Dru Valan Dru Valan was a Human male Imperial Navy admiral who was originally loyal to the Fel Empire . During the Sith – Imperial War , he was made responsible for ensuring that Admiral Gar Stazi of the Galactic Alliance didn ' t escape Caamas . However , Valan underestimated Stazi and he failed to prevent his escape . Valan later sided with the One Sith when they seized control of the Empire . In 137 ABY , Valan was placed in command of the Outer Rim Third Fleet and tasked with killing Stazi and destroying the Galactic Alliance Remnant . Using a new Star Destroyer as bait , Valan attempted to trap Stazi ' s fleet . But the Alliance escaped the trap with the Star Destroyer . Valan , disgraced again , was left contemplating suicide . Biography . Disgraced at Caamas . In 130 ABY , Admiral Valan fought at the Battle of Caamas . When the Galactic Alliance , under the command of Rear Admiral Piers Petan surrendered , Admiral Gar Stazi chose to escape and continue the fight against the Empire . Grand Admiral Morlish Veed commanded Valan to make certain Stazi couldn ' t escape so he and his fleet could be destroyed for their defiance . But Valan underestimated Stazi , who escaped using a spacer hyperspace route . Valan was blamed for Stazi ' s escape . Valan chose to side with Darth Krayt when the Sith took over the Empire . Hunting Stazi . Some time between 130 ABY and 137 ABY , he was placed under the command of Admiral Sha Dun of the Outer Rim Third Fleet ( most likely this was his punishment for failing to prevent Stazi ' s escape at Caamas ) . But after the Sith Lord Darth Azard executed Sha Dun for failing to stop Stazi ' s attacks on the Empire , Valan was placed in command of the fleet and tasked with hunting down Stazi . Valan believed in Human High Culture and ordered his second in command the removal of all alien crew from the fleet to ensure that " only the best " would serve under him . He even crushed a part of the Kel Dor ' s breathing mask under his foot after his former commander had been eliminated . Now in the command of the Pellaeon - class Star Destroyer " Relentless " , Admiral Valan plotted to set up a trap for Stazi by baiting him with the possibility of capturing the " Imperious " - class Star Destroyer " Imperious " . Having analyzed Stazi ' s tactics , he presumed that the Alliance admiral could not think strategically . A female Toydarian named Niffla told him she had seen Gial Gahan ' s niece , who was also a member of Rogue Squadron , at the shipyards . Valan was then certain that he would soon redeem himself from allowing Stazi to escape at Caamas . Disgraced Again . Several days later , Stazi ' s fleet jumped into the system to take the " Imperious " . But Gial Gahan had been arrested for trying to disable the shipyard ' s defenses and stormtroopers had re - seized the " Imperious " from Stazi ' s troops . When Valan ' s fleet arrived in the system , it appeared to him that Stazi ' s fleet was trapped between his fleet and the shipyards . But Stazi had prepared for Valan ' s trap by setting up one himself . Monia Gahan hacked the shipyard ' s automated defenses to fire on Imperial ships , and the combined firepower from the Alliance fleet and the Shipyards inflicted heavy damage on Valan ' s fleet . To add insult to injury , the stormtroopers that had re - seized the " Imperious " were actually Alliance Remnant troops . They hijacked the advanced Star Destroyer and got it to one of the Alliance ' s bases . Despite being outmaneuvered , Valan ordered his ships to fire on the " Indomitable " , hoping to eliminate Stazi and cripple the Remnant . But while the " Indomitable " took the fire , the rest of the Alliance fleet escaped . After Stazi was removed from the " Indomitable " , its captain Jaius Yorub piloted the ship into the Mon Calamari Shipyards , destroying a third of them . By the end of the battle , the " Imperious " was in Alliance hands , Stazi had escaped , the Mon Calamari Shipyards had been heavily damaged , and Valan ' s fleet had been devastated . Valan retired to his quarters with a blaster pistol of his own personal collection after being defeated , apparently contemplating suicide . Personality and traits . Even though by his time the Imperial Military allowed aliens to serve alongside humans , Dru Valan was a blatant speciesist as well as a Humanocentric , believing that humans were superior to " aliens . " This was shown when his first act after being made the commander of the Outer Rim Third Fleet was to dismiss all non - humans and replace them with humans . Because he had been outmaneuvered by Admiral Gar Stazi once before , Valan had a grudge against the Alliance admiral . His vendetta against Stazi blinded him to the bigger picture ; when he had " trapped " some of the Alliance fleet at Dac , he was so focused on Stazi that he allowed the rest of the fleet to escape . Behind the scenes . Valan ' s name was misspelled as " Valens " in the opening scrawl of " " .