Gwellib Ap - Llewff Gwellib Ap - Llewff was an Imperial Inquisitor and Dark Side Adept during the Galactic Civil War . Originally a Jedi , he was not selected to become a Padawan , instead joining the Agricultural Corps . He was part of a group of AgriCorps members and other Force - sensitives captured and kept in captivity on Byss shortly after the Clone Wars , but was freed when Darth Vader selected him and three others to become his first Inquisitors . Ap - Llewff was taken to Coruscant with the others and was taught the art of lightsaber combat and other dark side abilities by Lord Vader , though he was often bested by another trainee , Antinnis Tremayne . In 19 BBY , Ap - Llewff and his fellow Inquisitors failed to capture fugitive Jedi Padawan " Jodd Sonta , " though they did not report their failure to Vader . Eventually , Ap - Llewff returned to Byss to serve as one of Emperor Palpatine ' s Dark Side Adepts , and was stationed alongside Savuud Thimram at the entrance to the Emperor ' s Citadel . He was still on Byss with the Reborn Emperor in 10 ABY ; he and Thimram taunted Luke Skywalker as he attempted to gain an audience with Palpatine . Biography . Inquisitor . A Force - sensitive Humanoid male with a short , snout - like nose , Gwellib Ap - Llewff was a member of the Jedi Order . However , he was a failure , and wasn ' t selected to become a Padawan learner ; instead , he joined the ranks of the Agricultural Corps . He was one of over a hundred Force - sensitives — made up of former AgriCorps members and others kidnapped over a duration of several years — kept on the planet Byss by Darth Sidious and his aide , Sly Moore , during the Clone Wars . They were slowly turned to the dark side of the Force , and made absolutely loyal to Sidious . When the Sith Lord ' s public persona , Palpatine , dissolved the Galactic Republic and created the first Galactic Empire in 19 BBY , he told his apprentice , Darth Vader , to select several of the recruits to become " extensions of his will . " Vader arrived in the hall where Ap - Llewff and the other recruits were training and began to mock those of them who had desired to become Jedi . He Force choked several of the students , though Ap - Llewff and three others — Tremayne , Halmere , and Lanu Pasiq — were able to fend him off . Using crude sticks , they attacked Vader and managed to keep the Dark Lord at bay . Impressed , Vader took the four to become his dark side agents . The four darksiders were inducted into a new organization , the Inquisitorius , which reported directly to Vader and the Emperor . The Inquisitorius was tasked with destroying what was left of the Old Republic , including the few Jedi who had survived Order 66 . They were taken to Coruscant with Vader to speak to a gathering of members of the Commission for the Preservation of the New Order Sub - Adult Group . Ap - Llewff and Lanu Pasiq looked on as Tremayne made his speech , praising Vader and the Empire . After the speech , Vader took his four Inquisitors to watch them duel each other with lightsabers and begin their training . During the fight , Tremayne was able to incapacitate Pasiq and Halmere and take their lightsabers , leaving Ap - Llewff and Tremayne to face off . Ap - Llewff , not wishing to duel Tremayne ' s three weapons , surrendered , and Vader left them . Tremayne was sent to hunt down several rogue Jedi while the others continued their training , though Ap - Llewff , Halmere , and Pasiq soon had to assist their fellow Inquisitor . They forced entry into a ship on Coruscant where Tremayne had been bested by " Jodd Sonta , " a fugitive Jedi . The three Inquisitors were met with Zonder , a Selonian Jedi , and several other of Sonta ' s affiliates . They ordered Sonta ' s allies to return to their cabins — bar Zonder , who they wanted to take back to Vader . The Inquisitors were not expecting an attack and were not armed with their lightsabers ; Ap - Llewff and his peers were attacked and defeated by the unarmed criminals , bound together , and left on the ship as the Jedi and their allies fled . Eventually , Ap - Llewff was released and returned to an Imperial facility , but Tremayne , who had become the " de facto " leader of the four , strictly forbade them to tell Vader of their failure . While Tremayne and Lanu Pasiq were sent after " Jodd Sonta , " Ap - Llewff and Halmere were sent to hunt down the Jedi elsewhere in the galaxy . Dark Side Adept . Eventually , however , Ap - Llewff was transferred permanently to Byss to become one of the Emperor ' s Dark Side Adepts . These Adepts were hand picked by Palpatine because of their abilities and their loyalty , and they performed whatever tasks he required of them ; Ap - Llewff and another Dark Side Adept , Savuud Thimram , were often stationed at the entrance to Palpatine ' s Imperial Citadel . While serving on Byss , Ap - Llewff took to wearing ceremonial dress from his native planet and carrying a jeweled walking stick , though he also carried his lightsaber with him at all times . Palpatine ' s minions , including Ap - Llewff , used Byss ' s natural dark side connection to further their powers , and they fed off the life forces of the entire populace of the Core World . After Palpatine ' s first death at the hands of Darth Vader — who had been turned against his Master by Jedi Knight Luke Skywalker — at the Battle of Endor in 4 ABY , the Emperor ' s spirit traveled to Byss to inhabit a cloned body . After several years , he and his loyal Imperials launched an attack on the New Republic , finally revealing the Emperor ' s revival . Luke Skywalker , now a self - proclaimed Jedi Master , decided that the only way to defeat the Reborn Emperor would be to travel to Byss and attempt to defeat the dark side from within . Ap - Llewff and Thimram were waiting for him . When Skywalker arrived at the Imperial Citadel in 10 ABY , Ap - Llewff , Thimram , and several other Dark Side Adepts watched as the Jedi pushed aside the Citadel guards with ease ; they found the altercation quite amusing . Thimram ordered his companion to keep a close eye on Skywalker as he advanced towards Palpatine ' s position , though they decided not to attack him and take him to Palpatine personally — it was all the same to them whether or not he went with an escort or of his own free will . Believing that Skywalker was walking towards his peril , Ap - Llewff and his fellows mocked him with raucous laughter . However , Palpatine was eventually defeated , and Byss was left a smoking rubble after being attacked by the Galaxy Gun superweapon . The planet took all its inhabitants with it to the grave . Personality and traits . Gwellib Ap - Llewff was extremely loyal to the Imperial cause and spent the majority of his life serving others — Vader , Tremayne , Palpatine , and Thimram among them . He rarely spoke , letting others direct and guide him . Although determined , Ap - Llewff knew when to give up , and during his initial sparring lessons he surrendered rather than fight with Tremayne . Ap - Llewff and Thimram both found Luke Skywalker ' s plight highly amusing , and they mocked and jeered him as he strode past them toward Palpatine . Ap - Llewff was a member of an unidentified humanoid species , with a large , protruding , snout - like nose , which continued to grow as he aged . Although he had quite a thin build as a youth , by 10 ABY Ap - Llewff had grown in stature and was considerably taller than Thimram , a Human male . While he was an Inquisitor , Ap - Llewff wore the traditional robes of the order , though when serving Palpatine on Byss he often carried a ceremonial , jewel - crusted walking stick and wore traditional ceremonial garb from his homeworld ; many different species were represented in the Dark Side Adepts , and Byss was not mired with Humanocentrism as was Coruscant . Powers and abilities . Gwellib Ap - Llewff was trained in the ways of the dark side of the Force by both Palpatine and Vader , leaving him with lightsaber combat abilities and myriad Force powers . However , Ap - Llewff ' s talents with a lightsaber were less than those of Antinnis Tremayne , and he was defeated in a duel by the Human early in his Imperial career . Ap - Llewff , Lanu Pasiq , and Halmere were also easily outmaneuvered by the Jedi Zonder and his allies in 19 BBY , when the Inquisitors opted to use blasters instead of their lightsabers . Later , while serving as the Emperor ' s Dark Side Adept , Ap - Llewff was able to use many Force abilities taught to him by Palpatine , though he always carried his lightsaber with him . He was able to use the Force to heal others , to sense attack , and to control other beings ' minds , among other abilities . Behind the scenes . Gwellib Ap - Llewff first appeared in the of Tom Veitch ' s " Dark Empire " series , where he was illustrated by Cam Kennedy . He appeared only on one page and was not named , though Michael Allen Horne ' s " Dark Empire Sourcebook " provided him with his name and also listed statistics . He was later reused by Paul Ens in his webstrip , " " , drawn by Thomas Hodges , in 2005 , though he was only identified to be Ap - Llewff in Paul Ens ' s blog . In 2008 he received an entry in " The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia " , which established that he was a member of the AgriCorps , as was implied by " Evasive Action : Recruitment " . His " Encyclopedia " entry was later republished on the StarWars . com Databank . Both entries misspell his surname as " Ap - Llewf . "