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Corporations
Throughout the galaxy exist numerous corporations, most of which have some level of corruption. Under the Republic, they gained senate representation to entrench their political power and played both sides of the Clone Wars against each other. With the rise of the Empire, many of those corporations were dismantled by the Empire and had their assets seized by their competitors who tied themselves heavily into the Imperial war machine. While those companies were punished to some extent by the New Republic, they avoided severe consequences by reorganizing or merging with other corporations to get around restrictions on arms manufacturing.Czerka Corporation
One of the most powerful corporations in the galaxy, Czerka has existed for thousands of years and is deeply entrenched in arms manufacturing and the slave trade.
- Canon Immigrant: Czerka was a prominent entity in Legends, particularly the Knights of the Old Republic series.
- Evil, Inc.: The company is involved in numerous unsavory ventures, including weapons manufacturing and the slave trade. Its executives happily exploit any loopholes they can to cheat the entities they do business with and have political influence on hundreds of worlds.
- Loophole Abuse: Their use of slaves under the Republic was done through manipulation of indentured servitude laws.
Mining Guild
A network of miners, operating in concert with the Galactic Empire, that harvested natural resources throughout the galaxy. Thanks to its association with the Empire, the Guild was allowed to use a special variant of the Imperial TIE fighter. After the fall of the Empire, the Mining Guild lost power and also underwent an ideological shift, with the Resistance viewing them as a potential ally against the First Order.
- Les Collaborateurs: Despite mostly consisting of aliens who are typically oppressed by the Empire, the Mining Guild allied with them. However, General Draven of the Alliance noted it was out of necessity instead of ideology and was working on finding allies for the Rebellion within the guild.
- MegaCorp: The Mining Guild has a near stranglehold on mining operations throughout the galaxy, with only a few isolated or hidden operations like Cloud City on Bespin escaping their notice.
Yushyn
Boss Yushyn
Species: Moyn
Voiced by: Fred Tatasciore
The boss of a Mining Guild Asteroid Belt Gas Refinery in the third year before the Battle of Yavin. His refinery, staffed by Rodian employees, refined clouzon-36 gas which was used as fuel by the Galactic Empire.- Aliens Speaking English: Despite having a mouth surrounded by tendrils, he speaks Basic alright.
- Asteroid Miners: His refinery is built on a small planetoid.
- Asshole Victim: He is brutally killed and (presumably) eaten by the purrgil after his refinery is destroyed, but being affiliated with the Empire, robbing the poor alien whales of their necessary gas, as well as threatening our heroes, gives him zero sympathy points.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: He was either eaten, dragged further down into the planetoid's depths where he'd be unable to breathe, and/or was crushed between the purrgil's teeth.
- Karmic Death: He mined the gas the purrgil need to survive. He gets eaten by one.
- Mix-and-Match Critters: Looks like a gorilla with the head of a cephalopod. His species went unnamed until a 2021 sourcebook identified them as the Moyn.
- Mythology Gag: He's based on concept art of an alien bounty hunter
which Ralph McQuarrie did for The Empire Strikes Back.
Seevor
Captain Seevor
Species: Trandoshan
Voiced by: Seth Green
The captain of a Mining Guild crawler on Lothal.- Cruel and Unusual Death: He meets his end when he trips on Ezra's lightsaber and falls into his crawler's furnace.
- Family Business: The ones who spawned him worked for the Mining Guild, and Seevor intends for his spawn to work for them as well.
- Non-Action Guy: Unlike his fellow Trandoshans, he's not much of a fighter, though he’s still in it for the money.
- Non-Standard Character Design: Compared to other Trandoshans, he looks more chameleon-ish and is shorter than them.
- Sssssnake Talk: As is standard for Trandoshans, although when Ezra does a pretty good imitation of him, Seevor is unnerved and asks if that is what he actually sounds like.
- Would Hurt a Child: Ezra may be an older teenager, but Seevor still attempts to murder him.
Mining Guild Guards
Mining Guild Guards
Species: Rodian
Voiced by: Dave Filoni and Fred Tatasciore
Appearances: Rebels
The guards protect the interests of the Mining Guild, including refineries and spacial territory. In addition to acting as ground troops for Mining Guild establishments, the guards were also qualified to pilot Mining Guild TIE fighters which enforced the guild's whims.
- Ace Custom: They operate yellow TIE Fighters which have the two forward sections of the solar panels removed.
- All There in the Manual: They're first identified as Mining Guild guards in the virtual card trading game Star Wars: Card Trader.
- Bright Is Not Good: They wear bright-blue uniforms with yellow stripes on the sleeves, pant legs, and torso. They also operate yellow TIE Fighters.
- Cool Helmet: They wear yellow and blue helmets with opaque green visors.
- Faceless Goons: They wear a One-Way Visor helmet.
Preox-Morlana (aka Pre-Mor)
A MegaCorp based on Morlana One that governs the Free Trade Sector. The corporation has ties to the Empire.
- Bad Cop/Incompetent Cop: Episodes 1-4 quickly reveals that Pre-Mor's corporate security forces are suped up rent-a-cops with attitudes as bad as their combat abilities. Most are bullies, thugs, and wannabes who range from apathetic to very bad at their job. Its unsurprising that the ISB quickly shuts down their dept after the Ferrix fiasco.
- Law Enforcement, Inc.: Pre-Mor owns its own law enforcement division.
