Trech Molock

General Trech Molock was a human individual who served in the Galactic Empire during the Imperial Era. In 0 BBY, Molock attended a meeting of the Joint Chiefs of the Imperial Military in a conference room on board the DS-1 Death Star Mobile Battle Station. At the meeting, Molock heard Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin announce the dissolution of the Imperial Senate and witnessed the Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Vader use the Force to choke Admiral Conan Antonio Motti until Tarkin ordered the Sith Lord to stop.
==Biography==
Trech Molock was a human individualwho held the military rank of general within the armed forces of the Galactic Empire. In 0 BBY,Star Wars: Galactic Atlas dates the events prior to the Battle of Yavin in to 0 BBY. Molock attended a meeting of the Joint Chiefs of the Imperial Military that was held in the main conference room on the officer's deck of the semi-operational Imperial DS-1 Death Star Mobile Battle Station. The meeting was called by Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin, but Molock arrived before the Grand Moff and sat with General Moradmin Bast, Colonel Wullf Yularen, Chief Siward Cass, General Hurst Romodi, General Cassio Tagge, and Admiral Conan Antonio Motti discussing the relative threats that each of their respective commands faced. This led to Tagge and Motti arguing about the threat posed to the battle station by the Alliance to Restore the Republic, but they were interrupted by the arrival of Tarkin and the Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Vader, with Tarkin announcing that the Imperial Senate had been dissolved.
Molock remained silent as Tagge and Tarkin discussed the dissolution and then the Alliance's recent theft of a set of plans for the Death Star that they could use to make an attack. Motti dismissed the possibility of a successful attack on the station, claiming it was by then the ultimate power in the galaxy, but Vader chastised him and stated that the Force was more powerful. The admiral then criticized Vader' devotion to the Force, but the Sith Lord cut him off by choking Motti from across the room using the Force. Molock and the others watched the admiral struggle until Tarkin ordered Vader to release Motti and stated that they would soon destroy the Alliance. The next day, Motti mentioned Molock in an incident report about Vader's actions at the meeting that he submitted to Imperial High Command. The Death Star was shortly subsequently destroyed at the Battle of Yavin by the Rebel Alliance, resulting in the deaths of Tarkin, Motti, Yularen,Aftermath: Life Debt Bast, and many others.
==Personality and traits==
Trech Molock had light skin and reddish-brown hair.
==Equipment==
While in the meeting on the Death Star, Molock wore a gray Imperial officer's uniform with a rank insignia plaque that showed six red squares.
==Behind the scenes==
Trech Molock first appeared as an unnamed background character in the 1977 original Star Wars film Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope, whom the fan website Aveleyman identifies as Charlie Gray,
 an actor listed as an Imperial Bureaucrat in Ann Skinner's continuity notes. He was given the name Trech Molock by the 2013 Star Wars Insider article The Death Star Coup. The name was brought back to canon by the short story "An Incident Report" of the 2017 anthology From a Certain Point of View.
The character shares his surname with Sate Molock, an unused character present in the second draft for the 1980 film Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back, who ultimately evolved into Sate Pestage.Star Wars: The Annotated Screenplays Molock's given name was inspired by Chris Trevas's "Star Wars name" according to an Internet meme, which requires taking the first three letters of one's last name and the first two letters one's first name.
In the early drafts of "The Summit," the fifteenth episode of the second season of the Disney+ animated television series Star Wars: The Bad Batch, Molock was supposed to be one of the Imperial officers present at a summit held on Eriadu by Grand Moff Tarkin along with General Cassio Tagge and Admiral Conan Antonio Motti. However, it was eventually decided that the character would not have been high-ranking enough that early in the Empire's existence
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*Star Wars: A New Hope Cinestory Comic
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*Darth Vader (2015) 1 
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==Notes and references==
Category:Humans
Category:Imperial admirals and generals
Category:Individuals of unspecified gender
Category:Individuals with unspecified pronouns
Category:Joint Chiefs of the Imperial Military