Soujen Vak-Nhalis

Soujen Vak-Nhalis was an Alvadorjian male who grew up on Ylagia. During the Clone Wars, he worked as a mercenary. During the first few months of the Clone Wars, Vak-Nhalis was contracted by the Confederacy of Independent Systems to a mission on Leyoye Prime. He completed his objective, planting a bomb in a city, without encountering problems; however without the means to exfiltrate, he joined Separatist forces trapped on the planet. During that mission, he encountered a Jedi, witnessing their power and developing a sense of terror on them.

At some point during the war, he was approached by Techno Union representatives and Tychon Nulvolio on his homeworld, seeking to recruit him. The curse of his people, a biological mutability, made him a promising candidate for cybernetic implantation. Vak-Nhalis obliged and was subsequently upgraded with several cybernetic implants by a Confederate surgeon team on the planet Skako under Doctor Ro-Yai. With these modifications, he was to become an operative capable of assassination, sabotage, and even was selected as a part of a contingency plan of the Confederacy to continue the war on the Republic in case of military defeat.

He was stored in a hibernation pod in a cache on the planet Eyo-Dajuritz which, after the end of the Clone Wars, was raided by Krezchak and his pirate crew in around 19 BBY. However, the pirate's ship was soon raided by the revolutionary Saw Gerrera and his Partisans, who captured Vak-Nhalis in the process. Awakened from hibernation, Vak-Nhalis sought vengeance against the newly formed Galactic Empire, agreeing to work with Gerrera to lead him to the cache where he had been in stasis. During their mission on Eyo-Dajuritz, Vak-Nhalis abandoned Gerrera's group and would briefly ally himself with Senator Bail Prestor Organa to present evidence he found in the cache's databank, exonerating the Jedi, to the chief justice of the Empire. They traveled to Coruscant together, although they would separate and he subsequently fled Imperial forces, becoming a wanted fugitive. Vak-Nhalis attempted to assassinate Emperor Palpatine, but was instead killed by Senator Mon Mothma, who activated his self-destruct mechanism by sequentially uttering the hardcoded words "oubliette" and "sublime."

Text and facts from the “Soujen Vak-Nhalis” article on Wookieepedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. Modified for this site.