Dieben Dieben was a male Nalydian criminal who was wanted for various crimes on his homeworld of Nalyd . He was regarded by Ania Solo as unintelligent and lacking much imagination at lying . By 138 ABY , Dieben had come into the services of the rogue Sith Darth Wredd , who had broken away from the underground One Sith order . During the Carreras Incident in 138 ABY , Dieben was placed in charged of guarding the captured Imperial Knight Yalta Val , who was imprisoned on the floating dead world of Mala . His known duties included providing food to the imprisoned Val and facilitating communications between Wredd and his captive . Meanwhile , his master Darth Wredd impersonated the real Yalta Val and took charge of the assembly of the Carreras G51 communications array . Dieben was present when Darth Wredd used the Carreras communications to broadcast his manifesto to the wider galaxy and attempted to kill Yalta Val . Following the collision of the Carreras communications array with the planet Mala , Dieben escaped in an escape pod but was picked up by Carreras security forces in the Surd Nebula . He was then extradited to his homeworld of Nalyd to face justice for his crimes . Due to the severity of his crimes , Dieben was sentenced to death by firing squad . In their quest to hunt down Darth Wredd , the junk dealer Ania Solo and the Imperial Knight Jao Assam rescued Dieben from the arena with the intent of questioning him about Wredd ' s whereabouts . During the question attempt , Dieben was killed when he was impaled on a sharp plant . Despite his death , Ania and Jao later learnt from his captors that he had planned to rendezvous with some " powerful friends " in Dac . This turned out to be a slaving operation run by another rogue Sith named Darth Luft and his pirate associates . Biography . Dieben was a Nalydian criminal who lived on the planet Nalyd , a rocky world with tall rocky features . During his time on Nalyd , he was known to have assassinated a minister , assaulted an officer of the law , and sabotaged a public transport which resulted in ten deaths . Due to his crimes , Dieben faced the death penalty . However , he managed to evade justice by escaping offworld . By 138 ABY , Dieben had come into the services of Darth Wredd , a rogue Sith who had killed his master and left the One Sith order . Darth Wredd also kidnapped and impersonated the Imperial Knight Yalta Val , who had been sent on a mission to supervise the final stages of the construction of the Carreras G51 communications array . Yalta Val was imprisoned at Darth Wredd ' s base on the floating planet of Mala . Dieben was placed in charge of guarding and feeding the imprisoned Imperial Knight , who was forced to wear Darth Wredd ' s former apprenticeship helmet and had his hands bound in restraints . At one point , Dieben served the captive Knight an unappetizing green soup and left the bowl on the floor for the Knight to drink . A week later , Darth Wredd contacted Yalta Val and offered him a place in his new Sith order which would be based on the Rule of Two . Sensing Val ' s discomfort , Wredd urged his captive to embrace the dark side of the Force as he had . During the conversation , Dieben manned the holographic projector . Having taken control of the Carreras communications array , Darth Wredd returned to his base , from where he could now control the station remotely . Under Wredd ' s orders , Dieben removed Yalta Val ' s helmet and brought the captive Knight into a chamber where the rogue Sith made a broadcast to the galaxy . In his speech , Darth Wredd mocked the " weakness " of the Galactic Federation Triumvirate and attempted to kill the captive Yalta Val . However , he was stopped by the junk dealer Ania Solo who succeeded in freeing Yalta Val . During the ensuing fighting , Dieben managed to escape in an escape pod before the Carreras communications array collided with the planet Mala . He had intended to join up with some " powerful friends " on Dac — the rogue Sith Darth Luft and his pirate associates , who had established a slaving operation in the Mon Calamari Shipyards . Luft and his pirates were forcing Mon Calamari and Quarren refugees to assemble a pirate fleet . Later , Dieben ' s escape pod was picked up in the Surd Nebula by unspecified security forces . He was quickly identified as a wanted fugitive and was extradited to hims homeworld of Nalyd to face justice for his crimes . As punishment , Dieben was sentenced to be executed by firing squad in a public arena . While hunting for the rogue Sith Darth Wredd , the Imperial Knight Jao Assam and Ania tracked him down to Nalyd in the vain hope of finding a lead on Wredd . Unable to convince the Nalydian authorities to delay the execution , Ania and Jao " rescued " Dieben and dived down a deep cliff . Distrusting his " rescuers " , Dieben fought back and bit Ania ' s hand , causing her to drop him to the ground . Dieben was impaled on a sharp spiky plant , leading to injuries which resulted in his death . Ania and Jao questioned him about whether he was planning to rendezvous with Darth Wredd but even in his last moments , he refused to reveal any information to them . After returning Dieben ' s body to the Nalydian authorities , Ania and Jao learnt that Dieben had been planning to rendezvous with unspecified " powerful friends " in the Calamari system . Believing that this was their only lead to Darth Wredd , Ania and Jao traveled to Dac only to discover that Darth Luft and his pirate associates had established a slaving operation in the lawless system . Jao succeeded in killing Darth Luft while a Galactic Federation Triumvirate fleet liberated the Mon Calamari and Quarren slaves , and apprehended the pirates . However , Jao and Ania later learnt that their trip to Dac was a diversion engineered by Darth Wredd to fulfil his goal of destroying the One Sith and reinstating the Rule of Two . Personality and traits . As a wanted fugitive and murderer , Dieben was known to be unscrupulous and of bad repute . According to Ania Solo , he was unintelligent and incapable of lying . He showed little concern for his prisoner Yalta Val , who was forced to drink a putrid meal while wearing helmet and while his hands were bound in restraints . He distrusted other sentient beings as shown when he attacked and bit Ania Solo during a rescue attempt . Ultimately , this action caused him his life . Even in his final moments , he remained defiant and uncooperative , taking his secrets with him to the grave . Behind the scenes . Dieben first appeared as a minor antagonist in Corinna Bechko and Gabriel Hardman ' s comic series " " , which is part of the Star Wars Legends universe . In the first story arc " " , Dieben was drawn by Gabriel Hardman and colored by Rachelle Rosenberg . For the second story arc " " , he was drawn by Brian Albert Thies .