Berch Teller

Berch Teller was a captain in Republic Intelligence during the Clone Wars, and later led an insurgent cell that fought against the Galactic Empire.

Biography
During the Clone Wars, Teller served as a Republic Intelligence station chief who worked with species whose planets joined the Confederacy of Independent Systems, training them to serve as partisans for the Republic. At the end of the war, he expected the Republic and later Empire to spare them from punishment due to their work for the Republic during the conflict. However, forces under the command of Wilhuff Tarkin killed many of these fighters on Antar-4 along with former Separatists, which became known as the Antar Atrocity. This event angered Teller and soon after the event, he deserted and created his own resistance cell to fight against the Empire.

Their most notable action happened five years after the end of the Clone Wars. When Tarkin and Darth Vader visited Murkhana on an investigative mission, Teller and a few of his accomplices, including Anora Fair, hijacked Tarkin's vessel, the Carrion Spike. They killed the ship's captain and comms officer, along with two stormtroopers, before taking off. The Imperials forced a local Sugi crime lord to give up his ship to them, and attempted to stop the captured Spike. However, Teller and his crew got away. After the successful hijacking, the insurgents of the Carrion Spike went on a campaign of destruction against various Imperial targets, such as the Galidraan Station. Their information was supplied to them by Vice Admiral Rancit, a member of the Imperial Naval Intelligence Agency. However, Rancit was revealed as a traitor and executed on Vader's orders.

The insurgents, led by Teller, carried out an attack on an Imperial convoy transporting important parts for the Death Star project. They were unsuccessful due to the arrival of Tarkin aboard a Star Destroyer. Teller escaped in a fighter when his attack failed, at the urging of his comrades. His insurgents who helped capture the Carrion Spike, and others, were captured and executed. Teller later tracked down Tarkin on his home world of Eriadu, where he followed him into wilderness and was caught in a trap. He broke his ankle, and had a conversation with Tarkin and his relative, Jova. After they finished, Tarkin and Jova left him in the wilderness to see if he could get out of it alive after nightfall.

Appearances

 * Tarkin