User:Grand Moff Tranner/Sandbox

Welcome to my sandbox. Here I'll be working on articles in an effort to get them to FA or GA status. Feel free to leave any comments on the relevant talk page. See my resume for articles that have reached either FA or GA status.

Projects done: Kendal Ozzel, Osvald Teshik, Titus Klev, Faro Argyus, Chiraneau, Ozzik Sturn, Unidentified Imperial captain (asteroid victim), Mar Tuuk, Unidentified Imperial II-class Star Destroyer (asteroid collision), Tiaan Jerjerrod, Sigma-class long-range shuttle, Banjeer, Rulf Yage, Green Wing, Unidentified Jedi (Sacking of Coruscant), Unidentified Sith Lord (Sacking of Coruscant), Unidentified Neimoidian captain, KRONOS-327, Drikl Lecersen, Lorth Needa, Evax, Knighthunters, Quille, Berrus, Nouane, T-6 shuttle, Nouane system, R3-T6, Nouane (Allied Region)

=Intimidator=

"Such a splendid vessel. The sight of it still inspires my blood."

- Tal Fraan

The Intimidator was an Imperial Executor-class Star Dreadnought used by the Imperial Navy's Black Sword Command. Originally undergoing work at a shipyard in the Core Worlds, it was transferred to the Black-15 shipyard above the planet N'zoth in the Koornacht Cluster to free up space for similar-sized warships. Eight months following the Alliance victory at Battle of Endor in 4 ABY, the Intimidator and all warships present were seized by the native Yevetha workers under resistance leader Nil Spaar as part of their mutiny against the oppressive Imperials, who had been in the process of withdrawing all military personnel and equipment from the Cluster.

Renamed the Pride of Yevetha, the Super Star Destroyer served as Viceroy Spaar's flagship during the Black Fleet Crisis, which pitted his Duskhan League against the New Republic under Chief of State Leia Organa Solo. In 16 ABY, the Pride was one of numerous Duskhan League vessels that participated in the Great Purge, an ethnic cleansing of the Koornacht Cluster enacted by the xenophobic Yevetha. In an effort to determine the strength of the Duskhan League's forces, several New Republic reconnaissance flights were sent into the Koornacht Cluster. A lone Republic pilot was sent to the N'zoth system, where the Pride of Yevetha was located. As the data of the five-minute flight was analyzed on Coruscant, Chief of State Solo and all others present were shocked to learn that the Yevetha were in possession of a Star Dreadnought. The Pride spent the remainder of its time in Yevethan hands above N'zoth, its detention blocks converted into breederies for Spaar's children and its cargo bays utilized as mass holding cells for prisoners.

Unbeknown to the Yevetha, the Imperial captives of Camp Pa'aal Squadron had spent their thirteen years of captivity installing slave circuitry into the Imperial-designed ships, including the Intimidator, in preparation for a revolt. Their work was completed by 17 ABY, just as a combined New Republic fleet arrived in the N'zoth system with an ultimatum for Spaar. Before the two fleets could begin the Battle of N'zoth, Imperial leader Sil Sorannan assumed command of the Intimidator and activated the slave circuitry, bringing all the Imperial warships into hyperspace with the Imperial throne world of Byss, in the Deep Core, as their destination. However, Byss has been destroyed six years earlier, and gradually the elements of the Black Fleet went their separate ways. The Intimidator disappeared completely; it was discovered four years later near the Unknown Regions, abandoned and destroyed.

Description
"Now, that, that can only be the Intimidator. All of the late-production Super-class had that additional shield tower located on the centerline&mdash;"

- Ayddar Nylykerka

The Intimidator was a 19,000-meter-long Executor-class Star Dreadnought, though like its sister ships, the warship was sometimes referred to as a Super-class Star Destroyer. The Intimidator was modified beyond its stock statistics; among its improvements was an additional shield generator mounted on the ship's midline. During the destroyer's time in the hands of the Yevetha, the Imperial captives of Camp Pa'aal Squadron installed slave circuitry, a feature that enabled one person to assume remote command of an entire fleet's worth of slaved ships, into the Intimidator and the other ships of the Black Fleet. The installation of the slave circuitry had been done piecemeal during their decade of captivity, and the last necessary components were assembled and delivered to their respective ships in 17 ABY in preparation for an Imperial revolt.

