Xanathar had nothing to do with it, he didn't even know who was going to be killed until about 5 minutes before Victor actually died, he spent the days leading up to it begging me to tell him and I refused.
Kicked out of Eidola and Malebranche for being an arrogant cad, Xanathar suffers from severe envy and tries to take credit for things others did, in the hopes of appeasing his ePride.
Despite his GNS post on day 280 (Check the GNS archives) stating that he would never allow the Eidola "scum" or anybody to have any privileges to arrest/execute out-of-faction people, or abuse any facet of the bounty-hunting trade, he readily agreed last week to sell me the privilege in exchange for a million credits, showing how truly desparate he is.
Of course the funniest part is that he never even got paid his bribe, since I negotiated him into accepting payment after Victor von Ismay had been proven dead, at which point I must admit I saw no need to pay Xanathar for his greed and lack of integrity.
Xanathar has a long history of being kicked out of factions and booted around the galaxy, a reputation not unlike that of Sphinx Tulon, another notorious wannabe. After being kicked out of Malebranche, he swore revenge and joined the Crimson Fleet Pirates, at odds with Mintaka's leadership he aligned himself with the GE, then after the GE announced that he was a bad example even for an Imperial, he swore revenge on the GE and started his own pitiful band of 3 pirates that I've actually forgotten the name of the group, anyways shortly after that he left that group and decided to start his own bounty hunting group, the only problem being that he was a horrible leader and couldn't quite get ten members to help him create his bounty hunting guild. He then went and posted at local recruiting areas offering the unemployed people 50,000 credits if they'd agree to join his faction for a single day, just so he could claim that he had at least ten members. Since then his group has managed to abuse his god-given ability to execute coma-ridden, inactive or otherwise non-bountied citizens of the galaxy 5 times, erstwhile bragging about how he has "godlike powers".
The fact is, he had no idea Victor von Ismay was even a target, he played absolutely no role in the assassination of the Imperial moff, his entire article on the GNS is an outright lie claiming responsiblity for something he had no part of, except whoring his "godlike powers" for money, and then getting suckered out of even getting paid for it.
