Xecr Nist

"I am Nist, the Emperor's Executor. I am more Jedi than you, my friend."

- Xecr Nist, to Kam Solusar

Xecr Nist was a dark side adept serving the Galactic Emperor Palpatine, reborn in clone bodies after his death at the hands of Jedi Knight Luke Skywalker and his sister Leia Organa Solo. Nist, along with another adept Tedryn-Sha, accompanied Palpatine on an inspection tour of his new superweapon, the Galaxy Gun. During the tour, however, Palpatine was informed that two Dark Jedi members of his Dark Side Elite, Executor Sedriss and Vill Goir, had been killed by Skywalker on the planet Ossus. To replace his fallen servants, the Emperor empowered Xecr Nist and Tedryn-Sha with the dark side and named Nist his new Executor.

Executor
"You&hellip;Tedryn-Sha and Xecr Nist&mdash;! I have watched you&hellip;you have advanced in submission to my will! I will make you Dark Jedi&hellip;extensions of my own power! Kneel before me! Xecr Nist&mdash;you will replace Sedriss as my Military Commander."

- Palpatine

Xecr Nist was a male dark side adept loyal to the Galactic Emperor Palpatine, who&mdash;after being killed in 10 ABY by the Jedi Knight Luke Skywalker and his sister Leia Organa Solo &mdash;was reborn in one of his clone bodies stored in the Emperor's Citadel on the planet Byss.

Soon after the Emperor's return, Xecr Nist, along with the fellow darksider Tedryn-Sha and the Imperial engineer Umak Leth, accompanied Palpatine in a shuttle on an inspection tour of the newest Imperial superweapon, the Galaxy Gun, which neared its completion in the orbit of Byss. As their shuttle circled around the Galaxy Gun, however, Palpatine received word that Executor Sedriss and Vill Goir&mdash;the two members of the Dark Side Elite, the select cadre of the Emperor's Dark Jedi&mdash;had been killed by Luke Skywalker on the planet Ossus. Fearing that without his Dark Side warriors Skywalker could triumph over him, Palpatine quickly turned his attention over to Nist and Tedryn-Sha. Telling that they had made progress in submitting to his will, Palpatine imbued Nist and Tedryn-Sha with new dark side powers, naming Xecr Nist the new Executor to replace the fallen Sedriss. In turn, Tedryn-Sha was made Nist's second in command.

As the Emperor continued his inspection of the Galaxy Gun with Nist, Tedryn-Sha and Leth, a cargo of new X-1 Viper droids arrived on Byss, bought from governor Beltane of the planet Balmorra. Unbeknownst to the Imperials, Beltane had made a deal with the Rebel Alliance and allowed them to load the droids with Rebel soldiers. Once delivered to Byss, the Rebels activated the Viper droids and assaulted the Emperor's Citadel. The Emperor, however, ordered to unleash his Chrysalide rancors that decimated the Vipers, although the Rebels themselves managed to escape with the help of local smugglers. Certain that his Galaxy Gun would crush the Rebellion anyway, Palpatine ordered not to waste firepower on the fleeing smuggler ships, much to the surprise of his newly appointed Dark Jedi. Instead, Palpatine gave an order to fire his new weapon at the Rebel Pinnacle Base on the planet Da Soocha V.

New Alderaan
With the Rebel base successfully obliterated by the Galaxy Gun and the remnants of the Rebel Alliance scattered throughout the galaxy, Palpatine was certain that Skywalker and all Jedi he had managed to assemble would go straight to the secret hiding place of Leia Organa Solo and her chilren&mdash;the twins Jaina and Jacen&mdash;whom the Emperor hoped to turn over to the dark side. Soon enough, a Rebel named Ntthan was captured by the Empire in an uncharted region of space and delivered to the Bast Castle on the planet Vjun, where Dark Jedi Kvag Gthull started torturing him on the location of Organa Solo and her children. To oversee the results of Ntthan's interrogation, Nist accompained Palpatine to the Bast castle, where he was awed by the statue of the Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Vader that had been erected by the late Sedriss. Noticing Nist's admiration of the statue, Palpatine ordered the Executor to remove it. The Emperor then proceeded to question Gthull on the progress of the interrogation, and the Dark Jedi told Palpatine that the Rebel had revealed him the coordinates and the name of the planet&mdash;New Alderaan. Having received this information, Palpatine ordered Nist to mobilize the members of the Dark Side Elite and depart for New Alderaan, where they were supposed to capture Skywalker and all his Jedi, along with Organa's children. After that, the Dark Side Elite was to utilize AT-ATs to destroy the Rebel settlement on the planet. After landing on New Alderaan, Tedryn-Sha and Krdys Mordi were dispatched to apprehend Luke Skywalker, but failed their mission and were ultimately killed themselves. After receiving word of Sha's and Mordi's failure, Nist ordered Kvag Gthull to proceed with kidnapping of the Solo children.