The Yevetha also made several modifications to the Intimidator. Darama Nil Spaar had three of the warship's detention blocks transformed into breederies for his offspring, each possessing forty-eight alcoves serving as birth-casks. For the purpose of housing prisoners, three of the Pride of Yevetha cargo bays were converted into large holding cells, with minimal facilities capable of supporting a thousand beings. The breederies and holding cells were completed by 16 ABY.

Docked at the Black-15 shipyard
"Tell the crew that they are the prisoners of the Yevetha Protectorate and His Glory the viceroy. Tell them that beginning today, their lives depend on their being useful to us."

- Nil Spaar

The Intimidator was one of three Super-class warships assigned to the Black Fleet of Black Sword Command, a command unit within the Imperial Military assigned to the defense of the Core Worlds. Eight months following the death of Emperor Palpatine at the Battle of Endor in 4 ABY, the Intimidator was stationed at the Black-15 shipyard above the Yevetha homeworld of N'zoth in the Koornacht Cluster, where it had been transferred from the Core Worlds to free up the necessary amount of space for construction of another Super-class vessel. Out of the nine ships undergoing repairs at the dock, only the Intimidator was spaceworthy.

When Imperial garrison commander Jian Paret received an order to withdraw all military personnel and destroy whatever had to be left behind, Paret used the Intimidator as his command ship during the evacuation, having moved to it within an hour after receiving his orders. However, with only one-third of a crew aboard, and the need to transfer all of the garrison's assets and personnel to the warship before destroying the repair yard, Paret was unable to leave as quickly as he had wanted. However, to avoid any potential hostile moves from the predominantly Yevetha work force, Paret hid the true nature of the Imperial evacuation behind the facade of a departure drill.

However, Yevetha underground leader Nil Spaar knew of the imminent Imperial withdrawal, and had chosen the time to seize the Black-15 shipyard and all of the vessels present as part of a plan five years in the making. With the transfer of the Victory-class Star Destroyer Harridan from patrol duty to active service at the battlefield at Notak, Spaar saw that the Imperials were essentially defenseless. In Sections 17 and 21 of the Intimidator, over a dozen external hatches were rigged to report their status as secured and sealed during an emergency battle-stations lockdown. The Yevetha leader had taken additional precautions should the ship attempt to escape&mdash;a package of explosives, disarmed only by a constant signal, would destroy the ship if the shields were activated, blocking the signal and detonating the bombs. With these measures in place, two Yevetha commando teams&mdash;one led by Spaar and the other by his second in command, Dar Bille&mdash;boarded the Intimidator through the rigged hatches. Silently and quickly, the two teams converged on the bridge without having to fire a single shot. When they breached the command deck, they killed seven of the crew present before securing the remainder.

As the events unfolded, Imperial Governor Crollick's shuttle and a convoy of Imperial transports rose from N'zoth's surface toward the Intimidator as the warship slid out of her berth at the shipyard. When the transports began decelerating in preparation for docking, Spaar ordered all of the warship's autotargetting batteries to open fire on the inbound ships, a move that killed twenty thousand soldiers, technicians, bureaucrats, and families. Spaar concluded the bloodshed by taking Paret and executing the commander with his dew claw, a retractable blade that emerged from a Yevetha's wrist. The Yevetha leader wasted no time in announcing that the remaining crew were now the prisoners of the Yevetha Protectorate. The other eight Star Destroyers present at the shipyard were also captured. The captive Imperials, approximately three hundred thousand crew members from the Intimidator and the Victory-class Star Destroyer Valorous, were transferred to Pa'aal, the primary moon of N'zoth, to serve the Yevetha in operating and constructing their warships.

