Mic " Mic " was the nickname of an Special Commando Advanced Recon trooper in Task Force 99 , a squad within the Galactic Empire ' s Stormtrooper Corps . Mic served as the squad ' s slicer , capable of breaking into and decrypting enemy computer systems . Mic participated in Task Force 99 ' s mission to the Ghost Moon in order to kill a group of Rebels hiding there . Biography . Skirmish on the Ghost Moon . Mic served in Task Force 99 for years , growing close with fellow Stormtrooper specialists . After the death of the Task Force ' s previous sergeant , the team was reassigned under the command of Sergeant Kreel . Early into Kreel ' s tenure with the team , an Alliance to Restore the Republic shuttle was shot down over the Ghost Moon , and Kreel and his team were sent in to learn what its crew were doing in such a remote area . Mic deployed with the rest of his squad , but quickly split off from the others when they discovered the crashed Rebel ship had already been abandoned . Kreel ordered him to stay behind and slice what he can out of the ship ' s terminals , with Shrap to watch his back . While his ally would eventually reconvene with the squad , Mic stayed behind , reporting that cracking the Rebel ' s encryption would take him several more days . The squad was able to avoid the wait , however , by their capture of Admiral Verette , who quickly broke under interrogation . Verette informed them of a covert Rebel operation to hijack the " Imperial " - class Star Destroyer " Harbinger " . The mission was planned jointly by Leia Organa and Luke Skywalker , and Admiral Verette was on the way to meet them and take command of the Star Destroyer ' s helm when he was captured by the SCAR squad . After revealing this information , the squad informed Darth Vader , who sent them to retake the stolen ship . The Harbinger . The Task Force scouted out The Harbinger for several days before finally making their assault . First , they strapped the captive Admiral Verette to the outside of his own shuttle and launched it at the ship as a distraction . While Luke Skywalker and Sana Starros investigated the approaching shuttle , Zuke and his team covertly flew a Lambda - class T - 4a shuttle into one of the many unguarded holes in the Star Destroy - confident that with more than half the vessel ' s scanners down , and the Rebels being forced to run a skeleton crew , they would enter undetected . Once inside , Mic set to work hacking into the ship ' s computers to retake subsystems and seal off the Rebel ' s control . Despite his skills , he was outmatched at every turn as his hack attempt was counter - spliced by the Astromech droid R2 - D2 , who not only shut him out of the controls , but manually took control of flying the ship after Mic ' s squadmember Zuke damaged the controls and left Han Solo unable to control the helm . Before he could wrestle control of the ship from R2 , Sana Starros ambushed Mic , kicking him away from the control panel and knocking him into an escape pod , which she promptly jettisoned , allowing her to fight Cav one - one - one . Mic was recovered from the pod , and while Darth Vader chided Kreel and his team for failing to stop the Rebels , they were able to avoid his wrath by presenting the captured Protocol droid C - 3PO as proof that the SCAR team " never comes home empty handed " .