Thalmanton

Thalmanton, commonly recognized as Crow due to his association with death, is the Yuuzhan Vong mastermind who merged with the powerful interdimensional entity known as Inanem. After being banished from his home due to his exceptionally different views on how the society should have been governed, he was cast out from his galaxy and arrived into the main known galaxy. Learning all he could about life as an immortal, he believed that the source of the majority of the galaxies problems was the force and he made it his sole mission to eradicate it from existence.

During the Old Republic, he posed as a bounty hunter in the underworld whilst using his immense physical attributes because of his perfect genetics to rise quickly to the top. Eventually he became one of the biggest crime lord's in the galaxy and was responsible for many organisations foundations, namely and perhaps most importantly, the Star Cabal that later evolved into the Underspire.

Thalmanton served as the overarching main antagonist of the entire Star Wars Force Legacy universe, being partly, if not majorly responsible for all of the conflicts taking place in every narrative series. It was later revealed that the Black Nexus itself, Inanem was what forced Thalmanton's dark actions, but he was too corrupted and continued his ruthless mission even after he rid the galaxy of the Anti Force.

He was later killed by Tralgus in their final battle on the Force Planet, the galaxy subsequently being saved.

Early Life
Little is known about Thalmanton's early life aside from the fact he was born on the Yuuzhan Vong homeworld, Yuuzhan'tar, and was birthed by two of the greatest Vong shapers. As a result, he was born with perfect genetics and became renowned as a messiah like figure.

As he grew up, at some point, he was viewed as an outcast to his people for attempting to change his ways. Instead of killing him, he was banished from the galaxy by will of their gods. It was in this time that Thalmanton came into contact with the true power behind the Yuuzhan Vong, Inanem, merging together.

Reawakened on Garel
It was revealed that Thalmanton had been kept in an underground Ectocrypt facility that appeared like a temple directly beneath the Pruvine City hospital which Growe Caype, Zackbern Phemrush and Doctor Phoenix all discovered after Growe realized his lifelong visions had been signaling him to go to this one place. The only way they got in was the fact that Growe's "golden vision" unlocked the wall that lead down the large opulent room.

Inside was Thalmanton imprisoned in a pod and an individual known as the Grey Revenant strapped to a technological crucifix that linked him to Thalmanton's pod. The process was to clash both midi-chlorian (from the Revenant's body) and anti-midichlorians (from Thalmanton's body) in order to create artificial anti-midichlorians, effectively creating the Black Nexus. At some point, Thalmanton was able to telepathically, through mysterious means, 'create' Growe Caype's Gold-Given state when he was born and psychically lead him to where Thalmanton had been imprisoned to release him. This plan happened precisely, and Growe let Thalmanton out of his bonds without knowing who he was.

When Thalmanton exited the pod, he thanked Growe before killing him with his weakened Black Nexus. Zackbern and Phoenix retreated as Thalmanton and the Grey Revenant proposed and formed an alliance to destroy the Ectocrypt so that they could not use their potentially galaxy devastating weapons.

Stopping Wilkes
Thalmanton later reuinited with Tralgus, Hardliner and various others who had discovered that Rafe Wilkes had established the Ectocrypt Institute in Garel and in a secret mountain base known as Raven Rock, in actual fact being a First Order base. Thalmanton accompanied the group in raiding the base, though ignored the fight taking place and going straight for Wilkes.

When he reached him, Wilkes stated that Thalmanton arriving would provide him with what was necessary to complete his plan, which was to rip the remaining part of the Black Nexus from Thalmanton and subsequently use his interdimensional machine to banish the Anti Force to it's original galaxy. This backfired when the Black Nexus formed into an actual, monstrous, spiritual form known as Inanem, breaking out of the machine and brutually killing Wilkes and leaving Thalmanton extremely weak from the fact his power was torn from his body. Inanem transported away via teleporation, and Thalmanton and Tralgus were transported into a random desert in the middle of no where on Garel.

