Hostis Ij was a Chandrilan male human who served as an adviser to New Republic Chancellor Mon Mothma during the waning years of the Galactic Civil War. When Mothma proposed her Military Disarmament Act on the planet Naalol, the site of a bloody battle, Ij vehemently protested the change. Later, on Liberation Day—the day of a planned treaty between the Galactic Empire and the New Republic—he was shot and rumored to have been killed when a group of freed prisoners from Ashmead's Lock mysteriously and involuntarily shot key New Republic leaders. Following his death during the Attack on Chandrila, his fellow adviser Auxi Kray Korbin recommended that Chancellor Mothma appoint a successor. Hostis was ultimately succeeded by the former Imperial loyalty officer Sinjir Rath Velus.