Nibiru Chamas Nibiru Chamas was a male individual who served as a commander in the Galactic Empire ' s Navy while he was in his forties . He served alongside the Imperial Captain Rae Sloane during the Gorse conflict , which ended with the death of the Imperial Count Denetrius Vidian and Baron Lero Danthe securing control of the thorilide industry in the Gorse system . Biography . Escorting Count Vidian . Nibiru Chamas was an Imperial commander during the Age of the Empire . Nine years after the establishment of the Galactic Empire , he served on board the " Imperial " - class Star Destroyer " Ultimatum " under acting - Captain Rae Sloane as it traveled to the planet Gorse . Upon arriving in the Gorse system , the Star Destroyer narrowly avoided a collision with a passing freighter named the " Cynda Dreaming " , after which Sloane ordered that local pilot s avoid them . The order was belayed by the industrialist Denetrius Vidian , who was being transported on board the " Ultimatum " , and claimed the Imperials should avoid the locals as to not slow industrial progress . Sloane ordered Chamas to back their ship a kilometer away from all commercial traffic lanes and monitor all traffic . Vidian then fed the output of a command console directly into his optical implants and began monitoring the local traffic directly . While the industrialist was busy , Chamas began talking quietly with Sloane about rumors they had heard about Vidian , although the cyborg overheard and told them to stop wasting time . He then ordered Chamas to have the gunnery crew fire on the " Cynda Dreaming " , as it was slowing traffic due to damage . After checking with Sloane , Chamas gave the order and the vessel was obliterated . Chamas and Sloane remained aboard the " Ultimatum " while Vidian toured Gorse ' s moon Cynda , where the Empire had substantial thorilide mining operations . Later , Vidian decided to change his itinerary and visit the planet Gorse itself . On the eve of the planned tour , Chamas and Sloane discussed their impressions of the workaholic cyborg ; who had implemented a series of ruthless measures designed to speed up economic production in the Gorse system . During their conversation , he reported that Vidian had designednew traffic patterns for cargo ships traveling between the two worlds and that he had changed the loader droid s ' subroutines on Cynda to make them more efficient . Chamas also joked that Vidian had changed the color of the plates used in the communal mess hall . Chamas also informed Sloane that Vidian had ordered a review of the surveillance company Transcept Media Solutions ' s personnel and ordered the arrest of one staff member for " suspicious activity . " While discussing Vidian ' s planned tour of Gorse , he mentioned that the Count had reorganized three guilds , merged several equipment manufacturers into one firm , and even shut down a medcenter . Unknown to the Imperial officers , Vidian had shut down the medcenter in order to conceal his past as the safety inspector Lemuel Tharsa ; who was reportedly still alive and listed as a mining consultant in the " Ultimatum " manifest . Chamas also reported that Vidian had been frequently contacting his main office on Calcoraan Depot and that the cyborg never slept . He informed Sloane that Vidian had wrecked his personal quarters ; leading the two to conclude that Vidian had a fit of rage . The two then discussed Vidian ' s purported background as a Corellian shipbuilding engineer who had contracted Shilmer ' s syndrome before rebuilding his life as a management guru and businessman . Believing that Vidian was connected to the shipbuilding sector and the Admiralty , Chamas asked Sloane whether the Count could make her posting on the " Ultimatum " permanent by giving the ship ' s Captain Yale Karlsen a cushy job in one of his subsidiaries . When Sloane asked why Vidian was choosing to begin his tour at the small refinery Moonglow Polychemical , Chamas briefed the Captain that it was the same company that had captured and lost the rogue miner Skelly several hours ago . The two made an agreement to protect Vidian while demanding royalties from his next biography . Vidian ' s gambit . Commander Chamas stayed aboard the " Ultimatum " while Captain Sloane accompanied Count Vidian on his tour of Moonglow Polychemical ' s refinery . Despite security precautions put in place by both Sloane and Moonglow , Skelly managed to infiltrate the factory and tried to convince Vidian not to mine Cynda because the moon ' s surface was delicate . Vidian attacked Skelly , who then made two attempts to assassinate the Imperial efficiency expert . Skelly managed to escape with the help of the rebel Hera Syndulla and the freight pilot Kanan Jarrus ; a survivor of the Jedi Purge . Using Skelly ' s research , Vidian decided to cut his tour short and return to the " Ultimatum " . Abandoning his planned tour of Gorse ' s other refineries , Chamas wanted to destroy Cynda under the pretext of making it easier to harvest the planet ' s thorilide reserves and meeting the Emperor ' s new thorilide quota . Using his phantom consultant " Lemuel Tharsa " to fake a controlled bombing test result on Cynda , Vidian