Mael'vith'larez "Elvithla"

> "*Getting to take readouts of the weapons, gear and engines of the rest of the galaxy was worth the trouble, I think. I learned a lot.*" ― Elvithla to Mael'ist'amo
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## Mael'vith'larez

### Affiliation

Ascendancy Intelligence (formerly)
The Coalition - Scalpel Team (formerly)

The Coalition - Research Department

## Physical description

### Eye color

Red

Mael'vith'larez, also called Elvithla, was an agent of Ascendancy Intelligence during the era of the Empire. One of the best mechanics that the Mael family had ever produced, Elvithla was sent out by Ascendancy Intelligence to both gather as much information about the technology used by those outside of the Chiss Ascendancy, but also evaluate the rest of the galaxy as allies against the Grysk.

In 0BBY, Elvithla was taken as a slave by the Empire with the intent of making them work on the Death Star. Before they could arrive on the battle station itself, Rebel Alliance operatives attacked the transport Elvithla was on, freeing them from captivity.

Mael'vith'larez spent the next four years wandering the galaxy, working as hired help in the engineering bays of light freighters and transports to make their keep. It is at this point the Twi'lek Reom hired Elvithla and the rest of what would become Scalpel Team to engage in the Hunt for the Sa Nalaor.

They spent their time, with both Scalpel Team and the Coalition, working to improve, create, and maintain the arms, armor and gear of their allies, as well as maintaining their bodyguard droid, K-1V0.

## Hunt for the Sa Nalaor

With the hiring of Elvithla and their new associates, Dr. Lenus Ectbel and Tamrat, to rescue the survivors of the Sa Nalaor as well as liberate the treasure from the ship, there was a brief encounter with Yav Yiyar as the rodian attempted to obtain a droid the party needed to locate the survivors of the Sa Nalaor. As the Yiyar Clan attempted to escape with the Droid, Elvithla managed to deactivate the hover-pallet carrying the droid, preventing the Yiyars from escaping with their cargo.

The path led the team to Cholganna, where they believe the Sa Nalaor crashed. They use their engineering skills on multiple occasions, including harvesting a black-box from one of the Sa Nalaor's escape pods for information, and hot wiring their way through the wreckage of the ship.

After finding the crew, the party took them to Raxus Prime, where Reom had asked them to take the survivors. When the Empire followed them to Raxus and attacked the group, Elvithla helped finish repairs on Reom's CR-90 Corvette, and they also replaced the transponder in the Rat Trap, Tamrat's ship, renaming it the Plausible Deniability. This allowed the party to escape and not be recognized by the Empire as one of the groups making a play for the Sa Nalaor.

## The Liberation of Kashyyyk

Shortly after the escape on Raxus, the party was contacted by an unknown individual. This resulting in traveling to Sullust, where the party discovers the Rebel Alliance Fleet preparing for the Battle of Endor. It is on Sullust that the party met Luke Skywalker, who was contacting the group on behalf of Garm Bel Iblis's men. Elvithla agreed to help, with the goal of taking what schematics they could from the Rebellion while working alongside them.

### The Assault on the Slave Transport

After meeting with Ivos Seb, one of Garm Bel Iblis's commanders, the group's first mission was to attack an Imperial slave transport near Zeltros. While an attached fighter squadron dealt with the transport's escorts, the party docked with the transport and cut their way in, fighting through the ship's defenders. Amongst those defenders was a KX-Series Security Droid which, in a moment of unusual bravado, Elvithla took down with a fusion cutter.

The slaves that were on that ship are, of course, liberated. Included on this ship was a Kage woman named Kho'ara, who had the ability to see the future of herself and others through the force. Also taken from the slave ship is the remains of the KX droid, which Elvithla claims for their own.

### The Wookiee Slave Camp

The text task assigned to the team was descending to the surface of Kashyyyk to liberate the contents of an Imperial base. As part of the plan, Elvithla placed explosives on the fuel tanks of the landing pad. Before the explosives could be used, or the slaves escorted away, however, the leader of the Imperial Garrison activated the inhibitor chips that had been placed in the slaves, and used them to attack the party. The group was able to take a few of the Wookiees with them, however, as they did not understand what had happened to the slaves.

