Red Rishyk Red Rishyk was a captain in the Imperial Military and head of security on Bannistar Station . Biography . Nine months after the Battle of Yavin a battle - damaged ship appeared at Bannistar Station . Using falsified registration codes it joined in the civilian refueling queue . Despite the fact that falsified registration codes were quite common in the region , Rishyk had a bad feeling about the ship and ran a check , discovering that the ship was one of the Rebel Alliance ' s flagships , " Rebel One " . He immediately informed his commander , D ' Vox . D ' Vox ordered the ship to be boarded , but when Imperial ships neared the vessel it overloaded its engines and exploded . D ' Vox predicted to Rishyk that it was all a setup to infiltrate Bannistar Station and not much later he was proven right . D ' Vox ordered his troops to hang back and wait to see how far the rebels would be able to infiltrate the station . Later , Rishyk was present when six of the rebels were held at the command center of the station . He warned that it was dangerous to hold Skywalker and Senator Organa for long without alerting Imperial Center . He proposed to execute the rebels before they could start trouble , as he was unsure how many more rebels had infiltrated the station . One he did know off though , a rebel girl that had eluded capture . He roughly interrogated Luke Skywalker about her whereabouts . Skywalker told him she had probably already escaped the station and had gone for help . Rishyk did not fall for this lie and was ordered by D ' Vox to find the girl . He found Deena Shan desperate and alone at a console and easily managed to disarm her . He informed her that she was expendable and that he would have some fun with her before he would kill her . First he took her bag with detonators away and then tried to torture her , but Deena spat him in the face and in anger he threw her through a glass screen . She appeared wounded , but when Rishyk neared her she stabbed him in the leg with a piece of the broken glass . As he tries to pull it out , Deena picked up her bag of detonators and used one to take out Rishyk ' s accompanying Stormtroopers and fled in the confusion . Angered , Rishyk and some Stormtroopers searched for her , until one Stormtrooper spotted her high up on a walkway of a fuel tank . Deena was forced to climb higher , and Rishyk followed her closely until he managed to corner her on a walkway overlooking the fueling of a Star Destroyer . He informed central command that he had captured Deena again . Suddenly Deena pulled out her last detonator . Rishyk realized that she was trying to blow up the fuel tank and lunged at her . But Deena still managed to drop the detonator and it bounced toward the bottom of the fuel tank . Deena fled and Rishyk was close behind , but he slipped and fell off the walkway , barely managing to hold on . Desperately he cried to Deena for help , but when she reached toward him he tried to pull her over the edge and she kicked him the face , causing him to fall to his death . Personality and traits . Rishyk was a tall and powerful man . Despite Imperial regulations , he kept his hair long and had a beard . He was not in good physical condition , the chase of Deena Shan across Bannistar Station left him out of breath . Rishyk was bored by his regular duties as head of security , he regarded the torture of prisoners as one of his few enjoyments and a way to keep his edge . Revenge was one of his biggest motivations , after being hurt by Deena he stopped at nothing to try and kill her , even when she offered him help after he had slipped of a walkway he tried to pull her down instead .