Marthrull Strayfiend

Marthrull the Invisible or Marthrull Strayfiend was a male human and eventual crime lord. He started a criminal organization via the holonet about five years before the Yuuzhan Vong invaded the galaxy.

Born on a relatively obscure world near Bastion called Wrydrock, he was the son of an Imperial officer and the daughter of a minor member of Palpatine's court. He had a twin brother named Mathius Strayfiend who was his partner in crime.

Early life
His father was an officer stationed on the first Death Star and was killed in the explosion at the Battle of Yavin two days before Marthrull and Mathius turned one year old. Their mother was named Maritta and she worked long hours as an administrative assistant in a Banking Clan owned ore processing facility.

Although Maritta was the daughter of a minor yet wealthy official in Emperor Palpatine's court, she estranged herself from her parents because she blamed the Empire for the death of her husband and was aware through her husband that the Empire destroyed Alderaan. With little money and unable to care for her sons, she sent them to live with their uncle Tull, a small time Smuggler and the brother of their father.

Tull was the pilot of the freighter Hyperius and often took the boys on his travels around the galaxy during which he taught them how to use a blaster as well as slicing and repair skills. Still, they spent several months out of the year on Wrydrock because Tull did not want to bring them on some of his more dangerous assignments. During these times Marthull began to love his homeworld and lament lack of interest from the wider galaxy even as nearby Bastion grew in importance to the Empire.

Criminal Origins
In 13 ABY Marthrull and Mathius were on Wrydrock while Tull was away smuggling an artifact for the Empire Reborn. They began running with a gang called the Droideka Killers, rapidly gaining favor with the gang's Neimoidian boss, an old Separatist veteran named Lokoth Nozabuiba. He often employed them to reprogram droids stolen from the Imperial Remnant and to run holonet scams. During this time they became expert slicers and were soon commanding operations all over the galaxy from their computers at home and aboard the Hyperius.

Unfortunately, their successes brought more attention to Nozabuiba than the criminal knew how to handle and soon he was wanted by the Empire, the New Republic, and numerous criminal agencies. Finally, in 17 ABY the Bounty hunter Boba Fett arrived on Wrydrock and captured the Neimoidian, eliminating enough Droideka Killers to dissolve the gang in the process, thus fulfilling two contracts at once.

Marthrull and Mathias survived the destruction because they were smuggling with their uncle in the Kanz sector. They returned to the gang's base and were only able to recover a stolen experimental assassin droid named S7-1Y. The droid had exclusively seen Martrhull and Mathias since its last memory wipe because they were assigned to reprogram to be loyal to the Droideka Killers. Consequently, it recognized them as its masters but for the time being the eighteen year old twins neglected to tell their uncle of the droids assassin capabilities and S7-1Y became a fourth crew member of the Hyperius.

The Itching Empire
For the next three years the boys and their uncle Tull spent all of their time smuggling for the Hutt Cartels and the Black Sun, returning to Wrydock only for the mother's funeral in 19 ABY. Then, in the beginning of 20 ABY their uncle Tull was double-crossed and killed by Yethra the Hutt and the Hyperius was impounded and scuttled, leaving the boys stranded with S7-1Y on the planet Boonta. Using their slicing skills they managed to make enough money to buy passage home.

Upon arrival they moved in to the apartment of a Rodian former Droideka Killer named Rozule Escobb. There they began plotting their revenge on Yethra, looking to financially ruin him before they would send S7-1Y in to kill him. Their plotting led to amassing funds to themselves and soon they started gaining allies, forming a group that by the end of the year was called the Itching Empire and numbered in the thousands. Marthrull and Mathius kept their identity a secret from most of the organization and they created an inner circle composed of themselves, Rozule, S7-1Y, a former Imperial officer named Vinder Wek who had served with their father, a Dresselian named Heek, and a Corellain and former pirate named Wester Nortaak.

Their first major victory occurred in 22 ABY when they pushed Yethra's operations off of the world of Jocade. Discovering the planet to be extremely pleasant they spent the next two years turning it into a resort world with the help of investors from the Banking Clan and Star Tours Inc.

But like Nozabuiba before them, they had drawn attention to their operations. A Mandalorian bounty hunter named Ordarak Argoth managed to discover the identity of the mysterious "Marthull the Invisible" as Marthrull had been called since his first name was used to represent the orders of the Inner Circle. Argoth spent a month stalking him, managing to temporarily disable S7-1Y before attacking Marthrull. An Omwati mercenary by the name of Hira had been attempting to join the Inner Circle, however, and she had been following Argoth when she learned he may have discovered who Marthrull the Invisible could be. As Argoth attempted to interrogate Marthrull, Hira shot the Mandalorian in the back of his head with her custom sniper rifle. Over time, she earned Marthrull's trust and became the eighth member of the Itching Empire's inner circle.