### The Defector

While the party goes to Hosnian Prime to attempt to find an Imperial defector and collect them, Elvithla achieved a couple of goals in their down time. Firstly, Elvithla acquired the DDC-MR6 Modular Rifle that would become the "Lance", one of their best works of engineering. They also finished repairing the KX droid they looted from the slave ship, creating K-1V0 "Kivo", who becomes Elvithla's personal bodyguard droid.

While on Hosnian Prime, Elvithla and their companions recruit Doa Mus and are joined by Nava Ra, fighting their way off-world in the chaos caused by the announcement by the Rebel Alliance of the death of the Emperor. K-1V0's first taste of combat is in this fight.

### The Sa Nalaor Vault

Doa Mus's aid allows the creation of a plan to move forward. With some cybernetics, Doa Mus said that hey should be able to create a device that deactivates inhibitor chips. At the party's suggestion, the crew of the Plausible Deniability return to Cholganna, with the goal of excavating and entering the vault of the Sa Nalaor, a location that was inaccessible to them when first on the planet.

When they arrived, the party found that the Empire had done most of the work for them, excavating a way into the vault. All that remained was to enter the vault itself, but many Stormtroopers and Imperial Officers stood in the party's way. Additionally, another gang was also going for the Vault. The Doctor negotiated with their leader, the Black Talon, coming to the arrangement of the Talon getting credit and the loot, while we get the cybernetics that we needed. The groups fought through the camp together, and made their way into the vault, where both parties went their separate ways amicably.

### The Big Push

Once the neutralizer was built, the next play was attacking the Imperial Garrison, to use their communications arrays to broadcast the neutralizer signal planet-wide. The plans relied on the destruction of anti-air towers along the coast that were protecting the Imperial Base from aerial attack.

## The Soun Incident

Shortly after the liberation of Wookiee slaves on Kashyyyk, Scalpel team was sent to the planet of Soun IV to investigate a lack of signals. The capitol city was empty, and once the party arrives in the palace, the Imperial trap was sprung. Nava Ra, Kho'ara and team members on the Plausible Deniability manage to escape before Thrawn's Interdictors prevent their escape.

The squad is taken captive and frozen in carbonite, so as to remove us from the field of enemies The Grand Admiral would face, and to lure out our allies.

## Early Participation in the Thrawn Crisis

The Grand Admiral's Invasion started significantly before Elvithla's escape from carbonite, but their participation began following their release from carbonite by a team consisting of Sceptre Squad, Nava Ra, and Ahsoka Tano, among other. Following this release, they began a rudimentary base alongside Sceptre's on Raydonia, and started plotting the beginnings of what would become the Coalition.

### Myrkr

Going to Investigate reports of criminal activity in a surprisingly Imperial-free zone, they discover the Black Talon leading his gang of criminals, fighting a civil war against his own organization, attempting to stop his former protege from supplying Thrawn with Ysalamiri. The gang leader is recruited on the promise of dealing with his adversary.

### Onderon

Working to support local forces against Imperial invasion, Elvithla encounters Imperial Centurions for the first time, beginning to develop countermeasures to them. In the process of eliminating the Imperial commander they develop a plan involving the sabotage of power stations to forcibly lower the defenses at the Imperial base.

As part of that sabotage, Elvithla vented reactor coolant onto Imperial troops, vastly disturbing Dr. Ectbel in the process. Following the successful sabotage, and the surrender of Imperial ground forces, Garm Bel Iblis, Lux Bonteri, and their soldiers were recruited into the Coalition.

### Serenno and Telos

Originally intending on setting up shop in Castle Serenno, they find that it is occupied, and they speak to Countess Savia alongside the rest of the squad to attempt to negotiate a base of operations on Mantero, one of the moons of Serenno.

Getting a promise of a base in exchange for results, the party heads to Telos to investigate reports of a Jedi, finding Ant'an, a trainee. Elvithla helps capture their adversary, another Force-sensitive who had fallen to the dark side, who is then handed over to the Jedi on Ossus.

### Belsavis

Having began fighting in the war in earnest, Elvithla and their squad went to Belsavis to recruit reported Imperial defectors. This escapade resulted in the release of an ancient Imperial assassin, an assault on the bridge of a Star Destroyer from space, and the recruitment of Captain Halnae Shalla and her men.

