Kazz

"The search of primitive world for a magic stone guarded by furry warriors called 'Ewoks.' Ha! No one believes that! It's just one more of your foolish ideas!"

- Admiral Kazz, to Doctor Raygar, on the latter's mission for the Sunstar

Kazz was an admiral in the Galactic Empire. A Human male, he was in command of an Imperial I-class Star Destroyer in 3 ABY that took the Argazdan known as Doctor Raygar to the Forest Moon of Endor. There, Raygar hoped to find the Sunstar, a gem with magical powers, so that he could present it to Emperor Palpatine. Kazz was incredulous about the Sunstar and argued with Raygar about the artifact's existence before Raygar even began the mission. Nevertheless, the venture was successful, and Raygar stole the Sunstar from its guardians, a group of Ewoks. Raygar returned to the Star Destroyer but refused to show the gem to Kazz, claiming he would give it only to the Emperor, who was already on his way to the Endor system. Soon after, Kazz confronted Raygar's droid servant, PD-28, who arrived on the destroyer with an escape pod. The droid had joined the Ewoks in their attempt to reclaim the Sunstar and managed to hide his Ewok allies from Kazz. PD-28 insisted he had been captured by the Ewoks, a claim that only prompted Kazz to blame him for failure and order the droid to be recycled.

As Kazz stood on the Star Destroyer's command bridge, Raygar attempted to use the Sunstar's power to kill Palpatine aboard the Emperor's shuttle and take control of the Empire. However, the plot was thwarted by the Ewoks, who took the Sunstar and escaped from the destroyer back to Endor. Raygar's betrayal now revealed, Kazz had the academic arrested for high treason against the Empire. The admiral, who had not see the Ewoks or the Sunstar, believed that Raygar had fabricated the story of the magical artifact as part of his treachery. Kazz escorted Raygar to the ship's hangar and handed him over the Emperor's custody to be punished.

Admiral in the Empire
"I cannot believe there's anything on that backwater planet that could be of use for the Galactic Empire.''" "''What you believe does not interest me, Admiral Kazz. The Emperor himself has approved my expedition."

- Kazz and Raygar, arguing over their mission to Endor

Kazz was a Human male who held the rank of admiral in the Navy of the Galactic Empire. In 3 ABY, Doctor Raygar, an Argazdan scientist affiliated with the Empire, sought to launch an expedition to the Forest Moon of Endor, where the Sunstar, a gem with supernatural powers, was rumored to be located. After the academic's planned mission to obtain the gem gained the approval of Galactic Emperor Palpatine, Kazz, in command of an Imperial I-class Star Destroyer, was assigned to escort Raygar to Endor. Highly skeptical about the very existence of the Sunstar and its supposed guardians, known as Ewoks, Kazz believed that Raygar's plan was just another foolish idea from the scholar, whom Kazz openly despised. Nonetheless, the admiral received Raygar aboard the Star Destroyer and brought him to the Endor system in the Outer Rim Territories.

Mission to Endor
"I have recovered the Sunstar as promised. But I will present it only to the Emperor.''" "''As you wish. The Emperor is on his way here now. But for your sake, Doctor, that trinket of yours had better be as powerful as you say."

- Raygar and Kazz

Before Raygar could depart for the moon, Kazz confronted the Argazdan in the Star Destroyer's hangar, where he questioned the importance of the moon to the Empire and called the scientist's mission frivolous. The admiral's criticism was met with a lack of interest, as Raygar was determined to find the Sunstar. Although Kazz remained suspicious, he allowed Raygar to begin his expedition, and the Argazdan boarded his freighter with a team of large droids and a smaller droid servant called PD-28, setting off to the forest moon.

Raygar's mission proved successful; he stole the Sunstar from the Ewoks and returned to the hangar of the Star Destroyer, where Kazz met him. Raygar informed the admiral that he had acquired the Sunstar, but he kept it inside a small box and refused to give or even show it to anyone other than Palpatine himself. Kazz promptly agreed and reported that the Emperor was already on his way to the Endor system to examine the powerful artifact. Soon after, an Imperial escape pod approached the destroyer, and Kazz ordered its pilot to identify himself. The pod was piloted by PD-28, who claimed that he was returning to serve Raygar. In truth, however, the droid had defected from the Empire and was now helping the Ewoks retrieve their stolen Sunstar. Unaware that the pod contained four Ewoks, Kazz ordered PD-28 to land in the destroyer's hangar. There, alongside a large droid, Kazz confronted the small droid, who fabricated a story about how he had been captured by Ewoks and managed to escape with the pod. The admiral scolded the small droid for incompetence for being captured in the first place, and he ordered the large droid to take PD-28 for recycling.

