Nom Anor

Nom Anor is a Yuuzhan Vong character who was responsible for most of the Yuuzhan Vong invasion of the galaxy. He was a talented Intendant whose bioengineering skills rivaled those of the skilled Shapers of his people. He has crafted organic tools of cloak and dagger, and created a deadly virus with which he afflicted Mara Jade Skywalker. Even when stripped of his weapons, Nom Anor is not unarmed because his eye socket conceals a plaeryin bol which is a creature capable of spitting deadly venom.

Nom Anor operated as both a subtle manipulator and a political firebrand, disrupting the politics of local systems and stirring up trouble for the New Republic and the New Jedi Order. He controlled Xandel Carivus, a key member of the Imperial Interim Council that replaced the Empire after the death of Palpatine's final clone. His behind-the-scenes actions helped hasten the eventual downfall of the fragmented Empire.

Nom Anor disappeared for years, reappearing on the planet Rhommamool as the leader of the Red Knights of Life extremist group. His heated rhetoric against droids, Technology and the Jedi was essential in straining the delicate peace between Rhommamool and her sister planet Osarian. As the crisis escalated on the two worlds, he vanished again by faking his own death.

Shortly after the Rhommamool incident, the Yuuzhan Vong invasion began in force. The first incursion, led by members of the Intendant Caste, was deemed a failure, and Anor's status was tainted by association. The next Yuuzhan Vong wave consisted of the Warrior Caste.

Nom Anor forged tenuous alliances in an effort to smooth differences between him and the Warrior Caste who distrusted the Intendant. Nom Anor then hatched a scheme to use a defector to defeat the Jedi, but this plot failed. Nom Anor then succeeded in bringing the Hutts into the Yuuzhan Vong fold as allies. Knowing well that the Hutts were not to be trusted, Anor used them to provide the New Republic with disinformation. Nom Anor was finally able to redeem himself in Warmaster Tsavong Lah's eyes by devastating and capturing Duro. It was a hollow victory, as the Warmaster did not promote him, and the Intendant then found himself competing with Vergere, Tsavong Lah's unlikely alien underling and advisor.

Upon the discovery that Jacen and Jaina Solo were twins -- a relationship of great significance in Yuuzhan Vong mythology -- the Warmaster tasked Nom Anor and Vergere with capturing the Solo children. The opportunity came when the Solos infiltrated the heart of a Yuuzhan Vong operation on Myrkr. By the end of the mission, Anakin Solo was dead, Jaina Solo had escaped, but Jacen Solo had been captured. Nom Anor intended to twist Jacen Solo into the instrument of Jaina Solo's destruction, fulfilling an ancient Yuuzhan Vong prophecy when one twin sacrificed the other. However, Jacen proved difficult to break. Aided by the traitorous Vergere, Jacen escaped his captivity into the overgrown wilds of a Vongformed Coruscant. Nom Anor led the force to recapture him, but failed. Jacen Solo's succeeded in sabotaging the Vongforming of Coruscant, and the Yuuzhan Vong visions of perfection and infallibility began to erode.

For advocating the disastrous attack on Ebaq 9, Nom Anor angered Supreme Overlord Shimrra who wanted him sacfificed. Nom Anor was on the run from a wrathful Nom Anor. He donned an Ooglith Masquer and infiltrated a Shamed Ones Heresy group. He then claimed that he was Yu'Shaa, a Yuuzhan Vong prophet and preached salvation by the living planet Zonama Sekot to the oppressed Yuuzhan Vong underclass. This heresy even infiltrated Shimrra's court. Yu'Shaa then accompanied Luke Skywalker, Mara Jade along with a group of Jedi and the Yuuzhan Vong Harrar and Nen Yin to Zonama Sekot with the intention of destroying the living planet. That plot failed though he escaped backed to Yuuzhan'tar where he was promoted to the position of Prefect of Yuuzhan'tar. During the Galactic Alliance assault on Yuuzhan'tar. Nom Anor died when Onimi's ship crashed. Though he died in the novel The Unifying Force, he might resurface in Troy Denning's Dark Nest Trilogy.