Nen Yim

"My joy comes in understanding. You're right&mdash;if I could take the universe apart and put it back together, I would."

- Nen Yim to Tahiri Veila

Nen Yim was a Yuuzhan Vong Shaper Adept, and the Shaper apprentice to Mezhan Kwaad.

Early life


"I have asked the gods to send you to me"

- Mezhan Kwaad

Nen Yim was born into Domain Yim, a Domain subordinate to Domain Kwaad. She used the Vul Ag protocol to repair the endocrine cloisters of Baanu Kor, the first time such a thing was done. As such, she was apprenticed to Master Shaper Mezhan Kwaad at an early age.

While her apprentice, she also met Yakun Kwaad, Mezhan's other apprentice, and the two became lovers. However, Yakun, like many of Domain Kwaad, practiced heresy, and was eventually executed. Nen Yim then became Mezhan's sole apprentice.

Heresy
While extremely devout to the Gods, her love of shaping led her to assist Kwaad in violating Shaper protocols in the shaping of Tahiri Veila. Instead of praying to the Gods for a new protocol to shape Tahiri, she and her master mapped her nervous system, so they could better understand the young Jedi's biology. Yal Phaath suspected the heresy, and sent an agent, Tsun Qel, to confirm the heresy. Tsun came to Nen Yim while Kwaad was busy politically, although he claimed that she was getting her Vaa-tumor removed, and that she sent him. Nen Yim confirmed to him that they were engaging in heresy, and he reported back to Phaath. Phaath dispatched commander Tsaak Vootuh to arrest the two shapers on the accusation of heresy.

Punishment
During the escape of Tahiri by Anakin Solo, Tahiri beheaded Mezhan Kwaad, and her shaping knowledge died with her. However, when Warmaster Tsavong Lah discovered the actions of Nen Yim and her late master, Nen Yim was banished to a dying worldship, the Baanu Miir. She attempted to repair the dying ship, but to no avail. Due to her status as an adept, and not a Master Shaper, she was not granted access to the required protocols to fix the ship. She requested the help of a shaper master, and help was received in the form of Kae Kwaad. Kae forced her to work on creating what he thought of as "the perfect Grutchin", a task she found to be pointless as he was never satisfied. When he proved to be insane, she plotted the death of the master. She shaped several Grutchins to attack and kill the old master on her command, but that never happened. She "tricked" Kae into letting her access the seventh protocol, and by mistake, she found the eighth, and empty, cortex.

Reward


In truth, Kae Kwaad was actually Onimi, Supreme Overlord Shimrra's familiar. She was approached by Supreme Overlord Shimrra to practice heresy by inventing new shaping protocols, with help from Onimi. Nen Yim knew full well that by doing so, she would have to be killed once the eighth cortex was filled, but she accepted the responsibility, knowing that it was for the good of her people.

When a Zonama Sekotan Fighter was brought to her, she discovered that the ship was remarkably similar to Yuuzhan Vong vessels. Yim also realized that she needed to see more than just that ship. Contacting the Priest Harrar, they arranged a plot where it would seem that she was kidnapped by Yu'shaa and the Jedi. However, one of those Jedi was Tahiri Veila, though Veila did not attempt to kill her. In reality, they discovered that Nen Yim's memories were used to create Riina Kwaad. On Zonama Sekot, she discovered that the planet was the seed of Yuuzhan'tar. Before she could share this information with anyone, Nen Yim was killed by Nom Anor, who, acting in favor of his own interests, poisoned her with neurotoxin from his plaeryin bol implant. When the toxin failed to kill her, he hit her head three times with a large rock and fled. Nen Yim lived long enough to identify her killer, divulge his plans, and to be granted forgiveness by Tahiri. However, she died just short of sharing her findings about the shared origins of the Yuuzhan Vong and Zonama Sekot.

Personality
Though it was considered heresy by her people, Yim did not believe in the Yun'o. She believed in the gods in concept but did not believe them to be real beings. This made her very analytical in her views and she believed that if she was capable of taking apart the universe after which she would put it back together then she would do so. She firmly believed in the Shaping arts.

After the death of Baanu Miir, Nen Yim held a great deal of hatred towards the Jedi, New Republic and the inhabitants of the galaxy for killing so many of her people. In time, however, she managed to let go of the hate though she was determiend to never force her people to suffer through the agony that they did while drifting through the void between galaxies.

Ultimately, Nen Yim held loyalty to the Yuuzhan Vong people and went through any lengths to ensure the survival of her people. This meant that parts of her disagreed with the Invasion of the galaxy as she felt that her people had gained enough territory to be sated with.

Appearances

 * Edge of Victory I: Conquest
 * Edge of Victory II: Rebirth
 * Enemy Lines I: Rebel Dream
 * Enemy Lines II: Rebel Stand
 * Destiny's Way
 * Force Heretic I: Remnant
 * The Final Prophecy
 * The Unifying Force