Denetrius Vidian

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Count **Denetrius Vidian** was a male Human cyborg who had was a wealthy mogul of the thorilide mining industry and one of the Galactic empire’s most prominent efficiency experts. A victim of the rare and deadly illness that left him nearly fatally wounded, he'd survived, however, Vidian was rebuilt into this cyborg body. After the transformation, he began to serve this Imperial rule, aware of their unparalleled power. Not long into Imperial rule, Vidian was granted control at an Mining Colony of Gorse and its moon Cynda, key to the Empire's expansion of the empire's fleet. He was tasked by this Emperor with the improving of the thorilide-mining efficiency, and a processing operations in Gorse System. Planning to destroy Cynda in an scheme to undermine his business-rival, but he'd died by the hand of an miner freedom fighter aboard an starship *Forager*.

## Biography

### Early Life

The man that would become an Count **Denetrius Vidian** was once an low-ranking safety inspector by the name of **Lemuel Tharsa** that worked for the Interstellar Thorilide-Guild. Due to Lemuel's work as an Safety Inspector he become acquainted with thorilide trade and developed a distaste for this endemic corruption and bribery within his Mining Industry. While on an business-trip to an Inner Rim world Gorse, Lemuel Tharsa fell ill with Shilmer's syndrome, the flesh eating disease which he had contracted from the countless unsanitary factories which he had visited. His disease devoured most of his body, which then reduced Lemuel Tharsa to his sack of-organs which had been patched together by Medical-Surgeons and was unable to communicate because of his losing most of his body parts.

#### Rise of Count Vidian

After years he'd managed to re-establish rudimentary contact with one of their caretaker Droids. Tharsa was eventually rebuilt as an cyborg with metallic limbs, synthskin coating, artificial yellowish–red alien eyes specifically chosen as they would look unsettling with a Human male face, and an artificial voice that had been carefully selected based on opinion research. Having gained an new lease on life Tharsa adopted a new persona, count **Denetrius Vidian**. Concealing the past as a safety inspector, he reinvented himself as a defense-contractor who had become a whistle-blower. Desiring a vengeance against the corrupt mining firms that almost destroyed his life Vidian developed a reputation as a prominent corporate stalker while still living at a medcenter. After taking stakes at an firms manufacturing cometchaser harvesting vessels, Vidian bought an secret stake at Minerax Consulting about four years before the fall of the Republic. Using his former identity, Vidian became their company's chief-researcher. Posing as Lemue Tharsa, He did produce reports that wiped out surface mining operations at Gorse and numerous other planets; driving several Mining-companies bankrupt.

One of those Companies was Introsphere, which later became a Moonglow Polychemical. This single act damaged the guild he had once worked for while benefiting the interests of a comet-chaser industry which he mostly controlled. Most of the mining Operations on those worlds were run by companies that he'd once inspected. During the last few years of the Old Galactic Republic, Count Vidian became the popular management guru whose management-texts had become Pop culture hits despite the reluctance to appear on a Business HoloNets. From meagre bank account, he developed a fortune through a electronic trading. Following the rise of the Galactic Empire, Count Vidian curried favour with this new regime and became a member of Emperor Palpatine's cabinet. Due to the management skills and charisma Vidian was assigned the task of speeding up production on Imperial mining planets. As a workaholic Vidian developed a reputation among industrial circles for his ruthlessness and putting profits ahead of the people. Count Vidian's activities eventually drew the attention of an Rebel-operative Hera Syndulla, who was part of the rebellion-network that opposed the Empire.

