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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 refused to believe the General's statements that Supreme Chancellor Palpatine was aboard the Providence-class carrier/destroyer. 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. 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
"I shall assume full responsibility for losing them, and apologize to Lord Vader."

- Needa before his death

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.

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 pursuing the Millennium Falcon out of the asteroid field, the Falcon vanished from 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. On the bridge of the Executor, Needa did just that, 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
As a consequence of his failure, members of the Needa family were purged from the Imperial military. Possibily, Needa's failure to capture the Millennium Falcon was partly due to his sympathies to the Rebel Alliance, which he only revealed to his first cousin once removed, Virar, the commander of one of Coruscant's orbital mirrors.

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.

Behind the scenes
Lorth Needa was portrayed by Michael Culver in The Empire Strikes Back.

When Needa's body is carried away by the Imperial Navy troopers, he visibly locks his legs in such a way as to help them stand him up easier.

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

Biography
"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

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.

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 four 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.

Behind the scenes
Ozzik is depicted in the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 version of The Force Unleashed video game 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.

Sturn was voiced by Tom Kane, who also provided his likeness for the captain.

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. 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.

Early naval service
Graneet had served in the navy for thirty years and had served in the Clone Wars as a gunner.

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 NCO 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.

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.

Appearances

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

Notes and references
=Wullf Yularen=

Wullf Yularen was a male Human, born into a prominent family, who served as an intelligence officer in the Galactic Republic and its successor government, the Galactic Empire. During the Clone Wars, he served as an admiral in the Republic Navy under the command of Jedi General Anakin Skywalker. Following the conclusion of the war and the birth of the Empire, Yularen would go on to serve as a colonel in the Imperial Security Bureau.

As an admiral during the Clone Wars, he commanded his fleet from the Venator-class Star Destroyer Resolute. Yularen would lead from the Resolute for the majority of the time, including the Battle of Christophsis and the hunt for the Separatist warship Malevolence in 22 BBY. At one point, he led his fleet into the Battle of Teth from the Spirit of the Republic.

Sometime following the creation of the Empire in 19 BBY, Yularen became a colonel in the Imperial Security Bureau. He would be stationed onboard the Death Star I, where he was tasked with briefing Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin and maintaining loyalty to the Empire. He was killed when the Death Star was destroyed by Luke Skywalker at the Battle of Yavin.

Early life
Wullf Yularen was born to an influential Coruscanti family, which provided him the political backing to get a job as a special agent with the Senate Bureau of Intelligence. Over the next decade, he investigated a myriad of cases for, against, and about the Senate, observing all the major delegates and assembling detailed dossiers on all of them. Even then, there was corruption within the SBI, and numerous low-level functionaries who were game to support any Senator's schemes by passing on misinformation for the right price. Ultimately, the sheer scale of the corruption led Yularen to leave the service. Afterwards, he was assigned to an anti-corruption unit under the Office of the Supreme Chancellor, investigating both government corruption and the growing Separatist movement. It was during this period that Yularen became enamored with Supreme Chancellor Palpatine and the direction in which he intended to take the Republic. Very soon, he was a loyal follower and a trusted agent for Palpatine's inner circle.

Service during the Clone Wars
During the Clone Wars, Yularen joined up with the naval contingent of the Grand Army of the Republic at least in part to distance himself from the intelligence community. He served as an admiral a year into the war and commanded a major task force, led by Jedi General Anakin Skywalker. Yularen was often worried of his commander's reckless tactics.

After the Jedi had been requested to help rescue Rotta, the son of Jabba Desilijic Tiure, Yularen was tasked with delivering Ahsoka Tano to Generals Obi-Wan Kenobi and Skywalker on Christophsis. After Tano's shuttle had landed, Yularen, aboard the Jedi cruiser Resolute was forced to withdraw from the planetary orbit, leaving the ground forces on their own. His flagship at the time was the Spirit of the Republic.

