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=Lorth Needa=

Lorth Needa was a fleet officer in the Republic Navy during the Clone Wars and the Imperial Navy during the Galactic Civil War. He served as the commander of the Republic Carrack-class cruiser Integrity in Home Fleet Strike Group Five of the Coruscant Home Fleet during the Battle of Coruscant. During the Imperial era, Needa was promoted to captain of the Imperial II-class Star Destroyer Avenger by Fleet Admiral Kendal Ozzel and assigned to Darth Vader's Death Squadron.

In the aftermath of the Battle of Hoth, Needa and the Avenger were charged with capturing Han Solo's YT-1300 light freighter Millennium Falcon and her crew. The Falcon outran the pursuing Star Destroyers and hid within the Hoth asteroid field, but the Avenger plunged into the asteroid field, intent on completing its assignment. While searching, the warship sustained damage, but when the Falcon emerged, the Avenger was right behind the freighter. Before Needa could detain the freighter, Solo charged the Avenger and landed on a blind spot on the destroyer's conning tower. Having failed his mission, Needa went to the Star Dreadnought Executor to personally apologize to Vader. The Dark Lord of the Sith accepted his apology after making sure that the captain would never fail again. Two Imperial Navy troopers then dragged Needa's lifeless body away.

Republic Navy service
Needa was a veteran command officer, having served in Strike Group Five of the Coruscant Home Fleet during the Clone Wars. During the Battle of Coruscant, Lieutenant Commander Needa served as commanding officer of the Carrack-class cruiser Integrity. He trapped the Invisible Hand as it was trying to escape, and demanded the surrender of General Grievous. During this encounter he did not believe the general's statements that Supreme Chancellor Palpatine was aboard the Providence-class carrier/destroyer, and told him via hologram that he had ten minutes to prove his claim. Needa informed the cyborg general that if he could not, the ships of Strike Group Five would open fire on the Invisible Hand. Grievous did not surrender, but the Supreme Chancellor was rescued by the Jedi Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi, who forced Grievous to flee to Utapau.

A few days later, Palpatine declared himself Emperor and reformed the Republic into the first Galactic Empire. The Jedi Order was declared an enemy of the state, and its members&mdash;many of whom had been executed by the clone troopers of the Grand Army of the Republic when Order 66 was issued&mdash;were to be hunted down in what would become known as the Great Jedi Purge. The Republic Navy was reorganized into the Imperial Navy as part of Imperialization. Two weeks into Palpatine's New Order, the Emperor and his Sith apprentice Darth Vader spoke before a gathering of naval officers and announced that they were all required to serve the Navy in the unstable times, and any who dissented were purged from the military.

Captain of the Avenger
Needa would continue to serve in the navy, eventually rising to the rank of captain. Fleet Admiral Kendal Ozzel, commander of the Star Dreadnought Executor and Death Squadron, placed Needa in command of the Imperial II-class Star Destroyer Avenger, a position previously held by Captain Ferdas. Needa gained a reputation for efficiency in quelling uprisings in the Outer Rim Territories, and Admiral Ozzel assigned Avenger to the "point" position in Death Squadron. Needa became one of Ozzel's closest advisors. Ozzel would often send Needa and the Avenger off on missions independent from the rest of the Death Squadron to check on certain leads regarding the Rebels' hidden fortress. Darth Vader and Emperor Palpatine distrusted Needa along with Ozzel and his advisors, and Vader would execute any of them for the simplest of mistakes.

Battle of Hoth and aftermath
"Get a shuttle ready. I shall assume full responsibility for losing them, and apologize to Lord Vader."