### Imperial Efficiency Expert

#### Stormtrooper Armor Production

Under the orders of the Emperor, Vidian and Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin traveled to the planet Gilvaanen to investigate a unsatisfactory rate of stormtrooper armor production there. While traveling aboard an Imperial Star Destroyer *Executrix*, he and Wilhuff did debate philosophical differences with Vidian arguing that economic competition was necessary while Tarkin saw this as a threat to building a strong Empire. Despite their differences the Emperor ordered these two to work together and investigate what was slowing down armor production on Gilvaanen. By the end of the investigation, Vidian contacted the Emperor via hologram and advocated the Imperialization on Gilvaanen. Supporting Wilhuff's assessment, he recommended bringing Gilvaanen's armor production under an Imperial department of Military Research for security reasons. He placed the aide Everi Chalis in charge of the restructuring and had proposed dealing with the inefficiencies within Star Destroyer resource production by visiting the mines and processors. Due to the service Tarkin gave Vidian a Star Destroyer for his own personal use. At this count's recommendation, Tarkin assigned a green Captain, Rae Sloane.

#### Managing Gorse System Mining

When a Thorilide production in the Gorse System fell behind schedule, the Emperor dispatched Count Vidian to restore productivity. Due to an closure of mining operations on Gorse, all mining operations had shifted to a moon Cynda which hitherto had been an tourist destination. The Thorilide Processing took place at several factories at Gorse including one run by Moonglow Polychemical, a successor to Introsphere. For the mission, he had traveled with Imperial Captain Rae Sloane on Star Destroyer *Ultimatum*. Displeased with the slow pace at this mining-convoy traveling between Gorse and Cynda, Vidian ordered the *Ultimatum* to destroy a freighter in order to terrify an local population and to send a message that the Galactic Empire would not tolerate tardiness. Count Vidian's first stop was a Thorilide-Mine on Cynda where he was greeted by several mining company representatives, with Vidian's first act to declare Security-Condition-One which resulted in the arrest of forty-six potential agitators working within the Cyndan-Mines, and his second act was to impose an age cap on all of their Cynda moon's mining crew and to then dismiss all their elderly workers among this work force.

When the director of Cyndan Mining Guild questioned Vidian, the cyborg personally beat him to death in front of miners and his Stormtroopers, then to replace him, Vidian ordered Sloane to inform Coruscant there was an job opening at the Mining Guild. When one of their Workers Okadiah Garson confronted Count Vidian, he grabbed Okadiah's neck, and at that point, he was confronted by Kanan Jarrus who pointed an blaster at him. Kanan remonstrated with Vidian and then convinced him that Okadiah could mentor Younger-Miners. Kanan's words convinced Denetrius, who had already killed someone and was on the tight schedule. While addressing a Droidmaster and three aides in the mine's upper chamber, the underground explosion caused the floor beneath them to collapse into a sinkhole. This Master and Aides were then trapped but Vidian managed to climb out due to his Cyborg body, and when the crew pleaded for help Vidian coldly told them help would arrive and that the moon Cynda's crystal-columns were supposed to prevent a tremors. The explosion was the result of a bomb that had been set off by a Dissident miner who was opposed to mining on this moon of Cynda.

The Dissident-miner Skelly's research found that the moon surface was fragile. As a result Empire authorities launched the manhunt for Skelly and stormtroopers were dispatched to Cynda. After departing Cynda on an shuttle, count Vidian considered visiting Moonglow Polychemical on Gorse after learning about that company from Kanan. Count Vidian had originally intended to confer with the planetary-managers by hologram. Shortly later, he was contacted by a Baron Lero Danthe, a wealthy scion of a droid-manufacturing dynasty with close ties to the Emperor. A political rival of Vidian, Lero Danthe had convinced the Emperor to increase the Thorilide production rate by fifty percent more per week. Later, he'd met with Captain Sloane at their *Ultimatum*'s landing deck and informed her that he would be commencing a tour of the refineries on Gorse. While annoyed by an change of plans, she complied when he promised to secure her a permanent position as a Captain on *Ultimatum*. Shortly later, Skelly was apprehended by Jarrus and Okadiah who decided to hand him to Moonglow Polychemical-Authorities after he nearly endangered their lives by planting a bomb in Zone Forty-Two.

