Yalta Val was a Human male who served Empress Marasiah Fel's Empire as an Imperial Knight. After the Second Imperial Civil War, he went to the Outer Rim as an agent of the new Triumvirate. While traveling on a mission to supervise the construction of a communications array in the Carreras system, Yalta Val was ambushed and kidnapped by the rogue Sith Darth Wredd, who wanted to destroy the One Sith and re-institute the Rule of Two. Wredd impersonated Yalta Val and seized control of the Carreras communications array, using it to broadcast his manifesto to the wider galaxy. During his broadcast, Wredd attempted to execute Val before a live galactic audience but was thwarted by Ania Solo, a local junk dealer and the descendant of Han Solo.