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Prann, Erli

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this man was the nominal leader of the group of pirates who took control of one of the Golan II defense platforms which protected the Imperial shipyards at Bilbringi, during the years following the death of Grand Admiral Thrawn. The group discovered the cloaking devices Thrawn had used to prototype the masking of asteroids, and used it to protect the station from prying eyes. This became important when the Yuuzhan Vong invaded the galaxy and took control of the Bilbringi shipyards. The group remained on the station, hidden from the alien invaders. When The Galactic Alliance launched Operation Trinity in an effort to retake Bilbringi, the crew of the Mon Mothma discovered the existence of the station and sent Jaina Solo's squadron to see if they could bring it into the battle. Prann pretended to be a Lieutenant in the New Republic, and the leader of a team sent to reactivate the station. Once Jaina was aboard, he revealed that he and his group were simply opportunistic salvagers, taking advantage of the war against the Yuuzhan Vong to reap a profit. Prann hoped to salvage the hyperdrive motivators from Jaina's X-Wings to help power the station out of the system. What Prann didn't count on was Jaina's connection to the Force. She couldn't save her hyperdrives, but Jaina used the Force to alter Prann's inputting of hyperspace coordinates. The resulting jump tried to take the station through a Yuuzhan Vong interdictor, and the navigation computer returned the station to realspace almost immediately. While Prann and his people weren't clear of the Yuuzhan Vong, their proximity to the interdictor allowed them to pound the ship and clear an escape route for the Galactic Alliance forces. Prann then tried to fight his way clear, but his fellow pirates demanded that he surrender the Golan station to the Galactic Alliance. He refused, but was eventually subdued. Once he was remvoed from control, the rest of the pirates agreed to turn the station over.