#### Managing Gorse

Moonglow's chief operating officer Lal Grallik promptly contacted Count Vidian and inform him of Skelly's capture. In return, Vidian announced he was sending stormtroopers to arrest Skelly and that he would later visit Moonglow itself. In secret, he planned to dismantle the company due to his personal vendetta against its predecessor company, Introsphere. Before the Empire could take Skelly into custody, Hera hired the Sarlaccscriminal gang to stage a fight outside the mining refinery's compound and helped him escape. Hera had wanted to recruit him into the rebellion but found Skelly too impulsive to manage and parted company.[1]

Meanwhile, Vidian enacted a raft of policies to speed up productivity on Gorse. He designed and issued new traffic patterns for cargo ships traveling between Gorse and Cynda. He modified the loader droid's subroutines on Cynda and ordered a security review of Transcept Media Solutions's personnel. The security review led to the arrest of Hetto, a surveillance analyst in the company's surveillance division Myder's Mynocks, who had links to Hera. Prior to his scheduled visit, he also reorganised three guilds, merged several equipment supplies into one company, and even shut down a medcenter and relocated its patients to an institution near the factories under the pretext of getting them back to work faster. His last order was intended to destroy all evidence that he had once been a patient named Lemuel Tharsa. Officially, Tharsa was still alive and listed as a mining consultant board the*Ultimatum*. While uneasy at the ruthlessness of some of Vidian's edicts, Captain Sloane and her officers nonetheless complied with his orders.[1]

On the eve of his visit to Gorse, Vidian was contacted by Baron Danthe, who informed him that the comet–chaser fleet had exhausted the once plentiful supply of thorilide–bearing comets. In addition, Vidian was irked to learn from his aides that Danthe had been casting doubt on his production scheme to the Emperor. While Baron Danthe had offered to supply droids to speed up production, Vidian saw his rival's offer as an attempt to "colonize" an industry that he felt rightfully belonged to him. Angered by the news and Danthe's interference, Vidian thrashed his stateroom in a fit of rage.[1]

#### An unlikely opportunity

The following day, Count Vidian, accompanied by Captain Sloane and her men, traveled to the Moonglow Polychemical factory on the Imperial shuttle *Truncheon*. While flying over the former hospital he had closed, he witnessed the planned demolition of the building. For the Moonglow tour, he was hosted by Lal Grallik and her husband Gord Grallik, the head of ground security at the refinery. Unknown to Vidian, he was being tailed by Skelly, who had come to dissuade him from continuing mining operations on Cynda, and Hera, who was spying on Vidian.[1]

While Vidian and his hosts were inspecting a heavy bulk loader vehicle, his advanced sensors picked up Skelly's presence and he challenged the intruder to come out of hiding. Skelly identified himself as a whistleblower and urged him to cease mining on Cynda since it was eroding the moon's vulnerable crystalline structure. However, Vidian was determined to let nothing stand in the way of Imperial progress and assaulted Skelly by punching him in the face. A wounded Skelly managed to escape by fleeing into the conveyer belt system but left the holodiskcontaining his research behind. When Sloane approached the scene, he told her that the holodisk was inconsequential and that he planned to destroy it.[1]

During a tour of the refinery's xenoboric acid bath, Vidian was contacted by Baron Danthe again. The Baron informed him that the Emperor had ordered a trebling of the thorilide production output. When Lal informed Vidian that the factory could not triple thorilide production within a week, Vidian threw her into a trough of xenorobic acid and then used a trending pole to push her in further. Lal's death throes was witnessed by the rebel operative Hera, who subsequently informed Lal's grieving husband Gord. Recalling his encounter with Skelly, Vidian decided not to destroy the holodisk but to use it to advance his plan to increase thorilide production by destroying Cynda. He promptly cut his trip short and decided to return to the *Ultimatum*.[1]

Before Vidian could leave on his Imperial shuttle, Skelly destroyed the shuttle with a bomb that killed several Imperial personnel. An enraged Gord attempted to confront Vidian but was beaten up by the Count's stormtroopers. With his shuttle destroyed, Vidian commandeered a hoverbus to a nearby Imperial spaceport. However, he was tailed by Skelly, Hera, Kanan, and an enraged Gord. Before Vidian could board his second shuttle *Cudgel*, Skelly planted a second bomb that destroyed the vessel. Vidian and his men survived and then confronted Hera, Kanan, Skelly, and Gord. While the rebels escaped on a hoverbus, Vidian battered Gord to death with his cybernetic fists.[1]

