Xim the Despot
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| Position | Tyrant |
| Homeworld | Argai |
| Species | Human |
| Gender | Male |
| Height | Unknown |
| Affiliation | His Tion Hegemony |
| Portrayed by | None |
Xim the Despot is a character from the Star Wars Expanded Universe.
Xim was portrayed as a conqueror who lived and died long before the days of the Galactic Republic. Originating from the planet Dellalt, he plundered planets, ejected countless prisoners into space, and murdered political enemies, among other atrocities. He ruled for about 30 Standard Time Parts (years).
Xim possessed advanced technology for his time, including stores of Kiirium (for shielding of space vessels) and Mytag (used in crystalline form as oscillators in old subspace communications and detection equipment). When combined when his large army of massively-armored and armed war droids, Xim was victorious in most battles
He also built massive vaults for the tribute to be collected by his conquering armies, but the bounty never came to be. At the time of the Star Wars saga portrayed in the films, the vaults are all that remained of his "empire," and served only as a minor curiosity.
The area of space that Xim conquered included what was later deemed the Corporate Sector. It has been speculated that Xim is responsible for the complete lack of native sentient life in that area of space.
Xim's reign came to an end at the Third Battle of Vontor, which he fought against the Hutts; after this battle, his empire collapsed nearly immediately, in revolts and invasions, without Xim or his droids to hold it together. According to his former subject worlds, and the Republic, Xim was killed in the battle, but the Hutts maintain he was captured and made a slave of Kossak the Hutt, leader of the Hutt forces at Vontor.
The Genoharadan assassin guild claimed to have been founded by Xim.
Han Solo discovered the Queen of Ranroon, a ship of Xim's conquering army, on Dellalt. It was abandoned there by its crew after Xim was killed at Vontor. Its bounty included mytag and kiirium.
[edit] References
- Han Solo and the Lost Legacy, by Brian Daley, Del Rey Books, 1980. ISBN 0-345-37980-2
- The Star Wars Essential Chronology, by Kevin J. Anderson and Daniel Wallace, Del Rey Books, 2000. ISBN 0-345-43439-0.
