- "His name is Galiir Ac Yandar. He is a whining, sniveling, sycophant for which I have no use, but his organization is highly trained and would be an asset to the Empire."
- ―Colonel Ekirk, to a spacer
Galiir Ac Yandar was a Human male who lived on Talus during the Galactic Civil War. He was the leading member of the Nightstrike Soldier Hegemony (N.S.H.), a mercenary organization.
Biography[]
- "I want vengeance! Do you understand? They will not get away with this. Punish them. And if they die slowly and painfully, even better."
- ―Galiir Ac Yandar, to a spacer
Galiir Ac Yandar was the leader of the Nightstrike Soldier Hegemony, a mercenary organization that operated on the planet Talus.[1] During the Galactic Civil War between the Galactic Empire and the Rebel Alliance, the N.S.H. was affiliated with the Galactic Empire and directly involved in the fight against the Rebellion.[2]
After the Battle of Yavin, Galiir Ac Yandar sought to make his unit a full military branch of the Imperial armed forces rather than a separate entity.[1] In 1 ABY,[3] Ac Yandar met Imperial Colonel Braedic Ekirk in his office in Dearic to negotiate the new operational status of the Nightstrike Soldier Hegemony. Ekirk deeply despised Galiir but considered that the N.S.H. could be a valuable asset for the Empire. However, the negotiations were disturbed when slicers of the Aggregate Civil Liberties Organization (A.C.L.O.), an anti-Imperial movement, planted information in Ac Yandar's computer that almost ruined his reputation with the Empire. Colonel Ekirk thus dispatched a spacer to raid the A.C.L.O. office.[1] The spacer was recommended by CorSec officer Dathnaeya Loessin, who wanted to determine what kind of people the Rebellion and the Empire had chosen to work with.[4] Colonel Ekirk tasked the spacer with slaying A.C.L.O. terrorists who sabotaged Imperial shipments. In addition, Galiir Ac Yandar ordered the spacer to kill Leeta Poandeu, the slicer who had sliced his system.[1] Furthermore, Galiir Ac Yandar requested the spacer assist Mark Hieks, an N.S.H. covert operative in the A.C.L.O. office, in placing monitoring devices on the A.C.L.O.'s computers.[5] The spacer eventually achieved all those objectives and was rewarded by Galiir Ac Yandar for the assistance.[6]
Behind the scenes[]
Galiir Ac Yandar appeared as a non-player character in the 2003 video game Star Wars Galaxies, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game developed by Sony Online Entertainment and published by LucasArts,[1] prior to its closure on December 15, 2011.[7] Galiir Ac Yandar was added to the game as part of the "Crisis of Allegiance" arc with the release of "Chapter 2: The Talus Incident," on August 1, 2006.[8]
Appearances[]
- Star Wars Galaxies: Starter Kit (First appearance)
Notes and references[]
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12
Star Wars Galaxies: Starter Kit — Legacy Quest: "Imperial Investigation" on Talus
- ↑ Star Wars Galaxies: Starter Kit — Legacy Quest: "Rebel Investigation" on Talus
- ↑ The opening crawl of Star Wars Galaxies dates the game to after the events of Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope, and additionally, Serji-X Arrogantus, who died in Star Wars (1977) 10—the events of which The New Essential Chronology dates to 0 ABY—appears in the game. Therefore, at least a portion of Star Wars Galaxies must be set in that year. Furthermore, in the game Ruwan Tokai references the destruction of the Death Star as having occurred one year earlier, and Strongholds of Resistance also places the events of Galaxies' Chapter 9: "The Fury of Exar Kun" in 1 ABY. Lastly, while Chapter 11: "The Battle of Echo Base" features the Battle of Hoth—dated to 3 ABY by The New Essential Chronology—the developers have stated that the portrayal of that battle in the game is intentionally anachronistic. Therefore, the events of Star Wars Galaxies must span from 0 ABY to around 1 ABY.
- ↑ Star Wars Galaxies: Starter Kit — Legacy Quest: "Crisis of Allegiance" on Talus
- ↑ Star Wars Galaxies: Starter Kit — Legacy Quest: "Mark Hieks, Deep Cover Agent" on Talus
- ↑ Star Wars Galaxies: Starter Kit — Legacy Quest: "Report to the Imperials" on Talus
- ↑
IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT STAR WARS GALAXIES™ on the official Star Wars Galaxies website (content now obsolete; backup link)
- ↑ "Chapter 2: The Talus Incident" Publish Notes, August 1st on the official Star Wars Galaxies forums (content now obsolete; backup link)
External links[]
Imperial Investigation on the SWG Wiki
