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"I want many things, and in time I intend to get all of them."

- Nom Anor

Nom Anor was a male Yuuzhan Vong who played a crucial role in the Yuuzhan Vong War and was marked by his ambition, sense of self-preservation, doubt in the Yuuzhan Vong's gods, and skill in many fields. A member of the intendant caste, Anor was one of the leaders among the Yuuzhan Vong in the galaxy prior to the species' invasion. Anor helped prolong the Galactic Civil War, and weakened potential foes to the Yuuzhan Vong. In 25 ABY, the Yuuzhan Vong War began as the Yuuzhan Vong invaded the galaxy, with the Praetorite Vong leading the way. Anor assisted the Praetorite Vong, though the organization was defeated.

The main fleet then entered the galaxy, cutting a bloody swathe towards the Core. Anor helped in many operations, such as plotting with the Priest Harrar to eliminate Jedi, and sabotaging New Republic efforts to restore the planet Duro. Anor dealt frequently with Warmaster Tsavong Lah, a rival of his. A skilled spy, diplomat, and firebrand, Anor stirred up unrest throughout the galaxy, weakening the New Republic. Two years into the war, the Yuuzhan Vong captured the capital of Coruscant. Anor began dealing directly with Supreme Overlord Shimrra, providing intelligence that allowed the Yuuzhan Vong to attack the New Republic at Ebaq 9. However, it was a trap, and the Yuuzhan Vong forces were defeated, causing Shimrra to call for Anor's head.

Anor fled into the underbelly of Coruscant, where he became involved with the Jeedai heresy, a dissident sect of Yuuzhan Vong who cursed Shimrra and saw the Jedi as their saviors. Seeking a way to gain power, the ambitious Anor unified the heretics. Taking the identity of Yu'shaa, a self-proclaimed prophet, he became the leader of a powerful, rapidly-growing movement. However, when given the chance, he turned his back on the heresy to rejoin Shimrra's court in a higher rank. He began to rue the movement he had strengthened, as the heresy had gained a life of its own. In the final days of the war, Anor began to doubt Shimrra, seeing him as insane. The war came to a close in the Battle of Yuuzhan'tar. Taking up the mantle of Yu'shaa once more, Anor attempted to lead the heretics to victory. Ultimately, he was captured by the Jedi, while the Yuuzhan Vong surrendered after the death of Shimrra. Realizing that the future held nothing but uncertainty for him, Anor chose to remain on a disintegrating ship as it exploded over Coruscant.

The rise of Nom Anor
"My plansss are my plansss."

- Nom Anor

Nom Anor was born in the intendant caste, and was groomed to live his life as a politician. He rose through the ranks of the caste, and on the day when he was awarded the rank of Executor among the Yuuzhan Vong, and first advance scout of the Praetorite Vong a group from the intendant caste, Anor gouged out his left eye with a burning stick. After doing so, Anor filled his socket with a plaeryin bol, a small organism of the Executor's own making that could spit poison when Anor willed it to. Despite having obtained the rank of Executor, Anor wished to ashive the rank of High Prefect in his caste.

Nom Anor was also a talented bioengineer. He invented the coomb spore, the gablith masquer, and naotebe wingling, to name a few, disregarding the Yuuzhan Vong religious protocols that restricted the creation of new weapons in the process. Nom Anor had no use for ancient protocols and traditions in general, and only used them to suit his own ends.

Upon entering a new galaxy
"As you know, a band of agitators – controlled by Nom Anor – continues to spread unrest in our system. We have repeatedly requested the Republic’s intervention, only to be ignored."

- Xbrr-Zinngogg to the New Republic Ruling Council

In 6 ABY, Nom Anor was sent on a mission to scout out the galaxy and destabilize any governments that posed a threat to the swift invasion of the galaxy. One of his first missions was to Calocour Heights on Coruscant. In 11 ABY, he met with aspiring Emperor Carnor Jax, who notified his master, Lumiya, of the strange agent.

Anor turned his sights on the Imperial Ruling Council of the Imperial Remnant in 11 ABY, and met with Xandel Carivus, a member of the council, whom he had follow a set of instructions. On the planet of Ord Cantrell, Anor assassinated the current Head of the Council Burr Nolyds with an explosive device, which was decorated with the designation of former Emperor's Royal Guard Kir Kanos, planted in the Human's chambers. Like Anor planed, Carivus was placed as the head of the council, and the Yuuzhan Vong met briefly with Carivus after the event after slipping through the high security around the man's rooms. Anor had Carivus, who was pleased at the turn of events, to continue to follow the Yuuzhan Vong's insturctions, before departing. Anor then masterminded a series of assassinations against the Imperial Ruling Council that made it seem like Kanos was continuing his vendetta against them.

However, Carivus's power began to be questioned by fellow member Feena D'Asta, and Carivus was furious that Anor's plan had not taken this into account when they next met. Anor refused to reveal his plans to the other, and instead sent him off with the knowledge that there would be another assassination. Anor was true to his word, and General Immodet was found dead. In respone to this, Carivus used the excuse to bring in his personal guards. However, as Immodet was one of Carivus's supporters, the man was confused when he met Anor again, who once again did not reveal any more of his plans to the Imperial. Over the next while, Carivus took matters into his own plans, ignoring Anor's leadership, as he cemented his leadership of the Imperial Ruling Council with might. Anor confronted the man once about his straying from the path Anor had created, but did not interfere as Carivus made enemies with the D'Asta family and drew the attention of Kanos himself.

Before Carivus was killed by Kanos during an attack on Ord Cantrell by Ex-Imperial Baron Ragez D'Asta's forces, Anor told the self-proclaimed Emperor Carivus that his and his leader's plans no longer included the Imperial. Anor also had dealings of an unknown nature with Grappa the Hutt, and several other shadowy groups and organizations in order to further his goals.

By around 14 ABY, Anor was stirring up unrest on the planet of Rhommamool, in the Osarian system, with the help of a group of agitators known as the Red Knights of Life. Although representatives from Rhommamool pleaded with the New Republic for help, they were turned down, as in their eyes Anor had committed no crimes. Anor later paid a group of individuals to raid a Class-3 toxic weapons dump on the world of Nyara and obtain a chunk of zinethium material. On the planet of Adumar, Anor riled up a crowd of people by claiming that the New Republic was not better than the Galactic Empire. While on Adumar, Anor met up with an individual who gave him the zinethium. The zinethium, which had explosive capabilities, found its way to the Restored Empire, an organization plotting the destruction of the New Republic and the Imperial Remnant. They used it to attempt to blow up the Imperial Palace on the New Republic controlled capital of Coruscant. However, due to the intervention of Jedi Master Luke Skywalker, the plan failed.

Either before or after his involvement with the Interim Council, he was involved with foiling the plans of the Moffs (presumably either the Central Committee of Grand Moffs or the Council of Moffs). Nom Anor had considered the Galactic Empire to be a greater military threat than the New Republic, and his manipulations helped lead to its downfall, thus making him the main individual responsible for the destruction of the Interim Council.

Pre-invasion
"I seek allies in this filthy place."

- Nom Anor

Anor seeded several different worlds with a range of illnesses carried by spores that the Yuuzhan Vong agent had created himself, and, thirteen years after Carivus' death, Nom Anor placed his coomb spores in the breath masks of one hundred New Republic diplomats on the world of Monor II, including Mara Jade Skywalker, at the event that marked the ascension of the priest-prince Agapos the Tenth to the throne. All of them became infected, though the species of the individual affected how long it took the coomb spores to take effect, and all except Mara Jade Skywalker died from the disease. She was able to hold the disease back using the Force. During his time in the galaxy, Anor learned to play the game dejarik, and was frequently forced to play a holographic version of it even though he did not like the game itself.

That same year he visited Bar Jaraniz on Nar Shaddaa to meet the Mandalorian Goran Beviin whom the Executor, under the name of Udelen, hired as an assassin, inspiring civil war upon the industrial planet of Ter Abbes. During the months preceding the galactic invasion, Nom Anor nursed a regular business relationship with the Mandalorian Protectors often meeting with their leader, Boba Fett. Intrigued by the Mandalorians' culture of war, Nom Anor called Fett and his people to witness the arrival of a Yuuzhan Vong flotilla in an 'up-front' attempt at further recruiting them during the course of the forthcoming war. However Fett did not believe a word Nom Anor spoke.

Anor conspired with the Praetorite Vong so that they could be the ones to lead the initial attack on the galaxy, not the members of the warrior caste. He also helped them obtain an imperfect war-coordinating telepathic yammosk for use in battle. As years went by, Anor continued to destabilize the New Republic in anyway he could, and frequently stirred up resentment against the Jedi Knights. At one point in time, Anor met Jedi Knight Mara Jade Skywalker, who later remarked that the disguised Yuuzhan Vong was one of the strangest beings she ever met. The Executor also recruited many agents from the native populations of the galaxy to further his goals.

However, despite the years that Anor spent among the future enemies of his species, he never discovered that the birth of twins for Humans was a relatively common occurrence, and that some of the larger capital ships used in the galaxy would sometimes preform an orbital bombardment against enemy troops. In preparation for the assault, Anor initiated a destabilization program, which sought to incite old conflicts and grudges into wars that would distract their enemies.

Rhommamool
Anor continued to stir up trouble on Rhommamool, and its sister planet Osarian, and he used his followers, the Red Knights, and his rhetoric to change a simple mining rights dispute into a struggle against the oppression of Osarian for the people of Rhommamool. Because of this, the New Republic sent a Mon Calamari capital ship Mediator to the Osarian system by 25 ABY in order to prevent the tension between the two planets from breaking out into a full war. Around that time, the two planets were nearing the point in their orbits where they would be the closest to each other for many years, enabling both sides to potentially send rockets at each other.

By that time, Anor had gotten his Red Knights of Life to frequently purge cities such as Redhaven of all mechanical things, such as landspeeders and droids. The public square of Redhaven had also been turned into the Square of Hopeful Redemption, where a huge pit was filled with the droids caught by the Red Knights. In 25 ABY, Anor, wearing an ooglith masquer to disguise his true form, attended a huge gathering at the Square of Hopeful Redemption. There, as he stood on a platform above the gathered, the ten thousand gathered Rhommamoolians stoned the droids in the pit for the entire afternoon after Anor gave the signal. Soon after the event, Anor was contacted by communicating villip by Yomin Carr, who was a Yuuzhan Vong agent disguised as a member of the team that serviced the ExGal-4 outpost on the planet of Belkadan. Carr informed the other Yuuzhan Vong that the Praetorite Vong had entered the galaxy as the spearhead of the Yuuzhan Vong invasion.

Anor's aide, Shok Tinoktin, reported to the Executor the night of the revelereis at the Square of Hopeful Redemption that the custom shuttle Jade Sabre entered the orbit of Rhommamool; aboard it was Jedi Knight Jade Skywalker, former politician Leia Organa Solo and her daughter Jaina, Organa Solo's Noghri bodyguard Bolpuhr, and the protocol droid C-3PO. The Jade Sabre was in the Osarian system so the occupants could meet with Anor, an event arranged between the Executor and New Republic Chief of State Borsk Fey'lya, and try to reach an agreement that benefited both planets. Before sending Tinoktin off to escort the group from the Jade Sabre, Anor made sure that his aide had the shlecho newt with him, and instructed Tinoktin to bring the lizard near the mouth of Jade Sabre during the meeting. The newt would then be able to tell if the Jedi, one of the only individuals infected with the comb spores who were still alive, was still in the clutches of the disease. As Tinoktin brought the group into Anor's lair, the Executor watched from a security holocam.

To avoid meeting the group in his private quarters, Anor intercepted them in a hallway leading to his quarters. In the hallway, Anor lectured the group about failings of the New Republic and the Jedi Order after refusing to let them discuss the Rhommamoolian-Osarian problem in a more comfortable location. Anor's only suggestion to stop the looming war between the two planets was have the Mediator destroy the weapons systems of the Osarians. This possibility was quickly ruled out Organa Solo and Jade Skywalker, and they left, disgusted at Anor's unwillingness to do anything to stop the war. C-3PO stayed behind briefly to inquire as to how the droid had offended the Executor, but Anor sent him quickly after his masters when the Executor claimed that the droid's existence offended him.

After the short meeting, Tamaktis Breetha, the former mayor of Redhaven, questioned why Anor had refused New Republic assistance, as Rhommamool would need it to stop the war. Anor reassured him that the Rhommamoolians were fighting for a cause grater than just their homeworld's freedom, as they were figting for the freedom of every citizen of the New Republic; in truth, the Executor did not care about the fate of the two worlds, and was merely trying to destabilize the New Republic by creating another war. Tinoktin reported after the mayor left that the newt had confirmed that Jade Skywalker was still struggling with the comb spores in her system.

Anor had several high ranking Rhommamoolian officials secretly murdered, which gave Breethan no support in his opposition of an extra-planetary missile strike that the Executor had been planning for weeks. Before the launch, Anor contacted Commander Ackdool of the Mediator, and arranged a meeting onboard the vessel between the commander, Anor, and a diplomatic party from Osarian. This meeting was supposed to arrange for an end to the conflict, now that the New Republic representatives were out of Anor's hair. When the missiles were fired at Osarian, they were launched from places where the liftoff of the rockets would be difficult to detect. Once the rockets reached the edge of Rhommamool's atmosphere, the rockets turned off their fuel, and drifted, unnoticeable by the Mediator, to the edge of Osarian's atmosphere, where they re-engaged their fuel, and streaked for Osa-Prime, the capital city of the planet.

Three hours after the launch of the rockets, when the missiles reached the atmosphere of Osarian, Ackdool contacted Anor, furious that he had attacked the other planet. Before cutting the Mon Calamari off and ending the conversation, the disguised Executor took responsibilty for the attacks, claiming that it was all justified due to the dead Rhommamoolian officials that had been found dead, even though Anor was the one who secretly had them killed. Anor and his aide then watched an Osarian broadcast via a video screen, that showed the missiles that had evaded the Osaran rockets' and starfighters' attempts to destroy them detonate in Osa-Prime. The missile strike authorized by Anor started a war between the two worlds, with both sides shooting missiles at each other while starfighters from the Mediator attempted to shoot down as many missiles as they could. Some of the rockets and missiles that were launched were nuclear.

Due to the escalating war between the two sides, Ackdool was quite happy to go through with the meeting with Anor, and thus, the Executor and his aide left Rhommamool on a two-stage rocket. Before the rocket broke orbit, Anor made sure that his decoy, a decapitated body on whose neck rested one of Anor's villips, was ready, and proceeded to enter the second-stage booster. The booster contained a concealed A-wing starfighter with an enlarged cockpit, in which Anor and Tinoktin placed themselves. When the rocket left the orbit of Rhommamool, the second-stage booster was detached, taking with it the Yuuzhan Vong and his aide. Tinoktin remotely opened the comm channel on the capsule that was headed for the Mediator, and Anor greeted Ackdool, through the use of the twin of the villip he placed on the body. That same villip used its abilities to resemble Anor's face, making it seem that Ackdool was actually talking to the Rhommamoolian leader, not a villip on a decapitated body.

However, Osarian Z-95 Headhunters rose attempted to intercept the capsule and prevent it from reaching the Mediator, indicating that the Osarians were not in a mood to talk. Just then, Anor had Tinoktin break the visual feed from the capsule to the warcruiser break up, and in covering up the fact that it was intentional, Anor claimed that it had been a malfunction on the capsule. To stop the Headhunters from destroying the capsule, Ackdool was forced to send starfighters of his own out, and they succeeded in this. One of the proton torpedos fired at the capsule however detonated near it, due to intervening X-wing starfighter fire, and the explosion sent the capsule into an uncontrolled spin. From the floating booster, and still in contact with Ackdool through the villip, Anor watched as the Mediator caught the capsule with a tractor beam, and brought it towards its hanger bay.

Though the booster and the A-wing within it began to bounce across the atmosphere of Rhommamool, Tinoktin managed to keep a line of sight to the Mediator. When the capsule entered the docking bay of the war cruiser, nuclear fission explosives crammed inside it detonated, and the resulting explosion blew a massive section of the Mediator to bits, and temporarily lifted the rear of the cruiser by ninety degrees. After the booster drifted far enough away, the A-wing that Anor and his adie resided in disengaged itself from the booster, and streaked away unnoticed. In this way Anor faked his death over Rhommamool. From the Osarian system, Anor traveled by lightspeed to the next destination from where he could stir up more trouble, and distract the New Republic from the threat of the Praetorite Vong in the Outer Rim.

Advising Da'Gara
When Tinoktin was asleep, Anor used one of his villips to contact Prefect Da'Gara, the leader of the Praetorite Vong, from the A-wing. The Prefect informed Anor that Carr had successfully terraformed Belkadan for their purposes, and was ready to use ExGal-4's visual scopes to the advantage of the Yuuzhan Vong. Da'Gara and Anor agreed that the biggest current threat to the discovery of the Praetorite Vong, who were holed up on a base on the Outer Rim ice planet of Helska IV, would be the world of Sernpidal and its inhabitants. Because of this, Anor and the Prefect debated ways to destroy that threat, and they eventually decided to use a tactic known as Yo'gand's Core, where a gravity manipulating dovin basal was used to crash a planet's moon into itself.

Da'Gara later communicated with the Executor once again via villip, and the Praetorite Vong leader told Anor that their forces had encountered a starfighter squadron allied with the New Republic. Although they had eradicated the majority of the fighters after the coralskippers found out how to block the enemy shields with their dovin basals, and also captured a Jedi by the name of Miko Reglia, two of enemy fights had managed to escape the system by hyperspace. Although Da'gara insisted that neither of the starfighter pilots had managed to escape alive, as ravenous grutchin creatures had latched onto both craft, Anor was skeptical. He was unsure whether or not the Praetorite Vong would be discovered sooner than they wished, due either to a surviving pilot relating the tale, or some of the grutchins releases after those two craft being sighted. Before consoling Da'Gara to fortify his position and prepare for any unexpected New Republic activity, the Executor agreed with the Prefect that Reglia should be broken via mental torture.

After the Praetorite Vong's position was secured enough, Da'Gara contacted Anor once more. The Prefect explained that they were launching their preliminary assault, as the yammosk that controlled their troops had dispatched four battle groups to Sernpidal. There, the groups would engage the refuges who were fleeing the destruction of their homeworld caused after a dovin basal brought the moon Dobido crashing into the planet. However, the Praetorite Vong force was defeated at Helska IV after the invaders had fully engaged the people of the galaxy and made themselves known. Anor found out about the fall of the Praetorite Vong through rumors, and his inability to contact either Da'Gara or Carr, who had both died. Despite the setback, the Executor continued to arouse strife and conflict near to the Core Worlds, in order to keep more attention away from the Outer Rim, where more Yuuzhan Vong forced would soon appear.

After the Praetorite Vong
Following the failure of the Praetorite Vong, who Anor had aided in a bid for power, a warrior faction underneath Commander Shedao Shai struck the Outer Rim. Attacking in places where the Praetorite Vong had failed in order to redeem the honor of the race, Shai led the warriors on a invasion path that was situated at the border of Imperial Remnant and New Republic space. This path had been advised earlier by Anor, because the relations between the two would prevent them from aiding each other. Anor was slightly wrong is this regard, as an Imperial and New Republic joint-effort at the world of Ithor resulted in the death of Shai, though the Imperial Remnant would regress to its insular nature for a long time after the incident. During these early stages of the war, Anor formed the Peace Brigade, a pro–Yuuzhan Vong group that supported the attempt to make peace with the invaders by giving them Jedi Knights.

The bo'tous plan
In an effort to redeem himself in the eyes of his superiors, Anor became involved with a plot formed by the deception sect priest Harrar. In the Obroa system after the Yuuzhan Vong seized the library world of Obroa-skai, Anor was present on Harrar's priestship. Anor waited at the bottom of a set of stairs in a command room while Harrar, the Priestess Elan and her pet, the feathered Vergere, witnessed the sacrifice of captives from Obroa-skai via a villip-choir field. When it was done, Harrar and Anor briefed Elan on the plan, which would involve fatally infecting as many Jedi as they could, in order to weaken the moral of the New Republic. Shortly after the sacrifice, twenty living captives from Obroa-skai were brought into the command room and placed inside an inhibition field so that they could not escape. While Anor and the others waited and observed from atop the command platform, an assassin set about demonstrating the capabilities of the Bo'tous spore, which would be used against the Jedi.

The assassin entered the inhibition field, and once inside, emptied his lungs in a long breath. The bo'tous insects contained in the breath grew rapidly in the abundant oxygen, and, because they carried the deadly spores of the bo'tous disease, killed all of the captives in the containment field. The assassin at first tried to escape by holding his breath, but realizing he could not get out, took a breath, which brought the diseases into his body and quickly killed him. Harrar had one of his acolytes obtain on of the bo'tous bugs that were skill in the area surrounded by the inhibition field, and used the specimen to show Elan. Anor explained that the effects of the toxin were brief, and the deliverer of the bo'tous had to be close to her targets. Harrar also told Elan that a skill host of the toxin could hold up to four batches of the disease in his or her lungs, and deploy them all, given that the host did not succumb to the toxin.

The plan was for Elan to be captured by the New Republic, and then for her to ask for political asylum from her race. To gain their trust, she would then tell them some important strategic information, before claiming to know about the coomb spores that had infected Jade Skywalker. Elan would insist that she would only give the information to Jedi, and when she was meeting with a group of them, would use the bo'tous spores to kill them. At the end of the briefing, Elan took the bo'tous specimen, and clenched it in her palm so that it would migrate to her lungs and begin to develop. After Elan and Vergere had left, Anor briefly discussed with the preist the plan, and Elan's role, which would almost certainly bring about her death. As a part of the plan, Elan and her pet were allowed to fall into the hands of the enemy at the world of Exodo II after the New Republic light cruiser Soothfast destroyed the Yuuzhan Vong vessel Elan was being held on; the priestess and her pet were then placed into protective custody after Elan told her captors that she was a defector.