- Palette Swap: Pre-Mor Security cops wear uniforms resembling those of Imperial officers, but bright blue with orange highlights rather than slate grey.
- Starter Villain: The Pre-Mor cops and their hunt for Cassian Andor are the force that drives him into Luthen Rael's sphere of attention, and thereby Andor in the first place.
- Superficial Suggestion Box: Sergeant Mosk says that citizens can make formal complaints at the Territorial Forum. His men chuckle at this.
Hyne
Chief Inspector Hyne
Species: Human
Appearances: Andor
Played by: Rupert Vansittart
"Minimizing the time the Empire spends thinking about Preox-Morlana benefits our superiors and, by extension, everyone here at the Pre-Mor Security Inspection team, which at the moment, includes you."
Head of Pre-Mor Security.- Blatant Lies: He orders Karn to write a fake report saying the two dead Corpos died in an "unfortunate calamity" while helping someone in distress. That the two men were corrupt scumbags is apparently well known among the Pre-Mor security forces, but Hyne figures a "sadly inspirational" story will at least allow the company to save face. He even tells Syril not to make the fake good deed "too good", so it's more credible.Hyne: I suspect they died rushing to aid someone in distress. Nothing too heroic, we don't need a parade. They died being helpful. Something sad but inspiring, in a mundane sort of way.
- Brilliant, but Lazy: He's smart enough to figure out exactly what happened to the two officers Andor killed, but would rather cover it up as to not deal with the paperwork or make the company look bad. During the dressing down given by an ISB Agent he can only offer a weak rebuttal of "I didn't do anything," with the agent candidly pointing out that was the problem.
- Da Chief: Plays this role as Syril's superior who tries to reign him in and please his own superiors, though replaces the Large Ham stereotypes of this trope with laidback snark.
- Even Evil Has Standards: He's the head of a brutish private police force answering to a shady corporation and a tyrannical dictatorship, and his only real goal is making sure his jurisdiction's crime statistics look good for his superiors, regardless of the actual wellbeing of the community he's meant to protect. That said, he isn't without moral standards: upon hearing that two of the dirtiest officers in his department went to an illegal brothel, got drunk on banned liquor, and subsequently died trying to mug a random civilian at gunpoint — all while on duty — he's visibly disgusted by their conduct and regards their deaths as thoroughly deserved.
- Head-in-the-Sand Management: He'd rather cover up the deaths of two unpopular Corpo police officers instead of investigating and arresting the killer because he's afraid it will make Pre-Mor (and himself) look bad to their Imperial overseers. Of course, when his Deputy Inspector launches a full investigation against his express direction, this is exactly what happens.
- Idealist vs. Pragmatist: The crux of his conflict with Karn. Whereas his deputy is a naïve and hyper-idealistic By-the-Book Cop, Hyne is a pragmatist with a pragmatist's view on law enforcement, including being willing to cover up crimes if he feels an investigation will bring more trouble than it's worth.
- The Inspector Is Coming: He's about to make a report to the Empire and wants to keep crime rates low so he orders Syril to cover up the two security guards murdered by Cassian.
- Jerkass Has a Point: While he orders Karn to cover up the case with Cassian and is kind of a jerk about it, it's hard not to agree with his reasoning for it; that the cops who got killed were useless corrupt thugs that showcase the absolute worst of Pre-Mor, and digging at this borderline victimless crime is just going to lead to embarrassment at best, an Imperial crackdown at worst. Unfortunately for everyone, Karn is too much of a stickler for the rules to listen and causes both.
- Properly Paranoid: His fears about exposing Pre-Mor's security lapses to the Empire turn out to be well-founded: immediately after the failed police raid on Ferrix the ISB swoops in, unceremoniously fires Hyne, Karn, and Mosk, then announces they will be taking over security for the Morlana system.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: To an extent this is driven by his self-interest (since he wants to keep crime statistics low), but he also correctly realizes the dead guards were killed after they tried to shake the wrong person down and that there was no purpose to raising more trouble with an extensive manhunt for their killer.
- Sherlock Scan: Downplayed. After reading Syril's report about the incident with Cassian, he quickly and accurately deduces from the witness accounts, the location of the crime, and his prior experience with the victims that, rather than the cold-blooded murder of two innocent cops (as Syril interpreted it), this was a case of two corrupt assholes getting what was coming to them.Hyne: They were in a brothel, which we're not supposed to have, the expensive one, which they shouldn't be able to afford, drinking Revnog, which we're not supposed to allow. Both of them supposedly on the job, which is a dismissible offense. They clearly harassed a human with dark features and chose the wrong person to annoy.
- Villain with Good Publicity: His primary motivation is to ensure that Pre-Mor Security remains this, at least to the Imperial authorities. When informed of an incident that could easily spiral into an embarrassing scandal (two notoriously corrupt officers being killed in a mugging gone wrong after engaging in a slew of illegal activities while on duty), his first instinct is to cover it up in a way that makes the officers in question look like good-natured civil servants who tragically died while helping the community.
Syril Karn
Deputy Inspector Syril Karn
"Can one ever be too aggressive in preserving order?"
Species: Human
Appearances: Andor
Played by: Kyle Soller
"I'd like to move on this quickly. We have a dangerous, mobile suspect in a very serious crime."