- Needa, after failing to capture the Millennium Falcon

Before the Battle of Hoth could even commence, Ozzel died at Vader's hand for his mistake in bringing Death Squadron out of hyperspace to close to Hoth, allowing the Rebels to raise their shield and evacuate Echo Base. While the battle raged on between Blizzard Force and the Rebels on the planet below, the fleet of Star Destroyers were charged with preventing the GR-75 medium transports and other Rebel craft from escaping. Seventeen of the thirty GR-75 transports were destroyed by the Imperial fleet, but destroyers such as Captain Xamuel Lennox's Tyrant were disabled by the Rebels' planetary ion cannon. As the Imperials claimed victory, an infamous YT-1300 light freighter called the Millennium Falcon, piloted by smuggler Han Solo and his Wookiee co-pilot Chewbacca, escaped from Echo Base's main hangar with Princess Leia Organa of Alderaan aboard. Needa and the Avenger were charged with the pursuit and capture of the Falcon and its crew.

The Avenger pursued the Falcon from Hoth. However, Han Solo's light freighter outmaneuvered the Star Destroyer and caused it to nearly collide with another pursuing destroyer. After chasing the Falcon into the Hoth asteroid field, the Avenger lost track of the freighter when it sought shelter in a cave on one of the asteroids. Nonetheless, the destroyed ventured into the asteroid field at Vader's command. The Avenger sufferred damage while it searched for the elusive Falcon, and the gunners stationed onboard were forced on destroying incoming asteroids rather than be on the lookout for the YT-1300 freighter. Needa informed Darth Vader that the Millennium Falcon had not appeared on their sensors for hours. He asked the Dark Lord of the Sith to consider the damage the Imperial fleet had sustained, but Vader was set on capturing the freighter.

Death
"Apology accepted, Captain Needa."

- Darth Vader, after killing Needa

The Millennium Falcon eventually reappeared after discovering that the "cave" it had hidden in was in fact the mouth of a giant space slug. While the Avenger pursued the Falcon out of the asteroid field, the YT-1300 vanished from the Avenger's sensors when Solo cut the ship's power and landed on a blind spot on the conning tower of the Avenger. Seconds later, Vader demanded an update on the pursuit.

Needa ordered his ship to rendezvous with the Executor so he could personally apologize for losing Vader's prey, believing that it was the honorable thing to do. He ordered a TIE/sh shuttle to be prepared for his departure. He took the shuttle to the Executor. On its bridge, Needa apologized to the Sith Lord, but Vader telekinetically throttled him to death as he had done so to Kendal Ozzel earlier. Vader then formally - some would say cynically - accepted the man's apology. Needa's body was dragged from the bridge by two Imperial Navy troopers.

Legacy
"Hey, it was your cousin who was martyred by Darth Vader after he let Han Solo escape Hoth. After all, your cousin had Rebel sympathies that he only confided in you, which is why he let Solo escape. Your having been punished with this duty proves the Empire suspected him, but could prove nothing."

- Pedetsen to Virar Needa

As a consequence of his failure, members of the Needa family were purged from the Imperial military on Darth Vader's orders. His first cousin once removed, Virar, had been attending the Imperial Academy during the Battle of Hoth, and as he was not ambitious, he had been allowed to live. Many family members, from Virar's grandparents to cousins, however, were all killed. Virar became the commander of one of Coruscant's orbital mirrors, OSETS 2711. His subordinates, including Cadet Pedetsen, believed that Lorth had failed in capturing the Millennium Falcon because he had sympathies to the Rebel Alliance. Pedetsen stated that Virar had been placed on OSETS 2711 because the Empire could not prove Lorth's alleged Rebel loyalties. Virar was even willing to believe this.

Personality and traits
Lorth Needa was an efficient commander, and could be ruthless at times. He had been overconfident in his pursuit of the Millennium Falcon from Hoth, and this factored into his execution by Vader. Needa was an able leader, but both Vader and the Emperor were suspicious of him.

Behind the scenes
Lorth Needa first appeared in 1980's The Empire Strikes Back, directed by Irvin Kershner. Known only as "Captain Needa" in the film, he was portrayed by actor Michael Culver. In the movie, after Vader executed Needa and the Imperial Navy troopers carried his body away, Culver visibly locked his legs in such a way as to help those portraying the Navy troopers to stand him up easier. Needa was not given a first name until 1996's X-wing: Wedge's Gamble, when his first cousin once removed, Virar, revealed his first name to be Lorth.

