Moonglow Polychemical Moonglow Polychemical , or simply Moonglow , was a mining and refinery company based in the Gorse system . The company had originated as an offshoot of Introsphere , which had become bankrupt after the end of thorilide surface mining on the planet Gorse . After the Galactic Empire established mining operations on Gorse ' s moon Cynda , Moonglow delivered baradium bisulfate for blasting operations on Cynda . In addition , the company also maintained a refinery in Gorse ' s Shaketown . In 11 BBY , Moonglow ' s operations attracted the attention of the dissident miner Skelly and the Imperial Count Denetrius Vidian . Skelly tried to convince the company not to conduct blasting past Zone Forty - Two . After Skelly was apprehended for assaulting Imperial personnel and staging an illegal test bombing , Moonglow attempted to hand him over to the Empire . However , Skelly was rescued by the rebel operative Hera Syndulla . During his inspection of Moonglow , Vidian murdered the company ' s Boss Lal Grallik and her husband Gord Grallik . Shortly later , the Empire nationalized the company ' s assets . Description . Since the company operated on both Gorse and its moon Cynda , Moonglow Polychemical maintained a fleet of freighter s that was used to transport baradium bisulfate to Cynda for both blasting operations and the extraction of thorilide , a crystal used to shield starship s from turbolaser s . In addition , Moonglow operated a refinery in the Gorse urban settlement of Shaketown that used xenoboric acid to process the thorilide crystals into shock absorbers . The Shaketown refinery also served as Moonglow ' s headquarters and had a heavy - duty bulk - loader vehicle , which was considered to be the newest model in use on Gorse . Moonglow was also know to operate a spaceport near its Shaketown refinery that serviced the company ' s freighters . The company was managed by the Besalisk Lal Grallik while her husband Gord Grallik served as the head of ground security at its Shaketown plant . As chief operations officer , Lal introduced several safety improvements to her Shaketown refinery which was emulated by other Gorsian factories . While the Gralliks employed several of their cousins to clean and guard the Shaketown refinery , they employed several miner s and pilot s from various species . One of their pilots was Kanan Jarrus , a Jedi Purge survivor , who flew a freight hauler designated " Moonglow - 72 " ; which he christened the " Expedient " . In addition , the bartender Okadiah Garson also worked as the foreman of a mining team for the company . History . Moonglow Polychemical originated as an offshoot of Introsphere , a mining company that had gone bankrupt after the mining consultant Denetrius Vidian authored a critical report that ended all surface thorilide mining on the planet Gorse . Moonglow was involved in mining operations on Gorse ' s moon Cynda , which was rich in thorilide . In 11 BBY , Moonglow ' s chief of operations Lal had to deal with a dissident miner named Skelly , who tried to convinced Moonglow and the other mining companies not to blast beyond Zone Forty - Two while he conducted some research . Lal ignored him and returned to Gorse . Undaunted , Skelly conducted his test - bombing in Zone Forty - Two which disrupted mining operations on Cynda . He also resisted arrest from several stormtrooper s , who tried to arrest him for seditious remarks he had made on an elevator . Skelly was later apprehended by Kanan , whose team had narrowly survived the blast . Angered at Skelly ' s actions , Kanan and his friend Okadiah Garson restrained him in chains and handed him over to Gord Grallik at Shaketown . The Gralliks promptly informed the now - Count Vidian , who had become the Emperor ' s efficiency expert and was overseeing production in the Gorse system . Recognizing Moonglow as a spinoff of his rival Introsphere , Vidian decided to inspect the company as part of his tour of Gorse . Later , the rebel operative Hera Syndulla managed to free Skelly from Moonglow custody after she hired a criminal gang known as the Sarlaccs to attack the Moonglow refinery in Shaketown . Twelve hours later , Count Vidian inspected the Moonglow refinery as part of the first leg of his Gorsian tour . The tour was hosted by the company ' s chief operations officer Lal Grallik . During his tour , the refinery was infiltrated by the rebel Hera , who was tailing Vidian , and Skelly , who wanted to convince the Count to end all thorilide mining operations on Cynda due to the fragility of the moon ' s surface . Skelly tried to reason with the Count but Vidian assaulted him , forcing him to flee into the factory . After learning from his rival Baron Lero Danthe that the Empire had tripled the Gorse system ' s thorilide quota , Vidian killed Lal after learning that Moonglow could not meet that quota . Using Skelly ' s research , Vidian decided to cut his tour short and return to his Imperial Star Destroyer " Ultimatum " . However , Skelly made two attempts to kill him by bombing two Imperial shuttles . Vidian also had to contend with a vindictive Gord , who had come to seek justice for his murdered wife . Instead , Vidian killed Gord and later covered up Lal ' s death by claiming that she had fallen into a vat of xenoboric acid during a ground quake . Count Vidian then moved against Moonglow by staging a test bombing on the mining facilities on Cynda which killed many miners . In truth , the explosion was a test bombing conducted by Vidian to prove his theory that detonating Cynda would not destroy the moon ' s thorilide results . However , Vidian had falsified the results in order to discredit his rival Baron Danthe . To cover up Vidian ' s secret plot , Imperial investigators claimed that Moonglow ' s negligence had cause the blast . The Empire then used the blast as a pretext to nationalize the company and to seize its assets . Several Moonglow ships including the " Expedient " were used by Vidian to transport Baradium - 357 from his depot in the Calcoraan system . The rebels Hera , Kanan , Skelly , and Zaluna Myder used the " Expedient " to disrupt Vidian ' s plan to destroy Cynda during the Gorse conflict . Following the events of the Gorse conflict , Moonglow was owned by the Galactic Empire , which competed with the other Gorsian firms . The Empire continued Lal ' s safety improvements which were also adopted by the other factories on Gorse .