A Deputy Inspector for the Pre-Mor Security Inspection Team. An ambitious man with a strong sense of justice, Syril is eager to make a name for himself in the Empire.- Abhorrent Admirer: Of the Stalker without a Crush variety. He follows Dedra Meero to the ISB to try and thank her for what she does and for giving him a chance, but Dedra is visibly disgusted by his simpering and sycophantic manner.
- Basement-Dweller: After he's fired from Pre-Mor, he goes home to live with his mother.
- Big Bad Wannabe: Or rather, The Dragon Wannabe. At his core, Karn is basically just a lowly henchman who's desperate to be more important then he really is and can't accept his simple mook status.
- Black-and-White Insanity: He follows orders to tee, even when the smart decision would be to do nothing at all. The strongest devotion to Imperial law and order is the only thing that matters to him, and anything less than that is wrong.
- Bullying a Dragon: A variant. He takes to stalking Dedra Meero, an ISB Supervisor. He's very lucky she takes pity on him, given that she undoubtedly has the power to have him abducted and consigned to a very nasty fate.
- By-the-Book Cop: Genuinely enthusiastic about his duty as a law enforcement officer in contrast to his more apathetic coworkers.
- Cowboy Cop: He's both this and a By-the-Book Cop because he defies his corrupt superiors by following rules rather than disobeying them. He puts every effort into investigating the murder of two Pre-Mor security officers while his boss tells him to cover it up to keep Imperial inspectors from getting concerned.
- Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: When the riot on Ferrix breaks out, it turns out that Karn's main problem isn't a lack of ability, but a refusal to acknowledge what he is and isn't good at. That being, he sucks at being the Great Detective and leader he clearly wants to be, but as a simple foot soldier in the thick of things, he's actually quite impressive. He manages to keep his cool in a hugely chaotic situation while the actual Imperial leaders crumble like wet cardboard, recognizes and tries to stop a bomb that's about to be thrown when nobody else notices it, and bravely wades into the battle to rescue Dedra and does so expertly, swiftly, and with precision while the stormtroopers around simply freak out and start shooting or beating anything that moves.
- Detrimental Determination: Seems to be utterly incapable of giving up once an idea gets into his head, no matter how much trouble it gets him into, or how many people tell him to stop.
- Ensign Newbie: He's technically in charge but he mostly defers to Sergeant Mosk in tactical situations.
- Establishing Character Moment: He's introduced awkwardly explaining his modifications to his uniform to his apathetic boss, showing his wooden and socially awkward personality. Visually his modded uniform also makes him look more tactical and soldier-like, showing his desire to be a fighter and a soldier but at the same time showing him to be an inexperienced wannabe, as the disastrous Ferrix mission would show.
- Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: After losing his job, the first thing he does is go home to his mother.
- Foil: To Cassian Andor. Where Syril is a rigid adherent to law and order and a law enforcement agent at the start of the series, Cassian is a professional thief. Syril has a heavy overestimation of his own abilities and believes he is more important than he truly is while Cassian knows what he's good at, sticks to his skills and prefers to let others take charge. They also both have complicated relationships with their mothers, though Cassian and Maarva love each other dearly while Syril's relationship with Eedy is ultimately antagonistic. The end of season 1 also shows them firmly on opposing sides, with Syril remaining staunchly pro-Empire while Cassian joins the fledgling Rebellion.
- Freudian Excuse: His mother is emotionally abusive to him, which would explain a lot of why he goes above and beyond - he clearly wants to impress her and prove himself.
- Great Detective: He wishes he was this. He has some genuine investigative skill, but woefully overestimates his own abilities and importance. Unfortunately, his delusion that he's exactly the kind of amazing detective he pretends to be gets him and everyone else into a lot of trouble.
- Hanlon's Razor: Karn's actions end up getting a lot of people — innocent and guilty alike — killed. But he's not evil. Just really stupid, overeager, and incapable of taking "no" for an answer.
- Hero-Worshipper: Becomes obsessed with Dedra Meero and her zealous loyalty to the Empire after she brings him in for questioning about his encounter with Andor and "Axis" and takes to waiting for her outside ISB HQ. She's unsurprisingly repulsed by his pandering.
- Honor Before Reason: His superior quickly sleuths out the reality of the officers' deaths - that they were corrupt thugs who lost their lives trying to shake down the wrong person - leading him to dismiss the case, but Karn still defies orders and puts together a massive manhunt for Cassian simply because it was two of their own who died.
- Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: Less sympathetic than other examples on behalf of his extreme loyalty to the Empire, but Karn is ultimately little more than a disgraced corporate cop with delusions of catching the bad guy, no matter what he tells himself nor how much everyone around him tries to keep him from getting carried away.
- I Reject Your Reality: In spite of how much everyone makes it clear that he is nobody important, Syril continues to insist he can clear his name and be a valued asset to the Empire.
- Lawful Stupid: To the extreme. Karn's devotion to law and order is genuine, but also childishly rigid and devoid of nuance, such that he's unwilling or unable to bend the rules even when it's for his own good and the good of others.
- Manchild: A lot of the time, he comes off more like a child pretending to be a cop then an actual one. For all that he imagines himself as some kind of Great Detective, in reality he's a shy, meek Momma's Boy, not to mention weirdly innocent and naïve for a law enforcement officer in the lower echelons of a corrupt MegaCorp.
- Manly Tears: Comes close to shedding these his first night home after being disgraced.
