Malcor Brashin Malcor Brashin was a Human male who was a respected Grand General in the Army of the Galactic Empire during the Galactic Civil War . Though his career had an unassuming beginning , he was converted into a fanatical supporter of the New Order after nonhuman thieves murdered his wife and daughter . This event gave him the drive to become one of the army ' s highest - ranking officers , in which position he oversaw the development of the Battlefield Holographic Control Interface and served as Brenn Tantor ' s superior throughout the young officer ' s Imperial career . Brashin oversaw Tantor ' s early career in operations on the desert planet Tatooine , the mining planet Ruul , and the volcanic world Sarapin . He also commanded Tantor in later operations on Yavin 4 , Hoth , the Forest Moon of Endor , and a final mission on the hilly planet Abridon . However , when Tantor disobeyed an order to wipe out a refugee camp on Abridon , Brashin had him imprisoned . Tantor escaped and defected to the Rebel Alliance , but Brashin later attempted to capture Tantor while Tantor was on a mission to the asteroid Trasse . Brashin was unable to keep Tantor from completing his mission and escaping . By the time of the fall of the Imperial capital of Coruscant , Brashin was commanding the defense of the planet , where Tantor defeated his forces decisively . Biography . Rise to prominence . Malcor Brashin was an unambitious Human male who lived during the reign of the Galactic Empire , entering a military academy as a very young man . Even though he lacked ambition and was not outstanding , Brashin impressed his superiors as a competent and intelligent officer . During one of Brashin ' s deployments , his wife and daughter were killed by Rodian thieves . This tragedy transformed him into a New Order zealot . Committed to destroying " unchecked anarchists and aliens , " his new - found fervor for the Empire , combined with a string of victories , propelled his climb through the ranks of the Imperial Army until he reached its apex with the rank of Grand General . The training of Brenn Tantor . Something of a technophile , Grand General Brashin oversaw the development of the Battlefield Holographic Control Interface , an advanced command - and - control interface that allowed an officer to command his troops on a planet ' s surface from the safety of an orbiting starship . Brashin employed a decorated training officer , Captain Beri Tulon , to recruit promising young candidates for training on the BHCI . During the Battle of Kalaan , Tulon discovered a young stormtrooper by the name of Brenn Tantor leading his squad after the death of his sergeant . Impressed by Tantor ' s leadership , Tulon issued him a battlefield promotion to lieutenant and ordered him to report to the " Inquisitor " , the Star Destroyer from which Brashin led his forces . Once Tantor was aboard his Star Destroyer , Brashin observed Tulon leading Tantor through a series of training exercises on the planet Tatooine . During this time , Brashin interrupted Tantor ' s training and reassigned Tantor ' s squad to track down the escape pod that had been ejected from the starship " Tantive IV " , with the plans to the Empire ' s under - construction Death Star battlestation inside . When the plans were discovered to be missing from the pod , Brashin oversaw a series of operations designed to track down the droids that were carrying them . Despite the efforts of Tantor , the droids escaped Tatooine on the " Millennium Falcon " , a freighter owned by the smuggler , Han Solo , and its destination was determined to be either Alderaan or the Ruul system . During the course of Tantor ' s training on Tatooine , Brashin came to be concerned by the attitudes and opinions displayed by Tulon . In his opinion , Tulon held to an outdated and subversive code of ethics that had no place in the New Order . When the " Millennium Falcon " left Tatooine , Brashin took Tantor and Tulon with him on the " Inquisitor " to the planet Ruul , while the Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Vader departed for Alderaan aboard the Star Destroyer " Devastator " . Though the " Millennium Falcon " had in fact fled to Alderaan , Brashin ' s trip was rendered worthwhile when he discovered that Rebel forces had captured a computer facility on Ruul . Brashin observed approvingly as Tantor retook the computer complex and , with the aid of his brother Dellis Tantor , strung a series of data relay beacons from the facility to a working broadcast antenna . Brashin took advantage of Tantor ' s excellent performance to promote him over Tulon ' s head . Now a commander , Tantor would report directly to Brashin . Due to Brashin ' s concern with Tulon ' s instilling of more traditional military values in Tantor , Brashin reassigned Tulon from the BHCI project entirely . Brashin could now exercise direct control over his promising pupil without worrying about Tulon ' s negative influence , making it clear to Tantor that he had lost confidence in Tulon and that the Captain ' s mistakes were not to be repeated . Reviewing the information that the Rebels had stored in the facility on Ruul , Brashin discovered that the Rebel Alliance had covertly taken control of several energy collector s on the planet Sarapin , a key source of geothermal energy . Brashin took the " Inquisitor " there and deployed his forces under the command of Tantor . Brashin and Tantor were able to retake the collectors with assistance from the technical skills of Brenn Tantor ' s brother , Dellis Tantor . In the course of the operation , Brenn Tantor , with the help of his brother , also managed to keep a drilling platform that had been captured by Rebels , from causing destructive groundquakes , after fighting through significant Alliance forces . During the Sarapin operation , Brashin received the news that the Death Star had been destroyed over the moon Yavin 4 , with the loss of nearly all personnel aboard . To fill the void , Brashin promoted Brenn to major and Dellis to colonel , the latter of whom he transferred to Imperial Intelligence , a branch of the military better suited to his talents . Brashin and Brenn Tantor rushed to Yavin 4 on a mission to crush the Rebel base there . Tantor was able to raze the base and rescue Colonel Maximilian Veers , who had crashed on the moon after escaping the Death Star ' s in a shuttle . Tantor ' s performance drew the eye of even higher powers than Brashin , leading to personal congratulations from Darth Vader . Over the course of the next three years , Tantor rose to the rank of general with Brashin continuing to