Following Elan's capture, Commander Tla confronted Harrar and Anor, as he was angered that a Yuuzhan Vong ships had had to be destroyed for the initial stage of the plot to succeed. The pair countered that it had been necessary to make the capture of Elan look credible, and also revealed to the commander that, due to a concealed villip the priestess had managed to keep with her, they knew where Elan was being held: the planet of Wayland. In an effort to make it seem as if the Yuuzhan Vong did not want Elan in the hands of the enemy, where she could give them important information, Anor led a small raid on Wayland, targeting Elan's position in particular. After a single assassin attacked the safehouse the priestess was being held in, Anor sent around a half a dozen coralskippers to conduct strafing runs on the city of New Nystao, the location of the safehouse. Located in a gunship out of the action on the edge of the Wayland system, Anor instructed his fighters to only try hard enough to convince the New Republic that the invaders wanted the priestess dead and buried. Anor's mission succeeded in this aspect, as the unsuccessful attack prompted the New Republic to put more effort into keeping Elan safe.

Around that time, Anor had several meetings, while disguised as a intercessor, with the Hutt Borga, who represented the interests of the Hutts in the are of the galaxy known as Hutt Space. Due to his guise as the intercessor between the Yuuzhan Vong and the Hutts, Anor discovered that the species was more interested in reaching an agreement with the invaders than waging war on them. Through the negotiations with Borga, the Executor also managed to have one of the Hutt's many worlds put at the disposal of the Yuuzhan Vong. After the raid on Wayland, Anor was present on Harrar's ship, once again over Obroa-skai. There, along with Harrar, Tla, and the tactician Raff, Anor met with Commander Malik Carr, who had recently arrived in the Wayland system with a contingent of battleships.

As the others reported various details about the campaign against the New Republic to Carr, Anor informed him of the state of the Hutts, and how he suggested that a detour should be made into Hutt Space; Anor also related that he had tasked several of his agents with sowing bits of disinformation prior to the Yuuzhan Vong's arrival there. During that meeting, a herald approached the group carrying a villip, and, after having one of his personal villips brought forth, used that one receive a message from one of his underlings. That agent informed the disbelieving Executor that the Peace Brigade had taken it upon themselves to free Elan, and bring the priestess back to their allies. They had managed to obtain the whereabouts of Elan, something Anor had not been able to do, and were moving against the passenger liner Queen of Empire, which was headed for the Bilbringi system. Anor's underling also informed the Executor that the Peace Brigade elements involved in the planned attack had a dovin basal.

Anxious to prevent the Peace Brigade from messing with their plans, Anor appropriated the quickest of Carr's frigates, which was Carr's personal ship, in order to stop them meddling. Arriving where the Queen of Empire had been pulled out of hyperspace by the capabilities of the Peace Brigade's dovin basal, Anor was in time to witness the group in the act of boarding the liner with a corvette. From Carr's personal ship, the Executor kept an eye on the corvette, as well as the three Martial-class shuttles that had launched from the corvette before docking on the Queen of Empire. Anor also managed to neutralize the Peace Brigade's dovin basal, and used his own dovin basal to prevent the corvette from leaving its docking position with the liner even if it tried; this was done to prevent the Peace Brigadiers from escaping with Elan, and to give more time for the New Republic's forces to recapture her.

The Executor kept in contact with Harrar and Carr, and informed them of the situation. The Commander ordered Anor to use his dovin basal as a remote, meaning it would be detached from the ship and left in space to complete its objectives. Just then, the Quasar Fire-class bulk cruiser Thurse from the New Republic arrived at the scene, in an attempt to rescue the liner and drive off the Yuuzhan Vong present there. Anor saw a way to make it appear that the Yuuzhan Vong had unsuccessfully tried to obtain Elan, and a way to get the Peace Brigade caught, which would put the deserting priestess back into the New Republic's hands. The Executor had his dovin basal launched as a remote, and the frigate's complement of coralskippers engaged the enemy, in a withdrawal from the Queen of Empire location that the agent sought to disguise as a defeat.

The Peace Brigade corvette made multiple calls to the Yuuzhan Vong to help aid then, but Anor and his crew refused to aid them. Still in contact Harrar and the others, Anor had his frigate commit a microjump when ever a group of enemy starfighters neared it in order to distance itself from their attacks. Although informed that his actions could be considered cowardly by Harrar, Anor kept it up, as he was doing what was necessary for the good of the plan. During the continued battle around the Queen of Empire, the modified New Republic freighter Millennium Falcon took it upon themselves to target the remote, and soon destroyed it, allowing the smaller of the Peace Brigade ships to un-dock from the liner. At Anor's orders, the pilots of the coral skippers behaved as if in a sudden disarray after the dovin basal was destroyed.

Free to leave the liner, the three Peace Brigade shuttles scrambled away from it, with two bearing towards one of the planets in the Bilbringi system, and the last heading for Anor's frigate. Knowing that they Peace Brigade had succeeded in apprehending Elan and where bringing her to them aboard that same shuttle, Harrar ordered Anor to hold the shuttle at bay. Using one of the onboard dovin basals, the frigate halted the shuttle in its tracks, and the Millennium Falcon soon linked up with the stricken shuttle in an attempt to regain possession of Elan; by then, the Peace Brigade corvette had broken away from the Queen of Empire, and was trying to escape. Anor let the freighter have a few moments docked with the shuttle, so that they could get Elan, before he decided to go after them, to convince the New Repbulic that the Yuuzhan Vong wanted the priestess back.

Using a microjump to bring the frigate practically on top of the Millennium Falcon, Anor had his vessel spew missiles at the freighter, though the majority missed on purpose. However, the crew of the Falcon soon caught on that the Yuuzhan Vong wanted them to keep Elan, so guessing that they would not try to shoot a freighter with Elan aboard to pieces, started to fly directly towards Anor's frigate. Flying as if intending to bring Elan back to the members of her race, the Millennium Falcon turned around before it got close to Anor's frigate, and proceeded to launch a single escape pod. The Executor was unable to obtain it however, and with the New Republic Freighter out from between the two cruisers, the Thurse opened fire upon the other vessel with all of its guns. Taking damage to his frigate, Anor was forced to withdraw from the system with no knowledge as to what had transpired on the freighter, and whether or not Elan and Vergere were alive nor not.

Back at Obroa-skai in Harrar's priest ship, Anor was present with the priest, Tla, Raff, and Carr as they reported the failure of their plan to high priest Jakan, Supreme Commander Nas Choka, and Prefect Drathul via villip. The group aboard the priestship explained that they did not know for certain whether or not Elan and Vergere were dead, but that they suspected that the pod launched from the freighter may have contained one or both of their operatives, in the case that the crew of the Millennium Falcon were attempting to send the priest and her pet back to the Yuuzhan Vong. Anor and the others had to answer for the failure of the mission, as well as the amount of capital that had been expended in the attempt. After being informed that the next stage of the Yuuzhan Vong invasion would involve Hutt Space, punishments and new assignments were handed out.

Harrar and Tla were recalled to the Outer Rim, while Carr was assigned to head the invasion into the Hutt territories. However, as Drathul wanted to speak with Anor alone, all of the others left the command center before the Prefect decided Anor's fate. He asked the Executor to explain what actually occurred, and Anor blamed Harrar's and Elan's inability to improvise on the outcome that occurred. Though Drathul did inform him that Anor was treading on thin ice in the eyes of Warmaster Tsavong Lah, the Prefect did not punish him. Before ending the conversation, Anor informed Drathul that a certain individual from the New Republic had reached out to them through the Executor's agents from Coruscant, and could prove to be a potential ally.

Involved with the Hutts
Working on the invasion of Hutt space, Anor accompanied Carr to the planet of Nal Hutta, where they were to meet Borga. Disguised via an ooglith masquer so as to appear as the Human intercessor Pedric Cuf, Anor and the Commander lingered for a long while in the waiting room of Borga's palace before they were allowed to have the audience with the Hutt. The wait, although it was a tradition, vexed both of the Yuuzhan Vong, and Carr was the more unhappy of the two. After they were informed by the Rodian majordomo Leenik that they were permitted to use Borga, Anor and the commander entered Borga's court alongside ten honor guards and ten attendants. Upon entering the court, the Executor, in the guise of Cuf, had some of the attendnets bring forth boxes that could tributes for the Hutt, and opened one of them himself. The dovin basal within prevented the antigravity couch Borga was lounging on from operating, sending both the Hutt and the couch onto the ground. Although Anor apologized for the mishap, as the dovin basal was really a gift, he succeeded in revenging themselves upon the Hutt for the long wait to see her.

After bestowing more gifts upon the Hutt, the group got down to business. It was decided after some discussion that the Yuuzhan Vong would be allowed to use certain worlds for gathering resources, while in turn the invaders would steer clear of important Hutt worlds such as Rodia, Ryloth, and Tatooine. However, the specific details of the deal were not to be settled until Borga met Choka at a later date. The Hutts would also help the Yuuzhan Vong transport their slaves in return no interference into the Hutts' business in spice trafficking. At the end of the meeting Borga asked, as Anor had predicted to Carr earlier, that the Hutts be informed of any activities that might affect spice trade on any worlds; this information would allow the Hutts to secretly sell the information on impending attacks to the New Republic for a price. However, as Anor knew that the Hutts were notorious for double dealings, the offer was accepted, so the Yuuzhan Vong could use the Hutts to distribute false data to the New Republic.

Anor later was present on the Yuuzhan Vong warship Yammka when Choka was welcomed aboard via a celebratory parade. Anor waited with Carr and his chief subalterns, and well as a group of priests, on a dais that was opposite the landing bay Choka had arrived in, and to which the Supreme Commander was proceeding. After Choka had reached the dais, he escalated four of the subalterns there&mdash;Doshao, Sata'ak, Harmae, and Tugorn&mdash; for their various deeds in the invasion. The subalterns were given command cloaks, and, following the short ceremony, Choka called forth Anor before he got to the business at had, which was discussing the invasion. The Supreme Commander surprised the Executor by saying that he favoured the demotion of the latter, due to Anor's alliance with the Praetorite Vong, and his failure in the bo'tous plot that had most likely resulted in Elan's death. Anor countered most of Choka's grievances with him with excuses, and informed his superior of the plot by him and Carr to strike a crippling blow to the New Republic through the use of the Hutts. Before allowing them to fill him in on the details, Choka question how far the Executor's ambition would take him.

In his guise as Pedric Cuf, Anor taught some rudimentary lessons of the Yuuzhan Vong language to Borga during the while that he worked as the intercessor between the Hutts and his race. The Executor also accompanied Choka, along with Carr, to the Supreme Commander's first meeting with the Hutt. Still disguised as the intercessor, Anor observed as Choka dismissed the Hutt's offer of helping with the transport of slaves, and as he proceeded to show Borga that the Yuuzhan Vong were the ones in control. Anor also watched the standoff that ensued between the two sides' guards after Choka insulted Borga for speaking out of line, though the Hutt backed down.

Through the use of his plan, which involved the Hutts passing on to the New Republic combat information sent to them from the Yuuzhan Vong, the Executor managed to mislead the other government. By telling the Hutts to stop their spice movements in the Tynnani system, so they did not get caught in any combat engagements, and then attacking the world, Anor managed to make it seem as if the information the Hutts was giving to the New Republic was good intelligence. The Yuuzhan Vong also told the Hutts to stop spice trafficking in the areas surrounding the worlds of Bothawui and Corellia, making it seem as if those two worlds were prime targets to the New Republic. When the Hutts were informed that they could once again go in to the spice business near Bothawui, the New Republic decided that the enemy's target was Corellia, and arrayed its fleets in a position that left the world practically unguarded, with battleships positioned a short distance from the system. This was in the hopes that the New Republic would be able to spring a trap upon the Yuuzhan Vong.

In making the New Republic think that Corellia was the target, Anor managed to disguise the real objective of the Yuuzhan Vong: the New Republic shipyards of the Colonies' world of Fondor. At a time where Anor's plan was coming to a close, the Executor was present on Choka's battleship while it was in Hutt Space. There, he, Carr, and Choka learned that the Crèche, the Yuuzhan Vong vessel that was carrying the yammosk for the assault on Fondor, had been attacked by enemy starfighters, and, in trouble, had fled to the targeted world of Fondor. Choka decided to launch the attack early, as the Crèche was unprotected at Fondor, and Anor accompanied the supreme commander as they headed for battle in the Fondor system. At Fondor, the Yuuzhan Vong battleships mauled the enemy contingent there and destroyed much of the shipyards. New Republic reinforcements soon arrived, mostly in composed of elements of the Hapes Consortium's fleet, though the battle that might of occurred was cut short by a blast from Centerpoint Station, an ancient artificial construct in near Corellia.

The beam of energy from Centerpoint destroyed half of the Yuuzhan Vong armada at Fondor, but also took out three quarters of the Hapan ships. Only moments later, Anor and the others on Choka' ship, still shocked at the destruction, were contacted by Chine-Kal, the commander of the Crèche. Before dying, Chine-Kal informed them that New Republic personnel had boarded his ship after the Hutts had told them the location of the vessel, and had freed captives before killing the yammosk with the help of the Hutt Randa, who had been aboard the Crèche at the time. Seeing a score to settle with the Hutts, and having fulfilled their objective at Fondor, Choka had the fleet depart the system.

Duro
Anor was disgraced because of the plans of his that never fully fulfilled their purpose, such as the debacle involving Elan. Because of this, the Executor was sent to undercover to the heavily polluted New Republic world of Duro by Warmaster Lah. There, he disguised his self as Duros researcher Dassid Cree'Ar, seemingly working with other SELCORE scientists to make the uninhabitable surface of Duro a haven for refugees from the war. However, his real task while stationed on Duro was to help the Yuuzhan Vong claim the planet for their own. Anor contact's on Coruscant, Senator Viqi Shesh, the one who had reached out to them earlier, agreed to ship vessels full of refugees to Duro to give the Yuuzhan Vong more captives when they took the world; as Pedric Cuff, Anor had maintained communications with Shesh. In 26 ABY, Anor contact Lah via villip aboard the warmaster's battleship Sunulok to report that more refugees had come to Duro. Lah also commanded him to watch for potential worthy sacrifices for when the Yuuzhan Vong arrived at Duro.

Anor worked in the Gateway dome, which was located on the surface of the planet. Gateway served as the research complex, and was overseen by Organa Solo, who had Force powers. While stationed on Duro, Anor's agents reported to him that Jedi Knights Jaina and Jacen Solo were present on Duro as well, in Gateway's companion dome Settlement 32, bringing the total number of known Jedi on Duros up to three for the Yuuzhan Vong. The same day that the Executor became aware of their presence, Anor informed Lah by villip of the Jedi's arrival. He also told the warmaster of his plan to test out a new creation of his that was designed to take apart the domes present on Duro on Settlement 32. After being convinced that Settlement 32 was the right target, Lah had Anor avoid the presence of any Jedi, escpeically Organa Solo, as the Force users had a knack for seeing through disguises, such as the gablith masque Anor was using to appear like a Duros.

Due to his inability to be near Organa Solo, Anor never attended the meetings that took place between the researchers. On more than one occasion, the disguised Executor excused himself from his attendance of the meeting via a commlink. The absence of Cree'Ar from their meetings infuriated many of the other researchers. However, the Yuuzhan Vong agent did contribute to the reclamation effort on Duros. The Executor fixed ever single one of the problems that the other researchers and scientists sent to him, and the others believed that it was due to his time spent on these was why Cree'Ar had not contributed in his own assigned area. The miracles that delighted the other researchers in Gateway were due to the small organisms that helped Anor create a lair for himself underneath the artificial dome by carving a side tunnel of a main shaft out of solid rock. Anor disposed of organisms when they had died in the toxic swamps surrounding Gateway, and the decomposition of them released the bacteria in their guts, which started the process of Duro's terraforming.

As a precaution, Anor widened cracks in the ceiling near his lair via the use of immature naotebe winglings, which were designed by Anor to dissolve and eat building substances. He then filled those cracks with other organisms, which would inflate like a wedge at his command and thus bring spans of tunnel ceiling down if necessary. In time, Anor had immature naotebe winglings insterted into Settlment 32, where they grew up as they consumed the synthplas that the dome was made up of. Anor's objective was to breach holes in the dome via his creatures' nibbling, and expose the occupenents of Settlement 32 to the toxic atmosphere of Duro. When the winglings matured, they succeeded in breaching the dome, though Jaina and Jacen managed to get everyone onto a landcrawler and the group escaped to Gateway.

During his time disguised as Cree'Ar, Anor regularly sent words of wisdom that preached of independence for the Duros via a progress report of the scientific doings on the surface to at least on of the space cities that orbited the planet. His words were spread by individuals such as Ducilla Brarun on the space city of Bburru Station. However, despite Anor's precautions of not meeting with Organa Solo, the Executor's real identity was eventually discovered. Jade Skywalker, who had arrived on Duro along with her husband to investigate the disappearance of a Jedi apprentice by the name of Thrynni Vae, found an old Rhommamoolian code in the regular report that was sent from the scientists of the surface and started to track it to its source after discovering Anor's words of wisdom contained within. Accompanied by Jaina, Jade Skywalker eventually discovered the whereabouts to Cree'Ar's lair after harassing his aides, and the two Jedi found the disguised agent there.

The two Jedi confronted Cree'Ar there, but neither at first suspected that he was not who he said he was. However, while Jade Skywalker, disguised as a Kuati baroness with Jaina as her servant, flattered Cree'Ar about his work on Duros, Jaina sensed that the researcher was not present in the Force. Knowing that no presence in the Force could indicate a Yuuzhan Vong, the young Jedi used the force to touch the release point of Anor's masquer, and the creature slipped of the agent's body, revealing him as Anor. The agent however, held his ground, and revealed to Jade Skwalyer that he had been the one to poison her with the coomb spores. The Executor also threatened to infect the pair with the coomb spores contained within a beaker if they moved, but when Jade Skywalker feinted at him with her lightsaber, he instead fled via a back entrance to the lair.

However, instead of following Anor through that entrance, the pair of Jedi went back the way they came in an attempt the head of the agent, as they believed that a trap had been set in Anor's wake. Consequently, Jaina and Jade Skywalker fell afoul of the ceiling trap the Executor had place earlier, after the pair were buried beneath tons of ceiling debris, Anor believed them dead. Shortly afterwards, the Executor reported to Lah, who was aboard the Sunulok. The agent informed the warmaster that he had successfully taken down Settlement 32, and that agents of his aboard Bburru had detained Jacen, who the Yuuzhan Vong had marked as a coward as he had seemingly deserted the Jedi cause in the war. Anor also informed Lah that he had killed Jaina and Jade Skwalker, though the warmaster was a bit displeased at this due to the fact that his priests had finally decided that Jedi were worth sacrificing to the gods. Lah also raised doubts on the death of the pair of Jedi, though Anor still strongly believed that they had met their demises, and requested that Jacen by sedated so he could be broken and studied. In preparation for the arrival of the Yuuzhan Vong, Anor had arranged for riots to happen on Bburru City just before the event, and for the planetary shields to be sabotaged. Anor related this to Lah, in addition to the fact that he had promised that the Duros' floating cities would remain untouched if they laid down their weapons, which was a lie on Anor's part. However, despite Anor's belief that Jaina and Jade Skywalker had died in the trap, they survived, and the secret of Cree'Ar's true identity was revealed to a select few.

Anor lived up to his promises to Lah, and the shields of Bburru, Orr-Om, and another floating city were sabotaged prior to the Yuuzhan Vong arrival, leaving them vulnerable to attack. At around the time that Lah's forces arrived at Duro, Anor revealed his true self to his fellow researchers, who had not been informed of the Cree'Ar's deception. Anor told the scientists that the ones who were found by the Yuuzhan Vong invasion force still working on taking the toxins out of the soil would be specially awarded. However, even though the Executor offered full amnesty, two of the researchers refused to work any further. Additionally, Anor offered them positions helping the Yuuzhan Vong with their research, though all declined.

While the Duros in orbit laid down their arms after several of the sky cities were destroyed, the Yuuzhan Vong landed a ground force on the surface, led by Lah himself. Free of the masquer, Anor led Lah toward the laboratory in Gateway after the landing force had taken it for their own. Anor's path led them past where his former co-workers, minus the two who refused to work anymore, were diligently toiling away, before brining the warmaster to a small building. There, Lah questioned as to why the researchers would want to escape their destiny by being offered amnesty and mercy. After Anor explained that they did not understand death, Lah decided to give the researchers what they deserved for their work: a ritual killing. As such, the warmaster had researchers brought to the room, and the scientist Abbela Oldsong was one of the researchers who perished there.

Shortly after Organa Solo caused a brief distraction with the help of Jaina and Jacen that allowed some of the captives to escape the custody of the Yuuzhan Vong, several warriors captured her in a stairwell in Gateway. Anor was there when Organa Solo regained consciousness after being knocked out, and, taking her lightsaber, led her under guard to her own office quarters, where Lah was currently located. The Executor observed as Lah dominated the administrator of Gateway in an agreement on life and death, before threatening here with an imminent demise. However, Organa Solo was put away in a secure room, whose only other occupant was the Hutt Randa, before she and Randa were brought into Anor's and the warmaster's presence. However, after Lah had finished showing her the death of a portion of the refuges in Gateway, along with the destruction of all technological devices, from the room's window, Randa used his tail to overwhelm his guards.

