End of Watch " End of Watch " is a short story in the anthology " From a Certain Point of View " . The story was written by Adam Christopher and was narrated in the audiobook edition by Janina Gavankar . Plot summary . " End of Watch " is told from the point of view of Commander Pamel Poul , an administrative Imperial officer in charge of the Death Star ' s Station Control West , one of the four circular control rooms responsible for managing the Death Star . She takes pride in the fact that hundreds of thousands of station crew in her hemisphere depended on her constant vigilance . Commander Poul was on duty during the time of Luke Skywalker , Obi - Wan Kenobi , Han Solo , Chewbacca , C - 3PO , and R2 - D2 ' s fateful mission to rescue Prince ss Leia Organa . Two of Poul ' s subordinates are Sublieutenant Slallen and Ensign Toos , who are arguing about a YT - 1300 light freighter docking at Docking Bay 327 , which is messing up the starship traffic on the Death Star . Poul instructs them to get the docking bay cleared by Slallen explains that they have not heard from Captain Edmos Khurgee ' s scanning crew aboard the freighter . Poul tells the junior officer s to continue monitoring and to inform her when Captain Khurgee is finished . At that point , her shift replacement Commander Sheard arrives and Poul places him in charge . Poul then briefs Sheard about the events of the last shift including the status of the " mystery freighter " holding up the schedule in Docking Bay 327 . Commander Sheard asks Toos to show him the ship , which Poul recognizes as an old YT - 1300 light freighter . Poul can ' t believe the ageing freighter is still flying but notices anomalies including an abnormally large sensor dish and an unlicensed quad laser cannon . Poul is curious about the mysterious ship and asks Sublieutenant Slallen about his brother , who was a naval architect stationed at a classified operation on Scarif . Slallen tells Poul that he has not heard from his brother in four weeks . While aware that the Death Star had just visited Scarif three days ago , Poul was unaware about the nature of the station ' s second test . Shortly later , Poul and the others hear an alarm from Detention Block AA - 23 on level 5 . Poul takes charge of the Imperial response and asks Ensign Toos to put her through to the detention block , which is reserved for political prisoner s . When Toos contacts the detention block over the comm channel , Han Solo pretends to be an Imperial officer and claims that there was a slight weapons malfunction but that everything is under control . Toos informs Solo they are sending a squad but Solo claims that they are trying to fix a reactor leak . When Sheard asks who is the duty officer , Poul checks on her datapad that it was Lieutenant Shann Childsen . Toos realizes that the impostor is not Childsen and demands his operating number . Solo then blasts the comm . After Toos is unable to reestablish contact , Slallen advises Commander Poul to send a squad . She tells them to keep them on standby due to the alleged reactor leak . Toos checks that the detention block ' s power systems are normal . Poul gives orders to send in a squad of stormtrooper s and tells Slallen to contact Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin . However , Tarkin is currently in conference . Commander Sheard then walks to the command dais and and sends a priority red request to the Grand Moff . Poul watches as Commander Sheard reports that there is an emergency alert in Detention Block AA - 23 . When Tarkin remarks the Princess and gives orders to put all sections on alert , Darth Vader then replies that Obi - Wan is here and the Force is with him . Poul recognizes Vader as Tarkin ' s adviser and enforcer and notices that the entire control room has gone quiet . After issuing orders for a squad of stormtroopers to be dispatched to the detention block , Poul exits her shift and delegates control to Commander Shead . As she heads to the shower , Poul tries to suppress her growing sense of unease around the old freighter , detention block , and Tarkin . However , she decides that it is not her problem and decides to let Shead handle it since he is on duty for the next twelve hours .