Who's Who of Death Star I

A guide to Who's Who of the first Death Star.


Imperial Officers

Lt. Shann Childsen

Homeworld: unknown

Status: KIA 

Actor: Malcom Tierney

Extra: officer who oversaw operations at Detention Block AA-23.

Officer Evax (Legends)

Homeworld: unknown

Status: KIA

Actor: unknown

Extra: Imperial Intelligence officer. Character not shown onscreen. Image created for Decipher's Star Wars Customizable Card Game (CCG) A New Hope Limited expansion. Has the rank of Commodore according to this.

Cpt. Edmos Khurgee

Homeworld: unknown

Status: KIA

Actor: Christopher Muncke

Extra: served as a model for an Imperial recruitment poster. Officer that led the inspection team for the captured Millennium Falcon

Lt. Pol Treidum

Homeworld: unknown

Status: KIA

Actor: Peter Sumner

Extra: gantry officer in charge of security and maintaining the magnetic field of Docking Bay 327

Conference/Briefing Room

Gen. Moradmin Bast

Homeworld: Dura-Kahn (Legends)

Status: KIA

Actor: Leslie Schofield

Seating location: next to General Tagge.

Extra: aid to Tarkin and chief manager of the Death Star.

Maj. Siward Cass

Homeworld: Patriim system (Legends)

Status: KIA?

Actor: Patrick Jordan

Seating location: to the right of Colonel Yularen.

Extra: aid to Grand Moff Tarkin. Also went by the rank of chief.

Gen. Trech Molock

Homeworld: Corulag (Legends)

Status: unknown

Actor: Charlie Grey

Seating location: near the entrance of the briefing room.

Extra: Imperial Army operations chief. 

Adm. Conan Antonio Motti

Homeworld: Seswenna

Status: KIA

Actor: Richard LeParmentier

Seating location: to the left of Colonel Yularen.

Extra: Chief and Admiral of the Imperial Navy. Leader of naval operations on the Death Star.

Gen. Hurst Romodi

Homeworld: Virujansi, Matacorn (Legends)

Status: Survived

Actor: Ian Selby, Andy de la Tour (Rogue One)

Seating location: next to the entrance of the briefing room.

Extra: Tarkin's aid aboard the Death Star. General of Battle Station Operations.

Gen. Cassio Tagge

Homeworld: Tepasi

Status: Survived, later killed

Actor: Don Henderson

Seating location: next to General Bast.

Extra: Chief of the Imperial Army. Promoted to Grand General after the Battle of Yavin for a short time before his death by Vader.

Grand Moff Tarkin

Homeworld: Eriadu

Status: KIA

Actor: Peter Cushing, Wayne Pygram (Revenge of the Sith), Guy Henry (Rogue One)

Seating location: end of the table, next to Vader (standing).

Extra: Commander of the first Death Star. First Grand Moff in the Empire. Regional governor of the Outer Rim. Former Admiral in the Republic Navy.

Col. Wullf Yularen

Homeworld: Coruscant (raised on Anaxes)

Status: KIA

Actor/Voice Actor: Robert Clarke, Tom Kane (Clone Wars, Rebels), Malcolm Sinclair (Andor)

Seating location: next to Admiral Motti.

Extra: Deputy Director of Naval Intelligence. Also served in the Imperial Security Bureau (ISB). Former Admiral in the Republic Navy.


Personnel 

Devin Cant (Legends)

Homeworld: unknown

Status: KIA

Actor: Colin Skeaping

Extra: Death Star trooper who guarded Detention Block AA-23, where Princess Leia was imprisoned. 

Tajis Durmin (Legends)

Homeworld: unknown

Status: KIA

Actor: Cy Town

Extra: Death Star trooper who guarded the Death Star conference room.

SGM Enfield (Legends)

Homeworld: unknown

Status: KIA

Actor: Ron Conrad

Extra: Death Star trooper. In charge of security of the detention block under Lt. Shann Childsen.

Tenn Graneet (Legends)

Homeworld: unknown

Status: KIA

Actor: unknown

Extra: Master chief, Death Star gunner. In Legends, he served in the Clone Wars as a gunner.

CPL Grenwick (Legends)

Homeworld: unknown

Status: KIA

Actor: Harry Fielder

Extra: Death Star trooper who guarded Detention Block AA-23. Tactical advisor for SGM Enfield.

KE-829 (Legends)

Homeworld: unknown

Status: KIA

Actor: unknown

Extra: Stormtrooper on guard duty near Tractor Beam 12. He conversed with another trooper while Obi-Wan shut down the tractor beam. In Legends, he was a clone stormtrooper.

CPL Prescott (Legends)

Homeworld: unknown

Status: KIA

Actor: Peter Diamond

Extra: Death Star trooper who guarded Detention Block AA-23. He volunteered for the position.

SGT Nova Stihl (Legends)

Homeworld: unknown

Status: KIA

Actor: unknown

Extra: Death Star trooper who guarded the conference room full of high-ranking officers, including Grand Moff Tarkin. In Legends, he also was one of the stormtroopers who chased Han and Chewbacca down a Death Star hallway.

CPL Ansin Thobel

Homeworld: unknown

Status: KIA

Actor: unknown

Extra: Death Star trooper who was assigned to sentry duty in the Death Star's command sector during the events of the Rogue One movie.

