Whorm Loathsom was a Kerkoiden male who hailed from the planet Kerkoidia and served both in his homeworld's planetary forces and as the general of the Retail Caucus's military forces in the Confederacy of Independent Systems. An accomplished commander, his numerous victories during the Clone Wars led him to infamy throughout the Inner Core. In 22 BBY, Loathsom captured the planet Christophsis, and the Galactic Republic dispatched Jedi-led clone trooper forces to liberate the planet. After being forced to retreat, Loathsom launched a counterattack, advancing his battle droid troops behind a deflector shield that rendered the Republic's artillery useless.
High Jedi General Obi-Wan Kenobi pretended to surrender to the Kerkoiden in order to gain time for
Jedi General Anakin Skywalker and his
Padawan,
Ahsoka Tano, to eliminate the
shield generator. Loathsom eventually lost patience with discussing Kenobi's terms of surrender and threatened to
kill the Jedi. After Skywalker and Tano destroyed the generator, however, Loathsom himself was captured. With his shameful defeat and capture on Christophsis, Loathsom was taken to
Coruscant, where he was tried by the Republic and found guilty of
treason, as his service in his Republic-aligned homeworld's planetary forces made him a member of the
Republic Military. As of
19 BBY, he was still incarcerated within the
Republic military base's high-level
prison on Coruscant.
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