serve as his superior , with their most notable engagement being the Battle of Hoth . During this battle , Tantor oversaw General Veers ' s assault on the Rebel Alliance ' s power generators . Tantor also supervised the landing of Darth Vader ' s attack force that was going to attack the Rebel base . Brashin and Tantor next moved on to the Forest Moon of Endor , where Brashin decided on three possible locations to become the site for the second Death Star ' s deflector shield generator . Brashin oversaw Tantor ' s exploration of the three sites and after that was complete he selected which of the sites was the most suitable . Even though the mission was completed successfully by Tantor , Brashin was angered by his reluctance to attack the native Ewoks who lived on Endor ' s moon . From protégé to enemy . Unbeknownst to Brashin , Tantor had gained knowledge of his superior ' s other acts . Prior to the Battle of Hoth , Brashin had become aware that Tantor had used his position within Imperial Intelligence to look up records on his father . Tantor had discovered that his father had been killed not by Rebels , as the brothers had been told , but by the Empire itself in order to make an example of him after he lost a grain shipment to pirates . Brashin reacted by sending Dellis on a mission to Ruul and arranging for his capture and imprisonment during its course . What Brashin did not know was that Dellis managed to pass the data and his suspicions to Brenn before embarking on what he believed to be a suicide mission . This knowledge tortured Brenn . Despite his misgivings , Tantor successfully recaptured the Government Center and an Imperial base on Abridon and apprehended Rebel hero Luke Skywalker . Following the victory , Tantor prevented Beri Tulon , now under his command , from defecting . After the General destroyed the last Rebel base in the area , Brashin ordered him to destroy a nearby refugee camp in order to make a statement that anyone who tolerated the presence of Rebels would be destroyed . Brashin soon learned that , despite his removal , Tulon ' s teachings had remained with Tantor . Citing the mentor he had so recently captured , Tantor refused Brashin ' s order . Infuriated , Brashin locked him out of command frequencies and issued the order directly to Tantor ' s stormtroopers . In the aftermath , Brashin assigned Tulon to the Tarkin Detention Facility on Ruul and directed Tantor to report to the planet Kalaan , where he would be court - martialed . In the same message , he gave Tantor the news that Dellis had been killed . Upon arrival at Kalaan , Tantor was imprisoned in an outdoor cell , where Brashin informed him that he would be tried , found guilty , and publicly executed in the morning . What Brashin did not know was that Tantor had contacted General Tyr Taskeen of the Rebel Alliance and arranged to defect . Brashin assigned Tantor ' s own troops to guard Brenn Tantor . However , the stormtroopers were loyal to Tantor and released him , taking with them Tantor ' s fellow captive , Luke Skywalker , and the Tracked Mobile Base , a prototype vehicle that contained a portable BHCI unit . Brashin later encountered Tantor when the defector attempted to steal an All Terrain Armored Transport from the proving grounds of Trasse . Brashin appeared with his Star Destroyer , " Inquisitor " , in the middle of Tantor ' s operation . By doing this , Brashin trapped Tantor and Beri Tulon , whom Tantor had rescued from the Tarkin Detention Facility on Ruul , on the asteroid ' s surface . When Tantor and Brashin spoke to each other before the battle , Brashin expressed his disappointment in his one - time student , while denying a chance from Tantor to defect . A battle ensued , in which Tantor captured the planetary ion cannon , which Tulon used to disable the " Inquisitor " . Following the battle , Tantor escaped with the captured Imperial walker without further resistance from Brashin ' s disabled starship . Although he failed to stop Tantor at Trasse , Brashin remained a prominent general within the Empire , even after the death of Emperor Palpatine and Darth Vader at the Battle of Endor . When the former Rebel Alliance , under the name of the New Republic , attacked the Imperial capital of Coruscant , Brashin commanded the defense of the capital world alongside General Tal Ashen , who oversaw the Imperial Palace . The New Republic sent Tantor against Brashin , who hammered through his defenses and , with the help of fellow New Republic general Rand Talor , captured the Imperial Palace , freeing Tantor ' s brother , Dellis Tantor . Personality and traits . Malcor Brashin began his career as a quietly competent and unassuming officer , with a predilection for advanced technology . However , that was radically changed when Rodian thieves murdered his family . Anger transformed Brashin into a fanatic supporter of the New Order and its doctrines . This fervor energized his career , driving him ever higher through the Army . It was this radicalism that caused him to reassign Beri Tulon when the Captain took moral positions that Brashin regarded as contrary to Imperial doctrine . Subsequently , Brashin also advocated extremely harsh actions against enemies of the Empire — a category he defined rather broadly . Brashin treated Brenn Tantor kindly and took great pride in his accomplishments , though he remained somewhat distant . When leading Tantor before the young officer ' s insubordination , Brashin let him control the forces during many engagements , while he supervised Tantor ' s efforts by pointing out general objectives and relaying information . Even after Tantor ' s training ended , Brashin continued to merely supervise Tantor as the younger man took care of the tactics in his battles . However , when Tantor refused to follow his orders , Brashin ' s goodwill toward Tantor vanished . Brashin took Tantor ' s contrariness as a personal betrayal , and his kindness evaporated as he ordered his student ' s death . Behind the scenes . Malcor Brashin made his first appearance in " " , produced by Ronin Entertainment and LucasArts and released on March 21 , 2000 . In the game , he was voiced by David Warner . In the 2001 video game " , " in standard game matches Brashin ' s name can appear as a leader for an AI Imperial Brashin was later briefly mentioned in " The Official Star Wars Fact File " 34 , which was released on August 22 , 2002 . In the Fact File , his last name was mispelled " Brashen " , and he was only mentioned as the one who identified three possible locations for the second Death Star ' s shield generator on the forest moon of Endor .