In the service of the Yevetha
"Is it not invigorating, to see how much power has passed into the hands of the Blessed? Can any doubt that we are the children of the All, the inheritors of the ancient glory? How far shall that glory carry us, my young disciple? How much shall we claim with our ambition?"

- Nil Spaar, to Tal Fraan

By 16 ABY&mdash;twelve years after the failed Imperial evacuation of N'zoth&mdash;the Yevetha had learned how to operate the captured ships from their onetime oppressors, now prisoners themselves. The Intimidator had been renamed Pride of Yevetha and was pressed into service as the flagship of Darama Nil Spaar, viceroy of the Duskhan League. At the time, Dar Bille served as the primate of the warship, and Spaar's personal staff&mdash;including his primary and secondary mates; his first attaché Eri Palle; and Vor Duull, the proctor of information science from the thrustship Aramadia&mdash;were transferred to the Pride as well. It was from the bride of the Pride that Bille, acting on the orders of Spaar, ordered the Yevethan warships to begin the Great Purge, an ethnic cleansing of the Koornacht Cluster. The Super Star Destroyer participated in the extermination of a colony of Kubaz at Morning's Bell and the capture of a former Imperial factory farm at Pirol-5 while the rest of the Black Fleet succeeded in ridding the Cluster of the foreign "vermin."

Though New Republic Chief of State Leia Organa Solo was appalled by the Duskhan League's actions, the New Republic could not defend the conquered worlds of the Koornacht Cluster, as they were not members of the galactic government. Certain members of the New Republic Senate were directly opposed to Republic involvement in the conflict, but Organa Solo nonetheless issued an ultimatum for Viceroy Spaar&mdash;the Duskhan League was to withdraw from the worlds it had seized, or the New Republic would declare war. Spaar would not back down, however; the New Republic was unaware of the League's full military strength and the existence of the Intimidator, which Spaar could use to his advantage. The New Republic made the first move with a blockade of Doornik-319 that proved disastrous and prompted members of the Senate to move against the Chief of State.

While this internal strife continued, several reconnaissance flights were made into the Koornacht Cluster to ascertain the Duskhan League's military strength. Lieutenant Rone Taggar of the New Republic Fifth Fleet's 21st Reconnaissance Wing was dispatched in his Recon-X starfighter Jennie Lee to the N'zoth system to record statistical data on the Yevethan forces present. As the five-minute flight proceeded, the Jennie Lee's onboard R2-R unit was able to identify Aramadia-class thrustships, Victory-class and Imperial-class Star Destroyers, and a lone Executor-class Star Dreadnought&mdash;the Pride of Yevetha. Taggar's data, along with that of the other recon flights throughout the Cluster, was transmitted to the New Republic Defense Force headquarters, where it was reviewed by Chief of State Organa Solo, the Mon Calamari Admiral Ackbar, and others. The Tammarian officer Ayddar Nylykerka from the Asset Tracking Office, who was on hand to identify the warships of the Black Fleet, was the one who confirmed the presence of the Intimidator, deducing the ship's identity from the additional shield generator tower on the warship's centerline&mdash;a trait common to all late-production Executor-class ships. All present to hear the Tammarian's revelation realized that nothing in the New Republic's fleet could outmatch a Super Star Destroyer.

In preparations for war with the Yevetha, the Chief of State dispatched her husband, Commodore Han Solo, to assume command of the New Republic Fifth Fleet. En route, he was captured by the Yevetha and imprisoned on N'zoth. He was later transferred to one of the Pride of Yevetha unused cargo areas, where he and the other captives were intended to be used as living shields in the case of a Republic attack. Unbeknown to the Yevetha, members of the Fallanassi, a Force-based religion whose members were adept at creating illusions, had managed to rescue most of the prisoners before their transfer to the Super Star Destroyer. A few Fallanassi had stayed behind in order to project the illusion that all the captives were still present.

