Devlia Devlia was a Human male who served as an officer with the Imperial Navy during the Galactic Civil War . He came out of retirement after the Battle of Endor to help the struggling Galactic Empire . He was regarded as short - sighted and arrogant by his superiors , and was blamed for the failure of an attempt to destroy Rogue Squadron during a surprise commando assault on their base at Talasea . Biography . Devlia was a short , plump man with gray hair and a gray mustache . With his rank of Admiral , he was placed in charge of the defense of the Rachuk sector , and established his base , located on Grand Isle , within a hollowed - out volcano on the world of Vladet , the Rachuk sector ' s capital . The Interdictor cruiser " Black Asp " was one of the ships under his command . Like most pre - Endor Imperial officers , Devlia possessed an ingrained bias against aliens and female Humans , as indicated by his discomfort in communicating with the " Black Asp " ' s Captain Uwlla Iillor . Reputation and weaknesses . Devlia was not respected by his Imperial superiors , the Imperial Intelligence agent Kirtan Loor in particular , who recognized in him major weaknesses such as vanity and an overdeveloped sense of superiority . This tended to result in the Admiral underestimating the Rebel Alliance and the New Republic Defense Force , both of which he considered to be inferior and under - trained . Devlia was also distrustful of Imperial Intelligence and its head , Director Ysanne Isard . This ultimately contributed to his undoing , as his disregard for the advice given him by Intelligence resulted in a failed assault against Rogue Squadron while it was based on the fog - bound planet of Talasea and led to a New Republic counter - strike that ended in his death , along with the complete destruction of his base of operations . First encounter with Rogue Squadron . Devlia first encountered Rogue Squadron , which had recently been reformed by squadron leader Commander Wedge Antilles , in 6 . 5 ABY when the squadron ' s X - wing starfighters encountered " Black Asp " in the Chorax system . The squadron disrupted an attempt by the " Asp " to capture the " Pulsar Skate " , a smuggler ship captained by Mirax Terrik that had been running supplies to the New Republic . Uwlla Iillor , the vessel ' s commander , determined from communication intercepts and visual data that the X - wings belonged to Rogue Squadron . Although Devlia assumed the strike was a planned ambush against the " Black Asp " , Uwlla and Imperial Intelligence Agent Loor correctly deduced that the starfighters were accidentally pulled from hyperspace by the " Asp ' s " gravity well projectors . Devlia reluctantly agreed to work with Loor , who was charged by Director Isard with the destruction of Rogue Squadron . The admiral agreed to send units to find and destroy the squadron base if Loor could isolate it , which Devlia described as an " impossible " task . Soon , however , Loor determined that the Rogue Squadron training base was located on Talasea . Failed assault and subsequent counterstrike . Although Loor advised Devlia to send a probe droid followed by a full scale attack , the admiral did not entirely trust the accuracy of the Imperial Intelligence and instead sent only a single stormtrooper platoon to seek out and attack the base . Devlia felt probe droids were more valuable than stormtroopers , which he described as " a renewable resource . " Upon indeed finding the base , the platoon attempted to destroy it themselves by killing Rogue pilots in their sleep and planting bombs at the base . Although the covert assault resulted in the death of six Rogue sentries and pilot Lujayne Forge , all of the Imperial commandos were captured or killed . The stormtrooper transport craft was also captured . As a result of the failed assault , Rogue Squadron retaliated by striking Grand Isle . Devlia presumed the Vladet base was adequately protected by a shield , but Rogue Squadron slipped underneath the shield by blowing a hole in the side of the volcano and piloting the fighters through the hole to destroy the base . Grand Isle was destroyed and Devlia was killed . Kirtan Loor posthumously described him as an " idiot " who " got what he deserved " for failing to heed his advice regarding the Talasea strike . Loor was also confident that had Devlia not been killed during the counterstrike , that he would have been executed by Ysanne Isard for mishandling the assault against Rogue Squadron . Isard also posthumously described Devlia as " stupid . "