The New Plan
Extremely weak and in physical agony, Thalmanton told Tralgus that Inanem was the physical form and embodiment of the Anti Force, and the only way to stop him was to gain guidance from the Force Planet at the center of the galaxy. Though to get this, they need to acquire an Ultradrive that his old subordinate, Mahn Kurr, created on Nar Shaddaa. Tralgus agreed, and they travelled to the Garel hangar after a day of travelling through the desert.

Tralgus recovered his old ship but it was under repair and could not be used. Conveniently, a male Rodian known as Tewka Gonjo landed in the hangar, Thalmanton recognizing the Shaddarian look of his ship. Tewka offerred that the two help him on a mission back on Nar Shaddaa and he'd get them there, which Thalmanton and Tralgus agreed to, travelling with him to Nar Shaddaa.

When they arrived, Tewka was attacked by his employer, an IG unit and the three fought the droid till they defeated it. After which, Mahn Kurr arrived in the hangar, explaining that the Ultradrive had been stolen by an opposing gang led by O'dink Jekkar and that a large scale assault on their fortress was to be made that they could partake in. Tralgus vowed to help, Thalmanton being too wounded to partake. Tewka also requested to help, Thalmanton staying in the ship until the assault was over.

After a long battle, Tralgus recovered the Ultradrive with the help of Vyren Gezrac, who was earlier known as 'Dread Veil' as a Dark Jedi in the underworld, but newly redeemed after recognizing Tralgus and remembering why he was a Jedi in the first place. Thalmanton, Tralgus, Vyren and Tewka all travelled back to Pruvine City's hangar and equipped Tralgus' ship with the Ultradrive. After which, Myles Reed wished to come along, and the group agreed due to his skill and force sensitvity. Then, they went into Ultraspace, headed for the Force Planet.

The Force Planet
The group arrived at the Force Planet, greeted by the Force Priestesses as they asked for their guidance on how to find Inanem. They congregated together and the force ghost of Yoda appeared, reuniting with Tralgus after so long, giving him much wisdom as to his path and what he needed to do. He also spoke directly to Thalmanton briefly, commenting on how he felt the loss and internal pain Thalmanton bore, stating that he needed to become a real person and not an ideal in order for him to truly be happy and live.

Yoda used the force to sense the trail of death Inanem left and stated that he was located in the Yuuzhan Vong galaxy, and Thalmanton automatically knew where. As they left, Tralgus dissapeared into nothingness for mysterious reasons, but the group pushed on and headed for the Yuuzhan Vong galaxy by using the Ultradrive.

Yuuzhan'tar
Thalmanton, Vyren Gezrac, Myles Reed and Tewka Gonjo arrived at Yuuzhan'tar by Thalmanton's guidance. Thalmanton revealed to them that he was in fact a Yuuzhan Vong and had been born on the planet, also revealing that because of his early life banishment, the Yuuzhan Vong had been preparing the mass invasion in order to please Inanem to come back to them.

After heavy emotions being against Thalmanton for his deceit, the group finally agreed that it was necessary to fight alongside him and stop Inanem. They found Inanem just after, as Inanem taunted them all of their weakness before blasting a lethal blast of shadows into the entire group, not before Thalmanton threw rapidly growing Voduun crab armour that latched to them and protected them from the blast. The reason why they were protected was because Inanem himself created the crab armour to be impenetrable to unnatural blasts, but never anticipated having to use it on his own people, thus Thalmanton turned his logic against him. Angered by this, Inanem thrusted a large blow of shadow energy at Thalmanton, destroying half of his face and incapacitating him instantly.

Vyren and Myles were the only two who stood a chance now as they worked out that the force was the only thing that could injure Inanem or at least stagger him. These attempts proved to only slow Inanem down before he began to psychologically manipulate Myles by showing him his greatest fear, Gyle Trakis becoming himself. This succeeded partially, as Myles became infuriated with the vision of Gyle as he began force choking him in the exact same fashion Gyle killed his victims back on Garel, though after Tewka's encouragement and telling him the vision wasn't real, Myles snapped out of it and conquered the fear by destroying the vision with the force.

