Gloram Yobus

"Even the Resistance's recruiters ought to know the benefits of the casting couch. Perhaps especially the Resistance's recruiters, if the stories about your general are true...."

- Gloram Yobus, to Zhenya Spacestrider and Narra Tynn on Leia Organa

Gloram Yobus was a holofilm producer and director, and leader of the Visualists on Murkhana. He engaged in aggressive negotiation with Resistance recruitment agents Zhenya Spacestrider and Narra Tynn on their mission to use the Visualist Shadowfeeds to broadcast Resistance propaganda.

Biography
Considered a third-rate holofilm producer, Yobus was the leader of the Visualists, a commune of holofilm producers turned slicers operating on Murkhana, who settled in the planet's underworld to use their skills to subvert the media. Many of his employees were former artists and entertainers who turned their hand to the Hyper-Communications Cartel equipment left over from the Clone Wars. Yobus used his status as a holofilm producer as clandestine cover for the Visualists' underworld activities, and broadcast his holopornography using the equipment on Murkhana.

The Visualist Orri Tenro suggested that Yobus hire assassin and mercenary Bazine Netal, who carried out a job for Yobus's group prior to her arrival on Takodana in the hours before the Battle of Takodana.

When Leia Organa hoped to slice into the HoloNet to gather information on First Order collaborators, she agreed to sell her life story to Yobus in exchange for utilizing his equipment and Visualist sympathizers. She sent agents Zhenya Spacestrider and Narra Tynn to liaise with the Visualists, the girls using their Hutt-educated skills to aggressively negotiate with Yobus's slicer group. Once news came through of Han Solo's death at the Battle of Starkiller Base, Zhenya and Narra approached Gloram about sending out notices of Han's death and anecdotes of his adventures&mdash;as well as their original intention of using the Shadowcasts to broadcast Resistance propaganda. Yobus agreed for the small fee of having the girls "audition" for his propaganda vids. Having heard stories about Organa's proclivities, he believed the two recruiters would find the casting couch appealing, laughing at the suggestion as they likened him to their former Hutt slavemasters. Zhenya and Narra serviced Yobus together, briefly returning to their old life as sex servants as they offered up their bodies to him. Yobus found the girls to be persuasive, and the Visualist feeds were soon reconfigured to broadcast Resistance Shadowfeeds in the underworld.

Description
Gloram Yobus was a male whose jowls shook when he laughed. A third-rate, would-be holofilm producer, he used the casting couch to audition nubile starlets for his propaganda vids.

Behind the scenes
Gloram Yobus was created by author Das Flute, first mentioned in his 2016 canon erotic fiction "The Perfect Trophy" and "The Ways of the Force", with a minor appearance in the 2018 story "The Living Legend". His name and role references the American-Israeli film producer Yoram Globus of The Cannon Group.