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Wilhuff Tarkin was a Human male from Eriadu who became the first Grand Moff and then importantly, the commanding officer of the first Death Star. Born to an influential family, Tarkin lived a life of luxury on the Outer Rim planet Eriadu. Eventually, he became governor of the planet. Tarkin made many influential friends, such as Raith Sienar and Palpatine.

When the Galactic Empire was formed in 19 BBY under now-Emperor Palpatine, the ambitious Tarkin became a Moff. Not long after, he was promoted to Grand Moff, the first individual to achieve such a rank.

Tarkin quickly gained himself a reputation for being highly competent and ruthlessly efficient. He became very influential, having authority even over Lord Vader while on the Death Star, and developed the infamous Tarkin Doctrine, which stated that the threat of force alone would prevent rebellions. During his time in the Empire, Tarkin met a young woman named Natasi Daala, who showed strategic brilliance despite the fact that she was discriminated against as a woman. Tarkin took her under his wing, and the two became lovers. She became an admiral, the only female to achieve such a rank. When the Death Star project was commissioned, Tarkin was placed in charge. He used the mighty superweapon to destroy the planet Alderaan, in the belief that this demonstration of power would silence the Rebel Alliance. Tarkin and his theory were wrong, and he died when the Rebels destroyed the Death Star in the Battle of Yavin.

Ambition and ascent
"The old ways are dying. We have to adapt. I have adapted."

- Wilhuff Tarkin, to Raith Sienar

Tarkin had a younger brother, Gideon Tarkin.

In his youth, Tarkin took pride in his family's history of service to the Galactic Republic and accomplishments on Eriadu, but resented the lack of respect his Outer Rim-based clan received in comparison with the aristocratic families of the Core Worlds.

As a young man, Tarkin enrolled in a military academy, in accordance with the Tarkin family's strong military tradition. After graduation, he and his brother Gideon joined the Republic Outland Regions Security Force, a military policing force that kept the Outland Regions, a Rim area that included Eriadu, safe from piracy. Tarkin was a fast riser who achieved the rank of commander, and during the course of his service visited Coruscant, capital of the galaxy, several times. There, around 39 BBY, he befriended Raith Sienar, heir to the Republic Sienar Systems shipbuilding concern and an accomplished engineer who was near Tarkin's age.

Still a young man, Commander Tarkin retired from the military in order to seek a political career on Eriadu. By 33 BBY, Tarkin was the lieutenant governor of Eriadu and the Seswenna sector, dwelling in an elegant mansion on Eriadu City's bay. A rising politician, Tarkin was acquainted with Senator Palpatine of Naboo, himself an influential member of the Galactic Senate&mdash;and secretly the Sith Lord Darth Sidious. Tarkin gained a measure of notoriety in galactic political circles for his militant views, while on Eriadu, he was known as a foe of the Eriaduan branch of House Valorum.

When, in 33 BBY, Palpatine saw profit in manipulating the competition between Lommite Limited and InterGalactic Ore, two rival lommite companies from nearby Dorvalla, Lieutenant Governor Tarkin arranged a contract with each company to deliver lommite to Eriadu on short notice, casting it as a competition for a long-term supply contract that could provide one company with dominance over the other. Tarkin set up a ceremony on an orbital habitat, scheduled for the arrival of the contesting shipments, featuring himself, the heads of each company, and the executive officers of Eriadu Manufacturing and Valorum Shipping, Eriadu's two main lommite consumers. The two convoys, however, were sabotaged, and collided upon exiting hyperspace early. The disaster forced Lommite Limited and InterGalactic Ore into a merger as Dorvalla Mining, which granted its shipping rights to the Trade Federation. The power of Trade Federation Viceroy Nute Gunray, a pawn of Palpatine, increased as the result of his involvement in the deal.

When Supreme Chancellor Finis Valorum suggested the taxation of the trade routes in the former free trade zone of the Mid and Outer Rim as part of a deal allowing the Trade Federation to increase its defense allotments to respond to pirate and terrorist attacks, Palpatine suggested a conference be held on Eriadu to iron out the issue. Tarkin hosted the Supreme Chancellor at his seaside mansion. His house was overrun with security personnel well before he was able to personally receive Valorum. As Tarkin was about to leave with Valorum for the opening of the Eriadu Trade Summit, the Jedi assigned to protect Valorum informed the Supreme Chancellor of evidence of a Nebula Front conspiracy to assassinate him. Though Valorum was reluctant to show fear by increasing his protection, Tarkin convinced him to take some precautions. Tarkin authorized Eriaduan security forces to take any necessary measures to ensure the Supreme Chancellor's safety, instructing them to put efficacy over legality. As it happened, however, Valorum was not the true target, and the Nebula Front was able to carry out the assassination of almost the entire Trade Federation Directorate as Tarkin watched in Seswenna Hall. In the aftermath, Palpatine's Neimoidian agents were able to take total control of the Trade Federation. Valorum assigned the Judicial Department to investigate the incident, but Tarkin stonewalled the effort by claiming Eriaduan jurisdiction, then insuring that the investigation stalled until most evidence had been lost.

Valorum was weakened in the wake of the scandal, and in 32 BBY, he was ousted from the Supreme Chancellorship and replaced with Palpatine. Tarkin had previously attempted to curry favor with multiple factions in the political situation, but he saw a sea change in the political situation and moved to ally himself more closely with Palpatine's administration. He became connected to the secretive but emergent New Order movement quietly building in the government, which agreed with Tarkin's authoritarian, militaristic, and Humanocentric beliefs. Supreme Chancellor Palpatine reactivated Tarkin's commission and moved him to Coruscant, where he became a valuable agent of the New Order. Tarkin kept a small but prestigiously located apartment high in Prime Senate Spire. Tarkin's service earned him the right to wear robes of senatorial favor, a prestigious honor that signified exceptional service to the Galactic Senate.

One of Tarkin's assignments was to monitor the Jedi and work to prevent any increases in their power. In the course of his surveillance, he learned that young Jedi Padawan Anakin Skywalker had a habit of repairing droids, and placed a broken droid, programmed to spy, so that Skywalker would come across it. The young Jedi restored the droid to functionality and allowed it to roam the halls of the Jedi Temple, which gave Tarkin the ability to eavesdrop on many sensitive private conversations. Tarkin was also secretly involved with a Trade Federation-aligned association of assassins that targeted the Jedi.