The Emperor's arrival
"There never was a Sunstar! It was all part of your treacherous plot.''" "What will you do to me?" "''Nothing. The Emperor is going to punish you himself."

- Kazz and Raygar

Meanwhile, Doctor Raygar decided to assassinate Palpatine with the Sunstar's unlimited energy and take his place as the new Emperor. With the gem, he swiftly constructed a cannon, which would use the Sunstar as its power source, with which to shoot the Emperor. However, one of the Ewoks attacked Raygar, and during the scuffle, the Argazdan accidentally launched the cannon. The blast grazed Emperor Palpatine's shuttle, which was just landing in the destroyer. In the ship's command bridge, Kazz was informed by an Imperial officer about the attack. The appalled admiral ordered three stormtroopers to find and arrest the unknown assailant.

The Ewoks managed to take the Sunstar back from Raygar and leave the Star Destroyer with the escape pod they had used to enter the ship. Raygar tried to give chase, but he was halted and arrested by the troopers Kazz had sent and was taken to the ship's hangar, where the Admiral was waiting. Kazz charged the scholar with high treason against the Galactic Empire for his attempted assassination of the Emperor. Raygar protested, but to no avail; Kazz had not witnessed the Ewoks aboard the ship, nor seen the Sunstar. The furious admiral draw the conclusion that the Sunstar had never existed, and that it had been just part of Raygar's traitorous plot to kill the Emperor. Kazz told Raygar that his punishment would be executed by Emperor Palpatine himself, whose damaged shuttle landed in the hangar. The terrified Raygar begged for mercy, but his cries fell on deaf ears; two stormtroopers dragged him into the shuttle to face the consequences of his treason.

Personality and traits
"If you were a proper Imperial droid, you never would have allowed yourself to be captured in the first place! Take this worthless slump and have it recycled into something useful."

- Kazz, on PD-28

As an admiral in the Imperial Navy, Kazz was loyal to Emperor Palpatine. He was shocked upon the discovery that Raygar was plotting to eliminate the Emperor, and he had the scientist arrested immediately. He took pleasure in informing Raygar about his impending punishment, and he ignored the academic's pleas for mercy. Kazz looked down upon those whose usefulness to the Empire he doubted. Kazz dismissed Doctor Raygar's mission for the Sunstar as fanciful, and he scolded the Argazdan about the frivolity of the plan. Similarly, when PD-28 claimed he had been captured by Ewoks, Kazz believed that a proper Imperial droid would never have suffered such an fate; accordingly, he called the droid useless and ordered him to be recycled into something more worthwhile. Kazz also questioned Endor's importance to the Empire, erroneously referring to the forest moon as a planet.

Kazz was not a superstitious man. He believed the magical Sunstar was just a foolish idea of Raygar's imagination, even though the Emperor had approved the scientist's search for the gem. Kazz made his opinions clear to Raygar, and he warned the Argazdan of the fate that would befall him if the Sunstar's powers were exaggerated. After Raygar's plot to seize power failed, Kazz concluded that the gem had indeed been a hoax.

Kazz had brown hair and black eyes. He wore an olive-gray Imperial military uniform and cap. The suit included his rank insignia, which consisted of two code cylinders and three blue squares above three red squares, a pattern that contrasted with the standard rank insignia of the Empire's other admirals. During his time in the Endor system, Kazz was often accompanied by an escort, which consisted of either Imperial stormtroopers or one of the large droids.

Behind the scenes
Admiral Kazz's first and only appearance was in the Star Wars: Ewoks episode "Battle for the Sunstar," which was written by Paul Dini and directed by Raymond Jafelice, and which first aired on December 6, 1986. While the spelling of the character's name was ambiguous in the episode, Leland Chee confirmed in a message on StarWars.com that the name is spelled "Kazz."