Nichos was destined to have a far different life than the one he planned. He came to
the Jedi Academy with his fiancee, the beautiful blonde scientist Cray Mingla. But within a year, he was struck with the fatal
Quannot's syndrome. Mingla, an expert on artificial intelligence, instituted a crash
plan to transfer Nichos's intelligence, mind, and very spirit, if possible, into a
near-human artificial body using Ssi-Ruuvi technology.
Although he appeared relatively normal, he still had major differences that Cray tried
to overlook. Nichos then aided the New Republic's search for the long-missing children
of the Jedi, for he was one of them. He also helped locate the Eye of Palpatine,
a prototype Imperial battle station that had mysteriously been reactivated. Cray and
Nichos accompanied me and C-3PO to the ship in order to destroy it before it could carry
out its preprogrammed plan of destruction. Amazingly, the spirit of a Jedi woman named
Callista had been trapped inside the computer
core since she had first incapacitated the ship's weapons some thirty years before.
The Eye of Palpatine could be destroyed, but someone would have to stay behind
and be destroyed with it. Nichos volunteered and Cray, realizing she couldn't live
without him, stayed behind, too. Just as an explosion was about to destroy the ship,
they used the Force to transfer Callista's spirit into Cray's body and ejected her in an
escape pod.
