Cabbel / Legends Cabbel was a Human male lieutenant in the Imperial Navy during the Galactic Civil War . He attended the Officer ' s Candidate School on the planet Carida and was a recent graduate by 3 ABY . During that year , Cabbel was stationed aboard the " Imperial II " - class Star Destroyer " Avenger " , attached to the Imperial Death Squadron , where he aided Captain Lorth Needa in deploying Viper probe droids throughout the galaxy in search of the Alliance to Restore the Republic ' s hidden headquarters . The search led to the discovery of a hidden Rebel base on the planet Hoth , leading to the Battle of Hoth . By then , Cabbel served as the first officer of the " Imperial I " - class Star Destroyer " Tyrant " , under the command of Captain Xamuel Lennox . Cabbel and Lennox both participated in the Hoth battle , during which the " Tyrant " was disabled by an Alliance ion cannon fired from the planet . Biography . Early Imperial career . Cabbel , a Human male , lived during the Galactic Civil War . A student of the Imperial Officer ' s Candidate School on the planet Carida , he was a recent graduate by 3 ABY , and had also attained the rank of lieutenant in the Imperial Navy . That year , Cabbel served aboard the " Imperial II " - class Star Destroyer " Avenger " , under the command of Captain Lorth Needa and attached to the Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Vader ' s Imperial Death Squadron . In the same year , the " Imperial " - class Star Destroyers of Death Squadron deployed Viper probe droids throughout the galaxy in an attempt to find the Alliance to Restore the Republic ' s hidden location . The " Avenger " was part of the search , and , following the Battle of Derra IV , Cabbel passed on to Needa Imperial headquarters ' report of a Rebel Alliance convoy being completely destroyed near the planet . He then reported to Needa that the first set of probe droids detected no Rebel or even Human activity on the planets they reconnoitered , and that the second set of droids was ready to be deployed . However , Needa requested to delay the order to launch the droids , as Darth Vader had requested the probe droids to be reprogrammed to include information on both Rebel Commander Luke Skywalker and the YT - 1300 light freighter " Millennium Falcon " , to which Cabbel complied , along with Vader ' s orders to revise the probe droids ' targeting list for the planets Allyuen , Tokmia and Hoth . Battle of Hoth . While Death Squadron was near the Qeimet system , one of the probe droids discovered evidence of the Rebels ' base on Hoth . Death Squadron then made a series of hyperspace jumps to reach the Hoth system , culminating in the subsequent Battle of Hoth . While Vader ' s forces launched a ground assault on the planet , the Star Destroyers of Death Squadron attempted to intercept escaping Rebel GR - 75 medium transports leaving Hoth . Cabbel had by then transferred to the " Imperial I " - class Star Destroyer " Tyrant " , also attached to Death Squadron , serving as the first officer to Captain Xamuel Lennox . Aboard the " Tyrant " command bridge , Cabbel informed Lennox when the first of the transports , the " Quantum Storm " , escorted by two T - 65 X - wing starfighter s , approached the Star Destroyer ' s position . However , as the " Tyrant " prepared to intercept the transport , the Rebel base fired its planetary ion cannon at the Imperial warship , causing its shields to overload , which made the Star Destroyer lose its helm . As power was lost throughout the " Tyrant " , Cabbel barked orders that none of the crew were listening to , eventually demanding for all stations to report , which Lennox requested to be belayed . Soon , the command bridge ' s backup generator failed , disabling the " Tyrant " artificial gravity system , causing Cabbel to fall over in consternation and various objects to float in midair . The entire ship was silent with the exception of Cabbel sputtering and the crew giving useless status reports as Lennox realized the " Tyrant " would be dead in space until the Battle of Hoth ' s outcome was decided . While the " Tyrant " was undergoing repairs , Imperial forces captured Rebel General Crix Madine and transferred their prisoner aboard the Star Destroyer . However , the " Tyrant " was hit once more from a blast fired by the ion cannon , and Madine was rescued , with the ship unable to give pursuit due to the amount of ion damage it had received . Although the disabled " Tyrant " was left floating through the Hoth system , and more Rebel transports made it off the planet , the Battle of Hoth still ended as a resounding Imperial victory , with the Rebels forced to retreat from their headquarters . Personality and traits . Cabbel was efficient , as well as ambitious and ruthless , and was described by his men in the same way . While aboard the " Avenger " , Cabbel questioned Captain Needa relaying Darth Vader ' s orders to include the ice planet Hoth in the probe droids ' targeting list , considering the Alliance ' s last base was on a tropical planet . Nonetheless , he decided not to further question a directive from the Sith Lord , and complied with Needa ' s request to retarget the droids for Allyuen , Tokmia , and Hoth , albeit still showing hesitance with the ice planet . After the ion cannon ' s first strike on the " Tyrant " during the Battle of Hoth , Cabbel barked orders in the confusion , despite nobody else listening to him . When the ship ' s artificial gravity system was lost , Cabbel ' s sputtering , along with the crew ' s status reports , were the only sounds heard on the " Tyrant " . He had brown hair and fair skin . Equipment . Lieutenant Cabbel wore the standard - issue Imperial officer ' s uniform during his service aboard both the " Avenger " and the " Tyrant " . Behind the scenes . Cabbel first appeared as an Imperial officer in the 1980 film . He was portrayed by Oliver Maguire and credited only as one of several " Other Officers . " Cabbel and Lennox are both absent from the film ' s , which instead attributes their scene , with slightly altered dialogue , to Captain Needa and a controller aboard the " Avenger " . The film ' s script identifies Cabbel as a " Controller . " In 1998 , Cabbel was first named and given a brief backstory on a card for the " Hoth Limited " expansion set of Decipher , Inc . ' s " Star Wars " Customizable Card Game . Prior to that , film footage of Cabbel and Lennox from " The Empire Strikes Back " was reused in a cutscene for the 1993 computer game " " . 2014 ' s " " confirmed that Lennox indeed took part in the Battle of Turkana — the same battle from the " X - Wing " game ' s introductory cutscene . However , Cabbel ' s Decipher card revealed that he had been a recent graduate from the Officer ' s Candidate School shortly before the Battle of Hoth , and that cutscene takes place four years earlier . Cabbel also appeared in the 2002 video game " " , exclusively as a multiplayer bot . He does not appear in the game ' s story mode . " The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia " , released in 2008 , provided Cabbel with an individual entry . Cabbel and Lennox were both originally intended to be featured in a story for the 2012 reference book " The Essential Guide to Warfare " , which did not make the final cut . In 2014 , the StarWars . com article released that story along with other material cut from the book . In 2013 , Topps Collectibles released " " , a trading card set with elements from both the original and prequel trilogies of " Star Wars " films . Along with Cabbel receiving his own individual card , the " Empire Strikes Back " Rebel lieutenant Cal Alder ' s card also erroneously gave Cabbel ' s character bio instead of one for Alder . In 2015 , Topps released " " , a trading card set based on the radio dramatization of the " Empire Strikes Back " . In that set , the " Reporting to Needa " card shows the scene in the dramatization , taking place prior to the Battle of Hoth , where a lieutenant and Captain Needa have a conversation aboard the " Avenger " regarding the probe droids the Star Destroyer is deploying in search of the Alliance . The lieutenant is illustrated with Cabbel ' s appearance , thus retcon ning Cabbel as the character in the radio drama .