Zaluna Myder Zaluna Myder , nicknamed Zal , was a surveillance operator and the supervisor of Myder ' s Mynocks at Transcept Media Solutions on the planet Gorse . Myder was not married and had no children . She valued her work life over family , and felt as if work was her home . She had an astounding memory , a large sum of which came from working at Transcept Media Solutions for over thirty years . Zaluna was on duty when a surveillance camera caught the dissident miner and demolitions expert Skelly making threats against the Empire and reported him to the authorities . Zaluna became involved in the growing rebellion against the Galactic Empire when her fellow surveillance operator Hetto told her to pass a datacube to the rebel Hera Syndulla before his arrest . After being trapped in the toilet of a hoverbus , Zaluna joined forces with Hera and her companions Kanan Jarrus and Skelly to foil a plot by the Imperial industrialist Denetrius Vidian to destroy Gorse ' s moon Cynda . During the Gorse conflict , she lost her sight . With the help of Hera and Kanan , she relocated to another world to live a new life . Biography . Background . Zaluna Myder was a Sullustan who was born on the planet Gorse fifty Standard year s before the Gorse conflict . From her late teens onwards , Zaluna worked as a surveillance operator at Transcept Media Solutions ' headquarters in Gorse City ' s World Watch Plaza building . Transcept was one of the few commercial operations on Gorse that was not attached to the mining industry . Transcept was a surveillance company that worked for both businesses and governments including the Galactic Republic and the Galactic Empire ; monitoring the profiles and consumer tastes of Gorse ' s transient workers and residents . She worked at Transcept ' s Imperial " public order " surveillance division , which was nicknamed Myder ' s Mynocks . Zaluna was alive during the last decades of the Republic and saw the Jedi in action . She held the Jedi in high esteem and regarded them as individuals who would figure out what to do when innocent lives were threatened , even in a no - win situation . Despite her respect for the Jedi , Zaluna thought that the Jedi were not gods but rather people who could find a way to fix problems . She never believe the Empire ' s story that the Jedi had tried to seize control of the Republic . In 11 BBY , Zaluna was the supervisor of Myder ' s Mynocks . Monitoring the Bomber . Zaluna was on supervision duty at Myder ' s Mynocks when Hetto , one of her subordinate operators reported that a surveillance camera had recorded a verbal threat to the Empire on Cynda , a thorilide - rich moon that orbited the planet Gorse . This verabal threat took place in an elevator and was witnessed by a transport driver . The camera reported to several surveillance supercomputers which comprehended the statement , measured it against mysterious metrics , and referred it to the Mynocks . This verbal threat had been made by Skelly , a dissident miner who was opposed to the Empire ' s blasting operations on Cynda . After consulting Skelly ' s records on their database , Zaluna discovered that the miner was " red - stamped " ; meaning that he was mentally unwell and had been visited by Gorse ' s mental health authority . Shortly later , she received an incoming hologram message from the Imperial Count Denetrius Vidian , the Empire ' s efficiency expert who had been dispatched by Emperor Palpatine to speed up thorilide production in the Gorse system . Vidian informed Myder that he would be inspecting the mining and processing operations on Cynda and Gorse respectively . In addition , Vidian initiated Security Condition One , which quadrupled the surveillance workload for Myder ' s Mynocks . After the message had ended , Hetto criticized Vidian and insinuated that the Imperials were out of their mind . Zaluna warned him to follow the Empire ' s orders before returning to work . She then ordered Hetto to alert the Imperial authorities to Skelly ' s verbal threat in line with Imperial policy . When Hetto reminded her that Skelly was mentally unwell , Zaluna responded that the Empire did not care about the dissident ' s condition and that Skelly ' s comments were going to land him in trouble with the Imperial authorities . Stormtrooper s were dispatched to arrest Skelly but he managed to escape following a brief struggle . Following his escape , Skelly initiated a test detonation on Cynda ' s Zone Forty - Two , that caused a cave - in on the moon and disrupted mining operations . Due to the Imperial crackdown , the Myder ' s Mynocks were conscripted to assist the Empire ' s efforts to round up all local trouble makers prior to Count Vidian ' s impending visit to Gorse . While her Mynocks scanned Cynda ' s caverns for Skelly , Zaluna looked for the dark - haired transport driver the camera had captured Skelly arguing with earlier in the elevator . As a migrant