Ulric Tagge Ulric Tagge was a Human male Imperial officer who served in the Imperial Army during the Galactic Civil War . His family , the ancient House of Tagge , which descended from one of the original Founders of the Republic , owned numerous industries under a large holding company , the Tagge Company or TaggeCo . Biography . Ulric Tagge was the youngest of four sons ( though he had a sister , Domina Tagge , who was younger still ) . Born to Baroness Sanya Tagge and raised on the Tagge homeworld of Tepasi in the Core , he grew up surrounded by all the wealth and luxury his ancient house could provide . He remained personally insecure , however , as he often found himself left in the shadow cast by his elder brothers . Orman Tagge , the oldest , had been groomed practically from birth to follow their mother as head of the family . Of the other two , Silas Tagge gained an early interest in the sciences and eventually obtained a doctorate , becoming chief scientist for all Tagge industries , and Cassio Tagge was a strategist — though not a bold one — and eventually entered Imperial military service . It was only with his younger sister Domina Tagge that Ulric felt comfortable , though it is not clear if she reciprocated this feeling . At the appropriate age , Ulric followed Cassio into Imperial military service . Both were quickly raised through the ranks on the basis of their family ' s prestige . While Cassio was selected to serve as Army advisor to Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin on his Death Star Project and a vital member of Tarkin ' s command triumvirate , Ulric was quite content to live out his career being known as a competent officer , if not necessarily an imaginative one . Not long after Cassio ' s death aboard the Death Star during the Battle of Yavin ( 0 BBY ) , however , Ulric found himself enmeshed in events that led to his eventual rise to the headship of House Tagge itself . The eldest brother , Orman , determined to win the favor of Emperor Palpatine and disgrace his rival Darth Vader , with whom he had a personal grievance , used his family , his fortune , and all his resources to achieve his ends . It was through Orman ' s machinations that Ulric was suddenly promoted to the rank of major general and made fleet commander of a flotilla of Tagge warships assigned to take part in the blockade of the Yavin system ( 0 ABY ) , which had been exposed as the headquarters base of the Rebel Alliance . This was partly accomplished to allow Orman to manipulate events to suit his designs ; his younger brother ' s presence in the blockade , for instance , allowed his ships to secretly tow his Achtnak Turbine Station to Yavin without Vader learning about it . This project failed , along with a series of others . In the end , both Orman and Silas were reported killed in a skirmish with the Rebels at Feriae Junction , and Ulric suddenly became the new Baron Tagge . Vader gave his own blessing to the young general ' s ascension , provided the family would cease its interference with Vader ' s affairs . Ulric agreed , standing down from his fleet position and retiring from military service . Ulric visited his sister Domina on the cloistered world of Monastery before returning to Tepasi . Not quite concealing his pride at his new position , he explained to Domina that their brothers had died because of the Rebels , in particular a Rebel named Luke Skywalker . He also suggested that if she was interested in retribution , the best hope to achieve it was to make peace with Vader . Ulric then left his sister to overcome her revulsion at dealing with the Sith Lord and form her own plans for revenge . Ulric Tagge subsequently took charge of the family holdings , and the indications are that he proved surprisingly capable . Under his leadership , TaggeCo rapidly regained the strength it had lost in the months following the Battle of Yavin and has remained one of the leading business concerns in the Galactic economy . In the absence of contradictory information , Ulric is still believed to be have been the reigning head of the family as late as 35 ABY . Behind the scenes . Ulric Tagge was originally intended to be the same character as the General Tagge seen in " " . However , other sources showed that the General Tagge portrayed in the film did indeed die aboard the Death Star . The discrepancy was reconciled in " Geonosis and the Outer Rim Worlds " , which revealed that the two Tagges were indeed different persons , and that " A New Hope " ' s Tagge ' s first name was Cassio . It is hard to understand why Ulric , a fleet commander , has an army - style rank ; similarly , dialogue in " A New Hope " makes Cassio sound like a fleet commander , EU identifying him as an army officer nonetheless .