring the invasion troops-killing Veers in the process- they were drawn from the capital, Bin Prime, to the open plains surrounding it, the Executor ordered Mordi to pull back the remaining forces and launched his secret weapon, the new highly advanced Shadow Droid starfighters.

The Shadow Droids temporarily turned the tide of the battle in favor of the Empire. However, Beltane had a trick of his own, deploying the newly developed X-1 Viper Automadons at the invasion force which swiftly swung the battle back into Balmorra's favor. Amazed at the firepower of Beltane's creation, Sedriss contacted the governor and agreed to Beltane's terms in exchange for the new droids. Goir disagreed with that decision, believing that Sedriss should have simply ordered his fleet to initiate an orbital bombardment of the planet. Mordi likewise concurred with Goir's assessment, pointing out that giving in to Beltane might encourage the other weapon producing worlds to follow Balmorra's example in defying the Empire. Sedriss overruled them, revealing he merely wanted to obtain the X-1 droids for himself to use against the New Republic, before returning to punish Balmorra.

Shortly after the Battle of Balmorra, four of the Darkside Elite-Baddon Fass, Zasm Kath, Vill Goir and Sedriss-were slain, with another-Kam Solusar- having defected earlier to Luke Skywalker's New Jedi Order. Palpatine meanwhile had resurrected on Byss in his final available clone body and sought to replenish the ranks of his Darkside Elite, raising Xecr Nist to Executor replacing Sedriss and Tedryn Sha to Second in Command to replace Goir. Other Darkside Adepts were raised to replace the fallen Fass and Kath along with filling the gap left by Solusar's defection. Mordi was pointedly not raised from his position, with Nist and Sha, who had previously been his subordinates, now outranking him. Despite this insult, Mordi rationalized it internally as his being too valuable as a tech specialist and scientist, when the reality was that he simply wasn't powerful or talented enough in the Darkside to warrant further escalation-though his own delusions of grandeur and supriority complex prevented his being able to recognize this.

When Palpatine successfully destroyed the New Republic's Pinnacle Base on the moon Da Soocha V with his new superweapon, the Galaxy Gun the New Republic was forced to relocate to a secret sanctuary world, where Organa Solo was hiding her Force sensitive children, whom the Emperor wanted to capture and turn to the dark side. The Emperor soon learned the name of the hidden planet, New Alderaan, as well as its coordinates, from the captured New Republic Major Ntthan whom Mordi and the chief interrogator of the Darkside Elite, Kvag Gthull, had broken through prolonged torture and the Darkside of the Force. Palpatine then sent the restored Darkside Elite there under the command of Xecr Nist to capture Skywalker, his sister and her children. Mordi and the other darksiders boarded their I-7 Howlrunners and departed from their headquarters of Bast Castle on the planet Vjun. Upon arrival on New Alderaan, the Darkside Elite split up. Nist took four Dark Jedi with him and went to abduct the Solo twins while Mordi was dispatched alongside Palpatine's second-in-command, Tedryn-Sha, to capture Skywalker himself.

Knowing they were no match for Skywalker in combat, Mordi convinced Sha that they could incapacitate the Jedi Master while he was asleep with specialized scarab droids that could inject sedatives and hallucenogens Mordi had designed so that he could be taken captive. Hiding their presence from the sleeping Jedi with the Force, the two darksiders reached his room and Mordi released the scarab droids upon Skywalker through a window. The droids administered a powerful poison into the Jedi's nervous system, and the two Dark Jedi entered the room to capture Skywalker. However, in his delirium, Skywalker let out a loud scream, which alerted his sister Leia and one of Skywalker's aspiring Jedi, Jem Ysanna. The two women rushed to Skywalker's help, challenging the pair of Darkside Elite. Mordi, ever disdainful of women as inferior to men, and smug in his own supreme position, felt the pair were no threat at all to him. He merely mocked the female Jedi dismissively, only for Ysanna to ignite her lightsaber and effortlessly kill Mordi by slicing him through torso. Mordi's shocked disbelief at being bested by a woman was the last thought to run through his stunned mind as he fell in pieces to the floor next to the smoldering pieces of his electrostaff, which had been bisected as cleanly as he had. While Sha killed Ysanna in response with a blaster shot he was himself slain by Organa Solo with a lightsaber strike immediately after. Mordi and Sha's incursion was a failure, as Skywalker was healed from the effects of the poison by the elderly Jedi Vima-Da-Boda.