Stel ( criminal ) Stel was a male human criminal who came to be known as the Butcher of Brentaal IV after he committed atrocities at some point during the waning decades of the Galactic Republic . For years , he managed to escape the authorities , until the Republic was replaced by the Galactic Empire at the end of the Clone Wars . However , when the new government finally caught him , they did not arrest him but instead hired him to capture rebels for them . Stel ' s first target was to be a Lasat named Davin . Biography . Early life . In a dubious story he told on at least one occasion to attract sympathy , Stel claimed to have grown up in his uncle ' s repair shop on the Outer Rim planet of Lothal before attending an academy . What is certain is that he grew up in the last decades of the Galactic Republic . He came to despise the members of the Republic ' s Senate and the Jedi , a group of warrior monk s who used the Force to maintain peace , judging both groups for their arrogance . At one point , Stel committed atrocities on Brentaal IV , a planet located in the the galaxy ' s Core Worlds , which owed him the sinister moniker of " the Butcher of Brentaal IV . " Despite the huge price the senators put on his head , the killer managed to stay on the run , escaping the authorities for years . Becoming an Imperial agent . At the conclusion of the the Clone Wars , a pangalactic conflict that raged on for three years , the Republic was transformed into the fascist First Galactic Empire . When the Empire ' s stormtrooper s finally flushed him out , Stel was surprised to find that they had not come to arrest him , but to offer him a job with the new government . As it turned out , the Empire had a much more ruthless set of values than the Republic of old , and was looking for individuals like Stel to perform acts even its loyal troopers would not do . The first mission the Imperials gave Stel was to help them capture Davin , a Lasat insurgent . The Butcher managed to track his quarry to Lothal , in the Outer Rim Territories , and then called in the stormtroopers who came to apprehend the rebel . However , Stel head that the orders had been changed and that Davin was not going to face trial in Lothal ' s Capital City , but would be shipped to Noctu by the bounty hunter Shalla Mondatha . Suspecting that something odd was going on with the new orders , the Butcher told the troopers to lock him up right along with the Lasat , as if he too were a prisoner . That way , Stel hoped to capture not only Davin but also anyone who might be trying to help him escape . Showdown aboard the " Moveable Feast " . In the brig of Mondatha ' s ship , the " Moveable Feast " , Stel met Milo and Lina Graf , two resourceful children wanted by the Empire . Presenting a likeable , if overly talkative facade , the criminal told the siblings that Davin , who had been stun ned to go into his cell after a brief struggle , was in fact the dreaded Butcher of Brentaal IV . A short while later , the children were freed by their droid CR - 8R , but they cautiously refused to let either Stel or Davin out . While the children were away exploring the ship , the Lasat managed to exit his cell . When the Graf siblings came back , Stel was told that the ship had been overrun by swarms of cyborg spider that had incapacitated Mondatha and fried all the systems . Stel then convinced the Grafs that Davin was out to kill them — which was made all the more easy by the fact that the children had never had a chance to even speak with the Lasat , whom they found scary . Having gained the Grafs ' trust , the criminal told them to each get into a cell to protect themselves , while also freeing him . Armed with a stun baton provided by Lina , Stel would wait to ambush Davin . When the Lasat finally arrived , Shel stunned him as the children had expected , but also did the same to CR - 8R . Seeing this , the siblings finally understood who he really was . Endulging in gloating , the Butcher of Brentaal IV told the children and story , and how Davin had in fact been sent to rescue them . The criminal then took Lina and CR - 8R to the bridge so they could fix the ship ' s malfunctioning navigation computer . The Butcher left Milo and Davin behind , an oversight that would lead to his undoing . Once the " Moveable Feast " arrived at Noctu , Stel had to prevent Lina from communicating with her friends aboard the " Sunburst " , who had come to the Grafs ' and Davin ' s rescue . To the criminal ' s delight , an Imperial shuttle had also been lying in wait , and it came to attack the Sunburst . As Lina strode to the door to flee , Stel was surprised to see Milo and Davin enter the bridge . The Butcher and his Lasat nemesis then engaged in a brief struggle , leading to Davin being stunned once again . However , the Grafs were able to back Stel to an unseen hole in the deck that had been chewed by cyborg spiders . The Butcher of Brentaal IV fell to his defeat , crying out as he vanished from sight . Personality and traits . Stel was a pale and skinny male human with green eye s and a shock of flame - red hair stranding upright on his head . He had a dark triangular marking above either eyebrow . Despite what his frail and somewhat comical appareance would lead one to assume , he was brutal and ruthless . In fact , Stel was known to feign stupidity and clumsiness . Although he admittedly felt " [ urges ] to do something bad , " Stel was content to act on his drives in the service of what he deemed a greater cause . He was truly supportive of the Empire ' s aggressive policies , and was convinced the fascist government would reign for a thousand years .