Petr Malex

Petr Malex was a human male criminal who worked for the. Though adopted, he kept his Malex surname. The politician Elderous Valorum often pretended to be Malex when dealing with the criminal underworld because the two looked very much alike. In return for using the criminal’s identity, Valorum protected Malex’s criminal interests in the Core. Malex never knew it, but he and Elderous Valorum were actually half-brothers, sharing the same mother.

Early Life
Aquaina Valorum, already the mother of three daughters and a son, Elderous, became pregnant by one of her servants, Jak Cade, while her husband was on a two-month long stay on. She managed to conceal her pregnancy from her entire family by travelling to to stay with a friend. In 649 BBY, Petr was born and his mother, disguised as Thena Malex, gave him to the Celestine Orphanage on.

Petr Malex spent the first four years of his life in the orphanage until his mother arranged for him to be adopted by the Hysados a wealthy family. The Hysados were, unbeknownst to Aquaina, a Black Sun family. Thus, Petr began learning how to use a blaster and slicing proficiency from an early age. By age ten, he had learned to fly and had a rudimentary knowledge of space combat.

Joining the Black Sun
Malex was given control of a small group of enforcers in the Black Sun territory on at the age of fourteen. His immediate superior, an Aiyashi named Hanzollt Yteer, thought little of Malex and made him and his enforcers guard an unused docking bay in his base. In spite of the boring assignment, they managed to turn the bay into a small casino, running a minor profit. Hanzollt took over the operation as soon as it reached his ear and he began to expand it. Malex and his men received nothing in compensation but were ordered to head the security of the new casino.

For a month they guarded the game room, during which time they broke up a few fights and hauled a couple of cheaters outside and beat them. Then a bounty hunter named Dorse Guroq shot a  gambler named Sodo Odo. One of Malex’s enforcers, a teenage named Lox Unbor attempted to shoot the bounty hunter and was killed. Malex managed to calm the situation despite the fact that Guroq made several demands. He persuaded the bounty hunter to negotiate with him privately in a side room to see whether or not the Black Sun would meet his demands. After two hours, a single shot was heard and Malex’s remaining enforcers rushed into the room to see Guroq dead with a hole in his forehead and his helmet resting complacently on the table.

Malex earned the respect of many for killing the famous bounty hunter and reminding the galaxy that a Mandalorian can be beat. His adoptive father, Jathan Hysado, commended him and decided to move the fourteen year old to a better command on. There, he would work directly for an Vigo named Rasticee Denn. Denn chose to utilize Malex in ways that stretched the young human further than Hanzollt ever would have used the human. On various occasions Malex would accompany Denn on various task undertakings, learning the trade directly from the Vigo. By 633 BBY, Malex had become one of Denn’s top lieutenants.

One of Denn’s other lieutenants, a named Cethbhon, began to hate Malex and hired a  bounty hunter to kill him. One of Malex’s men managed to capture the bounty hunter and they ruthlessly interrogated him until they learned that he had been sent by Cethbhon. They detained the bounty hunter until something could be done about Cethbhon. Malex decided to hire a far more professional assassin to eliminate his rival. He obtained the services of the assassin droid 3X-AK2R for 100,000 credits, to kill the Makurth on. After the droid’s success, they released the Vodran bounty hunter on, telling him that if he ever escaped Malex would have many jobs for him.

The Elderous Encounter
In 630 BBY, the eighteen year old Petr Malex began to notice that he greatly resembled Senator Elerous Valorum. Denn decided that they would attempt to switch the senator with Malex during his visit to and learn as many secrets of the world as they could obtain. They ambushed his ship, the Valorous Master, after his brief visit to and switched Valorum with Malex and swapped the staff and crew not on the Black Sun’s payroll with their own men. Valorum recognized his imposter as his younger brother but he held his tongue, unwilling to reveal his hand.

The ship arrived on Umbara the day Malex turned nineteen and one day after it was scheduled to arrive. Malex apologized for the delay, perfectly imitating the mannerisms of Valorum. For three entire days, the s were unaware that they had been duped. Then, Yaga Jedi Master Cleyth arrived on Umbara with her new Derimzo apprentice, Akula Huck, on their way to from settling a trade dispute on. Sensing something amiss, the two Jedi attempted to gain an audience with the imposter Valorum. They were denied entry so they decided to infiltrate the senator’s ship. Because Akula Huck resembled a certain Derimzo crewwoman on the Valorous Master, they captured the crewwoman and sent Akula in her place. She was able to get close enough to Petr Malex to identify that he was indeed not Elderous Valorum.