In Star Wars 40: The Empire Strikes Back: Battleground Hoth, Al Williamson and Carlos Garzon used reference photography of Needa's death for Admiral Ozzel's execution.

Appearances

 * Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith novel
 * Star Wars: Rebellion
 * Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
 * Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back novel
 * Star Wars 42: The Empire Strikes Back: To Be a Jedi
 * LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy
 * LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga
 * Payback: The Tale of Dengar
 * X-wing: Wedge's Gamble
 * X-wing: Wedge's Gamble

Early career
Ozzik Sturn, a Human male, was born into a privileged and wealthy family of big-game hunters. Using his family's connections, Sturn entered the military and rose through the ranks. Assigned on many worlds throughout his career, he carried on the family tradition of hunting wild and exotic animals, often taking their heads as trophies. As his rank increased, Sturn's assignments left no room for hunting. After Order 66 was issued and the Jedi were declared to be enemies of the Republic by Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, Sturn wished to take part in the extermination of the Jedi Order.

Sturn was instead transferred to various outposts in the Outer Rim Territories, and became frustrated with his assignments. Eventually, he was installed as a Chief Magistrate on Malastare. There, he was again able to hunt, but he had grown tired with hunting nonsentient animals. Instead, he had political prisoners released into a private hunting reserve, where he stalked and killed them. Though hidden, the hunting reserve was eventually discovered by the native Dugs and Grans. Outraged, they revolted against Imperial rule, and the mortality rate for the Empire was high.

Supervisior on Kashyyyk
"Princess Leia. It's an honor to have a Senatorial observer." "You can drop the charade, Captain Sturn. We both know I was sent here as a hostage to keep my father from speaking out against the Empire." "Then we both understand the situation, Senator. If your father keeps his mouth shut, I'll keep you out of harm's way. If not, you'll become the unfortunate victim of a Wookiee uprising."

- Sturn greeting Princess Leia Organa on Kashyyyk

Captain Sturn was transferred to the Wookiee homeworld of Kashyyyk, where he supervised the construction of a skyhook that, when completed, would ferry Wookiee slaves across the galaxy. On Kashyyyk, Sturn hunted Wookiees, wearing their pelts and braids of Wookiee hair on his uniform. He maintained a trophy room as part of his personal quarters, and within the room he displayed the heads of a reek, an acklay, a nexu, a wampa, a tauntaun, a krayt dragon, and a Gorax, among many others. On one wall hung a Gungan encased in carbonite.

In 2 BBY, opposition against the Empire was taking hold in the galaxy. Bail Organa, senator of Alderaan in the Imperial Senate, was one of a few senators who felt that a change was needed. Organa, along with Senator Mon Mothma of Chandrila and Senator Garm Bel Iblis of Corellia, had been planning to created an organized rebellion against the Empire, but they were unwilling to take action. The Emperor knew of the growing dissent in the Imperial Senate, so he had Princess Leia Organa, Bail's adopted daughter, sent to Kashyyyk as a "senatorial observer"&mdash;in reality, she was there as a hostage, so that her father would think twice about a revolution.

Princess Leia arrived on Kashyyyk in a Lambda-class shuttle, escorted by Royal Guards. Sturn greeted her when she landed, but Leia knew the truth behind her visit. Sturn responded that, as long as her father remained loyal to the Empire, no harm would come to her. If, however, he did not, Sturn would have her executed and blame her death on a Wookiee uprising. The captain had Leia and her astromech droid R2-D2 sealed in his quarters. News of Leia's imprisonment reached Bail Organa, who then asked Jedi Master Rahm Kota, who had previously led his militia in the capture of a TIE Fighter Construction Facility above Nar Shaddaa months earlier, to rescue her. Kota assigned the task to Starkiller, Darth Vader's secret apprentice. Starkiller had been tasked with uniting the rebellious elements so the Empire could crush them once and for all, and he had been instructed to do whatever was necessary to complete the task. This included killing any Imperials.