Organa Solo rushed Anor, attempting to regain control of her lightsaber to free herself. However, although the administrator managed to get her hands on it in the confrontation with the agent, Lah grabbed the Jedi, ending her struggles as Anor kept the lightsaber; while this was happening, the priestess Vaecta strangled Randa with a tkun garrote. As a trio of Yuuzhan Vong musicians played music, Anor looked on as Organa Solo was restrained, and as her legs were lacerated by Vaecta with a tkun. The administrator was saved, to Anor's surprise, Jacen, who he believed still held by his agents on Bburru, dispatched the two guards at the entrance to the chambers and interrupted his mother's torture. As Jacen dueled the warmaster, Anor slipped out of the room, as some of the Yuuzhan Vong watchers had indicated that another Jedi approached.

In the duel, Jacen created a whirlwind with the objects in his mother's quarters via used of the Force, and Lah was thrown out of the window. Shortly after Lah landed on the ground outside, Anor arrived beside the warmaster, and although Lah tried to accuse his agent of cowardice, Anor quickly asserted that it had been prudent to leave with the other Jedi coming. Despite the efforts of the Yuuzhan Vong, a portion of the refugees escape Duro with the help of the Jedi while all but the floating city of Urrdorf were destroyed by the invaders. Later, after a small delegation of Duros and Humans landed at the remnants of Gateway, Anor stood by as Lah demanded from them the name of the young Jedi who had defeated him in the duel: Jacen Solo. The warmaster then turned his attention to the Executor, and proclaimed that his penance for his earlier failures was over. Although Anor gloated at this, he was not given a promotion that he expected.

Lah then brought all of his forces in a grand circle around the burning pit that filled the center of Gateway, and during his speech, the warmaster publicly stated that Anor`s punishment was over, and that he would be sent to a new location, a fact which confused the agent. The Executor surrendered Organa Solo`s lightsaber to Lah at the latter`s request, and observed as the warrior used a special villip to communicate with the New Republic. He demanded that they turn over the Jedi to him, especially Jacen Solo. If the citizens of the New Republic did so, Lah would halt the invasion, instead of pushing forward into the Core Worlds. Lah then threw the lightsaber into the pit to be consumed by flames.

Among the Givin
Anor soon met with Warmaster Lah to discuss another one of the Executor's schemes. With Lah's crèche-brother Qurang Lah standing by, Anor explained how the system housing the planet of Yag'Dhul was a perfect spot for a new assault against the New Republic. Despite Qurang Lah counseling the warmaster that it would be ill-advised to break the temporary cease fire between the two sides, so that the shipwomb at Sernpidal might produce more vessels, the Executor persuaded his superior to endorse the attack. However, Lah first forced Anor to make excuses for why the Executor's agents had not brought the warmaster Jacen Solo. In the end, Anor was assigned to advise Qurang Lah, who was to lead the battlegroup destined for Yag'Dhul, partially because the number of Jedi turned over to the Yuuzhan Vong had decreased, and due to the fact that Lah wanted revenge for the Jedi victory on the moon of Yavin 4. Lah also advised Anor to not fail him, lest the Executor suffer the consequences of doing so.

In preparation for the attack against Yag'Dhul, the home of the highly intellectual Givin race, disguised himself as one of them via a gablith masquer. While among the Givin on the space station of Yag'Dhul Station, Anor's inability to speak properly, even with the help of the translating tizowyrm, with other Givins because of the way that they expressed themselves with mathematical equations meant that many of the Givin aboard the station suspected that Anor was not who he said he was. However, with the help of his local agents, the Executor retained his disguise as a Givin in the eyes of those who did not suspect him. This reliance on other people annoyed Anor, as he would rather have remained independent. To make matters worse, the Rodian Jedi Kelbis Nu visited the station, and recognized Anor as a Yuuzhan Vong

The Executor dealt with this by having his Peace Brigade contacts track and kill the Jedi. This they did, on the world of Eriadu, though the dying Jedi managed with his last breath to tell a pair of Jedi&mdash;Anakin Solo and Tahiri Veila&mdash;the word Yag'Dhul, informing them of danger there. While on Yag'Dhul Station, Anor was contacted by villip by Qurang Lah, while the Executor was in his sleeping quarters. Anor learned that the Stalking Moon, the Yuuzhan Vong reconnaissance vessel using a cloaking shadow and the one tasked with arriving in the Yag'Dhul system first, was out of contact with Lah's fleet. This, along with the enemy ship that had chanced upon the Yuuzhan Vong fleet waiting for the signal to attack Yag'Dhul before being destroyed, caused the warmaster's crèche brother to believe that Anor's plan was coming apart. Tasking himself with discovering why the Stalking Moon was out of contact, Anor ended the conversation, but not before the Executor once again realized that Qurang Lah was resentful of him; this mattered, because Anor relied on the warmaster's crèche brother, as all of the warriors were loyal to him, not the agent.

In preparation for the attack on Yag'Dhul, renegade members of the Body Calculus, the government of the Givin, sabotaged the defensive grids of Yag'Dhul so that they would fall just before the attack. However, the Stalking Moon had actually been commandeered Jedi Knight Corran Horn, as well as Anakin Solo and Veila, and they managed to forewarn the Givin of the imminent attack, and the sabotage of the defensive grids. Initially confined and told to wait after telling their tale, the trio were brought before Dodecian Illiet, who was in command of the space station after the attack commenced. Illiet unknowingly assigned the disguised Anor to take the trio of Jedi to get vac suits, as the Givin were going to open the space station to the vacuum, before they boarded a small vessel that had been set aside for their escape from the embattled space station.

Anor took the Jedi through the corridors of the station, and finally down a turbolift. At the bottom, Solo sensed the presence of six Yuuzhan Vong warriors, through the lambent crystal in his lightsaber, and he and the others ignited their weapons moments before the door opened to reveal five warriors. Solo, realizing that one Yuuzhan Vong was unaccounted for, turned towards the disguised Anor, but the agent managed to punch the young Jedi in the nose, sending him tumbling out of the lift and taking Horn into the corridor with him. Veila jumped into position alongside her comrades, and both she and Solo knocked the five warriors to the ground with a Force push followed up by a barrage of cylinders from a corner. Anor, however, stepped back from the two groups, and after being unaffected by the Jedi's attack upon the warriors, laughed as he took his masquer off, and as more warriors arrived.

Anor told the Jedi that they were his captives now, and that Solo, though he was not Jacen Solo, was worth more after his exploits on Yavin 4. The trio disagreed with the Executor's first point, and Horn tried to arranged a duel with Anor, so that the agent could prove that he was not afraid to fight with the Jedi. Anor declined the offer because he claimed his duties prevented him from doing so, which caused Veila, who had been a test subject for shapers on Yavin 4 and had learned their language, shouted at the warriors facing them. The warriors, who did not have tizoworms, and could not understand the language of Galactic Basic Standard, were shocked to learn that Anor had declined an offer to duel from Horn, who had slain Shai on Ithor earlier in the war. Although Anor shouted himself hoarse trying to stop the warriors from engaging in the duel, the lead warrior Shok Choka readied himself to duel Anakin Solo, not Horn, as Veila had convinced the warriors that they would be cowards unless they fought against the Jedi who had sided with the shamed warrior Vua Rapuung on Yavin 4.

However, Solo slew Choka in the duel, and escaped the warriors. It was at that moment that the Givin opened the station to the vacuum, and this forced the warriors to break off their search fro the Jedi to retrieve ooglith cloakers, without which they could not survive; the Executor acquired one of these as well. Anor confronted Qau Lah, the new leader of the Yuuzhan Vong warriors on the station, and a pair of others at the organic docking tube that connected the vessel the warriors had come in to the Givin's spacestation. He was angry that the Jedi had slipped out of their grasp, and how they had not yet been found, though Lah was contemptuous of him for refusing to duel Solo. As the trio of warriors left to continue their search for the Jedi on the station, Anor lifted a blaster used by the enemy of his people, and proceeded to shoot all of the warriors, starting with Lah. The agent then set off and eliminated the other warriors who had seen him refuse to duel the Jedi, in order to prevent a report of that reaching Qurang Lah's ears.

The Executor was later contacted by Lah while on his ship, and was informed that the entire Yuuzhan Vong attack force had been recalled from Yag'Dhul. Furious, Anor demanded to know why, and was told that the Yuuzhan Vong shipwomb at Sernpidal at had been assualted by New Republic forces. Because the Yuuzhan Vong reserves had been committed to Yag'Dhul, only a few elements had been left to guard the shipwomb, and due to the distance of Yag'Dhul from Sernpidal, the Yuuzhan Vong forces there would not be able to defend the shipwomb in time. Anor was could not believe that the attack had happened, as his sources had not heard of word of an attack against Sernpidal. After pinning the failure on Anor, Lah asked to speak with Choka. However, Anor told him that all of them had been killed by the Jedi, and he was the only survivor. Lah ended the conversation by stating that the warmaster would hear about the incident in detail.

A trip to Belbringi
In 27 ABY, Anor was sent as an emissary by Lah to the Bilbringi Shipyards, where Yuuzhan Vong forces had correctly guessed Organa Solo would be. Anor sent a message anonymously to the staff at the shipyards claiming that he wished to discuss the fate of some refugees. Although Anor refused to reveal how he knew Organa Sol was at Bilbringi, the New Republic personnel accepted, and the agent arrived at the shipyards in a picket ship; in preparation for the arrival of the Yuuzhan Vong emissary, the New Republic had made it look like the facilities were decrepit and not producing much in the ways of ships to fool the Yuuzhan Vong into thinking Bilbringi was an unworthy target to assault. Anor has a chilab organism in his nose, and upon arrival, it got a good view of the shipyards at Bilbringi. When he arrived at the station, Anor was made to wear a watchcloak with a hood, and his artificial eye was confiscated. The only thing he was allowed to bring into the interrogation chamber, besides himself, was a small villip, which had been thoroughly examined for dangerous substances.

The interrogation chamber itself consisted of a room, that could be opened to the vacuum with a touch of a button, with one wall that featured a transparisteel panel, through which Anor could talk to his interrogators. Organa Solo, who was to lead the discussion, only found out that it was Anor who was the emissary when the Executor lowered his hood. Guving no finite answers as to how the Yuuzhan Vong had known that Organa Solo and her husband would be at Bilbringi, the agent proceeded to show those looking through the transparisteel an image of the cruiser Nebula Chaser via his villip. Explaining that the image was a live feed, Anor offered to trade the ship for information that would help the Yuuzhan Vong, but Organa Solo flatly refused to negotiate with the likes of Lah. Anor specified the request: the location of the secret Jedi base. However, when Organa Solo denied the existence of it, the villip depicted the live destruction of the Nebula Chaser, killing those on board.

Explaining that those of board had died because of the presence of Jedi on the Nebula Chaser, the agent threatened that more lives would be lost unless the Jedi surrendered to the Yuuzhan Vong. Anor further elaborated that his race had put emplace a blockade around the world of Talfaglio, and if the Jedi surrendered, the refugee convoys being held there would not be destroyed; if Anor did not return from his mission, the refugees would be all killed as well. However, both Organa Solo and her husband did not take kindly to the offer, and they let a bit of vacuum into the room as a surprised Anor yelled at them that they would kill millions. Though they resealed the room, allowing Anor to readjust to the pressure inside, the pair told him that they would not be responsible for deaths of those they did not kill, and that further emissaries would not return to Lah. Anor then took his leave.

Later, on the world of Obroa-skai, Anor met Lah at the Museum of Applied Photonics, and was escorted in. Although Anor did not personally find the sight of the metal and other technologies used by the "infidels" they were fighting offensive, he made it look like they did. Anor found Lah in a chamber which held kilometer long ropes and treads that were all tangled together in a mass. The warmaster used a holopad to summon a life size image of an enemy X-wing starfighter from the mass of threads, which hovered above Lah and opened fire. All of the occupants of the room, save Lah and Anor ducked for cover. Although Anor did not believe that holographic devices were a danger, Lah asserted that a coralskipper pilot could easily be fooled by an illusionary X-wing. After Lah briefly reprimanded Anor for failing so often, the Executor handed the chilab over, following the removal of it from his nose.

Although the Executor was confident that the Jedi would react to the ultimatum issued by Lah, the newly arrived Vergere thought that the Jedi would smell the trap; Vergere had survived the Elan debacle, and after learning much about the enemies of the Yuuzhan Vong, had become Anor's greatest rival. The three discussed the reaction of Organa Solo to the destruction of the Nebula Chaser, and the brief exposure to vacuum Anor had received at her request. Anor, who tried to make his report seem as if the agent was in control of the interrogation at the shipyards, claimed that Organa Sol had yielded to the fact that her actions against Anor would kill millions, but Vergere instead asserted that she had refused to take blame. When asked why the Princess of the world Alderaan had spared his life, Anor lied that it was because she was sending him off with a warning, and not because she had promised to let him go. Despite how the Jedi were proving to be cunning foes, the warmaster believed that the refugees would be able to drive the New Republic and the New Jedi Order apart. Over the course of the time that Anor and Vergere were both advising Lah, they frequently insulted one another, in the midst of doing their duties of interpreting and offering advice to the warmaster.

Emmisary on Coruscant
After being summoned to Lah's private warren aboard the Sunulok, the agent slashed himself hastily in multiple locations to look devout, before heading over to the warmaster's location. Permited to enter by a sentry, the Executor did so, and was greeted by the sight of both Lah, who was talking to a villip, and Anor's new rival Vergere. Lah addressed Anor after momentarily ceasing his conversation with the person on the other end of the villip connection&mdash;Senator Shesh&mdash; and finding Anor bloodied, gave the agent a thorn seat to sit on, so that he could finish the devotions that the summoning had interrupted. Seated on the thorns, which bit into his back and buttocks, Anor listened to a briefing by Shesh after Lah had told her of Anor's presence in the room; Shesh herself had quickly bypassed Anor and taken her services straight to Lah as soon as she could.

Shesh reported how Jacen Solo had proposed a plan to ambush the blockade of Talfaglio, and how she had persuaded Bothan Chief of State Borsk Fey'lya to permit a military study. She also informed them Fey'lya had also asked for an envoy of the Yuuzhan Vong to come speak with them, purely to give more time for the military study to run its course. After the conversation with Shesh had ended, Lah tasked Anor with being the envoy that would go to Coruscant, purely because he did not trust the accuracy of Shesh's report. Vergere's protest that he should not go, supposedly because Anor had caused the New Republic too much trouble and the Chief of State would not be allowed to talk to him, was overruled. Lah also gave the thorn seat to Anor as a gift.

In preparation for his arrival on Coruscant, Anor, known to Fey'lya as only the emissary, finalized the details with the Bothan. Though the Chief of State wanted to receive the Yuuzhan Vong emissary in the State Reception Hall where both sides could script their coming conversation, Anor wanted Fey'lya to meet his as the agent disembarked from his ship. Because of the disagreement, Anor as the emissary, compromised with the Bothan to meet him in the Grand Convocation Chamber of the Senate Building, where all the citizens of the galaxy could watch as the two conversed in an unscripted event. Wearing a hooded cloak and a set of red vonduun crab armor, Anor walked slowly down the stairs that led to the chamber's center, unescorted by bodyguards of any type and welding onloy a single amphistaff. Anor ignored the senators that jeered at him, and those that offered private meetings with the emissary after approaching him. When the Togorian delagestes threw a group of cag mugs at him, the Executor responded by glaring at the security droids that stopped the thrown items from hitting him.

After Anor reached the floor of the chamber, he was met by Fey'lya after he descended from the chief of state's console, alongside Shesh and Fyor Rodan, both members of the New Republic Advisory Council. It was only then that Anor threw off his hood, revealing himself as the emissary to the all the senators present, and all those watching. Fey'lya and Anor discussion the interdiction of the world of Taflaglio, and the Yuuzhan Vong's ultimatum in front of the occupants of the chamber. During the conversation, Anor used tactics of his to divide the entire Senate between those the Yuuzhan Vong could intimidate, and those who would not be. Fey'lya questioned the why the Yuuzhan Vong were valuing the Jedi so high, and cut Shesh out as she tried to announce that the New Republic had no control over the actions of the Jedi Knights.

The Bothan insulted the Yuuzhan Vong for not engaging the Jedi head on, and for hiding behind the lives of refugees, and Anor could not defend well against Fey'lya's point. The Chief of State proceeded to throw his cards in with the Jedi, though the Bothan had a history of not liking them, and suggested that the Jedi Order were well loved in Bothan space. As Anor was supplied with possible planets where the Jedi might reside, most of which had no populations present on them, the Bothan prevented the Executor from leaving the chamber to relay the places to his masters, forcing Anor to use a villip instead; Fey'lya wanted Anor to stay on Coruscant until he had explained the millions of hostages taken at Talfaglio.

Sometime later, and still on Coruscant, Anor addressed those present in the Grand Convocation Chamber, and the speech was streamed on the holonetworks all over the galaxy. As he had been denied the right to wear the uniform of a Yuuzhan Vong warrior, the agent was dressed in a cloak of living glistaweb, which could stop a blaster bolt if need be. From the speaker's podium, Anor had a public audience with Fey'yla, who demanded that the Executor explain the taking of the hostages. However, Anor only wanted to inform them that the deadline had been increased, and further shocked the audience by revealing the reason for this: seventeen young Jedi had been turned over to the Yuuzhan Vong by a citizen of the New Republic. It took many moments for the clamor produced due to Anor's revelation to die down enough for the agent to prove the capture by providing a list of the names of those captured.

Among the list was the three young Solos&mdash;Jaina, Jacen, and Anakin&mdash; which further shocked the audience at large. However, despite the Yuuzhan Vong emissary's control of the Senate at that moment, Shesh made Anor look like a bit of a fool after she criticized him for not knowing that Jaina and Jacen were twins, an important thing in the Yuuzhan Vong culture. Despite Shesh's attack at Anor, she later aided him in the debate, when the Bothan vainly sought to hide the time in which seventeen more Jedi would have to be turned over to the Yuuzhan Vong to save the hostages. For this, the Chief of State publicly defeated Shesh's political challenge, before sending the Calibop security member Mif Kumas and three security droids to arrest Anor for the attempt on the Bothan's life that had occurred before Anor's address, which the agent had nothing to do with as Shesh has planned it.

As Kumas neared Anor with a pair a stun cuffs, the agent extended both of his arms, before putting his wrists together and ripping off one of his little fingers. From the base of his finger spread a black cloud of vapor, quickly spreading out to engulf the droids, Anor, and the Calibop. The security droids only fired at the Executor after he shoved the base of his finger into the face of Kumas, but the glistaweb stopped those bolts. The black cloud continued to grow, and as it filled the chamber, it knocked unconscious all of the individuals inside it, as Anor made his escape, knocking down the protection droids and leaving his glistaweb robe there.

Assigned a mission
Having just come aboard the Sunulok after escaping from Coruscant, Anor was ordered to visit the Glory Room, where the warmaster sat on a cognition throne among the many blaze bugs that depicted the Yuuzhan Vong forces and those of their enemies in the entire galaxy. Complying, Anor passed through the blaze bugs, and then the apprentices and subalterns that surrounded Lah, before making his presence know to the warrior. Vergere congratulated Anor on his escape, but their conversation soon took a downward turn as the discussion skirted the topic of the assassination attempt that Anor had been blamed for, and one that Vergere had helped orchestrate. However, Lah stopped the bickering of the two just before Vergere was going to insult Anor, which would have mandated that Anor kill her. He turned the topics to whether Jacen and Jaina were actually twins, and Anor could not deny this fact, despite stating that twins were common appearance in the non-Yuuzhan Vong races.

When Lah began to get angry that he had not been informed that the two Solos were Twins, Anor risked much by commenting that it was good that Jacen had escaped Lah on Duro, for the sacrifice of both of the twins would be a great gift to the god Yun-Yuuzhan. This idea fixated Lah, and he agreed that the two Solos should fight each other in ritual combat to the death, an idea that Anor had further suggested. Anor even went so far as to smirk in Vergere's direction when Lah liked the iea, for the Fosh had disagreed with the plan. Sometime later, Anor found Vergere playing Lah in a game of dejarik, and he was aghast at how the Fosh had managed to survive suggested that the warmaster play an infidel game before he found out that the feathered being claimed that it would help Lah think like the Jedi.

As the Exquisite Death, the vessel on which the seventeen young Jedi were being transported, was a day overdue, Lah took Vergere's advice to think like the Jedi would. Concluding that the Jedi would strike at the target that threatened them the most, the warmaster ordered Anor to go to the worldship of Baanu Rass over the world of Myrkr; the Baanu Rass was the home of all of the cloned Jedi-hunting voxyn hounds, as the voxyn queen, the original subject, resided there. Lah tasked Anor with traveling to Myrkr aboard the frigate Ksstarr and eliminating the seventeen Jedi, save for the twins which he was ordered to bring back alive. The Executor was elated at this new task, as it was the most important assignment to date for him. However, as he backed towards the door, Vergere expressed her doubts about his abilities to Lah, and Anor overheard those comments.

Lah called to Anor before he left the room entirely, and after Anor accidently insulted the warmaster for trusting Vergere, Lah grew tired of the bickering of the two. Thus, he had Vergere accompany Anor on his mission, despite the protests of the Fosh. During the mission, both would fail, or both would succeed, and they would need to work together to make sure that happened. For the mission to Myrkr, Anor was not permitted to use his plaetrin bol, so he was forced to leave his one eye socket empty. Anor was also not to contact Lah himself until his mission was complete.

A reluctant alliance
The Ksstarr arrived near Myrkr shortly after the Jedi team that had escaped Yuuzhan Vong custody had made landfall on the worldship. Anor and Vergere, along with over a hundred and four warriors from the frigate, descended to the Baanu Rass in a shuttle, and landed in a port on the worldship's surface. Upon exiting the shuttle, Anor and Vergere conferred with a warrior who had seen the team earlier, and he pointed the Executor in the direction where the Jedi were currently: the detention warren near the port. Anor and Vergere then began to pursue the Jedi team with One Scourge, one of the three companies of warriors from the Ksstarr, as the Jedi entered the training course for the voxyn.

