Ilo Jev Ilo Jev was a Human male Imperial commander and later colonel in Imperial Intelligence . He became an undercover operative for the Rebel Alliance after his father was executed by order of Moff Varnier . Biography . Ilo Jev grew up in the middle class suburbs surrounding Wyloff ' s capital city . His father was a local broadcast personality . Jev ' s interest in his father ' s line of work led to a part time job in the holoproduction booth where he was recruited by the Imperial News Network , a " civilian " branch of Imperial Intelligence ' s Media division . Ilo was given command of a section of the Wyloff sector Plexus ' lower division technicians . Jev ' s leadership and performance earned him a quick promotion to captain and he was transferred to ExComm . Several years later Jev continued to rise through the ranks and was eventually promoted to commander . The day after his promotion his father was executed as a Rebel sympathizer . In actuality his father was not being subversive to the Galactic Empire and had instead reported on Moff Varnier ' s preoccupation with recreational activities . Moff Varnier ordered his execution as part of a larger plan to eliminate any opposition and detractors to his rule . Varnier had issued orders through back channels to Intelligence ' s Destabilization and Assassination branches to carry out his orders despite not having approval from central Imperial Intelligence . As Varnier was uncovering this information one of his subordinates discovered a Rebel agent trying to penetrate their system . The agent was captured and Jev realized that it was an Imperial agent pretending to be a Rebel agent . Jev felt betrayed by the Empire and was angry at the Moff for the death of Jev ' s father and so Jev manipulated the Intelligence agency to get an execution order delivered for the " Rebel " agent which Jev carried out immediately . A review of the incident caused Jev to commended by Imperial officials for following duty while his superior officer , Colonel Markenson , was relieved of duty due to incompetency . Jev was promoted to colonel and under his command the ExComm facility became the most efficient of all the local sectors with an error rate a quarter of the normal error rate . Despite success Jev was still angry about the death of his father and after the Destruction of Alderaan in 0 BBY he resolved to switch sides . He was contacted by Vin Northal who arranged a meeting between Jev and General Airen Cracken . The result was that Jev would continue as a deep cover operative and fed the Rebel Alliance valuable intelligence from the Wyloff facility as well as supervising a Rebel espionage droid . Personality and traits . Jev was a Human male . He was a highly efficient leader who demanded , often angrily , perfection in his subordinates . He would constantly bark orders whenever a mistake was made . Internally he is bitter towards the Empire and felt it was ruled by corrupt leaders and mass murderers . He was not sympathetic to the Rebel cause but helped then in order to get revenge against the Empire . Skills and abilities . Jev was an extremely skilled leader and excelled at leading his division . His career path and access to information made him highly knowledgeable of Imperial operations within his sector . He was also a master at using the ExComm facilities . Jev kept himself highly trained for combat and was very skilled in all kinds of blasters and melee combat . Equipment . Jev carried around a Code cylinder , a BlasTech BlasTech Industries with a laser sight , a comlink , and a datapad . He also had full access to the Wyloff sector Imperial communications and computer network through ExComm . Behind the scenes . Ilo Jev was designed by David R . Tulo for " Cracken ' s Rebel Operatives " , a supplement for the " " that was published by West End Games in 1994 . He was illustrated by Doug Schuler .