Starkiller landed on Kashyyyk and discovered Leia in Sturn's quarters, but she refused to leave until the skyhook was destroyed and the Wookiees could be liberated. Starkiller fought his way to the skyhook's mooring structure and begun removing the tractor pins that kept the skyhook anchored to Kashyyyk. He removed the pins one by one and cut through stormtroopers, scout troopers, jumptroopers, and purge troopers. Sturn entered his personal AT-KT and engaged the man he assumed to be a Jedi, fulfilling his desire to hunt one. Using his lightsaber and the Force, Starkiller destroyed the AT-KT and killed Sturn.

With Sturn dead and the majority of the Imperial forces in the area dead, the Wookiees began celebrating. Princess Leia was able to return to her father unarmed, and after a few more battles with the Empire, Starkiller convinced Senators Organa, Mothma, and Bel Iblis to sign the Corellian Treaty, officially forming the Rebel Alliance.

Personality and traits
Ozzik Sturn was an overconfident commander, believing that he could easily defeat a Jedi with whatever means were at his disposal. This proved to be his downfall, as Starkiller was able to destroy his AT-KT and kill him. As he had been born into a family of big-game hunters, Sturn had also taken up hunting. But hunting nonsentient creatures was not enough; he made the move from hunting animals to hunting sentients while stationed as a chief magistrate on Malastare. This sudden desire to hunt prisoners led to a revolt against the Empire, but Sturn remained an Imperial officer. Transferred to Kashyyyk, he started to hunt the native Wookiees, despite being assigned there to oversee their enslavement. He proudly wore a Wookiee pelt draped across his uniform and brands of Wookiee hair on his left shoulder.

Behind the scenes
Ozzik Sturn first appeared in the novelization of 2008's The Force Unleashed. In the game, he was voiced by Tom Kane, who also provided his likeness for the captain. He was given a brief entry in The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia.

In the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 version of The Force Unleashed video game, Sturn was depicted as wearing a white uniform that strongly resembles that of the Imperial Grand Admirals, despite the fact that he is stated to be a captain, or even the uniform of an Imperial Security Bureau officer like Wullf Yularen. Additionally, his rank badge would seem to denote him as a colonel, major, or even general, according to the tabulation presented in the Imperial Sourcebook.

In the PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, and Wii version of The Force Unleashed, Sturn wears the uniform of an AT-ST pilot with his Wookiee pelt. In this version of the game, Sturn emerges from his destroyed AT-KT, only to be impailed by Starkiller with his lightsaber. In the cell phone version, Sturn wears a standard uniform and is equipped with a lightwhip.

Appearances

 * The Force Unleashed novel
 * Star Wars: The Force Unleashed video game

Notes and references
=Tenn Graneet=

"Stand by. Stand by&hellip;"

- Tenn Graneet

Tenn Graneet was a master chief gunnery officer in the Imperial Navy around 0 BBY, having formerly served in the Grand Army of the Republic during the Clone Wars. As a gunnery officer, Graneet was stationed aboard the Imperial-class Star Destroyer Steel Talon before being transferred to the Death Star I. There, he was given the task of firing the Death Star's superlaser. Through the power of the battlestation's main weapon, he destroyed two planets&mdash;Despayre and Alderaan&mdash;killing over two billion sentient beings in the process.

Regarding himself as the biggest mass-murderer in the history of the galaxy, Graneet longed for a way to avoid firing the superlaser on Yavin 4, a moon of the gas giant Yavin Prime that was harboring a Rebel base. When the moon was in firing range, he stalled the firing process as long as he could. His wish was answered when Rebel pilot Luke Skywalker fired a single pair of proton torpedoes into the Death Star's unshielded thermal exhaust port and down to the battlestation's reactor. The resulting explosion destroyed the Death Star and all personnel still onboard, including Graneet.