Anor and the group tracked the Jedi into a swampy area that was located along the floor of the canyon that was the training area for the voxyn. However, it was there among the trees in the swamp that Anor's contingent of warriors was ambushed by the Jedi team. With his warriors getting picked off by fragmentation grenades and blaster fire, Anor, positioned at the back of the pack, started to yell into his shoulder-villp. Anor too would have succumbed to the ambush, had it not been for Jacen's indecision that delayed his blaster shot long enough for Vergere to drag Anor behind cover. The surviving warriors of One Scourge took cover behind the trees in the swamp, and began to fire back at the Jedi with their own weapons, but Jacen drew over a half dozen voyxn to their position by opening himself to the Force. After the voxyn reached the location of the battle, Jacen manipulated the voxyn to attack everything in the water, as the Jedi team had climbed up the trees.

The combination between the voxyn and the Jedi's long range weapons proved fatal for all of Anor's warriors in One Scourge, leaving Vergere and Anor with no support; the Jedi killed the voxyn that Jacen had summoned not long after the warriors were slain. Despite losing the initial engagement, Anor's forces and constant attacks on the Jedi team began to wear them down. However, although Anor's forces were initially ordered to capture the strike team alive if possible, once the Jedi got closer to the location of the voxyn team, the Yuuzhan Vong forces began to use more dangerous weaponry such as razor bugs. The Executor had his men ambush the Jedi team in the city where the Baanu Rass slaves were kept, after infiltrating disguised Yuuzhan Vong warriors among the slave populace. The resulting attack killed Jovan Drark and Eryl Besa, and seriously wounded Anakin before the team escaped.

After the slave city incident, Anor and the warriors of Two Scourge constantly harried the Jedi, staying just far enough behind the team's Barabels could not hear them, but close enough so that the Jedi were forced to keep moving, lest they be captured. This wore down the Jedi even more, as they could not stop to rest even for a bit. The pursuing warriors soon caught up to the Jedi, but the Jedi brought down a portion of the tunnel they were in with explosives, momentarily halting the Yuuzhan Vong advance, though the warriors that Anor led clambered over the ruble pile that had been created to engage the Jedi. Mines that had been planted earlier on the opposite side of the rumble pile went off then, killing more warriors, but not before the Barabel Jedi Bela Hara was slain. Despite the mound of bodies and ruble that now stopped the Yuuzhan Vong from advancing, Anor ordered his troops to crawl over the bodies to continue harassing the Jedi.

While the Executor was still in pursuit of the Jedi with Two Scourge, Lah contacted Anor via a villip. Anor informed Lah of the situation, and how even as he pursued the Jed with Two Scourge, the forces of Three Scourge lay in wait at the of a transit, where they would ambush the Jedi team. Lah emphasized the fat that the Solo twins were to be taken alive, as well as the fate that any warrior who took one of the Solo twins' lives would meet. Lah then ended the conversation with Anor, leaving the Executor to continue with his plan to catch the Jedi. However, the Jedi force outwitted Anor, hiding in a short access tunnel that led to an enormous feral voxyn den. Anor's forces from Two Scourge passed right by, partially because the pack of voxyn they had had initially with them had all been slain earlier by the Jedi, and thus no beasts alerted the warriors to the presence of the Jedi. Thus, the Jedi force was never hammered between Two Scourge and Three Scourge.

Over an hour after the Jedi escaped Anor's trap, they found a serviceable YV-888 freighter, by the name of Tachyon Flier, and repaired it enough so that it was once more space worthy. However, two Dark Jedi that were tagging along with the team after the Jedi rescued them stole the ship, taking along with them one of the wounded Jedi, and Anor's frigate the Ksstarr pursued it as it left the atmosphere of the Baanu Rass. It was then, after the YV-888 left the worldship, that the Jedi launched their attack on a grashal in which the voxyn queen was located. With the Jedi engaged with the warriors at the grashal, Anor and some of his forces arrived to back them up, with an artillery squad with magma spitters preventing the Jedi from escaping from the makeshift door they had created, while Anor's other troops approached the primary entrance.

Disguised as a sandy-haired Human, and wielding an E-11 blaster rifle, Anor entered the grashal through the primary entrance by slipping through the organic membrane there before any of his warriors did. Although he was spotted by Anakin, who was on the verge of dying and was only surviving by using the Force to keep himself moving and fighting, saw Anor, and although he saw through the disguise after a moment with the Force, the Executor fired upon the Jedi, and escaped. Despite Anakin's warning to the others that the Anor was going for the voxyn queen's pen, the agent made it there, and released the beast. Collecting a cargo pod full of voxyn tissue, that would be able to clone a million more voxyn, Anor dragged the pod toward the Jedi team's makeshift entrance in order to escape, as Anakin was currently engaging the Yuuzhan Vong warriors that had poured through the primary entrance.

However, before Anor escaped, Anakin, who was succumbing to the Force as he used it to kill the warriors, threw a thermal detonator, which hit the agent in the head. When he reached for the detonator, Anakin used the Force to move it out of Anor's reach, before the Jedi guided it under the cargo pod. With no time left before it exploded, Anor fled cursing, just as Anakin Solo fell to the warriors' attacks, and died. The cloning grashal itself did not survive the fight, putting another smear on Anor's record. However, although the Jedi team failed to kill the voxyn queen there, Anor did not succeed in capturing the twins at the grashal either. Shortly after the Jedi escaped, a portion of the team stole the Ksstarr assault shuttle, as well as the body of Anakin, which was until then in Yuuzhan Vong possession.

Following the voyxn queen
As both teams pursued the run away voxyn queen, Anor's frigate landed near where the Yuuzhan Vong had located her: in an underground abandoned insectile hive on the surface on the worldship. Disembarking from his ship alongside other members of his race, Anor met with a shaper near the position of the voxyn queen, whom they could not approach in the fear that it would run off. Vergere soon joined Anor and the shaper there, and a shouting match soon broke out between the three as they decided what to do about the voxyn queen and the stolen shuttle. However, their argument was broken off when the Ksstarr on the surface was assaulted by the stolen shuttle, piloted by Jaina. The resulting explosions sent Vergere scurrying away, and moments later, a cascade of ruble from the weakened ceiling landed around Anor and the shaper; the explosions also scared off the voxyn queen, and forced a portion of the Jedi team, who were watching the queen and the Yuuzhan Vong in the hive, to change positions momentarily.

By the time Anor had reached the edge of the fallen hive, the shuttle had been shot down by the grounded Ksstarr, cuasing the shuttle to crash with its Jedi occupants in it upon the Baanu Rass. While the shaper, who had also survived the fall of debris, went in search of the voxyn queen, Anor headed to the surface towards the position of his frigate. Upon reaching the surface, which had an atmosphere of its own to allow the breathing of sentient beings, Anor stripped some of the Ksstarr crew to arm a company of around fifty warriors before he approached the position of the crashed shuttle. The shuttle had landed in the center of a huge depression that housed a honeycomb-like formation of dovin basals, some alive, and others dead. The Executor and his group picked their way towards the position of the crashed shuttle, along the edges of the basal-comb, while the Jedi in the shuttle fired upon the warriors.

Only suffering the bolts and missiles for the Jedi position in order to capture Jaina, Anor witnessed the warrior in front of him being split apart by opposing blaster fire, but continued to advance. Meanwhile, the shaper managed to regain control of the voxyn queen, and escorted it to the frigate in order to keep it safe. However, before the shaper and the warrior escorts could bring it inside the frigate, Jacen, who was watching the events in the depression alongside some of the other Jedi, as well as Vergere, prompted the queen to flee the Yuuzhan Vong via use of the Force; Vergere has approached the Jedi team and was secretly aiding them in their pursuit of the voxyn queen. The beast escaped its captors, and proceeded to flee to the basal-comb, with both the shaper and Jacen in pursuit.

While Jacen's pursuit of the queen distracted the warriors guarding the Ksstarr, other members of the strike team seized control of Anor's frigate. Although harried by coralskippers and a Yuuzhan Vong corvette, the rogue Ksstarr evacuated all of the surviving Jedi team save for Jacen. With Jaina no longer in the shuttle to capture, Anor and his warriors instead headed for where Jacen was confronting the voxyn queen, all the while taking fire from his own ship, now in the hands of the Jedi. Meanwhile, Jacen killed the voxyn queen with a little help from Vergere, who had followed him after he had ran out after the queen. However, Vergere, who had just secretly aided the other side, restrained the young wounded Jedi from fighting against Anor and the others. As Anor's frigate was used to carry remnants of the Jedi team to safety, following a failed attempt to break through a screen of corvettes to rescue Jacen, the male Solo twin fell into Anor's clutches. Shortly after the capture of Jacen, Anor reported to Harrar, who had been sent to consecrate the twins for sacrifice, that although Jaina had escaped, she was still in the agent's reach.

Harrar later called on Anor to field another report through the use of a villip, and the Executor reluctantly complied with the request. Anor outlined the losses, including the death of the voxyn queen, and also had to inform Harrar and the warrior Khalee Lah that Jaina Solo had escaped with the survivors of the Jedi strike team aboard the Ksstarr, which was currently vectoring away from the Baanu Rass. However, the agent also stressed that Jacen had been captured, and that Anakin had been slain. After Harrar stated that it would be prudent for Anor not to take Jacen with him as he searched for Jaina, so that they might not telepathically communicate, Anor handed the job of pursuing Jaina to Harrar and his priestship, while he himself took Jacen back to the warmaster.

The World-Well
Following the capture of Jacen Solo, Anor, with Vergere's help, began the secret Solo Project, which had a goal of converting the young Jedi so he accepted the beliefs of the Yuuzhan Vong as his own. Aboard a small ship, Anor monitored Solo as he was subjected to an Embrace of Pain, in order to break his will, or let him begin to relish physical torment. Very early in into the initial stages of the project, the Executor predicted that the Jedi would indeed turn to the True Way, and he was proven right after Solo was in the Embrace of Pain for a significant amount of time. Anor furnished a report of the Embrace of Pain's analysis of Solo's brain chemistry, and while Anor ate from a sacworm full of dragweed broth, he listened to a drone relay the findings of Anor's report to Warmaster Lah via villip.

With Vergere in the room with him, Anor specifically waited for when Lah would become irate at the boring report from the drone, and this occurred when the drone began to compare Solo's data to three Yuuzhan Vong and their own data. While the drone scurried from the room, Anor began to offer his own interpretation of the data, in a much more clear and concise tone than the report that he himself had written. While depicting the earlier attempts to convert Jedi as failures, and the one where Veila had almost been turned into a Yuuzhan Vong a blasphemy, Anor reported that the Solo Project would indeed work, as the data from the Embrace of Pain showed that Solo was accepting the pain. Lah, however, was not sure why he would actually want Solo to believe in the True Way. Despite this, Anor managed to convince the Warmaster of the importance of Jacen Solo.

Anor emphasized the importance of the Solo family, how they had dominated the politics of the New Repulbic for many years, and lastly how they had inadvertently helped the Yuuzhan Vong invasion by defeating the Empire, which could have posed a problem to the invaders. The point that completely cemented the value of Solo's conversion was Anor's suggestion that a changed Jacen Solo would fulfill the Great Sacrifice by capturing his sister and taking her life. However, Lah took this in a more fanatic state of mind than Anor would have liked, and the warmaster declared that if Anor failed to bring this scenario to be, Anor would be sacrificed, despite the Executor's attempts to reason with the warmaster. Lah ended the villip conversation, and a slightly shaken Anor was left to confide with Vergere about the status of Solo's conversion.

As the Solo Project continued to take place, the young Jedi was moved from the Embrace of Pain, after he had learned to not fight against the pain, to the Nursery on a Yuuzhan Vong seedship. The Nursery was where infant dhuryams, destined to be world-coordinators, were raised as they learned to telepathically control slave gangs in the Nursery. Solo was placed into the Nursery among the slaves, and Anor and Vergere were keen to watch his interactions with the dhuryams. Anor and Vergere monitored Solo's progress has he first began to administer aid to the wounded slaves, and then as he became allies of sorts with one of the dhuryams. Sometime after Solo's introduction into the Nursery, the Executor and the Fosh observed the Jedi through the use of a viewspider, and Anor voiced his concerns of Solo's increased freedom to his co-conspirator.

As Anor had underestimated Jedi far too often, the agent was worried that the Jedi might possibly wreck havoc on the seedship, which was irreplaceable as it was full of gene samples from the Yuuzhan Vong's destroyed homeworld of Yuuzhan'tar. When Vergere tried to calm his fears, he waved her off, and out of the room, before ordering a special contingent of over a hundred warriors to go undercover in the Nursery via the use of masquers to guard against any attempt Solo might have of destroying the seedship. The Executor also decided to have his personal coralcraft prepped so it would be ready if he had to make a quick escapel, in the event that Solo did something unpredictable, and Anor was forced to deal with the consequences. It soon be came time for the tizo'pil Yun'tchilat, a ceremony in which one of the dhuryams would be chosen to be the World Brain of the world of Coruscant, which had fallen to the Yuuzhan Vong while Anor was occupied at Myrkr.

For the ceremony, while one of the yammosk' bretheren, a shreeyam'tiz, prevented the dhuryams from commanding their slaves groups as groups of guarded shapers evaluated the domains that each of the dhuryams had created up until then. During the ceremony, Anor watched Solo with the use of the viewing spider, and was amazed and annoyed by two things the Jedi did. Solo did not run to the coraltree basals in the area like the rest of the salves did after the dhuryams lost their control over the slaves, as the Jedi could indure the pain that came from not staying in physical contact with the coraltrees. Additionally, the Jedi had situated himself in a amphistaff grove, which would have usually killed anything, Yuuzhan Vong or not, that came inside it. The Executor was confused and agitated at Solo's behavior, as he knew that the Jedi was aware that all of the other slaves would be killed following the ceremony.

Despite Vergere assurances that it was good that Solo stood alone, as he was embracing the Yuuzhan Vong by not going to the other slaves, Anor did not trust that the Jedi had been converted. Fearing that Solo might in some way disrupt the important ceremony, the Executor communicated with the cloaked warriors in the Nursery and ordered them to capture Solo in the amphistaff grove, and to kill him if they could not apprehend him. The warriors were to then bring the bound Jedi to Anor's coralskipper, if Solo was still alive. Although Anor stood by his reasons of taking Solo out of the Nursery, Vergere questioned the command, and bid Anor pay close attention to Solo in the coming moments. Vergere was right: instead of being able to capture the young Solo, the Jedi instead lured one of the warriors who came to get him into the amphistaff grove to be ripped apart, before summoning multiple amphistaffs to form an armor for him so he could engage the heavy warrior squads coming for him.

Realizing that Solo was going to throw away his life, and make a scene doing so, Anor was so furious that he dashed his sacworm to bits. The Executor even briefly considered defecting to the enemy rather than face Lah's wrath at the death of Solo. Vergere however sought to remedy the situation, despite Anor's attempts to keep her away from the Jedi and not expose the Solo Project, pointing out that Solo could probably do more damage than killing a few warriors. Vergere's point was proven when through the viewing spider, they saw Solo race to engage the warriors head on. Solo took out a few of the warriors before being knocked unconscious, and Anor took this as a sign that the Jedi could now be constrained. However, Vergere once again asked to be let to go to the Jedi's side before more damage was done, and showed the Executor that the danger was not over in the Nursery, as the slave gangs were now engaging the warriors and slaughtering the warriors in there; Solo's real target had not been warriors but the shreeyam'tiz, which when destroyed had released the slaves to be once more telepathically controlled by the dhuryams.

When Anor realized this, he was aghast. The agent went into even more shock as the slaves controlled by the dhuryam that Solo had bonded with used spade rays as makeshift catapults to fling flammable sparkbee honey in order to set fire to much of the area surrounding the hive-island where the dhuryams dwelt. As the chaos progressed, the dhuryams not affiliated with Solo brought all of their slaves near the hive-island to defend themselves, and in doing so forced their slaves upon the surviving warriors that had formed a ring around the dhuryams. By then, as the coral tree basals were afire, Anor had descended into a dazed state, at how badly the ceremony was going, and because he knew that Lah would kill him for failing to keep the situation under control. It took a while to for Vergere to convince the dazed Anor that Solo's mission was not just to arouse chaos in the Nursery, and that he was heading for the hive-island to destroy some or all of the dhuryams.

Only after Anor witnessed, from the viewspider, Solo making his way through the frenzied slaves around the hive-island to kill his first dhuryam did this danger finally sink in. In order to save the seed ship and the dhuryams, Anor allowed Vergere to go to Solo. As soon as Vergere was gone, Anor sprinted for his coralcraft, in order to escape the chaos on the seed ship and save his life. Despite Solo's drive to kill the dhuryams, Vergere interceded before the Jedi could kill the dhuryam he had bonded with, though she failed to save the others. In this way, the surviving dhuryam became the World Brain for Coruscant, renamed Yuuzhan'tar by the Yuuzhan Vong as they began its terraforming. Solo also did not die, and was inserted onto Yuuzhan'tar in the seedfall, where the seedship that had held the Nursery deposited its valuable living cargo onto the plant to further change Coruscant into a representation of the original Yuuzhan'tar.

Because Vergere had managed to prevent the seedship's and one of the dhuryam's destructions, Anor was not faulted by Lah for dooming the Yuuzhan Vong's ability to create a new Yuuzhan'tar. Despite the mishap in the Nursery, Anor was still on board with the Solo Project, and thus continued to help Vergere. Around the time that the old Galactic Senate was being converted into the Well of the World Brain, to house the single surviving dhuryam so it could become the World Brain for the new Yuuzhan'tar, Anor bribed a shaper to grow a concealed coralcraft near the World Well, so that the agent could make a quick escape if he needed to. While the craft was growing, the agent secretly visited the coralcraft numerous times using a hidden hatch sphincter that was concealed in the outer coral of the World Well. During these visits, Anor allowed the craft to imprint itself to his mental signature so that only he would be able to use its pilot brain.

Weeks after the seedfall on Yuuzhan'tar, Anor, in helping with Vergere's conversion of Solo, went to order Master Shaper Ch'Gang Hool, who was in charge of the shaping of captured Coruscant, to throw all of his resources to catching Solo. During the meeting, the agent lied to the Master Shaper that he had been sent by Lah to order the capture of Solo, and showed him an image of Solo via a dwarf viewspider. It was during this meeting that the Master Shaper found out that Solo, who had almost destroyed the seedship, was alive and well on the world he was tasked with shaping for the first time, and this made Hool aghast. Though he at first resisted Anor's request from him as the Master Shaper believed himself to be too important, Anor got the shaper's attention by stating that he knew where Solo was at that moment, and what he was doing. In this way, Anor persuaded Hool to send troops out to catch the Jedi, which would aid in the conversion of Solo.

After Hool released the warriors to hunt for Solo, Vergere, who had been with the Jedi since the seedfall, accompanied the young Jedi as he fled from the warriors pursuing him. Vergere took the lead after a while, and led Solo down deep into the lower levels of Yuuzhan'tar, below where the original Jedi Temple has stood, and near to where a nexus of dark side energy existed. Anor and a dozen of Hool's warriors waited near that nexus in a darkened room, and Vergere brought Solo to them. When the lights in that room went on, Solo saw Vergere, who he believed to be on his side, consulting with the Executor, and the combination between this betrayal and the dark side energy close at hand caused the Jedi to unleash his anger. Solo hit Vergere with a blast of Force lightning, and when he could not do that to Anor and the other Yuuzhan Vong warriors, as they could not be reached by the Force, Solo channeled the power of a storm that was raging on the surface of Yuuzhan'tar. The wind that Solo summoned pelted the warriors and Anor as the later shouted orders to them before pushing them back into a corner of the room.

Solo then brought down the room's ceiling, and the resulting avalanche of rubble almost buried the Executor and his warriors, though they all miraculously were unharmed as the rubble proceeded to divide separate the Yuuzhan Vong from Solo and and the wounded Vergere. Vergere eventually made it over to where Anor and the warriors were, and proceeded to use her tears to heal her many scrapes and burns; Vergere had successfully manipulated Solo into using the dark side of the Force, thus opening him to both sides, and had explained the need to use both sides to Solo after the Jedi had come out of his raging attack. With Solo gone as he had run away, stricken that he had used the dark side for harm, Anor berated his Fosh companion for unleashing Solo in Basic, as he did not want the warriors to know that he was scared that he had almost died. Shaken from the near miss, Anor wondered how opening Solo to the dark side would aid in their primary objective of converting Solo. Verger, however, assured him that Solo has to first unlearn lies, and her actions had been done to further the goal of the Solo Project.

Vergere eventually tracked Solo down to what remained of the apartment that he had lived in before Coruscant fell, and Anor and his warriors followed the Fosh there. He and the others waited outside of the apartment until Vergere managed to get Solo to open himself to the Yuuzhan Vong part of the world around him, allowing him to sense the Yuuzhan Vong creatures for the first time. Feeling triumphant, Anor entered the apartment on the heels of Hool's warriors, and begged Solo to embrace the True Way, as the Force was corrupt and had no purpose. The agent proclaimed that Solo could become a God, and proceeded to take the lightsaber of Anakin Solo out of his cloak and used it to cut away the web cables of some arachnoids who had bound Solo to a chair while he had contemplated his existence. The Executor then knelt before the Jedi, and offered him the lightsaber, giving him the choice to either slay all the Yuuzhan Vong in the room with it, or join their side.

