Bazine Netal Bazine Netal was a human female mercenary . She was present in Maz Kanata ' s castle approximately thirty years after the Battle of Endor . Netal informed the First Order of the presence of BB - 8 in Kanata ' s castle . Biography . Early life . Netal was born on the planet Chaaktil with a name that she would later keep secret . As a child , she was taken from an orphanage in Chaako City by Delphi Kloda and raised in Kloda ' s combat school . There she learned a range of deadly martial arts . Kloda nicknamed her " Chaakrabbit . " First assignment . When Netal was fourteen years old , Kloda sent her to steal an item from one of his competitors . She was quickly discovered by her mark , who burned her with a flamethrower . Despite this , Netal was able to kill her attacker and complete her goal , though she was left with burn scars on the left side of her scalp . Thereafter , Netal became a feared bounty hunter and master of disguise , learning from teachers other than Kloda as well . At some point , she adopted the pseudonym " Bazine Netal . " She based her operations on Chaaktil around Suli ' s cantina . Mission to Vashka . Six years after having left Chaako City , Netal received an assignment from an anonymous client . Her assignment was to retrieve a steel case which was in the possession of former Imperial stormtrooper Jor Tribulus . Netal ' s client warned her that a competitor known as " Narglatch " would also be hunting for the case . Netal visited Kloda in order to borrow his ship , the " Sparrowhawk " . Kloda leant her the vessel on the condition that she take Kloda ' s student , the skilled Pantoran slicer Orri Tenro , along on her mission as a part of his training . Reluctantly , Netal agreed , hoping that Tenro ' s slicing ability would outweigh the risk he posed to her mission . As they left for the planet Vashka , Tenro proved to be incompetent with anything aside from computer s . On Vashka , Netal and Tenro infiltrated the medcenter where Tribulus was most recently recorded as a patient . There they were able to learn the location of Tribulus ' s retirement facility . Before disembarking for that site , Netal injected Tenro with a poison which rendered him unconscious . Netal then discovered that the retirement home had been overtaken by apidactyls . She made her way inside the building by distracting the apidactyls with a thermal detonator . There she met Aric Nightdrifter , a retired stormtrooper who had been living in the building , and he led her to Tribulus ' s remains . Netal was taken by surprise when Kloda appeared and revealed that he was Narglatch , and he had raised Netal for the sole purpose of sending her after the case in order to steal it himself . After taking the case from Tribulus ' s corpse and disarming Netal , Kloda trapped Netal in the grave of apidactyl wax and escaped . Using the materials Nightdrifter had buried with Tribulus , Netal was able to escape the building . She threw a detonator ahead of Kloda ' s narglatch , creating a hole in the ground and trapping Kloda . After a brief struggle , Netal killed Kloda and returned to the " Sparrowhawk " with the case . First Order spy . During the First Order ' s conflict with the Resistance , Netal served as one of the Order ' s spies . When she was at Maz Kanata ' s castle on Takodana , Netal posed as Grummgar ' s girlfriend . As soon as the " Millennium Falcon " s captain Han Solo arrived with Rey , Finn , and BB - 8 , she informed the Order of the droid ' s location . Personality and traits . Bazine Netal was intelligent and calculating , traits that served her well in her job . She was also elusive , as she was skilled at playing lowly aliens and would not reveal her past to anyone . She was extremely secretive as well . Bazine Netal was a human female who stood at 1 . 7 meter s . She had black hair , dark eyes and fair skin . Equipment . Netal used Rishi eel ink to conceal her fingerprints . She also kept several small thermal detonators inside the hollow wedges of her boots . Behind the scenes . Bazine Netal first appeared in the short story " The Perfect Weapon , " written by Delilah S . Dawson . She was portrayed by Anna Brewster in .