Zonama Sekot
"I hope you understand what could be at stake here. At the moment we are merely useful lackeys. We are below the level of awareness of those who will command the galaxy. If this planet and its ships are as useful as they appear to be, we will be richly rewarded. We will be noticed. Some already share my belief that this could be very big."

- Wilhuff Tarkin, to Raith Sienar

In 29 BBY, Tarkin attended a secret meeting in which he learned that Palpatine had, after three years, forced a resolution to the fallout from the attack the Trade Federation had staged on Naboo over the taxation of the trade routes. The Trade Federation security forces were to be disbanded and disarmed, their assets turned over to the Republic. The main focus for Tarkin, however, was a mission to seek out Zonama Sekot&mdash;a mysterious and remote planet, considered half legend but rumored to produce extraordinary living starships&mdash;and obtain one of its starships, or even control over the planet. He came afterward to see his old friend Raith Sienar, who had by that time ascended to control of the Sienar business empire, and whom Tarkin knew to secretly have a Sekotan ship. Tarkin explained to Sienar the nature of Zonama Sekot and asked for his expertise, but did not bring up the ship when Sienar pretended unfamiliarity with the planet. During the meeting, Tarkin observed and was fascinated by Sienar's designs for an Expeditionary Battle Planetoid, a massive space station designed to control star systems, which featured a giant turbolaser powered directly by the station's core.

Soon afterward, Tarkin was forced to put his plan into action abruptly when he found that the Jedi were sending a mission of their own to Zonama Sekot. Tarkin, using a tracker he had planted on Sienar, followed the engineer into the his secret hall of engineering failures, bringing Ke Daiv as a bodyguard, and demanded that Sienar provide access to the tracking beacon he had built into the ship Star Sea Flower&mdash;the transport used by the Jedi expedition&mdash;during a refitting. He then asked Sienar to command the venture to Zonama Sekot, an offer the other man accepted. He briefed Sienar on the expedition, which was to consist of decommissioned Trade Federation ships and their crews that had not yet been turned over to the Republic, as well as Daiv, who would report back to Tarkin. They then had to wait for the Jedi ship to reach Zonama Sekot, allowing them to learn the planet's location through the tracking device. During that time, Tarkin imposed on Sienar to show him the Sekotan ship that Sienar owned, though there was little to be learned from the dead craft. Once the Star Sea Flower emerged from hyperspace, Tarkin rushed Sienar to his task force and sent him off. Observing his lackluster forces, Sienar accused Tarkin of rigging the situation so that Sienar would fail, but the commander denied that allegation.

As Sienar's expedition drew on with no report, Tarkin sent Sienar a message asking for an update. Sienar sent a reply that falsely stated that Daiv had failed in an attempt to assassinate him and had been sent on a suicide mission, and that Sienar had found something grand and required no assistance. Having played on his contacts in the Senate for greater support, Tarkin rushed a task force of Republic vessels, stronger than the one he had assigned Sienar, to Zonama Sekot, and activated the hidden programming he had buried in Sienar's droid starfighters to impel them into an attack on the planet. Sienar was able to disable most of the droids before they launched, but Tarkin had Captain Kett, captain of Sienar's flagship Admiral Korvin, place Sienar under arrest. Sienar would not comply with Tarkin's request that he be given access to the new programming with which he knew Sienar had equipped his droid complement, so Tarkin transferred to the Admiral Korvin and brought his former friend to his own flagship, Rim Merchant Einem.

Tarkin launched the invasion with his own forces, justifying it as a police action involving a starship chase he observed in the atmosphere. He deployed sky mines and droid starfighters, giving the planet's inhabitants no warning. He was surprised when the world deployed greater defenses than he had expected, launching waves of ships that brought down many of Tarkin's starfighters. Tarkin located one large Sekotan ship that had landed on its own, and landed with his forces to capture it. He recognized the pilot as Anakin Skywalker, a member of the Jedi expedition to the planet, and took him and the ship aboard the sky-mine delivery ship he had used as a landing craft. Tarkin questioned the boy about the ship, nearly provoking him into attacking Tarkin with the Force. The Star Sea Flower began boarding the ship in a rescue effort led by Skywalker's Jedi Master, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Tarkin rushed from the hangar bay. The Jedi escaped in the Jabitha, their Sekotan ship, while Tarkin had to abandon the minelayer, which had been rigged with explosives, in an escape pod that he shared with Sienar.

Recovered by the Rim Merchant Einem, Tarkin launched a renewed assault on the planet. To his shock, Zonama Sekot engaged massive engines, and the entire planet jumped to hyperspace. The effect of its jump hurled Tarkin's fleet into chaos, while the Jedi escaped. Tarkin managed to limp his fleet home and, called before Palpatine, presented him with Sienar's plans for the Expeditionary Battle Planetoid, taking sole credit for the design. Sienar, uneasy with the design, did not dispute him, and Tarkin recovered his reputation with Palpatine, who was interested in the concept. Palpatine began work on bringing the project to fruition himself, having the plans refined by Geonosian engineers in his guise as Sidious while Republic researchers worked on component systems. Having been cut out of the process, Tarkin believed that Palpatine had ultimately rejected the plans.

Rise to power
Tarkin was known for his support of Palpatine, and frequently advocated Palpatine's policies before the Galactic Senate. Tarkin made a name for himself in the Clone Wars. During the war, he engaged in multiple negotiations with the Separatists, and was aided in many of them by Jedi Master Luminara Unduli.

In the last months of the Clone Wars, during the Battle of Xagobah, Anakin Skywalker&mdash;by then a leading Jedi Knight whom Tarkin found to be a trustworthy ally&mdash;captured bounty hunter Boba Fett. Fett insisted that he had information vital to the Republic's war effort, and demanded to see Chancellor Palpatine. Skywalker, not trusting Fett, sent him to Coruscant with instructions to turn himself over to the custody of Tarkin, whom Skywalker trusted to handle the matter. Tarkin traveled to the galactic capital and met Fett at the Jedi Temple. Tarkin left Fett in visitors' quarters while he attended to business with members of the Senate, but Fett sneaked out and attempted to kill Jedi Master Mace Windu, who had killed Fett's father Jango Fett. Palpatine covered up the incident after buying Fett's silence regarding the information the bounty hunter carried, which could have exposed Palpatine's secret scheme to orchestrate the Clone Wars to his own ends.

In the last days of the Clone Wars, Palpatine implemented the Sector Governance Decree, which placed regional and planetary military governors in control of the Republic's systems. Tarkin, who had risen rapidly to prominence in Palpatine's government, was among the first regional governors, given the title of Moff and control of the greater Seswenna sector. Tarkin's appointment drew attention, and he was profiled in a HoloNet News feature on the new system of Moffs.