Solo, after thinking on the choice, decided to join the Yuuzhan Vong in their worship of the True Way and used the Force to send the lightsber to Vergere instead of taking it up in battel. This choice caused Anor to feel triumphant, as he had completed his mission. However, some Yuuzhan Vong, including Anor, were a bit mistrustful of the conversion of Solo, and thus did not let the Jedi anywhere near the location of the World Brain, which was the dhuryam that was controlling the terraforming of Yuuzhn'tar. Anor was placed under Solo's control, and the plan of having Jacen Solo slay his sister in battle was moved foreword, and Solo set about trying to capture his sister. A rumor was spread that Jacen Solo had been spotted, and the Yuuzhan Vong hoped that Solo's sister would track down the origin of that source. However, it was the Jedi Knight Ganner Rhysode who instead tracked the rumor to its source weeks after it had been spread, and found Solo and a small group of warriors, who captured the Jedi. Anor was informed of the plan's failure via villip, and the operation was called off, because of the potential danger of other Jedi, who were not Jaina Solo, of finding the rumor's source.

Rysode was brought drugged to Yuuzhan'tar, and while the unconscious Jedi slept on nearby, Anor questioned Solo's call on bringing Rhysode back to the world instead of just killing him, as it looked as if Solo was not completely devoted to the True Way. However, Solo claimed that Rhysode should be sacrificed in the right way, and went as far as to suggest that the sacrifice could be a dry-run for the one where Solo would sacrifice his sister. Though Anor was in accord with the idea of the sacrifice, he at first questioned the dry-run idea, though the Jedi eased the agent's doubts when he claimed that he needed practice making a Jedi a willing sacrifice, which Solo believed the Great Sacrifice needed. Thus it was decided that a dry-run of the Great Sacrifice would be attempted with Rysode. Solo was left for a while with Rhysode, to convert him, but when the monitor creatures used to observe the two Jedi went unconscious, Anor, along with Hool and a contingent of warriors and priests, arrived at the chamber the two were in to see if everything was all right.

The chamber where the two Jedi resided had its door opened, and Anor inquired as to why the monitors had been knocked out. Solo, playing his role as a Sacred Twin, declared that Anor's concern was an insult, and that the monitors must have fallen asleep because he willed it. This show frightened the priests present, but not Anor, who was still not quite convinced of Solo's devotion. At Solo's orders, Rhysode then declared that he was a willing sacrifice, and the assembled warriors and priests began to chant, honoring Solo for his conversion of Rhysode. However, Anor again did not truly believe the conversion of the other captured Jedi, but the Executor was willing to set the dry-run in motion after explaining to a curios Rhysode that the chanting was not out of respect for the newly-converted Jedi, but merely honoring his willing sacrifice.

The Yuuzhan Vong created a procession that would take Solo and Rhysode to the Well of the World Brain, which had once been the Galactic Senate building. Ringed by a group of honor guards, Anor and Hool walked ahead of the two Jedi as they made their way towards where the dry-run of the Great Sacrifice would take place. The procession passed through a growing hedge maze that ringed the Well of the World Brain, before eventually mounting a causeway that led to the entrance of the Well. It was there that Rhysode collapsed, and Anor was forced to lie to Hool that the Jedi was merely expressing his reverence to the gods. Anor came over to where Rhysode lay, and begged Solo to get the other Jedi moving again. Solo, after a moment, fooled Anor into thinking Rhysode was alright after the converted Jedi lifted Rhysode up with the Force and made it look as if he was walking towards the World Well.

The procession stopped at the Great Door, and Anor stepped to one side as Solo addressed the procession behind him, declaring his devotion to the true gods. The pair of Jedi then entered through the Great Door, and although Anor, Hool, as well as the priests and warriors made to follow them, Solo closed the door with the Force before they could do so. Left outside, Anor pretended nothing was wrong for a few moments, but was then forced to order (?) that the Great Door be smashed open. This was done, and a host of warriors entered into the old Galactic Senate, with a squad being sent to check the corridor that led to where the World Brain was situated. Anor hung back near the wreckage of the Great Door as a precaution, and five minutes after the squad, who never came back, had been sent down the corridor, Rhysode appeared in the doorway that that led to it. Prompted by the leader of the warriors to do something, as it was the Executor's event, Anor ordered Rhysode to step a side, emboldened by the fact that Rhysode was a weak Jedi.

Anor explained how desperate Rhysode's situation was, citing the fact that there were thousands of warriors that would go against him. However, Rhysode, claimed that he would only have to buy Solo time to be with the World Brain, and proceeded to guard the corridor, using Anakin Solo`s lightsaber that Jacen Solo had given to him, to the Well Brain as the Yuuzhan Vong warriors attempted to get past him. As the warriors failed to get past Rhysode, Anor was appalled at the turn of events, and tried to get the Yuuzhan Vong warrior commader to either gas Rhysode or blow him up, so that they could stop Solo from being alone with the World Brain. However, the commander refused to do this, as that would be un-honorable. Neither Hool nor the commander was very concerned that Solo was alone with the World Brain, and the Master Shaper believed that the dhuryam could defend itself if necessary. Anor, however, was near panicking, because he would be held responsible for the disaster that was occurring as they spoke.

Seeing Vergere motion for him to come to her, after neither Hool or the commander would authorize drastic measures to get past Rhysode, the Executor went angrily over to the Fosh. Brushing aside his attempts to involve her with the disaster at hand, Vergere told Anor that she should accompany him as he fled the consequences of the disaster in the World Well to defect to the New Republic. The Fosh even explained that she knew of Anor's secret coralcraft, and despite the agent initially denying the fact, Vergere convinced Anor that they had to leave immediately, even though Hool was watching Anor. This was because the Fosh claimed that Solo would soon steal the craft, and in doing so, foiling their own departure. The Executor was convinced by this, and led the feathered creature away to the coral side of the World Well, where, after checking that no one was looking, he opened a secret hatchway and he and Vergere descended into it.

The pair winded their way through a series of corridor, before reaching the wrecked area that was the offices of the Galactic Republic's Supreme Chancellor, where they found the coralcraft. Upon reaching the craft, Anor began to flaunt how he always had a contingency plan, but was stopped when Vergere questioned how many disasters he had considered, Turning, the agent found himself confronted by Verger holding Jacen's lightsaber, whose tip was inches from his face. Anor told Vergere that she could not possibly betray him, but the Fosh though otherwise, and she used the Force to make the tangled wreckage in the derelict office wrap Anor's limbs with knots, binding the agent to the spot. Despite Anor desperate insistence that only he could pilot the craft, Vergere responded with the fact that Solo, who was very good with animals, could most definitely fly the living ship by himself. Vergere left Anor, who was in disbelief at this turn of events, to go get Solo, after amiably telling the agent that she had told him that Solo would steal his ship.

Eventually, Vergere brought Solo, who had succeeded in his primary objective of talking to the World Brain, back to Anor's location. At first, the agent begged to be brought with them, declaring that they might as well be murdering him, as Lah would do the job himself. However, when this did not get him a spot on the Executor's personal coralcraft, Anor resorted to cursing both Vergere and Solo, who left shortly after in the craft; meanwhile, Rhysode fell in battle, but only after slaying numerous beasts and finally bringing the ceiling of the corridor down to crush both him and the warriors he fought.

Yuuzhan'tar, and the debacle at Ebaq 9
Despite Solo's escape, and his association with Vergere's betrayal, Anor was not executed for his failure, and continued to work for good of the Yuuzhan Vong cause in 28 ABY. That year, Anor was present at the arrival of Supreme Overlord Shimrra Jamaane's worldship on Yuuzhan'tar. Situated in the second of three ranks of intendants who were in turn arrayed in front of orderly groups of thousands of priests, shapers, and warriors, Anor watched as the worldship settled into its prepared berth on Yuuzhan'tar, so that the vessel would become Jamaane's citadel on the captured world. Just after the worldship reached its final resting place, the Executor felt an aggravating itch start at his feet, but Anor did not let himself to show any outer signs of torment, as higher up Yuuzhan Vong were not supposed to be bothered by pain. From the crowds, Anor listened to Jamaane's brief address, and momentarily forgot about his itch.

Shortly after Jamaane arrived on Yuuzhan'tar, Anor and other high ranking Yuuzhan Vong met with the Supreme Overlord in the Hall of Confluence, in the Citadel. Featuring architecture that created a trompe l'oeil with Jamaane's hau polyp throne as the artificial vanishing point, the hall also had dovin basals installed into it that made it seem via their gravitational manipulation that Anor and the others were walking uphill as they approached Jamaane. Upon reaching the throne of the Supreme Overlord, Anor and the others prostrated themselves on the ground before the massive Yuuzhan Vong that was Jamaane after arranging themselves by castes. The Supreme Overlord let them rise, but only the Great Council was allowed to sit, and as Anor was not among the members of the council, the Executor stood off to the side.

Before the meeting started, the Shamed One Onimi, who was Jamaane's servant, capered around, and it took Anor awhile to realize that the Shamed One's garments were parts of New Republic uniforms. The meeting then began after the Supreme Overlord called his servant to heel, and Jamaane first went after Lah's work towards the war effort. Anor was thrilled to see one of his rivals held responsible for losing too many warriors in battle. Citing that the depleted Yuuzhan Vong military could not continue its offensive, the Supreme Overlord ordered the stop of all new strikes again the New Republic and other groups. Throughout the meeting, as the Supreme Overlord oversaw the reports of his advisors, the itch continued to bother Anor, though he still did not let it show. As High Prefect Yoog Skell made his report about the state of the New Republic from information gained via their agents, Skell passed Anor Jamaane's question about whether Fyor Rodan and Cal Omas, the two candidates for the leadership of the New Republic, would favor submission to the Yuuzhan Vong or war.

With the Supreme Overlord's entire focus upon him, Anor managed to relay the information that, of the two, Omas was more inclined towards the Jedi without stammering in front of Jamaane. As the Supreme Overlord saw Omas as the worst of the two, he ordered Anor to have Omas assassinated, after the Supreme Overlord crushed the Executor's brief protest that he did not have the personnel in place. However, the Supreme Overlord was not done with Anor, and asked him whose fault the debacle in the Well of the World Brain has been. With the viable presence of Jamaane pushing against his thoughts, Anor at first tried to shrug some of the blame upon Lah, for he had acted under the warmaster's authority. However, as this did not work, the Executor attempted to explain that Vergere had misled all of them, and that no one had suspected that she would betray them because the Fosh had helped them captured Solo. With the Supreme Overlord' presence growing bigger in his mind by the moment, Anor's attempt to lay the blame away from himself ended with his crying out loud that it was all Vergere's fault.

However, the priest Harrar saved Anor, interceding that Vergere had indeed fooled both him and Khalee Lah, and many others. With Harrar's remark, Jamaane shifted his full attention away from Anor, and the topic at hand moved to Vergere instead of Anor's failure. From there, High Priest Jakan brought up how the Shamed Ones had begun to venerate the Jedi Knights, and their ideals. With the itch back, Anor stood by as Jakan recommended that these heretics be killed. The Supreme Overlord authorized limited action against these heretical groups, as to not disturb the workers, before Hool made his report. In his report, he mentioned a fungal infection that was bothering certain individuals&mdash;this same infection was the cause of the itch that Anor and others in that same room had at that moment. Hool did not get much further however. Jamaane accused him of reliaving his itch by scratching, even though he was a distinguished member of the Yuuzhan Vong, and went on to pin the botched worldshaping of the new Yuuzhan'tar on Hool. Anor and the others were furious that Hool was the reason, and the shaper was taken from the room to be executed.

After the meeting was finished, Anor and the Skell walked back to the Damutek of the Intendants, and it was there in the damutek's corridors that Skell conversed with Anor about the power of the Supreme Overlord. Skell knew that Anor had felt the power of Jamaane when he had interrogated him about the incident at the Well of the World Brain, and informed a shocked Anor that it was actually the Supreme Overlord himself who had incited his advisors to be furious at Hool at the end of the meeting. Listing Hool's many failures as a reason for the shaper's demise, the High Prefect advised Anor not to make any more mistakes, lest he end up like Hool. Skell then left Anor in the corridor contemplating his future. Shortly after learning about Jeedai heresy that had come into being, Anor infiltrated a group of Shamed Ones that were practicing the heresy as he was curious about it.

Using an ooglith masque to pass unseen among the heretics as one of the worker caste, Anor attended two such meetings, where a Shamed One led them through prayers that idealized the Jedi Knights. The itch still affected many of the Yuuzhan Vong on Yuuzhan'tar, and Anor was forced to scratch himself to make him appear as a worker. From his time at the meetings, Anor came to believe that the heresy had directionless had had muddied teachings, but an iron-willed Prophet would be able to led the heretics to great heights. After the second meeting had finished, the Executor left the minor intendant office that the heretics had used for the meeting, and departed from the vicinity. However, on his way, Anor came across a road far out from the area settled by the Yuuzhan Vong, and upon seeing a being riding a quednak, stopped by the roadside and bowed in a guise of servitude until the beast of burden and its rider had passed. However, as the quednek passed, Anor recognized the rider as Onimi, and because he was curious, tailed the Shamed One to his destination.

Anor followed Onimi to a heavily guarded damutek, and there, approached the warriors stationed outside. Pretending like he was searching for the damutek of Hooley Krekk, Anor, in his guise as a befuddled worker, pranced about after being informed that Krekk did not own the damutek. Anor's antics drew more warriors, and a subaltern slashed the disguised Executor with an amphistaff to make him go away. Anor vacated the premises, but not before deducing that the damutek was being used for an important secret shaper project, as he had seen two shapers outside of the facility, and the damutek was built in the middle of nowhere. Because of his treatment at the hands of the subaltern, Anor understood the anger of the Shamed Ones due to how they were treated.

Sometime after Anor discovered the secret shaper damutek, the shapers produced an antifungal balm that allowed Anor and the other Yuuzhan Vong affected by itching to finally relax. A few days after the introduction of the balm, Anor attended a gathering in a temple where a head priest passed word of the condemnation of all of the heretical Jedi beliefs among the Shamed Ones and other lowly castes. Although he at first approved of the message, Anor, upon leaving the site of the gathering, found that the message about the heresy had been too detailed, as it specifically told the heretics what not to practice. This would allow those heretic groups that had a muddled doctrine to tweak it so that it more followed the beliefs of all other heretics. While leaving the temple, the Executor found that he walked side by side with a shaper.

Using a fake name of Hooley Kreek, Anor asked the shaper what a cortex was, and after learning that it was a body of knowledge, inquired as to how many there were. The shaper told Anor that there were eitht, and the eighth had not been given to the master shapers by Jamaane yet. A shocked Anor departed the shaper's company, so that he could think about what he had just learned. Anor deduced that the eighth cortex did not exist, as the shaper damutek he had just discovered most likely supposed to produce that knowledge. The lack of an eighth cortex meant that the Yuuzhan Vong would have no extra aid from creations by the shapers in their war against the New Republic and the various other governments, while the New Republic continued to innovate and learn the Yuuzhan Vong weaknesses. Anor had always suspected that some of the pillars of faith and obedience of the Yuuzhan Vong had been fake, but this was the first proof he had that they were. As others were looking at the stricken Anor, the Executor put himself back together, promising himself that he would try to help win the war as soon as possible, while also promising to try to gain power from what he had learned.

Meanwhile, the pair of assassins that Anor had dispatched to kill Omas failed in their mission, after Jade Skywalker slew the two assassins on Mon Calamari, where the remnants of the New Republic's government were holed up. Additionally, to add to the woes of the Yuuzhan Vong, the Shamed Ones continued to worship the Jedi, and the world brain of Yuuzhan'tar frequently made errors in its duty of managing the world. Anor's attempt to shove the blame for the world brain incident upon Lah furthered the rift between the too individuals as well. Shortly after the bungled assassination attempt by Anor's agents, the Executor attended a ceremony in a square on the Yuuzhan Vong capital, where numerous captives were to be sacrificed. However, the world brain made a mistake in its duties, and the maw luur beneath the ground regurgitated noxious waste into the square. Jamaane was forced to cancel the ceremony, and ordered the captives to be killed, before having Anor and the other high ranking Yuuzhan Vong retreat into the temple to get away from the smell.

In the temple, Jamaane asked Anor if the Executor's spies had found any underground activity, in response to the public failure that some of the higher ups were pinning on the underground. Anor, wilting under the fierce gaze of the Supreme Overlord, was able to respond that he had not, before Jamaane's attention turned elsewhere. Lah wished to the the battle to the New Republic, and seize a decisive victory, but the Supreme Overlord ordered the Warmaster silent. Anor interceded here, agreeing that a decisive battle should be fought soon, ideally just after the Yuuzhan Vong fleet was at full strength. Despite Jamaane mocking the Executor for his failures, such as the botched assassination, and for suggesting that the decisive battle should be planned with the help of information provided by Anor, the Supreme Overlord authorized the strike. However, the battle would only be fought after significant information had been gathered by Anor's agents, and if either Lah or Anor failed, both would pay the price.

As the Yuuzhan Vong still searched for their battle, Thrackan Sal-Solo, one of the most important Corellians, come to Coruscant to negotiate a deal that would make the Corellian system friends with the invaders. Sal-Solo brought along with him a companion by the name of Darjeelai Swan, whom the Yuuzhan Vong interrogated while Anor interview Sal-Solo. From Swan it was learned that no only was Centerpoint Station not operational, which nullified Sal-Solo's part of the bargain that had him not use the super weapon against the Yuuzhan Vong, but Sal-Solo had been the one who had fired Centerpoint Station at the Yuuzhan Vong fleet at Fondor.

With news of the movements of the enemy not pertaining to the decisive battle that the Yuuzhan Vong needed, Anor visited Jamaane in the Supreme Overlord's private audience room. Onimi greeted the Executor in the doorway, with the Shamed One's appearance causing Anor to suppress a shiver, before the ill formed Yuuzhan Vong let Anor pass to make his way to Jamaane. Aware that he was completely alone before the Surpreme Overlord, he reported that the New Republic continued to raid Yuuzhan Vong held targets, and that they fled before any substantial fleet could oppose them. Anor also explained that the New Republic task force leaders were picking their own targets and not having them designated by the government on Mon Calamari, saving the Executor from taking the blame of the failure of his agents to discover those designated targets.

The Executor then informed his higher-up of the latest developments regarding the Peace Brigade, who had established themselves on the Hutt Space world Ylesia; the Peace Brigadiers had turned into various squabbling factions, and had no real leader, as the leader the Yuuzhan Vong had intended them to have was the late Senator Shesh. In addition, Anor reported about the situation in the Corellian system, and explained how Sal-Solo wished to become friends with the Yuuzhan Vong. After Onimi suggested that they meet Sal-Solo, Anor went to fetch the Corellian and his guards, as Jamaane was not afraid of anything that Sal-Solo brought with him. When the Corellian entered, Sal-Solo failed to give proper respect to Jamaane, and Anor knocked him flat on his face for the act. Anor silenced a protesting Sal-Solo, and relayed the Corellian's message that he came in peace. Acting as a translator between Jamaane and the Corellian, Anor then told a shocked Sal-Solo that Jamaane had decided to take the Corellian up on his offer.

Although Sal-Solo requested that he be given free-hand in Corellia, as that was the only way that the plan could succeed, Jamaane instead clarified, through Anor, that the Supreme Overlord would be the one given a free-hand in the affairs of Corellia. Jamaane also wanted Centerpoint Station to be turned over to the Yuuzhan Vong before the deal between Sal-Solo and Jamaane was finalized. Allowed to stand by Anor, Sal-Solo tried to explain the situation of Corellia, and how it would be hard to gain the cooperation of his confederates if they knew that the Yuuzhan Vong would gain control of the superweapon. Despite Sal-Solo agreeing to not tell of would happen to Centerpoint Station when he went back to Corellia after Jamaane requested it, the Supreme Overlord still suspected that the Corellian was lying, and asked Anor to prove it. Anor agreed with the Supreme Overlord, citing the fact that Sal-Solo would never voluntarily give up control over so powerful a weapon.

Because of this, Jamaane told Sal-Solo through Anor about certain changes to the arrangement. The Corellian would not actually be returning to his home system, but would become the leader of the Peace Brigade forces on Ylesia after he told the Yuuzhan Vong what individuals in the Centerpoint Party to deliver Sal-Solo's orders to; in this way, the Corellian would lose reputation by being publicly aligned with a Yuuzhan Vong allied government, which was a way of revenge for what occurred at Fondor. The visitor from Corellia was taken aback at this turn in the negotiations, and went on a long speech about how being leader of the Peace Brigade could not let the Yuuuzhan Vong realize their plans for Corellia.

Both Jamaane and Anor soon grew tired and annoyed at Sal-Solo, and the Supreme Overlord asked the Executor in their species' tongue what place a Human might be struck to deal great pain. Answering the kidneys, Anor got to watch as Onimi stealthily approached the talking Corellian, and proceeded to stab Sal-Solo in the kidneys with a baton, knocking the man to the floor. Picking Sal-Solo's face from the floor via his hair, Anor informed him that his resignation had been denied, and that Sal-Solo would be traveling to Ylesia. With the help of Onimi, Anor dragged Sal-Solo to where his pair of guards stood at the door to the chamber. Before the Corellian left however, Anor asked Sal-Solo if he had a preferred way that he wished Swan's body to be disposed of in, as the female had been killed during interrogation. When no answer came, the Executor ordered the body to be destroyed.

A while later, Anor's spies managed to find valuable information that would help bring about the decisive battle that the Yuuzhan Vong needed, and he went to go give new of this to the Supreme Lord. Opening the door of the Hall of Confluence, Anor was once again scared by the sudden appearance of Onimi in his face. The Shamed One brought him to the Supreme Overlord's throne, where the he informed Jamaane that he believed that he had the information needed to win the war. The Supreme Overlord called for Lah, and Anor was forced to wait before the Supreme Overlord alone until the Warmaster arrived. With Lah there, Anor congratulated the Warmaster on his recent mating, though Lah quickly went to business, and asked the Supreme Overlord for permission to attack the Corellian system with his prepared fleet. However, Anor had another target in mind.

