Trios

"Queen Trios, this world is yours to rule&hellip; but do not forget whom you serve."

- Vader leaves Trios as ruler of Shu-torun

Trios was the youngest child of the king of the planet Shu-torun and sibling to Prince Monthan and Princess Hollian. When the Sith Lord Darth Vader visited Shu-torun as a representative of the Galactic Empire, Trios was selected as his guide by the king, who wished to kill the Imperial guest. She first led the Sith to the Abyssal Rooms of the royal palace, where a ball was being held to showcase the planet's culture. There, a group of the king's men pretending to be rebels ambushed Vader, but were easily defeated, forcing Trios to enact the suicidal backup plan to end Vader's life. Claiming that it was the only safe way to reach the king, she led Vader into a series of tunnels, which her father then sealed and began flooding with lava. The Sith then began carving a hole in the tunnel's wall and knocked Trios out, carrying her to safety. She awoke in front of the doors to the palace throne room, and still not willing to give up, tried to shoot Vader with a blaster pistol. Before she could pull the trigger, he sliced off her hand with the pistol in it using his lightsaber and then revealed that his assassin droids BT-1 and 0-0-0 had already killed her family and the other occupants of the throne room. Vader crowned Trios as the new queen of Shu-torun, and left her with a warning not to forget that her planet and its people served the Empire.

Biography
"No, you can't! The King! My father!"

- Trios protests as Vader cuts open the doors to her father's throne room

Princess Trios was born as the third and youngest child of the king of the planet Shu-torun, a mining world in the Mid Rim. She had two elder siblings, her brother Prince Monthan, who as the eldest child stood to inherit their father's crown upon his death, and her sister Princess Hollian, who would inherit the title of celebrant warlord of the planet's War-Faith. During the reign of the Galactic Empire, the planet supplied the Imperials with ore for their many building projects, but when the ore-dukes of Shu-torun became resistant to the Empire's tithes, the king chose to turn against the Empire.

When the royal family learned that the Sith Lord Darth Vader was visiting Shu-torun in order to investigate why the planet's ore quotas were not being met, the king devised a plan to kill the Imperial representative. Believing he had a surfeit of children, he decided Trios would be the one to greet Vader and lead him into a trap set in the royal palace, with a backup plan where she would lead him to die with her in the tunnels within the castle. Trios obeyed her father's commands, and was waiting for Vader with two guards when he landed on one of the palace's landing platforms in his TIE Advanced x1 starfighter. The Sith was displeased that the king himself was not present, but Trios blamed her father's absence on his age and began leading Vader toward the palace's Abyssal Rooms, where a ball was being held to showcase Shu-torun's culture. Enroute, she offered to have servants take a small package that her guest was carrying, but he refused, stating that he must personnaly deliver the gift to the ruler of Shu-torun.

Upon entering the Abyssal Rooms, Trios gave the command for those present to begin with the stately Shu-toren counter-bore waltz. When Vader complained that the dancing was unnecessary, she explained that such practices were an important part of Shu-toren's culture and were needed to keep the ore-dukes in line. As she and Vader moved across the room, they were stopped by Duke Rubix, who demanded that the Sith Lord dance with his daughter. Trio advised the duke against pushing the matter, but when he persisted in his demands, Vader used the Force to lift Rubix into the air and whirl him around in the air before dropping him. As Vader questioned if anyone else wished for such a "dance", the king's plan moved into action as a tunneling vessel broke through the Abyssal Rooms' ceiling, causing the guests to scatter.

Pretending to act as rebels against both the Empire and the royal family, a number of the king's troops exited the craft and attacked Vader. The Sith however, was able to dodge their attacks and then reflect them back at the troops using his lightsaber, killing all of his opponents. With the first part of the plan to kill Vader having failed, Trios dutifully began enacting the second phase, and claiming that the traitors would be watching the lifts, led Vader into the palace's tunnels. As the pair supposedly moved toward the king, Vader complimented Trios, and was still impressed with her when the doors of the tunnel they were in sealed and molten lava began pouring in from the ceiling. He then drew his lightsaber and began cutting a hole through the tunnel's wall, knocking Trios unconscious with the Force when she tried to convince him that there was no escape for either of them. Instead of leaving Trios to burn in her father's trap, Vader carried her prone form to the doors of her father's throne room, where he killed the guards. As she awoke, the princess realised that her father's plan had failed, and aimed to shoot Vader in the back with a blaster pistol. The Sith sensed the attack coming however, and was able to slice Trios' right hand off at the wrist before she could pull the trigger. He then turned and cut the doors to the throne room open as Trios protested, revealing that his assassin droids 0-0-0 and BT-1 had infiltrated the palace upon his arrival and killed everyone in the throne room while Trios was unconscious, including her father and siblings.

With her family dead, Trios was the hereditary queen of Shu-toren, and so as she grieved at her father's side, Vader handed her the package he had been carrying with him the whole time. Inside there was only a chunk of rock, which held no meaning to the queen until Vader explained that the gift was a piece of the planet Alderaan, which had also stood against the Empire, leading to its destruction by the Death Star superweapon. As Vader used the Force to crown Trios, she complained that the ore-dukes would still resist the Empire's tithes, to which he explained she would put down their rebellions with aid from the Empire. He then left her alone in the throne room with only the warning that she should not forget that she and her people served the Empire.

Personality and traits
"You are an admirable youth. Your father must be proud." "You would be surprised Lord Vader." "Hmm. Your father should be proud."

- Vader compliments Trios as her family's treachery is revealed

Trios was a human female with fair skin, brown hair, and blue eyes. She was completely loyal to her father and took part in his plan despite huge potential risk to herself, even sticking to it when she believed it would mean her certain death. Her father's willingness to sacrifice her in this way caused her to doubted that her father was proud of her. She also believed in the importance of Shu-toren's courtly culture and its use in keeping the ore-dukes in line, defending the practice when Vader questioned the dancing in the Abyssal Rooms.

Equipment
"We all do our duty."

- Trios aims her blaster at Vader

While with Vader, Trios wore a white gown with a golden trim and a blue cloak. She carried a concealed blaster pistol with her and kept her hair up with a piece of golden headwear.

Behind the scenes
Trios first appeared in the comic book Star Wars: Darth Vader Annual 1, which was written by Kieron Gillen and illustrated by Lenil Yu for publication in 2015.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Darth Vader Annual 1