In 19 BBY, the Clone Wars ended with the defeat of the Separatists. Palpatine declared the Jedi enemies of the Republic, accusing them of treason, and initiated a purge of the Order. He also issued the Declaration of a New Order, converting the Republic into the Galactic Empire, with himself as emperor. The plans for Sienar's battle station, developed with a superlaser capable of destroying planets, were put into effect with the long-delayed construction of what became known as the Death Star&mdash;though Tarkin himself did not care for the name, regarding it as overly melodramatic. Tarkin, having thought the project dead, was shocked to learn that Palpatine had secretly followed through on the plans Tarkin had presented him a decade before, and frustrated that he had been left out of the development process. With the plans built, Tarkin, who as Moff had been granted a special purview over the development of military technology, was entrusted with control over aspects of construction of the Death Star&mdash;and he hoped to gain total oversight of the project. Palpatine and his new Sith apprentice, Darth Vader, visited Tarkin to observe the construction of the Death Star. The Death Star's construction soon fell behind schedule, plagued by labor shortages, supply problems, failures on the part of contractors, and engineering dilemmas.

Tarkin was among the highest-ranking personnel within the Empire, enjoying a rare exemption from security checks. Within a month after the war's end, Tarkin was granted the first of the powerful new Imperator-class Star Destroyers, Executrix, as his flagship.

Palpatine soon arranged for Tarkin to meet with Vader to coordinate a response to the arrival of several fugitive Jedi, whom Tarkin had been monitoring, on Kashyyyk. Tarkin proposed that, rather than simply hunting down the Jedi, Vader implement a larger plan to invade Kashyyyk on the justification that it was harboring Jedi and enslave many native Wookiees for use as labor on the Death Star project. Tarkin hoped that the use of the strong and technologically skilled Wookiees would allow the project to return to pace. Vader did so, and Tarkin covertly moved the new slaves to the construction site. He reported on his cooperation with Vader to Palpatine, explaining that Imperial officers were unsure of the mysterious cyborg. Tarkin, however, was pleased with Vader, and asked permission to continue partnering with the Sith Lord. Over time, Tarkin investigated Vader's origins, and found that the powerful Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker had been reported dead on Mustafar, with no body produced, around the same time that Vader emerged in his life-support suit. Though he was not certain, Tarkin thought it likely that the two were one.

Months after the Empire was declared, Tarkin met with Palpatine and Ferus Olin, a former Jedi Padawan and anti-Imperial resistance fighter to whom Palpatine had offered amnesty if he would meet with the Emperor. Tarkin explained to Olin that the data systems of Samaria had become corrupted and were disrupting services and identification systems. Palpatine requested that Olin, a computer expert, resolve the problem. After Palpatine threatened to have his partner, Roan Lands, executed, Olin accepted the task.

Having joined the Empire, Olin became a propaganda figure on his adopted homeworld of Bellassa, where Tarkin and Vader initiated the Bellassan Project. They gathered a group of scientists&mdash;uncooperatives ones forced to participate by the kidnapping of their families&mdash;to work on engineering problems related to the Death Star project, and hoped to use Bellassa's factories to manufacture components.

By that time, Tarkin was already near to a promotion to Grand Moff.

In a personal communique to the Emperor, Tarkin proposed means to ensure Imperial security. Frustrated by cross-sector criminal and rebellious activity and the problem of jurisdictional conflicts, he called for the establishment of Oversectors to control unstable galactic hotspots, which would be assigned greater forces than usual in an attempt to root out rebellious activity before it could take hold. Each Oversector, capable of crossing sector boundaries, would be controlled by a single official who answered directly to Palpatine. The installation of HoloNet transceivers aboard all flagships within an Oversector would provide enhanced communication. The philosophy of power with which Tarkin suggested unrest be fought was that of rule through fear of force, rather than direct exercise of force. Displays of power, most vitally through the use of terror-inspiring superweapons, would, Tarkin suggested, stifle dissent and rebellion. The presentation of a seemingly invincible weapon of ultimate power would play upon the fearfulness and awe of the citizenry to render all thought of assault against the Empire forgotten. It was therefore Tarkin's recommendation that the Empire invest strongly and continually in the innovation of ever more powerful weapons of warfare. According to this philosophy, once the Death Star was active, no one would dare act against the Empire. Terror at the prospect of planetary annihilation would ensure compliance and order. Palpatine chose to officially recognize Tarkin's proposal, which became known as the Tarkin Doctrine, and Tarkin's theory became a central dogma of Imperial policy.

The Tarkin Doctrine so pleased Palpatine that he immediately had his close aide, Imperial Advisor Ars Dangor issue a response in his name conveying the Emperor's embrace of the Tarkin Doctrine and promotion of Tarkin to the rank of Grand Moff, the position created for the officials in charge of Oversectors. Tarkin was the first man promoted to the new title, given authority over Oversector Outer, which covered nearly the entire Outer Rim, and total control of the Death Star project. As a Grand Moff, Tarkin was answerable only to the Emperor.

Tarkin, looking to advance his position, began to look for a wife. He married Thalassa Motti, of the influential Motti family of Phelarion, for her contacts and money. Tarkin had no love for his wife, but the Lady Tarkin was devoted to him. Soon after his marriage, Tarkin met Daala and began an affair with her.

Construction of the Death Star was delayed interminably by sabotage, accidents, political maneuvering, administrative roadblocks, disputes with unions, and problems with the plans. As it became clear that the Death Star plans contained numerous flaws, Tarkin had the Maw Installation build a Death Star prototype as a proof of concept, which was used to refine the design. He brought together a wealth of elite engineers, including head designer Bevel Lemelisk, Ohran Keldor, Umak Leth, and Qwi Xux to contribute to the design, all of whom he personally vetted. Tarkin quite enjoyed Lemelisk's enthusiasm for the project, and was greatly pleased with his technological innovations. Tarkin demanded that Lemelisk's team integrate heavy defenses, comparable to those of a Core planet, into the design, and also that they ensure the station would be self-sufficient. Tarkin was disappointed that Lemelisk was not able to include much shielding in the design, but his demands were otherwise met.

In order to maintain strict secrecy, he assigned Daala to guard the facility, with orders to remain at her post and capture or destroy any stray ships that came across the well-hidden facility. Communication with the station was only possible through a communications circuit Tarkin controlled. Once the Death Star's issues were worked out, Tarkin had the research laboratory continue to work on new superweapon designs, such as the World Devastator and Sun Crusher projects.