- Nepotism: After he's fired from Pre-Mor, his uncle gets him a new Soul-Crushing Desk Job.
- Non-Uniform Uniform: His Pre-Mor security uniform is heavily tailored to look more tactical in comparison to the loose-fitting jumpsuits his boss wears, establishing him as an overzealous wannabe soldier.
- Officer and a Gentleman: He wants to be this. He always stands at attention when addressing his superior. His uniform is clean, pressed, and tailored. He takes his job seriously and orders his more complacent colleagues around. However, his first attempt to prove himself ends in disaster, with several men dead and Cassian on the run.
- Performance Anxiety: Not very good at public speaking. His attempt at a Rousing Speech to the team he's taking to arrest Cassian falls flat.Karn: There comes a time when the... the risk of doing nothing becomes the greatest risk of all. This is one of those decisive moments, and I can't imagine a team I'd rather share it with than all of you. There's no room for doubt on the path to... success. And, uh, justice.
- The Peter Principle: He's extremely efficient and by-the-book in his duties as deputy inspector, if a hard-ass nobody likes. But when he actually takes to the field among the frontline security forces he clearly idolizes, he's quickly shown to be totally out of his depth… at least, as a commander. When put on the opposite end as a simple foot soldier (if even that) during the Ferrix riot, he proves himself perfectly capable and even arguably better then the stormtroopers. His problem really is just that he has no recognition of his own limits and strengths, preferring to chase after a fantasy of being a Thrawn-esque Great Detective instead of focusing on what he's really good at.
- Schlubby, Scummy Security Guard: He's basically an overzealous, incompetent security guard who acts like a professional soldier.
- Small Name, Big Ego: Despite his vows of servitude to law and order, and the fact he has some detective skills, Karn's sense of his own importance and abilities is far too over-inflated in the face of everyone else trying to stop him from getting in over his head.
- Spanner in the Works: Even though he doesn't really get much respect for it, his refusal to sweep the killing of two corporate officers under the rug ultimately shapes up to be this for the Rebellion. While the direct consequence of his botched attempt to flush Cassian out is him being sacked from his position, he also provides Dedra Meero with a lead she can pursue.
- Stalker without a Crush: To Dedra Meero. After she brings him in for questioning he becomes obsessed with her and starts tracking when she arrives at ISB headquarters. Dedra assumes he's trying to make a move on her, but he just wants to be involved in her investigation of Cassian's activities on Ferrix.Karn: I thought I had ruined my life. I thought I was done. After meeting you and discovering you understood how dangerous Cassian Andor was just.. Just being in your presence, I... I've realized that life is worth living, I realized that if nothing else, there was justice, and beauty in the galaxy and if I just kept going... Perhaps my deranged belief that there was something better fated for me in the future was a dream worth clinging to.
Meero: I could have you arrested; you are aware of that? - Sympathetic Inspector Antagonist: Downplayed. He's the initial antagonist of Andor but he's ultimately just a cop investigating a double homicide. However, while he's theoretically good-intentioned, any sympathy he earns is primarily in a pitiable and pathetic sense, being too arrogant, stubborn, insecure, and rigid to quit when he's ahead and too naïve to recognize that he's helping enforce the laws of a tyrannical government that doesn't care about him or anyone except itself.
- That One Case: Andor quickly becomes Karn's one case, continuing to haunt him and drive his actions long after he's been fired from Pre-Mor.Karn: I was a good deputy inspector! I was very good. I solved a double murder and found the killer in two days. I was overly ambitious, yes, but time was slipping away, and the opportunity was real. Service to the Empire, you just said it.
- There Is No Kill Like Overkill: Assembles a small army of soldiers for what he assumes to be a single runaway murderer, then marches that army through the streets intending to cow the populace into submission. This backfires heavily: not only does this mean his men are too numerous to properly coordinate and thus several die on his watch, but in part due to the community rallying against them Cassian slips through his fingers.
- Those Two Guys: Increasingly with Mosk.
- Token Good Cop: An interesting Subversion/Deconstruction. He clearly thinks of himself as this, the hero bringing a fiendish criminal to justice, being the only person genuinely determined to solve the murder of two Pre-Mor officers, while the other employees are portrayed as apathetic slackers. The problem is, the two victims are scummy Dirty Cops missed by no-one, who died in highly compromising circumstances that Karn's own boss would prefer never to see the light of day, and Karn is too Lawful Stupid to realise that he really should just let it go. Nevertheless, Karn persists, and is actually able to track down the murderer, Cassian Andor: but the ham-fisted attempt to arrest him results in several dead, Karn losing his job, and the Empire revoking Pre-Mor's favourable independent status as a result of the failure.
- Too Clever by Half: Karn is dutiful, driven, and not at all unintelligent, but putting his skills to use in his sheer drive to bring Cassian to justice quickly gets him in way over his head even after he's fired from Preox-Morlana. So much so that the ISB itself eventually cottons on to his vigilante antics and warns him off his hunt.
- Unknown Rival: He is obsessed with bringing in Cassian and that obsession costs him his job and sends his life into a spiral. While Syril's pursuit has lead to a lot of problems for Cassian, he only ever saw Syril as just another Pre-Mor goon chasing him down.