Early naval service
Tenn Graneet had served during the Clone Wars in the Grand Army of the Republic.

Career in the Imperial Navy
Graneet's favorite nephew, Hora, was serving onboard the Imperial II-class Star Destroyer Battle Lance when its experimental hypermatter reactor disintegrated, destroying the warship in hyperspace. Tenn felt personally responsible for his nephew's death, as Hora had enlisted in the Imperial Navy out of admiration for his uncle.

Death Star gunner
As the Death Star neared completion, Graneet was transferred to the battlestation's superlaser gunnery crew, stationed in the Superlaser Fire Control room in Theta Sector. Graneet was initially thrilled with the new assignment, but as he familiarized himself with the new superweapon, he began to question whether any person was capable of wielding such power wisely. He rationalized his concerns with the mistaken belief that the Empire would not actually fire the weapon at full power on an inhabited planet, instead firing on uninhabited moons, planets, and other celestial bodies. During the final months of construction, Graneet and his crew trained on a simulator of the main firing control chamber, familiarizing themselves with the firing sequence and working to shorten the firing sequence as much as possible.

As the ranking non-commissioned officer on the superlaser's gunnery crew, it fell to Graneet to actually complete the ignition sequence by pulling the firing lever. The first time he actually fired the weapon was against the Lucrehulk-class battleship Fortressa, used by the Rebel Alliance as a carrier for 250 T-65 X-wing starfighters during an early attempt to destroy the superweapon. Even though the weapon was only at four percent power, it was more than enough to completely destroy the Rebel capital ship. TIE fighters from Alpha Squad (under the command of Lieutenant Villian Dance) and nine other fighter squadrons destroyed the remaining X-wings.

Graneet later fired the superlaser on the prison planet of Despayre. The destruction of Despayre took three shots to complete over the course of several hours. The first shot killed every living thing on the planet and cooked the surface of the planet. The second caused further tectonic stress to the planet, and the third shot finally blew the planet apart. Later, Graneet was ordered to fire on the inhabited planet of Alderaan - killing nearly two billion sentients in the process. Following the destruction of Despayre and Alderaan, Graneet had a severe conscience attack. Knowing that he had sent billions to their deaths, he soon came to see himself as the largest mass murderer in galactic history, and knew that if somehow the Rebel Alliance were to win the war he would be tried and executed for his crimes. As news that it was Graneet who fired on Despayre and Alderaan spread throughout the Death Star's population, many of the people who Graneet encountered began reacting differently to him.

Graneet was ordered to fire the superlaser at the Rebel base on Yavin 4 as the Battle of Yavin progressed on the surface of the Death Star between the Rebels' X-wing and Y-wing starfighters and the Imperial Black Squadron of TIE Fighters, led by Darth Vader in his TIE Advanced x1 fighter. When he received the order, Graneet froze, wishing desperately for something to save him from his dreadful duty. He informed his gunnery crew and the overbridge to "stand by," repeated his order a few seconds later. His wish was granted when the Rebel pilot Luke Skywalker fired a pair of proton torpedoes into the station's unprotected thermal exhaust port. When the torpedoes reached the station's hypermatter reactor core and exploded, the detonation produced enough energy to destroy the Death Star. Graneet, along with everyone onboard the battlestation, died in the resulting explosion.

Legacy
Graneet's hesitation in firing the superlaser at Yavin 4 allowed the Rebellion leadership to survive. The Alliance would ultimately triumph over the Empire in the Battle of Endor that saw the deaths of Emperor Palpatine and Darth Vader, and they would later go on to form the New Republic.

