Gauer

Gauer was an agent employed by the Galactic Empire a year before the Battle of Yavin.

Biography
Darth Vader considered Gauer capable of defeating lightsaber-wielding Force-sensitives, and a measure of his status may be gauged from his involvement in Grand Moff Trachta's conspiracy against Vader and Palpatine in 1 BBY: the other key figures in this plot were two Grand Moffs, a senior General, and the Moff in charge of security in the capital.

Gauer closest loyalties within the cabal seems to have been Grand Moff Bartam, but while he seems to have shared his fear that Trachta was planning to dispense with or sideline the other players, it was the ambitious Moff Kadir who eventually persuaded him that the conspiracy's putative head had to be removed from the equation.

Gauer assassinated Trachta shortly before the attempt to kill Palpatine got underway, but not before the Grand Moff had engineered another firefight to eliminate both Bartam and General Skosef. Although Gauer subsequently entered the Imperial Palace with Kadir and a unit of stormtroopers conditioned to serve the conspiracy, he fled as they fought Palpatine's Royal Guard, apparently realizing that the coup attempt was going to fail.

His subsequent fate is unknown.

Appearances

 * Star Wars Empire: Betrayal