Spaar used the bridge of the Pride of Yevetha as the backdrop of a holorecording designed to lead the Republic into believing that a "Grand Imperial Union" under a Moff "Tragg Brathis" had entered into a mutual agreement with the Duskhan League. The Mon Calamari Admiral Ackbar was able to confirm that both the Grand Imperial Union and Moff Brathis were non-existent, falsifications fabricated by Spaar, but the presence of a sizable amount of Imperial Star Destroyers in the recording was still enough to concern the Republic's leadership.

Meanwhile, the Wookiee Chewbacca and members of his family, including his son Lumpawarrump and cousins Jowdrrl, Shoran, and Dryanta, launched a rescue mission to retrieve Solo from the Pride in the N'zoth system, using Republic Fleet Intelligence information&mdash;such as a technical readout of a Super Star Destroyer&mdash;provided by the Yao information broker Formayj. Piloting the light freighter Millennium Falcon, Chewbacca utilized firecracker mines to blind the destroyer's sensors, allowing him to perform a quick in-system hyperspace jump that brought him to eleven hundred meters off the Pride starboard bow without the gun batteries being able to track him. The Wookiees utilized a hull-cutting ring to board the warship, and Chewbacca, Shoran, and Lumpawarrump traversed through the destroyer's converted detention blocks, severely damaging the breederies in the process. The strike team eventually arriving at the cargo hold where Solo was being kept. With Solo freed, the group escaped in the Falcon, leaving many of the warship's Yevetha crew and soldiers dead from the raid.

Following the attack, Spaar focused on replenishing the breederies, but this task was interrupted when three Republic stasis probes&mdash;harbingers of an impending Republic attack&mdash;arrived in the N'zoth system. Spaar rushed to the bridge and ordered that the Pride break orbit to intercept and destroy the probes, despite Proctor of Defense Tho Voota's fears that N'zoth would be left undefended. As the Pride moved forward, the New Republic fleet emerged from hyperspace, just out of range of the Yevethan fleet's batteries. Republic General Etahn A'baht used the opportunity to deliver a final ultimatum to the Yevetha viceroy.

The Empire strikes back
"We've been here too long already&mdash;nearly thirteen years on a nine-month detail. No, General. This is good-bye. We are taking back what is ours, starting with our freedom and these ships. We leave the Yevetha to you."

- Sil Sorannan, to General A'baht

From the flagship's fire control center, the Imperial resistance leader, Major Sil Sorannan, listened patiently, marveling at how the New Republic had matured from the hit-and-run tactics of its predecessor, the Rebel Alliance. When the Pride of Yevetha was merely a minute away from being able to fire upon the nearest Republic vessel, Spaar issued his own challenge; simultaneously, Sorannan began his revolt. Using the slave circuitry he and his Imperial allies had installed over the time of their captivity, Sorannan assumed command of the Black Fleet, bringing all the Star Destroyers to a halt. While the Yevethan ships continued their attack, Sorannan&mdash;identifying himself as acting captain of the Intimidator&mdash;contacted A'baht and informed him that his Camp Pa'aal Squadron was leaving the battle. The long-delayed withdrawal of Black Sword Command was finally completed when the Star Destroyers made the jump to hyperspace, the Imperial throne world of Byss, in the Deep Core, as their destination.

Though the heart of their fleet was gone, they were now outnumbered five to one, and Spaar had been aboard the Intimidator when it departed, the Yevetha nonetheless engaged the New Republic fleet with what they had left: D-type trifoil fighters and 44 Aramadia-class thrustships. After inflicting heavy casualties, the Yevethan force was obliterated, and the Black Fleet Crisis came to an end. Nil Spaar was taken captives by the Imperials aboard the Intimidator; in revenge for the years of servitude, Sorannan had Spaar placed in an escape pod and launched into hyperspace, where he would eventually die and from which his remains would never be recovered. The Black Fleet eventually arrived in the Beshqek system, but where Byss had once been was merely an asteroid field, created after the throne world had been destroyed by the Galaxy Gun superweapon approximately six years earlier. After a month, the fleet dispersed&mdash;some elements defected to the New Republic, while other warships joined up with some of the surviving factions of the Empire. The Intimidator vanished entirely; it was discovered four years later near the Unknown Regions, abandoned and irreparably damaged.

