Mofference

"Any Prophet of the Dark Side who approaches and tries to enter our Moffship will be taken hostage. That's our only way to bargain with Kadann, and save what little power we grand moffs have left in the Empire, now that Kadann has declared himself to be the new Imperial leader!"

- Grand Moff Hissa, during the Mofference of 5 ABY

A Mofference was a secret conference held aboard a Moffship of the Central Committee of Grand Moffs.

Description
"Kadann hates us because we were loyal to Trioculus to the very end. But with Trioculus as Emperor, at least we had influence and shared the rule of the Empire."

- Grand Moff Thistleborn, during the Mofference

"Mofference" was the name given to a secret conference of the Central Committee of Grand Moffs, held in a Mofference room aboard their Moffship in 5 ABY. The committee led a faction of the Galactic Empire that contested Director of Imperial Intelligence Ysanne Isard's claim to the Imperial Throne.

History
"I heard a rumor from a high-ranking Imperial intelligence agent that Kadann wants to disband the grand moffs completely!''" "''I heard the same rumor. Kadann wants to take each one of us aside and demote us. It is rumored he'll strip us of our power and appoint us to low-ranking military positions on the most slime-ridden and frozen planets in the galaxy."

- Grand Moffs Dunhausen and Muzzer, spreading rumors at the Mofference

In 5 ABY, as the Moffship orbited the planet Tatooine, the Central Commitee of Grand Moffs held a Mofference. It was led by Grand Moff Bertroff Hissa, the mastermind of the committee's plot to overthrow Isard. Hissa had recently lost his arms and legs in a pool of acid on the planet Duro after being betrayed by an Imperial Intelligence agent masquerading as Jedgar, High Prophet of the Dark Side, and he led the meeting from his new hover chair.

Another Intelligence agent, himself posing as Supreme Prophet Kadann, had recently made his own claim to the Imperial throne, and several of the Grand Moffs had heard rumors that he intended to disband their committee. At the Mofference, Hissa declared that any of the false Prophets caught entering the Moffship would be taken hostage. Grand Moffs Dunhausen and Muzzer shared the rumors they had heard, and Grand Moff Thistleborn opined that "Kadann" hated the committee due to their apparent support of Trioculus, a puppet ruler whom the galaxy believed to be the son of former Galactic Emperor Palpatine. Trioculus was no longer in power, having recently been frozen in carbonite by the crime lord Zorba the Hutt, a mortal enemy of Trioculus.

The Mofference was interrupted at that momen by the droid MD-5, who informed the Grand Moffs that Zorba's starship, the Zorba Express, had been spotted in the Tatoo system. As the Moffship trapped the Zorba Express in a tractor beam, the commitee abandoned the Mofference in order to confront Zorba.

Behind the scenes
"I bid you all Dark Greetings!"

- A quote from Bertroff Hissa, used by the Wookieepedia community to represent Mofferences

The only appearance of a Mofference in Star Wars canon is in 1993's Queen of the Empire, a young readers' book written by Paul and Hollace Davids. The book is the fifth volume of an unnamed book series. The meeting in Queen of the Empire is not the only gathering of the Central Committee of Grand Moffs' to occur in the series, but it is the only one to be deemed a "Mofference" by the narrative. The Mofference occurs in the book's sixth chapter, which is also called "The Mofference."

The events of the book series have been perceived of as juvenile and criticized by many Star Wars fans,   and the term "Mofference," seen as awful wordplay, has been the recipient of especial mockery. A meeting of the Council of Moffs in a 2007 issue of the comic book series Star Wars: Legacy was dubbed a Mofference by fans immediately after appearing in an online preview of the issue,  and Star Wars author Adrick Tolliver maintains a blog on StarWars.com called "The Mofference is now in session!" A StarWars.com article written by Pablo Hidalgo in 2007 that explored various superweapons of the Star Wars Expanded Universe asserted that the Tarkin superweapon would be less effective were it named the "Grand Mofference Center."

The online fan database known as Wookieepedia calls its periodic Internet Relay Chat community meetings "Mofferences." They are represented by an image of a non-Mofference meeting of the Central Committee of Grand Moffs from The Glove of Darth Vader, the first book of the Davids' series, and traditionally open with a line uttered by Trioculus during the meeting: "I bid you all Dark Greetings!"

Appearances

 * Queen of the Empire