Sulamar Sulamar was a Human officer in the Imperial Army and an ally to Durga Besadii Tai in his " Darksaber " project . Sulamar falsely claimed to be an Imperial General . Biography . Sulamar was a male technician in the Galactic Empire . He was transferred numerous times , and gained a reputation for being inept . At some point , Sulamar was stationed on the mining station Mendicat . However , due to an error Sulamar made in programming the computer , the station drifted off course , and fell into a nearby star . Sulamar barely escaped . By 12 ABY , Sulamar had become the aide to Durga the Hutt , leader of the Besadii criminal empire . Calling himself " General " Sulamar , he boasted of his exploits , claiming that he was responsible for numerous Imperial victories , such as the Massacre of Mendicat . The Hutt simply assumed that Sulamar was telling the truth , and did not check with his intelligence sources to see what they knew of the man . With the assistance of engineer Bevel Lemelisk , designer of numerous Imperial superweapons , Durga was building a new superweapon based on the Death Stars , which had also been designed by Lemelisk . Construction of this weapon , which the architect had named Darksaber , took place just outside the Hoth asteroid field , an area full of raw materials in the form of countless asteroids . What made this asteroid field even more enticing to Durga was that it was ignored by everyone except for smugglers . To prevent the New Republic from learning about the superweapon , Durga developed a front company known as Orko SkyMine Asteroid Processing Corporation . Lemelisk , Durga , Sulamar and the Hutt ' s guards stayed on a starship in the asteroid field , where they could oversee construction of the project . The actual building of the Darksaber was being done by the Taurill , a hive mind species that had agreed to work for Durga if the Hutt would later help them spread throughout the galaxy . Though the project suffered early setbacks , such as two Automated Mineral Exploiter s designed for locating asteroids rich in needed materials colliding with each other , construction began , and the superweapon began to take shape . Using the Death Star plans Durga had stolen from the New Republic ' s Imperial Palace on Coruscant , Lemelisk designed the weapon as essentially a scaled - down version of the Death Star ' s superlaser contained in a shell which had only living quarters . Though Sulamar liked to give orders , he was not in command ; Durga was , and he did not consider Sulamar an equal . He would frequently reprimand the Human for trying to issue orders , much to Sulamar ' s displeasure . This impression was reinforced by Sulamar ' s negligible contribution to the Darksaber Project . He would often give orders in a loud voice , only to be immediately countermanded by Durga ; given the job of locating computer cores for the Darksaber , the best his vaunted connections could come up with were a set of old , dangerously outmoded ones . When General Crix Madine was captured on board the " Darksaber " , he revealed that Sulamar was in fact a junior grade technician who was constantly transferred from one post to the next because of his incompetence . For example , the " Massacre of Mendicat " had occurred when Sulamar incorrectly programmed the orbital coordinates of an Imperial mining station , causing it to fall into the sun . This suggests what the true nature of his other " military " accomplishments was , though nothing else is known about them . It is not even certain that he ever held any officer ' s rank . Given the high and sometimes brutal standards in the Imperial military , it can only be guessed how Sulamar managed to avoid being decommissioned , or executed . When a New Republic fleet arrived to destroy the " Darksaber " , Sulamar piloted the vessel through the Hoth asteroid belt , but was killed when an asteroid collided with the vessel . Personality and traits . Sulamar was a sallow - faced man with gray eyes . He was arrogant , bossy and prideful , yet he showed signs of cowardice . He wore an impeccable military uniform that was kept obsessively crisp and shiny . However , Bevel Lemelisk thought to himself that Sulamar looked more like a boy trying to dress up as a man , suggesting that his braggadocio was cover for an inner weakness .