Commanders and crew
Before the Yevethan revolt, the Intimidator was crewed by one-third of the amount of personnel required to operate the ship. Approximately thirteen years later, in its service to the Duskhan League, the Pride of Yevetha personnel included over 15,000 Yevetha and 513 veterans from Black Sword Command.

Jian Paret
Jian Paret was the commander of the Imperial garrison on N'zoth in 4 ABY, and supervisor of Black Sword Command's withdrawal from the N'zoth system. He took the Intimidator as his command ship during the retreat, as it was the only spaceworthy vessel present at the Black-15 shipyard. Paret was captured during the Yevetha takeover of the Super Star Destroyer, and he watched helplessly as the Yevetha turned the warship's gun batteries on the evacuation shuttles. Immediately after, Nil Spaar executed him with a slash of the Yevetha's dew claw.

Nil Spaar


Nil Spaar, before becoming viceroy of the Duskhan League, was a Yevetha resistance leader who personally led the uprising that captured the Intimidator. By 16 ABY, he had ascended to the position of viceroy and was regarded as the darama, or chosen one. In the same year, he took the renamed Pride of Yevetha as his flagship, transferring most of the crew from his previous flagship, the thrustship Aramadia, to the Super Star Destroyer, including his attaché Eri Palle, Proctor of Information Science Vor Duull, his breeding mates, and his honor guard. The viceroy had three of his flagship's detention blocks converted into breederies for his children. Brutal and xenophobic, Spaar oversaw the "cleansing" of the Koornacht Cluster and manipulated strife within the New Republic Senate to his advantage. His plans came to an abrupt halt when the Imperials of Camp Pa'aal Squadron revolted and assumed control of the Black Fleet, taking Spaar captive in the process. Sil Sorannan put Spaar in an escape pod and launched him out into hyperspace, from which he would never be recovered.

Dar Bille
Dar Bille served as Spaar's second in command during the Yevetha uprising, leading the second of two commando teams in the capture of the Intimidator during the failed Imperial withdrawal. Twelve years later, he was the primate, or commander, of the Pride of Yevetha during its operational service with the Duskhan League. Bille oversaw the Pride participation in the Great Purge, and he was still in command when the warship was seized by Camp Pa'aal Squadron during the Battle of N'zoth.

Sil Sorannan
Sil Sorannan served as a major in Black Sword Command, having previously worked with a research team attempting to drop bombs from hyperspace and into realspace. During the Yevetha uprising, Sorannan was one of the three hundred thousand Imperials captured and forced to aid the Yevetha in operating their newly-acquired warships. Over time, Sorannan became the leader of Camp Pa'aal Squadron, the Imperial resistance movement. He oversaw the construction and distribution of the slave circuit technology that, when the time was right, would give him complete control of the Black Fleet. While aboard the Pride of Yevetha&mdash;which he often had to remind himself was properly known as the Intimidator&mdash;he served in the fire control center of the destroyer, maintaining the data server for target registry. Before the Battle of N'zoth could properly commence, Sorannan began his revolt and assumed command as acting captain of the Intimidator. He activated the slave circuitry, tasking the Imperial warships with jumping into hyperspace and heading for the Imperial throne world Byss. En route, he utilized his experience of dropping bombs into hyperspace when he left Nil Spaar stranded there in an escape pod.

Behind the scenes
The Intimidator first appeared in the novel Before the Storm, the first book of The Black Fleet Crisis trilogy, written by Michael P. Kube-McDowell and released in 1996. The warship would go on to appear in the other two books of the trilogy and be mentioned in later sourcebooks, which revealed its fate following the Battle of N'zoth. The Intimidator received its first visual depiction in The Official Star Wars Fact File 22, released in May of 2002, six years after the publication of Before the Storm.

