Parlan

Parlan

Physical description
Species	Human
Gender	Male
Chronological and political information
Affiliation	Galactic Empire

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Parlan was an officer of the Imperial Navy.

BiographyEdit

As late as 0 BBY, Captain Parlan was serving as the commanding officer of the Imperial II-class Star Destroyer Relentless assigned to patrol duty in the Outer Rim.

Just prior to the Battle of Yavin, Relentless was tasked to meet Imperial frigate Juvani at Sunaj IV, but Rebel Alliance starfighters destroyed Juvani before its meeting.

Soon after the Rebel victory at Yavin, Parlan captured the pirate Quist and ordered his execution. Quist tried to bargain for his life, offering information about long-believed dead tactician and hero of the Galactic Republic, Adar Tallon. The captured pirate revealed that he had aided Tallon in faking his death to escape from the Galactic Empire.

Parlan reported this new information to Darth Vader, who ordered Parlan to capture Tallon alive. Not having many resources for this task, Parlan issued an Imperial bounty for Tallon, designation 82,471. This bounty was accepted by Jodo Kast and his associates, Zardra and Puggles Trodd, as well as droid bounty hunter IG-72. Apparently, Parlan was not in good terms with the Imperial Prefect on Tatooine, Eugene Talmont, as he did not even ask him for help.

Parlan also ordered Quist to infiltrate Tallon's home, among his allies, just to have an ace up his sleeve when Kast arrived.

Unbeknownst to Parlan, one of his officers, Dana, was really a secret agent from the Alliance. Dana ran to Kwenn Space Station to report his discovery to the Alliance. Jodo Kast managed to kill Dana, but not before she reported to a Rebel team.

This Rebel team outsmarted and out-skilled both Kast's team and IG-72, and escaped from Tatooine with Adar Tallon, who then joined the Rebel Alliance.

Due to the failure of his operation, Parlan was considered responsible of the disaster. He tried to apologize to Vader, but the Sith Lord executed Parlan using the power of the Force. Afterwards, as some kind of joke, he accepted Parlan's excuses.

Parlan was replaced with captain Westen as commanding officer of Relentless.