Alton Kastle Alton Kastle was a human male journalist who worked as a broadcaster on HoloNet News on the planet Lothal . As a broadcast journalist , he helped spread propaganda for the Galactic Empire , including propaganda about Wookiee s and local unemployment rates . The Leonis family sometimes watched news broadcasts by Alton Kastle . While Leo Leonis believed the Imperial line , both Zare Leonis and Tepha Leonis came to learn that Kastle was a stooge who often delivered news that was either carefully manicured truth or entirely fictitious . Biography . Imperial propagandist . Alton Kastle was an Imperial broadcaster who was based on the planet Lothal during the Age of the Empire . In 6 BBY , he reported on the Westhills massacre . Kastle claimed that insurgents had destroyed mining equipment and attacked Imperial surveyors in the Westhills , forcing the Empire to send in troop s to restore order . In truth , Imperial forces under Lieutenant Piers Roddance had opened fire on a sit - in demonstration by disaffected farmer s who had lost their lands to an Imperial mining project . Zare Leonis and his friend Beck Ollet knew the truth but did not tell his parent s , who accepted Kastle ' s account . Between 5 BBY and 4 BBY , Kastle served as a newscaster for several Imperial HoloNet News reports including Lothal ' s new Imperial Registration Program , the suppression of a Wookiee revolt on Kashyyyk , reduced unemployment rates , the Empire ' s new affordable housing program , and a ban on unauthorized mining . While many Imperial citizens on Lothal like Leo Leonis accepted Kastle ' s reports , others like Leo ' s wife Tepha Leonis and son Zare regarded his reports as carefully manicured truths or fabricated propaganda designed to portray the Empire in a positive light . Combating the Spectres . After the Spectres rebels Ezra Bridger and Garazeb Orrelios attacked an Imperial Troop Transport and rescued Imperial prisoner s including Morad Sumar , Marida Sumar and their Aqualish servant , Kastle issued a spin report claiming that the rebels had attacked innocent workers . Kastle ' s HoloNet transmission was then hacked by a broadcast from the rogue Senator Gall Trayvis claiming that the Jedi Master Luminara Unduli was being imprisoned on Stygeon Prime . On the fourteenth anniversary of Empire Day , Kastle delivered a news report announcing that the holiday was commemorating Emperor Palpatine ' s creation of the the Empire . His broadcast was hacked by a transmission by Trayvis calling on Lothalians to boycott the annual Empire Day celebrations . Later , Kastle delivered another news broadcast deriding the Lothal City Capitol Building in Lothal ' s Capital City as a bygone relic . This was quickly shadowed by a coded transmission from Trayvis instructing the Spectres to meet him at the Old Republic Senate Hall . Unknown to the Specters , Trayvis was an undercover agent provocateur working with the Empire to root out and destroy rebel operatives . The rebels narrowly escaped a trap set by the Imperial Security Bureau Agent Kallus and the Minister Maketh Tua , who were acting under orders from Governor Arihnda Pryce . After the Spectres escaped the Imperial trap , Kastle hosted an interview with Trayvis , who publicly rededicated himself to serving the Empire . Trayvis also denounced the Spectres as violent extremists who had appropriated his message and placed a bounty on them . In response , the Spectres devised a plan to hijack the Imperial Communications Center near Jalath to give their side of the story . During the Siege of Lothal , Kastle gave a news report claiming that the Spectres had assassin ated Tua . In reality , the Spectres had been trying to help Tua escape and Kallus had bombed her shuttle and framed the rebels . The rebellion . In 2 BBY , Alton Kastle delivered a news broadcast denouncing the former senator Mon Mothma for her allegedly treason ous speech condemning the Emperor Palpatine ' s complicity in the Ghorman Massacre . This broadcast was picked up by the Spectres , whose ship " Ghost " was in deep space . Shortly later , the Spectres , who were now part of Phoenix Cell , helped escort the rogue senator through the Archeon Nebula to the planet Dantooine . Following the death of Kanan Jarrus in 1 BBY , Alton Kastle issued a propaganda broadcast claiming that the rebellion on Lothal was lost with the death of their leadership . He then announced that Governor Pryce had organized a parade to commemorate the Imperial leadership ' s efforts to defeat the " extremists " and that all citizens were required to attend the parade . Galactic Civil War . A few months after the Battle of Yavin , Kastle delivered a broadcast reporting on the apparent treason of Imperial Captain Iden Versio , who made disparaging remarks regarding the Death Star and the Galactic Empire as a whole . In reality , Versio ' s comments were part of a ruse to embed herself into the ranks of a Partisan cell calling themselves the Dreamers . Personality and traits . Alton Kastle was a human male broadcaster who lived during the Age of the Empire . He was known for his impeccable dress and familiar , comforting voice . While Kastle was popular with many pro - Imperial citizens , dissenters like Zare Leonis regarded him as an Imperial stooge who distorted the truth and made up lies . Kastle was a staunch Imperial loyalist and regularly denounced the rebels as criminals and traitors . Equipment . Because of his affiliation , Kastle wore a gray - blue variant of the Imperial uniform , complete with black boot s , belt and glove s . However , he wore an Imperial media badge rather than a military rank plaque , had a Holonet News patch under the left shoulder , and carried two code cylinder s on the left side of the chest . Alton Kastle was noted for being impeccably dressed . Behind the scenes . Alton Kastle ' s voice first appeared in 2014 , in the HoloNet News tie - ins to " Star Wars Rebels " . Alton Kastle was misidentified as Alston Kastle on two occasions in the young readers novel " " that was released in October 2014 . He was voiced by Steve Blum , who also voiced the rebel character Garazeb Orrelios .