Mesa Greenbark Mesa Greenbark was a female Nosaurian who married Bomo Greenbark , a commander of the New Plympto resistance who fought against the Galactic Empire . With Bomo , she had had a daughter who they named Resa and after the declaration of the New Order , the political regime of the Empire , she and her child attempted to evacuate their homeworld to escape Imperial forces . While her husband and the rest of the resistance fought one final battle at Half - Axe Pass , Mesa and Resa attempted to reach a spaceport in an area called Cadgel Meadows , but were captured by Imperials before reaching their destination . The evacuees were enslaved and taken to the planet Orvax IV where Mesa was killed attempting to prevent her daughter being sold . Biography . Mesa Greenbark lived on the planet New Plympto in the Corellian sector of the Core Worlds , the homeworld of her species . Mesa married another Nosaurian named Bomo Greenbark and with him had a female child , who they named Resa . When the Clone Wars began between the Galactic Republic and the Confederacy of Independent Systems , the Nosaurians came to side with the Confederacy , and fought against Republic forces on their homeworld . After the defeat of the Confederacy in 19 BBY , the New Plympto resistance was left as one of the Separatist holdouts and continued to fight against the newly formed Galactic Empire in a conflict that became known as the Cleansing of New Plympto . A month after the declaration of the New Order , the political regime of the Empire , the Nosaurians begun evacuating their women and children from New Plympto including Resa and Mesa . While the other male Nosaurians continued fighting the Empire in an area known as Half - Axe Pass , Bomo personally saw his family and other evacuees to the transports they were using to escape . Before boarding the transport , Mesa and Resa asked Bomo to leave with them , but when he refused , they said a final farewell and boarded the final vehicle available . With the final passengers aboard the transports , the journey to the spaceport in the area known as Cadgel Meadows began , where Mesa and Resa intended to find transport to the planet Sullust in the Brema sector of the Outer Rim Territories . The transports never reached Cadgel Meadows and were instead stopped by Imperial forces . All Nosaurians on board , including Mesa and her daughter , were then captured and moved off world to be sold as slaves . The Imperials brought them to the world of Orvax IV , a well known slave world , where they hoped to sell them to the highest bidder . When the slavers came to take Resa for sale however Mesa attempted to prevent her daughter being separated from her and fought the slavers . Her attempts were in vain however and Mesa was killed in the attempt to save her daughter . Legacy . With Mesa ' s attempt to save her a failure , Resa was taken and sold by a Chagrian slaver named Orso Meeto to the Human Dezono Qua . A day after Mesa ' s death , her husband arrived to save her and became distraught when he discovered he was too late . Bomo then left to find Resa but once again failed to save his family as Qua had had her cooked and consumed her , a act for which Bomo ' s friend Dass Jennir , a Jedi , killed him . Behind the scenes . Mesa Greenbark appeared in the " " comic book series .