Nirama

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Nirama was an Oblee crimelord who controlled all crime in the Cularin system. He had been one of Riboga the Hutt's accountants, but his ambition and skills soon made him majordomo. He used his position to make it seem that the operations in the Cularin system were much less profitable than Riboga had thought. Riboga questioned and executed some of his subordinates, but did not identify Nirama as the cause of the problem.^[1]

In 53 BBY, during one of their regular sabacc games, Riboga had commented on the increasing expenses, and Nirama offered to take the problem off his hands, betting two hundred fifty thousand credits against control of Riboga's criminal Organization. Nirama won, and as Riboga believed that Cularin was too expensive to operate in, he was not angry with the loss; he left with only a few loyal minions and his money.^[1]

Nirama was more efficient than Riboga and more popular with his underlings, maintaining something of a moral code. He immediately abolished the slave trade Riboga had engaged in. This affected the slavers who had previously worked for Riboga, but some of them, such as Hlisk Squin, managed to hide their previous activities.^[1]

Nirama also reorganized the organization, placing less ambitious (and less competent) people in the higher echelons of the Organization - including Nadin Paal, who became a "trade envoy" or spokesman for the system. His group representative of the smugglers and unofficially right-hand man, Len Markus, was a treacherous and manipulative person, but Nirama found him amusing and believed he could control Markus easily. Nirama also renewed agreements with the Smugglers' Confederation and the Trade Federation, obtaining a good profit.^[1]

Nirama also refused to outright lie, although he was willing to lie by omission or by not correcting other people's misperceptions. Despite this, he could be ruthless when he needed to be, such as when executing rebellious lieutenants.

Around 33 BBY, Nirama bought technology from the Filordi to use it against the pirates. Soon afterwards, he made a deal with the Thaereian military, who was officially protecting the system, to provide them with the supplies the pirates had been stealing from them. Nirama knew that Colonel Jir Tramsig was asking for more pieces than he was loosing, and the crimelord wondered why the officer asked him for assetts that could be legally bought in many systems. Nirama also provided Tramsig with "highly questionable technical material."^[1]

Nirama, like Riboga before him, had no control over the Cularin system's pirates, although he sometimes hired them to do a job for him. He always tried to monitor them, and even worked with two pirate groups, Red Fury Brotherhood and Order of Independent Trade, who wanted to take advantage on the other pirates during some pirate amiable talks; Nirama found their scheming amusing. Pirate predation was always a problem for the smugglers, and was one of the key ingredients in making it believable that Riboga was losing money. It had been said that Nirama had plots to kill key members of the Red Fury Brotherhood and the Order of Independent Trade, but their leadership changed so frequently, it probably would not have made a difference if he had. Both groups had their own thoughts about Nirama's position within the system, but no leaders lasted long enough to initiate a solid plan against him.

In many other senses, Nirama continued Riboga's policies. For instance, Riboga had refused to meet with representatives of Verga Mer Mining Company, as he had been initially oversight when they attempted to invert in Genarius; Nirama was coherent with Riboga's acts, and also ignored any petition from Verga Mer. Nirama also kept the sponsorship on the starfighter races through the tunnels of Eskaron (and also gambled on the results), even although Nirama officially did not own that moon nor had any claim to its ownership.^[1]

Although the droid factories of Uffel were built with Riboga's financial help, Uffel manager QS-2D had finished all the payments to the Hutt and was, by 53 BBY, the sole owner of the moon. The droids were likeable through the system, but Nirama distrusted droids that could include spionage programming, and refused to use Uffel droids.^[1]

Nirama's headquarters in Cularin was in the platform city of Mikish, particularly in the mansion Riboga had built there. Nirama kept a 50% of the local policebeing as his "private retainer" when there.^[1]

Nirama also used Riboga's old base in the Cularin system asteroid belt to meet with the smugglers living there. Although Nirama inherited from Riboga both his public asteroid base and his secret asteroid base, it is unclear whether Nirama used both of the bases or not. Nirama's smugglers preferred to meet him in Cularin, where he could not take their ships as easily as in his asteroid base, or even using proxies instead of meeting him.^[1]

