Shimrra Jamaane

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**Shimrra Jamaane** is the Supreme Overlord of the Yuuzhan Vong Empire. Born to Domain Jamaane, he was marked from birth as a candidate for Supreme Overlord. Around twenty-nine years before the Battle of Yavin with the desire for greater power, Shimrra overthrew Supreme Overlord Quoreal with the support of many warriors. He then announced the discovery of a new galaxy, and proclaimed that the Yuuzhan Vong were destined to conquer it, whereas Quoreal had made the decision to avoid the galaxy, due to the presence of the living planet Zonama Sekot, which he believed to be a portent of doom.

## Biography

### Early Life

**Shimrra Jamaane**, a male Yuuzhan Vong, was born into Domain Jamaane many decades before the Battle of Yavin. The Yuuzhan Vong were an extra-galactic species that had been traveling through the Intergalactic Void for millennia in hopes of finding a new galaxy, after destroying much of their home galaxy in an intra-species war. As the followers of a belief system known as the True Way, the Yuuzhan Vong were devoutly religious, and worshiped several gods, chief among them Yun-Yuuzhan, the creator god. Yuuzhan Vong society was divided into castes, consisting of the Supreme Overlord, warriors, intendants, priests, shapers, workers, and Shamed Ones. Because of their reliance on their gods, the Yuuzhan Vong placed a great deal of importance in their priests, and their God-King, the Supreme Overlord. Only the Supreme Overlord held a link to Yun-Yuuzhan, and all of the other Yuuzhan Vong were completely subordinate to the Supreme Overlord.

Shimrra had a twin brother; they were only the third set of twins in the species' history. In the previous two instances, one of the twins had killed the other, and then gone on to lead the Yuuzhan Vong during times of crisis. Because he was a twin, and of noble birth, Shimrra was placed into a small group of candidates for the position of Supreme Overlord. As a candidate for Supreme Overlord, Shimrra received many luxuries, and was trained in warfare and religion. Due to the work of Shapers, he grew to an extraordinary size. At the age of seven, Shimrra killed his brother to eliminate a possible rival for the throne, early on displaying aggressiveness and ruthlessness.

### Finding the Galaxy Far Far Away

After many hopeless years traveling through space, the Yuuzhan Vong discovered a galaxy, which they began scouting. 32 years before the Battle of Yavin, Supreme Commander Zho Krazhmir, who had been dispatched to scout the galaxy by Supreme Overlord Quoreal, discovered the planet Zonama Sekot in the new galaxy. Zonama Sekot was a sentient planet, one with many similarities to the species' original homeworld, Yuuzhan'tar. Ancient legends told of a living planet that would bring about the doom of the Yuuzhan Vong, and so, when informed of this discovery 29 years before the Battle of Yavin, Quoreal elected to keep traveling in hopes of finding another galaxy. This decision made him unpopular among the Yuuzhan Vong, particularly Domain Jamaane.

At this point, a disgraced former shaper named Onimi decided to act. Earlier, Onimi had learned that the eighth cortex—the final level of Shaping protocols dispensed directly by the gods and available only to the Supreme Overlord—was empty, contrary to what the species had been taught and believed. Upon discovering this, Onimi realized that the Yuuzhan Vong were doomed if they could not adapt. He attempted to graft yammosk tissue to his brain, but the experiment left him physically deformed, causing him to be marked as a Shamed One and stripped of his rank. However, it also opened him up to the Force, which the Yuuzhan Vong had been cut off from millennia ago. Onimi believed that after traveling through the void for thousands of years, the Yuuzhan Vong would wipe themselves out if they did not have an enemy to direct all their focus toward. Furthermore, he sought to take the place of the gods, and believed that by conquering a new home, the Yuuzhan Vong could ascend to the same level as the gods.

### Gaining the Power and Title of a God

While Onimi made his way to manipulate the next Supreme Overlord, Shimrra managed to catch Onimi in the act of manipulating leaders with the Force. Realizing that Onimi had a power that could mold the minds of his enemies but the act also being seen as a burden, Shimrra kidnapped Onimi while he least expected it and had him experimented on while unconscious. Not wanting to risk Onimi manipulating him, Shimrra killed Onimi in his sleep, and used what he learned from the results to begin the process of replicating what gave Onimi his powers. Using the lessons of Onimi's original experiments, Shimrra had entrusted a number of shapers to apply this research onto Shimrra, but without the deformities. Though Shimrra's appearance was slightly altered his strength and brutality were not stripped from him, and in addition he developed a connection to the Force. Using his new power, Shimrra made the shapers who had been loyal to him kill themselves so that no one could have the same power or make Shimrra look like a heretic.

Shimrra using his new found power,vthen launched a coup aimed at seizing the throne. With the aid of many warriors, Shimrra was able to overthrow and kill Quoreal. He then executed many of Quoreal's most ardent supporters, as well as the other candidates for the position of Supreme Overlord in an effort to consolidate his power. He also suppressed all knowledge of Zonama Sekot. Having done all this, the new Supreme Overlord announced to the rest of his people the discovery of a new galaxy that he claimed had been revealed to him in a dream from the gods. However, before the Yuuzhan Vong could take the galaxy for their own, they would have to defeat the countless beings already in the galaxy. The Yuuzhan Vong viewed them as infidels, as they did not worship the Yuuzhan Vong gods, and used machine technology, which was disdained by followers of the True Way. Thus, before the Yuuzhan Vong would be content to settle in the new galaxy, all infidels would have to be killed or converted, and their technology destroyed. Though not all members of the species supported Shimrra and his decisions, the dissidents were silent, as they knew that anyone who opposed Shimrra would be killed. Meanwhile, as Shimrra's power grew, less and less of the Supreme Overlord's original personality remained, as he was being corrupted by the Dark-Side.

## Powers and Abilities

**The Force:** Unlike the rest of his people, Shimrra has a connection to the Force, which he inherited after performing an apostasy on Onimi's seeminlgy weak and twisted corpse. Reverse-Engineering the process may have granted Shimrra power over the Force, but it altered his appearance though not to the length of Onimi.

* **Telepathy:** The Force gave him the power to manipulate the minds of others.
* **Energy Manipulation:** He has been shown to be able to amplify the energy flowing through his mismatched form.
* **Toxin Manipulation:** He could also create deadly toxins and chemicals through his metabolism and release them through almost every bodily fluid he produced, such as his sweat or saliva. He could even secrete toxins out of his nails.