Kale Roshuir Kale Roshuir was a Human male Imperial captain assigned to the garrison on the planet Kalist VI in 0 ABY . Following a Rebel attack on the Imperial tanker " Nuna ' s Twins " , Roshuir was charged with leading an assault on the Rebel Alliance ' s base on Thila . He fell in love with the tanker ' s science officer , Deena Shan , while the two worked together to pinpoint the base ' s location . Unbeknownst to Roshuir , however , Shan was a Rebel agent and was feeding him disinformation to lure his troops away from Kalist VI . The Imperials fell into the Rebel trap , and many of Roshuir ' s troops were killed when the deserted Rebel base exploded . Realizing that he had been set up , Roshuir returned to Kalist VI and confronted Shan , but was incapacitated by one of the Rebels who had infiltrated the base and was unable to prevent them from escaping the planet with a number of rescued prisoners . Roshuir was later tasked with capturing Rebel officer Luke Skywalker by using Skywalker ' s old friend Janek Sunber — now an Imperial officer — as bait . Roshuir and his stormtroopers had Skywalker and Shan pinned down aboard a space station in an Imperial junkyard , but Sunber was injured in the crossfire as he prepared to attack Skywalker , and the Rebels escaped . Biography . Kalist VI . The Human male Kale Roshuir became an officer in the Imperial Army during the Imperial era and , in the months following the Rebel Alliance ' s shock victory over Imperial forces at the Battle of Yavin of 0 ABY , held the rank of captain and a posting at the Imperial prison colony on the planet Kalist VI in the Deep Core . Following the Empire ' s victory over insurrectionary forces on Jabiim approximately seven months after the Battle of Yavin , many Imperial survivors were transferred to Kalist VI and placed under Roshuir ' s command . Soon after their arrival , Roshuir interrupted a fight between one of the new arrivals , Lieutenant Janek Sunber , and Lieutenant Clynn , an officer whose poor disciplinary record was well known to Roshuir . The captain gave both men a double shift supervising prisoners working in the Imperial labor colony as punishment . Later that day , Roshuir was summoned to the base ' s operations center by its commanding officer , General Noils . The Imperial tanker " Nuna ' s Twins " had recently arrived at Kalist VI under attack from Rebel starfighters , and Noils wanted Roshuir to plan a counterstrike . The tanker ' s commander , Captain Harran , briefed the group on the recent attack , informing them that the " Nuna ' s Twins " had first encountered their pursuers in the Thila system . Roshuir had heard rumors some time beforehand of a Rebel base in the system , and Noils instructed him to determine if it was to be used as a staging ground for a new offensive . Lieutenant Deena Shan , a science officer aboard the " Nuna ' s Twins " , informed Roshuir that she had been part of a geographic survey of the Thila system during her Imperial training and offered to assist him in pinpointing the Rebel base ' s location . Roshuir agreed , and the two began work in the base ' s cartography section . Roshuir and Shan soon located the likely location of the Rebel base on the planet Thila , and Roshuir was chosen to lead a significant portion of Kalist Base ' s stormtroopers in an attack on the facility the next day . The Imperial captain was impressed by Shan ' s intelligence and became attracted to her , and the two spent the night together in Roshuir ' s quarters . The next morning , as Roshuir prepared to leave for Thila , Shan voiced her misgivings that he might be walking into a Rebel trap , but the captain dismissed her concerns . As Roshuir ' s troops prepared to depart , Clynn informed him that Sunber had turned a blaster on him during a disagreement over disciplining a prisoner . Though Sunber tried to explain that he had prevented Clynn from raping the prisoner , Roshuir ordered him to remain on Kalist VI pending a tribunal upon his return . After arriving at Thila , Roshuir sent Clynn and the majority of his stormtroopers to investigate the subterranean caverns which were believed to house the Rebel base , while he remained on the surface with the Imperials ' " Sentinel " - class landing craft . Clynn soon confirmed the presence of a Rebel base but reported that it appeared to be deserted . Roshuir instructed him to continue the search and retrieve anything of possible interest to Imperial