Gord Grallik Gord Grallik was a Besalisk security chief of the mining company Moonglow Polychemical on the planet Gorse eight years after the Clone Wars . He was married to the company ' s supervisor , Lal Grallik . Grallik was killed by the cybernetic Imperial efficiency expert Count Denetrius Vidian after Grallik attempted to arrest Vidian for murdering his wife Lal . Biography . Moonglow Polychemical . Gord Grallik was the head of ground security at Moonglow Polychemical , a small refinery company based in Shaketown on the planet Gorse . He was the wife of Lal Grallik , the company ' s Chief Operations Officer who had worked for Moonglow and its predecessor Introsphere for the past twenty years . Gorse was present at Moonglow ' s spaceport when the freight pilot Kanan Jarrus handed a bound and gagged the dissident miner Skelly into the company ' s custody . Skelly had opposed blasting on the thorilide – rich moon of Cynda and had assaulted Imperial stormtrooper s and staged a test bombing which cause a cave - in . Skelly had been captured by Kanan , who was angry that Skelly ' s actions had endangered his recovery team ' s life . Later , Gord was present when Lal contacted the Imperial Count Denetrius Vidian to inform him that they were holding Skelly . He watched as Vidian enquired about their firm ' s history and informed Lal that he would be conducting a tour within the next twelve hours . Vidian also informed them that an Imperial repulsorlift would arrive within the next five minutes to pick up Skelly . Gord expressed that the Empire would visit their firm since Moonglow was a small operation . At Lal ' s insistence , Gord removed Skelly ' s gang , allowing the man to speak . Gord complied but remarked that he thought it was a bad idea . When Skelly asked why they did not allow him to speak to Vidian , Lal replied that they were already terrified of the infamous cyborg . Gord then reassured his wife that she did a good job running Moonglow and that he would get their cousins to mop up the place prior to the tour . When Skelly told them that he would expose the destructive practices of the mining firms on Cynda , Gord told Lal to forget about Skelly . He then informed Lal that Kanan was quitting his job at Moonglow and suggested that she talk him out of it ; citing his efforts to save lives during the cave - in on Cynda . Shortly later , they heard someone ringing the buzzer at the gate . Thinking it was the Imperials , Gord and Lal went out to meet them only to discover that a criminal gang known as the Sarlaccs were stealing their hovertruck . During the brief skirmish , Gord and his cousins exchanged fire with the gang . However , this was a ruse created by the rebel operative Hera Syndulla to rescue Skelly . Final inspection and death . Gord stood by his wife and the Mayor of Shaketown during Count Vidian ' s tour of Moonglow Polychemical . Due to Vidian ' s high profile status , Gord had take extra security precautions . Vidian ' s Imperial shuttle " Truncheon " landed on the street outside Moonglow , which had been cordoned off for security reasons . Count Vidian was accompanied by an entourage that included the Imperial Navy Captain Rae Sloane and several stormtroopers . Upon landing , Sloane questioned Gord ' s competence in the light of Skelly ' s escape . Before Gord could respond in anger , Lal managed to calm the atmosphere by reassuring Sloane that her husband ' s tea , had triple - checked every square meter of the site . The tour coincided with the arrival of a hoverbus carrying the next work shift . Despite Gord ' s precautions , the rebel Hera and her new ally Kanan managed to infiltrate the facility in the hoverbus . Hera was tailing Vidian ' s movements . Meanwhile , the fugitive Skelly managed to infiltrate the facility with the help of the diner Drakka , whose restaurant had been adversely affected by the Imperial tour and was willing to help those who opposed the Empire . While accompanying his wife and the visitors on the inspection , Gord received communication through his comlink of an intruder sneaking around he personnel department in the rear of the plant . While Gord insisted that was his turf , Sloane dispatched several stormtrooper escorts to investigate . While Gord and the stormtroopers were absent , Skelly tried to reason with Vidian and convince him to cease all thorilide mining operations on Cynda . However , Vidian instead assaulted him and Skelly fled into the conveyer belt system . Later , Vidian received news from his rival Baron Lero Danthe that the Emperor had tripled Gorse ' s thorilide output . When Lal told Vidian that her firm could not cope with this output , he murdered her by throwing her into a vat of xenoboric acid . The murder was witnessed by the rebel infiltrator Hera who rushed to the scene but was too late to save Lal . Shortly later , Gord , who had heard the screams of his wife , arrived . A distraught Gord attempted to dive into the acid pool and save his wife but Hera restrained him by grabbing his left arms . When Hera attempted to console Gord , he demanded to know whether she had murdered his wife . Hera told him that she was innocent and to check the security monitors . Gord led Hera to the security control stations and replied that he would check it . Upon witnessing the recording of Vidian murdering his wife , Gord was consumed by rage and grief . Meanwhile , Vidian decided to cut his tour short after coming up with a new idea to increase Gorse ' s thorilide output . Using Skelly ' s research , he decided to detonate Cynda in order to gain access to its thorilide reserves . Before he could leave , Skelly blew up his shuttle , leaving him stranded . Following the explosion , Gord marched out of the firm ' s gate and demanded that the stormtroopers arrest Vidian . When Gord tried to follow Vidian into the commandeered hoverbus , he was restrained and beaten up by four stormtroopers . The incident was witnessed by Hera , who resolved to continue fighting the Empire . Gord followed the hoverbus to the Imperial spaceport where Vidian had been delayed by the bombing of his second shuttle . Gord made a second attempt to arrest Vidian and told him that he would be fairly treated at the Gorse City Jail . Vidian then ordered his men to blast him but Gord managed to shoot the stormtrooper escorts with his blaster . Consumed by rage , Gord hurled a sonic grenade which hit several nearby stormtroopers . Gord ' s fight was complicated by the presence of Hera , Kanan , and Skelly who escaped on the hoverbus . Gord also attempted to take on Vidian himself but was killed by the Count , who pummelled him to death with his metallic fists . Personality and traits . Gord Grallik was a loving and loyal husband to his wife Lal Grallik . As a Besalisk , he had four arms and two legs . He was unconcerned about the environmental effects of thorilide mining on Cynda moon . He had an acrimonious relationship with the criminal gang known as the Sarlaccs . Gord was consumed by grief and rage when his wife was murdered by the Imperial Count Vidian and attempted to apprehend him , but was killed by Vidian . Behind the scenes . Gord first appeared as a supporting character in John Jackson Miller ' s 2014 novel " A New Dawn " , the first Canon novel to be produced in consultation with the Lucasfilm Story Group . His lines are told through the points of view of Skelly , Hera , and Vidian . According to the author , Gord ' s story was intended to deal with the question of how local law enforcement would deal with crimes committed by Imperial officials like Vidian . Miller also revealed that he had originally intended for Gord to join Hera ' s rebel team but changed his mind because he felt that Gord ' s death demonstrated Hera ' s lesson of having a plan and strategy to fight against the Empire .