Inanem then went to destroy Vyren with a large shadow blast, but Vyren, remembering all of his Vapaad, dark side reflection training up until this point, was able to reflect the blast back at Inanem, crushing Inanem's defenses as he began to sink into the floor. Thalmanton got up, seeing Inanem was weakened by the force, and began to use his Yuuzhan Vong shaping abilities to merge both himself and Inanem inside of a powerful tree that Inanem was the opposite of as the tree was pure life, where he was pure death. This juxtaposition began to break Inanem, Thalmanton keeping him trapped within as Inanem was forcefully banished forever from the dimension by the final efforts of Thalmanton.

Inanem finally defeated, Thalmanton stood up, proclaiming to the group, who suspected nothing, that he was going to return to his people and finish what he started - eradicating all force users in the galaxy. Betrayed and shocked, Vyren, Myles and Tewka were all dragged into the ground by Thalmanton's shaping abilities, buried with the mind of the planet.

The Final Battle
The last time Thalmanton was seen was in the Final Battle of the Force on the Force Planet in 40 ABY. Tralgus and Voidsaw, with Luke Skywalker's transportation ability, arrived at the Force Planet to realise it had been partially Vongformed by Thalmanton, flames enveloping it's once beautiful plants. Plagueis also transported in next to them, who Luke recognised as Ben Solo due to Plagueis having him as a host. Plagueis explained that he believed the only way to even equal Thalmanton in strength was to merge both his spirit and Tralgus's into one and become a Force Equinox. Plagueis also promised to leave Ben Solo's body and rid him from internal dark side corruption for Luke to recover and leave the planet with. Luke Skywalker agreed and took Ben's body after Plagueis began the process of merging together with Tralgus, succeeding. Luke left the planet with Ben and Tralgus, now embued with the light and dark side, pushed forth with Voidsaw.

Tralgus and Voidsaw approached Thalmanton who had grown a large Vong tree where the old force tree was, in the process of decimating the planet and potentially killing all force users all in one, but was interrupted by Tralgus. The two said their final speeches towards one another, Voidsaw hiding and awaiting the perfect opportunity to strike in the coming battle. Tralgus and Thalmanton commenced the epic final battle, the two putting all of their strength, skill, fury and power into their blows.

As the battle kept going, Tralgus was being severely outmatched by Thalmanton's skill and eventually was cut down with a slash to his neck, though still alive thanks to Plagueis's Midichlorian manipulation. Thalmanton, going over to the tree to finish the galaxy was surprise attacked by Voidsaw, wielding a poisonous Vong branch that would surely kill Thalmanton if it hit him, but Thalmanton caught his arm, plunging the branch into Voidsaw. Voidsaw fell down, dying slowly from the poison as he watched the remainder of what happened.

Just as Thalmanton thought he had won, Tralgus used all of his power to force push Thalmanton flying into a spike on his own tree, following up by throwing his two lightsabers into him, impaling him further. Thalmanton, finally feeling death approaching was somewhat fascinated but also feeling failure as the life drifted from him before falling limp and dead against his own tree on the force planet.

Personality
Thalmanton is a very quiet individual, rarely speaking unless it is necessary to do so. A great deal of mystery surrounds him because of this and he is highly coordinated in both his words and his movements. He is highly self reliant and keeps himself distanced with everyone around him for unknown reasons. There has been countless situations in which he purposefully does not tell anyone of somewhat vital information as he does not trust them with it except himself. This is also paired with his exceptionally impatient behavior, wanting people around him to speed up their processes and match his own pace, having no tolerance for anyone not being productive alongside him in his missions.

When he travelled to the Force Planet, Yoda's force spirit sensed that Thalmanton had been constantly suffering loss throughout his life, which he admitted to but did not detail how or why. Thalmanton also displayed a strange sense of honor when he kills someone, believing in a twisted way that killing them is saving them. This was displayed when he ended Growe's life and told him that his life was suffering, only to be ended now and given peace.

