Purpruff

"I knew Purpruff! The Shrikes and the Vapetailers use to hold pazaak matches over cantia chits. I later saw her name among the fallen of Echo Base."

- Caluan Ematt annotates Purpruff's report in the Rebel Files

Purpruff was a female Gigoran who served as a corporal in the Vapetailers unit of Alliance to Restore the Republic Special Forces. During the Galactic Civil War against the Galactic Empire, she traveled to the planet Hoth while scouting for a new location for the Alliance's headquarters. Purpruff wrote up a report recommending Hoth as a good location for the base despite its freezing temperatures, which ultimately lead to the Alliance establishing Echo Base on the planet. Purpruff was killed when the Empire attacked Echo Base in 3 ABY.

Snowy scouting
"What a beautiful expanse! Blue above, white below&mdash;the perfect horizon."

- Purpruff admires the landscape of Hoth

During the Galactic Civil War between the Alliance to Restore the Republic and the Galactic Empire, the Gigoran female Purpruff served in the Alliance's Special Forces as a corporal in the Vapetrailers unit. During her time with the unit, the Vapetrailers sometimes played matches of pazaak for cantina chits against the Shrikes, another Special Forces unit that included Caluan Ematt.

At some point between 0 ABY and 3 ABY and following the start of the Alliance's Mid Rim Retreat, Purpruff traveled to the ice planet Hoth while scouting for a suitable location for the Alliance to construct its new headquarters. She noted her initial impressions in a scouting log entry from orbit and then landed on the planet's surface. The Gigoran then hiked to the nearest entrance of a large subterranean cavern nearby that her terrain mapper had identified.

Amongst the fallen
"Life-form scanners led me to these cuties. They didn't scatter when I approached, and they ate out of my hand when I offered a ration stick. Might be useful for hauling gear or carrying riders."

- Purpruff mentions tauntauns in her report on Hoth

Purpruff discovered that the cavern was spacious enough to house freighters inside and tested the structural integrity by detonating a sticky mine on a stalactite, which did not even shudder during the explosion. The corporal's life-form scanner then led her to a herd of tauntaun in the cavern which she capture a surveillance image of at five times zoom and then fed a ration stick by hand. Purpruff then compiled her findings into a report that recommended Hoth as a suitable location for a base. The report reached Colonel Anna Seertay, who sent it on to the head of Special Forces, General Pitt Onoran. It was also added to the Rebel Files, a collection of physical documents tracking the history of the Alliance maintained by Hendri Underholt.

The Alliance ultimately choose to follow Purpruff's recommendation and constructed Echo Base on Hoth as its new headquarters. In 3 ABY, Echo Base was discovered by the Empire and attacked, forcing the Alliance to swiftly evacuate. Most of the Alliance forces escaped, but Purpruff was amongst those killed during the battle. In 34 ABY, Ematt saw Purpruff's report in the Rebel Files and annotated it with a note saying that he had know the Gigoran and that he had seen her name listed amongst the fallen at Hoth.

Personality and traits
"I agree with most of her points, but you should know that Corporal Purpruff is a Gigoran. So when she says "clean and brisk," keep in mind that the temperatures on this planet are well below freezing even in full daylight."

- Seertay warns Onoran of Purpruff's bias to cold weather

As a Gigoran, Purpruff's tolerance for cold temperatures was far higher than that of humans and as such she considered the freezing temperatures of Hoth to be merely brisk. The corporal enjoyed the tingle of the planet's clean air in her nostrils upon first landing She considered Hoth's landscapes beautiful and its native tauntauns cute and pleasant smelling.

Behind the scenes
Purpruff was first mentioned in the 2017 reference book Star Wars: The Rebel Files by Daniel Wallace.