Erno Erno was a male detective who worked at a Peace and Security station in Coronet City in the months following the Battle of Endor . He was divorced from his wife . Shortly before the Coronet City revolution , Erno apprehended a human youth named Remi , who was a member of the Acolytes of the Beyond . Before Erno could finish booking him , he and his fellow detectives were distracted by the Acolytes ' attack on Coronet City . Remi then slipped away and obtained a Sith lightsaber from the downstairs archive . After discovering that the Acolyte Kiza had gunned down several of his colleagues , Erno tried to confront her . However , Remi sliced off his blaster hand with his lightsaber . Kiza then spared Erno so that he could warn the others about the Acolytes . Biography . Erno was a detective in the Coronet City Peace and Security department following the Battle of Endor . Erno was divorced from his wife , who lived with a pair of artists in the Teeno Village district . He was posted at a Peace and Security station prior to the Coronet City revolution . Shortly before the Acolytes of the Beyond attacked Coronet City , Erno arrested a human youth named Remi , who called himself Oblivion . Erno caught the boy spraying an image of Darth Vader with the message " VADER LIVES " on the wall of the police station . Regarding the youth as a vandal , Erno took him into an interrogation room for booking . When Remi expressed defiance and claimed that Vader lived , Erno pointed out that the former Sith Lord had perished about the second Death Star above Endor . Erno dismissed Remi ' s remark that death was not the end . When Erno asked the boy his name , Remi responded that he was called Oblivion . Erno then tried to offer the boy leniency if he would name his fellow Acolytes . When Remi remained silent , Erno dismissed his group as a " buncha suck - ups " for the Empire . Erno then responded that the Acolytes were serving something greater than the Galactic Empire . Erno then asked Remi why he did not wear a mask and suggested that the Acolytes were fans of Vader . Remi responded by asking Erno whether he was a decent man . Unwilling to let the boy pry into his personal life , Erno asked the boy about the mask again . Remi responded that the Acolytes had to earn their masks . Remi added that the building was very old and hinted that he knew that the Peace & Security station shared the basement with the library next door . Before Erno could continue the interrogation , the security officer Spob Rydel entered the interrogation room to inform Erno that the Acolytes were attacking parts of Coronet City . When Rydel suggested roughing up their prisoner , Erno agreed and returned to the cell to fetch Remi . However , the prisoner had escaped . At that point , the lights went out . After the emergency lights had kicked in , Erno witnessed Rydel and the detectives Shreen and Mursey being gunned down by the Pantoran Kiza , another Acolyte who had disguised herself as a secretary . When Erno demanded to know what was going on , Kiza replied that she was not his doll . He tried to shoot her with his blaster but Remi returned and sliced off his blaster hand with an ancient Sith lightsaber he had retrieved from the underground archives . Kiza then clubbed the wounded Erno in the head and told him that Vader lived and to tell the others that the Acolytes were coming . Personality and traits . Erno was a male Corellian detective who regarded himself as a scruffy thick - neck . Erno did not regard himself as a good person due to his estranged relationship with his wife , who had left him to live with two artists in the Teeno Village district . His neighbors regarded him as a slob . Erno also imagined that the fish in his fish tank gave him the dubious look every morning when he left for work . Erno was also known to chew rubber - root , which he regarded as a better substitute than smoking stimstick s . Erno regarded Darth Vader as a bad man and thought that he was a machine . Erno dismissed the Acolyte Remi ' s claim that Darth Vader still lived despite the Battle of Endor . He regarded the Acolytes of the Beyond as a group of criminals and trouble - makers . Erno also treated the Pantoran Kiza like a doll and did not suspect that she was an undercover Acolyte . As a detective and peace officer , Erno knew how to wield a blaster . Behind the scenes . Erno first appeared in Chuck Wendig ' s 2016 novel " " , the second installment in " " .