Tracene Kane Tracene Kane was a female human who worked as a journalist on Chandrila during the Galactic Civil War . She was close friends with her cameraman , a Trandoshan named Lug , who perished during a battle at Binjai - Tin on the planet Nag Ubdur in 5 ABY . Tracene and her new Sullustan colleague Birt later recorded Chancellor Mon Mothma ' s press statement regarding the discovery of Imperial forces on Jakku prior to the Battle of Jakku . Biography . Dawn of the New Republic . Tracene Kane was a female human journalist who lived during the Age of the Empire and the rise of the New Republic . Following the Battle of Endor , Kane joined the Queen of the Core Network , a HoloNet news network that had emerged with the rise of the New Republic . She and her colleague , the Trandoshan cameraman Lug , interviewed Olia Choko , the public relations representative for Chancellor Mon Mothma and the new Galactic Senate , which was then based on Chandrila ' s Hanna City . Prior to the interview , Kane assured Olia that she would trend well because she was pretty and an alien . Choko then got Kane and Lug to position their camera behind Hanna City ' s cityscape and the stormtrooper helmet exhibit in the city circle . After Lug had positioned the camera , Kane commenced the new story with the announcement that this was the first day of the Queen of the Core Network . During the interview , Choko was struck in the face by a Xan man named Geeska Dotalo , who expressed frustration at the chaos , crime and famine caused by the fighting between the New Republic and the Galactic Empire on his homeworld of Gan Moradir . When Kane told Lug to cut the filming , Choko told them to continue shooting the altercation . After listening to Dotalo ' s plight , Kane offered him a position as Gan Moradir ' s representative in the Galactic Senate and fetched another New Republic official to attend to Dotalo ' s needs . Kane and Lug continued filming as Choko confronted the New Republic Corporal Camerand Argell and chastised him for parading Imperial prisoners of war . She forced Agrell and his commanding officer , Commander Rohr , to end the humiliating parade . Kane commended Choko for her work and then proceeded to ask whether the protestor , the orphans , and the parade of prisoners were danger signs for the nascent New Republic . Choko responded that the New Republic was a democracy and that they would try to get things right . Unlike the Empire which valued order over everything else , Choko reiterated that the New Republic was committed to the greater good . Choko then joined a procession of New Republic senators marching towards the old Chandrila Senate house . After Choko bid Kane farewell , Kane jokingly told Choko to " knock ' em dead . " War correspondent . Tracene Kane and Lug were later embedded with the New Republic Thirty - First , which was involved in the fighting at the city of Binjai - Tin on the planet Nag Ubdur in 5 ABY . Kane covered a mouth with a white cloth due to the stench of rotting bodies . Lug , whose species were accomplished hunters and warriors , was unperturbed by the carnage . The two worked with a cam droid to film a collapsed wall . When Kane asked Lug to look for someone to interview , the Trandoshan recommended Commander Norwich but Kane suggested a common soldier . When Kane asked Lug about her hair and said that she was going for a battle - frizzled look , he reassured her that it was fine . About ten klicks away lay Imperial forces . Lug soon returned with a young Kupohan New Republic soldier named Private Rorith Khadur . Khadur recounted the fighting at Govneh Ridge and described how he and his men had discovered that Imperial forces had massacred the population of the Ubdurian city of Binjai - Tin . Kane watch Lug comfort the soldier and give him a zlagfiend tooth as a token . Kane and Lug then proceeded to upload their story on a nearby guild tower . However , the embattled Imperial forces launched a TIE fighter suicide attack on the New Republic positions . Khadur lost one of his arms during the fighting while Lug was crushed to death by a stricken TIE fighter . Kane was distraught by the death of her friend and gave a broadcast in his honor . Prelude to Jakku . After Temmin Wexley and Sinjir Rath Velus reported that the Empire had relocated to the Inner Rim world of Jakku , Tracene Kane and the Sullustan cam - operator Birt met for an exclusive interview with Chancellor Mothma . Before Mon Mothma issued her press statement , she took the time to chat with Miss Kane . When Kane told the Chancellor that she had been out in the field covering the war , Mothma asked why she had returned to cover politics . Kane replied that she could not look at war any longer . Mon agreed and remarked that war could seem like a present dream after looking too long into the abyssal eye of the political machine . While Birt operated the hovering cam , Tracene listened as Mothma read her prepared statement . Mothma announced that she had yesterday learnt about the possibility that the Empire had retreated to Jakku . She also announced that the New Republic military had sent a scout ship " Oculus " under the command of Ensign Ardin Deltura and probe droid s to investigate the Imperial presence . Mothma also mentioned that she was aware of the information leakage . The Chancellor then ended her speech by announcing that she had convened an emergency session of the Galactic Senate to mobilize the New Republic military . Following Mothma ' s press statement , Tracene assured the Chancellor that she did fine . She also denied that Mothma sounded apprehensive . When Kane asked whether it was hard to be under siege from every direction , Mothma responded that the New Republic would persevere like the Rebel Alliance before them . Personality and traits . Tracene Kane was a tall , thin human woman with long dark hair coiffed up like a wave . She wore a necklace around her neck that resembled a flock of birds chained together . She had a broad , practiced smile . Kane had a good sense of humor and respected Olia Choko , for her selfless service to the New Republic and the greater good . Kane took good care of her hair and at one point wanted to give it a " battle - frizzled look . " She was a close friend of the Trandoshan cam - operator Lug and was visibly distraught when he died while covering a battle on Nag Ubdur . Tracene was so troubled by her wartime experience that she returned to covering political news under HoloNet News . She encouraged Chancellor Mothma during one of the Chancellor ' s most challenging hours . Behind the scenes . Tracene Kane was a minor point - of - view character who first appeared in Chuck Wendig ' s 2015 novel " Aftermath " and its 2016 sequel " " .