Though the warship is continually referred to as a "Super-class Star Destroyer" throughout the trilogy, the second book in the series, Shield of Lies, was the first to provide the designation "Executor-class Star Destroyer" for the Intimidator and her sister ships. However, recent sources such as the StarWars.com Databank's Super Star Destroyer entry and an article on the Wizards of the Coast website have updated the name as "Executor-class Star Dreadnought," in addition to increasing the length of the class from 8,000 meters (as reported in the books of the trilogy) to 19,000 meters. This article reflects these changes.

Though Before the Storm and Tyrant's Test make it clear that the majority of the Intimidator Imperial crew was captured during the Yevetha revolt, both the Star Wars Encyclopedia and A Guide to the Star Wars Universe, Third Edition state that the entire crew was killed during the takeover.

Appearances

 * Before the Storm
 * Shield of Lies
 * Tyrant's Test
 * Agents of Chaos I: Hero's Trial

Notes and references
=Sim Aloo=

Sim Aloo was a Force-sensitive Human male advisor in the Office of the Supreme Chancellor, serving Supreme Chancellor Palpatine in the final years of the Galactic Republic, during the Clone Wars. In 19 BBY, he was present on Coruscant just before a Separatist attack on the capital world. Days later, Palpatine reorganized the Republic into the Galactic Empire; Aloo remained as an advisor to the new Emperor, serving as his senior political advisor in the Inner Circle for the duration of the Imperial era. Palpatine constantly kept his advisors at odds with one another, as they each possessed considerable power.

In 4 ABY, as part of a ruse to trap and destroy the Rebel Alliance, Palpatine journeyed to the incomplete second Death Star in the Endor system. He was accompanied by six of his advisors, Aloo included. At one point during their time aboard the Death Star, Palpatine conferred with Aloo and Janus Greejatus in his throne room. Meanwhile, the Alliance had learned of the existence of the second Death Star and the Emperor's presence aboard it, and&mdash;unknowingly taking the bait&mdash;launched an attack on the construction site. Contrary to Palpatine's expectations of an easy Imperial victory, the battle culminated with the destruction of the battlestation and the Emperor's death.

Serving Chancellor Palpatine
Sim Aloo was a Force-sensitive Human male from Coruscant, the capital planet of the Galactic Republic. By the climax of the Clone Wars in 19 BBY, he was serving as an advisor to Supreme Chancellor Palpatine as a member of the Office of the Supreme Chancellor. He was present among other members of the office, including fellow advisors Janus Greejatus and Sate Pestage, in a meeting with the Chancellor. Together, they held up a group of delegates from the Loyalist Committee&mdash;led by Senators Bail Organa of Alderaan, Mon Mothma of Chandrila, and Padmé Amidala of Naboo&mdash;who had previously scheduled an appointment with the Chancellor. The Loyalists had grown weary of Palpatine's amendments to the Constitution, and Organa specifically had noted that the Chancellor's tendency to isolate himself among his advisors was peculiar.

Advisor to the Emperor
Days later, as the Clone Wars reached its climax, Palpatine reorganized the Republic into the first Galactic Empire, with himself as Emperor for life. The transition had little effect on Aloo, who remained as an advisor in Palpatine's Inner Circle, a group of ministers and governors who had secured Palpatine's favor. Aloo was one of a select group of advisors who were allowed to privately discuss matters with the Emperor. Noted for his wisdom and patience, he became the Emperor's senior political advisor, though he often remained silent. At one point, Aloo and Greejatus were featured in an advertisement for BlasTech Industries.