When Captain Sloane arrived, Vidian ordered her to send several Imperial forces including two TIE fighters andImperial Troop Transports after them. However, the rebels managed to destroy their Imperial pursuers and dumped their bus in a quarry before disappearing into the night. Meanwhile, Vidian departed on a third shuttle called *Bastinade* for the *Ultimatum*. Despite the rebels' escape, Vidian was mollified that his encounter with Skelly had provided him with an unexpected way to boost thorilide production in the Gorse system.[1]

#### A desperate gambit

After returning to the *Ultimatum*, Count Vidian began discussing his plans to destroy Cynda with Captain Sloane and her science officer Lieutenant Deltic. Despite the potential tidal damage, groundquakes, and meteor storms that Cynda's destruction could wreak on Gorse, Vidian was unconcerned and claimed that the thorilide would survive the moon's destruction. The Count claimed that the moon's destruction would make it easier for his harvester vessels to extract the thorilide and that the refining could be done on these ships, He dismissed Deltic's assessment that the moon's destruction could cause the fragile thorilide crystals to disintegrate. Vidian stated he was willing to sacrifice countless lives on Gorse in order to increase thorilide production. [1]

To test his theory that detonating Cynda would not destroy the thorilide crystals, he bombed the Moonglow mining encampment on the moon; killing many workers and destroying several mining ships. Based on these test results, Vidian claimed that Cynda's thorilide could be harvested for the next two thousand years. To cover up Vidian's scheme, the explosion was blamed on Moonglow Polychemical which was subsequently nationalized by the Galactic Empire. In truth, Vidian had falsified the findings by publishing fake test results under the pseudonym Lemuel Tharsa. In secret, Vidian's plan was to destroy Cynda and its thorilide reserves and frame his rival Baron Danthe. While Captain Sloane would also be implicated due to her supervisory role, Vidian reasoned that she was just collateral damage in his path to achieving victory. By discrediting Baron Danthe, Vidian planned to curry favor with the Emperor. [1]

Following the test-bombing, Vidian ordered all mining cargo ships in the Gorse system to follow the *Ultimatum* to the Calcoraan system, where he operated a depot that served as his base of operations in the sector. Vidian's depot also stored large quantities of Baradium-357, an incendiary substance used in explosives. Imperial HoloNews claimed that Vidian was leading a "heroic" effort to stabilize Cynda. Unknown to the Count, the rebels Hera, Kanan, and Skelly had managed to infiltrate the mining convoy in the cargo freighter *Expedient*. They were joined by the Sullustan Zaluna Myder, who had decided to aid the rebels after she was dismissed from her job atTranscept Media Solutions due to her friend Hetto being arrested for contacting the rebel Hera. Having discerned Vidian's plot, the rebels resolved to stop the Count from destroying Cynda. Vidian's activities also attracted the notice of Baron Danthe, who secretly contacted Captain Sloane and told her to contact him if she needed help.[1]

After arriving at the Calcoraan Depot, Vidian took Captain Sloane on a tour of the depot's facilities. He also ordered his employees to reverse-engineer Baron Danthe's heat proof mining drones under the pretext of "maintenance." After showing Sloane the loading of the explosives, he departed on the pretext of needing to "file" a report with the Emperor. In his personal medcenter, Vidian crafted a falsified report that presented his Cynda project in a favourable light to the Emperor. Due to the advanced sensors built into his cyborg body, the Count soon detected the presence of two intruders: Hera and Kanan, who had infiltrated the facility. Using his mechanical body, Vidian was able to overpower the intruders quickly.[1]