- Unwanted Assistance: He is this trope personified. No matter how thoroughly he is warned by just about everyone above him that he is a nobody digging into something way above his pay grade and endangering himself and everyone else by doing so, he never relents in his quest to uphold the law and "help" his employers and government.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: His refusal to heed his superior's order to just let the Cassian case go gets a lot of people killed and helps kickstart a whole chain of Disaster Dominoes that throws the Empire into chaos.
- Villain Protagonist: Shares this status with Dedra Meero in Andor, with a good chunk of the show being about his relentless drive to bring Cassian to justice; unfortunately, unlike Meero, he's waaaaay less effective at it.
- Villainous Valour: For all of his abundant flaws, Karn's dedication to law, order, and justice is completely serious, and he's absolutely not a coward. He will hunt criminals to the ends of the universe and disobey his own superiors in the name of doing what he feels is right, and will risk his life unhesitatingly for the same reason. Tellingly, when the riot on Ferrix breaks out, the ISB officers and Imperial magistrates that Karn idolizes lose their minds with fear and are exposed as cowardly morons with no idea what combat is like, but Karn himself does things like running to try and stop a bomb from being thrown or wading headfirst into the chaos to rescue someone.
- Wrong Genre Savvy: Believes he's the brave detective hero hunting down a violent murderer to avenge two of his colleagues whilst facing opposition from his dimwitted superiors, instead of an inexperienced naïve minor cog in an initially-corporate-then-Imperial machine tracking down a petty criminal to avenge two dirty cops that nobody cared about. In general, he seems to perpetually operate under the delusion that he is the protagonist in some epic Film Noir mystery instead of a rent-a-cop with ideas above his station.
Linus Mosk
Sergeant Linus Mosk
Species: Human
Appearances: Andor
Played by: Alex Ferns
"Corporate Tactical Forces are the Empire's first line of defense, and the best way to keep the blade sharp is to use it."
An officer for the Pre-Mor Security Inspection Team who helps Deputy Inspector Karn investigate Cassian Andor's murder of two Pre-Mor sentinel guards.- Affably Evil: He's both more fanatical and more personable than Karn. He treats his men with a business-like respect, even checking on the injured and radioing for medical aid when the operation ends in disaster. He's also just generally quite lively and personable with those he respects, showing a genuine rapport with Karn even after they both get canned from Pre-Mor.
- Be Careful What You Wish For: He fully endorses the Empire's approach to stamping out rebellions, essentially believing that they genuinely have to be harsh towards terrorists to keep the peace. Then he actually sees it firsthand in the riot on Ferrix and it's plainly apparent that "keeping the knife sharp" wasn't what he expected it to be and that the Empire he idolizes is actually an incompetent and needlessly brutal mess, and their idea of "insurgents" includes things as harmless as peaceful protests.
- Black Shirt: Hopes Pre-Mor and the Empire will be more brutal towards worlds where rebellion is fomenting.
- By-the-Book Cop: Like Karn, he's genuinely enthusiastic about his duty as a law enforcement officer in contrast to his more apathetic coworkers.
- Drowning My Sorrows: After the disastrous riot on Ferrix, he's seen downing a flask of cognac, struggling to come to terms with the horror what he's just seen — both the nobility of the "terrorists" he's been taught by propaganda to hate and the cruelty, brutality, cowardice, and incompetence of the Empire he idolized.
- Evil Brit: Mosk has an incredibly thick Scottish accent, and is downright fanatical in serving the Galactic Empire.
- Fat Bastard: Downplayed. He's very porty and supports the Empire, although he isn't all that bad.
- Hyper-Competent Sidekick: Downplayed, in that he is merely somewhat competent, but he is still leagues more qualified to run a military operation than Syril Karn. Given how Karn later demonstrates himself to be quite adept as a meager mook, it really seems like Mosk and Karn's major problem is just that they have each other's roles reversed; Karn would do well as a grunt, while Mosk could actually do pretty okay as a proper field commander.
- Professional Butt-Kisser: Played with. He initially appears to be this to Karn, Pre-Mor, and the Empire as a whole; however, he retains his loyalty to Karn long after both were fired, implying that his constant praise reflected his actual respect for Karn rather than just being him sucking up.
- Put on a Bus: His actor Alex Ferns stated after the airing of the first season finale that he is not slated to return in the second season, making this his last appearance for now.
- Those Two Guys: Increasingly becomes this with Karn.
- Undying Loyalty: To Syril Karn. Despite being part of a disastrous military operation that ultimately got both of them fired, Linus still cares enough about Karn to contact him and let him know Cassian's mother died, and that there's a good chance he'll return to attend her funeral. He also still addresses Karn as "sir" despite both of them being kicked out of Pre-Mor's security forces.
- Wrong Genre Savvy: Believes he is The Lancer to a crusading officer of an elite commando force. Rather than a cog in a group of poorly trained and motivated glorified security guards.
Sienar Fleet Systems
A starship, arms, and drive manufacturers affiliated with the Galactic Empire and the First Order, producing their TIE line.
Dron Ryall
Dron Ryall
Appearances: Rebels Magazine
"I appreciate the things I design may cause harm to others if they choose to break the law, but that's their business, not mine. No offence to either of you."
