Hetto Hetto was a member of Myder ' s Mynocks , a division of the Gorse - based surveillance company Transcept Media Solutions . One of Hetto ' s colleagues and closest friends was the Sullustan Zaluna Myder . Hetto was a secret contact of the rebel operative Hera Syndulla and informed her about a planned visit by Count Denetrius Vidian to the Gorse system . Due to his rebel links , he was arrested by the local Imperial authorities during Vidian ' s crackdown . Biography . Myder ' s Mynocks . Hetto worked for twenty years at Transcept Media Solutions , a surveillance company based on the planet Gorse that worked for the Galactic Republic and its successor , the Galactic Empire . By the Age of the Empire , Hetto was working under the supervision of Zaluna Myder , whose entire work floor shift was named Myder ' s Mynocks . Under the Galactic Empire , the Mynocks were assigned the tasks of monitoring all surveillance cameras in the Gorse system and reporting all violations of " public order " to the Imperial authorities . Hetto ' s increasing dissatisfaction with the Empire ' s repression led him to contact a rebel operative named Hera Syndulla on HoloNet and to disclose sensitive information about Imperial operations on Gorse and a mining consultant named Lemuel Tharsa , who later became the Imperial efficiency expert Count Denetrius Vidian . The Cynda Bomber . Hetto was on duty when he received a security camera on Gorse ' s moon Cynda picked up a threat to the Empire . He reported it to his supervisor Myder , who asked him who was listening . Hetto replied that dark - haired transport driver had overheard the threat and reported the culprit to the Galactic Empire . After consulting Transcept ' s database , Zaluna discovered that the culprit was Skelly , a dissident demolitions expert who had served during the Clone Wars and had been dismissed by several local mining companies . When Hetto remarked that he had not pulled out the file before , Zaluna reminded him that he had pulled out the fire eight days ago . After the Cynda security incident , Hetto received an incoming message from the official HoloNet channel . This turned out to be a hologram message from the Imperial Count Vidian , who informed Zaluna that he would be inspecting all mining operations on Cynda and processors on Gorse . Vidian added that both Cynda and Gorse were now under Security Condition One . Since Vidian ' s new security measures increased the company ' s workload drastically , Hetto remarked that Vidian needed a " red stamp " on his file ; a euphemism for a mentally unwell person . This earned him a corrective rebuke from Zaluna , who reminded him to follow his orders . After the hologram message with Vidian had ended , Hetto tried to point out that Skelly had a red stamp on his file . However , Zaluna told him that the Empire did not care and reiterated that Master Skelly ' s words would earn him a visit from stormtrooper s . The last shift . The alleged threat posed by Skelly coincided with an inspection of the Gorse system by Count Vidian , who had come to speed up thorilide production . As a result of Vidian ' s new security measures including he arbitrary arrest of known troublemakers and dissenters , Skelly and his fellow Mynocks ' workload was greatly increased . The crackdown was also accompanied by the stationing of several Imperial officer s and stormtroopers on the Mynocks ' work floor . Due to his dealings with Hera , Hetto was visibly nervous and took steps to avoid making eye contact with any of the Imperials ; focusing on his work . After receiving news that Skelly had been apprehended by the refinery company Moonglow Polychemical , Hetto took the chance to inform Zaluna about his secret . Pretending to talk about gardening , Hetto motioned for her to approach a pot of yellow stasias . While Zaluna pretended to change a saucer beneath the plant , Hetto told her about his activities on HoloNet and his planned rendezvous with Hera . He also told her that he had hidden a datacube with an attached note in that pot . Before Hetto could disclose the full account of his dealings with Hera , Hetto was arrested by an Imperial lieutenant and several stormtroopers , who charged him with making seditious remarks to disturb order and abusing the trust of the Galactic Empire . When Hetto responded that he worked for Transcept and not the Empire , the lieutenant responded that Transcept worked for the Empire and that they would not have traitors in their midst . The lieutenant then informed Zaluna that the Empire would be monitoring everything that happened on Myder ' s work floor in the light of Hetto ' s arrest . Before he was taken away , Hetto took the opportunity to tell his fellow Mynocks that they were being spied upon by the Empire . He then defiantly told the lieutenant to go ahead and view the records and emphasized that he and his fellow workmates had nothing to do with Skelly ' s mining collapse on Cynda . The lieutenant than replied that the Empire had a record of all his past statements against the Empire . When Zaluna told Hetto that she did not known anything about this , he warned her that the Empire was monitoring all comments and remarks made by Imperial citizens . Legacy . Despite Skelly ' s arrest , his supervisor and friend Zaluna managed to deliver the datacube to the rebel Hera at a local cantina called The Asteroid Field . This datacube included files from Transcept and information about a man called Lemuel Tharsa , who was actually Count Vidian . After being trapped inside a hoverbus , Zaluna joined Hera and an informal band of rebels that included Skelly and Kanan . Using Hetto ' s information , they were able to uncover Count Vidian ' s true identity and motives , and stop his plan to destroy the moon Cynda in order to discredit his rival Baron Lero Danthe . Hetto ' s arrest reflected the increasing repression and totalitarianism of the Galactic Empire . Personality and traits . Hetto was a surveillance operator who worked at Transcept Media Solutions for the past twenty years . He was a vocal critic of the Galactic Empire ' s mass surveillance of Imperial citizens and transients in the Gorse system . Hetto ' s opposition to the Empire led him to initiate contact with the rebel operative Hera Syndulla and download classified files relating to Transcept and Lemuel Tharsa . Hetto disagreed with Transcept ' s decision to alert the Imperial authorities to the remarks of a dissident miner named Skelly . Hetto ' s dissent and secret correspondence with Hera led to his arrest by the Empire . Behind the scenes . Hetto first appeared as a secondary character in John Jackson Miller ' s 2014 novel " A New Dawn " . Most of his lines are told through the point of view of another supporting character , Zaluna Myder .