Imperial Intelligence Imperial Intelligence , also known as Military Intelligence ( MI ) , was an espionage organization of the Galactic Empire that provided services to the Imperial Military , the Joint Chiefs , and Emperor Sheev Palpatine . It had oversight of the operations of the Naval Intelligence Agency which was briefly made its own separate organization before being folded back under Imperial Intelligence . The Imperial Security Bureau was a sister agency and rival to Imperial Intelligence over resources , abilities , and areas of responsibility . Description . Imperial Intelligence was the espionage service of the Imperial Military of the Galactic Empire . Imperial Intelligence focused on issues regarding the Imperial Navy such as threat reports , analysis , managing assets who gathered information , and providing briefings to the Joint Chiefs and Emperor Sheev Palpatine . Imperial Intelligence ' s specific purview meant that it had to refer other intelligence matters to the Imperial Security Bureau causing friction between the two organizations . A part of Imperial Intelligence , the Naval Intelligence Agency was briefly made its own separate organization , though it continued to be referred to as " Military Intelligence , " before being folded back under Imperial Intelligence . The death trooper s , who wore a specialized stormtrooper armor with a dark gleam , were the elite soldier s of Imperial Intelligence . Another branch of Imperial Intelligence was the Imperial Information Office , whose personnel wore AJ ^ 6 cyborg construct s , brain implants which could connect to computer s and download information , to increase efficiency . Imperial Intelligence ' s resources including IGV - 55 surveillance vessel s , which were used to monitor communications and scan data for signs of rebel activity and sedition . History . Origins . Imperial Intelligence was organized out of Republic Intelligence after the transformation of the Republic into the Empire at the end of the Clone Wars . Although their missions differed slightly , there was a rivalry between the Intelligence and the Imperial Security Bureau , a sub - agency of COMPNOR . Intelligence agent s often derided the Security Bureau ' s obsession over treason . A common joke among them was that it took two ISB agents to change a lightbulb : one to remove it , and another to accuse the first of disloyalty . One day after the formation of the Empire , Imperial Intelligence arrested 63 senator s on charges of conspiracy and treason . Several senators were part of the Delegation of 2 , 000 , a group of senators who attempted to limit Palpatine ' s growing political power . Berch Teller ' s campaign . Five years later , when Governor Tarkin and Darth Vader visited Murkhana on an investigative mission , former Republic Intelligence officer Berch Teller and a few of his accomplices , including Anora Fair , hijacked Tarkin ' s vessel , the " Carrion Spike " . They killed the ship ' s captain and comms officer , along with two stormtrooper s , before taking off . The Imperials forced a local Sugi crime lord to give up his ship to them , and attempted to stop the captured " Spike " . However , Teller and his crew got away . After the successful hijacking , the insurgents of the " Carrion Spike " went on a campaign of destruction against various Imperial targets , such as Galidraan Station . Imperial Intelligence attempted to track and analysis their activities in order to capture them . The hijacker ' s information , however , was supplied to them by Vice Admiral Dodd Rancit , the Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence Agency . However , Rancit was revealed as a traitor and executed on Vader ' s orders . He was replaced by Wullf Yularen and Naval Intelligence was brought back under Imperial Intelligence . Fighting the Rebellion . On Empire Day in 4 BBY , the Rodian Imperial Information Office employee Tseebo fled into hiding with invaluable data on the new TIEs and walker s , schedules of troop movements , tactics , strategies , and a five year plan for the planet Lothal and every other world in the Outer Rim Territories . Tseebo escaped offworld into hiding with the help of the Spectres rebel cell . In 2 BBY , Imperial Controller LT - 319 and the crew of his IGV - 55 surveillance vessel embarked on ambitious scheme to hijack the Spectres ' C1 - series astromech droid Chopper and use him to obtain intelligence on the Phoenix Cell ' s hidden base . However , they were defeated by Chopper ' s rebel comrades and the former Imperial RA - 7 protocol droid AP - 5 . Chopper ' s master Hera Syndulla retaliated by transmitting back the data feed to LT - 319 ' s ship , creating a data surge that destroyed the vessel and all hands aboard . In 1 BBY , a squad of death trooper s led by DT - F16 was tasked with guarding a kyber crystal being transport ed aboard Freighter 2716 to the Tonnis sector for the secret Death Star project . Several of DT - F16 ' s troopers were killed by the Partisan leader Saw Gerrera and the Spectres Sabine Wren and Ezra Bridger . DT - F16 survived and took over the defense of the ship . After Gerrera destabilized the crystal , DT - F16 and the ship ' s stormtroopers tried to flee aboard a " Lambda " - class shuttle but the Spectres managed to escape with several liberated civilian technician s and engineer s . DT - F16 was killed along with the Imperials aboard Freighter 2716 and Captain Slavin ' s Imperial Star Destroyer . During the final construction stages of the first Death Star , Director Orson Callan Krennic was accompanied by a squad of death troopers , who served as his personal bodyguard . Under Krennic ' s orders , these death troopers executed several scientist s to punish their team leader Galen Walton Erso for conspiring with the Rebel Alliance . Later , these troopers fought rebel ground forces and perished during the Battle of Scarif .