Atton Repness Atton Repness was a New Republic training officer who specialized in remedial pilot training but also abused his position to run a black market ring . He was eventually caught by the New Republic when pilot trainee Lara Notsil anonymously provided them with evidence she gathered against him . History . Atton Repness was trained on the low - gravity world of Vogel 7 and he walked with a slight limp . His career in the New Republic eventually drifted to the training of the worst pilot candidates . Students who transferred to his remedial group would sometimes have their scores altered by Repness , particularly those desperate to be pilots . Most of these pilots would have been washed out of the program but Repness worked " wonders " with them and thus had a high success rate . They were essentially blackmailed into helping him steal starfighters . These pilots were generally desperate enough to go along with his plans and because they were of poorer quality , they died in battle faster thus covering his crimes double - fold . Few pilots refused him but Tyria Sarkin did and he was astonished . He begged her to give him a day to put his affairs in order which she agreed to whereby he worked up a psychological profile establishing her as a pathological liar and claimed that she made sexual advances towards him . He also showed her that her true testing scores were way below what she thought they were . Sarkin received a mark for gross insubordination and graduated bottom of her class . Owing to his test score manipulation , Repness was promoted from Major to Colonel . He was an ambitious officer and often volunteered for extra duties including duty officer on Coruscant and given command of the training frigate Tedevium . He was the duty officer debriefing Wraith Squadron when Warlord Zsinj attempted a fake ambush on the group while on leave but Garik Loran saw through the trap . Ton Phanan , who was also being debriefed and knew Tyria Sarkin ' s secret , decided upon a plan to expose the Colonel ' s shady dealings . After some cajoling , Phanan and Garik Loran managed to convince the Aldivian farm girl Lara Notsil — who was actually Imperial intelligence agent Gara Petothel in disguise — to enter the New Republic pilot training program . Their plan was to have her appear struggling in need of help with her scores , fitting the stereotype Repness favored in his dealings . This she did and , true to form , he made his customary proposition . The plan was to set off an ion - bomb in the atmosphere of a planet to simulate an accidental explosion but the ship would be diverted to a secret landing site . Being trained by Imperial Intelligence , Petothel had already broken into his quarters and downloaded all the information pertaining to his black - market ring . She also took apart his bug - neutralizing device and turned it into a recorder . It turned out that Repness had gotten extremely paranoid as the years went on and often used his jammer . This paranoia extended to mumbling to himself as he worked and he revealed all of his passwords . Instead of going through with the plan , Petothel forwarded all the information about Repness to General Airen Cracken anonymously so she could not be labeled with the status of a traitor and would be able to join Rogue Squadron or Wraith Squadron . With the trap set , she confronted Repness in his office and announced her intention to expose the colonel . Repness retorted that she wouldn ' t get the chance as he was going to write a new psychological profile about her and that nobody would believe her . He then struck Petothel very hard , very fast . She was rendered unconscious and he administered a sedative , knocking her out for three days . However , Cracken was alerted , and she was found and soon recovered . Repness ' dealings were successfully exposed and he was arrested . Repness had a fondness for requisitioning the latest equipment . At the time of his arrest , he had just been given a brand new X - wing and a factory new astromech which were given to " Notsil " who renamed the droid " Tonin " ( meaning " little Atton " ) as a stab at the disgraced officer . She was admitted to Wraith Squadron soon after . When Petothel left the squadron to join Zsinj some time later , she described her X - wing and droid as a souvenir of a personal victory over " a vehement idiot named Repness " .