Thetis Quelton was a human female who owned the armor production company Quelton Fabrications on her homeworld Gilvaanen. Quelton was a great lover of history and hated the Empire for destroying it on many worlds. In order to try and slow the Empire's progress in capturing the Outer Rim Territories, she created an elaborate plan in which she would place a specially designed grommet in the armor of the Empire's stormtroopers which would infect them with the disease bottleneck. In order to get the grommets into circulation, she obtained a contract to produce stormtrooper armor, but only managed to obtain the contract to produce the plates for the armor, not the internal components like the grommet. This was instead given to Cladtech, a rival company based on Gilvaanen.