Sometime afterward, Yularen and Skywalker were participating in the search for General Grievous's secret weapon, the warship Malevolence. Yularen led the briefing of Shadow Squadron before they launched in their BTL-B Y-wing starfighters to attack the Malevolence. He would later warn Nala Se and the Kaliida Shoals Medical Center of the Malevolence's plan to destroy the medicenter, killing approximately 60,000 wounded clone troopers in the process. Ultimately, Skywalker, Plo Koon, and Shadow Squadron were able to stop the Malevolence in time, destroying its two ion cannons. The destruction of the primary weapons disabled the hyperdrive and inflicted massive damage throughout the ship. From the Resolute, Yularen led a total of three Star Destroyers in pursuit of the damaged Malevolence as it attempted to flee to Separatist space. When Senator Padmé Amidala and her protocol droid C-3PO were captured by the Separatist warship, Generals Skywalker and Kenobi infiltrated the battleship and recovered the senator and her droid. However, the battle droids onboard had managed to repair the ship's hyperdrive, so Skywalker and Amidala infiltrated the bridge and set the coordinates of a nearby moon into the navicomputer. The two Jedi, the senator, and the droids C-3PO and R2-D2 fled onboard the Twilight as Grievous, in his Belbullab-22 starfighter Soulless One, and Vulture droids followed close behind. As the Malevolence attempted to flee, it impacted with the moon, obliterating the massive warship.

Yularen's forces would also participate in the battle above Nexus Ortai, a strategic world located at the junction of some hyperlanes. Though the initial Separatist invasion force was destroyed, the Republic suffered many casualties and were forced to withdraw when enemy reinforcements arrived. Sometime after the retreat, Yularen was present when Skywalker, Kenobi, Tano, and a squad of clone troopers under Captain Rex had themselves frozen in carbonite in order to infiltrate the Separatist shipyards at Gwori. Yularen was present when Tano indicated that the strike force was in position, and that Plo Koon's and Saesee Tiin's Hunter Squadron would proceed to Gwori to destroy the shipyards in their BTL-B Y-wing starfighters. Yularen's fleet did not participate in the engagement, however. The Republic fleet under Yularen later accompanied Generals Kenobi and Skywalker to the Togruta colony world of Kiros. The subsequent battle ended in a Republic victory after Kenobi defeated the Besalisk commander of the droid occupation force, Ugg, in hand-to-hand combat. Yularen reported via hologram that the Togruta population appeared to have vanished completely from the planet, leading Kenobi to believe that the missing Togruta were being held as slaves in the nearby Zygerrian system.

Service in the Imperial Security Bureau
With the coming of the New Order, the various major intelligence organizations&mdash;the Senate Bureau of Intelligence, the Republican Security Organization, the Interstellar Consortium on Technology, and the Special Acquisitions Branch of the Library of the Republic&mdash;consolidated themselves into a more professional and objective force known as Imperial Intelligence, overseen by a governing body called the Ubiqtorate and headed by former SBI director Armand Isard. Yularen's personal loyalty to Palpatine made him a poor fit for a supposedly objective organization.

At the same time, however, Palpatine's advisor Crueya Vandron, reforming the grassroots patriotic organization COMPNOR to meet the needs of the New Order, was sufficiently alarmed by the sudden transition and expansion of Intell that he established a COMPNOR spin-off organization called the Imperial Security Bureau as an intentional rival to Intell, a secret police organization to increase Palpatine's knowledge of political events. The ISB had no pretensions of objectivity, and so Yularen, now in his mid-thirties, was reassigned there. His move lost him respect in the eyes of his former superiors or colleagues, many of whom viewed COMPNOR, especially the ISB, as a misuse of valuable resources. Yularen had good connections to the Emperor's inner circle, but he himself remained outside of it.