The Executor told the pair of the Final Redoubt, the new Deep Core location of the New Republic's government. Anor's most reliable spies had confirmed that the location was accurate, and he speculated that after the Warmaster had crushed the Final Redoubt along with the government body there, the Corellia system would be easy pickings. In addition, Anor told Lah and Jamaane that both of the Solo twins were stationed at the Final Redoubt, and triumphantly suggested that Lah could sacrifice Omas, the Solo twins, and many other important New Republic figures after only one battle. Trusting his report so much, Anor even offered his life in payment if he was wrong. Jamaane promised that Anor would be killed if he failed, but accepted the plan to take battle to the New Republic.

Using Anor's information, Lah planned and launched an assualt on the Deep Core Treskov system, the location of the Final Redoubt. There, the Warmaster engaged the New Republic forces there with the might of the Yuuzhan Vong fleet. While the battle was occurring, Anor kept in contact with an executor who was among the Yuuzhan Vong fleet in the Tresvkov system via a villip, while he himself stayed in the Damutek of the Intendants at the side of Skell. Anor reported to Skell that the though the enemy was maneuvering well near the gas giant Ebaq, Lah's numbers would soon crush them. However, Skell was worried, as the New Republic had surprised Lah in the Treskov system with its movements. As the battle progressed, Skell's worries proved true. multiple New Republic attack groups arrived in the system, and combined with their excellent maneuvers, they quickly began to destroy numerous Yuuzhan Vong vessels.

Skell concluded that Anor had betrayed them, as the Treskov system was clearly the site of a trap that the New Republic had laid to attack the Yuuzhan Vong, and ordered that the Executor give his life his for his failure, as he had promised before the Supreme Overlord. However, Anor did not wish to have is life ended, and calmly threw a glob of blorash jelly from his pocket to secure Skell's feet, before hitting the High Prefect on the head with his amphistaff, killing Skell. Although Anor had not betrayed Lah and Jamaane, he knew he was still at fault: his spies had been fed false information that had let Anor conclude that the Final Redoubt, the location of the trap, was where the New Republic had moved its leadership. Knowing that he would be killed for his part in the disaster in the Treskov system, and seeing no purpose in explaining that he had been played by the enemy, Anor chose to flee and use an ooglith masque to disguise himself as a part of a lower caste.

Living with the Shamed Ones
"Nom Anor is a consummate infidel. He thinks only of his own ambitions."

- Harrar

Fleeing from the wrath of high tier Yuuzhan Vong like Shimmra, Anor learned to hide in the underground tunnels and passageways that made up the deeper level of Yuuzhan'tar, surviving by eating granite slugs. The former Executor remained hidden for months there, staying alive because he was never found. Before long, Anor's masquer, that concealed his identity, began to decay and die, leaving him with a cracked mask. Walking along underneath Yuuzhan'tar, Anor came across a derelict droid, and took out his anger on it by smashing it to the ground, though he bloodied his hands in the process. Almost immediately afterwards, Anor heard the voice of an approaching person, and hid in an alcove after abandoning his failing masquer. Presently, a Shamed One came into sight, carrying a lamp, assuaging Anor's fears that another search party had come after him. When the Shamed One came close to the disgraced spy's hiding place, Anor quickly stepped out, demanding to now when the Shamed One was doing deep underground. The Shamed One, Vuurok I'pan, lied to Anor that he had merely gotten lost, but Anor called him out on the lie.
 * Notes: Niiriit's last name is Esh, so that probably should be used

Briefly beating the Shamed One, Anor deduced that I'pan was a runaway, and that there were more like him. Explaining to the Shamed One that I'pan was of use to him, Anor ordered him to take him to meet the other runaways. Anor followed I'pan back the way that the Shamed One had come, only trusting his new acquaintance because he had no choice. As the pair continued their journey, I'pan began to get bolder towards Anor, repeatedly glancing back at the former Executor. Anor demanded to know why, and after seizing the Shamed One by the collar, got the answer: I'pan wished to now if Anor was a Shamed One like he. This enraged the former spy, and Anor beat I'pan heavily in a fit of rage, throwing the Shamed One repeatedly around, while I'pan tried to protect himself by curling up. When Anor finally came out of his fit, he eventually pulled the beaten Shamed One to his feet, and advised I'pan to not ask him that again. The pair then continued their journey, with the Shamed One not looking back at Anor again.

I'pan led Anor on a path that took the pair increasingly farther from the surface as they navigated passages ways squished between old buildings that lay buried under layers of other habitations and constructs. Eventually, the pair came to their destination: a huge cavern, that housed multiple renegade Shamed Ones. In a shaft to the side, the Shames Ones had a chuk'a waste processor that they had found abandoned working to make more habitable areas for the Shamed Ones. When Anor demanded to know where the other Shamed Ones were, I'pan summoned them with a bell, and fifteen of them emerged from the shadows and from the digging shaft; two of those were members of the warrior caste. One of those warriors, Niiriit Esh, confronted Anor, as she recognized him as an Executor. Niiriit deduced that Anor had failed for the last time, though Anor insisted that his fortune would soon rise again, and promised the group that he would aid the Shamed Ones when he regained power.

Both Niiriit and the other warrior Kunra did not trust the disgraced Executor, but Anor was able to convince them they he would not betray them, as betraying them meant betraying himself to his searchers. When Anor tried to show his trust by reopening the wound on his fingers to display his devotion to the gods, Niiriit informed him that the Shamed Ones worshiped the Jedi, not the gods, and an intrigued Anor asked to learn more. Anor stayed with the Shamed Ones, and Niiriit proved to be the one Anor enjoyed spending company with the most, as she had the only mind keen enough to interest him. A couple of weeks later, around a fire, I'pan, who acted as the story teller of the group, told the tale of the Shamed warrior Vua Rapuung. In the story, Rapuung was betrayed by his lover, Shaper Mezhan Kwaad, who caused his implants to not take, thus Shaming him. Because of this, Rapuung set out for revenge on Yavin 4, with the help of Jedi Anakin Solo, who taught him the ways of the Jeedai heresy. In the end, Rapuung got Kwaad to admit in front of witnesses that she had Shamed him, and not the gods, but he was killed by Kwaad shortly after, though Kwaad herself perished to Solo and his allies. Additionally, other warriors, inspired by Rapuung's alliance with the Jeedai, fought off other warriors still worshiping the old beliefs in order for Solo and his allies to get offworld.

As Anor had studied the Yavin 4 heresy incident in detail, as that was where the Jeedai heresy had originated, Anor noticed differences in the story from what he knew as fact, but the tone and message of the story resonated even with the disgraced Executor. When the story ended, the other Shamed Ones looked to Anor to see how he reacted to the story, a tale that they all admired. Anor thanked I'pan for sharing the story, though Kunra still felt that the new addition to their group should not have been told the story. Because Kunra cited that Anor would betray them, the former Executor faced off with the warrior, and Kunra would have challenged Anor to a fight if Niiriit had not forbid it; Anor himself had counted on this to happen, as he had analyzed Niiriit's personality. After Niiriit defused the situation, Anor retired for the night, sleeping in a recently made room near the Shamed Ones' camp. However, before he fell asleep, Anor decided that he would indeed betray the Shames Ones, by giving Shimmra everything there was to know about the Jeedai heresy, and thus regain the Supreme Overlord's trust.

During his stay with the Shamed Ones, Niiriit talked with Anor numerous times about the teachings of the Jedi. In the time after Anor was told the story of Rapuung, the former Executor set about making the group of Shamed Ones trust him by acquiring resources that they could not get themselves. Anor did this by accompanying I'pan on missions to the levels near the surface of Coruscant, and using his knowledge of certain codes, and how resources were managed by the Yuuzhan Vong, to find and take them. Soon, the former Executor supplied the group with lambents, arksh, and h'merrig, which eased living in the lower levels for the Shamed Ones; however, Kunra still distrusted Anor and his motives. Because of Anor's increased levels of physical activity, his body became fitter than it had been before his exile. Anor later accompanied I'pan on a mission to the upper levels so that the former Executor could learn other versions of the Rapuung story, as I'pan's tale was one of many variants. Anor followed the Shamed One through a maze of tunnels, growing increasingly irritated, before the pair ended up in a sub-basement, and were forced to sit and wait for I'pan's contacts, who were going to help inform Anor of the different story variants, to arrive.

Three members of the Shamed Ones eventually entered, and were introduced to Anor as Aarn, T'less, and Shoon-mi Esh; the three Shamed Ones were not actually part of a rogue group like Anor's group, but laborers operating undercover. Using a false name of Ammorn to avoid using his real name in case any of them had heard of the disgraced Executor, Anor was asked by Shoon-mi if his crèche-mate Niiriit had told Anor about him. Knowing that Shoon-mi wanted acknowledgement from Niiriit, Anor lied that indeed she had, and that she had also told him that Shoon-mi also studied the Jeedai way. However, before Shoon-mi informed Anor of the other version of the story, Shoon-mi had T'less leave them, as she was nervous about meeting with a rogue group. It was then that Anor first learned that things were chaotic on the surface, with rebellion being discussed by the lower ranking Yuuzhan Vong; this shocked Anor, as he had not been aware of such a mood in the lower class ever before.

Shoon-mi briefly told Anor of his version of the story, and it sounded to Anor more like the course of events that he had heard of when he investigated the incident, as there was notably no battle between warriors of different beliefs fighting each other. Upon asking whom Shoon-mi had heard the story from, Anor learned that Aarn had heard it from a worker who had toiled on the world Garqi. Disguising his interest in where the story originated by claiming that he merely wondered why the two tales were so different, Anor was not able to find out from the two Shamed Ones who had originally spread the story, as neither of them knew. As their topic turned from the differences that existed between the two version of the story of Rapuung, and to other great deeds the Jedi had done, Anor reflected that he truly could not allow the heresy to topple the class system of the Yuuzhan Vong, and the Yuuzhan Vong religion. Before he and I'pan departed, Anor asked Shoon-mi to be on the look out for other versions of the Rapuung tale, and the Shamed One agreed, and also suggested that I'pan take Anor to see Hrannik, a prophet-of-sorts.

On their way home, I'pan brought with them a sack of old clothes and food that Shoon-mi had given for his sister Niiriit. After Anor inquired as to why Niiriit did not speak of Shoon-mi, I'pan enlightened the disgraced Executor that the warrior considered Shoon-mi a traitor of the truth as he did not completely embrace the Jedi; despite this, she still regularly took the supplies that Shoon-mi sent to her to make her life better. Some time during his time with the Shamed Ones, the disgraced Executor carved himself a coufee out of a coral flask that had been discarded. After the meeting his Shoon-mi, Anor was visited one night by Niiriit. However, due to his habit of sleeping light with a coufee within reach, Anor leapt up and almost slashed out the warriors throat with his knife before he recognized who had awoken him. Niiriit, who had merely intended to sleep with Anor, left horridly, leaving Anor mildly embarrassed.

A week after the incident with Niiriit, Anor woke up to the sound of screaming Shamed Ones as they died. Quickly deducing that those killing his comrades were being killed by warriors sent to wipe the camp out and Anor with it, the former Executor gathered all of his belongings and left his sleeping hollow. On the way out, he was passed by a running figure who he assumed was I'pan, and momentarily followed him after deciding that dying to the kill squad would not gain anyone anything. However, while heading down the shaft to where the chuk'a hibernated, he heard Niiriit's death cry, and this made Anor hesitate for a few moments before continuing his flight. Anor continued down the shaft, navigating the random holes in the ground created by the chuk'a, until he was near to where biot blocked any access to the shaft further down. There, hearing breathing, the former Executor located who he though was I'pan.

However, it was not I'pan but Kunra who turned to face him when Anor called out to the Shamed One. Kunra, who was still mistrustful of Anor, had been trying to awaken the chuk'a at his feet so that the creature, which was anchored to the sides of the shaft, would let go out of reflex and allow them to travel further down the shaft and escape the pursuing warriors. Anor took over the task of stimulating the chuk'a by stabbing at it with his coufee, and while he did this, he questioned Kunra if he had brought the warriors down upon them. Though Kunra denied that vehemently, the ex-warrior revealed that he ran away from the fight as a coward, which was the reason that he was Shamed in the first place. Anor, with his coufee buried in the flesh of the chuk'a, continued to cut flesh with his weapon until he pulled the blade out, afraid that he would lose his only weapon. However, seconds later, the chuk'a withdrew its claws anchoring it to the wall of the shaft due to the pain, and it fell, sending Kunra and Anor tumbling down with it.

As the shaft was sloped a bit, the decent of the chuk'a was slowed because of the friction between it and the wall. The chuk'a also began to tumble, sending Anor and Kunra bouncing up and down on top of the descending biot; to protect himself, Anor rolled himself into a ball so as to keep his head and stomach safe from the numerous impacts his body was receiving. Finally, the chuk'a and the pair hit the bottom of the shaft, with the crustacean's body absorbing most of the impact for Anor and Kunra. In serious pain, Anor managed to get to his feet after the fall, and used a light-giving lambent to discover that they had landed in a bowl shaped depression at the bottom of the shaft. Hearing a cry of pain from Kunra, Anor found the Shamed One with a piece of the now-dead chuk'a shell through his leg. Ignoring Kunra's pleas for help, as he was bleeding out, Anor criticized Kunra's cowardice as the former warrior continued to beg. However, as soon as Kunra lapsed into unconsciousness due to blood loss, Anor set to work mending the impaled leg, using medical supplies that he had stolen while on missions with I'pan. Anor explored his surroundings until Kunra awoke, and when he did, the former Executor held the coufee to Kunra's throat as he finished waking. Making clear to Kunra that he would not hesitate to kill the Shamed One even though Anor had just saved him, the disgraced Executor made Kunraa choose between dying to the coufee or serving Anor. The ex-warrior chose the latter, and Anor commanded that Kunra would never question his orders, and that the Shamed One would never use the name Nom Anor to address him; the second command was to prevent the reputation of Anor bringing other warriors hunting for the disgraced Executor. Anor and Kunra then traveled up towards the surface of Yuuzhna'tar, as Anor had business that needed to be taken care of. Anor and Kunra traveled until they reached the vicinity of where Shoon-mi worked, and Kunra set up a meeting with Shoon-mi. When the Shamed One passed on the way to the meeting, Anor grabbed Shoon-mi and dragged him into a sub-basement with a coufee to Shoon-mi's throat. Without letting Shoon-mi get a look at him by holding the coufee to Shoon-mi's throat from behind, Anor demanded to know if the Shamed One had sold Niiriit and the others out. With Shoon-mi whimpering that he had not, Anor let the Shamed One go, and Shoon-mi told them that the warriors had been after the thieves that had been stealing supplies, and that they had hit at least two other camps as well. This information served to enlighten Anor that he nor the heresy practitioners had not been the target of the attack, though he did realize that Anor's stealing of supplies with I'pan had led the warriors to the Shamed Ones.

Knowing that the message of the Jedi heresy was safe, Anor broached the idea that the heresy should be spread farther and quicker, to avoid just preaching those who already followed. Once Anor clarified that they would only preach to the Shamed Ones in the beginning to gain a momentum, Shoon-mi agreed to join him in spreading the word. Kunra, too, agreed to join him, though he took a moment to decide. Deciding that he would need a new name other than Ammorn to preach the word, Anor chose to take the title of Yu'Shaa, the Prophet, and he demanded that Shoon-mi not use Ammorn any longer.

Leader of the lowly
With the help of Kunra and Shoon-mi, Anor started to spread the word of the Jeedai heresy to the masses via ceremonies. The these ceremonies, which took place in a cellar deep beneath the surface of Yuuzhan'tar, were planned extensively by Anor with the aid of Kunra and Shoon-mi, with every detail part of the script that Anor followed. Warders who stood outside the ceremony hall instructed those who entered on how and when to speak in the ceremony. For the events, Anor himself wore a mask that barely resembled a face due to the scarring, and beneath it, the Prophet wore an ooglith masque that made him appear like one of the Shamed Ones; this allowed Anor hide his true face and his identity when he took off the mask as part of the ceremony. As Anor continued preaching to the Shamed Ones in his ceremonies, he learned to use gestures and animation in his speaking, as the monotone that he first utilized in his ceremonies could not keep the attention of his listeners. By using I'pan, story telling technics, Anor was able to enthrall those how came to listen to him.

From his throne, which was really just a chair covered with different varieties of moss, Anor taught in his sermons that the Jeedai were the ones sent by the gods to bring down Shimmra, and to allow the Yuuzhan Vong to live in a galaxy at peace. In his Message, he also taught that though a Shamed One individually was weak, many Shamed Ones could accomplish great things. During the meetings, Anor always shared the tale of Rapuung&mdash;a cleaned-up version that portrayed the right message for the Shamed Ones listening&mdash;with the ending identical to the one that I'pan had shared with Anor when he first heard the story. Typically after telling the story of Rapuung, Anor would allow the attendees to ask questions of him, and these usually related to the nature of the Jedi, and the Force itself.

When asked during one of his ceremonies whether war was wrong, Anor replied that it was fine to fight for something that was their's by right, such as the galaxy that Yuuzhan'tar was in, but it was fundamentally wrong to fight against the Jedi. Anor's meeting's ended with the Prophet commanding that the attendees spread the word of the heresy discreetly, before opening his arms, signaling the end of the meeting as the doors of the cellar opened due to his signal. Following the end of the meeting where Anor was asked about war, the Prophet, alone with Kunra and Shoon-mi, voiced his concerns that though they had many who came to the meetings, not many were truly dedicated Yuuzhan Vong. He also ordered Shoon-mi bring the Select, a group of seventeen devotees that had been individually picked for their attributes, to Anor so he could train them.

When Shoon-mi left them, Kunra showed Anor a female Yuuzhan Vong whom the former-warrior had detained after he found that she had been carrying a villip to allow someone on the other end to see the Prophet in action during one of the ceremonies. Due to concerns that they could be exposed, Anor ordered Kunra to extract the information of who the villip communicated to from the female, before killing her. Because of this turn of events, Anor and the others were forced to relocate the place where they held their ceremonies, and they found a new set of headquarters. Because of Anor's worrys that he would be exposed and caught by Yuuzhan Vong loyal to Shimraa, the former-Executor began to have dreams of warriors chasing and hunting for him. In his role as the Prophet Yu'shaa, Anor continued to spread the word, though he himself soon began to miss the amounts of information that his spy network once provided him with. Due to this, Anor focused on getting a villip into the Supreme Overlord's Chambers so that Anor could glean information that way.

Anor, with the aid of Kunra and Shoon-mi, sent numerous devotees to attempt to sneak a villip into the chambers of Shimrra; they all had a tooth filled with irksh poison lest they get caught. However, none of these made it far towards their goal, and all failed to return.(?) Anor and the others had one such spy, At'raoth, prepare her excuse for getting into the chamber many times before she left on her mission, carrying with her a k'snell vase that contained a villip. However, as Anor and his two aids watched via the villip, At'raoth was stopped by a guard just before she could enter the chambers, and her excuse failed to give her passage into it. However, prior to being slain by the guard, At'raoth killed the villip, and shouted her allegiance to the Jedi. Anor was particularly angry at this turn of events, as in addition to being so close to succeeding, At'raoth had inadvertently alerted Shimrra that the jeedai heresy was something to worry about.

Though Kunra and Shoon-mi tried to console Anor, the Prophet was angry that it was taking so long to gain information, and voiced his concern that Shimrra could be planning to kill them without them knowing about it. Refusing to wait for the opportunity to place an informant in Shimmra's court, Anor ordered Kunra and Shoon-mi to find another willing to spy for them, even though he knew that more spies dead meant less volunteers for the role. After losing At'raoth as a spy, Anor continued to host meetings, and an increasing number of healthier Yuuzhan Vong began to attend. Additionally, Anor had identified six acolyotes who had minds keen enough to grasp some of the problems that the heresy faced, and Shoon-mi and Kunra trained them as disciples before sending them out to spread the word further afield. At one of Anor's meetings, after he had delivered the bulk of his message, one of the acolytes continued to ask questions that left the former Executor hard pressed to answer. Raising questions about the feasibility of only spreading the message among the lower ranks of the Yuuzhan Vong, the acolyte, whom Anor could tell was not a Shamed One because of her stance, managed to transfix the audience, as well as Anor.

Anor realized that the acolyte could identify the obstacles that spreading the heresy faced, and that she had also been unable to come up with remedies to those problems, just like Anor had. When the acoloyte advised Anor in front of the entire audience that he should weaken Shimrra's old on power from within his court, the Prophet demanded to know who the acolyte was. However, after the acolyte refused to give a name, Anor had her come closer, so they could talk in private. Anor's questioned whether he could trust her, and this led her to reveal that she knew his true name. Aghast by this, Anor grew alarmed that she was a spy sent to kill him, or that should would reveal to all his real name. When the acolyte tried give him something even though he had pushed himself away from her, Anor instinctively activated his plaeryin bol, which burst and shot multiple poison darts into the face of the acolyte.

As his attacker collapsed to the floor, and as the audience erupted in chaos, Anor briefly slumped against his throne, shaken by what had just occurred. However, as Kunra and Shoon-mi worked to quite the audience of penitents, Anor approached the dying acolyte, and removed the ooglith masquer that disguised her. With the mask off, Anor was shocked to recognize the acoloyote, as Ngaaluh, a priestess of the deception sect. Furthermore, Anor discovered that the item she had been trying to give him had been meant to kill him, but was instead an offer of her devotion to him: a living unrik from Ngaaluh's own body. Seeing that Ngaaluh was no assassin, and that she could be the informant that he needed, the former Executor administered the antidote to the poison to the priestess by activating a needle that slid out from under the claw of his right thumb.

