Stavin Thaal General Stavin Thaal was a male Human who served as the Chief of Army Operations of the Galactic Alliance Army in 44 ABY and was covertly a member of the Imperial - Alliance conspiracy . After an assassin had slashed Thaal ' s neck and left a scar , he was unable to speak with his own voice , so he used a vocabulator implanted in his throat . Biography . Galactic Empire Instructor . During the Galactic Civil War , Thaal served as a small - units instructor for the Galactic Empire at the Caridan Military Academy . When the planet was destroyed in 11 ABY by Jedi apprentice Kyp Durron , who turned Carida ' s sun into nova using the Sun Crusher , Thaal was one of the last of the officers to evacuate . Soon after this event , Stavin Thaal defected to the New Republic , integrating into its army . New Republic . In 12 ABY , Thaal , then a captain , married his first wife , Zehrinne . When the Yuuzhan Vong conquered Coruscant in 27 ABY , Colonel Thaal , who was stationed on the fallen planet , volunteered to lead a unit of elites on Vandor - 3 . Calling themselves the Pop - Dogs , Thaal and his men reported on the extra - galactic conquerors movements in the system and launched raids during the rest of the war . After the the Yuuzhan Vong defeat , Thaal was promoted to General for his heroic actions . Galactic Alliance General . In 44 ABY , as a member of the Imperial - Alliance conspiracy , he planned to overthrow the governments of the Galactic Alliance and Empire , together with Haydnat Treen , Merratt Jaxton , Drikl Lecersen , and others . When the conspiracy fell apart due to its discovery by Natasi Daala and the secret manipulations of Abeloth and the Lost Tribe of Sith , Thaal arranged for the murder of many of the conspirators . He personally forced Jaxton to commit suicide . Several months after the death of the conspiracy , Thaal came under suspicion for his involvement thanks to fellow ex - conspirator Borath Maddeus , who was the head of the Galactic Alliance Security . Maddeus hired Garik " Face " Loran to reassemble Wraith Squadron in order to prove Thaal ' s guilt and bring him to justice . Loran however was suspicious of Maddeus , and secretly assembled two Wraith Squadrons , one led by Bhindi Drayson and the other led by Sharr Latt , to look into Thaal ' s guilt while Loran himself , while also helping the Wraiths , would determine Maddeus ' s guilt . Thaal meanwhile , was planning to retire from the service and change his identity into that of Thadley Biolan . He had infamous identity forger Usan Joyl and his grandson Dashan kidnapped and imprisoned in one of the cells of the basement of the Caridan animal exhibit on Vandor - 3 that Thaal secretly owned . Thaal underwent gene therapy facilitated by the elder Joyl so that his transformation into Biolan would be completely convincing . Thaal had this done to many other Pop - Dogs who were loyal to him as well , and had both his and their personal histories completely altered . Thaal planned to retire to the world of Kuratooine so that he could marry famous pop singer Ledina Chott . In the meantime , he was still publicly upholding his true identity by applying makeup that would make him still appear to be Stavin Thaal rather than Thadley Biolan . When Thaal returned to Vandor - 3 to investigate the escape of a group of unknown hostiles from Mount Lyss Meteorological Station , he arrived just in time to witness the station ' s destruction , caused when one of his soldiers inadvertently activated a booby trap planted by the Wraiths . Thaal correctly attributed this action to Wraith Squadron , but wrongly believed that they were being led by the late Ton Phanan , whom he believed had only faked his death decades earlier . Thaal was later tricked into returning to Kuratooine earlier than he had planned to by Wraith Squadron member Turman Durra , who was masquerading as a member of a species native to the planet ' s underground caverns who had many valuable gems to offer to Thaal . In exchange for the nonexistent valuables , Thaal decided to give the disguised Durra a fake deed to the Imperial capital of Bastion . A short time later , Thaal temporarily assumed his Thadley Biolan identity in order call on Chott , whom he had developed a romantic interest in . Upon arrival to her apartment however , Thaal was shocked to learn that she had been kidnapped a short time earlier . Eventually , Thaal was lured into one of Kuratooine ' s public plazas after Wraith Squadron caused enough trouble on the planet to warrant his attention . As Thaal ' s suspicions of Ton Phanan still being alive had reached Wraith Squadron ' s ears , the squad decided to keep the facade going by having a droid mounted with a hologram depict Durra disguised as Phanan calling Thaal out as an impostor of himself . The accusation was seemingly proven when Thaal ' s recently divorced ex - wife , Zehrinne , arrived from Coruscant and claimed that Thaal was not the real Stavin Thaal , but was an impostor named Thadley Biolan , after she saw through his makeup . Thaal tried to escape arrest , but was paralyzed by a dart fired by Wraith Drikall Bessarah . Some time after , Thaal was freed from prison on Coruscant thanks to General Maddeus , and was hidden one level below Maddeus ' office . However , Loran tricked Maddeus into admitting where Thaal was hiding by having a Wraith come in disguised as Thaal . Wraith Squadron then had him and Thaal placed back in prison for good .