Service aboard the Death Star
By the outbreak of the Rebellion, Yularen had risen to the rank of colonel in the ISB, and had acquired a reputation as an effective leader with boundless personal loyalty to Palpatine. It was probably for this reason that he was assigned to head the ISB contingent aboard the nearly-completed Death Star I battle station as a member of Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin's command staff. Officially, he was assigned to brief Tarkin on intelligence matters; unofficially, he was there to ensure that the station's personnel remained absolutely loyal to the Emperor. Given that the Death Star could literally change the dynamics of power in the Empire, and that men like Tarkin and his naval advisor, Admiral Conan Antonio Motti, were possessed of apparently-limitless ambition, there were legitimate concerns on Imperial Center that, even though Palpatine's personal emissary Darth Vader made repeated visits to remind them of their obligations, one or more officers on the station would be tempted to use it take power themselves. Yularen was there to prevent this, and in all likelihood he was not the only prevention measure that Palpatine had in place.

As head of the ISB contingent, Yularen was placed in charge of numerous agents specializing in surveillance, investigations, internal affairs, interrogation, reeducation, and enforcement. Death Star security forces were obligated to provide office space and reasonable assistance to the ISB, though they did not welcome his men with open arms. In addition, there were several undercover agents aboard to investigate suspicious activities, acting as soldiers, administrators, and lower-level officers – in fact, at least one of Tarkin's personal aides was an undercover ISB agent.

Yularen believed that Tarkin would attempt to grab power for himself. The colonel was certain that he could stop the Grand Moff in time, thus ingratiating himself to Palpatine, who would almost certainly appoint him to head the ISB in return. Yularen's plans were foiled when he was killed in the Death Star's destruction during the Battle of Yavin.

Personality and traits
Wullf Yularen was considered an excellent observer. He was comfortable in the halls of power, and over his multiple military and intelligence careers had amassed a great deal of information on a large number of beings. Though his intelligence reports were factually correct, he tended to add a pro-New Order spin to them. He headed up his own special task force during the early years of the Empire, which received high-level assignments, often involving an Imperial Senator or other important individual. One of these assignments was to investigate the names of the signatories of the Petition of 2000, the document that Senator Padmé Amidala presented to Palpatine on behalf of a vocal group of opposition senators.

Behind the scenes
In Star Wars: The Clone Wars film and Star Wars: The Clone Wars TV series, he is voiced by the veteran Star Wars voice actor Tom Kane. Kane compared Yularen in Imperial times to General Rommel, a German commander in World War II. Rommel's opposite number on the battlefield, Lieutenant-General Montgomery, respected the German commander and said that even though Rommel wore the Nazi uniform, he wasn't a Nazi. Kane believed that Yularen, a strict military officer, was simply following orders when the Republic transitioned into the Empire.

Yularen's last name may have been inspired by a character from Sutâurufu named Colonel Yarulen who wears a white uniform. His first name may be a reference to the same film's main character, who is a Jedi-like warrior known as a "Star Wolf." Featured in the United States as Star Force: Fugitive Alien II on Mystery Science Theater 3000, Sutâurufu has many similarities to (and may itself have been partly inspired by) A New Hope.

An action figure of Yularen was produced by Hasbro in 2007 as part of the Death Star Briefing set. It included a short biography claiming that none of the officers present at the briefing were aware that Yularen was an ISB agent, though he was obviously wearing an ISB uniform in the scene.

On the packaging of the Hasbro Death Star Briefing set, his first name is misspelled as "Wulff." On page 138 of The Clone Wars: The Visual Guide and in the end credits of The Clone Wars TV episodes, his last name is misspelled as "Yularan."

In commentary for The Clone Wars movie, the creators stated that Yularen was seen as a Grand Admiral in Episode IV and thus put him in the movie to show him rising through the ranks. They based the Grand Admiral claim on his white uniform, which is similar to the uniform worn by the Grand Admirals. The commentary does not mention Yularen's accepted rank as a colonel in the Imperial Security Bureau, as specified in the Star Wars Customizable Card Game, "Premiere Limited" (1995) and the Death Star Briefing action figure pack (2006).

Appearances

 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars film / novel
 * The Clone Wars: Shakedown
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars Volume 1: Shipyards of Doom
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Slaves of the Republic - Chapter 1: The Mystery of Kiros
 * Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars Volume 1: Shipyards of Doom
 * Star Wars: The Clone Wars: Slaves of the Republic - Chapter 1: The Mystery of Kiros
 * Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
 * Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope