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this family was once a powerful entity on the planet Vjun, working other royal families to govern the planet. The patriarchal family, whose livery was colored by cream and crimson, was ruled by a Viscount for many generations, until sometime just before the Clone Wars. It was believed that the original Viscount Malreaux was a pirate who patrolled the Bay of Tears. He grew to power, according to family legend, by extorting the locals with occasionally-broken promises to stop raiding passing ships. When a planet-wide plague caused much of the planet's population to go mad and die some eight years before the Battle of Geonosis, the seventeenth Viscount succumbed to the plague and went mad. He believed he was being poisoned, instead of having contracted the plague, and killed off his entire household staff to prevent further poisoning. His mental state continued to deteriorate, and he took to slinking through the halls of the Chateau Malreaux, only emerging at night. The last time anyone saw him alive was in the kitchen, when a security camera captured an emaciated Viscount stealing a drink of water. His body was found several days later, after the smell became unbearable. He was survived by his wife, Whirry, and a son named Whie, who was taken to Coruscant for training as a Jedi Knight. When Whie returned to Vjun with Jedi Master Yoda, Fidelis revealed that Whie's father had done some unique and intense experimentation with midi-chlorian bodies. It was believed that the Viscount was using his genetic manipulation techniques to instill his family with heightened Force sensitivities. He was part of a consortium of elitist nobles who wanted to be more powerful than their peers, not to mention the offworlders who visited their planet. It wasn't until a decade later that their experiments were the cause of the planet-wide madness that decimated the population of Vjun.