Wyl Tarson Wyl Tarson was an undercover agent for the Alliance to Restore the Republic who infiltrated the organization of the crime lord Raze . During the course of his employ in Raze ' s organization , Tarson became one of Raze ' s top lieutenants and used his trusted position to transmit useful information to the Alliance — without Raze ' s knowledge . When Raze finally caught Tarson stealing his hard - earned information , Raze had a bomb and transmitter planted in Tarson ' s skull . As further punishment Tarson was sent on what Raze considered to be a suicide mission to the planet Ahakista . Biography . Early life . Wyl Tarson and his brother Ved Tarson were resistance fighters against the Galactic Empire , operating as zone runner s on an unidentified planet in the Outer Rim Territories . Wyl was considerably less confident than his older brother who he looked up to . While he , Ved and an unidentified companion of theirs were attacking a group of Juggernaut s , the unidentified man ' s explosives malfunctioned and threw Wyl in the path of one of the advancing Juggernauts . Ved had survived the explosion and rescued Wyl by throwing one of his satchels into the path of the Juggernaut and shielding Wyl from the explosion . Ved had been knocked off his feet . Not knowing whether Ved was alive or not , Wyl dragged his brother out of the fray . After recovering , Ved told Wyl that the two of them would have to stop the still - advancing Juggernauts and asked Wyl if he was ready to do so . Ved told Wyl that they could succeed only if they did it together . Advising his little brother to stay alive , Ved took off toward the nearest advancing Juggernaut . Wyl , however , was too afraid to follow . When he realized that his little brother was not with him , Ved stopped his run to look for him . In that instant , he was gunned down by stormtroopers while Wyl wept behind his cover and apologized to Ved as he died . Rebel agent . Much later in his life , Wyl became a spy for the Rebel Alliance . In approximately 6 BBY , Tarson infiltrated the crime lord Raze ' s organization and eventually became one of the crime lord ' s top lieutenants . During the next few years , Wyl became friends with Laynara , another of Raze ' s lieutenants . Despite their friendship , he did not tell her that he felt something more for her . Tarson also did not tell her that he was using his position in the organization to undermine it and help the Alliance . Raze ' s business primarily involved the acquisition and selling ( or in some cases exploitation ) of information , and Wyl was one of the people who had the job of sorting the data that poured in from Raze ' s agents across the galaxy . When he came across information regarding vulnerable Imperial convoys , Wyl would covertly transmit it to the Alliance . Raze was furious when this sort of thing happened , since he had designs of his own on the cargo that such convoys were carrying and could not make a profit if someone else captured the cargo . Shortly after one particular instance of this , Wyl learned of ( or rather had it pointed it out to him by Raze himself ) a coded message that had been sent by an Imperial officer named Janek Sunber to Rebel hero Luke Skywalker . Wyl informed Tungo Li , his spymaster , of this development and Tungo Li told him to transmit the message to the Alliance Fleet . Wyl managed to fulfill his task without causing Raze ' s computer systems to find the destination of his transmission . However , the same could not be said for the prospect of him keeping his true allegiance secret from Raze . Prisoner of Raze . After discovering that Wyl was an Alliance spy , Raze had him rendered unconscious and had a bomb implanted inside his skull . In addition to this , a comlink had been planted inside Wyl ' s ear , allowing Raze and him to communicate with each other . More importantly , the comlink gave Raze the ability to detonate the bomb if the need ( or whim ) arose . Shortly after the surgery , Raze woke Wyl and informed him that he had discovered that Wyl was a spy . When Wyl had told him to get it over with and kill him , Raze answered cryptically that " it " had already been done . Later , Wyl woke up in his own bed and put down the earlier experience as a bad dream , but he noticed a new , unexplained , circular scar on the left - hand side of his forehead . Wyl decided that it was time to leave Per Lupelo . On his way to the spaceport , Drybal and a group of Raze ' s enforcers tried to stop him from leaving , but Wyl stunned them and hurried to the ship . But he never made it . In addition to the bomb , an unidentified device that allowed Raze to render him unconscious ( and cause him a lot of pain in the process ) had also been implanted inside his skull . Raze taunted Wyl