He has also been shown to be extremely manipulative, playing on Tralgus' selflessness and Jedi ways to make him help him take down Inanem whilst half lying about all of the facts. Thalmanton strategically knew he needed at least one force user to break down Inanem's defenses and after Tralgus dissapeared, Myles and Vyren would suit in his place, using them instead. When he betrayed both of them, he showed absolutely no remorse for his actions, being immovable in his plans and stopping for absolutely no one.

During his time in the galaxy, he developed a cynical, bitter and wicked way of thinking against all life forms around him, believing that there was no hope for the galaxy unless the force was eradicated for good. This drive overwhelmed Thalmanton to the bitter end, and died still holding on to those ideals for his soul was far too corrupted by that point.

By 40 ABY, Thalmanton's ultimate goal was to entirely eradicate the main galaxy of life so that the Yuuzhan Vong could occupy it and Thalmanton be the "god" uniting them all. He became fixated on this goal without any mercy, believing that his new galaxy would be fair and just.

Murders Committed/Responsible For
Jenkor Caype (Nemesis the First) - Killed directly with the Black Nexus impaling his body and crushing his head.

Wildcard - Killed by strangulation from the Black Nexus, and his heart being impaled.

Approximately 38 Sunstone Civilians - Due to secretly being behind the corrupt Republic Intelligence group that hunted Hexler Crown, all the casualties of their operation, being 38 citizens leads directly back to Thalmanton.

Kentann Brekes' Entire Dusk Rider Gang - As well as having had 38 civilians of Sunstone killed, Thalmanton was responsible for the total massacre of Brekes' Dusk Rider gang.

Thousands of Force Sensitives - Not only did Thalmanton have a history of killing extreme numbers of force sensitives, but he was partly responsible for the execution of Order 66 as he was the one to hack and transfer the executive codes from Kayle to Palpatine, sparking a chain of events that would get around 10,000 Jedi killed.

Marko Kaelor - Thalmanton was the one responsible for the orchestration of the assassination of his own biological son, Marko.

Harpin Family Massacre - Due to being the very same corrupt Imperial Intelligence group that evolved from its Republic predecessor, Thalmanton was also responsible for the massacre of Kole Harpin's family.

50 Million Coruscantian Civilians - Thalmanton was in fact responsible for the Coruscant massacre due to being the one who gave Alexander Caype the means of installing the massive nuclear stockpile, masterfully pinning it solely on Caype instead of having a single trace leading to him.

5 Black Nexus Sacrifices - Being the one also behind the Circle of the Black Nexus cult, all sacrifices in it's name are because of Thalmanton's influence on Nar Shaddaa.

Inadvertently at first, but advertently later, all Yuuzhan Vong victims - After being cast out of his home galaxy, the fact that Inanem had been silent to the Supreme Overlord left the Yuuzhan Vong desperate for direction and believed it necessary to please the gods by destroying the galaxy Thalmanton fled to. After banishing Inanem from the dimension, Thalmanton decided that his plan of eradicating the force could be coupled with the reuinification of his people, and joined them and guided them to all of the further planets that were decimated.

Voidsaw - After attempting to stab Thalmanton with a Vong poisoned branch, Thalmanton hastily stopped Voidsaw and redirected the branch into him, giving Voidsaw a slow death. However, this death was somewhat satisfactory to Voidsaw, who later watched Thalmanton die as he was.

Tralgus - After killing Thalmanton, Tralgus had no choice but to sacrifice his own force energy, coupled with Plagueis' dark side energy, to save the galaxy from the Vongformations on every conquered planet. This was the final posthumous effect that Thalmanton left after his death.

Powers
Yuuzhan Vong 'Perfect Genetics': Thalmanton, born as a Yuuzhan Vong and product of two master shapers creating the 'perfect' life form, was naturally immensely gifted in all forms. This included his strength, endurance, intelligence and agility to be superior to that of the other Yuuzhan Vong around him. His natural abilities were what made him able to rise through the Galactic criminal underworld with ease and renowned killer.

