Toos Toos was a male individual who served as an ensign aboard the Galactic Empire ' s first Death Star battle station . In 0 BBY , he was on duty in Station Control West with Sublieutenant Slallen when the YT - 1300 light freighter " Millennium Falcon " was brought into the Death Star ' s Docking Bay 327 , and the pair argued about the quality of the vessel . When their commanding officer , Station commander Pamel Poul , demanded they have the bay cleared , Slallen informed her that they could not until the scanning crew checking the freighter was finished . Poul then ended her shift and handed over control of the room to Commander Sheard , but before she could leave , alarms went off , which Slallen and Toos informed both commanders was due to the sensor s and camera s having gone down in Detention Block AA - 23 . On Poul ' s orders , Toos tried to get in contact with the detention block , whose staff had been taken out by the " Millennium Falcon " crew members during their mission to rescue the Rebel Alliance prisoner Prince ss Leia Organa . The " Falcon " captain , Han Solo , responded to Toos ' s call and tried unsuccessfully to convince him that everything was fine , but Poul ordered Toos to send a squad into the detention block after Solo blasted the comm unit in panic . Biography . Fascination with the " Falcon " . Toos was a male who served the Galactic Empire as an ensign aboard the first Death Star battle station . In the year 0 BBY , Toos was posted in Station Control West and was on shift under the command of Station commander Pamel Poul when the YT - 1300 light freighter known as the " Millennium Falcon " was brought aboard by tractor beam . The freighter was forced to land in Docking Bay 327 , which was under the jurisdiction of Toos ' s station , resulting in all traffic scheduled for that bay being diverted to Docking Bays 328 and 329 . Toos sat at a monitoring station control console next to Sublieutenant Slallen , and the pair argued about the quality of the YT - 1300 until Poul approached them to discover why Docking Bay 327 was causing a seven - minute delay . Slallen explained that she and Toos could not clear the dock , as a scanning crew under the command of Captain Edmos Khurgee was still searching the " Millennium Falcon " . Poul ' s shift replacement , Commander Sheard , then arrived , and Poul told Toos and Slallen to report to him when Khurgee was finished . Sheard approached and ordered Toos to bring up the " Falcon " on the main screen . The commanders then spoke with Slallen about her brother , a naval architect whom Toos also knew . An alarming situation . An alarm began chirping on Toos ' s control console , causing him to frown and begin cycling through a series of switches while peering at his monitor . When Poul asked what was wrong , Toos began turning a dial to switch through surveillance frequencies but found only screen after screen of static . Slallen then reported that an alarm was going off in Detention Block AA - 23 and all sensor s there were down , to which Toos added that the camera s in the block were down as well . Unbeknownst to Toos and his colleagues , the crew of the " Falcon " had incapacitated the staff of the detention block and destroyed the sensors while trying to rescue Prince ss Leia Organa of the Rebel Alliance , who was imprisoned there . On Poul ' s orders , Toos tried to get in contact with the detention block , but , as the block held political prisoner s , it had secure comms , so they had to wait for someone to answer . A boring conversation . When the comm chimed , Toos open his mouth to speak but was cut off by Han Solo , captain of the " Millennium Falcon " . Impersonating an Imperial , Solo tried to persuade Toos that there was nothing going awry in the detention block , claiming that they had simply suffered a weapons malfunction . Toos looked to Slallen and on her signal warned Solo that they were sending in a squad ; however , Solo quickly claimed there was a reactor leak and that , therefore , no one should be sent . Suspicious , Sheard asked to know who was the officer on duty in the detention block , and Poul answered that it should be Lieutenant Shann Childsen . Toos knew that the voice speaking to him was not that of Childsen and asked for Solo ' s operating number . Panicking , Solo ended the conversation by blasting the comm , wryly dismissing their " boring conversation . " Poul ordered Toos to perform a systems check , and , when he and Slallen reported that there was no reactor leak , Poul ordered the security squad sent in and that Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin be contacted about the situation . Tarkin had the battle station put on full alert , but the crew of the " Falcon " managed to escape the Death Star with Organa . Soon after , the station was destroyed during a battle with the Rebel Alliance above the moon of Yavin 4 . Personality and traits . Toos considered the YT - 1300 line of light freighter s to be classics and was shocked when he heard Sublieutenant Slallen disparage one , clicking his tongue in disappointment . Behind the scenes . Toos first appears in the new " Star Wars " canon in the 1977 film as the comm voice speaking to Han Solo during the shootout in Detention Block AA - 23 . The character was not named in the film , and the accompanying voice actor went uncredited . Toos first received a name in the 2017 short story " End of Watch , " which was written by Adam Christopher and released as part of the " From a Certain Point of View " anthology book . In " Star Wars " Legends , Toos ' s dialogue appeared prior to " A New Hope " , in the 1976 of the film , written by Alan Dean Foster .