One of the leading designers of Sienar Fleet Systems. While working in one of Sienar's factories on Absanz, he came across rebels Kanan Jarrus and Zeb Orrelios, who were on reconnaissance in the facility searching for information on Sienar's most recent prototypes. The two attempted to make off with him, but when the designer was about to fall during their escape, he warned Zeb that innocent lives would be lost in the Empire's pursuit of Ryall, convincing the rebel to let him go.- Anti-Villain: He's perfectly fine if what Sienar produces hurts people who supposedly break the law (even if the law is questionable), but hurting innocent people like those who are just doing their jobs is where he'll draw the line.
- Tuckerization: He is named after Chris Ryall, the chief creative officer of IDW Publishing, in tribute to the then-upcoming Adventures comics that would be released under IDW.
TaggeCo
A powerful corporation controlled by the powerful noble Tagge family of Tepasi, who own entire planets. TaggeCo had a wide series of interests, including weapon making, mining, and medicines. Despite its deep ties to the Empire, TaggeCo survived the fall of its benefactors and remained an influential player in the galactic economy.
- Evil, Inc.: One of the most predominant examples of this in the Star Wars universe, having hands in nearly every facet of the Empire's functioning and being one of the key reasons why it has control over the galaxy.
- Karma Houdini: The company as a whole manages to survive the fall of the Empire despite being complicit in its crimes and is operating well into the reign of the New Republic.
Executive Board
Domina Tagge
Lady Domina Tagge
"I am Tagge Corporation. It lives and dies with me."
Species: Human
Appearances: Doctor Aphra | War of the Bounty Hunters
"I've worked too hard to consolidate my family's power and bring Tagge Corp. into this century. I won't allow anything to jeopardize what I've built."
The head of the Tagge family during the reign of the Empire.
- Adaptational Badass: The Legends version of Domina was purely a schemer that preferred to let others do the fighting for her, though she was shown to be at least somewhat competent with an ion rifle. In canon, she was trained to fight since she was a child, fighting off several would-be assassins on her own. She's also the undisputed head of the family instead of a sheltered young woman who only becomes a threat after her brother's death.
- Adaptational Sexuality: She showed a romantic interest towards Luke in the 1980s Marvel Star Wars comics. In Canon, she becomes one of the many women that Doctor Aphra sleeps with.
- Adaptational Villainy: In Legends she was considered to be the most "innocent" of the family and was kept in a religious order by her brother Orman to keep her from being corrupted by family politics. While that incarnation was eventually corrupted by Darth Vader, this iteration is rotten from the start.
- Affably Evil: While she may be a ruthless corporate executive who supports the Empire, Domina is unfailingly polite, happy to offer praise for a job well-done, and will listen to her subordinates about why missions failed or didn't succeed entirely.
- Age Lift: She was only two years old when her mother died near the end of the Clone Wars in Legends. In Canon, she's old enough to remember her parents and to have built a prototype battle droid in the lead-up to the Clone Wars as a child.
- Ambition Is Evil: When the Empire came to power, most of Domina's siblings were nervous and feared TaggeCo would be ruined. She saw only opportunity and made their company indispensable to the Empire as a key supplier of ships, weapons, and communications equipment, not caring at all what crimes they were used for as the Empire expanded and tightened control over the galaxy.
- Assassin Outclassin': She has survived numerous assassination attempts by killing her attackers herself. These attacks are so frequent that she regards dispatching her assailants as little more than a nuisance.
- Blade Below the Shoulder: Wields an experimental plasma protoblade on her arm built by her brother Silas and proves to be a deadly threat with it, cutting down numerous assassins with ease.
- Blood Knight: Almost every time she is in a fight, Domina is clearly having the time of her life and drops her typical stoic expression for one of manic glee at getting to unleash violence.
- But for Me, It Was Tuesday: When one of Crimson Dawn's agents attempts to kill her while yelling it was for Sira (a Crimson Dawn mole she executed several issues prior), Domina casually kills him while remarking that she doesn't even know that name.
- Cain and Abel: She and the rest of her siblings are targeted by Boushh and his team at the behest of Silas, who wants sole control of the company. As punishment for this attempt, Domina kills Silas herself and blackmails the Ubese team into work for her instead.
- Canon Immigrant: Domina first appeared in the original Marvel Star Wars comic in 1980, with the 2020 run of Doctor Aphra marking her first appearance in canon.
- Child Prodigy: She was just a child around the time of the Clone Wars, and she was able to make a prototype battle droid (that was ultimately turned down by the Separatists in favor of the B1) that would prove to become a problem when the Droid Scourge starts possessing droids all over the galaxy.
- Children Forced to Kill: When she was only a child she fought off an assassination attempt, likely arranged by another Tagge, and stabbed her would be killer to death. That event was the second attempt on her life and made Domina swear to never be a pawn in her family's games.
- Composite Character: With her brother Orman, who has been Demoted to Extra. She takes his place as the dangerous head of the company who used the Empire's rise to catapult the family from reasonably wealthy into a full on MegaCorp. Her protoblade also recalls Legends Orman's skill with a lightsaber.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: Has no issue using blackmail, theft, sabotage, and murder as tactics to stay ahead of her corporate competition.
- Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Ruthless corporate executive who is willing to kill family members she may be, but Domina shows a lot of care for her cousin and assistant Lapin, openly worrying over their safety at several points. During the Dark Droids story arc, she even sends Lapin to safety in an escape pod rather than flee herself, noting they are the future of the company and must survive.
- Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: The responsible to her three older brother's foolish. While each of them have areas where they are competent, none of them have the same vision or capabilities as Domina despite their belief to the contrary, which is how she rose to be the head of the company.
