Adelhard Adelhard was a human male who served the Galactic Empire as the governor of the Anoat sector during the Galactic Civil War . Upon hearing of Emperor Sheev Palpatine ' s demise at the Battle of Endor , Adelhard locked down his sector , establishing the Iron Blockade and isolating his citizens from news of the Empire ' s defeat . With the help of Commander Bragh and his Purge Trooper s , Adelhard started killing those who opposed the status quo or dared to propagate so - called anti - Imperial rumors or people who wanted to rebel against Adelhard . Biography . A male human , Adelhard started as a mere stormtrooper in the armed forces of the Galactic Empire . A true believer in the need for a strong Empire to keep the galaxy from descending into chaos , he gradually rose up the ranks . Years prior to the Battle of Yavin , Adelhard served as a junior advisor in the Imperial Military . When Imperial forces received word of a base of dissidents on Anoat , the sector capital of the Anoat sector , Adelhard ordered his forces to gas the planet , transforming the city - world into a toxic waste dump . Many citizens believed that the incident was the result of an industrial accident , though a few were privy to the truth . Eventually , Adelhard became one of the rare stormtroopers to become a general . At some point before the Battle of Endor , Adelhard was made the governor of the Anoat sector . He had also married a woman who had ended up being killed by the Kouhun , a secretive order of assassin s . After the Battle of Endor , a cataclysmic defeat for the Empire in which the Alliance to Restore the Republic destroyed the Death Star II and the Emperor , Sheev Palpatine , was killed , reports of the Empire ' s defeat began to circulate across the galaxy . The Empire claimed that these reports were lies propagated by the Rebel Alliance . When Adelhard learned that the Emperor had indeed been killed , he locked the Anoat sector down with the Iron Blockade and said that anyone who challenged the Empire in the sector would have to answer to him . The Iron Blockade led to an uprising against the Empire , one carried out by a collection of resistance fighters , bounty hunter s , smuggler s , and more . To combat this uprising , the Empire used Purge Trooper s led by Commander Bragh , who reported to Adelhard . Adelhard had a chamber within the prime tower on the Tibanna gas mining colony of Cloud City , located on the planet Bespin . In the months following the Battle of Endor , Lobot hired the pirate Kars Tal - Torla and his companions to capture the Imperial collaborator Borgin Kaa in order to extract an access code needed to open an access hatch leading to Abelhard ' s personal quarters . Once the hatch was open , Lobot and an intrusion team planned to capture the Governor . Though Adelhard escaped , the planet was soon liberated by the Uprising . By the time of the Battle of Jakku , Adelhard ' s Imperial forces had crumbled under Lando Calrissian ' s siege . Lando and Lobot led a joint force of Bespin Wing Guard s and New Republic soldier s as they mopped up the remaining Imperial holdouts in Cloud City . Calrissian managed to convince a dozen Imperials holed up in the Bolo Tanga room to surrender by telling them that Adelhard ' s story about Palpatine was a lie . Personality and traits . Adelhard was a human male with black hair , a full beard , and fair skin . He was a strong supporter of the Galactic Empire and was willing to lock off his entire sector in order to punish those who reported the truth about the Battle of Endor . Behind the scenes . Adelhard is a character who appears in the mobile game " " , which was released by Kabam on September 10 , 2015 . The governor was designed by Brian Matyas . One of Matyas ' first designs had Adelhard wearing a long cape and an armored chest plate similar to Darth Vader ' s , but this did not pass the approval process .