## Thyferra

As Thrawn's advance continued in the Galactic South, Elvithla advocated for, and developed, a plan to support New Republic forces and strike directly at the Grand Admiral.

This plan had several parts, including requesting New Republic Personnel to help man our ships, the creation of MX-series networked battle droids, and a stealth landing on the Chimaera itself during the middle of the battle. The plan worked well, as the New Republic won a pyrrhic victory, and nearly all objectives on the Chimaera were completed.

Not everything went well, however, as Ahsoka Tano was taken prisoner unbeknownst to the Coalition, and Thrawn had outsmarted Elvithla, preventing the destruction of the Chimaera's reactor and tricking Elvithla into saying on shipwide comms which Coalition squad that they were willing to sacrifice. Following the battle, Elvithla was reprimanded, but not removed from the Council.

## Post-Thyferra and the Flight to Raxus

Following Thyferra, Elvithla and the council are invited to meet with Chancellor Mon Mothma, where they help to save her and several other senators from an assassination attempt. They take the senators to Chandrilla, and are told by the Countess of Serenno that they found ISB roaming the planet.

### Battle of Mantero

Shortly after Scalpel's return to base, Imperial shadow guards led an attack on the council chambers in an attempt to both destroy the Coalition and capture Kho'ara. The attackers are repelled, though Elvithla is upset by Lenus Ectbel's capture and summary execution of a shadow guard, mostly about the hypocrisy of Ectbel's distaste for their war crimes.

### The Move to Raxus Prime

Scalpel goes to Raxus Prime, hoping to use to the garbage as supplies and a way to hide from further attack. They first investigate a copy of the Imperial Palace and encounter an insane Jedi Master Kazdan Paratus, who is also defeated and given to Luke on Ossus.

In addition, the squad investigates a derelict Imperial construction sphere, finding ship repair facilities, as well as several new allies including Tolnoz, an ancient gen'dai.

## Concord Dawn and Reuniting the Fleet

Following the move of the Coalition Base to Raxus, recruitment efforts started again by sending Scalpel to Concord Dawn to attempt to recruit Mandalorians to the Coalition's cause.

In the process, Elvithla helps defend civilians alongside a new add to the squad, Tackle Box, and also aides in the capture of Commander Kimmund, one of Thrawn's best commanders, resulting in the recruitment of the Protector of Concord Dawn and her troops to the Coalition's cause.

Then, following leads from Garm Bel Iblis, Elvithla helps recover two missing Dreadnoughts, while after the first one was recovered on Jabiim the rest of Scalpel witnessed the Destruction of Bespin.

## Naboo and Karkaris

With information obtained from Commander Bridger, Elvithla helped Scalpel defend the Gungans from the Empire, as well as witness the defection of Ezra Bridger and the rescue of Ahsoka Tano.

Then, they went to Karkaris, where they repulsed further Imperial attack. Both cases also resulted in the acquisition of aquatic troops to help assault Thrawn's base on Nirauan.

## The Final Battles

Elvithla's plan to end the war came on two fronts, a battle on Nirauan, but first there needed to be an appeal to the Ascendancy to gain Chiss support.

Using their family's minor political power, their position as an Intelligence Agent, key witnesses, and an overbearance of evidence against him, Elvithla was able to convince the military court held by the Syndicure to mobilize the Ascendancy fleet against Thrawn as a threat to the Ascendancy. They also make use of this time to reunite with their family for the first time in nearly five years.

Then, finally, is the battle for Nirauan. Elvithla participates, helping to defeat Are'nara, enters the World Between Worlds with the help of Ezra Bridger, and helps talk down Grand Admiral Thrawn, resulting in the end of the Galactic Civil War, and the Thrawn Crisis.

## Rise of the Grysk

Believing Thrawn's claims of the Grysk still being a threat, Elvithla left the Coalition with a promise to return should the Grysk show themselves. They constructed personal starships for their use, as well as for the use of the rest of Scalpel, naming their own vessel the Darkened Resolve.

Now that the Grysk have began to stir, in 16ABY Mael'vith'larez has rejoined the Coalition as Director of Research and Development.