Mytus Adema Mytus Adema was a human who served the Galactic Empire as a lieutenant in the Citadel Tower on the planet Scarif . An ambitious man who disliked his superior officer , General Sotorus Ramda , Adema hoped to one day make a damning report on the general ' s behavior . Adema was on duty in the Citadel ' s command center in 0 BBY , when Director Orson Krennic of Imperial Advanced Weapons Research arrived to retrieve information on communications made by scientist Galen Erso . Shortly after Krennic ' s arrival , a series of explosions visible from the command center marked the beginning of a Rebel Alliance attack on the Citadel aimed at stealing the plans for the Death Star superweapon . During the fighting , Adema was fooled by false reports of rebel activity on several of the Citadel ' s landing pads but also reported to Krennic the rebels ' genuine attempt to access the tower ' s data vault . Foiling Krennic ' s efforts to stop them , the rebels successfully transmitted the plans to the Alliance Fleet in orbit , before the Death Star itself obliterated the Citadel with a blast from its superlaser . Biography . Krennic arrives . Mytus Adema was a human male lieutenant in the service of the Galactic Empire . In the year 0 BBY , Adema was stationed in the Citadel Tower on the planet Scarif under the command of General Sotorus Ramda . He was present in the Citadel ' s command center when Director Orson Krennic of the Empire ' s Advanced Weapons Research division arrived there to retrieve from the facility ' s archives all recorded correspondence ever sent by Imperial scientist Galen Erso . Krennic ' s order caused Adema and every other officer in the room , save Ramda , to flinch due to the sheer number of records involved . As Krennic waited for the correspondence to be delivered , a series of distant explosions visible from the command center were set off by a team of Rebel Alliance soldiers that had infiltrated Scarif ' s defenses in order to steal the plans for the Death Star superweapon from the Citadel . Adema and the other Imperials in the command center watched in shocked silence through the room ' s viewport until Krennic yelled at them to mobilize the Citadel ' s stormtrooper garrison and respond to the attack . The battle begins . As fighting broke out between the rebel and Imperial forces around the Citadel , Adema began receiving requests for help and anomalous reports of large numbers of rebel attackers sighted at several of the Citadel ' s landing pads . Some of these reports were genuine , but others , including those from Pad Two and Pad Five , were false attempts by defected Imperial pilot Bodhi Rook and fellow rebel Corporal Stordan Tonc from aboard the stolen Imperial cargo shuttle SW - 0608 on pad nine to distract the Imperial forces . Adema fell for the ruse and , after asking for confirmation from Pads Twelve , Ten , and Eight , ordered that men be sent to Pad Five , where no rebels were actually fighting . Shortly after being fooled , Adema received a report of unauthorized access in the Citadel ' s data vault , as a three - person rebel team had sneaked inside the tower to find the Death Star plans while the battle raged outside as a diversion . Adema immediately reported the new development to Krennic , who was reading through the Galen Erso correspondences he had received so far . Krennic quickly worked out what was happening and left to confront the rebels in the vault with two death trooper s . In an attempt to prevent the battle station ' s plans from falling into rebel hands , the Empire destroyed the Citadel soon after with the Death Star ' s superlaser . Nevertheless , the rebels on the ground succeeded in transmitting the stolen plans from the planet ' s surface to the Alliance Fleet in orbit prior to their death s , ultimately allowing the Rebel Alliance to destroy the Death Star during the Battle of Yavin . Personality and traits . Mytus Adema was a purposeful and unusually ambitious young officer who disdained General Ramda ' s command of the Citadel Tower as overconfident and lazy . Adema watched his commanding officer ' s actions closely in the hopes of one day being able to provide a damning report on the general , thus supplanting him in the eye s of Director Krennic . Adema considered the Death Star a welcome and potent symbol of Imperial might that should be respected . When reporting the unauthorized access of the Citadel ' s data vault to Krennic , Adema ' s head twitched to the side , seeking support from other officers in the control center , but he received none . Adema had light skin , green eyes , and brown hair . Equipment . While on duty at the Citadel Tower , Adema wore a standard gaberwool Imperial officer ' s uniform , including a cap . He carried a private datapad in a shockproof case on his belt and wore a code cylinder and a rank insignia plaque on his breast . The plaque showed two red squares and one blue . Behind the scenes . Lieutenant Adema first appeared in the film " " , in which he was played by Jack Roth . The character ' s name was listed in the film ' s credits despite never being spoken in the film itself . Adema ' s first name , Mytus , was then revealed in " " , a reference book written by Pablo Hidalgo and published the same day as the film ' s release , December 16 , 2016 . The film ' s , written by Alexander Freed , includes additional lines of dialogue for Adema when he speaks with Director Krennic that are not present in the film .