Burque Burque was a male human who served as a captain in the Imperial Navy . He commanded the " Venator " - class Star Destroyer " Electrum " while it was loaned from a deepdock at the planet Ryloth to an Imperial construction project called Sentinel Base . When Sentinel Base was sent a fake call for aid from the space station Rampart Station , Governor Wilhuff Tarkin realized it was a trick and ordered Burque to take the " Electrum " to the edge of the system where Sentinel Base was built instead of sending it to Rampart . This allowed the " Electrum " to quickly return when a warship controlled by a rebel cell attacked Sentinel Base ; however , Burque was not able to disable the ship before it fled . Biography . Burque was a male human who served the Galactic Empire ' s Imperial Navy as captain of the " Venator " - class Star Destroyer " Electrum " . Around five years after the Empire ' s formation , his vessel was loaned from a deepdock above the planet Ryloth to Sentinel Base , an Imperial facility commanded by Governor Wilhuff Tarkin which was secretly overseeing the construction of a superweapon known as the Death Star for the Empire . While his ship was stationed at the base , Tarkin and his men received a distress call from Rampart Station , a space station which acted a marshaling depot for ships carrying supplies for the Death Star . Tarkin suspected that the feed from Rampart was a fake , and gave orders to Burque via a holoprojector , ordering him to keep the coordinates for a jump to Rampart Station ready , but to only jump the " Electrum " to the edge of the star system they were currently in and find concealment there if possible . Burque followed orders and move the " Electrum " , moments before Tarkin was proved correct when a warship made from a number of Clone Wars - era Separatist vessels arrived in the system and released a number of droid tri - fighter s and vulture droids . Tarkin ordered Burque to bring the " Electrum " back to Sentinel Base to engage the vessel , as the starfighter s attacked the Imperial facility . The Captain complied , jumping through hyperspace and receiving orders to disable the warship once he arrived . Burque sent out his vessel ' s TIE / ln space superiority starfighter s to attack , but before the " Electrum " could fire a disabling shot the warship fled the system . Annoyed , Tarkin ordered Burque to collect up debris from the battle including several of the droid fighters , but warned the Captain that the enemy ships might be rigged to explode . The " Electurm ' s " salvage team successfully recovered one vulture droid whose self - destruct mechanism had been damaged , and delivered it to the base for analysis . Tarkin later discovered that a rebel cell that had become aware of the Death Star ' s construction had been behind the attack and had them executed . Personality and traits . Burque was a tall and gangly man with a strong jaw , which was lined with a well clipped brown beard . He was confused when Tarkin ordered him to jump to the edge of the system containing Sentinel Base instead of jumping to aid Rampart Station , but followed the orders none the less . Behind the scenes . Burque first appeared , albeit only as a hologram , in the novel " Tarkin " , which was written by James Luceno and published in 2015 .