Getting Shoon-mi to give Ngaaluh their best care, Anor explained in private to Kunra who the acolyte was, and the ex-warrior understood why Anor had activated his plaeyrin bol. Though Kunra was willing to kill the entire audience to prevent the news of the strange incident from spreading, Anor instead explained to the audience that had had survived an attempt on his life, and the audiene left to go spread the word of the heresy after Kunra had made sure that none of them had heard anything that would expose Anor. When Ngaaluh was alone with Anor, and after the antidote had given some of her strength back, the priestess expressed her indebtedness to the Prophet. With Ngaaluh willing to risk her life for him as Anor had saved her, the former spy finally had the informant that he had long desired. While she was recovering, Anor learned for the priestess that she had begun to doubt the existence of the gods after encountering Vergere, and had tracked the message of Yu'shaa to its source.

Anor began to use Ngaaluh as an informant, with the priestess wearing a villip beacon disguised in her robes that allowed Anor to see the events that transpired in Shimrra's court. During a meeting Ngaaluh attended in the court, after she persuaded Harrar to let her come, Anor was able to learn that the Yuuzhan Vong had been driven by during an assault on the Imperial Remnant mainly due to the intervention of a Jedi party led by the Skywalkers. Additionaly, Anor discovered that the Yuuzhan Vong had not progressed up in their invasion after they had seized what was Coruscant, and that resistance was increasing. Anor's destabilizing program, which was still running, was also having problems, as some remnants of the New Republic had helped settle disputes that would have distracted certain areas. Ironically, Anor was also able to listen in on Ngaaluh's report of the status of the heresy, which she delivered directly to Shimrra himself.

A thorn in Shimmra's side
With Ngaaluh on their side, the heresy began to grow and with it Anor's influence. Shoon-mi managed the spreading of the heresy, while Kunra's team of "special police" made sure that the message was not traceable, killing members of the heresy who were a danger to it; these killings appeared as if the Yuuzhan Vong authorities ere hunting down the Shamed Ones practicing the heres. As Ngaaluh was leading the investigation into the heresy, Anor supplied the priestess with members of the heresy that he worried would betray him, such as Eckla Shoolb, and Ngaaluh brought them before Shimmra and his court to be executed. Meanwhile, Anor had to constantly change the position of the heresy headquarters, lest they get caught by Yuuzhan Vong other than Ngaaluh, leading to Anor switching his base six times in six weeks. After watching Shoolb being condemned by Shimmra himself via Ngaaluh's villip, Shoon-mi informed Anor that he found it difficult to watch such events, and questioned the Prohpet's use of martyrdom to achieve his causes. After Shoon-mi had left, Anor informed Kunra that he wanted a candidate ready in three days for the next step of their plans. Despite the success of the heresy, Anor began to feel as if Shimmra was more angry at the existence of the heresy than afraid by it, and this dampened the Prophet's sense of success.

Because there was no way for Anor to be multiple places at once, the ex-executor oversaw the training of subordinate Prophets with the help of Kunra and Shoon-mi. These minions were left behind as Anor and his entourage moved from audience chamber to audience chamber, to allow the word to spread faster.

In order to implicate more Yuuzhan Vong officials in the spread of the heresy to cause more confusion, Anor oversaw the selection of five would-be heretics that were too unstable or unreliable for the Prohphet's purposes. He then fed them lies related to those officials, as well as a modified version of the heresy, before sending the five out to spread the word, where they were caught in due course by those working with Ngaaluh to root out the heresy. Shortly afterwards, Anor and Kunra, both disguised as workers handling baggage vrrips, secretly accompanied Ngaaluh as part of her entourage as they made their way to the command enclave of the Vishtu Sector. When the entourage, which brought with it the five captured heretics, came to a stop outside the enclave, Anor was backhanded across the face by a guard for trying to listen to a nearby argument.

Although infuriated by the guard's actions, Anor managed to remain in the guise of a subservient worker, and the entourage passed without further incident into the enclave, though Anor did once again to enact revenge on all of those who had punished him over the years. After Ngaaluh had settled into her quarters in the enclave, Anor, Shoon-mi, and Kunra slipped away from the priestess's entourage as three loyal Shamed Ones took their places. Descending deep beneath the enclave, Anor and the others came to the new audience chambers that were to be used for the heresy. Retiring to his private chamber alone, Anor was soon met by Ngaaluh, who has sneaked away from the enclave above. The priestess filled him in on Jakan's increasingly radical ideas on destroying the heresy, and the pair discussed their plot to destroy Prefect Ash'ett, who was unbeknownst to Ngaaluh a former rival of Anor's whom the Prophet wanted take out his revenge upon. In addition, Ngaaluh informed Anor of rumors circling in Shimmra's court that had to do with the mystical planet of Zonama Sekot being in the Unknown Regions. Although he was at first skeptical, Anor was convinced enough that he had Ngaaluh keep her ears upon for more developments realted to the rumor before she left him.

Following an interruption by Shoon-mi, who merely came into the room to ask Anor if he needed anything and to inform him that he was washing the Prophet's masquer, Anor retired for the night, though he had a sleepless night after he had a dream involving Shimmra's baleful eyes. Later, after Ngaaluh had put together her evidence against Ash'ett, Anor was able to watch from the vanatage point of the priestess' villip as Shimmra punished Ash'ett and his family. Although Ngaaluh could not specifically link the five prisoners she brought to Ash'ett, Shimmra condemned Ash'ett anyways for allowing the heresy to spread, and the Supreme Overlord ordered that all of Ash'ett's immediate family be thrown into the yargh'un pits. Anor, far away from the events that were transpiring in Shimmra's court, was delighted with not only Ash'ett's punishment, but with how Shimmra was willing to make examples of his subjects if there was any suspicion against them. Shimmra's court then went on discuss the disasters created by the malfunctioning world brain, and the terrorist attacks of the Anor's heresy, which was sabotaging the Yuuzhan Vong war effort. Both of these things served to make Anor feel like his power was spreading daily.

Betrayal, and setbacks
One night, Anor awoke to find his private quarters darker than he had left it when he went to sleep. Realizing that someone was in the room with him, the Prophet decided his best bet of survival lay with his plaeryin bol, and tried to find a target in the dimness of the room. However, before he could, a voice ordered the attack, and multiple hands seized Anor from out of the darkness. Initially fighting back, Anor let his self go limp as in defeat, which allowed him to get the right angle of attack for his plaeryin bol. Anor fired the weapon, taking out one of his assailants, though the others quickly held him down, and one of the assailants pressed something against the Prophet's plaeryin bol, preventing it from firing again. Relaxing as he was genuinely defeated by the press of bodies that was holding him down, Anor was surprised to see Shoon-mi as the leader of the group when Anor's aide lit a lambent crystal.

As Shoon-mi held a coufee against Anor's throat, the Prophet calmly warned his aide that he would not get away with killing the leader of the heretics, and that the Jeedai heresy would collapse without a leader. However, Anor soon realized out loud that Shoon-mi planned to become the Prophet by wearing Anor's masquer, and by mutilating Anor's body so that it resembled Shoon-mi. With that done, Shoon-mi could pretend that he was the Prophet, who had survived an attempt on his life by his aide, with no one to know the real truth. As Anor played for time by continuing to talk, he asked for the reason why Shoon-mi was going to kill him, and found out that the aide despised out Anor threw away lives in an un-Jedi like manner. Realizing that Shoon-mi was hesitant about actually killing him, the Prophet demanded that his aide go through with the act, rattling Shoon-mi.

In a further bid for time, Anor revealed to Shoon-mi that he disbelieved that Shimmra was ever going to bow down to the wishes of the heretics, and that the heresy would never succeed in its goals. It was then that Kunra stabbed Shoon-mi in the back, before the ex-warrior slew the rest Shoon-mi's lackeys with a bit of aid from Anor. Although Anor was grateful that Kunra's timing was great, the other informed the Prophet that although he had been initially overcome by minions while guarding Anor's door, upon defeating them he had waited and listened to Anor's conversation with Shoon-mi before acting; this, however did not bother Anor much, as Kunra had remained loyal to him and had not allowed Shoon-mi to usurp the role of the Prophet. Before they dealt with a wounded Shoon-mi, Kunra questioned Anor if he had been truthful about Shimmra never being defeated by the likes of the heresy, though Anor was able to brush the query aside to keep secret his doubts about the heresy.

Then, rolling Shoon-mi over onto his back, Anoor strangled his betrayer to death, before having Kunra dispose of the bodies to hide any potential weakness in the symbol of the Prophet if word of the attempt got out. The day after, Anor had Ngaaluh meet him and Kunra inside his heavily-guarded private quarters to discuss Shoon-mi's betrayal. The priestess was utterly shocked at the aide's treachery, showing Anor how dedicated Ngaaluh was to the heresy and the Jedi ideals. Kunra noted that some within the heresy were discontent with the speed of the order's progress, and some, such as subordinate Prophets V'tel and Idrish could be seen as rivals who could potentially betray Anor for power. The trio decided that Shimmra was not behind the attack, as warriors would have come for Anor instead of his aide, and Anor forbade any attacks against Shimmra after Kunra and Ngaaluh suggested it; Anor did this because he was worried that the Yuuzhan Vong would lose the war without the Supreme Overlord to lead them.

During the brief meetings, Ngaaluh provided evidence to Anor that Zonoma Sekot had indeed been discovered, and that the ruling class was trying to cover it up. However, Anor was once again skeptical, and ordered Ngaaluh to keep looking into it, to provide a definite answer to the question of Zonoma Sekot's existence. After Ngaaluh left, Kunra assured Anor that the priestess was not ambitious enough to claim Anor's title as Prophet for her own, easing a bit of Anor's suspicions. Before Kunra departed, Anor named Chreev Shoon-mi's successor as chief acolyte. Despite the attack on his life, Anor continued to give sermons to the followers of the heresy immediately after the event.

Two days later, Anor once again watched from Ngaaluh's concealed villip as the priestess presented the evidence before Shimmra and his court that would condemn a third of Anor's old rivals: Prefect Zareb. By using evidence provided from planted heretics, Ngaaluh once again concluded that Shimmra had been betrayed by a trusted individual. Shimmra was furious, and questioned many of his highest advisors how the heresy could have infected his court. When Shimmra focused on High Prefect Drathul, and talked of a greater traitor than Zareb residing close to the Supreme Overlord, Anor was delighted that Drathul might be executed. However, the guards that came into the court did not go for the High Prefect, but Ngaaluh herself; Shimmra had found the evidence too watertight against the three intendants, and had re-interrogated the placed heretics before they were killed, which revealed Ngaaluh as the actual traitor. Anor watched as the priestess took poison to prevent Shimmra from extracting information from her, and as her body was thrown into the yargh'un pit. Ignoring Kunra's attempts to draw him into a conversation regarding the sudden turn of events, Anor watched the view of the heap of bodies from Ngaaluh's villip until long after darkness fell, rendering the image indistinguishable.

Journeying to the living world
As some of the heretics were wavering in their resolve after Ngaaluh's demise, Anor sought to invigorate them. As the Prophet had from his old sources that the Jedi were interested in Zonama Sekot, and because Shimmra was clearly afraid of the planet, Anor preached to his followers from his thrown that he had had a vision of a living world that could redeem the Shamed Ones and bring them harmony with the Jedi. He also informed his followers that Shimmra was afraid of the planet. This message brought hope to Anor's army of zealots, and the Prophet felt empowered once again. Due to Anor message, some of his followers took it upon themselves to find the prophesied planet for their Prophet, with some finding their way to the planet of Dagobah, which was important to the Jedi.

Sometime after Anor's delivered his message about the living world, the Shamed One Loiin Sool came to Anor as a messenger from the shaper Nen Yim. Anor spoke to Sool personally, as the Shamed One was wearing a blindfold and had been searched for implants, and the Prophet learned from Sool in front of more than thirty of his followers that Yim was hoping that the Prophet could help her get to Zonama Sekot. Helping Yim get their would involve breaking her out of Shimmra's grasp, a risky venture even if it was not a trap set up for the heretics. Kunra, who was with Anor, pushed for them to aid Yim, and volunteered himself to lead the attack that would liberate the shaper. Despite Kunra's zeal, Anor was still debating the merits of liberating the shaper, and silenced the ex-warrior so that he could think. Then, Anor surprised his audience by proclaiming that though the prophecy was nearing completion, Anor would need to step foot onto Zonama Sekot with a Jedi. Because of this, he told his followers that he the Prophet would free Yim with the help of the Jedi, just like Rapuung fought with Anakin Solo, to the cheers of his audience.

In order to obtain the aid of the Jedi, Anor sent a qahsa to the Jedi Knights via courier. The qahsa contained a message that begged the Jedi to come to Yuuzhna'tar, and take only him to Zonama Sekot of his heretics. It also contained some limited information about the Yuuzhan Vong defences around the world. The Jedi Knights agreed to the request of the Prophet, and a rendezvous time was set up on Yuuzhan'tar for the Jedi going on the mission and Anor. With the rendezvous location in a garbage pit, Anor and Kunra proceeded to the spot, with Kunra getting to the rendezvous first to make sure that it was safe for Anor. The Prophet followed close behind, and came upon the ex-warrior and the two Jedi who had been sent on the mission: Veila, and Master Horn, who both featured in the heresy's beleifs, with the former known as One-who-was-shaped, and the latter as the The-Slayer-of-Shedao-Shai.

In his guise as the Prophet, Anor learned that the Jedi's ship had been destroyed, though they had not been discovered by the Yuuzhan Vong authorities when they came to Yuuzhan'tar. It was then that Anor informed the pair that the party had another member, the shaper Yim, and that she possessed a ship from Zonama Sekot that could be sued as their vessel. Horn did not appreciate the change of plan, especially after Veila pointed out that Anor was wearing a masque, although Anor was able to provide an excuses that he permanently wore the masquer for his people the Shamed Ones. After privately conferring about the change in their mission, the pair of Jedi agreed to take part in the liberation of Yim.

Yu'shaa outlined his plan to the pair of Jedi: they would get close to Shimmra's palace, and after some of Anor's followers created a distraction, the Jedi would infiltrate the damutek that Yim was in, and get the ship and the shaper out of it. However, Horn did not like how the plan risked the lives of so many Shamed Ones if something went wrong, so he advocated for some of the Shamed Ones to dress up in brown robes and wield long glowing plants that were found in the underground to appear like Jedi. These Shamed Ones, the Jedi hoped, would serve to distract the warriors. Anor and the two Jedi used secret tunnels to get themselves close to the shaper damutek, and once there, Anor took leave of the two Jedi after pointing them in the direction of the damutek; Anor was going to wait for the Jedi to seize the ship and pick him up at a shrine to the god Yun-Harla nearby. As the Prophet traveled to his rendezvous, he was confident that he would survive the upcoming battle, as he wasn't going to take part in it.

The pair of Jedi succeeded in their mission with the help of the heretics, and the Prophet, along with Harrar the priest, was picked up at the shrine by the vessel of Zonama Sekot origin. Aboard the vessel, Anor, playing his role as the Prophet, exclaimed in shock when he found out that the One-who-was-shaped had been wounded. Despite Horn's great displeasure when Harrar joined the group, they were forced to depart the shrine rendezvous in the ship as Yuuzhan Vong fighters were pursuing the escaping ship. With Horn going to check on Yim, who was piloting, the Jedi ordered Anor to watch over the wounded Veila. This did not stop Anor from moving to the fore of the ship and watching over Horn's shoulder after the Jedi relieved command of the ship from Yim to fly the Sekotan ship through a gauntlet of enemy fighters and escape by outwitting them; Anor commended the Jedi on his escape tactics afterwards.

With the group safe for the moment, and Veila in an improved condition thanks to Yim, Anor and the others gathered together for the first time since the start of their escape, and it was then that Horn informed the Yuuzhan Vong present that they were not going to Zonama Sekot after all. This caused considerable reaction from the three, with Anor and the others pointing out that they were risking much to risk journeying to the living planet. Horn, however, citing the addition of two Yuuzhan Vong to the party as a main reason, declared that they were instead heading to Mon Calamari to get a decision from the Jedi Council to see if the voyage should continue. After four days of traveling, Anor was locked up in his cabin aboard the Sekotan ship, presumably praying, when the vessel was yanked from hyperspace by an Imperial interdictor.

Although the Sekotan ship managed to escape again to hyperspace after Yim used a prototype shaping device to nullify the affects of the interdiction field from the Imperial ship, Horn revealed during the escape that they were indeed going to Zonama Sekot, and not Mon Calamari. Anor joined the main group after the incident, and he deduced that the Jedi had tricked them so that they could see if the Yuuzhan Vong tried to force the location of Zonama Sekot, which would have shown that their true allegiance was with Shimmra. Over the next few days, on the group's journey to the living planet, they had to progress in small hyperspace jumps, but as Anor and the others neared their destination, the dovin basals of the craft began to die. The Sekotan craft managed to limp into the Klasse Ephemora system, where Zonoma Sekot was orbiting the gas giant Mobus. After narrowly avoiding being drawn into the gravity well of Mobus, Horn manage to steer the craft on a intercept course for the living planet; Anor, upon seeing the world, lied to the others that he could feel that it was the planet of prophecy.

With the crippled ship on a landing vector it had chosen, the group managed to make it in one piece to the surface of Zonama Sekot with the help of Horn's piloting skills, and the aid of the Force to cushion their final landing; the living ship, however, did not survive the journey, dying once it had reached the ground. When the group exited the dead ship, Anor and the two other Yuuzhan Vong felt a palpable sense of belonging on Zonama Sekot, and this surprised the ex-executor, as he had not known for certain until then if Zonama Sekot was indeed the living planet that was linked to the Yuuzhan Vong race.

Allied with Shimrra once more
When Yim went back to the ship to get supplies, Anor followed her, and managed to convince her to let him help her with her lab work. Shortly after, with Horn and Harrar looking for a suitable shelter for the group, Anor and Veila accompanied Yim on a collecting expedition.

Both Anor and Veila sat by idly for hours as Yim went around, examining certain objects and documenting notes in a portable qahsa. While waiting for Yim, Anor came to realize that Shimrra had been right to fear the world, as the Yuuzhan Vong were obviously connected to it. Shortly afterwards, Yim discovered a lim tree in her exploring, and this prompted her to ask Anor about the nature of his vision. Anor answered in his religious wise man-way, stating that he did not know where his visions came from. Yim needed to know because the lim tree had originally existed on the Yuuzhan Vong's homeworld, and since it had not been planted by a spacefaring race, this indicated that Zonama Sekot was directly related to their homeworld somehow. However, Yim refused to make any assumptions about Zonama Sekot's origin until she had more data. When Anor showed interest in learning about what Yim was doing, the shaper allowed Anor to hold her qahsa and to record what she found; this left him in possession of the vast amount of knowledge contained within.

After a while working with Yim on her research, which served to speed the process up immensely, Anor was given full access to the qahsa by the shaper after it rejected his use. When Harrar came to Yim and engaged the shaper in conversation, the Prophet was able to explore the qahsa, learning interesting things in the process, all the while listening with one ear to Yim explaining to Harrar that she believed that Zonama Sekot had a dhuryam of sorts managing the ecosystem. Briefly asserting his claim that Zonama Sekot was the prophesied world to Harrar and Yim, Anor did not pay much attention until Veila informed the others that, being part Yuuzhan Vong due to the failed shaping, she felt that the Yuuzhan Vong had come from the living world originally. This got Anor's attention, though Yim refused to believe Veila's assertion, due to the fact that there was bountiful evidence to show that the original Yuuzhan'tar was the homeworld of the Yuuzhan Vong.

When Anor quieted for awhile because he had begun to muse how to use Zonama Sekot to his advantage, Yim let him go meditate on the recent discoveries. Wandering deep in thought, Anor suddenly realized that Shimrra would be extremely pleased if someone was to destroy the living planet and kill the two Jedi and the two rogue Yuuzhan Vong, so much so that the Supreme Overlord might acutaly elevate Anor in rank if he did this and not execute him. Still in thought, Anor made it to the top of a hill, and was truly shocked to see what he recognized as hyperdrive field guides rising from the surface of the world, large enough to indicate that the planet itself could jump to hyperspace. This discovery prompted him to take off the masquer disguising him as the Prophet, as no one was around, and to activate a small dedicated villip that he had brought with him to the living world. Anor contacted a very surprised Phaa Anor, one of his former subordinates, on the villip, and convinced the other to tell Shimrra that Anor was on Zonama Sekot and that he had found Yim by informing Phaa Anor that he would be rewarded for bringing the information; Anor also had his former subordinate take the villip to Shimrra, so that he could contact the Supreme Overlord personally. In reality, the ex-executor believed that Shimrra would most likely have Phaa Anor killed for bringing such information to him, but Anor was fine with that.

During nighttime, sometime after contacting his subordinate, Anor felt his villip move, indicating an incoming transimission, while the Prophet was staying in the rock shelter the group had found. However, because the others were light sleepers, and Veila was watch-duty nearby, Anor was forced to ignore the communication lest it give him away. Hours later, after Anor had taken watch-duty from Veila and was certain that she was asleep, he used his villip to contact its twin. A first accosted by Onimi on the other side, the Prophet soon saw Shimmra's face once again. With Shimmra demanding to know why Anor had not given himself up for sacrifice after the debacle at Ebaq 9, Anor lied to the Supreme Overlord that he had been held captive by the Jedi since the event, but had managed to secret away the villip he was using on his own person.

Convincing Shimmra that he was indeed on Zonama Sekot, Anor informed him of the Jedi on the living world who were trying to persuade Zonama Sekot to side with them against the Yuuzhan Vong. After outlining how his villip could be used as a tracer to locate the living world, Anor also persuaded Shimmra to send one combat ship and a landing vessel to get Anor after the former agent told the Supreme Overlord of how he planned to sabotage the living world, killing it and ending the threat to the Yuuzhan Vong. Shimmra promised to reward him, if Anor indeed managed to pull off his plot. In the days after his talk with Shimrra, Anor stole all of the components that he believed he would need for sabotaging the living world, save for Yim's qahsa which contained protocols that would help him with this task. With Harrar and Horn off on an expedition to the hyperdrive guidelines, Anor went off along to be in solitude, though he soon drifted back towards the camp so that he could overhear a conversation between the two females. Although he did not understand all of it, Anor heard Yim say that she had discovered the secret of Zonama Sekot. When the shaper left the shelter area to dwell on her thoughts, Anor shadowed her, and approached her when she had stopped among some trees.