- I Am the Noun: When her nephew Ronen notes that she has no heir and will one day need to retire and leave the company to someone, Domina grows furious and declares that she is the Tagge Corporation and that it would live and die with her.
- Kicking Ass in All Her Finery: When the Acquisitor is assaulted by a team of five bounty hunters seeking to kill the executive board, Domina takes down three of them with a malfunctioning prototype blade while still in her long dress.
- Light Is Not Good: Her typical outfit is a golden dress, but Domina is very much aligned with the Empire in order to make money and is extremely ruthless in eliminating competition and threats.
- Make an Example of Them: After a pirate gang raided one of her ships and caused TaggeCo interests to drop 20% in that system, Domina arranges for the offending pirates to be ambushed, left adrift in their ship for a day, and then sent into the nearest sun to make clear what happens to those who attack TaggeCo and reassure investors.
- Modest Royalty: Downplayed: While Domina has a serious ego and generally lives in luxury, her usual outfit is a plain gold robe with no adornment. In Legends this was a monastic robe, explaining its plainness, but in canon it's unclear why she prefers it to more elaborate clothing.
- Slasher Smile: When she gets the chance to engage in a fight, Domina typically has a chilling smile on her face and enjoys killing her foes with gleeful abandon.
- We Have Reserves: Sacrifices a number of employees to draw out Ronen and the Crimson Dawn moles within her fleet. In the aftermath another Tagge fleet arrives and Domina notes that the losses she has incurred are nowhere close to being a significant setback and are all replaceable.
Orman Tagge
Orman Tagge
Species: Human
Appearances: Doctor Aphra | War of the Bounty Hunters
An elder brother of Domina and Head of Manufacturing.
- Abled in the Adaptation: Zigzagged between this and Disabled in the Adaptation. In Legends, he wore cybernetic goggles as a result of Darth Vader giving him a lightsaber to the eyes as an adult. A family portrait of the Tagge family in the "Boushh" one-shot and a flashback during the Dark Droids comic-crossover shows him to have been wearing goggles since he was a child, implying that he's merely near-sighted in this continuity (and the flashback shows his eyes to still be intact), whereas there was no implication of him having eye problems before he met Vader in Legends.
- Adaptational Dumbass: If Domina's disdain for him is any indication, this version of Orman is a moron with consistently terrible ideas despite being Head of Manufacturing and who is too idiotic to be an effective mole against the rest of the company. The most dismissive thing that could be said about his Legends counterpart is that not only was he more unhinged than the Canon version, he was only stupid enough to be dismissive of the Force in front of Vader and not realizing that losing his eyes was his own fault.
- Age Lift: He's at least a decade younger than his Legends counterpart. He was a young adult during the early days of the Empire with Domina being his kid sister in Legends, but was still a child around the time of the Clone Wars and just a few years older than Domina in Canon.
- Canon Immigrant: Orman first appeared in the original Marvel Star Wars comic in 1980, with the 2020 run of Doctor Aphra marking his first appearance in canon.
- Demoted to Extra: In Legends, he was the head of the company and a major villain in the original Marvel Star Wars comic. In Canon, he's simply the Head of Manufacturing and his original role has been taken by Domina, both In-Universe and narrative-wise.
- Knight Templar Big Brother: He's very overprotective of Domina, although she doesn't think he's very helpful in that regard.
- Spared by the Adaptation: The Legends version of Orman was killed within a year after the Battle of Yavin. The War of the Bounty Hunters comic arc in canon shows him to still be alive after the Battle of Hoth.
Silas Tagge
Silas Tagge
Species: Human
Appearances: Doctor Aphra | War of the Bounty Hunters
"Little minds with little imagination. You can't put a price on genius and innovation."
Another of Domina's brothers, Silas is a scientist and Head of Weapons Development.
- Adaptational Personality Change: In Legends, Silas cared very little about power or his career, and was more interested in his scientific pursuits. In canon, he's just as ambitious as the rest of his siblings.
- Age Lift: He's at least a decade younger than his Legends counterpart. He was a young adult during the early days of the Empire with Domina being his kid sister in Legends, but was still a child around the time of the Clone Wars and just a few years older than Domina in Canon.
- Cain and Abel: He was conspiring with Crimson Dawn to kill the rest of the Executive Board, which includes three of his siblings, in order to take control of the company himself due to feeling unappreciated.
- Canon Immigrant: Silas first appeared in the original Marvel Star Wars comic in 1980, with the 2020 run of Doctor Aphra marking his first appearance in canon.
- Demoted to Extra: Like Orman, he had a much bigger role in the original Marvel Star Wars comic. In canon, he only shows up in a few issues before being killed in the Boushh one-shot comic of War of the Bounty Hunters.
- Dies Differently in Adaptation: He was stated to have eventually died in Legends, but how and when were not stated. In canon, he's killed by Domina some time after the Battle of Hoth.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: He is run through by the protoblade he designed by Domina after trying to get her and the rest of the board killed.
- Prematurely Bald: All of his siblings still have their hair, while Silas has lost all of it on the top of his head. This is especially notable considering that he's a lot younger than his Legends counterpart.
Ulric Tagge
Ulric Tagge
Species: Human
Appearances: Doctor Aphra | War of the Bounty Hunters
Yet another of Domina's elder brothers, Ulric is the Head of Public Relations and Messaging.
