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Plo, Lomi

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this dark-skinned woman was once a student at the Shadow Academy. During the Yuuzhan Vong invasion of the galaxy, Lomi Plo and Welk were captured by the alien invaders and held aboard the Baanu Rass, as part of the group of Force-sensitive individuals used in the creation and breeding of the voxyn. Both Welk and Lomi Plo agreed to help the Jedi infiltrate the worldship and destroy the voxyn, despite the misgivings of Zekk and several other Jedi about their loyalties. However, as the strike force neared the voxyn queen, the Dark Jedi abandoned the Jedi in order to save their own skins. They fled in the ship Tachyon Flier, abandoning Lowbacca but unaware that Raynar Thul was still on board. The young Jedi Knight and his captives didn't escape, and were shot down by Yuuzhan Vong warships. Although they were believed to have died, Welk and Lomi Plo managed to survive the crash-landing of their ship in the Unknown Regions. They were accepted by a small part of the Yoggoy hive, and eventually created the Gorog hive. Lomi Plo herself became known among the Gorog as the Night Herald, and became something of the queen of the Dark Nest. Her incredible connection to the Dark Side of the Force allowed her to completely mask her activities and those of the Gorog, even from Jedi Master Luke Skywalker. In the year following the Qoribu Crisis, Lomi Plo remained out of sight, directing the Gorog and planting various alternate truths in the collective mind of the Colony in an effort to cover her tracks. In this way, Lomi Plo and the Gorog began to slowly disrupt the efforts of the Galactic Alliance, undermining every attempt to create a galactic peace in order to divide the Alliance and conquer the galaxy. Lomi Plo had also discovered that, by sowing distrust among the Jedi Knights, she could literally hide behind - or within - that doubt, thereby hiding her activities from even the most powerful of Jedi. Lomi Plo had Alema Rar deliver contradictory messages to Luke Skywalker about his wife's involvement with Daxar Ies, thereby giving her an opportunity to cloud Master Skywalker's mind without being discovered. During the Gorog hive's attempt to escape the Utegetu Nebula, Lomi Plo found herself confronted by Master Skywalker, who had discovered her ability to hide behind doubt and had managed to cast his own fears aside. Their one-on-one combat nearly resulted in Skywalker's death, until Mara Jade Skywalker managed to break Lomi Plo's hold on Luke by literally scraping the Dark Jedi off him with her X-Wing. Luke's fading vision recalled that Lomi Plo's face had been badly burned and scarred, and he remembered that her eyes had been replaced with Killik implants. In the wake of the battle, it was unclear whether Lomi Plo had escaped, or if she had been killed.