Lozen Tolruck Lozen Tolruck was a male individual that served the Galactic Empire during the Galactic Civil War as a Grand Moff . In this position , he ruled as the governor of Kashyyyk , known as Imperial territory G5 - 623 . He enslaved nearly the entire Wookiee population and forced them into labor camps , implanting inhibitor chips to prevent their escape . After the Battle of Endor , he locked down the planet and kept the Emperor ' s death a secret from his troop s . He was killed during the liberation of Kashyyyk by Cracktooth , a former slave of his . Biography . Grand Moff of Kashyyyk . A male individual , Lozen Tolruck served as Grand Moff of Kashyyyk , which was renamed Imperial territory G5 - 623 , during the Galactic Civil War . Following the Battle of Endor , Tolruck claimed that Emperor Palpatine was still alive and well . He treated the indigenous Wookiee s as a disposable slave labor force and kept them docile using inhibitor chips . By 5 ABY , Kashyyyk was one of the remaining Imperial holdouts in a galaxy that was increasingly controlled by the New Republic , the successor government to the Alliance to Restore the Republic . Tolruck had a difficult time accepting the authority of Grand Admiral Rae Sloane , who commanded Imperial forces in the Vulpinus Nebula . Following the rescue of rebel prisoner s from Ashmead ' s Lock , Tolruck ' s Imperial forces on Kashyyyk came under attack from a rebel insurgency led by the smuggler Han Solo and the Wookiee co - pilot Chewbacca , who had come to liberate the Wookiee homeworld . Despite evidence to the contrary , Tolruck claimed there was no revolt on Kashyyyk and dismissed the insurgents as a " little cancerous shadow " clinging to the Imperial operation on G5 - 623 . When his troop s captured the New Republic soldier Jom Barell , Lozen torture d him in an attempt to extract information . When Barell proved resistant , he gouged out one of his eye s and locked him in a cage . Later , Tolruck remotely controlled an assassin probe with a control visor and used it to hunt down and kill a Wookiee slave named Subject 478 - 98 or " Blackstripe . " When Blackstripe proved unexpectedly difficult to kill , Tolruck threw a tantrum and smashed the visor he had used to control the assassin probe . Tolruck then met with his attache Odair Bel - Opis to discuss the threat of the rebel insurgency on Kashyyyk . Tolruck disagreed with Odair ' s assessment that the rebels posed a serious threat and vowed to hunt them down himself for sport . He even toyed with the idea of using the captive Barell as bait . Hunting the hunter . Odair then informed Tolruck that they had received an emissary from Grand Admiral Sloane . As a snub to Sloane ' s authority , Tolruck kept the emissary waiting and instead had a conference with Commandant Theodane Sardo via hologram . Due to a drop in the demand for Wookiee slaves , Sardo proposed farm ing the Wookiees of Kashyyyk for their meat . When Tolruck saw an explosion in the background at Camp Sardo , Sardo claimed that they had merely lost a turret . Tolruck liked Sardo ' s recommendation and ordered him to explore the idea . Unknown to Tolruck and Sardo , Han and Chewie ' s team had landed near the former tree city of Awrathakka above Camp Sardo . Tolruck then went to meet with Sloane ' s emissary , who turned out to be a disguised Sinjir Rath Velus . The former Imperial loyalty officer had defected to the New Republic and joined Han ' s campaign to liberate Kashyyyk . Sinjir pretended to be lieutenant Jorrin Turnbull , an Imperial officer who had died during the Battle of Endor . Tolruck took the opportunity to chastise Sloane ' s Empire for abandoning the Imperial presence on Kashyyyk and not taking their Wookiee slaves offworld . Sinjir then briefed Tolruck about Han Solo ' s insurgency on Kashyyyk . Intending to free hims comrade Jom Barell , Sinjir inquired about the rebel prison er . Tolruck then ordered Odair to bring out Jom in an iron kennel on grav - pads . Before Sinjir could leave , one of Tolruck ' s aides handed Odair a holoscreen , which identified the prisoner in the cage as Jom . While browsing through the holoscreen , Tolruck recognized Sinjir as a wanted enemy of the Empire . Before Sinjir could escape the chamber , Tolruck stabbed him in the calf of his leg with a kishakk blade . Hubris and demise . Tolruck then forced a wounded Sinjir to fight Odair for his amusement . While Sinjir was a capable fighter , he was no match for Odair due to his wounded leg . After Odair bested Sinjir in the first round , Tolruck asked his prisoner whether he had come for his friend Jom . A defiant Sinjir revealed that he had come for Tolruck ' s control module , which he kept on his person . When Tolruck boasted that he had full control over the module and the inhibitor chips , Sinjir responded that he had hyperwave transceiver spike hidden in his heel . Sinjir then smugly informed Tolruck that his transceiver could hack into his control module . At that moment , the datapad in Tolruck ' s left hand began to flesh red . At that point , all the inhibitor chips on Kashyyyk were disabled and the Wookiees rose up in a planet wide uprising against the Empire . The freed Wookiee slaves quickly overpowered their Imperial captors . Tolruck fled but not before ordering his aide Odair to kill Sinjir . Before Odair could kill the formerly loyal officer , he was ripped apart by several enraged Wookiee slaves . Meanwhile , Han and Chewie ' s team destroyed the deflector shield generator at Camp Sardo . Having lost control of Kashyyyk , Tolruck ordered his orbiting Imperial Star Destroyers to initiate orbital bombardment of the planet . After freeing themselves , Sinjir and Jom confronted the Grand Moff at his throne . However , Tolruck smugly responded that he had orders his Star Destroyers to destroy all life on Kashyyyk ' s surface including himself , the Wookiees , and his rebel opponents . Sensing that Tolruck had succumbed to madness , the two abandoned the Grand Moff to his fate . While Tolruck laughed in madness , one of his former slaves Subject 6391 - A ( " Cracktooth " ) sneaked up behind him and broke his neck ; killing him . Personality and traits . Lozen Tolruck was a ruthless and sadistic man who hunted Wookiees for amusement . Tolruck viewed the Wookiees of Kashyyyk as livestock and used inhibitor chips to keep them docile and subservient . As Grand Moff of Kashyyyk , Tolruck surrounded himself with several ruthless and sadistic killers including his Attache Odair Bel - Opis and Commandant Theodane Sardo , who shared his lust for violence and cruelty . After the Empire reduced its operations on Kashyyyk following the Battle of Endor , Tolruck came to regard himself as the de - facto ruler and god of Kashyyyk . Tolruck also idealized himself as a hunter and enjoyed inflicting harm on other beings . Tolruck wore a long , unkempt beard that covered his cheeks and jowls . He also wore a robe made from the pelt of an Arrawtha - dyr . Tolruck had poor standards of hygiene and did not bathe for weeks . He liked the stench of his own unwashed body and had dirty nails . Tolruck enjoyed eating wrosha - grub s whole and uncooked . Despite his overweight physique , Tolruck was fast enough to stab Sinjir on one occasion with a kishakk blade . He also had a taste for the flesh of Talz , a sentient species , and liked Commandant Sardo ' s idea of farming Wookiees for food . Tolruck was also willing to use torture to obtain results and once gouged out an eye from the New Republic operative Jom Barell and flung it into a campsite fire . Later , he forced another prisoner Sinjir to fight his attache Odair for amusement . However , Tolruck ' s complacency led him to underestimate Sinjir ' s plan to free the Wookiees by using a hyperwave transceiver to neutralize the control module controlling the inhibitor chips that kept the Wookiees docile . Tolruck was also partly insane and even ordered the orbital bombardment of Kashyyyk in an effort to deny the planet to the Empire ' s enemies . He was willing to order even in his own death and laughed maniacally . Behinds the scenes . Lozen Tolruck first appeared as a secondary point - of - view villain in Chuck Wendig ' s 2016 novel " " .