Master Shaper: At an early age, Thalmanton learnt how to become one of the greatest shapers his species had ever seen, amongst other things. His shaping abilities were so advanced, that he could create entire mini environments of Vongformed overgrowths that he could control in a godlike fashion. The height of this power was shown when he was able to Vongform the Force Planet single handedly and even create a powerful replication of a lightsaber in order to mock Tralgus. This lightsaber replication, instead of igniting Kyber, ignited plasma and dripped with Vong energy.

Black Nexus: Thalmanton, when he was bound to Inanem, possessed the power of the Black Nexus, known also as the Anti Force. This means that Thalmanton is able to automatically disable force sensitives connection to the force whilst in his vicinity, and has previously completely severed people's force sensitivity completely with ease. The Black Nexus is potentially the most dangerous and powerful energy in the entire galaxy as it can destroy any form of life itself just by being in range of it. To get the Nexus stronger however, Thalmanton must commit acts of evil that the force itself rejects, the dark energy powering the Nexus, almost like the Dark Side of the Force, except it is far stronger and therefore requires far more evil acts. Immortality: Due to his soul being bound and merged with the Black Nexus, Thalmanton is in some ways the walking incarnation of the void itself and has no way in dying no matter how many mortal wounds he sustains.
 * Superhuman Strength: The Black Nexus is able to enhance Thalmanton's natural everyday abilities such as his strength, being almost incalculable as to how strong he is when using the Black Nexus's enhancement. Thalmanton is able to completely shatter huge monuments and crack massive holes in planets upon extreme Black Nexus power.
 * Death Presence: Simply being the vicinity of a highly energized Thalmanton with the Black Nexus, small weaker forms of life simply die around his very presence, some beings feeling extreme fatigue, or slow loss of life whilst in his vicinity.
 * Item Bestowal: Thalmanton is able to channel large quantities of Black Nexus energy within objects such as weapons, allowing his most trusted lieutenants to use smaller concentrations of the Black Nexus being contained within armor or weapons.
 * Shape Manipulation: Thalmanton's Black Nexus mastery allows him to manipulate and shape the shadowy energy of the Black Nexus and therefore create any kind of weapon his chooses. This can range from blades, ropes, axes, swords or tendril like shapes that are extremely lethal upon usage.
 * Life Force Drain: Thalmanton can also use the Black Nexus to completely drain the life out of any being he chooses and concentrates power on, using this for more fuel to power the Black Nexus even more.
 * Black Nexus Blasts: Thalmanton is able to conjure pure Black Nexus energy and blast it into anything he wishes, destroying things or beings with absolute ease, although this does require an extreme amount of pain of himself to do so in large quantities.
 * Death Reanimation: Like using blasts, Thalmanton's own displeasure and pain is at the expense of resurrecting beings from the dead, dependent on the beings actual strength or power. He can also make others cheat death by making their wounds none fatal.
 * Power Undetectability: The Black Nexus's unique energy signature is actually none existent, and therefore, defies all laws of physics and does not work like the force does. This means that Thalmanton's Black Nexus powers are completely undetectable in the force or by any kind of technological device.
 * Teleportation: Thalmanton is able to traverse through the ground and across vast distances in a very quick span of time.

Previously Owned Organisations

 * Phantom Lords †
 * Circle of the Black Nexus †
 * Ectocrypt †
 * Deathchiefs
 * Ravenscrag Family
 * Caype Industries (Secretly)
 * Xizor Transport Systems (Secretly) †
 * Czerka Arms (Secretly)
 * Maladians (Secretly)
 * Coruscant Daily Newsfeed (Secretly) †

Character Statistics
Intelligence: 7

Strength: 6

Speed: 6

Fighting Skills: 7

Force Proficiency: 0

Endurance: 7

Overall Legacy Power: 33