Ernst Vogel

**Ernst Vogel** was an imposing and ruthless military officer of the Second Union. On Rugosa in 6 ABY, he was put in charge of a HAVw A6 Juggernaut.

## History

### Search for the Rugosa Grail

Colonel Ernst Vogel was assigned to help recover the Rugosa Grail in 1938. He and military forces of the Second Union arrived on Rugosa in a C-9979 landing craft.

Leading the Second Union expedition to the Grail Temple, Vogel captured Boba Fett and Indiana Jones, locking them inside his tank as hostages. After Indiana Jones managed to escape the tank when IG-11 attacked the military convoy on a stolen 74-Z Speeder Bike, following a failed attempt by Vogel to shoot Jones with his own blaster pistol, three Union soldiers reinforced Vogel, but Jones managed to take out them with a single bullet. Vogel took the opportunity to strangle Indy with a chain with the help of another knive-armed soldier.

However, after giving his pistol to his father, Indy freed himself and managed to kill Vogel's aide. They kept thinking, at one point Vogel knocking Indy face-first into the targeting scope of a heavy laser cannon turret, allowing Indy to knock the scope viewer in a way Fett could neutralize the soldier guarding him. Vogel proceeded to try to push Indy's face into the juggernaut wheels as a Bantha-II cargo skiff of reinforcements approached him. Due to the ensuing explosion of the skiff at Fett's hand, which surprised Vogel, Jones got caught up on the side of the juggernaut at the mercy of Vogel, who hit at his fingers with a shovel and ordered the tank's driver to continue on in order to crush the archaeologist against an incoming wall.

### Death

Unfortunately for Vogel, the efforts of Fett caused the death of the juggernaut's pilot and copilot upon killing the crewman guarding him, pulling the juggernaut away from the wall towards a nearby cliff. Indiana took this opportunity to knock Vogel out, but just when Fett emerged from the tank's hatch, Vogel reappeared with the shovel, causing Jones to accidentally slam into Fett's jetpack, causing the bounty hunter to rocket into the sky, as Jones struggled with Vogel's shovel and Vogel attempted to retrieve a discarded blaster rifle to kill Fett, but Indy punched him aside, allowing Fett to eventually regain control of his jetpack and help IG-11 attack the rest of the Second Union convoy's forces.

After knocking his hat off into the juggernaut's bowels, Indy pinned Vogel's left arm behind his back and hammered his face into the juggernaut's upper heavy laser cannon turret repeatedly before the vehicle carried them both over the precipice. While Jones managed to get away in time, Vogel clutched onto the back of the turret, screaming as he fell into the canyon, and was killed when the juggernaut crashed and rolled over several times on the coral below.

## Personality and traits

A high-ranking Second Union officer, Ernst Vogel was a ruthless and brutal person, sometimes with violent tendencies. Sadistic and ruthless, Vogel would had stopped at nothing for the Second Union's schemes. However, Vogel cared more about his orders than for the Grail Diary or the Rugosa Grail itself.

Vogel's appearance was also striking, wearing a uniform with medals, leather gloves and boots, and an officer's cap. Vogel was also known to have showed Imperial ideology, being a shrewd and merciless officer. He also had a short-fuse, as demonstrated when he got enraged after a soldier told him he couldn't seem to target anything. His menacing gaze was weapon enough to control his fascist minions.

Vogel nursed a special hatred for both Indiana Jones and Boba Fett, and sought to kill them on numerous occasions on Rugosa, grudgingly sparing them while waiting for further notice and relishing at being given the order to do so by Truman Dovchenko. Immediately, upon realizing the secrets hidden by the Grail Diary that his allies could have possibly imagined, Vogel turned his evil intentions to capturing and interrogating the two. He carried a swagger stick to note his authority and used a blaster pistol when in combat, also utilizing anything he could fight with that was close to hand, such as a shovel, in the fight that led to his death.

## Appearances

* The Sacred Water of Rugosa (First appearance)