In 3 BBY, Tarkin presided over another invasion of Kashyyyk.

Tarkin heard rumors that the rebellious movements against the Emperor were beginning to coordinate, and saw signs of the emergence of a unified rebel government.

After nearly two decades, the Death Star was little more than an incomplete framework. With the prototype having worked out most problems with the design, Tarkin began work in earnest, moving the Death Star from site to site in attempts to avoid sabotage by rebels against the Empire. The station's framework was finally emplaced over the Empire's most secure prison planet, Despayre, in the Horuz system. The planet's convicts were conscripted into the labor force, harshly overseen by Major Calders to Tarkin's great approval, and Tarkin assembled the largest force of construction droids in history to work toward the massive station's completion. The Horuz system was heavily exploited for its natural resources, and fabrication systems and laboratories were erected in orbit to forge building materials and produce technical components. The entire project was carried out in strict secrecy, with a strong security detail in the system and a shield generator on Despayre that projected a protective field over the Death Star's frame.

Tarkin relied upon three major aides and advisors in running the station: Admiral Conan Antonio Motti, General Cassio Tagge, and General Moradmin Bast. Motti was his chief aide, and commanded the forces guarding the project; Tarkin believed him an overrated officer. He had far more respect for Tagge, the second of his two joint seconds in command, who was charged with operational security and was to be responsible for the weapon itself once the Death Star was operational. Tagge's belief that the Imperial Senate was necessary for the smooth running of the Empire diminished Tarkin's regard for him, however.

An entire branch of the Imperial Navy, Battle Station Operations, was created to man the station. Tarkin had a corps of elite soldiers created for station security, who received advanced training and were trained for intense loyalty.

When at one point Palpatine became disappointed with delays on the Death Star, he sent Vader to convey his displeasure to Tarkin, who was at the moment supervising the Horuz system efforts from his flagship, Havelon. While Vader was in transit, Tarkin had to deal with a case of sabotage that had destroyed an oxygen tanker and damaged a major dock. Once Vader arrived, Tarkin gave the Dark Lord of the Sith a brief tour of the construction efforts, then had him interrogate the suspects in the sabotage, as Tarkin had yet to receive interrogation droids at the assembly site. Once Vader was confident that he had suppressed the sabotage activity, content that the construction was proceeding apace, he departed the system, leaving Tarkin without the annoyance of having the Emperor's watchdog present.

Rebel leader Mon Mothma used Tarkin's own words in speeches against the Empire, denouncing the doctrine of rule by fear.

When resources and labor for the Death Star proved insufficient, Palpatine gave Tarkin permission to divert Vader from the Sith Lord's mission at the time&mdash;investigating a traitor within the Imperial hierarchy&mdash;in order to lead the conquest of Geonosis. Once it became clear that the Geonosians had allied themselves with the Rebel Alliance, Tarkin instructed Vader to inflict punitive damage on the local population as a lesson in the consequences of rebellion. Once the planet was under Imperial control, Tarkin was able to extract the needed slaves and materials.

Tarkin then received reports that ex-Imperial officer Han Solo&mdash;whose graduation as valedictorian Tarkin had attended&mdash;began raiding Imperial prisons on Kashyyyk to free Wookiees, with assistance from the Rebellion. Tarkin and Vader marshaled a response that drove Solo off the planet and saved the prisons. With Wookiee and Geonosian labor, Tarkin found himself ahead of schedule on the Death Star.

Palpatine compelled both Tarkin and Vader to attend Colonel Maximilian Veers's demonstration of the All Terrain Armored Transport on Carida. Tarkin was dismissive of the weapon of war, insisting that the Death Star would supersede ground assaults, even after witnessing Veers's lone walker fend off a surprise Rebel raid on the demonstration. Palpatine, however, remained highly enthusiastic about the walker. Tarkin oversaw a retaliatory attack in response to the disruption, destroying the Rebel base on Jabiim from which the raid had been launched. The base's data archives finally revealed the identity of the Imperial official who had been collaborating with the Rebellion and had facilitated their operations at Kashyyyk and Carida&mdash;Moff Kalast. Despite evidence that Kalast may have provided the Rebellion with information about the Death Star, Tarkin was unconcerned, as he believed that the Rebels had no hope of defeating the battle station. A fleet under Tarkin attempted to arrest Kalast over Atzerri, but Kalast fled before he could be apprehended. Tarkin was able to procure an Immobilizer 418 interdictor, which allowed Vader to pin down Kalast and successfully capture the traitor.

That year, Tarkin delivered the commencement address for the graduation class of Prefsbelt Fleet Camp, in which he declaimed the need to sweep away the Rebel Alliance and compel order through the exercise of raw power. He also hinted at the existence of the Death Star, to be revealed once it became operational shortly.

As Tarkin grew increasingly desirous of Daala's comforting presence at the construction site, where he was overseeing operations, he made a snap decision to summon his mistress, deciding that the Maw Installation would be safe enough without her presence. While she was present, the danger of sabotage reemerged when the Star Destroyer Undauntable suddenly exploded. Tarkin, wanting to avoid more scrutiny from Palpatine and a visit from Vader, had Motti report the incident as an accident resulting from poor maintenance of the old ship. Meanwhile, he assigned Daala to investigate the matter and unmask the saboteur herself. She was able to determine that the bomb used had been shipped through the high-security Regional Naval Supply Area at Gall and been manually triggered by a saboteur, showing a wider conspiracy with dangerous resources. Despite further investigation, though, she was unable to find the culprit, and Tarkin could keep her away from the Maw Installation no longer, so she returned.

Commander of the Death Star
Tarkin himself could not spend all his time supervising the construction, and returned to Eriadu. When the Death Star was nearly operational, he traveled to the Death Star to take command. His shuttle was ambushed by Rebels, but Motti's Star Destroyer arrived and scattered them, saving Tarkin. The Rebels did manage to free Ackbar, causing Tarkin to mourn the loss of the reliable servant.

Palpatine was scheduled to arrive aboard, but decided not to travel, however; he would send Vader as his representative to Tarkin. Knowing that Tarkin's ambition could prove dangerous, Palpatine intended that Vader would keep watch over him. In fact, though Tarkin was well aware of the potential power he stood to wield as commander of the planet-destroying station, he was certain that Palpatine understood the threat and had measures in place to prevent any move against his position as Emperor. Considering the attempted overthrow of Palpatine suicidal, Tarkin had no thought of rebellion, even when the ambitious Motti frequently attempted to subtly suggest that Tarkin use the station to seize power.

