Otto Otto was a Human male from the planet of Coruscant who served in the Imperial Military , the armed forces of the Galactic Empire . As a general , he took part in the Galactic Civil War , a conflict between the Empire and the Rebel Alliance . Despite his status , Otto was regarded as largely incompetent . If it had not been the intervention of his friend , Admiral Conan Antonio Motti , Otto would have lost both his career and his life at the hands of Darth Vader , the Supreme Commander of the Imperial Fleet . The general was relocated to the barren planet of Lok , where he was tasked with commanding an Imperial outpost . During his tenure on Lok , the general was forced to deal with an intruder who had been sent by the Rebel hero Han Solo to sow discord in the outpost . Dissatisfied with his situation , General Otto later deserted the Empire and entered Jabba the Hutt ' s demolition games with a stolen AT - ST . The general hoped he could garner enough money in the contest to fulfill his dream of buying a luxury apartment in Cloud City , a floating metropolis suspended high among the cloud s of the planet Bespin . Biography . Early life and career . A male of the Human species , Otto hailed from the planet of Coruscant . He was born in 63 BBY , in the final decades of the Galactic Republic . At some point in the period that followed the establishment of the Galactic Empire by the former Supreme Chancellor Palpatine in 19 BBY , Otto embraced a career in the Imperial Military . A bumbling , insignificant man , the Coruscanti climbed the promotion ladder only thanks to his connections with Admiral Conan Antonio Motti , an Imperial Navy officer who had not hesitated to pad his own record himself . Eventually , Otto attained the rank of Army general . Put on the sidelines . As an Imperial general , Otto got involved in the Galactic Civil War , a galaxy - wide conflict between the Empire and a resistance group called the Rebel Alliance . Though overzealous and loyal to Galactic Emperor Palpatine to the point of fanaticism , he lost many key battles to the Rebels during the early stages of the war . He was also rumored to have been a drug addict . Otto ' s career may have been damaged by his major blunders had it not been for another intervention of Admiral Motti , who saved him from the wrath of Darth Vader , the Emperor ' s second - in - command and Supreme Commander of the Imperial Fleet . Thanks to the machinations of Motti , Otto was quietly shipped to the planet of Lok , a desolate world in the Outer Rim Territories , where he was tasked with manning a massive Imperial outpost . On the disused wasteland of Lok , Motti hoped that his embarrassing friend would maintain a low profile . Instead of fighting against organized crime on Lok , Otto chose to make an arrangement with its members . The general reached an understanding with Nym , the pirate leader of the Lok Revenants , promising that his activities would not be interfered with if he refrained from attacking the Imperial outpost . Despite his arrangements , Otto once faced a brutal assault on his outpost led by a notorious local mercenary warlord , but his troops were able to thwart that attack . The general also experienced trouble with his fellow members of the Empire . According to the discharged Sergeant Moore , Otto was also at odds with other Imperials on Lok who sought to keep their activities secret from the general . Those activities included a mining facility where gasses and minerals were extracted , and the associated research facility , where a new type of grenade was being developed . At some point following the Battle of Yavin in 0 BBY , a defunct R4 - series agromech droid that had once belonged to Otto fell into the clutches of the Sulfur Lake Pirates , who maintained a hideout on Lok . The droid ' s memory core , however , ended up in the hands of the mercenary Vana Sage , who wanted to blackmail Otto based on its contents . Around the same time , the Rebel hero Han Solo sent one of his agents to cause mayhem in the Imperial outpost and show General Otto that being assigned on a backwater planet was not going to be easy . Otto confronted the Rebel agent that had come to torment him , but despite being a martial artist , the Imperial was beaten during the showdown . However , the general successfully escaped his opponent before being killed . Ultimately , the Rebel intruder returned to Solo to claim their reward , leaving Otto with combat injuries and hurt feelings . Entering Jabba ' s games . Such bad encounters and the sad spectacle of Lok ' s barren landscape made Otto dwell on his dream of retiring to a luxury apartment on Cloud City , a haven of airy platforms , spires , and towers floating in the atmosphere of the gas giant Bespin . Eventually , in pursuit of that dream , Otto stole a transport and abandoned the Empire , taking an AT - ST bipedal walker with him . Wanted by Imperial forces for desertion , Otto traveled to Tatooine , a Hutt - controlled planet of the Outer Rim . Around 4 ABY , he had entered the demolition contests organized by the Hutt crime lord Jabba Desilijic Tiure , hoping to gather the