Denetrius Vidian

"Keep moving! Destroy barriers! See everything!"

- Count Vidian's infamous motto

Count Denetrius Vidian, born Lemuel Tharsa, was a wealthy mogul of the thorilide mining industry and one of the Galactic Empire’s most prominent effiency experts. After threatening to expose corruption in the mining industry and catching a rare degenerative disease, Tharsa recreated himself as Vidian, becoming a major player in the Galactic Empire.

Vidian was granted control of the mining colony of Gorse and its moon Cynda, key to the Empire'e expansion of its fleet. Planning to destroy Cynda in an unusual scheme to undermine his business rival Lero Danthe, Vidian was killed by a miner freedom fighter named Skelly aboard the Forager.

Talents and abilities
Through his cybernetic augmentations, Vidian had access to a wide berth of information based around his motto: Keep moving, destroy barriers, see everything. With Vidian's formidable steel-coated body, he believed himself to have an able body and thus an able mind. Vidian's electronic voice box on his throat could channel its output straight into comlink receivers near his "ears", private communication channels, giving himself total privacy in comlink and hologram conversations and thus getting information directly, whenever possible. Through his cybernetic eye implants, Vidian was able to channel his vision directly into security cameras and computer systems, having data streamed directly into his retinas and giving him the upper hand. His armor was plated with cortosis, which enabled him to effectively take blaster bolts and redirect them elsewhere. His lungs were also augmented to reject poisons.

Personality and traits
As the safety inspector Lemuel Tharsa, Count Vidian felt himself to be useless, constantly being bullied by his superiors in the thorilide trade. He hardly even thought of himself as a “person”, an insecurity exasperated by his mechanical augmentations which were compared to Darth Vader and General Grievous.

Nevertheless, Vidian recreated himself as an intimidating character after he monopolized the thorilide trade from the comfort of his "deathbed". His mechanical presence unnerved many around him, having intentionally crafted his prosthetic replacements and mechanical voice box in a calculating way that would influence the decision making of those around him. As the Emperor’s effiency expert, Vidian was known to squeeze the last drop of raw material out of all of his projects, often at the expense of his workers’ lives.

Vidian’s insecurities manifested themselves in his rivalry with Baron Danthe, being afraid of losing his power to what he considered a “snotty upstart”. It was Vidian’s obsession with undermining Danthe that led to his own downfall, with his plan to destroy Gorse’s moon backfiring greatly.

Appearances

 * A New Dawn