worker , Transcept did not yet have a file on him and she nicknamed him the " Rugged Pilot " . Unknown to Zaluna , this " Rugged Pilot " was the Jedi Padawan Kanan Jarrus , who had survived the Jedi Purge and was eking out a living as a freighter pilot . Seeds of dissent . Following the incident on Cynda , Zaluna had to deal with the increased presence of Imperial officers at the Mynocks ' work floor , who quizzed her and went over recordings of events on the moon . After Skelly triggered a cave - in on Cynda through a test explosion , the Imperial authorities tried to cover it up by claiming that the collapse on the mon had been a natural occurrence . While monitoring Cynda ' s surveillance network , Zaluna received news that Skelly was in the custody of the refining company Moonglow Polychemical . Zaluna promptly informed the Imperials who informed their commanding officer Captain Rae Sloane ' s Imperial Star Destroyer " Ultimatum " . Noticing her colleague Hetto ' s discomfort with the Imperials , Zaluna went to find him . Hetto promptly revealed that he had been in contact with a mysterious woman on the HoloNet and had downloaded sensitive information on the Empire into a datacube . He told her that he had hidden the datacube in a potted plant . Shortly later , Hetto was arrested by an Imperial lieutenant and his stormtroopers for " abusing the trust of the Galactic Empire . " When the Imperial lieutenant questioned the loyalty of Myders Mynocks , Zaluna sprang to the defense of her team by pointing out that they had done everything that the Empire had asked . However , the lieutenant was unsympathetic and told her that everything that happened today would be reviewed . Zaluna and her fellow colleagues were greatly troubled by Hetto ' s arrest since Hetto had worked for the company for the past twenty years . When a younger female colleague asked Zaluna what would happen to Hetoo , she admitted that she did not know . She told her colleagues that their company was a " tool " that could stop bad things like the earlier incident on Cynda . After the Imperials had departed , Zaluna went to the watering plant and found Hetto ' s datacube along with a small note that contained the name of a local cantina called The Asteroid Field and a woman named " Hera " . Rebel entanglements . Later that night , Zaluna headed to The Asteroid Field to meet Hera . On the way , she was harassed by a drunken bruiser named Ketticus Brayl , who was infatuated with her . Zaluna managed to ward him by showing him her blaster and telling him to return to his wife and children . During the journey , she wondered who the mysterious Hera was and speculated whether she was working for a rival surveillance firm . Despite her fears for her own safety and freedom , she vowed to uphold her promise to deliver the datacube to Hera . Upon arriving at The Asteroid Field , Zaluna encountered Kanan and the bartender Okadiah Garson . After exchanging greetings , Zaluna disabled the surveillance cameras in the cantina . Once she was sure that no one was watching them , she introduced herself to Kanan ; recognizing him as the miner who had stood up to Vidian earlier that day . She then told him that she was looking for someone named Hera . While Kanan did not know where Hera was , their problem was solved when Hera turned up at the cantina . After exchanging pleasantries , Zaluna informed Hera that Hetto had been arrested by the Empire and that she was carrying his instruction to meet Hera . After speculating about Hetto ' s fate in Imperial captivity , Zaluna showed Hera Hetto ' s datacube . She explained that Hetto had been downloading sensitive Imperial files including requests made on the Imperial channel to the Transcept database . One of the files concerned a mysterious man named Lemuel Tharsa , a man who had visited Gorse twenty years ago . While bantering about her work as a surveillance operator to the offworlds , Zaluna caught side of Skelly , the dissident miner she had reported earlier . Fearing retribution , she slipped the datacube into her bag and left the cantina . After leaving the cantina , Zaluna hid inside the toilet of a hoverbus in order to escape a stormtrooper patrol . This was a fateful decision that put her into the company of Hera , Kanan , and Skelly . Zaluna was trapped inside the hoverbus for almost an entire day . During her accidental captivity , the bus ' driver Okadiah allowed Kanan and Hera to borrow his bus in order to infiltrate the Moonglow Polychemical refinery and spy on Count Vidian . After Skelly blew up Vidian ' s Imperial shuttle in an attempt to assassinate the Count , Vidian and his surviving Imperial entourage commandeered the hoverbus and used it to travel to an Imperial spaceport at Highground . Following a second attempt on Count Vidian ' s life , Skelly fled with Kanan and Hera aboard the hoverbus , outrunning several Imperial Troop Transport s and two TIE fighters . The rebels managed to outwit their Imperial pursuers and fled to a quarry outside Gorse City . Shortly after landing , the rebels heard incessant pounding in the door of the hoverbus ' restroom . After Kanan opened the door , he found an exhausted Zaluna . Nobody had been able to hear Zaluna due to the thick door and the bashing and blasting during the pursuit . Zaluna quickly recognized Skelly as the bomber she had earlier reported to the authorities . While she was fearful of retribution , Kanan reassured her that Skelly was in no physical shape to hurt her . Zaluna told Hera that she had to discuss Hera ' s cube later and made preparations to return home since she had missed work . She also revealed that their hoverbus had a surveillance camera board . After some discussion , Zaluna also agreed to lead the rebels back to Okadiah ' s bar through routes that were not being watched by surveillance cameras . Leaving Gorse behind . While resting in the flophouse opposite Okadiah ' s cantina with her new rebel friends , Zaluna listened as Hera proposed that they work together to fight the Empire instead of going after the Empire on their own . When Zaluna heard the rebellion being mentioned , she quietly remarked that it would lead them into troubled . While checking her datapad , Zaluna received word that her entire team Myder ' s Mynocks had been suspended and that she had also been suspended for not showing up for her shift . Zaluna was also fearful that the Empire was going to find out that she had been in the company of rebels and that she would lose her job or worse . After commiserating her job loss and troubles with the Empire , Zaluna and her rebel friends turned their attention to the recording device that Zaluna had located on the bus . Zaluna attached the recording device to her holoplayer . After watching the material from the hoverbus surveillance , they discovered that Count Vidian was planning to destroy Gorse ' s moon Cynda . While Hera and Kanan reacted to Vidian ' s plot with disbelief , Skelly pointed out that Vidian now had the means to destroy Cynda , partly thanks to his research which the Count had misappropriated during their meeting at Moonglow . To Skelly ' s relief , Zaluna backed him up by pointing out that her mother had taught her during her childhood that Cynda was all brittle because of the gravitational weight generated by Gorse . She feared that Cynda ' s destruction was imminent . After resting the night with the rebels , Zaluna decided to travel with the rebels on Kanan ' s freighter " Expedient " and leave Gorse behind . She decided not to return to her apartment and pack her things since she feared that the Empire would be watching . Since Zaluna had no living family and friends on Gorse , she decided to leave the planet . She also wanted to see an actual sunrise , something she had not seen in her life . To reward Zaluna ' s services in providing data about the Empire ' s methods , Hera agreed to help the Sullustan start a new life in somewhere she could be safe . Before the rebels could make their way to the spaceport , they witnessed an explosion on Cynda . Realizing that the Empire was behind it , the rebels rushed to the spaceport where Kanan ' s freighter was parked . Since Kanan ' s friend had been working on the moon just prior to the explosion , Zaluna and the other rebels traveled on the " Expedient " to find him . They quickly discovered that Count Vidian had ordered a test bombing on Cynda which had claimed the lives of many miners including Okadiah . Vidian had ordered this test in order to investigate whether the planned detonation of the moon would destroy its thorilide crystals . To support his plan , Vidian had used his phantom mining expert Lemuel Tharsa to fake the results to show that the detonation would not damage the moon ' s crystal . The original report concluded otherwise but Vidian did not show it to his fellow Imperials including Captain Rae Sloane . Satisfied , Vidian ordered all empty cargo ships in the Gorse system to follow Sloane ' s Imperial Star Destroyer to his depot in the Calcoraan system under the pretext of delivering Baradium - 357 to stabilize Cynda . After hearing Vidian ' s orders via intercom , the rebels decided to follow the mining fleet to Calcoraan in order to stop him . Before leaving , Hera asked the other rebels whether they consented to their plan . After Skelly agreed to take part , Hera turned to Zaluna . She asked Zaluna whether she wanted to go home and promised that no one would judge her for her decision . After some contemplation , Zaluna decided that she would be a brave person rather than coward . She also rejected her past as a surveillance operator and vowed never to help the Empire to oppress and imprison people again . Having reached a unanimous decision to stop Vidian ' s plot to detonate Cynda , the rebels traveled to the Calcoraan Depot . Stopping Count Vidian . While traveling to the Calcoraan system , Zaluna and her fellow rebels received word on HoloNet that the Empire had covered up Count Vidian ' s test bombing by claiming that Moonglow ' s negligence had caused the bombing . This had given the Empire a pretext to nationalize the company and seize its assets . Zaluna picked that up after learning that the Empire had renamed Kanan ' s ship " Imperial Provisional Seventy - Two . " After arriving in the Calcoraan system , the rebels discussed their plan to stop Vidian . Hera proposed loading Kanan ' s freighter with explosives and using it to destroy the Calcoraan Depot . However , Skelly suggested producing a fake report that claimed that detonating Cynda would destroy the throrilide crystals in order to confuse the Imperials . For that plan to work , they need to find Vidian . Zaluna offered to help by slicing a terminal in order to find Vidian . While the other rebels loaded the baradium aboard the " Expedient " , Zaluna and Skelly managed to find out that Vidian had gone to his hub and also downloaded a copy of the space station ' s layout . Zaluna also managed to freeze several Visitractic 830 factory surveillance cam s in order to help Hera and Kanan make their way through the depot undetected . The four rebels then traveled to Count Vidian ' s hub in a hovercart and found themselves in the Count ' s medcenter . Vidian soon detected the presence of Hera and Kanan and managed to overpower them with his cybernetic body . However , Skelly and Zaluna managed to take control of one of the Count ' s medical droid s and used it to incapacitate Vidian with a sleeping serum . The rebels then downloaded Vidian ' s brain into a portable terminal in order to access Vidian ' s computer system and produced a fake report to stop Cynda ' s detonation . To prevent the cyborg Count from recording them , Zaluna deactivated the unconscious Count ' s eyes and ears and also deleted the entire encounter with them . While probing through Vidian ' s mind , the rebels discovered that Vidian had suppressed the original test bombing report which showed that detonating Cynda would damage the thorilide crystals . After looking deeper into Vidian ' s memories , Zaluna and her companions discovered that Vidian had once been Lemuel Tharsa before succumbing to Shilmer ' s syndrome . They also discovered that Vidian had perpetuated the falsehood that Lemuel was a separate individual in order to produce fraudulent mining research to advance his own interests , which were linked to the comet - chasing industry . Armed with the knowledge that Vidian had suppressed the original report on the Cynda test bombing , the rebels abandoned their plan to produce a fake report . Instead , Kanan tricked Captain Sloane into entering Vidian ' s private chambers . Posing as an agent of the Emperor , Kanan convinced Sloane that Vidian ' s planned detonation of Cynda threatened the Empire ' s strategic interests and got her to send the original report to the Emperor . Zaluna and her rebel companions then returned to the " Expedient " and left for the Gorse system . Saving Cynda . While traveling back to the Gorse system , Zaluna reflected on the life - changing events that had occurred in the past few days . Despite toying with the idea of betraying her friends to the Empire , Zaluna managed to overcome her fears and doubts by recalling her own aversion to the Empire ' s oppressive policies . In the end , she decided to overcome her fear of the Empire and cast her lot with Hera and her companions . After exiting hyperspace , the rebels decided to disrupt the planned detonation of Cynda by harassing the mining ships in order to prevent them from unloading their thorilide supplies . Piloting the " Expedient " , Kanan ran circles around the mining fleet and managed to shoot down several TIE fighters . Meanwhile , Zaluna managed to tap into the Transcept systems and send a warning to the inhabitants of Gorse . The rebels managed to land their freighter in the rear hangar of Count Vidian ' s harvesting ship " Forager " . Together , the four rebels managed to fight their way through the factory ship and make their way to Vidian ' s command centre . While navigating through the ship ' s factory , they were separated from Skelly . Zaluna along with Hera and Kanan managed to make their way to Vidian ' s command centre . Zaluna attempted to infiltrate the centre in order to send a distress signal to Gorse but was captured by Vidian , who hurled her across the room . Before the cyborg Count could finish her off , Kanan and Hera entered the room and fought Vidian but were quickly overpowered . During the struggle , Zaluna attempted to shoot Vidian with her blaster but the Count managed to turn the blaster in her direction and blind her . Zaluna survived the blaster shot but was permanently blinded . The count then triumphantly announced his intention to continue