Gil Orum

Gil Orum was a professor with the Imperial Science Academy during the reign of the Galactic Empire. By 3 ABY, Orum had been involved in an expedition to the Khepi system in Wild Space in order to research the Sayma Nebula, a Type 15A stellological phenomenon which extended into the system. By day ten of the expedition, Orum had employed locals at Hauler's Keep, a space station in the system, to rig up improvised magnetoshields for their starship to allow it to penetrate the outer layers of the nebula.

While in the nebula, the expedition team encountered another ship drifting through space before it abruptly vanished. Orum later wrote in their journal that they would have questioned their sanity if the rest of the crew had not witnessed the same thing. The professor went on to describe the event as giving them an ominous feeling of trespassing. They concluded their entry by stating the event would make for a thrilling holomonopraph. A copy of the day ten entry of the professor's journal was later left on a datapad in a storage room in Hauler's Keep.

That year, the thief Kay Vess found the datapad and read the professor's journal entry while visiting Hauler's Keep.

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