History Characters / StarWarsTheNihil

* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Gansevor wasn't the only time she's betrayed a client. According to ''Shadows of Starlight'', she's been stabbing clients in the back for most of her long life. When Viess offers her services to Marchion after selling out Sarumo, Marchion immediately makes it clear to her that he won't tolerate any funny business from her after seeing how eagerly she betrayed the people he was ready to conquer before he could even attack them.

* LongLived: She's over 170 years old by the time of the Nihil crisis.

* NeverMessWithGranny: She's no longer young when she joins the Nihil. However, she isn't any less deadly against Jedi in her incredibly advanced age.

* PsychoForHire: She uses mercenary work as a front for raiding and pillaging settlements, and when Porter Engle foils her plans on Gansevor, she takes the time to get as many kills as possible while retreating.

* FascistButInefficient: While the original Tempest system was rife with [[WeAreStrugglingTogether needlessly deadly competition with one another]] and ChronicBackstabbingDisorder, ''The Eye of Darkness'' shows that the ministry system installed to replace the Tempests in the wake of setting up the Occlusion Zone isn't any better about it (to the point that even Marchion admits that the ministers are just new Tempest Runners in all but name), as the three ministers each have their own ambitions (Boolan is more interested in [[ForScience his experiments]] while Viess is more interested in killing Jedi, which conflicts with Boolan's experiments; meanwhile, [[OnlySaneWoman Ghirra Starros]] is the only one interested in actually trying to make the Nihil into a functioning government, as the ministry system was ''her'' suggestion and she worries that the Nihil's lawlessness will cause them to collapse in on themselves). Meanwhile, many of the worlds that have "joined" the Nihil on account of being in the Occlusion Zone when the Stormwall was erected are not only now being starved as a result of their original supply chain with the Republic being cut, the Nihil continue to raid and oppress them. Part of this is because Marchion Ro explicitly doesn't want an actual government, as it would be antithetical to the Nihil's anarchistic ideology and all he really cares about is tormenting the Jedi and Republic. [[spoiler:When Marchion decides to expand the reach of the Stormwall in retaliation to the Republic's attempt to breach it, Yoda notes that this may ultimately come back to bite them since they would be spread too thin trying to control the worlds they've newly gained, on top of already dealing with Jedi, RDC taskforces, pro-Republic worlds and other resistance groups that were behind the Stormwall before it was erected.]]

** While they are outclassed by superpowers with actual armies in later eras, the Nihil are surprisingly well-equipped and organized for anarchistic {{Space Pirate}}s, have pulled off well-calculated attacks on worlds (which have resulted in the deaths of Jedi), and even have secret backing from politicians and wealthy and influential hyperspace pioneers. In fact, most of their ranks are pulled not just from people with grievances against the Republic, but from worlds outside its jurisdiction and/or that have been hit hard by the Great Disaster. After the destruction of Starlight Beacon, Marchion Ro and the Nihil cut the Republic off from much of the Outer Rim with a wall of their newly-developed [[SpaceMines "stormseeds"]], effectively becoming its rulers at the end of Phase I.
** Deconstructed in Phase III, as while they effectively control a large chunk of the galaxy after the erection of the Stormwall, they are shown to be [[FascistButInefficient a very dysfunctional state]] that cares very little about the people that live in their territory and aren't really cut out for governing due to their chaotic ideology. Former Senator Ghirra Starros ''tries'' to get Marchion to make the Nihil resemble an actual government - knowing full-well that the Nihil will collapse in on themselves if they don't establish a proper system - only to realize she's dealing with a PsychopathicManchild that cares more about crushing his enemies and has no comprehensible end goal beyond that. [[spoiler:After Marchion expands the Stormwall to claim more territory as a response to the Republic attempting to breach it, Yoda notes that they have taken more territory than their numbers can reasonably control.]]

* RenegadeSplinterFaction: The Nihil have their roots in the [[Characters/StarWarsPathOfTheOpenHand Path of the Open Hand]], as many of their resources, such as the ''Gaze Electric'' and the Great Leveler, once belonged to them, and Marchion's great-grandmother Marda Ro was a member of the cult. [[spoiler:After the Path was fragmented on the Night of Sorrow, Marda would gather some Path members who were away from Dalna and some rogues to create her own band of raiders, with her daughter Shalla turning these raiders into the Nihil.]]

* BoxedCrook: [[spoiler:After getting captured at the Battle of Ballum, Keeve forces Lourna to be her taskforce's guide as they get around the Occlusion Zone in exchange for her freedom.]]

* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: After getting captured at the Great Hall, she escapes Jedi custody during the fall of Starlight Beacon, seemingly kills [=OrbaLin=], and hijacks the ''Ataraxia''. However, her relationship with the Nihil has soured as a result of Marchion setting her up to die at the Great Hall. One year later, she's working as muscle for Skarabda the Hutt and tries to have Keeve Trennis killed once more, [[spoiler:only for the Jedi to turn the Hutt against Lourna when she reveals that Lourna killed Skarabda's sister, Myarga. This eventually results in Lourna getting captured again and the Jedi reclaiming the ''Ataraxia''. And to add insult injury, she even failed to kill [=OrbaLin=].]]