Nieve Gromia Nieve Gromia was a female Human Moff who had been placed in charge of the Arkanis sector and tasked to eliminate the pirates preying on Imperial shipments during the Second Imperial Civil War . Biography . Originally holding a high - level post on Coruscant , the capital world of the Empire , Nieve Gromia was assigned as the Moff of the Arkanis sector following a corruption scandal that involved her staff . She avoided arrest by placing the blame on a subordinate officer who , conveniently enough for Gromia , had apparently committed suicide . However , Gromia came to resent being sent to such a backwater position and blamed fellow Moff Nyna Calixte , whom she considered had sent her to Tatooine to further her own career . After a series of failures on Gromia ' s part to stop the constant pirate attacks from Black Sun to Imperial convoys , Director of Imperial Intelligence Calixte informed Gromia that she was sending two agents to help her deal with the threat . The agents turned out to be Calixte ' s own daughter Gunn Yage and Morrigan Corde . Yage arrived first on Imperial Station Bravo , Gromia ' s headquarters and the former palace of Gardulla the Hutt . There Yage was briefed by Gromia that the person responsible for the attacks was going by the name of Luke Skywalker , in which Yage informed Gromia that the true culprit was Cade Skywalker , not Luke . Afterward , Moff Gromia provided Yage with civilian clothings and a X - 34 landspeeder to aid in her infiltration of Mos Eisley . Soon after the meeting , Gromia retired to her living quarters where she contacted the Black Sun Vigo Lun Rask , whom she secretly had an arrangement with . Together they plotted to kill Cade and Yage on Tatooine , with Rask supplying three assassins ; a Blood Carver named Ku Vrat , and an Anzati married couple named Sint and Nakia Yoru . Skywalker and Yage , however , managed to defeat all three assassins and rendezvous with Agent Corde . Corde informed Yage of Gromia ' s former charges and sent back to Gromia ' s quarters . Yage tried to take Gromia under arrest , and Gromia revealed that she gathered proof that Morrigan Corde and Nyna Calixte were the same person , though Yage did not believe her . Unwilling to go to prison , Gromia killed herself by accident during the confrontation with Yage . With her last breath , she urged agent Yage to use the information to ruin her mother . Personality and traits . Unlike other Moffs and Imperial officers who served the Empire out of a sense of tradition or loyalty to its ideals of order , Nieve Gromia sought her personal benefit above all else . Some of her peers suspected she had a subordinate eliminated and used as a scapegoat when faced with a corruption scandal . Bitter about being relegated to a desolate place as Tatooine , she gathered information about Nyna Calixte in an effort to exact revenge and ruin her career . Likewise , resentful against the Empire itself , she had no qualms about aiding the criminals and pirates of Black Sun in order to increase her wealth . Like several of her fellow Moffs , Gromia was adept at manipulation and backstabbing , going as far as plotting assassinations to further her personal agendas . Gromia also had expensive tastes , enjoying luxuries such as fountains and statues as well as exotic birds and plants , all of which she kept in her private rooms within Station Bravo . Behind the scenes . According to artist Jan Duursema , Gromia ' s first name , Nieve , is for " snow " which is " descriptive of her cold personality . "