When the Grand Moff learned that the Imperial base on Danuta had been penetrated by Rebel agents and there was a possibility that the plans for the Death Star had been stolen, he contacted Vader, who had not yet arrived on the station, and asked the Emperor's agent to determine if the plans had been stolen and, if so, recover them. Tarkin thought there little risk that the Rebels might be able to use the plans to destroy the Death Star, thinking they would only prove the station's invincibility. He could not, however, abide the thieves' penetration of security and defiance of the Empire.

Soon after, the Lucrehulk-class carrier Fortressa arrived in the system and deployed five hundred fighters. Tarkin commanded the defense of the station, and was surprised to receive a transmissions from Daala indicating the she was returning to the station and had come under attack. Seeing an opportunity to put the superlaser to work, the Grand Moff contacted Superlaser Fire Control and issued the order to target the Fortressa. The firing was a success, vaporizing the large enemy ship using only four percent of the superlaser's total power.

While TIEs mopped up the enemy fighters, Tarkin received the news that Daala had suffered a head wound during the attack on her ship. He had Daala rushed to surgery and, concerned that the Rebels clearly knew the location of the station, had the Death Star moved. As it was unready for a sustained hyperspace jump, he ordered the station moved to the other side of Despayre, its coordinates kept tightly restricted among the command staff of the Death Star and its Star Destroyer escorts. He then checked on Daala, learning from the surgical team that she had suffered damage that would likely cause some memory loss, but had suffered no other harm. As Daala was supposed to be at the Maw, Tarkin did not want her presence at the Death Star used against him. He had all records of Daala's visit erased and, as soon as she was able, sent her back to the Maw, where she was instructed to maintain that she had never left and had suffered an injury in the course of her duties there.

With the hull complete and interior construction nearly finished, Tarkin decided to leave the system, but insisted on testing the superlaser's destructive potential first by targeting Despayre. Though Motti questioned the decision, Tarkin believed there would be little political backlash from the obliteration of the prison world, and insisted that the weapon's power be tested before they moved on to military targets. Tarkin evacuated the military forces keeping order on Despayre, then fired. At one-third power, the beam ignited the planet's atmosphere, creating a cataclysm that killed all life on the planet. After more than an hour of recharging for each shot, second and third firings shattered the already ruined world.

Vader captured the ship that had received the transmitted plans in the Tatoo system, with Princess Leia Organa aboard. The plans, however, had been placed in the droid R2-D2, which had been ejected in an escape pod, and were not recovered. Vader brought Organa back to the Death Star for interrogation, intending that she would reveal the location of the secret Rebel base. Vader, on the behalf of the Emperor, personally conveyed to Tarkin the news that Palpatine had, as Tarkin had long known he would, abolished the Imperial Senate; the rule of the galaxy would now be fully in the hands of the gubernatorial hierarchy. Tarkin announced the Senate's dissolution as he and Vader entered a meeting of the Death Star's leadership. When Motti insulted Vader's competence in regard to the stolen plans and denigrated the power of the Force, Vader used his abilities to choke the fractious admiral, until Tarkin instructed Vader to relent and moved on to his intent to destroy the Rebellion once the location of its headquarters was extracted from Organa. Tarkin made a swift and brief journey to Coruscant for a meeting with members of the Death Star's design team, but the engineers were captured during the rendezvous, though Tarkin himself remained safe.

Vader made use of an IT-O Interrogator droid to question Organa, but she refused to yield the location. With the Death Star at last declared operational&mdash;and Motti having once more hinted that Tarkin should overthrow the Emperor, a suggestion Tarkin again brushed off&mdash;and Palpatine having given Tarkin wide latitude to put the superweapon to use, the Grand Moff decided to compel her cooperation by holding her homeworld hostage, then destroying Alderaan&mdash;and with it the problems the peaceful world and its leader, suspected Rebel Bail Organa, posed the Empire. He directed that the station travel to the Alderaan system, where he had Leia Organa brought to the overbridge. Having signed an execution order for the young Senator as soon as she was captured, Tarkin offered her a choice: watch as the Death Star destroyed Alderaan, or give him the location of the Rebel headquarters. Organa admitted the location of the base as Dantooine. Considering the undeveloped planet too minor a target, Tarkin proceeded with the destruction of Alderaan nonetheless, believing the Core World a much more significant demonstration of Imperial might and unwillingness to brook rebellion.

Tarkin dispatched scouts to Dantooine to confirm the base's location, but found only an abandoned site; Organa had given him only the location of a former base. Outraged at his inability to force her compliance, Tarkin ordered that the Rebel woman be executed immediately. Soon afterward, Death Star forces captured a freighter that had ventured into the Alderaan system. The Millennium Falcon, it was the same ship that had shot its way off Tatooine while suspected of carrying the Death Star plans. Vader, believing that the ship's occupants were intending to return the plans to Bail Organa on Alderaan, hatched a plan to allow the occupants to stage a rescue of Leia Organa, then let them escape with a tracking beacon aboard the Millennium Falcon. Vader was certain that they would take Organa to the Rebel stronghold, revealing it for destruction. Tarkin saw the plan as a dangerous gamble, but went along. When Vader realized that former Jedi Council member Obi-Wan Kenobi was among the passengers of the freighter, Tarkin insisted that the Jedi Master could not be allowed to escape. Vader stalked off to meet Kenobi, and as Tarkin watched remotely, killed him in a lightsaber duel just before the Millennium Falcon crew escaped with Organa.

The homing beacon's signal led them to Yavin 4, the fourth moon of the gas giant Yavin. The Death Star emerged from hyperspace on the far side of Yavin, and began moving into range. As the station closed with Yavin 4, Motti made one last attempt to flatter Tarkin's power and hinted at a coup. Tarkin demanded that Motti speak plainly, and the admiral suggested that Tarkin could at least use the threat of his control of the Death Star to secure a position as second-in-command of the Empire, or share power with the Emperor, and kill Vader. Tarkin rebuffed most of Motti's suggestions, finally stating that he would consider Motti's statements later, though without showing much interest in the proposal.