The two Jedi staged a daring rescue aboard the Valorous Master and they defeated the Black Sun guards and rescued Elderous Valorum. Malex and his surviving enforcers were arrested, but then, Valorum managed to have Malex removed from his cell and he helped the young criminal escape. When Malex asked him why he was helping him, Valorum replied that it was a belated birthday present.

Black Sun Genius
Despite being defeated by the Jedi, Malex came away with a large amount of information on the intrigues of Umbara. He immediately began sending various agents into the system to take advantage of the opportunities afforded, not even waiting for the green light from Rasticee Denn. Within a week, the Black Sun had their strongest foothold on Umbara in history and Malex had already achieved the release of several enforcers captured on the Valorous Master. By the time Denn took over the operation, Malex had his sights set on expanding operations from Umbara into the and the.

A cartel called the Kessber’ka had taken over much of the Black Sun operations in those two sectors since the group was formed in 811 BBY. Malex was determined to win the territory back. He launched several attacks on their outlying operations to test the Trandoshans. Several agreed to work with the Black Sun in order to defeat the Kessber’ka and Malex accepted their aid, arming them in return. It took three months to decimate the Trnadoshans and force the survivors into his fold.

Becoming Vigo
Rasticee Denn began to fear Malex, now his undisputedly top lieutenant. In 629 BBY, he made his first move against the twenty year old human. As Malex and his top enforcers met on to discuss new operations in the, Denn sent a team of  commandos to kill them. Malex and his men fought them off but were unable to take any of the commandos alive. Taking the bodies, he tasked a skilled underling to attempt to determine who hired them. In the meantime, Denn struck again while Malex was supposed to be on his personal shuttle over. He had a bomb planted in the ship but it exploded without the young lieutenant aboard.

The mechanic who placed the bomb on the ship was a named Vabix and he admitted after interrogation that it was an Iodanese named Caron Droshu who had ordered him to plant the explosive device. Droshu was an enforcer working for an Yplook named Kloorsh, who happened to be another one of Denn’s top lieutenants. Malex knew that Kloorsh had no access to the specific group of Neimoidian commandos responsible for the attack on Skako. He suspected that it was a conspiracy involving multiple individuals, possibly all five of Denn’s other lieutenants. His most trustworthy advisor, a named Finkyll, was the first to suggest that Rasticee Denn may have been behind the attacks.

The third attack confirmed that Denn was behind the violence against Malex. Denn asked his young human lieutenant to meet him on in a particular warehouse in a toxic waste dump known as the Qozzli. Since Denn had a difficult time telling humans apart, Malex sent a decoy with a small war droid escort in his place. As Malex watched through a hidden cam, none other than Kloorsh entered the warehouse with a retinue of armed guards. They killed the fake Malex and destroyed his droids. Once the job was completed, Denn came into the room and loudly congratulated the Yplook but Kloorsh pointed out that had been duped.

Malex and his men burst into the room and began shooting. As Malex and his men battled Denn’s forces, the Kloorsh took the Iktotchi Vigo into the warehouse offices. After defeating the Vigo’s men they raced into the offices only to find Rasticee Denn lying dead on the floor of a hall. Kloorsh explained from the shadows that Halik Cothnot, the Black Sun’s leader had been his real master all the time and it had been determined that if Denn failed again to take the life of Petr Malex then he was no longer fit to be a Vigo. Since Denn was unsuccessful once again, Kloorsh killed him. It was decided that Malex would take his place as a Vigo. Kloorsh took Malex to and presented him to Cothnot and the Black Sun Vigos and the twenty year old human joined their ranks.

Elderous Valorum as Petr Malex
Elderous Valorum would frequently use the identity of his younger half-brother, Petr Malex, when he was forced to deal with the criminal underworld. In return, he made sure that Malex’s operations were never formally investigated. At one point, in 624 BBY he used Malex’s identity to hire the assassin droid 3X-AK2R to eliminate Siord Sovv, a reporter who had, ironically, discovered that Malex and Valorum were have brothers. The elminiation of Sovv led to the Valorum hiring the droid to wipe out a rogue media faction called the Cult of Exposure. The droid informed Valorum that he knew he was not Petr Malex at all after he accepted the second contract. Despite the failure of the disguise in that particular case, Valorum continued to act as Malex in his illegal dealings.