Silri

"I BRING DARKNESS!"

- Silri

Silri was a powerful Nightsister, a dark side witch of Dathomir. She worked for Tyber Zann and his criminal syndicate, the Zann Consortium, in the time following the Battle of Yavin in the hopes of being able to witness and partake in the destruction that Zann intended on causing. In combat, she utilized dark side powers, such as Drain Life, and also a lightwhip, an exotic variant of the traditional lightsaber. Silri also had a pet rancor, Cuddles, that she could summon during battle.

Biography
"For that you will DIE!"

- Silri

Imprisonment and rescue
After the Battle of Yavin, Silri and many Nightsisters were taken captive by Imperial Stormtroopers on Dathomir in an attempt by the Imperial Governor to control them. However, his threats to execute the witch prisoners failed to tame the spirits of the Nightsisters, who rebelled. Meanwhile, Tyber Zann managed to procure an unknown Sith artifact, eventually revealed to be a Sith holocron, from Jabba the Hutt. After exhausting many sources of information to find the secrets of the Sith artifact, he learned of the Dark Side witches of Dathomir, and how the Emperor feared them so much that he'd interdicted their planet with a fleet of Star Destroyers. In a swift covert strike, Tyber Zann and his lieutenant, Urai Fen, exfiltrated Silri from Dathomir, freeing her, and in return, she promised to unlock the holocron.

This alliance was only transitory. Even before Zann and Urai Fen rescued her and took her off planet, they began to distrust her. Later, she claimed to have decoded the holocron and claimed that it was merely a star map, showing systems that had been mapped centuries ago.



When Zann took a fleet to Carida to sell the artifact to an imperial connection he was promised by Prince Xizor, the holocron that Silri was attempting to unlock was stolen by Galactic Empire tactical genius Grand Admiral Thrawn, when Bossk, a bounty hunter purportedly working for the Consortium, betrayed his employers. However, this was arranged by the crafty Zann, who ordered his fleet not to fire on Bossk.

Later, Zann took Fen and Silri to raid Emperor Palpatine's private vault on Coruscant. Zann's main goal was to find the passkey to the Emperor's files, to access the locations of the credit-filled Imperial vaults, but Silri, contrary to plan, skirted her duty to guard the transport and stole the artifact, fighting off three generations of Dark Trooper models. Intending to run off with it herself, she met up with Zann and Urai and was forced to go along with them. The small group encountered many Royal Guard and finally battled a Dark Jedi who had mastered the skill of teleportation. Fortunately, Zann had a Ysalamiri with him and the Dark Jedi was killed. A Juggernaut was hijacked aiding the quartet in their escape.



On the way back from the narrow escape from Coruscant, Silri sensed the deaths of Emperor Palpatine and Darth Vader at the Battle of Endor, and informed Zann about it. Deciding it was time to steal the Eclipse, Zann launched a massive assault on Kuat. Silri was present in the boarding party which overtook the Eclipse. Soon after the massive battle was over, with Zann's forces victorious.

The Sith army
As they pilfered the accounts of the Empire, Silri managed to decode the rest of the holocron and then fled from the battle to come as Imperial forces converged on the Eclipse, not willing to let it fall into Consortium hands. Fleeing, Silri followed the holocron's clues, which led her to an unknown system where the witch discovered what appeared to be the remains of an ancient Sith army, frozen in carbonite. She vowed to show Tyber Zann the "true meaning of power".

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Empire at War: Forces of Corruption