Nils Cridmeen

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"I'm going to get this thing up in the air...even if that means me throwing it."
―Nils Cridmeen, to a spacer[1]

Nils Cridmeen was a Human male mechanic who lived during the Galactic Civil War.

Biography

"Do you actually have the spare parts we need? Well, I guess we all owe you our lives."
―Nils Cridmeen, to a spacer[1]

In 1 ABY,[2] Nils Cridmeen was present on the planet Dathomir when an accident took place in the Imperial Research and Prison Facility.[1] The Blackwing virus that was studied there escaped containment and decimated most of the people in the area, turning them into starving undead creatures. In response, the Galactic Empire promptly established a Quarantine Zone to contain the infection.[3] The few people who survived the initial virus outbreak, including Nils Cridmeen,[1] were trapped in the Quarantine Zone. The survivors established camps in order to to repel the regular assaults of the zombies and try to live in safety while waiting for an evacuation.[3]

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Camp Epsilon in the Quarantine Zone of Dathomir.

Nils Cridmeen took shelter in Camp Epsilon, the most unsafe camp since it was located in the courtyard of the Imperial Research and Prison Facility, the place where lived the most dangerous undeads.[1] Other survivors in the camp at that time included the former prisoner Zsu Val[4], the technician Sogan Varga,[5] the Inquisitor Klex Fulgor,[6] and the stormtroopers GT-643, KD-121 and HX-138.[7] Nils Cridmeen and HX-138 expected to be able to fix a Lambda-class shuttle present in the camp in order to allow the survivors to escape the Quarantine Zone.[1]

At some point, a group of spacers visited Camp Epsilon during their journey in the Quarantine Zone. They intended to help HX-138 in order to get the support of HX-138 and her stormtroopers to access the research facility. HX-138 thus tasked the spacers to find parts to repair the damaged Lambda shuttle: power converters, a computer core memory, a spinal trunk and fuel cells. The spacers explored the Quarantine Zone and collected the needed parts on the wreckage of crashed shuttles and brought them to Nils Cridmeen.[1] The mechanic started the repairs while the spacers entered the research facility. The spacers survived to their mission and finally came back to Camp Epsilon. In the meantime, Nils Cridmeen was able to fix the Lambda-class shuttle. The refugees of Camp Epsilon and the spacers eventually escaped the Quarantine Zone altogether with the repaired shuttle.[8]

Behind the scenes

Nils Cridmeen was a non-player character in the 2003 video game Star Wars Galaxies, a massively multiplayer online roleplaying game developed by Sony Online Entertainment and published by LucasArts,[1] prior to its closure on December 15, 2011.[9] Nils Cridmeen was added to the game with the "Game Update 14," a.k.a. the "Death Troopers" update, released on October 12, 2009.[10]

Appearances

Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 SWG logo sm Star Wars Galaxies (post-NGE) — Quest: "Shuttle Parts" on Dathomir
  2. ↑ The opening crawl of Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided dates the game to after the events of Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope, and additionally, Serji-X Arrogantus, who died in Star Wars (1977) 10—the events of which The New Essential Chronology dates to 0 ABY—appears in the game. Therefore, at least a portion of Star Wars Galaxies must be set in that year. Furthermore, in the game Ruwan Tokai references the destruction of the Death Star as having occurred one year earlier, and Strongholds of Resistance also places the events of Galaxies' Chapter 9: "The Fury of Exar Kun" in 1 ABY. Lastly, while Chapter 11: "The Battle of Echo Base" features the Battle of Hoth—dated to 3 ABY by The New Essential Chronology—the developers have stated that the portrayal of that battle in the game is intentionally anachronistic. Therefore, the events of Star Wars Galaxies must span from 0 ABY to around 1 ABY.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 SWG logo sm Star Wars Galaxies (post-NGE) — Quest: "Mysterious Meeting Request" on Dathomir
  4. ↑ SWG logo sm Star Wars Galaxies (post-NGE) — Quest: "Forward Watch, Epsilon Camp" on Dathomir
  5. ↑ SWG logo sm Star Wars Galaxies (post-NGE) — Quest: "Deliver Radio" on Dathomir
  6. ↑ SWG logo sm Star Wars Galaxies (post-NGE) — Quest: "Administrative Access" on Dathomir
  7. ↑ SWG logo sm Star Wars Galaxies (post-NGE) — Quest: "Find the Stormtroopers" on Dathomir
  8. ↑ SWG logo sm Star Wars Galaxies (post-NGE) — Quest: "Escape" on Dathomir
  9. ↑ Gal-icon IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT STAR WARS GALAXIES™ on the official Star Wars Galaxies website (original site is defunct)
  10. ↑ Gal-icon Game Update 14: Death Troopers on the official Star Wars Galaxies forums (original site is defunct)

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