Burnium Ro was a male warlord who operated out of a stronghold on the Mid Rim planet Ikkrukk during the Imperial Era. He used rhetoric and imagery associated with the Nihil raiders of old. The threat Ro posed led Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin to send his protégé Lieutenant Commander Ellian Zahra to eliminate Ro, lending her his corvette, the Carrion Spike, for the mission. He shared his surname with Marchion Ro, who was Eye of the Nihil during the High Republic Era.