Nirama repeatedly tried to recruit Corellian starship mechanic Bran Isken, who had been working in the Forard spaceport of Almas, but Isken was satisfied with his current job for governor Klis Joo and rejected Nirama's offer.^[1]

In 32 BBY, one of Nirama's main lieutenants, Len Markus, disappeared when trying to leave the system with a Sith artifact (and in the process causing the system to disappear from the galaxy for almost a decade). Nirama reacted to the void of power by promoting Nadin Paal as his second-in-command.^[2]

Nirama's decision to abolish the slave trade was not popular with all the members of his Organization. In 32 BBY, a conspiracy within the Organization calling themselves the Cell came together with the purpose of deposing Nirama. They were able to hide their initial movements beneath the build up of a large Metatheran Cartel presence in the system, but Nirama soon became aware of their existence. Calling upon a group of Cularin's heroes to help him, he was able to root out the Cell's leadership.

Although Nirama initially had a deal with the Thaereian military to supply parts that the pirates stole from them, he ultimately opposed Thaere and the CIS. He also helped support his people, the Oblee, when they returned to the Cularin system. Before their return, Nirama had let people believe that he had come from the Unknown Regions. It had been rumored, due to his anti-slavery stance, that his people had been "slaved out" when he had been a child.

In 22 BBY, infamous slaver Phylus Mon went to Cularin system as a part of a scheme. When word of this tried to reach Nirama, he was unfortunately in a secret meeting and could not be reached. As soon as he discovered that Phylus Mon was in "his" system, Nirama offered a generous reward for Phylus Mon, live or dead.^[2]

Unfortunately for Cularin, Riboga regained control from Nirama around the time of the rise of the New Order.

Contents 1 Personality and traits 2 Behind the scenes 3 Appearances 4 Sources 5 References

[edit] Personality and traits

Nirama was a strange alien from a species nobody in Cularin remembered to have seen (although the species had lived in the system). He had two sets of eyes, one over the other, with the bottom set being pitch black and the top set grayish-blue. He had an additional left arm looking to the back, and he usually wore a blaster in that hand to discourage any sneaker. He also used a blast vest that he kept near him at all time, and expensive clothing.^[1]

Although perceived as vile and disgusting, Nirama was not horribly evil. While he avoided unneccessary shows of power, he was not beyond killing people who did remain in his way after being asked to move. He kept a personal space yatch, the Viper Wing, flauting his wealth.^[1]

[edit] Behind the scenes

Nirama was described as pink-skinned in Price of Business and Topworld. This was before his people returned and it was established that young members of his race were pink while mature adults were chalky white. Nirama was certainly a mature adult Oblee.

[edit] Appearances

•  "Price of Business"
•  "Topworld"
•  "Tilnes Rising" (Mentioned only)
•  "A Friendly Face"
•  "The Cell Revisited"
•  "A Mon Alone"

[edit] Sources

• Living Force Campaign Guide
•  "Gang War"
•  Head Trip on Wizards.com (article)
•  "The Cell Revisited"
•  "That Is Nirama's Word"
•  Cularin's Militia: Exposed! on Wizards.com (article)
•  Tilnes Falling on Wizards.com (article)
•  Uffel on Wizards.com (article)
•  Burnout on Wizards.com (article)
•  Thurm Loogg Speaks on Wizards.com (article)
•  Trammel's Move on Wizards.com (article)
•  Double Cross on Wizards.com (article)
•  The Oblee on Wizards.com (article)
•  Simplicity on Wizards.com (article)
•  Insider on Wizards.com (article)
•  Remember When on Wizards.com (article)
•  Farewell on Wizards.com (article)
•  The Price of Neutrality -- Isolation on Wizards.com (article)
•  Living Force: From the Cradle to the Grave on Wizards.com (article)

[edit] References