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**Kosh** was a Imperial Captain from Tatooine who served as part of the Imperial Army during the time of the Galactic Civil War. He was put in command of a garrison of Stormtroopers on his home home planet, and around the time of the Battle of Yavin, Kosh was tasked to search for droids R2-D2 and C-3PO, who were carrying plans for the Death Star. Working along with with the Desert Sands unit and the 501st Legion, Kosh's unit followed the droids' trail to Mos Eisley spaceport, but R2-D2 and C-3PO were able to escape. To achieve the Empire's goals, Kosh manipulated both allies and enemies, and he also had a very unusual interest in ancient artifacts.

## Biography

### Service to the Empire

#### Imperial Captain on Tatooine

**Kosh** was a Human male Captain in the Imperial Army who was stationed on the planet Tatooine in the years leading up to the Battle of Yavin. Kosh was the officer in charge of a local garrison of Stormtroopers. Near the time of the Galactic Civil War, Senator Leia Organa's ship, the corvette *Tantive IV*, was intercepted above Tatooine while in possession of the stolen plans for the newest Imperial superweapon, the Death Star battlestation. Led by Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Vader, Imperial forces seized the ship but could not find the plans.

#### Rebel Presence on Tatooine

Organa was also captured, but she had managed to hide the plans inside her astromech droid, R2-D2, who, along with his counterpart, C-3PO, used an escape pod to reach Tatooine's surface. After he was informed about the ejected escape pod, Vader believed that the plans were hidden aboard and ordered his forces to have the escape pod located and the plans secured. Vader assigned Commander Praji to supervise the search and recover the plans. While Vader's elite 501st Legion was being prepared, Praji appointed Kosh's garrisoned troops and the newly arrived Desert Sands to lead the search for the plans. After a brief landfall, however, Praji delegated the command of the operation to Kosh. The Imperial troops discerned that the two droids had been aboard the escape pod and followed their trail, discovering that a young moisture farmer, Luke Skywalker, had acquired R2-D2 and C-3PO and was heading to Mos Eisley spaceport to secure passage off-world. The troops under Kosh's command searched Mos Eisley but were unable to find any trace of the two droids. Kosh himself soon arrived at the spaceport in a *Sentinel*-Class landing craft to oversee the search effort.

 As he was disembarking from the craft, flanked by two Stormtroopers, the rest of the troops greeted him and snapped to attention. Although the search for the droids continued, a delay in coordination between Kosh's garrison, the Desert Sands, and the 501st allowed R2-D2 and C-3PO to escape Tatooine aboard the *Millennium Falcon*, captained by the smuggler Han Solo. The droids and the plans were eventually delivered to the Rebel Alliance, allowing the rebels to destroy the Death Star during the Battle of Yavin. Shortly after the Battle of Yavin, Kosh was stationed on his home as the commander of the 68th Legion of the Stormtrooper Corps garrisoned there, overseeing the conflict against the local rebel cell under the command of Jennica Pierce. At some point, a rebel serving under Pierce managed to destroy Fort Sunfire, one of the main Imperial garrisons on Tatooine. In retaliation, Captain Kosh attacked the agent's own base with a cavalry contingent comprising nine All Terrain Scout Transports, one Elite All Terrain Armored Transport, and two 2-M Hover Tanks. The forces of the Rebel Alliance, however, were able to survive Captain Kosh's mechanized assault.

#### Downfall of the Imperial Regin

As a result of the rebels persistence, the Imperial Captain decided to attack again, sending half the entire 68th Legion to the rebel base, but that second assault failed as well. With the full brunt of his trooper force defeated, Imperial Captain Kosh was forced to be on the defensive. Although he did know the location of the rebel base, he simply could not attack it anymore. Those events effectively started a contained conflict between Kosh and the local rebels. Some time later, he was made a prefect. However, in the months that followed the Empire's major defeat at the Battle of Endor, Kosh was caught by a team of hunters pursuing Imperial war criminals led by pilot Norra Wexley. Kosh then became a prisoner of the New Republic, the democratic government established by the rebels to act as the Alliance's successor government.