Behind the scenes
Graneet first appeared in Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, where he was simply an unnamed Imperial gunner manning the Death Star's superlaser. He was the person who repeatedly said "stand by" just prior to the station's destruction. He later appeared in 2007 Death Star novel, written by Michael Reaves and Steve Perry. In the novel, he was identified as Master Chief Gunnery Officer Tenn Graneet. Contrary to the seemingly heartless man who killed billions with the touch of a button and the pull of a lever, Death Star portrayed him as a more morally-conflicted individual who hated his actions but found himself forced to carry them out. He also appeared, albeit unnamed, in the video game X-wing (1993) and the non-canon comic Tag & Bink Are Dead 2 (2001). Graneet was given an entry in 2008's The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: X-wing
 * Death Star
 * Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
 * Tag & Bink Are Dead 2

Notes and references
=Jerjerrod=

"Great men never hurried; great men caused others to hurry."

- Jerjerrod

Jerjerrod was a Human male Moff who, by 1 ABY, oversaw the Quanta sector during the time of the Galactic Empire. His sector operations were based in a family estate in Val Denn, the capital city of Tinnel IV. In 3 ABY, he was present aboard the Star Dreadnought Executor during the occupation of Bespin and greeted Darth Vader when he returned to the warship. A year later, Jerjerrod had been assigned to oversee the construction of the second Death Star above Endor.

Whereas the first Death Star had taken around nineteen years to complete, the construction of the much-larger second Death Star had moved into its final stage by 4 ABY after approximately two to four years. However, the construction crews had fallen behind; Vader ventured to the battlestation to inform Jerjerrod to rectify this. Vader announced that Emperor Palpatine would be arriving to personally oversee the last stage of the Death Star's construction. Jerjerrod informed Vader that his men would double their efforts, as he was afraid of reporting his failure directly to the Emperor. The Moff was on hand when Palpatine arrived, and he was also present in the Emperor's throne room for some time with the Emperor and his advisors.

The Rebel Alliance had learned of the second Death Star's construction and the Emperor's presence onboard it, and they launched an attack based on false information released by the Emperor himself. When the Alliance Fleet arrived, they discovered the planetary shield protecting the Death Star was still activated and the Imperial Navy was there to prevent them from escaping. Palpatine had ordered Admiral Firmus Piett not to directly engage the Rebel capital ships, a move that confused personnel on both sides. The Emperor ordered Jerjerrod to fire the Death Star's operational superlaser at the Alliance Fleet, and many capital ships were obliterated. When the Alliance gained the upper hand in the conflict, Palpatine commmanded the Moff to fire on the forest moon. Before he could complete his final order, he perished when the Death Star was destroyed.

Biography
Jerjerrod, a Human male, had become an Imperial Moff by 1 ABY, when he was commanding his home sector, the Quanta sector, from a family estate in Val Denn on Tinnel IV. His estate included a vault of artwork, several of which were stolen by the master thief "Tombat," whose real name was Tanda Marelle.

Jerjerrod was present onboard the Star Dreadnought Executor during the occupation of Bespin. After Darth Vader's duel with his son and Rebel hero Luke Skywalker, Jerjerrod greeted the Dark Lord of the Sith when his shuttle landed in the Super Star Destroyer's hangar bay.

Jerjerrod came to be tasked with managing the construction of the second Death Star above Endor in the Moddell sector. Emperor Palpatine, not wanting this new Death Star to be commanded by a triumvirate of ambitious men like Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin, Admiral Conan Antonio Motti, and High General Cassio Tagge aboard the first, decided to appoint someone weak and less ambitious to be the single commander of the Death Star. The Emperor decided to make his puppet Jerjerrod.

To hide the existence of the new battlestation and create a plausible reason for Jerjerrod's reassignment, Imperial records were doctored to indicate that he had been promoted to Director of Imperial Energy Systems, a branch of the Imperial Ministry of Energy. IES was a manufacturer of large-scale power generators that, officially, were used to provide a source of power for refuges. Unofficially, these generators were built for use onboard the second Death Star. While serving aboard the Death Star, Jerjerrod was addressed simply as "Commander."

