Zothip

Captain Zothip was the leader of the Cavrilhu pirate gang around the time of the Caamas document conflict (19 A.B.Y.). Immediately prior to and during this crisis, Zothip was involved in an under-the-table deal with Moff Disra of the Imperial Remnant. Zothip's gang was loaned leftover Mount Tantiss clones from Thrawn's campaign against the New Republic 10 years earlier, and in return, the Imperial Remnant was supplied with Preybird starfighters from the Cavrilhu Pirates' production lines. Because the Imperial Remnant's territory had been vastly reduced due to a lack of strong leadership following Grand Admiral Thrawn's death, the production of the Empire's traditional TIE fighters had been consequently reduced to a trickle. The Preybirds were badly needed, and they proved to be adequate, if less intimidating, substitutes for the TIE fighters. In addition to this exchange, the Imperial Remnant supplied the Cavrilhu Pirates with locations of New Republic shipping convoys. Both parties reaped the benefits: Zothip's gang kept whatever loot it found aboard the ships, and the Remnant smiled at the chaos this caused the New Republic. However, this deal between Zothip and Disra proved to be troublesome for them both. After defending an Ishori shipping convoy from a group of Cavrilhu pirates, Luke Skywalker investigated and eventually located one of the Cavrilhu gang's bases in the Kauron asteroid field. Skywalker was captured and briefly interrogated by Zothip, but he quickly escaped, narrowly avoiding being killed in the explosion of the bases self-destruct system activated by the fleeing Zothip. Initially furious at Disra for allowing this to happen, Zothip agreed to one more job for the conniving moff, with the promise of great reward. Disra asked Zothip to attack the Chimaera with ships falsely bearing the New Republic insignia, in hopes that the attack would discourage peace talks between Pellaeon and New Republic leaders. Pellaeon easily routed Zothip's force, and Zothip, having lost more of his property, went to Bastion to confront Disra. On the Imperial capital, Zothip snuck into Disra's private office using a secret entrance and called Disra from the moff's own desk. Major Tierce, part of a secret triumvirate formed by Disra, suggested that they intimidate Zothip with their "Grand Admiral Thrawn" scam. The con man Flim, completely dressed and acting the part, put on a compelling show for Zothip, but was spared further efforts when Zothip's men were attacked by Karoly D'ulin, a mistryl shadow-guard, who had also snuck into the secret office and had been hiding outside of the room. Zothip was killed by a knife thrown by D'ulin, finally paying for the crime he had committed against the Mistryl for the destruction of the planet Lorardian.