In defense, the Rebels launched a force of starfighters. Tarkin, believing the small fighters could pose no threat to his gargantuan battle station, declined to intercept the fighters with TIEs, instead allowing the turbolaser defenses to deal with the fighters. Vader, less confident in the defenses, launched his personal escort of fighters. When the Rebels persisted in their attack, Tarkin wondered what they were targeting, but Motti convinced him that the enemy stood no chance against Vader, who was swiftly eliminating the Rebel squadrons, and that in no case could Tarkin abandon the Death Star and show weakness; it would be political suicide. When Bast informed Tarkin that an analysis had shown a weakness that the starfighters seemed to be targeting, the Grand Moff, still supremely confident in the invulnerability of his battle station, scoffed at Bast's suggestion that he ready an evacuation ship. Vader and his pilots shot down several Rebels, but could not prevent Luke Skywalker from firing a proton torpedo into a vulnerable thermal exhaust port. Bast's analysis proved correct; as Tarkin's order to fire was being carried out and he was gleefully anticipating his moment of greatest glory&mdash;the destruction of the Rebellion by the superweapon he had so long championed&mdash;the chain reaction reached the Death Star's reactor and destroyed the battle station, annihilating Tarkin as thoroughly as he had obliterated Alderaan.

Legacy
With the Death Star lost, the Empire covered up its existence any suppressed any news of its defeat in the Battle of Yavin. Imperial sources alleged that Alderaan had been accidentally destroyed by a superweapon of its own construction, while Tarkin and his chief officers were announced to have died in a shuttle crash at the Talaan Imperial Shipyards resulting from an equipment malfunction. Tarkin was lionized in reports as a steadfast, loyal, and important servant of the Emperor. Satellite recordings of Alderaan's destruction, however, were smuggled out of the system by Rebel agents, and underground news sources began broadcasting the truth. The Empire quickly changed its story, announcing that the Death Star had destroyed Alderaan after finding evidence that the planet was developing a Rebel biowarfare initiative.

Tarkin was survived by his wife and niece, as well as his lover Daala. The Lady Tarkin was determined to avenge her husband's death, obsessed with the war against the Rebellion. She retired to Phelarion, where she oversaw megonite moss mining operations at the city she renamed Port Tarkin. Rivoche Tarkin continued as a Rebel agent for two more years before she was exposed to the Empire and extracted by the Rebel Alliance.

Tarkin's death did not end the rule of the Tarkin Doctrine. Instead, Palpatine's close adviser Ars Dangor issued a declaration to the military that the Empire would inflict more terror than ever in suppressing the Rebellion.

Numerous Imperial facilities bore the Tarkin name, such as the Tarkin Detention Facility on Ruul.

Some of Tarkin's personal journals were recovered by the Rebel Alliance, giving them critical information.

Tarkin was replaced as Grand Moff of Oversector Outer by Ardus Kaine, a similar New Order hardliner. After the death of Palpatine, Kaine turned Oversector Outer into a warlord fiefdom based on New Order principles, known as the Pentastar Alignment.

Personality and traits
Tarkin had a short temper.

As an up-and-coming politician, Tarkin was known as ambitious, authoritarian, and militaristic, with big ideas for the future. Tarkin was capable in both the political and military fields.

Tarkin could display charm and charisma when he wished, but would shift swiftly to ruthlessness when necessary.

Tarkin enjoyed authority, and liked causing fear in his subordinates.

Tarkin was a prideful man.

Tarkin was quite self-confident, estimating his own chances of success highly and dismissing obstacles in his path. He gloated over his successes, even before achieving them. He did not like to take risks, but often considered his own position so strong as to limit the actual risk. His incredulity at the idea that Rebel starfighters could successfully destroy the Death Star ultimately caused his death. Even in his last moments, confronted with the fact that a successful proton torpedo strike would overload the reactor, Tarkin refused to accept that he could be defeated on the cusp of his climactic victory, that the superweapon on which he had so long labored could be brought low by a mere starfighter.

Tarkin was not a man for trust or friendship, believing them outmoded in the new order of things. He saw connection as a matter of alliance for mutual benefit and advantage to be exploited.

A Humanocentrist, Tarkin disliked non-Human species and did not care for the supernatural powers of the Jedi. He was not, however, above using non-Humans when they were useful, so long as Humans were the ones in control.

Tarkin enjoyed mobility; he was uncomfortable with the idea of being confined to one planet, much less a smaller location.

Tarkin preferred brute force to elegance.

As an administrator, Tarkin took pride in his military background, believing it important to occasionally remind his subordinates that he was in fact a man of practical experience who was still willing to work in the field.

Tarkin was willing to change his position when it proved necessary.

Tarkin demanded nothing less than excellent performance from his subordinates.

Tarkin was among few Imperial officials willing to interrupt, stand up to, and direct Vader, behavior Vader tolerated.

Tarkin had a sense of his own dignity, refusing to show weakness, strong emotion, or inappropriate behavior before subordinates. Among the few feelings he displayed was impatience with subordinates who took up his time unnecessarily or were roundabout in their reports, as well as anger at failure and opposition.

Tarkin believed strongly in the value of extravagant punishment as an object lesson, believing that a ruthless example would provide the only genuine deterrent to a determined opponent.

The lives of others meant little to Tarkin; he regarded the deaths of those in his service to be trivial, and was willing to destroy entire planets in order to ensure stability for the Galactic Empire.

As a Grand Moff, Tarkin had a reputation for killing those who failed him.

Tarkin was willing to speak frankly to Palpatine and unafraid to disagree with the Emperor.

Tarkin had a strong sense of duty, putting his professional assignments ahead of his personal life and desires.

Tarkin was willing to destroy an entire planet simply to make an example.

Though Tarkin was ambitious, self-confident, and of the opinion that, with the Death Star under his control, he would be the most powerful man in the galaxy, he did not underestimate Palpatine. Sure that a move against the powerful and well-prepared Emperor would result only in failure, Tarkin had no intention of overthrowing Palpatine.

Though Tarkin had a good working relationship with Darth Vader, whom he found efficient and considered an ally in the Imperial hierarchy, he was also unsettled by Vader's supernatural powers and mysterious nature, and disliked when Palpatine used Vader as a check on Tarkin himself. Despite Vader's lofty position, Tarkin was comfortable giving orders to Vader, and Vader was willing to follow them.

Deeply devoted to the Death Star project, Tarkin saw it as his personal dream and would not tolerate obstruction of the project, especially after the frustration of nearly twenty years of delays. Defiance of his will, or simple incompetence in carrying it out, enraged him. To him, the Death Star was like his own child, and he was awed by its power, passionate about its potential, and extremely proud of his accomplishment in building it.