Over time, the crews responsible for the construction of the second Death Star had become lax in their work, despite the fact that they had moved into the final stage of assembly after approximately three to four years. This was a fraction of the first Death Star's construction time; the first corporeal incarnation of Raith Sienar's plans for an Expeditionary Battle Planetoid had taken around nineteen years to complete. Regardless, Emperor Palpatine had become displeased with the slow progress, and in 4 ABY he sent his apprentice, Darth Vader, to inform Jerjerrod to speed up the construction.

Vader arrived in the Endor system via the Imperial II-class Star Destroyer Avenger and took a shuttle to the incomplete Death Star. Jerjerrod was informed of the Dark Lord's arrival by Lieutenant Endicott's men, and he was the first to greet the Sith Lord upon his arrival.

Shortly before the Battle of Endor, Jerjerrod received a second visit from Vader to inform him of Emperor Palpatine's impending arrival. Vader suggested Jerjerrod find better methods of motivating his workers to ensure the completion of the battlestation's vital systems. To his credit, the superlaser and essential combat systems were fully functional in the time frame established by Palpatine.



During the battle, Jerjerrod commanded the Death Star's gunnery crews, destroying several Rebel warships. When the Death Star's shields fell, Jerjerrod, acting on orders given to him by the Emperor, ordered the Death Star to turn and fire on the Sanctuary Moon of Endor.

Jerjerrod was killed when the Death Star II's reactor was destroyed before the station could complete its final task.

Personality and traits
Jerjerrod was noted as being tall, thin, and arrogant. He believed that great men such as himself never hurried; it was his job to cause other beings to hurry. Though others described him as unambitious,, Jerjerrod himself did not necessarily agree. The Emperor believed him to be only slightly ambitious, like any other Imperial officer, and this was one of the reasons the Moff was chosen to be commander of the second Death Star.

Jerjerrod was an unambitious technocrat. He did not hungrily seek power as many of his contemporaries did, but he did not refuse a responsibility offered to him either. However, Jerjerrod was also a soldier. He loved the constant state of war the Empire provided and reveled in the total annihilation of an enemy. It was these characteristics that made Jerjerrod an ideal candidate to command Palpatine's new Death Star. Palpatine had seen the trouble caused by an ambitious, overly proud man like Wilhuff Tarkin, and sought to avoid a repeat of the disaster at Yavin.

Portrayal
Moff Jerjerrod first appeared in 1983's Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, in which he was portrayed by Michael Pennington. Unlike Tarkin, his equal aboard the first Death Star, Jerjerrod is a minor character who appears only briefly. His name is never heard onscreen, called only "Commander" in the film. In Return of the Jedi, Jerjerrod and all other Imperial officers wear the wrong rank badge due to a props "blooper" during production.

Archival footage of Jerjerrod greeting Vader upon his arrival on the Death Star from Return of the Jedi was used for the Special Edition release of The Empire Strikes Back, though the scene itself is from a different angle. As a result, Jerjerrod is seen greeting Vader as he lands on the Executor following his duel on Bespin.

Deleted scenes and script changes
A deleted scene from Return of the Jedi has Jerjerrod and two Royal Guards attempting to prevent Darth Vader from seeing the Emperor, whereupon Vader strangles Jerjerrod using the Force, but does not kill him.

According to Star Wars: The Annotated Screenplays, Jerjerrod was originally a "Grand Moff" in earlier drafts of Return of the Jedi, and held a higher position than Darth Vader (Vader salutes him).

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Rebellion
 * Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
 * Therefore I Am: The Tale of IG-88
 * Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
 * Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi novel
 * Star Wars: Return of the Jedi 1: In the Hands of Jabba the Hutt
 * Star Wars: Return of the Jedi 2: The Emperor Commands
 * The Rise and Fall of Darth Vader
 * The Return of Tag & Bink: Special Edition
 * LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy
 * LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga
 * LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga

Notes and references
=Potential Upcoming Projects=
 * 1) Sim Aloo - possibly, if enough info can be found
 * 2) Igar - probably not enough info; have to check on that
 * 3) Danetta Pitta - possibly