as Laynara rushed to his side and everything faded to black . After Wyl woke up , Raze informed him about what had been done to him and the " new . . . relationship " that accompanied the bomb . Raze warned Wyl that any insubordination would result in the detonation of the bomb . He was also forbidden from telling anyone else about this new arrangement . Mission to Ahakista . A short time later , Raze sent Wyl on a mission to Ahakista . Raze let on very little about the nature of the mission , except for the fact that Tarson was to meet with an associate of his named Sardoth , who would in turn brief him further . Laynara was also to accompany Wyl to Ahakista and return to Per Lupelo after giving a package to Sardoth . Raze told Wyl that he would need to build a team of people who were " accustomed to infiltrating . . . precarious places " . He allowed Wyl a certain degree of freedom with regard to the formation of this team , since he knew that Wyl was connected to the Alliance . He ominously added that he did not expect any of them to survive . Tarson did not want to expose any agents who were actively working for the Alliance since he felt that this was a problem of his own making , so he chose only to recruit those agents who " the Rebellion doesn ' t want anymore " . Their first stop was the house of Baco Par , who was reputed to be " one of the galaxy ' s best lockbreakers " . When they entered the house , they found Baco passed out and drunk amid bottles and other junk that had accumulated on the floor . Instead of waking Baco up and convincing him to accompany him , Wyl simply kidnapped Baco . He only woke up after they were on their way to their next destination . In two days , they reached it : a defunct Action series transport on a rain - soaked world . After landing , the three of them entered the transport and were greeted by the sight of many wooden carvings and statuettes of a woman and a boy . Even though Wyl knew the identity of the person who had made the transport his home , he appeared to be mystified by the strange sight . Shortly thereafter , the trio was attacked by their unwilling host , who wielded a red lightsaber . As their assailant held the lightsaber to Baco ' s throat , Wyl attempted to disarm him and was almost killed himself , if not for Laynara , who intervened by breaking a statuette of the woman and threatened to break more , unless he was willing to let Tarson talk to him . Wyl then took the opportunity to introduce Laynara and Par to the man , who he identified as Darca Nyl . After an hour of talking and admitting that it would likely be a suicide mission , Tarson failed to convince Nyl to come along . Nyl believed that the Alliance would never have allowed Tarson to lead such a mission . More personally , Nyl did not trust Tarson with his life . Shortly before the three of them left , however , Nyl changed his mind and boarded Tarson ' s freighter and then they were off to Ahakista . However , Nyl saw fit to remind Wyl that he still did not trust him . He planned to kill Tarson if he even had the slightest suspicion that Wyl was betraying him or the others . At the moment that he reverted the freighter from hyperspace , Wyl discovered that Raze had lied to him when he had described Ahakista as " a sleepy little backwater " . In fact , the planet was in the middle of a civil war and the Empire had decided to intervene in the conflict in order to protect the government that it had installed there . As Imperial TIE fighters threatened to turn the freighter into dust , Raze used this opportunity to torment Wyl . He waited until the last second to give Wyl the landing code that would keep the fighters from destroying the freighter . Upon landing at the Daystar Casino Wyl and his group were greeted by Sardoth , the business ' s proprietor . Tarson tried to fish for more details regarding the mission but Sardoth told them that he would apprise them of the details in the morning . After Laynara delivered Raze ' s suitcase , Wyl allowed his suspicions to get the best of him and all but insulted Laynara for her loyalty to Raze . The argument did not end well . Laynara threatened to leave for Raze ' s headquarters the next morning and Raze taunted him about it . Instead of leaving for Per Lupelo , Laynara accompanied Wyl and the rest of his team to the briefing the next morning . Wyl thanked Laynara for not leaving and tried to apologize , but Laynara ' s manner toward him remained cold . When they arrived at the meeting place , Wyl met Rasha Bex , an Imperial officer who was assisting them because she had asked Raze for information regarding the location of an imprisoned smuggler . He also met Dunlan , the leader of the local resistance movement . He then learned that his team ' s target was The Hub , a super computer that was responsible for coordinating the Imperial Fleet . Tarson ' s team was to infiltrate the pyramid which housed The Hub by making their way though the tunnels beneath the it and then cracking a blast door that was guarded by a force field . The force field could only be deactivated if the pyramid ' s power grid was destroyed . According to Sardoth ' s plan this last part was to be handled by Dunlan and his people , who had the weaponry to destroy the power control station from outside the pyramid . Dunlan refused to do this and stormed out of the meeting . Hoping that he could somehow convince Dunlan to change his mind , Wyl followed him . When he finally caught up to Dunlan , Tarson found the other man being threatened by Fenic , one of his followers . Fenic planned to collect the Imperial bounty that had been placed upon Dunlan ' s head and Dunlan encouraged him to do so . In spite of this , Fenic found he could not do this and Wyl ensured that he didn ' t have a change of heart at the last second by disarming and incapacitating him . Though Wyl had just saved Dunlan ' s life , Dunlan made clear to him that he was not going to change his mind . Wyl appeared to have decided that any further attempts to convince Dunlan would be fruitless and instead asked him how he would be willing to sacrifice his own life . Dunlan said that he was able to do so because he believed in the cause that he was fighting for . When he returned to the hovel that served as their meeting place , Wyl came in just as Bex said that she was bailing out on his team . Wyl took exception to this and told Bex in no uncertain terms that she would never see BoShek again if she left . He then announced that they would begin their attack on The Hub immediately . Wyl led Laynara , Baco , Nyl , and Sardoth into the tunnels that led to the Hub . After dispatching of the stormtrooper guards , Sardoth led them through the tunnels , eventually reaching the energy barrier that blocked the path to the door they needed to break through . As they waited for Bex to knock out the shield , Wyl began to despair realizing that whether he faced the Imperials or Raze after the mission , he was in a no - win scenario . Raze , still listening in , decided to give Wyl a painful reminder of his control over him using the implant . As Wyl lay writhing in agony , Laynara tried to reassure him about the mission and admitted that she had implanted the bomb into his head . She promised him that they would find a way out of their mutual debts to Raze together and kissed him , though Raze cut this short , giving Wyl another painful jolt . After Dunlan managed to knock out the energy shield , Wyl , Laynara , and Baco proceeded on to the door leading to The Hub . At this point , Baco drew his blaster on Wyl , the stress of everything he had gone through after Wyl had kidnapped him finally getting to him . Laynara , however , managed to talk Baco down and the lock breaker soon had the doors open . Baco was shot a moment later by arriving Imperial stormtroopers . After Boca made him promise to get The Hub ' s information to the Rebellion , Wyl and Laynara entered the compound and Baco stayed behind , sealing the doors behind them . Wyl and Laynara reached The Hub and Laynara prepped a device that would extract and transmit the data in the computer . At this point , Wyl tried to do the right thing and fulfill his promise to Baco by sending the transmission to the Rebel fleet . Raze , however , had other plans , again using the implant to inflict pain on Wyl . When Laynara threatened not to carry out the mission , Raze ceased the torture . The delay , however , gave the Imperials time to get through the blast door , incapacitating Laynara and surrounding her and Wyl . In spite of Raze ' s urgings , Wyl refused to activate the device that would transmit Raze his precious information , so Raze activated the bomb in Wyl ' s brain . Surprisingly , Wyl woke moments later to see Darth Vader standing over him , having temporarily deactivated the bomb . When Vader threatened to kill Laynara , Wyl surrendered all information he had about Raze as well as all information he had on the Rebellion ' s spy network . Appeased , Vader destroyed Raze ' s bomb and took Wyl into custody . Imperial Service . Vader eventually made use of Tarson ' s connections with the Rebellion to feed the Rebels false information considering a ' secret Imperial weapon ' . In reality , the moon where the weapon was supposed to be abandoned was actually where Vader had marooned Celeste Morne , holder of the Muur Talisman , twenty years before . By providing the Rebels with that information , Tarson allowed Skywalker , Organa , and their team to fall into a trap that Vader hoped would destroy the entire Rebellion .