Nirama

Nirama was an Oblee crimelord who controlled all crime in the Cularin system. He had been one of Riboga the Hutt's accountants, but his ambition and skills soon made him majordomo. He used his position to make it seem that the operations in the Cularin system were much less profitable than Riboga had thought. In 53 BBY, during one of their regular sabacc games, Riboga had commented on this, and Nirama offered to take the problem off his hands, betting four million credits against control of Riboga's criminal Organization. Nirama won, and as Riboga believed that Cularin was too expensive to operate in, he was not angry with the loss.

Nirama was more efficient than Riboga and more popular with his underlings, maintaining something of a moral code. He immediately abolished the slave trade Riboga had engaged in. This affected the slavers who had previously worked for Riboga, but some of them, such as Hlisk Squin, managed to hide their previous activities.

Nirama also refused to outright lie, although he was willing to lie by omission or by not correcting other people's misperceptions. Despite this, he could be ruthless when he needed to be, such as when executing rebellious lieutenants.

Nirama, like Riboga before him, had no control over the Cularin system's pirates, although he sometimes hired them to do a job for him. He always tried to monitor them. Pirate predation was always a problem for the smugglers, and was one of the key ingredients in making it believable that Riboga was losing money. It had been said that Nirama had plots to kill key members of the Red Fury Brotherhood and the Order of Independent Trade, but their leadership changed so frequently, it probably would not have made a difference if he had. Both groups had their own thoughts about Nirama's position within the system, but no leaders lasted long enough to initiate a solid plan against him.

"If you want to put labels on it, go ahead. But I serve a purpose within the system, as do we all. I don't believe anyone else could serve it as painlessly."

- Nirama responds to the notion of being the lesser of two evils

In many other senses, Nirama continued Riboga's policies. For instance, Riboga had refused to meet with representatives of Verga Mer Mining Company, as he had been initially oversight when they attempted to invert in Genarius; Nirama was coherent with Riboga's acts, and also ignored any petition from Verga Mer. Nirama also kept the sponsorship on the starfighter races through the tunnels of Eskaron (and also gambled on the results), even although Nirama officially did not own that moon nor had any claim to its ownership.

Although the droid factories of Uffel were built with Riboga's financial help, Uffel manager QS-2D had finished all the payments to the Hutt and was, by 53 BBY, the sole owner of the moon. The droids were likeable through the system, but Nirama distrusted droids that could include spionage programming, and refused to use Uffel droids.

Nirama's headquarters in Cularin was in the platform city of Mikish, particularly in the mansion Riboga had built there. Nirama kept a 50% of the local policebeing as his "private retainer" when there.

Nirama also used Riboga's old base in the Cularin system asteroid belt to meet with the smugglers living there. Although Nirama inherited from Riboga both his public asteroid base and his secret asteroid base, it is unclear whether Nirama used both of the bases or not.

Nirama repeatedly tried to recruit Corellian starship mechanic Bran Isken, who had been working in the Forard spaceport of Almas, but Isken was satisfied with his current job for governor Klis Joo and rejected Nirama's offer.

In 32 BBY, one of Nirama's main lieutenants, Len Markus, disappeared when trying to leave the system with a Sith artifact (and in the process causing the system to disappear from the galaxy for almost a decade). Nirama reacted to the void of power by promoting Nadin Paal as his second-in-command.

Nirama's decision to abolish the slave trade was not popular with all the members of his Organization. In 32 BBY, a conspiracy within the Organization calling themselves the Cell came together with the purpose of deposing Nirama. They were able to hide their initial movements beneath the build up of a large Metatheran Cartel presence in the system, but Nirama soon became aware of their existence. Calling upon a group of Cularin's heroes to help him, he was able to root out the Cell's leadership.

Although Nirama initially had a deal with the Thaereian military to supply parts that the pirates stole from them, he ultimately opposed Thaere and the CIS. He also helped support his people, the Oblee, when they returned to the Cularin system. Before their return, Nirama had let people believe that he had come from the Unknown Regions. It had been rumored, due to his anti-slavery stance, that his people had been "slaved out" when he had been a child.

In 22 BBY, infamous slaver Phylus Mon went to Cularin system as a part of a scheme. When word of this tried to reach Nirama, he was unfortunately in a secret meeting and could not be reached. As soon as he discovered that Phylus Mon was in "his" system, Nirama offered a generous reward for Phylus Mon, live or dead.

Unfortunately for Cularin, Riboga regained control from Nirama around the time of the rise of the New Order.

Behind the scenes
Nirama was described as pink-skinned in Price of Business and Topworld. This was before his people returned and it was established that young members of his race were pink while mature adults were chalky white. Nirama was certainly a mature adult Oblee.