Intelligence . Moments later , however , Clynn ' s search party triggered a concealed trap , resulting in an explosion that destroyed the Rebel stronghold and killed most of Roshuir ' s troops ; Roshuir and the others on the surface survived with minor injuries . In the aftermath , Roshuir considered Shan ' s warning that he could be walking into a trap . Realizing that Shan had led him into the trap on purpose , the captain contacted Kalist VI to warn Noils that Shan and the crew of the " Nuna ' s Twins " were Rebel infiltrators . Roshuir raced back to Kalist VI but arrived to find it under Rebel attack . Directing his pilot to land near the " Nuna ' s Twins " , Roshuir disembarked and confronted Shan as she prepared to board . Shan told Roshuir that she had tried to warn him not to go after developing feelings for him , but the furious captain pulled his blaster on her . Before Roshuir could kill Shan , however , he was surprised by a low - flying T - 65 X - wing starfighter , allowing Harran to get the jump on him and knock him unconscious . The Rebels escaped Kalist VI , having rescued many prisoners from the Empire , including the Rebel mathematician Jorin Sol . Reunion . Roshuir was persuaded not to pursue charges against Sunber by Imperial Intelligence . Two months after the events on Kalist VI , Sunber revealed to the Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Vader that he was a childhood friend of the Rebel pilot Luke Skywalker . Sunber agreed to act as bait to lure Skywalker into a trap ; he sent a message to his friend announcing his intention to defect and instructing Skywalker to meet him at an Imperial junkyard — where Roshuir would be waiting with a squad of stormtroopers . Roshuir remained hidden until Skywalker ' s transport had docked , only to find Shan waiting in a corridor outside the Rebel ship while Skywalker searched for Sunber . The pair ' s reunion was cut short when Skywalker returned with Sunber , and a firefight broke out in the corridor between the two Rebels and Roshuir ' s squad . While Roshuir kept the Rebels occupied , Sunber attempted to seize Skywalker , but a stray shot hit him in the hand and prevented him from capturing the Rebel . Moments later , Skywalker shot the controls to a blast door , causing it to slam shut and split Roshuir ' s squad in two . Trapped out of the fight on the far side of the blast door , Roshuir ordered his troops to get the door open . By the time they did , however , the Rebels had boarded their ship and fled , leaving the corridor exposed to vacuum . As his men were blown out into space , Roshuir braced himself and ordered the blast door sealed again . Personality and traits . Kale Roshuir was an ambitious officer and believed that victory over the Rebels at Thila would ensure his promotion to commander . Roshuir demanded discipline from those who served under him and was quick to punish Clynn and Janek Sunber when he found the two fighting . When Clynn later reported Sunber for pulling a weapon on him , Roshuir suspended Sunber from combat duties pending a tribunal . Roshuir was confident in the abilities of the troops under his command and dismissed Deena Shan ' s warning that Thila might be a trap . When most of his soldiers were killed on Thila , he was devastated and initially blamed himself for not heeding Shan ' s warning and anticipating a setup . Roshuir was attracted to Shan upon first meeting her and was eager to work with the woman to locate the Rebel base . Impressed by Shan ' s intelligence and believing them to work well together , Roshuir quickly fell in love with her . However , after realizing that Shan had led him into a trap , Roshuir was furious and , unwilling to listen to her explanation , attempted to kill her upon his return to Kalist VI . He was still angry with Shan when he encountered her at the Imperial junkyard two months later and once more threatened to kill her . Roshuir had brown hair , green eyes , and fair skin . Behind the scenes . Kale Roshuir was created by author Welles Hartley and illustrator Davidé Fabbri for " " , the final story arc of the Dark Horse Comics series " " , and first appeared in " " ( 2005 ) . Roshuir later returned in " " ( 2006 ) , the first story arc of " Empire " successor , " " , by Rob Williams and in a flashback in " " ( 2008 ) by Jeremy Barlow The character was given a brief biography in " The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia " ( 2008 ) .