Tarkin found Natasi Daala physically appealing, but it was her intellect, ambition, and ruthlessness that drew him to her. Though he did not consider her his equal, he could not be truly attracted to a woman who was not at least close to his level in intelligence and competence. She was also the only person who could make him laugh, a trait he valued. Though he maintained a veneer of formality as her superior, their private interactions were far more casual than Tarkin's norm, and he allowed her to call him "Wilhuff" even in a professional setting, though before others they were always strictly formal. In his affair with Daala, Tarkin found release from the stress of his position, seeing the admiral as an invigorating diversion from political concerns. He knew that she put her career ahead of her relationship with him, and it did not bother him; instead he considered it a sign of the driven, confident, and ruthless personality that attracted him.

Behind the scenes
The novelization of A New Hope portrays Tarkin as present during Leia Organa's interrogation, in contradiction of the film.

Cloak of Deception describes Tarkin as having black hair.

Early life (64 BBY–29 BBY)


Sometime prior to 44 BBY, Tarkin married Thalassa Motti, a member of a wealthy and prestigious patrician family on Phelarion. This was more out of expediency than out of any real romantic sentiment; Thalassa was heir to the substantial fortune earned through her family's centuries-old megonite moss mining business, and through her, Tarkin had access to that wealth.



The Dark Times (19 BBY–0 BBY)
"Rule through the fear of force rather than through force itself."

- Wilhuff Tarkin in the Tarkin Doctrine



He was in command of the occupation of Mon Calamari. In 18 BBY, a group of citizens stood on a landing platform directly underneath his transport, protesting the Imperial taxation on Ghorman. Tarkin ordered his ship to land regardless, crushing hundreds to death. The event marked the first of many acts of cold blooded mass murder at the hands of Tarkin.

This incident was labeled the Ghorman Massacre by Rebels. This action led to Palpatine giving him the rank of Admiral.

Sometime during the era, he committed the Atravis Sector Massacres.

In 5 BBY, Gideon Tarkin was killed in the Erhynradd Mutiny. Wilhuff then adopted Gideon's orphaned daughter, Rivoche, who ironically would later become an Intelligence agent for the Rebellion. Fortunately for her, her uncle probably never suspected her Rebel sympathies.



Just prior to the Battle of Yavin, Tarkin was traveling by shuttle to the Nebulon-B frigate Vehemence which was due to take him on an inspection of the Death Star. A Rebel raid on his shuttle in the Eriadu system resulted in the escape of his Mon Calamari slave, Ackbar, although Tarkin was able to escape the assassination attempt just before the Rebels attacked. Ackbar would later become one of the Empire's greatest enemies.

During the same time, it is known that Grand Moff Tarkin visited one of the Imperial-class Star Destroyers of his own fleet, the Allecto. This routine mission was, however, disturbed when his shuttle was violently attacked by three squadrons of Rebel starfighters, which tried to shoot him down and succeeded in inflicting severe damage upon his unprepared vessel. Unfortunately for the Rebels, their actions were not enough to destroy the shuttle. Tarkin escaped with his life, but the small band of Rebels was not so lucky, and their squadrons were completely obliterated by the nearby Destroyer.

The Destruction of Alderaan and the Battle of Yavin (0 BBY)
"A major part of this station's value is as a deterrent. We must prove to the galaxy that we are prepared to use it at the slightest provocation.''" "If your plan serves our purpose, it will justify itself." "''The stability of the Empire is at stake. A planet is a small price to pay."

- Wilhuff Tarkin and Darth Vader



Later, Han Solo and Chewbacca were formally charged by the Empire for murdering Tarkin.

Personality and traits
From the beginning of his career, Wilhuff Tarkin gained a reputation for being an extremely cunning and competent individual, both as a politician and a military officer. Tarkin was a firm believer of both human superiority over any other race and the need of a strong centralized government that quickly and mercilessly enforced order. His personal beliefs would later be condensed in his infamous doctrine and his friend Sienar's brainchild, the Death Star.

Tarkin was also an ambitious and ruthless commander, expecting and demanding excellence at all times from any of his underlings. There too he applied the principle of ruling through the fear of force rather than force itself: He would make an object lesson of one person, with the unspoken threat: "Don't fail me, or suffer the same fate!"

As a person, Tarkin could only be described as cold: he would rarely if ever display any emotion to anyone, keeping a firm rein on both joy and anger, and facing any situation with cold, merciless logic. The only notable exception to this rule was in private with Admiral Daala, yet even there, he would instantly switch back to "business mode" and ignore Daala's charms if the situation asked for it. He also possessed a vengeful streak, and would ruthlessly eliminate any who crossed him.

Character creation
The character of Wilhuff Tarkin was based on Governor Crispin Hoedaack, a character in George Lucas' The Star Wars: Rough Draft. Hoedaack, an ambitious Human male with "angular features" and "gray eyes", was an Imperial military commander ordered by Emperor Cos Dashit to conquer the Aquilaean system, one of the last Independent Systems. However, Hoedaack perishes when the Empire's space fortress, in which the Death Star was based on, is destroyed by Luke Skywalker and Wookiee pilots. Ultimately, Lucas replaced Governor Hoedaack with an Imperial character whom he named Grand Moff Tarkin.

However, the name Tarkin was taken from Grande Mouff Tarkin, a character who appeared in early drafts of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. The character was substantially different in personality than Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin; notably, he was described as "thin and birdlike". In The Star Wars: Rough Draft and the following The Star Wars: First Draft, Tarkin was a religious leader on Aquilae or Townowi, but in third draft, Adventures of the Starkiller, Episode I: The Star Wars, and fourth draft, The Star Wars: From The Adventures of Luke Starkiller, he was depicted as the Rebel leader of the Kesselian Dragoons on Yavin 4.

Portrayal
In Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, Grand Moff Tarkin was played by veteran English actor and former Hammer horror film regular Peter Cushing. When Cushing complained that the boots required for Tarkin's costume were too small for him, Lucas allowed Cushing to wear a pair of slippers during shooting. As the result, the scenes involving Tarkin's presence were filmed from the waist up. Cushing died in 1994, but, eleven years later, Tarkin was portrayed by Wayne Pygram, well-known for his role as Scorpius in Farscape, in the 2005 film Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. Originally, Lucas had planned to to edit clips of Cushing from A New Hope, but the poor quality of film made this impossible, as well as the fact that Cushing had asked to be filmed from the waist up because of his uncomfortable boots, and Tarkin's scene required a full-body shot. According to animation director Rob Coleman, he discussed with Christopher Lee, who played Count Dooku in the film and was Cushing's close friend, of resurrecting the actor as a digital character model until Pygram was casted to play Tarkin. Pygram had to go through extensive prosthetic makeup that was designed to make him look like a younger Cushing.

