Urk G ' lar Urk G ' lar was an Ongree male from the planet Coruscant , who during his childhood served as a member of the Anklebiter Brigade , a group of rebel children who opposed the Galactic Empire during the Galactic Civil War . In the year 5 ABY , G ' lar was among a group of six brigade members who managed to break a laundry vacu - tube in the Imperial Palace on Coruscant that led directly into the quarters of Mas Amedda , Grand Vizier and supposed leader of the Empire . The children then climbed through the tube and surrounded Amedda while he slept ; however , once he woke the vizier begged the children for death and they quickly realized he was a powerless captive of his own troops . G ' lar and then the other children began expressing doubt about the use of killing him and once the leader Iggs agreed , Amedda proposed a deal : If the children could rescue him from the palace by killing the guards outside his room then he would surrender the entire Empire to the New Republic , their enemy in the civil war . G ' lar and the others agreed and successfully freed Amedda , who was true to his word and represented the Empire in the signing of the Galactic Concordance peace treaty . Biography . Breaking into the Palace . During the Galactic Civil War between the New Republic and the Galactic Empire , the Ongree , male child Urk G ' lar joined the Anklebiter Brigade , a group of children led by the human Iggs who were rebelling against the Empire on G ' lar ' s homeworld Coruscant . In the year 5 ABY , G ' lar was one of six members of the brigade who infiltrated the Imperial Palace on Coruscant to assassin ate Grand Vizier Mas Amedda , head of state for the Empire since the death of the Galactic Emperor Palpatine . The group , led by Iggs , managed to break a laundry vacu - tube within the palace that was big enough for them to crawl through and led directly to Amedda ' s room . Several days after they broke the tube , the group climbed up and entered Amedda ' s room while he slept . Unbeknownst to the children , Amedda in fact no longer held any power within the Empire , and was kept as a prisoner within his own room by troop s loyal to the true Imperial leader , Counselor to the Empire Gallius Rax . A change of plans . The children surrounded Amedda in his bed and took aim at him with blaster s , but when the vizier awoke he simply requested that they get it over with . G ' lar then began questioning whether killing Amedda would actually be beneficial at all , and after Iggs agreed that there seem to be no point , Amedda begged them to end his life . The six brigade members then tried to figure out their new course of action , introducing themselves to Amedda and explaining how they had reached him after he asked . Amedda then asked the children to help him escape , an idea they initially rejected until the vizier explained that if he could reach the New Republic he would be able to surrender the Empire to them , as he still had control in the eye s of the public . After the brigade members reminded him he would not fit through the vac - tube , he suggested they instead kill the guards outside his room so that they would have access to the building ' s turbolift s . The Anklebiters agreed in the knowledge that they might well die attempting to free Amedda and knowing that the vizier might well betray them . G ' lar and his teammates were ultimately successful in getting Amedda to freedom , and the vizier safely reached the New Republic , where he recounted the story of his rescue with full credit given to the Anklebiter Brigade . As Rax had died during the Battle of Jakku , Amedda was able to successfully surrender the Empire and represent them in signing the Galactic Concordance , which officially ended the Galactic Civil War . Personality and traits . Urk G ' lar was a filthy , bug - eyed child at the time that he infiltrated the Imperial Palace . After seeing the pitiful state Amedda was in , he twisted his mouth and was the first member of the brigade to voice his concerns about killing the clearly powerless vizier . After Amedda proposed his plan of escape to the brigade , G ' lar was unsure as to whether they should trust the Imperial . Behind the scenes . Urk G ' lar first appeared during an interlude in the novel " " , which was written by Chuck Wendig and released on February 21 , 2017 .