#### Trouble with the Rebels

Before he could kill Hera and Kanan, Vidian was rendered unconscious by a rogue Interrogator droid that had been hijacked by Skelly. Under Skelly's control, the droid had injected Vidian with a sleeping potion. Soon, the three rebels were joined by their fellow comrade Zaluna. With Vidian unconscious, the rebels proceeded to download his brain into a computer terminal. While examining Vidian's memories, the rebels discovered that the original Cynda test results has indicated that the test blast caused the thorilide crystals to disintegrate and that the Count had sent a falsified report to the Emperor claiming otherwise. The rebels quickly realized that Vidian was planning to use Cynda's destruction to discredit Baron Danthe and gain favor with the Emperor. In addition, they found that Vidian and Lemuel Tharsa were the same person.[1]

To save Cynda and Gorse from Vidian's apocalyptic scheme, the rebels decided to get Captain Sloane to send the correct report to the Empire. Kanan lured Sloane into Vidian's executive chambers and then restrained her with a stasis field. Posing as an agent of the Emperor, the undercover Jedi Padawan and his rebel colleagues told Sloane to send the original report to the Emperor. Since Vidian controlled all communications at the depot, he told her to use the communications facilities aboard her Star Destroyer. Sloane reluctantly complied and the rebels escaped the Calcoraan Depot in the *Expedient*. Before leaving the rebels also wiped Vidian's memories of the last hour to cover their tracks.[1]

When Vidian awoke from his drug–sleep, Captain Sloane reported that they had been accosted by a group of rebels who had been led by a man claiming to be an agent of the Emperor. Sloane had already secretly sent the original report to the Emperor but pretended to dismiss Kanan's information as "senseless ranting." After summoning security and locking down the depot, Vidian realized that the rebel intruders were trying to tamper with his planned destruction of Cynda. He ordered Captain Sloane to make ready her Star Destroyer *Ultimatum* and several TIE fighters and *Gozanti*-class freighter carriers. Believing Cynda's destruction was imminent, he offered to make favors to Sloane and Captain Yale Karlsen.[1]

#### Showdown above Cynda

Count Vidian traveled to Cynda in the *Forager*, a specialized mining vessel consisting of seven spheres that made it resemble a large segmented insect. Vidian planned to commence harvesting the thorilide immediately after the moon's destruction. According to Vidian's plan, Captain Sloane would initiate the moon's detonation from her Star Destroyer *Ultimatum*. Meanwhile, the mining fleet began depositing their thorilide cargo onto Cynda's surface. Before they could finish their work, Kanan began making threats across the intercomm to confuse the mining cargo ships and to provoke a response from Vidian.[1]

Using the *Expedient*, Hera and Kanan began disrupting the uploading process by attacking the TIE fighters escorting the cargo ships. The rebels then headed towards the *Forager* but found that the ship was protected by a powerful deflector shield. After transmitting an emergency warning to the people of Gorse through Transcept's systems, the rebels decide to board Vidian's ship. Meanwhile, Vidian's *Forager* was approaching the moon when one of his cybernetic crew detected the rebel freighter *Expedient* breaching the rearward gap in the *Forager*'s shield. Before the *Forager*'s defensive turrets could hit the ship, the *Expedient* managed to land in the ship's rear landing bay.[1]

With the *Forager* breached, Vidian ordered his stormtroopers to repel the intruders. The four rebels fought their way through the ship's factory compartments, which included several vats of xenorobic acid. Despite the intruders, Vidian was determined to continue the countdown and was still waiting for the mining ships to finish loading into the final injection site on Cynda. The rebel Zaluna managed to breach Vidian's command center but was quickly cornered by Vidian, who knocked the Sullustan woman unconscious. Soon, Kanan caught up Vidian and tried to shoot him. However, the count's metallic body deflected the blasts and he destroyed Kanan's blaster with his cybernetic hands.[1]