- Canon Immigrant: Ulric first appeared in the original Marvel Star Wars comic in 1980, with the 2020 run of Doctor Aphra marking his first appearance in canon.
- Schrödinger's Canon: It's unknown if he served in the Imperial Navy like he did in Legends.
Adelaide and Felix Tagge
Adelaide and Felix Tagge
Species: Human
Appearances: Doctor Aphra | War of the Bounty Hunters
Adelaide is a cousin to the main Tagge family line who serves as the co-Head of Finance with her husband Felix.
- Outliving One's Offspring: Their son Ronen is executed for attempting a coup against Domina.
Layla Tagge-Faulken
Layla Tagge-Faulken
Species: Human
Appearances: Doctor Aphra | War of the Bounty Hunters
A member of the Tagge family and Head of Talent Acquisition.
Brace Tagge-Faulken
Brace Tagge-Faulken
Species: Human
Appearances: Doctor Aphra | War of the Bounty Hunters
A member of the Tagge family and a Imperial officer.
Other members
Killian and Sanya Tagge
Killian and Sanya Tagge
Species: Human
Appearances: Doctor Aphranote
The previous heads of the Tagge Corporation during the rise of the Empire, and the parents of Domina, Orman, Silas, Cassio and Ulric.
- Adaptational Villainy: They were supporters of the Republic during the Clone Wars. However, in Canon, Domina claims that they supported the Separatists instead.
- Canon Immigrant: Sanya was part of the Tagge family's backstory in Legends and the original head of the corporation during the Clone Wars.
- Named by the Adaptation: The Tagge siblings' father was unnamed in Legends, but was given the name Killian in Canon.
- Spared by the Adaptation: They both died when Domina was two years old in Legends, but apparently lived long enough in Canon to teach Domina how to build droids.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Despite living longer than their Legends counterparts, there's no word on their whereabouts after the Clone Wars.
Ronen Tagge
Ronen Tagge
Species: Human
Appearances: Doctor Aphra
The son of Adelaide and Felix, Ronen lives on Canto Bight and is a collector of artifacts which he then destroys in order to be the last person to own them.
- Arc Villain: He is the main antagonist of the first story arc, "Fortune and Fate", of the second Doctor Aphra series.
- Covered in Scars: After recovering from the explosion of the disintegration chamber, Ronen has numerous burn scars all over his body even after months in a bacta tank.
- Hate Sink: A spoilt, smug little bastard who destroys objects of immeasurable monetary, cultural and historical value simply so he can boast about being the last person to have ever touched them. Even Aphra, who cheerfully admits to being morally bankrupt, despises him and refuses to work with him, which says something.
- It's All About Me: He is obsessed with the idea of being the last person to ever touch priceless artifacts that he'll destroy them as soon as he gets them, regardless of the cultural loss.Ronen: Owning something irreplaceable…something truly unique… it's a rush. And the only thing that makes my blood sing more than owning something precious… is being the last person to touch it.
- Kick the Dog: Forces two artists to compliment the other's works and denigrate their own in the hopes that he'll spare one of them... only to destroy both objects and make the artists watch.
- Not Quite Dead: Somehow just barely survives his disintegration chamber exploding with him in it, possibly due to having the Rings of Vaale inside with him, but is horrifically injured.
- "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Domina gives one to Ronen when he tries to launch a coup against her.Domina: What is there to take seriously? You are a petulant child. When you can't have something, you ruin it. How very like you, Ronen. You style yourself an emperor, but look around you. You've destroyed everything you wanted. What are you? The king of nothing.
- Smug Snake: Treats absolutely everyone around him with the same slimy disdain and views himself as smarter, more capable, and more deserving of everything than them. This even extends to his family, as he grows tired of being sidelined by Domina and plots to take TaggeCo for himself.
- Silver Spoon Troublemaker: He was given everything in his life without having to earn any of it and grew up to believe he can do whatever he wants without consequences, including waste money buying priceless items just to destroy them and killing those who get in the way of his hobby.
- Underestimating Badassery: Domina notes that Ronen underestimated Aphra and paid for it, and that she will not make the same mistake with her. He later makes the same mistake with Domina herself, thinking he has her beaten when she has in fact paid off most of his soldiers and arranged to let him attempt a coup on her so she could record his confession and execute him without even his parents being able to protest.
- Villain in a White Suit: Wears a white suit that clearly marks his wealth and status, along with matching his hair.
- White Hair, Black Heart: Has the same amount of morality as he does color in his hair, which is to say none. His white hair is seemingly inherited from his father as Ronen is too young for it to be from age.
Lapin Tagge
Lapin Tagge
Species: Human
Appearances: Doctor Aphra | War of the Bounty Hunters
A cousin and aide of Domina aboard TaggeCo's flagship Acquisitor.
- Number Two: They seem to be Domina's top aide.
- Secretary of Evil: They mostly handle logistical issues for Domina and are almost always seen with a datapad in hand. Of course, for Lapin "logistics" sometimes means killing spies.
- Token Competent Minion: Most of TaggeCo's Mooks don't inspire much confidence, being outwitted or defeated by Aphra and her crew, but Lapin is seen efficiently eliminating four spies within the company and hunting down other moles.
- Undying Loyalty: Lapin is probably the only Tagge who actually has this toward Domina, sticking with her not because she pays well, but because they actually support her vision for the company.
