Idel

"The Imperialis has leapt away into hyperspace, Commodore Idel. What now, sir?" "For me, lieutenant? This."

- An Imperial adjutant and Idel, just before Idel killed himself

Idel was a male human who served as a Commodore in the Galactic Empire's navy branch and commanded his own Imperial I-class Star Destroyer. He led a trio of Imperial Star Destroyers to recapture Galactic Emperor Sheev Palpatine's luxury pleasure craft, the Imperialis, after it was stolen in the Castell system. Idel offered a one-million credit reward to whoever captured the Imperials, and the other two Star Destroyers&mdash;commanded by Captains Conro and Shan&mdash;however, in their plight to capture the reward, the two Star Destroyers collided; allowing the Imperialis to escape. Realizing he would be executed by the Emperor, Idel shot himself in the head.

Biography
"Stand by in case I need you. I expect this all to be over quickly."

- Idel to Conro and Shan

Idel, by the time of the Galactic Civil War, was a Commodore in the Galactic Empire’s navy branch, and was assigned his own Imperial I-class Star Destroyer. Some time later, Galactic Emperors Sheev Palpatine's personal pleasure craft, the Imperialis, was stolen by a group of dissidents led by criminal Lando Calrissian from Sienar Fleet Systems shipyard Orbital Shipyard CC-24 in the Castell system of the Colonies region of the galaxy. Soon thereafter, Palpatine contacted Idel and commanded him to destroy the shipyard, which had failed him, and recover the Imperialis without destroying it.

Idel immediately set out to Castell in his Star Destroyer, along with Captains Shan and Conro in their own Imperial-class Star Destroyers respectively. The commodore briefed Shan and Conro on their objective via the HoloNet, and advised Shan&mdash;who had questioned the Emperor’s order to send three Imperial warships to recover a yacht&mdash;not to question the orders of the Emperor, lest they lose focus on their objective. Idel ordered his gunners to target the space station and destroy it. They did, and Orbital Shipyard CC-24 was reduced to space dust by the Star Destroyers’ turbolasers. Idel then ordered the two captains to stand by, because he intended to single handedly captured the yacht.

Idel deployed a pair of gravity mines, which were designed to adhere to a ship's hull and prevent it from jumping into hyperspace. The Imperialis, however, quickly shot-down both mines. Therefore, Idel, seeing the Imperialis was better equipped than he had previously thought, offered a one-million credit reward to whoever recovered the yacht and brought it to him. The Imperialis then blasted past the through the trio of warships in its bid to escape, Conro and Shan, however, in their efforts to collect the reward, attempted to trap the yacht in each of the Star Destroyer's tractor beams. However, Calrissian, who piloted the Imperialis, used a maneuver that resulted in Conro’s Star Destroyer locking on to Shan’s Star Destroyer, which ended in the Imperial Star Destroyers heavily colliding; thereby allowing the Imperiali to escape into deep space. Idel realized he and his fellow officers had utterly failed the Emperor' so he put a blaster pistol to his head, told his adjutant to enlist in the Alliance to Restore the Republic, and shot himself in the head.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Lando, Part II