Hylo Visz

Hylo Visz was a female Mirialan smuggler active during the Great Galactic War and the Galactic War between the Galactic Republic and the reconstituted Sith Empire. She was born on the Colonies world of Balmorra, where her father was killed during the Empire's attack on the planet. Visz fled their home with her mother, who died of illness while their transport made a stop on the Hutt-controlled moon of Nar Shaddaa. Left to fend for herself, Visz joined a band of similarly orphaned children, ultimately finding work as a mechanic in the Hutt Cartel's shipyards. Visz soon found that her true calling was piloting and worked as a freelancer for several years before the Hutt Cartel officially hired her. In her beloved ship, the Crimson Fleece, the Mirialan made a name for herself as a proficient and talented privateer, but during a delivery to the Rendili Vehicle Corporation on Corellia, she lost the Fleece in a corporate ambush. Visz survived the incident and was able to escape Corellia aboard an experimental starship known as the Vanguard stolen from the Rendili facility.

After the Corellia incident, the Mirialan decided that she no longer needed to work for the Cartel, and abandoned Nar Shaddaa to become an independent smuggler. She began an on again, off again relationship with the Devaronian con artist Tyresius Lokai and eventually became the leader of her own smuggling ring. In the last decade of the Great Galactic War, Visz gained galactic renown after leading the attack that broke the Mandalorian blockade of the Hydian Way, clearing a path for her fleet of freighters to deliver much-needed goods to the Core Worlds. She was rewarded for her efforts and recognized as a hero within the Republic but found new troubles when Lokai absconded with all of her earnings. When the Hutt Cartel sought to recoup their investment in the breaking of the blockade, Visz was forced to go into hiding in Republic space. With the assistance of fellow smuggler Zale Barrows, she made her way to the Republic penal colony on the hidden Outer Rim world of Belsavis, where she entered a stasis chamber and remained in it for over a decade. During the Galactic War Lokai—now operating under the name "Gault Rennow"—tracked the Mirialan to Belsavis and released her from the stasis. Although the Devaronian attempted to make amends, Visz was still upset over his betrayal and the two went their separate ways.

Visz returned to the life of crime until several years later she was recruited by former SIS agent Theron Shan to work for the Alliance that opposed the Eternal Empire of Zakuul, which dominated the galaxy. Visz became the Alliance's underworld specialist and established a smuggling operation that delivered everything from the foodstuff to military vehicles to the Alliance base on the planet Odessen, while also providing the Alliance Commander with leads on potential recruits. Eventually Rennow contacted his old flame with a business proposition, and Visz set him up with the Alliance Commander, whom the Devaronian persuaded to join in a raid on Zakuulan treasury ship Gilded Star. The Mirialan followed Rennow and the Alliance leadership to the gas giant Vandin, where she picked up the Commander, Rennow and his Twi'lek partner Vette after the successful heist. The Devaronian decided to stay on Odessen and join the Alliance, and Visz welcomed the man back into her life. The Alliance eventually prevailed over the Eternal Emperor Arcann and his sister Vaylin, taking control over the Eternal Throne and transforming into the Eternal Alliance, which Visz continued to work for. She dealt with several anti-Alliance uprisings, while the information of her contacts proved crucial to the Alliance during the Order of Zildrog campaign.

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