Laddinare Torbin Laddinare Torbin was a male Grand Inquisitor who served the Imperial Inquisitorius during the early years of the Imperial era . During the waning days of the Galactic Republic , Torbin served as the Director of Information of the Judicial Department , acting as a spokesman for the Department and the Jedi Order . After the establishment of the New Order in 19 BBY , he was inducted into a body that hunted down surviving Jedi and other relics of the Old Republic : the Inquisitorius . Torbin eventually replaced Hydra as Grand Inquisitor , becoming one of the Empire ' s most exalted dignitaries . He was responsible for the dissolution of the Church of the First Frequency , and after a mission with fellow Inquisitors Ameesa Darys and Antinnis Tremayne went awry , he engaged Dark Jedi Arden Lyn in combat , cutting off her arm . Rather than killing her , however , he presented her to Emperor Palpatine , and she became one of his Hands . Torbin was an immensely unpopular figure and was the target of many assassination attempts ; one was foiled by Odumin in the Corporate Sector , though Torbin ' s luck ran out one month later when he was killed by an assassin droid on Weerden . Biography . Judicial . Laddinare Torbin first rose to prominence as a member of the Galactic Republic ' s Judicial Department . Although he was Force - sensitive , Torbin did not join the Jedi Order , instead serving under them as the Director of Information of the Department . He often acted as a spokesman for both the Order and the Judicial Department , volunteering information to HoloNet News during interviews . Around the time of the outbreak of the Clone Wars , he addressed the public about an issue between the Order and Coruscant ' s People ' s Inquest , a group of anti - Jedi . The People ' s Inquest believed that the Order ' s financial records should be released for the public to examine , since the Order was funded by Coruscant ' s taxpayers . Torbin and the Jedi knew that releasing such figures was potentially dangerous and could be used against the Jedi by enemies of the Republic ; he told the public that due to these security concerns , the Jedi ' s budgetary figures would be kept secret . The People ' s Inquest refused to back down , setting up a camp outside the Jedi Temple . Inquisitor . When the Clone Wars subsided and Supreme Chancellor Palpatine reformed the Republic into the first Galactic Empire , Torbin became one of the Galactic Emperor ' s many Inquisitors . It was their role to purge the galaxy of any lingering artifacts and memories of the Old Republic , as well as hunt down the few remaining Jedi who had survived Order 66 and were still alive during the Great Jedi Purge , whom Torbin once served alongside . After several years of service to Palpatine ' s Empire , Torbin was among the most powerful of the Inquisitors . After the deaths of Grand Inquisitors Malorum and Hydra some time after 18 BBY , Torbin took over as the leader of the Inquisitorius , assuming the prefix , " Lord . " As the Grand Inquisitor , he only answered to the Emperor , Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Vader , and the upper echelons of the Empire ; he also commanded all of the lesser Inquisitors , who numbered at least several dozen . His role as an Inquisitor also involved interrogating and torturing those suspected to be enemies of the Empire . He often used IT - O Interrogator droids ; their reputation was such that simply informing a suspect about the presence of the droid was enough to frighten a subject into giving a full confession . This was something Torbin made much use of and greatly admired , and he recorded his observations in his book , " Stratagems of the Inquisitorius " . On one of his missions as Grand Inquisitor , Torbin and fellow Inquisitorius members Antinnis Tremayne and Ameesa Darys traveled to a remote planet in search of fugitive Jedi . Instead , they chanced upon Arden Lyn , a Human female who had been lying in stasis since the First Great Schism in 24 , 500 BBY , in which she fought as a member of the Legions of Lettow , a group who worshipped the dark side of the Force . The Inquisitors inadvertently awoke Lyn and attacked her . The trio underestimated her powers , though , and she managed to kill Darys and grievously wound Tremayne . However , Torbin subdued the dangerous Dark Jedi and sliced her arm off with his lightsaber . Tremayne wished to kill her there and then , but Torbin had realized her power and believed she might become an asset to Emperor Palpatine . They took her to Coruscant — renamed Imperial Center — where Palpatine made her an Emperor ' s Hand and gave her a cybernetic arm to replace the one that Torbin had severed . Another mission of Torbin ' s involved single - handedly driving a cult named the Church of the First Frequency off the planet Otranto . Assassination . Although Torbin and his subordinates did not realize it , the Inquisitorius was immensely unpopular among the ranks of the Empire . Within a year or two of their inception , they had fulfilled their duties and were all but obsolete , though they were not disbanded . Torbin himself was among the more unpopular of the Inquisitors , and he had many enemies baying for his blood . Several years after being inducted into the Inquisitorius , Torbin traveled to the Corporate Sector on what was outwardly a simple inspection tour — though many speculated that the Grand Inquisitor had other motives in his visit . The Corporate Sector Authority had all their personnel put Torbin ' s safety as their highest priority ; he had been the target of many attacks over the years , and they did not wish to be responsible for the death of one so high in Palpatine ' s estimation . A group of surviving members who were a part of the Church of the First Frequency , determined to repay Torbin for his actions in purging them from Otranto , decided to strike at him during a cotillion he was attending alongside Corporate Sector officials . While speaking to several officials , Torbin was lured towards a variable - gravity pool by an attractive female — actually a member of the Church of the First Frequency . The pool area was practically deserted , leaving the cultists with an opportunity to rid the galaxy of Grand Inquisitor Torbin ; the attractive female pushed him and several other guests into the pool , while others altered the strength of the force field holding the pool aloft , sealing it airtight . Simultaneously , yet more cultists staged a false radiation leak drill to cover their escape , hoping that no one would notice Torbin ' s absence during the panic . Torbin and the others he was with began to drown . However , one of those trapped alongside Torbin , a Tynnan tourist named Odumin , was actually a CSA agent , and he managed to manually move the pool ' s breathing tubes so that Torbin could breathe , though the minuscule amount of air supplied was barely enough to keep him alive . Odumin , a prodigious swimmer , managed to escape and call for the help ; meanwhile , Torbin grabbed the air tubes from several other beings , one of which was his own bodyguard , in the hopes of saving his own life . Eventually , CSA engineers disabled the pool and freed Torbin and those few whose air - tubes he had not yet taken for himself . The Empire and the Corporate Sector Authority worked together to cover up the entire incident , though Torbin was extremely grateful to Odumin for his heroism . He offered the Tynnan various rewards and promotions , though Odumin was content to remain operating in the background , and declined most offers ; he did eventually accept a staff position in the CSA , serving that role with distinction . While Torbin narrowly escaped the cultists ' assassination attempt , he was not so lucky one month later . Torbin was residing in an Imperial palace on the Core World of Weerden , when an assassin droid commandeered the shuttle " Sark - I " , killing its crew and crashing it into the palace . Torbin was killed in the ensuing explosion . While Torbin was very unpopular , his death prompted the Empire to ban assassin droids , though it concealed the truth of his death from the public . Years later , after the Alliance to Restore the Republic killed Palpatine and toppled the Empire , New Republic officials believed that Torbin had perished in an accident , and knew nothing of the assassin droid . The New Republic also believed Torbin to be the last Grand Inquisitor — even though the Inquisitorius was never disbanded — though the Emperor did appoint a new Grand Inquisitor , the Zabrak Ja ' ce Yiaso . Personality and traits . Laddinare Torbin had few loyalties and cared only for himself . While he once served on behalf of the Jedi , he was an important figure in their eradication just years later . While Torbin could hold his own in combat , he was not as inherently violent as some of his colleagues ; when he saw use in keeping someone alive , he put any thoughts of revenge away from his mind and decided on the best course of action . After stumbling across Arden Lyn , Torbin decided to spare the Dark Jedi , unlike Tremayne , who wanted to slay her . Torbin was widely disliked by both Imperials and non - Imperials , though he never realized his unpopularity . Torbin did not care for others and did what he could to save his own skin , even if it meant that those who were loyal to him had to be sacrificed . During the Church of the First Frequency ' s botched assassination attempt one month before Torbin ' s eventual death , the Grand Inquisitor seized the air - tubes of those he was trapped with , dooming them so that his chances of surviving were increased ; among those he destined to perish was his own loyal bodyguard . However , even though he was thought to be unpleasant , he was very grateful to Odumin for saving his life and made no attempt to seek the glory for himself ; he offered the Tynnan a wide array of rewards . Like the majority of the other Inquisitors , Torbin was Force - sensitive and wielded a lightsaber . He was sufficiently talented with the Force to be chosen as Hydra ' s replacement as Grand Inquisitor and to defeat Arden Lyn when others , such as Tremayne and Ameesa Darys , were not . He was also talented at interrogation , and tortured many suspected of crimes against the Empire during his time as Grand Inquisitor . Behind the scenes . Torbin was first mentioned by Bill Slavicsek and Curtis Smith in the first edition of " The Star Wars Sourcebook " in 1987 . He and his death were only mentioned in passing as " Torbin , the Grand Inquisitor , " with no explanation given as to what a Grand Inquisitor was . He went unmentioned for several years until Michael Allen Horne ' s " Dark Empire Sourcebook " in 1993 , which gave a brief outline of the role of the Inquisitorius and established that there were no Grand Inquisitors after Torbin ' s death . This fact was later ignored by " Star Wars Galaxies " , which features a Grand Inquisitor over a dozen years after Torbin ' s death ; since the " Dark Empire Sourcebook " is an in - universe document written by the New Republic , it can be assumed that they were simply unaware of Ja ' ce Yiaso ' s existence . Torbin also appeared in " Han Solo and the Corporate Sector Sourcebook " , also written by Michael Allen Horn and published the same month as the " Dark Empire Sourcebook " , which provided more detail on the character . Abel G . Peña ' s The Emperor ' s Pawns also featured him , as did Paul Ens and Pablo Hidalgo in HoloNet News Vol . 531 48 , which provided his first name . Since then , he has only been mentioned in passing in " The New Essential Guide to Droids " and " The New Essential Chronology " , both by Daniel Wallace .