While Gthull executed Nist's order, Nist and the three remaining Dark Jedi were confronted by three of Skywalker's Jedi&mdash;Empatojayos Brand, Rayf Ysanna and the Dark Side Elite defector Kam Solusar. After a brief lightsaber duel, one darksider was killed and Nist himself was bested by Solusar. Although defeated, the Executor was quick to order Kvag Gthull&mdash;who had managed to capture the twins&mdash;to give a word for the AT-ATs to attack. Gthull followed Nist's orders and alerted the AT-ATs, but was spotted by the Jedi and killed by Organa Solo's blaster shot immediately thereafter. Meanwhile, taking advantage of the Rebels' preoccupation with the AT-AT attack, Nist and the two remaining members of the Dark Side Elite fled the battle. The Rebels on New Alderaan soon found themselves fighting against the overwhelming forces of AT-ATs, but were rescued by the timely arrival of the same smugglers who had escaped from Byss earlier.

Abduction of the Ysanna
After the failed mission on New Alderaan, Palpatine restored the number of the Dark Side Elite back to seven and promised Xecr Nist an entire star system should the Executor bring Skywalker's dead body to him. All the while, the Emperor continued to use his Galaxy Gun, destroying such targets as the Rebel troopship Pelagia, inspiring fear and forcing many planets to swear loyalty to the Empire. During this time, Nist took possession of the Bast Castle that had once belonged to Sedriss, and prior to him, to Darth Vader himself. Disobeying Palpatine, Nist did not remove the statue of Vader, hoping that the Emperor would forget his order. Soon enough, however, Palpatine himself began to suffer from the decaying effects of his clone's genetical instability, a result of a secret treachery of the Emperor's physician, who&mdash;being bribed by the Royal Guard Carnor Jax&mdash;had tampered with the genetic material of the clones. Since all other clones had been previously destroyed by Skywalker and two traitorous members of the Imperial Ruling Council Nefta and Sa-Di, and new clones could not be bred from the faulty genetic material, Palpatine needed a gene sample taken from a Force-sensitive to restore his line of clones.

To this end, Palpatine dispatched Nist to Ossus, ordering the Executor to bring several members of the native Ysanna tribe&mdash;who were descended from Jedi&mdash;to Vjun. Landing on Ossus, Nist and his stormtroopers quickly secured three Ysanna shamans and proceeded to herd them into Imperial Hunter starships. During the loading process, one of the shamans, Okko, tried to mind trick a stormtrooper into letting him go. Nist, however, sensed Okko's usage of the Force and punched the shaman, freeing the stormtrooper from the effects of the mind trick. Having captured the shamans, Nist's forces departed Ossus, just as Luke Skywalker and his Jedi arrived there. After consulting with the Ysanna, Skywalker left the planet in pursuit of Nist. The Executor, however, knew that he was being followed.

Final confrontation
"I...will...unh...break you!!!"

- Xecr Nist, to Luke Skywalker

Landing on Vjun, Nist ordered his stormtroopers to freeze the shamans in carbonite, where they were supposed to be kept until the Emperor constructed a new clone laboratory. At that moment, the Executor was informed of two approaching ships. Having sensed that Skywalker was aboard one of the crafts, Nist ordered to close the Castle's blast doors, but allow the ships to land. He then assembled all six Dark Jedi and prepared to meet the Jedi at the landing pad. The Jedi, however, used Solusar's robotic-controlled I-7 Howlrunner to ram the blast doors and engaged the Dark Jedi inside the castle, quickly killing two of them. As Kam Solusar fought with three darksiders at once, and Rayf Ysanna with the remaining one, Nist and Luke Skywalker engaged in a duel.

Powers and abilities
"You are too concerned with power, Nist. You don't understand the subtleties of the Force."

- Luke Skywalker

Inconsistencies
There are several differences between Dark Empire II and its audio dramatization. In the audio drama, Nist plays a larger role in the battle on Byss. Along with Tedryn-Sha, he commands the defense of Byss from the Citadel and contacts Palpatine, who is still inspecting the Galaxy Gun.

Appearances

 * Dark Empire II
 * Empire's End
 * Dark Empire audio drama