Hindane Darcc/Legends

Darcc was an Imperial officer and the captain of a Star Destroyer, the Executrix, flagship of Moff Wilhuff Tarkin at the end of the Clone Wars. He served in the Imperial subjugation of Kashyyyk. Ironically, he was later himself Moff of Mytaranor Sector and garrisoned himself on Kashyyyk following the Battle of Endor.

On the Executrix
By the termination of the Clone Wars, Darcc was an Imperial officer and Captain in the Imperial Navy. He was assigned to Moff Wilhuff Tarkin's flagship, the Star Destroyer Executrix, where Darcc was responsible for meeting leading Imperial figures at Tarkin's request, along with commanding troopers. In 19 BBY, Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Vader was requested to meet with Moff Tarkin by Emperor Palpatine, stationed above the planet Kashyyyk, home of the native Wookiee species. Darcc met the Dark Lord, and led him to the ship's captain.

The Darcc times
Eventually, Darcc was reassigned from his former job aboard the Executrix to serve planetside on Kashyyyk. He began his service on the planet, and rose through the ranks to become governor of the planet. Once word got to Kashyyyk of the Emperor's demise aboard the Death Star II, stationed above the forest moon of the planet Endor, Darcc's ambition got the best of him. Because he had access to a position of power, as well as control of multiple units of Imperial technology, Darcc took over Kashyyyk and proclaimed himself Moff of the Mytaranor sector. Darcc established a palace in his Imperial garrison, not far from the villages of Ittummi and Chenachochan, to rule the planet.

However, his plans for the planet did not include dealing with the Wookiees. Darcc formed a pact with Trandoshan slaver Pekt. Pekt and hired Trandoshans would remove entire villages worth of Wookiees along with Imperial assistance and transport them off-planet, where they would either be sold into slavery or killed, skinned, and sold for their pelts. In return, Darcc's newly-acquired planet would be free of the native lifeform. Another alliance was made, this time with the Wookiee Weebacca, who agreed to help Darcc and Pekt in selling Weebacca's fellow species. Weebacca was able to use his status as a Wookiee to trick others and hand them off to Pekt's slavers easily.

Authority challenged
Attichitcuk, a chief of one of Kashyyyk's many Wookiee villages, became distressed at the increasing presence of Imperial troops, as well as the disappearance of several Wookiee villages. He determined to call his son, Chewbacca, who was involved by association with General Han Solo with the New Republic. Chewbacca was informed of the Wookiees' plight, and attempted to bring the matter before the leading members of the New Republic. When they turned down his petition, the Wookiee left for Kashyyyk with Solo in tow, in order to find out the extent of the problem first-hand.

Once they landed, Solo and Chewbacca encountered the first of Moff Darcc's Imperial troops as well as Pekt's Trandoshan slavers. They also spotted Weebacca, taking on an encampment on his on. At the command of Darcc, Weebacca infiltrated the party, assisting where he could, including defending against an attempt to halt the creation of the Government Tree by Darcc's and Pekt's individual forces. He fulfilled his mission when he led Chewbacca's forces into a trap engineered at Okikuti. The party managed to escape, however, and ventured closer to Darcc's base. Darcc, meanwhile, continued his quest to remove the presence of the natives. Working together with Bossk, a Trandoshan and retired bounty hunter, Darcc managed to strike and capture another sect of Wookiee villagers.

After destroying a collection of three signal jammers, a message was relayed to the New Republic by Han Solo. However, as there was no way of knowing if they had received the message of not, Chewbacca, now leading a sizable team of warriors, decided that the only way to end the slavery of his fellow Wookiees was to bring the fight to Moff Darcc himself. Holed up in his palace, Darcc's armies, along with his Trandoshan allies, prepared for the oncoming invasion. Unfortunately for the Imperials, the Wookiee force proved even more powerful than Darcc expected, and Chewbacca and his allies pushed through the defenses of the Imperial garrison, overcoming them one by one. It was not long after that Darcc's own palace came under Wookiee siege, and was eventually demolished.

Control terminated
Darcc escaped through a secret passageway, and met up with Pekt, in an attempt to escape the planet with as many slaves as they could. Weebacca was expected to join the two in the hidden Lambda-class T-4a shuttle; however, Chewbacca, wielding ritual blades, intercepted and defeated the traitorous Wookiee. Weebacca's death, however, delayed the Wookiee force long enough, as the Moff and Trandoshan escaped the planet, the cargo hold of their transport full of captured Wookiees. Chewbacca, determined to end the threat once and for all, determined to follow the transport destined the orbital outpost Avatar Orbital Platform, a large shipping center specializing in slave dealings.

On the Avatar platform, Darcc and Pekt both took refuge in a fortress within the platform. Here, the two waited and coordinated attacks on the landing party. An arrival by Rogue Squadron, led by Luke Skywalker, and the Millennium Falcon, piloted by Lando Calrissian, added pressure to Moff Darcc. Eventually, the combined efforts of the airborne aid and the ground-based Wookiee attacks, along with additional support provided by a group of spacers, proved to be too much for the fortress, and Darcc was forced to evacuate the building. Soon after, however, the Moff was killed. His remains, along with his ally Pekt's, were obliterated after the destruction of the facility, caused by strikes from the Wookiees, Rogue Squadron, and the spacers.

Personality and traits
Darcc was an extremely ambitious man with a desire for power. Given the proper ingredients, the man was able to use situations to rise in rank, gaining favor with his peers, until another opportunity arose where he could further increase his standing. He also had a tendency to proclaim ownership over something, specifically the planet Kashyyyk, when he was able, as well as build extravagant structures for his own use.

Darcc also wasn't immune from making necessary alliances; in order to remove the native Wookiees from the planet, Trandoshan Pekt was called in to assist. Weebacca the Wookiee was also allied with the Imperial during Darcc's reign as Moff, even though the Wookiee species was in fact Darcc's target to eliminate from the planet. Still, he considered these alliances disposable, as no effort to aid Weebacca when he came under attack was offered; instead, Darcc focused on his own escape.

Behind the scenes
Darcc first appeared in the real-time strategy game Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds, where he served as one of the main antagonists for the Wookiee campaign (the other two being Weebacca and Pekt). Players were often tasked in the later missions to follow a trail leading to an eventual confrontation with the Moff, including bouts through his Imperial garrison and a trip into space, until his final doom on Avatar Orbital Platform. Later, Darcc was given a mention in Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader, as an officer and captain serving under Wilhuff Tarkin, then a Moff. In the book, Darcc welcomes Vader, and escorts the Sith Lord to Tarkin.

Star Wars: Galaxies offers a chance for players to participate in the destruction of Avatar Orbital Platform. However, the timeline for this event contradicts the canon established by Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds, as Darcc's rise to the title of Moff only occurs after the Battle of Endor and Emperor Palpatine's demise, and Galaxies occurs before this battle. However, as one does not need to participate in the Galaxies version of the story as it is completely optional, its story- and timeline are non-canon.

Appearances

 * Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader
 * Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds

Notes and references
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