Tarkin was voiced by Keene Curtis in the Star Wars radio drama, by actor Paul Darrow of Blake's 7 fame in Star Wars: Empire at War, and by Nick Jameson, who also portrays Darth Sidious in various video games, in Star Wars: X-wing.

Name
While Grand Moff Tarkin's name was based on Grande Mouff Tarkin from early drafts, there is debate over where Tarkin's name is originated. It is no secret that George Lucas borrowed many names and themes from previous books and visual media sources. Lucas, who loved the concept of a classic fairy tale, may have used the fictional word "Tarkaan" as a basis for this villain. The word "Tarkaan" is a title bestowed upon high military captains of the villainous Calormenes, the antagonists in several volumes of The Chronicles of Narnia. That title was itself probably derived from Tarkhan, an ancient Turkic title for high military officers. The title of Grand Moff may come from Grand Mufti, the highest religious rank in Sunni Muslim countries.

Tarkin's name also resembles that of Tarquin the Proud, the last King of Rome, whose reign was characterized by bloodshed and violence and immediately preceded the establishment of the Roman Republic.

The free software video codec Tarkin was named after Grand Moff Tarkin, as, possibly, was the character Baron Von Tarkin in the 2003 computer game Heroes of Might and Magic IV: Winds of War.

His first name, Wilhuff, was revealed on LucasArts' 1994 CD-ROM Star Wars Screen Entertainment.

Appearances

 * Darth Maul: Saboteur
 * Cloak of Deception
 * Star Wars: Battlefront
 * Rogue Planet
 * Boba Fett: Pursuit
 * Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron
 * Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith novelization
 * Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
 * Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith 4
 * Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader
 * The Last of the Jedi: A Tangled Web
 * The Last of the Jedi: Secret Weapon
 * The Last of the Jedi: Against the Empire
 * Pax Empirica—The Wookiee Annihilation
 * Rebel Dawn
 * Interlude at Darkknell
 * Death Star
 * Star Wars: Empire at War
 * Mara Jade: By the Emperor's Hand 0
 * The Farlander Papers
 * Star Wars: Empire 8: Darklighter, Part 1
 * Star Wars: X-wing
 * Star Wars: Empire 1: Betrayal, Part 1
 * Star Wars: Empire 2: Betrayal, Part 2
 * Star Wars: Empire 4: Betrayal, Part 4
 * Death Star Designer
 * Star Wars: Empire 13: What Sin Loyalty?
 * Star Wars: Force Commander
 * Star Wars Journal: The Fight for Justice
 * Star Wars radio dramatization
 * The Star Wars Storybook
 * Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope novelization
 * Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
 * Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope junior novelization
 * Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope book-and-record adaptation
 * Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope PhotoComic
 * Star Wars: A New Hope - The Special Edition
 * Star Wars Manga: A New Hope
 * Star Wars (Scholastic)
 * Star Wars 1
 * Star Wars 2: Six Against the Galaxy
 * Play It Again, Figrin D'an: The Tale of Muftak and Kabe
 * Star Wars 3: Death Star
 * Star Wars 5: Lo, The Moons of Yavin
 * Star Wars 6: Is This the Final Chapter?
 * Star Wars Droids 8: Star Wars According to the Droids, Book III
 * Star Wars Battlefront: Renegade Squadron
 * Star Wars Missions 1: Assault on Yavin Four
 * Star Wars Missions 2: Escape from Thyferra
 * Star Wars Missions 3: Attack on Delrakkin
 * Star Wars Missions 4: Destroy the Liquidator
 * Rebel Force: Hostage
 * Rebel Force: Uprising
 * Vader's Quest 2
 * Star Wars Missions 17: Darth Vader's Return
 * Star Wars Missions 18: Rogue Squadron to the Rescue
 * Star Wars Missions 19: Bounty on Bonadan
 * Star Wars Missions 20: Total Destruction
 * Star Wars 25: Siege at Yavin
 * Darth Vader Strikes
 * Galaxy of Fear: Planet Plague
 * Allegiance
 * Star Wars: Empire: "General" Skywalker
 * Star Wars: Rebellion
 * Princess Leia, Imperial Servant
 * Splinter of the Mind's Eye
 * Splinter of the Mind's Eye comic
 * Side Trip
 * The Rise and Fall of Darth Vader
 * Slave Ship
 * Mara Jade: By the Emperor's Hand 2
 * The Story of Star Wars
 * The Truce at Bakura
 * A New Hope: The Life of Luke Skywalker
 * X-wing Rogue Squadron: Requiem for a Rogue
 * X-wing Rogue Squadron 25: The Making of Baron Fel
 * X-wing Rogue Squadron 26: Family Ties, Part 1
 * X-wing: Rogue Squadron
 * Light and Dark
 * X-wing: Wedge's Gamble
 * X-wing: The Krytos Trap
 * X-wing: The Bacta War
 * The Courtship of Princess Leia
 * Dark Force Rising
 * X-wing: Isard's Revenge
 * Jedi Search
 * Dark Apprentice
 * Champions of the Force
 * Children of the Jedi
 * Darksaber
 * Planet of Twilight
 * X-wing: Starfighters of Adumar
 * Before the Storm
 * The New Rebellion
 * Shield of Lies
 * Vision of the Future
 * Star Wars: Union
 * Survivor's Quest
 * Young Jedi Knights: Heirs of the Force
 * Young Jedi Knights: Darkest Knight
 * Young Jedi Knights: Jedi Under Siege
 * Young Jedi Knights: Shards of Alderaan
 * Dark Tide I: Onslaught
 * Balance Point
 * Edge of Victory II: Rebirth
 * Force Heretic I: Remnant
 * Force Heretic III: Reunion
 * The Final Prophecy
 * The Unifying Force
 * Revelation
 * Outcast
 * Omen
 * Backlash
 * Dark Tide I: Onslaught
 * Balance Point
 * Edge of Victory II: Rebirth
 * Force Heretic I: Remnant
 * Force Heretic III: Reunion
 * The Final Prophecy
 * The Unifying Force
 * Revelation
 * Outcast
 * Omen
 * Backlash

Non-canon appearances

 * LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy
 * LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga
 * Star Wars Infinities: A New Hope
 * Tag & Bink Are Dead
 * Perfect Evil
 * The Epic Continues
 * Tag & Bink Are Dead
 * Perfect Evil
 * The Epic Continues
 * The Epic Continues