TD-110 (Wanten)

Homeworld: Parsh

Status: KIA

Actors: Anthony Forrest (Tatooine), Michael Leader (Death Star)

Extra: Stormtrooper officer. Also had the designation DSS-0956. Served as a sandtrooper commander that led Foot Patrol 7 in Mos Eisley on Tatooine. Was mind tricked by Obi-Wan at a city checkpoint. Later reinforced other units during the escape of the Millennium Falcon. Wanten was later assigned to the Death Star, where he bumped his head on a doorway and was incapacitated. He received disciplinary action and was removed from his post on the Death Star by a superior. Years later, he was a First Order commander during the Battle of Starkiller Base and was killed by the Resistance.

TK-119 (Legends)

Homeworld: unknown

Status: KIA

Actor: Peter Diamond

Extra: Stormtrooper who, part of a group of stormtroopers, opened fire on Luke and Leia trapped on an overhang. In Legends, he was referred to as a clone stormtrooper.

TK-421

Homeworld: unknown

Status: KIA

Actor: Stephen Bayley

Extra: Stormtrooper that guarded the Millennium Falcon in Docking Bay 327. Worked in maintenance, and was later promoted to station security. In Legends, he was a clone stormtrooper.

TK-622 (Legends)

Homeworld: unknown

Status: KIA

Actor: N/A

Extra: sergeant in the Stormtrooper Corps. Participated in military campaigns on Malastare and Ralltiir, before transferring to the Death Star. After his commanding officer was assassinated by a droid on the Death Star, he enlisted help from a droid tech that later revealed himself as the killer. The rebel saboteur was killed by stray fire and TK-622 later watched as the rebels fired a torpedo in the thermal exhaust port of the Death Star.

TK-710

Homeworld: unknown

Status: KIA

Actor: unknown

Extra: Stormtrooper that guarded the entry ramp of the Millennium Falcon in Docking Bay 327 along with TK-421. In Legends, he was referred to as TK-422 and a clone stormtrooper.

TK-875 (Legends)

Homeworld: unknown

Status: KIA

Actor: unknown

Extra: Stormtrooper, along with TK-119, that exchanged blaster fire with Luke and Leia on an overhang overlooking a chasm. In Legends, he was a clone stormtrooper. 

SGT Derek Torent (Legends)

Homeworld: unknown

Status: KIA

Actor: unknown

Extra: Death Star trooper, senior watch trooper. Stationed at the Death Star Overbridge, where he monitored external sensor data. Wears a gray officer's tunic.


Pilots

DS-61-2 "Mauler" Mithel 

Homeworld: unknown

Status: KIA

Actor: unknown

Extra: specially trained TIE Pilot. Flew the TIE fighter "Black 2". Darth Vader's left wingman during the Battle of Yavin.

DS-61-3 "Backstabber" 

Homeworld: Corellia

Status: KIA

Actor: unknown

Extra: specially trained TIE Pilot. Flew the TIE fighter "Black 3". Darth Vader's right wingman during the Battle of Yavin.

DS-61-4 "Dark Curse" (Legends)

Homeworld: unknown

Status: KIA

Actor: unknown

Extra: TIE Pilot. Flew the TIE fighter "Black 4". Shot at Luke's X-wing during the Battle of Yavin. He was later shot down by Wedge Antilles.

Iden Versio

Homeworld: Vardos

Status: KIA

Actor: Janina Gavankar

Extra: TIE Pilot and Special Forces Commando. Graduated from the Imperial Academy on Coruscant. Assigned to the Death Star during the destruction of Jedha City. Was present for the Battle of Scarif. Later participated at the Battle of Yavin, as TIE Sigma Three. Her TIE was hit by debris from the destroyed Death Star and she crashed on Yavin IV. Later becoming a commando, under the newly-formed Inferno Squad, she went on various missions for the Empire. Participated in the Battle of Endor and saw its destruction from the moon of Endor. Later defected to the New Republic after a mission to Vardos during Operation Cinder. Years later, she was killed during a confrontation with one of her former comrades of Inferno Squad on board a First Order Star Destroyer.


Unnamed officers

Unidentified Officer 1

Homeworld: unknown

Status: KIA

Actor: Malcolm Weaver

Extra: officer and aid to Lt. Treidum overseeing Docking Bay 327. Could be a low ranking lieutenant.

Unidentified Officer 2*

Homeworld: unknown

Status: KIA

Actor: Mike Havord

Extra: officer who accompanies Vader to Docking Bay 327. High-ranking security or naval officer.

Seen in the movie from afar, but never closeup.

Unidentified Officer 3

Homeworld: unknown

Status: KIA

Actor: Syd Wragg 

Extra: first seen walking past the turbolift when Han and Luke (in disguise), and Chewie wait to go up to rescue Princess Leia. Later seen with Tarkin. Could be a high-ranking operations officer.

Wears a light grey tunic not seen in any other movie.

Unidentified Officer 4

Homeworld: unknown

Status: KIA

Actor: unknown

Extra: seen walking past the turbolift when Han and Luke (in disguise), and Chewie wait to go up to rescue Princess Leia. Could be an off-duty officer or research officer.

Unidentified Officer 5

Homeworld: unknown

Status: KIA

Actor: unknown

Extra: seen walking past the turbolift when Han and Luke (in disguise), and Chewie wait to go up to rescue Princess Leia. Could be a high-ranking off-duty officer or research officer.

Unidentified Officer 6

Homeworld: unknown

Status: KIA

Actor: unknown

Extra: seen walking past the turbolift when Han and Luke (in disguise), and Chewie wait to go up to rescue Princess Leia. Has the rank of Commodore.

Unnamed officers, with no rank shown. 

Unidentified Scanning Crewmen

Homeworlds: unknown

Status: KIA

Actor: Jerry Baker (on the left), unknown (on the right)

Extra: known as Scanning crew BT-445. Sent to scan the Millennium Falcon

Last modified: 11/2023 (minor info, new sources, and new images)