Pryce family The Pryce family was a Lothalian human family that lived during the Imperial Era . The family owned Pryce Mining before being forced to sell the company to the Galactic Empire in order to prevent Governor Ryder Azadi from taking over it . Arihnda Pryce went to work for Senator Domus Renking on Coruscant before joining and double - crossing the Higher Skies Advocacy Group . Arihnda subsequently became Governor of Lothal and oversaw the Imperialization of her homeworld . Her parents Talmoor and Elainye Pryce found work managing a mine on the planet Batonn . History . Losing Pryce Mining . The Pryce family consisted of the mining foreman Talmoor Pryce , his wife Elainye , and their daughter Arihnda . When Arihnda came of age , she became the manager of her family ' s mining company Pryce Mining , whose assets included a doonium vein near Capital City . Pryce Mining supplied doonium to the expanding Imperial Navy . During the early Imperial Era , Governor Ryder Azadi tried to take over Pryce Mining by buying a 21 % stake in the company . When Arihnda objected , Azadi had Elainye ' s mother imprisoned on trumped up charges of embezzlement . Arihnda sought Senator Domus Renking ' s help . In return for helping Elainye , Renking pressured Arihnda into letting the Empire buy up a controlling stake in her family ' s company . As compensation , Renking offered Arihnda a job running one of his citizen assistance office for Lothalian expatriates living on Coruscant . Talmoor and Elainye also found work managing the Creekpath Mining and Refining complex on the planet Batonn . While working for Renking , Arihnda discovered that her employer was trying to defraud Moff Ghadi , who blackmailed Pryce into working for him . Due to a funding cut , Pryce lost her job with Senator Renking ; who blamed her for the crisis . Turn of fortunes . After working at the Proam Avenue Citizen Assistance , Pryce joined her friends Driller MarDapp and Juahir Madras ' Higher Skies Advocacy Group . Under Juahir ' s tutelage , Pryce also learned martial arts and trained under the Togorian master H ' sishi at the Yinchom Dojo . Pryce subsequently discovered that Higher Skies was using bodyguards to spy on Imperial officials and projects on behalf of the insurgent leader Nightswan . At the advice of the - then Captain Thrawn and the Imperial Security Bureau Colonel Wullf Yularen , Pryce became a double agent for the Empire . After learning that Moff Ghadi wanted to use Higher Skies ' information on Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin to gain an advantage over Tarkin , Pryce exposed Higher Skies and Moff Ghadi to Grand Moff Tarkin in return for getting the Governorship of Lothal and getting Thrawn ' s friend Eli Vanto promoted to Lieutenant Commander . Arihnda spent a year learning the ropes of her job as Governor before returning to Lothal . Pryce oversaw the expansion of Imperial industry , mining , and military bases on Lothal . Seeking revenge against Senator Renking for exploiting her , she shut down Pryce Mining after discovering that the mine had exhausted its doonium reserves . Pryce also successfully lobbied for Lothal to be the site of an expanded Imperial Navy presence in that region of the Outer Rim Territories . Knowing Renking ' s corruption , Pryce also manipulated Renking into bribing Governor Sanz of Kintoni into sabotaging her world ' s bid . As a result of Renking ' s arrest , Pryce eliminated political opposition to her rule on Lothal . The Batonn insurgency . Meanwhile , Pryce ' s parents Talmoor and Elainye grew disenchanted with Batonn ' s corrupt Governor Restos , who ruled the planet on behalf of the Empire . During the Batonn insurgency , the insurgent survivors of the Battle of Scrim Island retreated to the safety of the Creekpath mine , resulting in a siege by Imperial and the Batonn Defense Force . Talmoor and Elainye were sympathetic to the insurgents ' aims . These insurgents were led by Nightswan , who had staged a showdown with Pryce ' s ally Admiral Thrawn . Fearing for her parents ' safety , Pryce traveled to Batonn to extract them . She accompanied an undercover ISB Agent named Gudry who was tasked with planting explosives to disable the mine ' s shield generator . A disagreement broke out between Arihnda and Gudry when she insisted on evacuating her parents prior to the anticipated Imperial attack . Gudry refused since he did not want to draw their attention . Arihnda killed Gudry and then blew up the explosives cache to hide the evidence . The resulting explosion killed Nightswan , all the insurgents in the mine , and many civilians . While Talmoor and Elainye were unaware of their daughter ' s role in the bombing , they became increasingly disillusioned with the Empire . Arihnda sought to rationalize the Empire ' s actions by claiming that the insurgents provoked it . Confronting the Rebellion . In response to the Phoenix Cell ' s activities in the Lothal sector , Governor Pryce enlisted the services of Grand Admiral Thrawn , who had been promoted for his role in suppressing the Batonn insurgency . Pryce fought members of the Phoenix Squadron on several occasions and even took part in an unsuccessful operation to capture former Senator Mon Mothma , the founder of the Alliance to Restore the Republic .