Cabbel/Legends

"Sir, Rebel ships are coming into our sector.''" "''Good. Our first catch of the day."

- Lieutenant Cabbel and Captain Xamuel Lennox, during the Battle of Hoth

Cabbel was a Human male lieutenant in the Imperial Navy during the Galactic Civil War. He attended the Officer's Candidate School on the planet Carida and was a recent graduate by 3 ABY. During that year, Cabbel served as the first officer of the Imperial I-class Star Destroyer Tyrant, part of Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Vader's Imperial Death Squadron, under the command of Captain Xamuel Lennox. Following Death Squadron's galaxy-wide search that led to the discovery of the Alliance to Restore the Republic's hidden base on the planet Hoth, Cabbel and Lennox both participated in the Battle of Hoth, during which the Tyrant was disabled by an Alliance ion cannon fired from the planet. Shortly afterward, the Tyrant made two attempts to capture fleeing Rebel General Crix Madine, which both ended with Madine escaping.

Biography
Cabbel, a Human male, lived during the Galactic Civil War. He attended the Imperial Officer's Candidate School on the planet Carida. By 3 ABY, he was a recent graduate and had also attained the Imperial Navy rank of lieutenant. That year, Cabbel served as the first officer aboard the Imperial I-class Star Destroyer Tyrant, attached to the Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Vader's Imperial Death Squadron, commanded by Captain Xamuel Lennox.

In the same year, the Imperial-class Star Destroyers of Death Squadron deployed Viper probe droids throughout the galaxy in an attempt to find the Alliance to Restore the Republic's hidden location. While Death Squadron was near the Qeimet system, one of the probe droids discovered evidence of the Rebels' base on the planet Hoth. Death Squadron then made a series of hyperspace jumps to reach the Hoth system, culminating in the subsequent Battle of Hoth. While Vader's forces launched a ground assault on the planet, the Star Destroyers of Death Squadron, including the Tyrant, attempted to intercept escaping Rebel GR-75 medium transports leaving Hoth. Aboard the Tyrant command bridge, Cabbel informed Lennox when the first of the transports, the Quantum Storm, escorted by two T-65 X-wing starfighters, approached the Star Destroyer's position. However, as the Tyrant prepared to intercept the transport, the Rebel base fired its planetary ion cannon at the Imperial warship, causing its shields to overload, which made the Star Destroyer lose its helm.

During the ground battle on Hoth, the Imperial forces captured Rebel General Crix Madine and took him to the Tyrant via a shuttle. However, the Tyrant was hit once more from a blast fired by the ion cannon, and Rebel commandos boarded the Star Destroyer and escaped with Madine via a Lambda-class shuttle stolen from the ship's docking bay. The Tyrant was unable to pursue its opponents due to the amount of ion damage it had received. Although the disabled Tyrant was left floating through the Hoth system, and more Rebel transports made it off the planet, the Battle of Hoth still ended as a resounding Imperial victory, with the Rebels forced to retreat from their headquarters.

Later on, Madine was brought aboard the Mon Calamari Star Cruiser Champion, which prepared to escape into hyperspace. In an attempt to recapture the Rebel General, the Tyrant, by then fully functional, launched its TIE fighters to attack the cruiser. However, the Champion in turn launched its fighters against the Star Destroyer. The Tyrant was unable to defeat the Champion fighters, and the Mon Calamari cruiser escaped with Madine.

Personality and traits
Cabbel was efficient, as well as ambitious and ruthless, and was described by his men in the same way. He had brown hair, brown eyes, and fair skin.

Equipment
Lieutenant Cabbel wore the standard-issue Imperial officer's uniform during the Battle of Hoth.

Behind the scenes
Cabbel first appeared as an Imperial officer in the 1980 film Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back. He was portrayed by Oliver Maguire and credited only as one of several "Other Officers." Cabbel and Lennox are both absent from the film's novelization, which instead attributes their scene and dialogue to Captain Lorth Needa and a controller aboard the Imperial II-class Star Destroyer Avenger. The film's script identifies Cabbel as a "Controller."

In 1998, Cabbel was first named and given a brief backstory on a card for the Hoth Limited expansion set of Decipher, Inc.'s Star Wars Customizable Card Game. Prior to that, film footage of Cabbel and Lennox from The Empire Strikes Back was reused in a cutscene for the 1993 computer game Star Wars: X-Wing. However, Cabbel's Decipher card revealed that he had been a recent graduate from the Officer's Candidate School shortly before the Battle of Hoth, and that cutscene takes place three years earlier. Cabbel also appeared in the 2002 video game Star Wars: Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast, exclusively as a multiplayer avatar. He does not appear in the game's story mode. The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia, released in 2008, also provided Cabbel with an individual entry.

Appearances

 * Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back junior novelization
 * Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
 * Star Wars Manga: The Empire Strikes Back 1
 * Star Wars 40: The Empire Strikes Back: Battleground Hoth
 * Star Wars: Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast