Jude Edivon Jude Edivon was a human female from Bespin who served as an officer in the Galactic Empire . She attended the Royal Imperial Academy on Coruscant and shared a room with Ciena Ree and Kendy Idele . After graduating from the Academy , Edivon was stationed aboard the first Death Star , where she discovered a critical weakness in the battle station ' s superstructure . During the Battle of Yavin , a Rebel pilot named Luke Skywalker exploited said flaw and destroyed the Death Star , killing her and everyone else aboard the battle station . Biography . Imperial Academy . A human female from the planet Bespin , Jude Edivon attended the Royal Imperial Academy on Coruscant , in the same class as Ciena Ree , Thane Kyrell , Nash Windrider and Kendy Idele . She and her roommates Ciena and Kendy quickly took a liking to each other and became close friends . During her time at the Imperial Academy , she regularly went to target practice with Ciena and Kendy . On one such lesson , she praised Ciena ' s marksmanship . Six months later , after a martial arts training session , Jude and her classmates Ciena and Kendy decided to visit the Museum of Multispecies Sciences to observe marine line . Knowing the close bond between Thane and Ciena , she advised Ciena not to become romantically involved due to the Academy ' s prohibition on romantic relationships among students . The following day , Jude and her fellow cadet s had their improvised laser cannon s examined by Commander Harn . This was part of a class project designed to test the cadets ' mechanical skills and resourcefulness . When Harn examined Thane ' s laser cannon , he found that it had been sabotaged . After checking the door panel , Harn determined that Ciena was the culprit . When Ciena was summoned to Commandant Deenlark ' s office for disciplining , Jude sprang to her friend ' s defense . Using her slicing skills , she examined the data logs and found evidence that Ciena had been framed after finding two levels of falsified data . Jude suspected that Thane was involved . Lacking strong evidence to convict or exonerate either party , Deenlark punished Ciena and Thane by failing their laser cannon assignments and downgrading their ranking in the class . Later , Jude found that her earlier analysis had wrongfully implicated Thane . She summoned her two friends to a network terminal and discussed her new findings , which suggested that the Academy ' s Office of Student Outcomes had engineered the " laser cannon " incident . While Thane wanted to clear his and Ciena ' s names and to confront the authorities , Ciena believed that this was not a battle worth fighting over and that they should instead focus on their marks . A heated argument ensued between Thane and Ciena , which ended with Thane storming out of the room after Ciena likened him to his hated father . Jude comforted a distraught Ciena , and counselled her friend to focus on her marks and class ranking . Two and a half years later , Jude was one of four top - achieving Imperial cadets , including Ciena , Thane , and Ved Foslo , who were invited to a ball at the Imperial Palace on Coruscant , which had formerly been the Jedi Temple during the time of the Galactic Republic . For that ball , she wore a tight - fitting orange fabric and gelled her hair into short spikes . Jude also spotted Prince ss Leia Organa , the junior senator of Alderaan and the adopted daughter of senator Bail Organa , an outspoken critic of Emperor Sheev Palpatine . While regarding the Organas ' mercy missions as misguided , Jude thought they were acting out of a spirit of kindness . Battle of Yavin . After graduating from the academy , she was given the honor of serving aboard the Death Star . When the battle station obliterated Alderaan with its superlaser in a show of force , many of the young Imperials on the station felt conflicted . Jude struggled to rationalize the massacre , and superficially justified the action in the belief that it would prevent a much greater war in which countless more would die , though she knew this was a hollow reason . Following these events , the Death Star closed in on the secret base of the Alliance to Restore the Republic on the fourth moon of Yavin . During the Battle of Yavin , Jude analyzed the attack and concluded that the Rebel fighters posed a threat to the station . She discovered the exhaust port no one else suspected to be a weakness ( a deliberate act of sabotage engineered by the station ' s designer , Galen Walton Erso ) and wrote to her superiors that though the chances were remote the consequences could be destructive or fatal to the station . This report eventually reached General Moradmin Bast of the Joint Chiefs , who presented the information to Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin , the man in overall command of the battle station . Tarkin , however , rejected Edivon ' s conclusion and chose to remain on the station instead of ordering an evacuation . Shortly afterwards , the Rebel pilot Luke Skywalker fired a pair of proton torpedo es into the vulnerable exhaust port , which caused a chain reaction and destroyed the station . Jude , and all other personnel aboard the battle station , were killed in the ensuing explosion . Personality and traits . Jude was highly adept with technology , and distinguished herself as one of the most academically skilled cadets at the academy . As a smart , calm , rational girl , she presented herself as stoic and unemotional , but she did show a more human side in private . Jude regarded science as the study of the entire material universe and took a scientific approach to every problem and situation . She was a close friend of Ciena Ree and proved to be a loyal friend on a number of occasions , and noted for her kindness and intelligence by Thane Kyrell . Despite her scientific talents , Jude was known for her humility and her willingness to admit when she was wrong . Her loyalty to the Empire was unwavering , which she viewed as an effective law - keeping government . The destruction of Alderaan , however , deeply impacted her , and though she was able to justify it in on the surface she clearly didn ' t fully believe her own rationalization . Following her death , she was long remembered by Ciena Ree , who saw her as a martyr for the Empire . Years later , Ciena thought that Jude would have been horrified to see that the Empire had built a second Death Star . Even Thane Kyrell , who had defected to the Alliance , remembered her fondly and felt saddened by her death , because of which he could never bring himself to speak with Luke Skywalker . She was described as pale , tall , and willowy . Skills and abilities . Jude was a skilled slicer who understood how computer systems and networks operated . As an Imperial cadet , she was also familiar with physical combat and operating blaster s . Behind the scenes . Jude Edivon first appeared in the novel " Lost Stars " , which was written by Claudia Gray and released in 2015 . While writing the novel , Gray mentally pictured Jude as being portrayed by .