Lal Grallik Lal Grallik also known as Boss Lal was a female Besalisk manager of Moonglow Polychemical on Gorse and Cynda . She was married to Gord Grallik . She was pushed by Count Vidian into a vat of xenoboric acid and was killed after she informed the count of her incapability to reach the Imperial thorilide quota . Biography . Moonglow . Lal Grallik was the Chief Operations Officer of Moonglow Polychemical , a refinery firm on the planet Gorse ' s Shaketown that had once been part of a larger company called Introsphere . Lal was married to Gord Grallik , a male Besalisk who served as the head of Moonglow ' s ground security . Lal had worked at the Moonglow refinery for more than twenty years and took pride in her facility ' s operations . Due to the end of thorilide mining on Gorse , the Galactic Empire had shifted thorilide mining to the moon Cynda , which hitherto had been a tourist destination . In 11 BBY , Boss Lal visited a mining site on Cynda where she was accosted by a dissident Gorsian miner named Skelly , a veteran of the Clone Wars . Skelly tried to convince Lal to suspend blasting past Zone Forty - Two so that he could test his research on the effects of thorilide mining . However , Lal ignored his concerns and attended to the freighter pilot Kanan Jarrus , who had delivered a shipment of Baradium - 357 explosives for the blasting work . Unknown to Lal , Kanan was a Jedi Purge survivor . While Lal took a call from an Imperial channel , Skelly tried to reason with Kanan but to no avail . Later , Lal contacted the Imperial Count Denetrius Vidian when a recovery team captured the dissident miner Skelly on Cynda . Skelly had been opposed to thorilide mining on the fragile moon which had once been a pristine sanctuary . Skelly had set off some explosives and assaulted Imperial stormtrooper s before being captured by a recovery team that included Kanan , who was angry that Skelly ' s explosion had endangered lives . During the hologram conversation , a visibly nervous Lal informed Vidian about the history of her firm ; not knowing that he was responsible for a critical report that ended all surface thorilide mining on Gorse . When Vidian announced that he would begin his inspection at Moonglow , she begged him to give her more time to prepare . Vidian gave her twelve hours to prepare but warned that her efforts to capture the " saboteur " would not give her company any leniency . Her husband Gord and a gagged Skelly were present during the conversation . After Lal told her husband to remove Skelly ' s gag , the dissident miner asked her why she did not let him talk to Vidian . Lal replied that she was afraid of Vidian . Lal and Gord then departed the room to prepare the firm for inspection while ignoring Skelly ' s threats to expose their use of Baradium - 357 in the mining of Cynda . Before Lal and Gord could begin cleaning up the firm , a criminal gang known as the Sarlaccs stole their hovertruck and exchanged fire with Gord and his guards . A rebel named Hera Syndulla then took advantage of the distraction to free Skelly . An embarrassed Moonglow was then forced to report the loss of their fugitive to Commander Nibiru Chamas and Captain Rae Sloane , who commanded the Star Destroyer " Ultimatum " ; which had transported Vidian to the Gorse system . Within the next twelve hours , Vidian and Sloane traveled to Moonglow on the Imperial shuttle " Truncheon " . Final inspection and death . The Gralliks and the Mayor of Shaketown welcomed Vidian and his entourage on the street outside Moonglow ' s front gate . After a brief but tense exchange , Lal led Vidian and his entourage on a tour of her refinery . Despite Gord ' s best security precautions , the rebel Hera and her friend Kanan managed to infiltrate the facility in a hover bus carrying the next shift of workers heading to Cynda . Hera had come to tail Vidian in order to find out about the true purpose behind his visit to Gorse . In addition , the fugitive Skelly managed to infiltrate the facility with the help of Drakka , the Besalisk diner owner whose business had been disrupted by the arrival of the Imperial shuttle . Skelly had come to reason with Vidian to cease all thorilide mining on Cynda . While showing Count Vidian her company ' s latest heavy - duty bulk - loader vehicle , Lal received a report from her husband via coming of an intruder sneaking around the plant ' s personnel department . While Lal led Sloane inside the vehicle , Vidian remained outside . At that point , Skelly appeared and tried to convince Vidian to cease mining on Cynda and even presented a holodisk for the Count to peruse . However , Vidian assaulted Skelly and tried to kill him . Skelly managed to flee through the factory ' s conveyer belt system before Lal and Sloane could apprehend him . After apologizing for Skelly ' s interruption , Lal continued her tour of the refinery . She showed the Count her vats of xenoboric acid , which were used to dissolve the thorilide crystals for processing . Vidian criticized her use of droid s for the refinery work on the grounds that organics would keep their balance better . Lal pointed out that it was too dangerous for sentient beings to fall into the acid . Vidian then coldly countered that organics would dissolve faster than droids , which would efficiently clear the vat of impurities faster then having to fish out droid parts and thus quickly return the vat to production . At that point , Vidian was contacted by his rival Baron Lero Danthe , who informed him that the Emperor Palpatine had tripled Gorse ' s thorilide quota . When Lal informed him that Moonglow ( nor any other company on the planet ) could not possibly meet the new quota , he threw her into a vat of xenoboric acid . As she was screaming , Vidian found a skimmer pole near by and used it to push her under the surface . Lal was killed by the powerful acid within minutes . Her murder was witnessed by Hera , who subsequently informed her husband Gord and prevented him from jumping into the vat in a futile rescue attempt . While Gord initially refused to believe the intruder ' s account , he changed his mind after witnessing the security monitors . An enraged Gord then confronted Vidian and attempted to arrest him but was beaten up the Count ' s stormtroopers . After Skelly destroyed Vidian ' s shuttle , the Count and his remaining entourage including Sloane traveled to the local Imperial spaceport where another shuttle was waiting . Gord followed him there and attacked Vidian . However , the cybernetic Count beat him to death . Following Lal ' s death , the Empire covered up her death by claiming that an earthquake had caused her to tip into the acid vat . Vidian later used a test explosion on Cynda as a pretext for nationalizing Moonglow ' s assets . Personality and traits . As a businesswoman , Lal Grallik took pride in her job as the Chief Operations Officer of Moonglow Polychemical , a small refinery company based in Gorse City . She took pride in her company ' s machinery and facilities including its xenorobic acid tanks . Lal was unconcerned about the environmental damage that thorilide mining operations inflicted on Gorse ' s moon Cynda . However , Lal made safety improvements at her Shaketown refinery which became the model for all the other factories on Gorse . Lal ' s concern for safety was continued by the Empire after her death . Lal loved her husband Gord , who helped her managed Moonglow Polychemical . The couple hired several cousins to help run and look after their refinery . Lal was also terrified of the Imperial management expert Count Vidian and was particularly irked by his comment about organics dissolving faster in xenorobic acid than droids . Despite her management and personal skills , she was unable to satisfy the homicidal Vidian , who callously murdered her after she was unable to fulfill the Empire ' s new thorilide quota . Behind the scenes . Lal Grallik first appeared as a supporting character in John Jackson Miller ' s 2014 novel " A New Dawn " , the first Canon novel to be produced in consultation with the Lucasfilm Story Group . Most of her lines are told through the point - of - view of several characters including Skelly , Denetrius Vidian , and Hera Syndulla .