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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 Second Battle of Coruscant. 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 Monor II, including Mara Jade Skywalker. All of them became infected, and all except Mara Jade Skywalker died from the disease. She was able to hold the disease back using the Force.

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.

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 reasonability 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.

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 Yuuzhan Vong-allied group of 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.

To atone for his past failures, Nom Anor was sent to capture the planet of Duro. Posing as a Duros scientist named Dassid Cree'Ar, he released naotebe winglings that destroyed New Republic refugee encampments, and the planet was captured by Yuuzhan Vong forces. He had redeemed himself in Warmaster Tsavong Lah's eyes, but unfortunately, the Warmaster did not escalate him, and the intendant then found himself competing with Vergere, Tsavong Lah's alien advisor and pet.



To further prove himself, Nom Anor infiltrated the Givin species (who suspected his true nature but did nothing about it) and planned to take Yag'Dhul for the Yuuzhan Vong, but was foiled by Corran Horn, Anakin Solo, and Tahiri Veila. During the mission, Corran challenged him to a duel, but Nom Anor backed down. Tahiri then told the warriors what he had done and one of the warriors accepted Corran's challenge, but Anakin took Corran's place. While dueling the warrior Anakin cut a hole in the wall, allowing Corran, Tahiri, and him to escape. In order to prevent himself from disgrace for backing out of a challenge Nom Anor killed all the warriors who accompanied him with a blaster, including Qau Lah, a warrior of Tsavong Lah's domain.

In 27 ABY, Nom Anor went to Coruscant to address the New Republic Senate, in an attempt to persuade it to officially turn over the Jedi to the Yuuzhan Vong. In front of the entire Senate, Chief of State Borsk Fey'lya lashed out at Nom Anor, stating that the Jedi had his full support, denounced him, and had him kicked off Coruscant. Shortly after, Nom Anor and Vergere&mdash;who disliked each other greatly&mdash;were assigned to capture the Solo twins, because twins were sacred in Yuuzhan Vong society. When the Myrkr strike team invaded the voxyn cloning facility on Myrkr, Jacen Solo was captured by Vergere, but Jaina Solo had escaped. After a long breaking session involving the Embrace of Pain, Jacen pretended to embrace the Yuuzhan Vong way. However, with the help of the traitorous Vergere, he escaped to the Well of the World Brain, and Nom Anor led the forces to recapture him. However, Ganner Rhysode, in an amazing display of the Force and lightsaber combat, slew warrior after warrior. As always, Nom Anor had a contingency plan. He had bribed a shaper to seed a coralcraft in the late Palpatine's holding office. The craft was discovered by Vergere, and Nom Anor was forced to take the Fosh with him, hoping that would stop the New Republic from killing him on the spot, but Vergere had other plans. She threatened Nom Anor with Jacen's lightsaber and used the Force to tie the executor up with cables. As Ganner brought the ceiling down with the Force, Nom Anor, Ganner, and all the other warriors were buried under a pile of rubble, allowing Jacen and Vergere to escape in the coralcraft.

After Supreme Overlord Shimrra arrived on Yuuzhan'tar, Nom Anor donned an ooglith masquer and infiltrated a Shamed Ones Heresy group. While on his way back to the Damutek of the Intendants, he spotted Onimi, Shimrra's familiar, and followed him to a damutek housing Nen Yim's team, who had been tasked with filling the eight cortex. After learning that the cortex was supposed to have come from the Gods, Anor realized that Shimrra had no connection to the Gods. He quickly decided to put all his efforts into ending the war quickly. When he learned of the Final Redoubt, he brought the information to Shimrra. However, the Battle of Ebaq 9 was in truth a trap, and resulted in Tsavong Lah's death. Knowing that he would be sacrificed, Anor was forced to kill High Prefect Yoog Skell to escape into the Coruscant Underworld.

The Prophet
"Nom Anor is a consummate infidel. He thinks only of his own ambitions."

- Harrar

On the run from a wrathful Shimrra, Nom Anor came unto Vuurok I'pan and a group of Shamed Ones lead by Niiriit Esh who worshiped the Jedi. With I'pan's help, Anor went by the alias Ammorn to learn the Jeedai heresy in different underground groups. His group was eventually massacred by Warriors, but Anor was able to escape. With the help of Kunra, a Shamed Warrior, and Shoon-mi Esh, Niirit's brother, he claimed that he was Yu'shaa, meaning "the prophet" in Yuuzhan Vong, and preached salvation by following the Jeedai heresy and the living planet Zonama Sekot to the oppressed Yuuzhan Vong underclass. Always looking out for himself, he planned to use this planned insurrection of Shamed Ones as an excuse to overthrow Shimrra. His fame as Yu'Shaa had reached the ears of the Supreme Overlord and members of his heresy group had even infiltrated Shimrra's court. He even gained a spy in the form of Ngaaluh, a priestess of Yun-Harla, who accused multiple intendants of allowing the heresy to spread. Shimrra's reaction caused a wave of terror that Nom Anor could use to his advantage. However, after an assassination attempt by Shoon-mi, and Shimrra's discovery of Ngaaluh's actions, Anor began to have doubts about his plan.

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.

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 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
 * 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