Nuso Esva

Warlord Nuso Esva was a Storm-hair male who emerged from an Unknown Regions planet alongside a group of warriors, the Chosen. After emerging, Esva built a realm in the Unknown Regions. Using a massive battle fleet, the Storm-hair launched a series of conquests across the galaxy. In 1 BBY, the Chiss Senior Captain Thrawn, Esva's nemesis and an officer of the Galactic Empire, began opposing the warlord, pushing him back. In response, the Storm-hair designed a plot to destroy the Chiss in an attempt to destroy him. With the goal of drawing Thrawn to the Outer Rim Territories Poln system, Esva had his Chosen kidnap the family of the system's Imperial governor, Bidor Ferrouz. The warlord forced Ferrouz to ally himself with the Rebel Alliance that opposed the empire Thrawn served and commanded the Chosen to murder Ferrouz, an event that would bring the warlord's Chiss nemesis to the Poln system.

Esva infiltrated the Imperial Star Destroyer Chimaera, assuming the pseudonym of Imperial Court dignitary "Lord Odo." The warlord brought the Chimaera to the Unknown Regions Teptixii system, where the Star Destroyer and Thrawn's Task Force Admonitor fought one of Esva's attack squadrons. The squadron fled the engagement after the Chimaera began to divide it under the Storm-hair's directive, and Esva had Thrawn's second-in-command, Captain Voss Parck, tell his superior that he was to travel to the Poln system in response to an insurrection. The senior captain, traveling aboard his freighter, the Lost Reef, followed his task force and the Chimaera to Poln. Esva sabotaged the latter vessel's engines and set the warship on a collision course with a nearby Golan I space station. He summoned his Eastern Fleet and commanded it to destroy any ship that attempted to assist the Chimaera.

However, Thrawn moved the Chimaera away from its collision course with his freighter's tractor beam. The Chiss summoned the Imperial Death Squadron fleet, which shattered Esva's forces. Esva fled the battle aboard his freighter, the Salaban's Hope. By 8 ABY, Esva's conquests had been brought to an end by Thrawn's Empire of the Hand forces from Wild Space. The Storm-hair was hiding on the Unknown Regions planet Quethold, allying himself with the world's ruler, the Quesoth Queen of the Red. After Thrawn sent his forces to Quethold in an attempt to destroy Esva, the warlord's troops—including Quesoth Soldiers and thirty Chosen warriors—attempted to commandeer the Imperial vehicles that brought the Imperial forces to Quethold. During the ensuing battle, Thrawn manipulated a speaker that transmitted the Queen of the Red's orders to the Quesoth forces and commanded the Soldiers to rush at Esva. The warlord feared that the Quesoth monarch was a traitor, killing her, and prompting her troops to kill him in retaliation.

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