While Vidian wrestled with Kanan, Zaluna attempted to shoot him with her pistol. However, Vidian managed to grab her pistol during the struggle and fire it at the Sullustan's head; blinding Zaluna. Despite the damage to his synthskin facial coating, Vidian was still in peak capacity and challenged Kanan to a duel. Before they could fight, Hera stormed the command room with a hijacked hover-forklift and rammed the machine into Vidian. Due to his metallic body, Vidian managed to survive the impact. Following a heated verbal exchange, a defiant Vidian told the rebels that Cynda's optimal detonation window was only four minutes away.[1]

At that point, Vidian encountered a new unexpected obstacle to his plans. Captain Sloane ordered the*Ultimatum*'s technical crew to rescind the Detonation Control link to the *Forager* and gave orders for her stormtroopers aboard the *Forager* to arrest the Count. Unknown to Vidian, Sloane had contacted the Emperor who had issued her with orders to stop the destruction of Cynda at all costs. Sloane charged the Count with numerous crimes including multiple violations of the Imperial legal code, falsification of testimony to the Emperor, profiteering with the Emperor's permission, breaching of faith with the Emperor, and attempting to damage or destroy vital strategic assets. Undaunted by Sloane's threats, Vidian revealed that he had another trick up his sleeve: he still was able to remotely control the Detonation Control uplink from the *Forager*.[1]

In response, Sloane ordered her stormtroopers to kill Vidian's cybernetic crew. A three–way battle soon ensued between Vidian, the rebels, and Sloane's stromtroopers. Using his enhanced cybernetic body, Vidian deflected a blaster shot from a stormtrooper and then crushed the culprit's head with his bare hands. Sloane also ordered her gunnery crew to target the *Forager*'s transmission tower; effectively destroying Vidian's plans to detonate Cynda. In the midst of the chaos, Kanan and Hera escaped with the wounded Zaluna on a life pod.[1]

The bombardment of the *Forager* released a flood of xenorobic acid which swept through the ship's corridors and facilities. Vidian's cybernetic body was badly damaged by the acid. Still defiant, Vidian attempted to use the rebels' baradium hauler to travel to one of the drill sites on Cynda and detonate the explosives in order to meet the Emperor's thorilide quota. Before Vidian could complete his plan, he was accosted by Skelly, who had been badly wounded by the xenorobic acid. Skelly detonated a bomb which killed the two of them and destroyed the *Forager*in a fiery explosion.[1]

#### Legacy

Count Vidian's death above Cynda ended his plot to destroy the moon and saved millions of lives on Gorse. To cover up his treason, Imperial HoloNews claimed that the efficiency expert had died from a relapse of Shimer's syndrome. In Vidian's absence, his rival Baron Danthe was granted oversight of the Gorse system. One of Danthe's first acts was to shut down all mining operations on Cynda and restore the moon to its status as a tourist destination. Danthe also opened the sunward side of Gorse to mining and used his company's heat-resistant mining drones for that dangerous work. Due to the reestablishment of mining on Gorse, the planet's refineries were able to remain open.[1]

In addition, Captain Sloane and Commander Chamas also rose in the Imperial Navy hierarchy due to their efforts to expose Vidian's deception to the Imperial authorities. Meanwhile, the rebels Hera and Kanan established arebel cell after hiding Zaluna on a safe world.[1]

## Powers and Abilities

**Cybernetic Enhancements:** Through his cybernetic augmentations, Vidian had access to a wide berth of information based around his motto: "Keep moving, destroy barriers, see everything". With Vidian's formidable steel-coated body, he believed himself to have an "able body and thus an able mind". Vidian's electronic voice box on his throat could channel its output straight into comlink receivers near his "ears", private communication channels, giving himself total privacy in comlink and hologram conversations and thus "getting information directly, whenever possible".

**Cybernetic Eyes:** Through his cybernetic eye implants, Vidian was able to channel his vision directly into security cameras and computer systems, having data streamed directly into his retinas and "giving him the upper hand".

**Superhuman Durability:** His armor was plated withcortosis, which enabled him to be deflect blaster bolts and redirect the energy elsewhere.

**Toxin Immunity:** His lungs were also augmented to reject poisons.