Mofference A Mofference was a secret conference held by the Imperial Central Committee of Grand Moffs in the secluded Mofference room of their Moffship . In 5 ABY , a Mofference was in session while the Moffship orbited the planet Tatooine . Grand Moff Bertroff Hissa chaired the meeting , during which the committee discussed the threat posed to them by a group masquerading as the Prophets of the Dark Side , a cult of the dark side of the Force . The Mofference was interrupted when the starship " Zorba Express " entered the system , as the Grand Moffs were eager to confront the ship ' s Hutt owner . Description . A Mofference was a secret conference of the Central Committee of Grand Moffs , held in the Mofference room of their Moffship . The committee led a faction of the Galactic Empire that contested Director of Imperial Intelligence Ysanne Isard ' s claim to the Imperial throne , and the Moffship was their official space vehicle . The Mofference room was large and secluded . History . In 5 ABY , as the Moffship orbited the planet Tatooine , the Central Committee of Grand Moffs held a Mofference . It was led by Grand Moff Bertroff Hissa , the mastermind of the committee ' s plot to overthrow Isard . Hissa had recently lost his arms and legs in a pool of acid on the planet Duro after being betrayed by an Imperial Intelligence agent masquerading as Jedgar , High Prophet of a dark side cult known as the Prophets of the Dark Side . The Grand Moff accordingly led the meeting from his new hover chair . Another Intelligence agent , himself posing as Supreme Prophet Kadann , had recently made his own claim to the Imperial throne , and several of the Grand Moffs had heard rumors that he intended to disband their committee . During the Mofference , Hissa declared that any supposed Prophet of the Dark Side caught entering the Moffship would be taken hostage . Grand Moffs Dunhausen and Muzzer shared the rumors they had heard , and Grand Moff Thistleborn opined that " Kadann " hated the committee due to their apparent support of Trioculus , a puppet ruler who had claimed to be the son of former Galactic Emperor Palpatine . Trioculus was no longer in power , having recently been frozen in carbonite by one of his enemies , the crime lord Zorba the Hutt . The Mofference was interrupted by the droid MD - 5 , who entered the Mofference room and informed the Grand Moffs that Zorba ' s flagship , the " Zorba Express " , had been spotted in the Tatoo system . The Moffship trapped the " Zorba Express " in a tractor beam , and the committee adjourned the Mofference in order to confront the Hutt . Behind the scenes . The only appearance of a Mofference in a " Star Wars " story is in 1993 ' s " Queen of the Empire " , a young readers ' book written by Paul and Hollace Davids . The book is the fifth volume of an unnamed book series . The meeting in " Queen of the Empire " is not the only gathering of the Central Committee of Grand Moffs that occurs in the series , but it is the only one that the narrative deems a " Mofference " — a portmanteau of the words " Moff " and " conference . " It occurs in the book ' s sixth chapter , which is also called " The Mofference . " The events of the Davids ' series have been perceived as juvenile and criticized by many " Star Wars " fans , and the term " Mofference , " viewed as awful wordplay , has been the recipient of especial mockery yet also celebrated for its silliness by fans and " Star Wars " authors alike . Author Adrick Tolliver maintained a blog on StarWars . com for several years titled " The Mofference is now in session ! " , and a StarWars . com written by Pablo Hidalgo in 2007 that explored various superweapons of the " Star Wars " Expanded Universe humorously asserted that the " Tarkin " superweapon would be less effective were it named the " Grand Mofference Center . " Hidalgo later cited the Mofference as a whimsical and outlandish highlight of the Davids ' series in 2012 ' s " The Essential Reader ' s Companion " . However , Paul Davids revealed in a 2014 interview with Scum and Villainy Radio that the words " Mofference " and " Moffship " were intended to be humorous , in the same vein as Admiral Ackbar from being from the planet " Calamari . " Users of the online " Star Wars " Wookieepedia have named the site ' s periodic community meetings " . " The gatherings are represented by an of a non - Mofference meeting of the Central Committee of Grand Moffs that originally appeared in " The Glove of Darth Vader " — the first volume of the Davids ' series — and traditionally open with a quotation of Hissa uttered during said meeting : " I bid you all Dark Greetings ! "