Aloo and his fellow advisors held considerable power, second only to Palpatine, within the command structure of the Empire. They were loyal to the Emperor, but the collective group of advisors, hundreds in all, was internally divided. The Emperor promoted this competition and, in an effort to dissuade any alliances between his consultants and instead fuel competition, assigned each advisor the task of governing another advisor's home star system. The Emperor managed to control the members of his inner circle through a web of fear and uncertainty. Palpatine often isolated advisors when they were not performing important tasks; he sent them off on missions throughout the galaxy to perform such duties as gathering intelligence or overseeing certain aspects of the Empire. To further divide the advisors, the Emperor deliberately only met with up to a dozen at a time. Aloo, as the Emperor's senior political consultant, was one of the select few that continually met with the Emperor, making lesser advisors feel insecure.

In 4 ABY, as the second Death Star neared completion above the forest moon of Endor, Palpatine journeyed to the battlestation as part of an elaborate ploy to destroy the Rebel Alliance. Aloo and a cadre of advisors accompanied the Emperor on this trip. Upon their arrival in one of the Death Star's massive docking bays, they were greeted by an assemblage of Imperial personnel and soldiers as they disembarked from the Emperor's shuttle. Aloo and the advisors joined file behind the Emperor, his apprentice Darth Vader, and a group of Imperial officers as they departed the hangar for the Emperor's throne room.

Within the throne room, Aloo and fellow advisor Janus Greejatus met with the Emperor, and were soon joined by Darth Vader and Moff Tiaan Jerjerrod, commander of the Death Star. During the meeting, the Emperor instructed Vader to move the Imperial fleet to the far side of Endor, where it would remain until the Rebels launched their attack. Though Vader voiced his concerns of the Rebel fleet massing near Sullust, the Emperor shrugged them off, confident that his trap would successfully see the end of the Rebellion. The Alliance soon launched its assault, but the Battle of Endor ended differently than the Emperor had planned. By the time it was all over, Palpatine had died at the hands of Anakin Skywalker&mdash;redeemed by his son, Luke&mdash;and the Death Star was destroyed, killing all aboard.

Personality and traits
As the senior political advisor to Palpatine, Sim Aloo almost never spoke and displayed considerable wisdom and patience. Like fellow advisor Janus Greejatus, Aloo was Force-sensitive. Aloo was vain; he wore lavish clothing that was representative of his homeworld's history. Collectively, the Imperial advisors were loyal to the Emperor, but&mdash;among each other&mdash;politically divided and insecure, always at one another's throats.

Behind the scenes
Portrayed by an unidentified extra, Sim Aloo first appeared in 1983's Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi as an unnamed Imperial dignitary accompanying Emperor Palpatine to the second Death Star. Details of the Imperial advisor&mdash;including his name&mdash;would go unknown until July of 2000, with the release of the Death Star II Limited expansion set of the Star Wars Customizable Card Game.

Non-canon biography
"Something troubles you, my lord?"

- Sim Aloo

Sim Aloo plays a minor role in the non-canon The Return of Tag & Bink: Special Edition, in two scenes aboard the second Death Star. Like in the movie, Aloo is part of the docking bay procession following the Emperor's arrival. The procession differs from that of the film in that Aloo and Greejatus are the only advisors present, and that there are a few additions: namely, protagonists Tag Greenley and Bink Otauna (disguised as Royal Guards) and two Cylons from Battlestar Galactica. Aloo and Greejatus later appear in the Emperor's throne room, where they discuss Palpatine's disappointment of what Darth Vader had become after his "accident".

Appearances

 * Labyrinth of Evil
 * Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
 * The Return of Tag & Bink: Special Edition

Notes and references
=Potential Upcoming Projects=
 * Blue Wing
 * OS-72-10
 * Sander Delvardus (Darksaber pgs. 144-156; Coruscant and the Core Worlds pg. 111)
 * Eclipse II
 * Megador
 * Delak Krennel
 * Foga Brill
 * Exactor
 * Danetta Pitta
 * Josef Grunger

Other projects

 * Wullf Yularen
 * CS-1004
 * Lott Dod
 * Nouane (Allied Region)
 * Battle of Nouane