Qilori

Qilori was a Force-sensitive male individual associated with Uandualon who was a Pathfinder navigator. He used a sensory-deprivation headset to connect to the Great Presence in order to navigate through hyperspace. Other Pathfinders are able to track his movements through hypersace using the Great Presence. He disliked the Chiss Ascendancy because they assumed themselves to be superior to all other species. According to Qilori, the Chiss were not unique in believing themselves superior, but they took such ethnocentrism to a much greater level, viewing other sentients as "particularly clever animals."

Chiss Junior Commander Mitth'raw'nuru hired Qilori to help initiate the Lioaoin pirate campaign. After their mission to the Lioaoin heartworld, Qilori hoped he would never meet Thrawn again. However, he was later hired by Thrawn, who had since become a Senior Captain, during the Nikardun conquests. By that time, Qilori had become a servant of General Yiv the Benevolent, the leader of the Nikardun Destiny.

After defeating Yiv during the battle over Primea, Thrawn demanded that Qilori never reveal how he managed to defeat the Nikardun leader. Thrawn invoked the Navigators' Guild policy of confidentiality to threaten to have Qilori thrown out of the Pathfinders and also the Pathfinders removed from the Navigators' Guild, if Qilori were ever to disclose Thrawn's tactics. However, Qilori came to be trapped on a seemingly-dead starship owned by "Jixtus," to whom Qilori revealed that Thrawn was behind Yiv's defeat. Taking up Jixtus's offer for a bright future and revenge on the Chiss Ascendancy, Qilori then agreed to join his faction, the Grysk Hegemony. Jixtus tasked Qilori with learning the Chiss' means of navigating the Unknown Regions.

Qilori played a minor part as a Navigator in the conspiracy of the Agbui, who plotted to overthrow the Chiss Ascendancy from the inside with the guidance of the Grysks. Qilori had developed a fear of Thrawn's tactical abilities and warned Jixtus of the danger Thrawn represented. His warning proved futile, however, and Thrawn thwarted the Agbui's scheme.

Qilori was then assigned to navigate the Kilji Illumine war cruiser Anvil to its assigned destinations. He narrowly escaped the ship in an escape pod before it was destroyed in a battle with Thrawn and his associates, although Qilori's escape pod was subsequently picked up by Thrawn's cruiser. After traveling with Thrawn to Sunrise, Qilori was released and immediately warned Jixtus of Thrawn's plans.

Qilori spent the remainder of his service with the Grysks navigating the Kilji Illumine war cruiser Whetstone, the Kilji flagship and Jixtus's current mode of transportation. While aboard he witnessed the defeat of Jixtus's Grysk fleet over Sunrise at the hands of a Chiss fleet under the command of Thrawn and Admiral Ar'alani. After the Kilji Generilius Nakirre, the commander of the Whetstone, was killed by Jixtus, Qilori briefly took command of the vessel to elude Jixtus's attempts to use his flagship, the FateSpinner, to destroy Qilori and the Kilji.

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