23 ABY was a year the Itching Empire increased their ranks by invading the out of the way moon of Nosa Republica where the slave trade had become popular. Slaughtering hundreds of slavers and chasing away most of the buyers, the Itching Empire announced that all of the slaves were now emancipated in the name of the Empire. Most of the more skillful slaves were recruited into the Itching Empire. Narthrull took a particular interest in a male Aaroun slave from the Unknown Regions named Eayii who turned out to be quite Force-sensitive. Later, Marthrull brought him into the inner circle as its ninth member.

Following the recruitment of Eayii, Marthrull became obsessed with the potential for the gain in the Unknown Regions. He funded several expeditions into the territory and finally visited himself early in 24 ABY. During his trip he and his entourage were attacked by O'reenian raiders. Being technologically superior, they killed all of them except one whom they captured. This captured O'reenian was called Dignatis and he believed there was no point to returning to his homeworld in shame so he agreed to work for Marthrull, becoming the tenth member of the Itching Empire's inner circle.

Upon returning to known space Marthrull decided to invest in the Outer Rim world of Uldoc II. Knowing it was a world where life was cheap and the average bounty hunter worked for hundred credit kills, he only brought Eayii, Hira, and S7-1Y with him to scout out the world. He was surprised to see conditions as bad or worse than he had seen on Nal Hutta and, rapidly become a man after justice, immediately made plans to bring jobs and industry to the impoverished planet. Before leaving, he purchased a large tract of land to build a base and factories upon.

After several months the construction had progressed far enough that he was able to return and begin hiring. Walking into the slums he began recruit. Often times S7-1Y had to act as a translator because many in the slums did not know either basic or Bocce. At one point he came across a family of Vicon who had lost five of their six children. The youngest, an infant was the only survivor. Convincing the parents to work for him, he immediately had them transferred to the worker dorms near his new factories. The family's name was Breling and Eayii sensed that the mother and child were Force-sensitive.

Yuuzhan Vong Invasion
With the collapse of the Black Sun, Marthrull the Invisible had seized every opportunity to fill the power void left behind. At the start of the Yuuzhan Vong invasion, he and the Itching Empire were competing with numerous other opportunistic syndicates trying to succeed where the Black Sun had failed. Due to the war Marthrull decided to pull out most of his resources to fight the Vong because he realized early on how much of a threat they were.

He dedicated most of his efforts to bolstering the Empire's defenses but he did not neglect to assist the New Republic in their fight even though he had always been a loyal Imperial citizen. His investment in Uldoc II was destroyed when the planet was devastated by dweebits early in the war. Several Itching Empire employees escaped and the Breling father was killed and the mother captured by the Yuuzhan Vong. Eayii and Marthrull were present for the evacuation of the planet and they managed to rescue the Vicon child whose name was Throlk Breling.

After the fall of Uldoc, Marthrull travelled with Eayii and the child to meet with the Jedi and give him up for training. While transferring the child to the Jedi they met Luke Skywalker and Marthrull convinced Eayii to train and become a Jedi too. His motivation was of course to have him keep on eye on Throlk and he believed he would benifit greatly by having a member of his inner circle become a Jedi. Skywalker accepted Eayii and Marthrull even convinced him to give him a YVH droid to replace Eayii as his main tool for detecting Yuuzhan Vong spies.

Later in the war, Wrydrock was conquered by the Vong and Marthrull moved his main operations to Jocade. He was also denied the chance to kill Yethra because the Hutt was killed by the Yuuzhan Vong. Throughout the war Marthrull's resources were greatly stretched and he was greatly distressed by the deaths of Vinder Wek in 26 ABY and Mathias and Heek in 28 ABY. His most painful loss however was his bodyguard Hira with whom he had fallen in love and pledged to marry shortly before the war's end.

Beyond the War
After the war ended Marthrull assisted in the reconstruction phase, focusing especially in the needs in Imperial Space. One of his goals was to bring several Yuuzhan Vong into his service but he found that every attempt to find a willing Vong was thwarted for one reason or another. He began to resent the Galactic Alliance and began causing trouble for them whenever the opportunity presented itself. Eayii had fallen to the Dark Side during the war and went into self-imposed exile where Marthrull could not find him. He began to involve himself in Imperial politics and turned over most of the Ithing Empire's work to his top advisers.

Eventually, he became a supporter of the Fel Empire. For the rest of his life, which he was able to preserve until 134 ABY he advanced both the cause of the Fel Empire and the power of the Itching Empire. He stood with the Empire-in-Exile, having completely retired from the Itching Empire in 121 ABY but he died before he could see the Empire's restoration in 138 ABY

Behind the Scenes
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