managed to convince Captain Sloane and her science officer Lieutenant Deltic to support his plan . Sloane then diverted all mining cargo ships in the Gorse system to travel to the Calcoraan Depot where Vidian had large stores of Baradium - 357 ; an explosive matter that the Count planned to use to destroy Cynda . During the journey , Chamas remained aboard the " Ultimatum " bridge when Captain Sloane led the mining fleet to the Calcoraan system . He was perturbed about Deltic ' s callous remarks about the devastation on Gorse that would be caused by Cynda ' s destruction . Once Deltic had left the bridge , he described her as " Lieutenant Stangechild " and informed Sloane that she had received an important call from Baron Lero Danthe . Danthe was Vidian ' s business rival and had secretly recruited Chamas ' services as an informant . In his capacity as first officer , Chamas supplied information on Vidian ' s plans and operations . While Sloane visited Vidian ' s Calcoraan Depot , Chamas stayed aboard the " Ultimatum " where he monitored the loading of the cargo freighters . Meanwhile , his commanding officer and Vidian were accosted and immobilized by the rebels Kanan , Hera , Skelly , and Zaluna Myder ; the latter a former Transcept employee who had agreed to help the rebels after her dismissal . While Vidian was unconscious , Kanan informed Sloane that Vidian had falsified the test results to show that Cynda ' s thorilide reserves would not disintegrate after the moon ' s destruction . The original report stated otherwise . Vidian wanted his comet - mining business to benefit from the temporary boom and to discredit Sloane and his rival Danthe when Cynda ' s thorilide reserves ran out . Since Vidian ' s actions endangered Imperial strategic assets , Sloane returned to the " Ultimatum " where Chamas arranged a secure connection with Baron Danthe , using the contact information the latter had provided . While it was outside protocol to involve a civilian in a security matter , Danthe was the only person who had a hope of directly reaching the Emperor or his minions . After Vidian awoke , the Imperials and the mining fleet returned back to the Gorse system . While cognizant of Vidian ' s deception , Sloane and Chamas perpetuated the ruse of pretending to assist Vidian ' s plan . During the mining fleet ' s return journey to the Gorse system , Chamas served on the bridge of the " Ultimatum " alongside Captain Sloane . Before Vidian could put his plans into action , the rebels managed to disrupt the loading process and board his ship , the " Forager " . Chamas was present during the skirmish and informed Sloane when she received a " priority - one " message from the Emperor ordering her to stop the planned detonation of Cynda . In Sloane ' s absence , Chamas supervised the efforts to linkup the " Ultimatum " to " Forager " detonation control . After Sloane ' s return , Chamas along with Baron Danthe were present when Sloane ordered her crew to rescind the Detonation Control link to " Forager " and issued orders for Vidian ' s arrest . When the Count defied Captain Sloane and revealed that his crew could remotely restore the Detonation Control link , Sloane ordered her forces to attack Vidian ' s ship and crew . Chamas witnessed the " Ultimatum " and the Imperial fleet ' s bombardment of the " Forager " . This bombardment ended Vidian ' s plot to destroy Cynda . The Count himself was killed by a vindictive Skelly while the other rebels manged to flee in an escape pod . Following Vidian ' s death , Commander Chamas and Captain Sloane attended a formal ceremony to celebrate the opening of Gorse ' s sunward side to thorilide mining . Vidian ' s rival Baron Danthe was granted control of all mining operations in the Gorse system and decided to use his companies ' heat - resistant mining drone s . Cynda was also declared a natural sanctuary . In addition , Sloane was given permanent Captaincy of the " Ultimatum " . Chamas was visibly disappointed that he had been passed over for promotion again and did not speak with Sloane during a party held to celebrate Danthe ' s mining project . Personality and traits . Chamas loved to gossip , and because of this had been leap - frogged for promotion by younger officers several times . He was shocked when Vidian ordered that the " Cynda Dream " be destroyed for holding up traffic , but followed the order once it was confirmed by Sloane . In his capacity as first officer , Chamas used his position to help his friend Baron Danthe spy on his rival Count Vidian and investigate his deceptive practices including his phantom consultant " Lemuel Tharsa . " Chamas ' s decision to serve as Danthe ' s informant was motivate by personal enrichment . He was visibly unhappy when he was passed over for promotion by Sloane , who became the permanent Captain of the " Ultimatum " due to her role in foiling Vidian ' s plot to scam the Emperor . Behind the scenes . Nibiru Chamas first appeared in " A New Dawn " a 2014 novel written by John Jackson Miller and the first in a new line of Canon novels . Chamas was a secondary character whose lines are told through the point of view of Rae Sloane , a secondary character in the novel .