riches he needed to achieve his dream . On the contest field of the Dune Sea , Otto confronted various worthy adversaries such as the bounty hunters Boba Fett and Aurra Sing , the Human smuggler named Wade Vox , the Dug Podracer Pugwis and the Wookiee engineer Quagga . The general also faced Malakili , the keeper of Jabba ' s rancor , as well as other accomplices of the Hutt , such as Wittin the Jawa . Unbeknownst to the general , three heroes of the Rebel Alliance had also entered the derby : the Princess of Alderaan and Rebel leader Leia Organa , disguised as the bounty hunter Boushh , the former Baron Administrator of Cloud City Lando Calrissian , posing as a guard named Tamtel Skreej , and the latter ' s cyborg assistant Lobot . Personality and traits . While he was manning the Lok outpost , General Otto sported dark brown hair and a horseshoe - shaped mustache . However , by the time of Jabba ' s demolition derby , the general looked very different . He had gained excessive weight , his hair had gone entirely white , and he had grown a full beard with two points . As an officer , Otto was thought to lack dignity in his manners and appearance , and even the Rebel hero Han Solo thought of him as unimportant , rather than a serious threat . At the time , Otto had no compunction about turning a blind eye to Lok ' s criminality , and the climate between the general and the other Imperials stationed there remained unsettled . In spite of his grandfatherly looks , his fancy uniform and his poor reputation , Otto was still a dangerous individual . As a derby fighter , he suffered delusions of grandeur and a misplaced sense of superiority that fueled his sense of pugnacity . He was convinced that he had become the most powerful being in the Known Universe and that nothing or no one could stop him . Among his many flaws , if rumors about him were true , the general was addicted to the mind - altering spice . In fact , Otto would sometimes threaten his defeated opponents with a transfer to the Spice Mines of Kessel . Despite being a deserter and a self - obsessed man , General Otto maintained a certain degree of loyalty toward the Empire and Palpatine , as he would sometimes enter the demolition contests yelling " Long live the Emperor ! " Skills and abilities . As part of his Imperial officer training , General Otto was a master of ranged combat using blaster carbines . He had also learned the rudiments of Teräs Käsi , a weaponless martial art . He was also capable of piloting his modified AT - ST all by himself , while manning that vehicle normally required two crewmen , a pilot , and a gunner . Equipment . In the Lok Imperial Outpost , Otto simply wore the Empire ' s standard uniform , which consisted of a double - breasted grey tunic with matching trousers , black leather belt , black boots , and a hat . On the left side of the upper chest , he sported a single Imperial code cylinder and the insignia of an army general . His cap and belt were also equipped with an officer ' s disc , which contained coded information . When taking part in Jabba ' s contests , he wore a garish version of an Imperial Army trooper dress uniform with red pants , a golden plastron , a blue cape and a wide array of medals and festoons . He also wore a fancy rank plaque made of twelve golden squares . Behind the scenes . General Otto first appeared as a playable character in " " , a vehicular combat video game featuring characters , locations and vehicles from around the " Star Wars " universe . Voice actor Tom Kane voiced Otto in that game , along with Bib Fortuna , Boba Fett and Lobot . Otto ' s backstory was fleshed out in the game ' s manual and in the published by Prima Games . In " Star Wars : Demolition " , depending on the player ' s success , Otto could either win the tournament , which led him to fulfill his dream , or lose it , which had him to turned over to a pair of Imperial stormtroopers by one of his fellow contestants , Boba Fett , and ultimately left at Darth Vader ' s mercy . Otto ' s AT - ST walker was the first vehicle created for the game . It was also a favorite of the graphician Edvard Toth , who modeled some and textured all vehicles in " Star Wars : Demolition " . The general also appeared in the now - defunct " Star Wars Galaxies " . Originally , Otto in " Star Wars Galaxies " did not appear like he did in " Star Wars : Demolition " . However , the events depicted in " Galaxies " occurred between 0 and 3 ABY , a few years at best before Jabba ' s demolition games . Otto ' s appearance in " Galaxies " was later changed by the developers so he would wear a mustache , but he still looked younger , taller , and thinner than his " Demolition " incarnation . In the 2000 video game , Otto was shown to be overweight and a head shorter than two stormtroopers , while his " Galaxies " incarnation was of average height with a smaller waistline . In " Star Wars Galaxies " , Rebel players could be tasked by Han Solo with fighting and killing Otto . In actuality , the general would not die . Once the player got his health to 10 % , Otto would yell " Aaaah ! Get away from me ! ! " and run away by despawning .