with his detonation of Cynda . Before Vidian could relish in his victory over Zaluna and her rebel companions , Captain Sloane received orders from the Emperor to terminate the planned detonation and to arrest Vidian . When Vidian defied Sloane , she ordered the Imperial fleet to destroy the Count ' s ship " Forager " in order to destroying the Detonation Control link . During the bombardment of the " Forager " , a wounded Zaluna and her rebel companions managed to escape the derelict ship . Kanan saved the three of them from being crushed by a falling catwalk by using the Force to levitate it aside . Zaluna and the rebels then escaped the " Forager " in an escape pod . Meanwhile , Vidian was killed by a vengeful Skelly , who detonated a bomb which destroyed the " Forager " and several nearby ships . While aboard the escape pod , Zaluna and her companions reflected on Skelly ' s death . A new life . Following the Gorse conflict , Zaluna started a new life on a sunlit agricultural world with the help of Hera . Prior to departing the Gorse system , Hera visited Zaluna ' s apartment on Gorse and managed to retrieve her personal belongings and effects . Zaluna was relieved that her apartment had not been ransacked and that no video surveillance imagery identifying her from aboard the " Forager " had survived . Zaluna settled in an empty house which Hera had purchased . Despite her blinded state , Zaluna was happy with her new life and refused to consider any treatment since she had seen enough . She received help from a young girl who came everyday to help her with chores . Zaluna was also happy to learn that her new home had a back garden with a tree , which she regarded as a memorial for her late friend Skelly . After exchanging pleasantries , Zaluna allowed her rebel friends Kanan and Hera to depart on Hera ' s ship , the " Ghost " . Personality and traits . As a Sullustan , Zaluna Myder had large shell - like ears . Standing at a height of over a meter and a half , Zaluna was considered to be tall among her diminutive species . By the time of the Gorse conflict , Zaluna was in her fifties . Since her adolescence , she devoted her life to working as a surveillance operator at Transcept Media Solutions . As a career woman , Zaluna did not have a spouse or children . She regarded her employees at Transcept as her own children and looked out for them when they got into trouble . Until the Gorse conflict , Zaluna was politically neutral and played an important role in alerting the Imperial authorities to the rogue miner Skelly and other dissidents . The seeds of Zaluna ' s disenchantment with the Empire were first sown when her friend Hetto was arrested due to his dealings with the rebel Hera Syndulla . Zaluna was also horrified when she saw footage of Count Vidian callously murdering the guildmaster Palfa for disagreeing with one of his " reforms " . Later , she decided to cast her lot with Hera ' s rebel cells upon learning that she and her fellow Mynocks had been suspended as part of the Imperial crackdown . Knowing that the Empire already knew about her friendship with Hetto , she feared that the Imperials would also discover that she had been in the company of Hera , Skelly , and Kanan . Having grown up on a sunless part of Gorse , Zaluna had never seen a sunrise and longed to see one all her life . This motivated her to join Hera and her rebel band . While Zaluna initially took pride in her work as a surveillance operator , she grew disillusioned after learning that she was abetting Imperial oppression in the Gorse system by helping the Empire to arrest dissidents and other enemies of the state . Zaluna also questioned the official Imperial narrative that the Jedi had betrayed the Republic . She was old enough to see the Jedi in action during her younger days and respected them for saving the lives of the innocent even in difficult situations . Zaluna also did not believe that the Jedi were gods but believed that they were just people who inspired other people to do what was right . Skills and abilities . As a surveillance operator , Zaluna Myder was skilled with operating computer systems and technology . Due to her line of work , Zaluna was familiar with the locations and operational capabilities of the surveillance camera s on the planet Gorse and its moon Cynda . She was also a skilled slicer and was able to hack into computer systems . In addition , Zaluna also wielded a blaster which she used for self - defense . While not a fighter , Zaluna attempted to come to the aid of her friends Hera and Kanan who were being attacked by Count Vidian during the Gorse conflict . During that skirmish , Zaluna was blinded and lost her sight . Behind the scenes . Zaluna Myder first appeared as a secondary point - of - view character in John Jackson Miller ' s 2014 novel " A New Dawn " , the first Canon ical novel to be produced in consultation with the Lucasfilm Story Group .