Although Yim was eager to tell Anor what she had learned, Anor took off his masquer, revealing himself as an executor. In response, Yim stabbed at Anor with the whip-sting of her shaper hand, though Anor blocked the lethal weapon with his arm, with the sting drilling through it. After yanking Yim towards him with the whip-sting imbedded in his arm, Anor shot Yim with his plaeryin bol, causing the shaper to fall to the ground as her muscles seized up. Explaining to the dying Yim that he did not care what about she had discovered, and that he would kill Zonama Sekot soon, Anor beat Yim in the head with a rock multiple times to finish her, as he doubted his poison could kill the gifted shaper. However, although Anor beat Yim until she was motionless, the shaper managed to use the whip-sting to stab into Anor side during the struggle.

Finished his task, Anor took Yim's qahsa, which contained the protocols that would allow him to destroy Zonama Sekot, and departed for the hyperdrive field guides, as Shimrra's vessels were going to arrive within the day; with Yim out of the way, Anor only had to deal with Harrar and the two Jedi. Anor came to the hyperdrive field guides, and seeing where Harrar and Horn had entered the facility with a Jedi lightsaber, paused and watched the hole cut in the side of the facility before making the final approach. With his Prophet masquer back on so that he could continue to fool Harrar and Horn aboput his identity if he encountered them, the ex-executor entered the building and located the lifts that led down. Anor went into one of the lifts, but paused its decent briefly when he heard Harrar and Horn exit another lift; when he heard Harrar make a joke to the Jedi, Anor decided once and for all that Zonama Sekot was driving the priest crazy. Knowing that no one would be at the bottom of the lift to ambush him, Anor continued his decent via the lift.

After a long while, Anor reached the bottom of the lift shaft, and found himself in a room filled with machinery that helped operate the hyperdrive of the living world. Calling all the lifts down and weding their doors open with crates so no unwanted visitors would arrive, the former Propeht set about looking for an interface that connected the living world to the metal of the hyperdrive. Before long, Anor located the object of his search in the center of the room he had arrived in. It was a pillar covered in tightly woven neural strands, with those strands going down into the floor. Anor used Yim's qahsa to install a soldier virus on an incubator of his, and the former Prophet inserted the living organism into the pillar behind the neural strands, so that the incubator was unnoticeable. Anor sabotage would result in the failure of neural integuments to carry data effectively, leading to a feedback explosion in the core of the hyperdrive, which would prevent the planet from traveling and severely damage it.

His task done, Anor took off his masquer, and contacted the warrior Ushk Choka, who had been sent to retrieve Anor from the living world. The ex-executor convinced Choka, who was in orbit of the living world, to send down the lander even though Zonama Sekot was not neutralized yet. The warrior complied, stating that the lander would come for Anor in seven hours, around the time at which Anor's sabotage would become apparent.

As Yu'shaa, he then accompanied the Jedi Corran Horn and Tahiri Veila, the Yuuzhan Vong priest Harrar and Master Shaper Nen Yim to Zonama Sekot. While there, he changed his plans and decided to destroy the living planet. He contacted Shimrra and told him his plans in the hope that, if he could achieve his new goal, his previous failures would be forgiven. Pleased with what he heard, Shimrra told Nom Anor to go ahead with destroying the planet. Putting his plans into action, Nom Anor killed the heretic shaper Nen Yim, and pushed Harrar off a cliff. Unfortunately for Nom Anor, his plans failed, but he did manage to do a small amount of damage to Zonama Sekot. He was then forced to flee back to Yuuzhan'tar by Horn, Veila, and other Jedi. When he arrived, he was promoted to the position of Prefect of Yuuzhan'tar.



Escalation and demise
After his escalation&mdash;a surprising action that infuriated many other intendants&mdash;Shimrra began to develop a renewed interest in Nom Anor, something that High Prefect Drathul particularly resented. Drathul learned that the heretics were planning to disrupt a major sacrifice, and ordered Nom Anor to try and stop it. Nom Anor tried to dissuade the heretics from rebelling, but he could not stop them, as Kunra twisted his words. The movement he had helped create had taken a life of its own.

During the Galactic Alliance's assault on Yuuzhan'tar in 29 ABY, Shimrra placed him in charge of warriors tasked to destroy the heretics. Nom Anor once again took up the guise of Yu'Shaa and led the Shamed Ones in battle against the warriors, but only because he believed that Shimrra had gone insane, as well as to save himself from the wrath of Mara Jade Skywalker. After she caught up to him and defeated him, he informed her of a plan to infect Zonama Sekot with Alpha Red and assisted the Jedi and the Solos in locating Shimrra's Citadel, where Luke Skywalker, Jaina Solo and Jacen Solo were located.

After Shimrra and Onimi were defeated, he tried to kill all present by redirecting them into a waste disposal system. Jacen recognized what he was doing, and Nom Anor spat poison at him with the plaeryin bol, which Jacen instantly turned into water with the Force. He then attempted to board the escape pod, but Leia Organa Solo severed his left hand before he could. Stating that he had no place with either the Yuuzhan Vong or the Galactic Alliance, Nom Anor remained onboard Onimi's dying escape vessel above the planet, where he was killed once it had exploded above Coruscant.

Personality and traits
"Your specialty is propaganda and lies."

- Tsavong Lah

Nom Anor was ambitious, deceitful, and violent, but these traits were encouraged in Yuuzhan Vong society, and backstabbing was not only acceptable but praised if successful. Nom Anor himself believed that it was acceptable for his subordinates to possess traitorous thoughts but so long as they were loyal in the end.

But even by Yuuzhan Vong standards, Nom Anor was hardly ideal. While he denied being a coward, evidence consistently pointed out that Nom Anor greatly valued his own survival, a deplorable trait among the Yuuzhan Vong. His actions, taken to further his ambitions, were also extreme even by Yuuzhan Vong standards. Nom Anor also consistently blamed others for his failures instead of taking responsibility for them, a very un-Yuuzhan Vong-like trait.

But perhaps the most disturbing thing about Nom Anor&mdash;by Yuuzhan Vong standards&mdash;was his atheism. While the Yuuzhan Vong had committed atrocities for the glory of their gods, Nom Anor served only himself. He ultimately helped the Galactic Alliance in their struggle with the Yuuzhan Vong by helping to spread the Jeedai heresy and leading the rebellion of the Shamed Ones.

P&T notes

 * Lah thought that Anor considered himself a shaper. - BP
 * Anor did not believe that pain fed the gods. He claimed to serve Yun-Harla, but doubted her existence. In truth, he only served himself, and the chance of promotion. - BP
 * One Duro, Anor would have liked to see the look on Organa Solo's face when she discovered that the destruction of Settlement 32 had doomed her children. - BP
 * Anor visibly relished walking around without a masquer after he threw off his act as Cree-Ar. - BP
 * Anor disliked how talking through a gnullith-villip hybrid lessened the commanding tones in his voice by distorting it. - Rebirth
 * He felt vaguely sick using the blaster to kill Qau Lah and the other tow, in order to prevent word of his cowardice spreading. However, that did not stop him from committing the act. - Rebirth
 * Due to his time among the "infidels", things that would have normally disgusted a Yuuzhan Vong, such as metallic technologies, did not sicken Anor. However, he took care to appear as if they did. - Star by Star
 * Star by Star, pg 121, has some good stuff about living among the infidels for too long.
 * When summoned to the private warren of Lah, Anor was excited. - Star by Star
 * Anor's thought while sitting on the thorn seat was that Lah thought he liked the pain. -Star by Star
 * Anor never used a cognition throne, but he guessed that the blaze bugs gaged the Yuuzhan Vong forces as better in efficiency that the infidels when that may have not been the case. - Star by Star
 * Anor was deeply surprised as to how Vergere made Lah play dejarik. The Executor was also a fair hand at the game, and knew enough to recognize a master. - Star by Star
 * Vergere and Anor had an intense rivalry, with the two constantly bickering. - Star by Star
 * When verbally confronted by Lah for mistakes, Anor would try to weedle his way out of the warmaster's wrath with lies and the like. - Star by Star
 * Harrar's considered it un-Yuuzhan Vong like to foist blame on others, like Anor did. - Dark Journey
 * Khalee Lah and Harrar believed that Anor was taking the glory by delivering Jacen to the warmaster himself, when he should have pursued Jaina. - Dark Journey
 * Anor constantly earned the warmaster's ire by talking too much. - Enemy Lines #1
 * Anor believed truly that appearing faithful to a religion was better than being completely pious. - Traitor
 * Anor considered the pious easy to manipulate. - Traitor
 * Anor liked how efficient Yuuzhan Vong creations were in fulfilling their roles. - Traitor
 * Anor believed that shapers had it too good, and he found pleasure in riling Hool up about the Solo incident. - Traitor
 * After nearly being crushed by rubble after Solo went dark side mad, Anor berated Vergere in basic and prevented him self from trembling in order to hide that he was scared from the warriors. - Traitor
 * Nom Nom was fooled by Solo into semi-believing that the Jedi should be allowed near the World Brain. - Traitor
 * Nomitty was amused when visiting his coral craft that he had found another use for the offices of Palpatine. - Traitor
 * Anor broke down when Solo and Vergere stole his ship, first begging to go with them, before cursing them. - Traitor
 * Unlike most intendants, Anor's duties were more skewed towards reconnaissance and spying. Because of this, he sometimes forget that intendants were bureaucrat by nature. - Way
 * During his meeting with Jamaane in the Hall of Confluence, the Supreme Overlord's presence hurt Anor's mind and caused his verbal attempt to shrug off the blame of the Well incident to break down. It also caused Anor to panic. - Way
 * Anor was influenced by Jamaane to be angry after the Supreme Overlord accused Hool of botching the worldshaping. - Way
 * Curious enough to follow Onimi to the guarded damutek. - Way
 * Anor was shocked to learn that the eight cortex was empty. - Way
 * Since he did not want the New Republic to win because of this, he vowed to end the war quickly before this could affect the Vong war effort. - Way
 * Because he was Anor, he also wanted to use the knowledge to give him more power. -Way
 * Anor was smart enough to ignore Jamaane's mockery of him during the meeting after the failed ceremony. - Way
 * Anor despised Onimi, and frequently wanted to harm him due to the Shamed One's antics. - Way
 * Nom Nom completely trusted the information about the Final Redoubt, so much so that he offered his life if he was wrong. - Way
 * Anor was confident that Lah would win the battle until he realized that it was a trap. - Way
 * Anor realized that he had been expertly played by an intelligent person after the disaster at Ebaq occurred. - Way
 * Anor liked Skell, and hoped that the High Prefect survived when he hit him on the head with an amphistaff. However, Skell died. - Way
 * While talking alone with Jamaane, Anor would agree with what the Overlord said, even if he disagreed. - Ylesia
 * Anor was astounded by the brilliance of Jamaane's decision to have Sal-Solo become the Peace Brigade's leader. - Ylesia
 * NOM NOM was contemptuous that Sal-Solo thought he could sway Jamaane with his eloquence. - Ylesia
 * NOM NOM was angry due to his fall from grace, and still hated machines, though he tolerated living among them to survive. - Remnant
 * When I'pan wished to know if Anor was shamed, Anor was enraged, and beat the other Yuuzhan Vong. - Remnant
 * Due to Anor's long time among the infidels, he believed that he understood the enemy better than any other Yuuzhan Vong. - Remnant
 * Anor could not believe why any culture would bury the nature of a world completely under buildings, like on Coruscant. - Remnant
 * If Coruscant had not been at the center of the galaxy, and the New Republic' capital, then Anor would have not wished to conquer the planet. - Remnant
 * Scuttling through narrow underground spaces vaguely unnerved Anor. - Remnant
 * Anor was astonished that the Jeedai cult was alive and well on Coruscant. -Remnant
 * To survive in Shimmra's court, Anor had to learn how to talk warriors out of fighting him. - Remnant
 * While with the Shamed Ones, Anor's analysis of Niiriit's personality allowed him to predict her. - Remnant
 * Even though he had infiltrated the infidel society for many years, Anor still disliked the sharp edges of their buildings, such as the square rooms, as they were not natural. - Remnant
 * Anor recognized that his self-imposed exile did him a lot of physical good. - Remnant
 * Anor was decades old by the time that he fled after Ebaq. - Remnant
 * While in exile at first, Anor strove to find the source of the heresy, as it was his duty to eradicate it lest it toppled all that he had worked for. - Remnant
 * Anor considered Niiriit very dangerous, as she was a true fanatic believer in the Jedi heresy, and was a warrior as well. - Remnant
 * Because of years of backstabbing, Anor learned to be a light sleeper. During his exile with the Shamed Ones, Anor slept with his makeshift coufee within reach and his plaeryin bol ready to strike. - Remnant
 * When the Shamed Ones were being killed, Anor felt regret that they had to die, as they did help him survive. Niiriit's death affected Anor and he stopped thinking of her as a warrior, and instead as a Shamed One who fought for her friends. -Remnant
 * Anor learned to use pain as a goad over the years. - Remnant
 * Anor saved Kunra so the ex-warrior could serve him. - Remnant
 * Had Shoon-mi and Kunra refused to join him in spreading the word, Anor would have readily killed them, before working to get into another sect of the heresy. - Remnant
 * During his time as an Executor, he had never been able to speak honestly or openly in case the priests or the Supreme Overlord&mdash;or the gods&mdash; were offended. - Refugee
 * Anor was happy to spread the word of the heresy as long as it helped him get back on top. - Refugee
 * Anor kept the end of the Rapuung ceremony like I'pan had first taught it in order to remember the story's origins, and I'pan himself. - Refugee
 * Anor was constantly amused that he could manipulate the Shamed Ones so easily. - Refugee
 * During the war with the Jedi, Anor put a lot of thought into what the Force was, and refused to dismiss it like other Yuuzhan Vong did. - Refugee
 * Shoon-mi annoyed Anor because the Shamed One worked only for praise. - Refugee
 * One of the reasons that Anor did not kill Shoon-mi was because he felt like he owed Niiriit. - Refugee
 * NOM NOM didn't care how many spies died so that he could gain intelligence about what Shimrra was planning. - Refugee
 * Anor felt exposed without his intelligence reports, and sought to know what Shimrra was planning so he could know if the Supreme Overlord was going after him.- Refugee
 * Anor was shaken after he had to activate his plaeryin bol; he had always known that it would save his life someday. - Refugee
 * Anor trusted Kunra more than he did Shoon-mi. - Refugee
 * Though Anor realized that Ngaaluh could still be a double-agent, the opportunity to place an informant in Shimrra's court was to great to pass up. - Refugee
 * NOM was enormously happy when he could use Ngaaluh as an informant. - Refugee
 * Anor was quite confident after getting his informant that he could topple Shimrra. - Refugee
 * Although Anor was pleased with the spread of the heresy, he sometimes felt like Shimmra was not afraid of the heresy at all. - Reunion
 * Anor tolerated a bit of defiance in Kunra because the ex-warrior needed it to do his task. However, Anor did not tolerate it in Shoon-mi. - Reunion
 * Over his years as an Executor, Anor had handed out as many beatings as he had been given. - Reunion
 * Anor vowed that when he got powah he would punish all those who had inflicted pain on him over the years. - Reunion
 * Anor liked the throne in the audience rooms because he felt it gave him POWAH. However, he hid his enjoyment of this from the others. - Reunion
 * Although Anor sometimes wearied of the questions directed upon him by members of the heresy, he knew that the heresy was the only way to give him the power he needed. - Reunion
 * Anor was not certain what end goal the heresy had, and if it involved toppling Shimmra or not. - Reunion
 * Anor had to sometimes suppress himself from making out bursts when the heretics he was around talked like they actually believed the Jedi heresy. - Reunion
 * Anor learned to give compliments to his underlings so that he showed compassion. - Reunion
 * Anor found beauty in pain and ugliness, even after being among the Shamed Ones for so long. - Reunion
 * Anor was gleeful when he could turn Shimmra against his old enemies. - Reunion
 * Anor had adapted to the game of survival enough that he was awoken easily when others were in his room. - Reunion
 * During the assassination attempt, Anor thought up numerous methods to survive. - Reunion
 * Anor believed that fighting with blind rage did not accomplish anything. - Reunion
 * Although frightened by how close he was to death, Anor did not show it, and played for time. - Reunion
 * After the assassination attempt, Anor was filled with rage and suspicion. He was even suspicious of Kunra and Ngaaluh. - Reunion
 * Anor was annoyed that Kunra thought that he could have Anor's ear to himself after he saved the Prophet's life. - Reunion
 * Anor was tainted by Shoon-mi's betrayal. - Reunion
 * After Ngaaluh was killed, costing Anor an eye in Shimmra's court, Anor began to wonder how long it was until he would join the bodies in the pit. - Reunion
 * At the time that Anor preached to his followers of his vision of Zonama Sekot, Anor found that he was not as disgusted by their faces as he once was. - Final
 * Although Anor did not know for certain if Zonama Sekot existed, he still wove the rumors into a tale that he hoped could bring Shimmra down. - Final
 * Anor wanted to free Yim with the help of the Jedi so that if it failed, they would be blamed/killed, and not him. If it was a success, he could bring his own prophecy about. - Final
 * Although Tahiri saw that he was wearing a masquer, Anor was able to lie to the pair and give them an excuse. - Final
 * Anor didn't quite like that the two Jedi sent to get him were Horn and Veila, as they could potentially reveal him as the ex-executor. - Final
 * Anor decided to go through with the plan anyways, as his influence was slipping after Ngaaluh's death. - Final
 * Anor did not believe in ordained destiny, even though he preached it. He instead believed that destiny was created by shear force of will, which he thought he had lots of. - Final
 * Nom Nom did not want to digress back, and strived to push forward up the ladder of importance. (?) - Final
 * Anor was good enough at his role of the Prophet that he could fool Yim so that she thought him a simple Shamed One, in addition to the pair of Jedi that accompanied him to Zonama Sekot. - Final
 * When given Yim's qahsa, Anor felt like he had won a victory, but was unsure of what it got him. -Final
 * Anor was surprised to learn that his prophecy was actually true. - Final
 * When Anor saw a way to get back into Shimrra's good graces, he took it. - Final
 * Anor believed that sacrifices had to be made, for the good of everyone, and for the good of Nom Anor. - Final
 * When Anor got the transmission from Shimrra in the night, he decided against trying to kill Veila without waking the others, as he realized that was a foolish move. - Final
 * Anor found Shimmra's face quite terrifying. It scarred him enough that he almost chose to remain in his guise as the Prophet. - Final
 * Despite seeing Yim as a terrible loss to his people, Anor still killed the shaper to move his plans foreword. - Final
 * Anor realized the only way he managed to kill Yim was because he had taken her by surprise.- Final
 * When he heard Harrar make a joke to the Jedi, Anor decided once and for all that Zonama Sekot was driving the priest crazy, as the priest was joking about the use of machinery. - Final

Other notes

 * Apparently, Nom Nom secured the alliance of the Peace Brigade. Not sure where to put this. - Dark Journey
 * With Vergere and Anor gone, Maal Lah and Shesh filled in their spots. (This might be because Nom Nom and Birdy are off with Jacen) - Enemy Lines #1
 * Anor was trained in covert activism. - Reunion

Behind the scenes
Nom Anor first appeared as a shadowy figure of an unknown species in Crimson Empire II: Council of Blood. Author Mike Richardson planned for exposition of his character to lead into a planned Dark Horse Comics invasion storyline. One aspect of the "original" Nom Anor was that he would not have been a humanoid creature. However, when Del Rey took over what would become the New Jedi Order, Nom Anor's backstory was changed to fit in with the new planned invasion arc.

Nom Anor was not originally intended to be in the New Jedi Order. However, when R. A. Salvatore began writing The New Jedi Order: Vector Prime and his draft included a Yuuzhan Vong infiltrator who had long been stirring up trouble in the galaxy, Lucasfilm Ltd. decided to make it Anor.

After his "off-screen" death, many fans on the OS believed that Anor survived, with rumors that he would make a "sweeping return" in the Dark Nest Trilogy. While this has been proven untrue, many fans still believe that Anor survived and may still return some time in the Legacy era.

Nom Anor declined Corran Horn's challenge of a duel in Edge of Victory II: Rebirth, but Force Heretic I: Remnant and The Final Prophecy had both Nom Anor and Tahiri Veila remembering Nom Anor declining a challenge from Anakin Solo.

Appearances

 * Crimson Empire II: Council of Blood 1
 * Crimson Empire II: Council of Blood 2
 * Crimson Empire II: Council of Blood 3
 * Crimson Empire II: Council of Blood 5
 * Crimson Empire II: Council of Blood 6
 * Crimson Empire III: Empire Lost 1
 * Crimson Empire III: Empire Lost 2
 * Boba Fett: A Practical Man
 * The New Jedi Order: Vector Prime
 * Star Wars: Chewbacca 4
 * Dark Tide I: Onslaught
 * Dark Tide II: Ruin
 * Agents of Chaos I: Hero's Trial
 * Agents of Chaos II: Jedi Eclipse
 * Balance Point
 * Edge of Victory II: Rebirth
 * Star by Star
 * Dark Journey
 * Enemy Lines I: Rebel Dream
 * Traitor
 * Destiny's Way
 * Ylesia
 * Force Heretic I: Remnant
 * Force Heretic II: Refugee
 * Force Heretic III: Reunion
 * The Final Prophecy
 * The Unifying Force