Toss

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"We can safely ignore these contemptible little fur-balls."
―Captain Toss, on the Ewoks[1]

Toss was an Imperial captain who served as the commanding officer of IX3244-B, a Survey Team tasked with finding the construction site for the Galactic Empire's Death Star II battlestation. During Mission 759/B, the team discovered the Forest Moon of Endor, which Toss viewed as a good Death Star construction site. When Lieutenant Kiviett, Toss's second-in-command, reported the dangers of Endor's native Ewoks, Toss dismissed the latter's concerns. However, Emperor Palpatine would later commission a second Survey Team to investigate Endor upon being displeased by Toss's superficial reports.

Biography

Surveying Endor

"My commanding officer, Captain Toss, agreed [with Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Vader that no indigenous life forms would be a risk for the Empire]."
―Kiviett describes Toss[1]
The Forest Moon of Endor, which Toss and Survey Team IX3244-B discovered during Mission 759/B

Toss was a male Imperial officer who attained the rank of captain by some time following the Battle of Yavin. When Emperor Palpatine decreed the construction of the Death Star II battlestation, thousands of Imperial Survey Teams searched the galaxy for a place to construct the station. Captain Toss was the commanding officer of Survey Team IX3244-B, with Lieutenant Kiviett as his second-in-command. Including Kiviett, the team consisted of at least two stormtroopers, and at least three men in light armor.[1]

Toss and his team visited several planets before their survey frigate found the Forest Moon of Endor. Orbital scans revealed that Endor was capable of sustaining Human life. Combined with the moon's remote location, Dark Lord of the Sith Darth Vader viewed that none of Endor's indigenous life forms could pose a risk for the Empire's presence, with Toss agreeing.[1]

Mission 759/B and later Imperial defeat

"The blind fool was pleased. Endor's moon would be perfect. Surely I wasn't put off by a few natives with drums?"
―Kiviett describes Toss dismissing his concerns about Endor[1]
The Ewoks, whose threat to the Empire was dismissed by Toss

When scans showed many sentient and primitive life forms on Endor, Toss ordered Kiviett and others to go to the moon and investigate as he stayed on the frigate to make a holoreport on the moon's discovery. Upon Kiviett's return to the frigate, he reported to Toss that Endor's Ewoks led them in circles and prevented them from reaching the species'[1] Bright Tree Village.[2] However, Toss viewed the Ewoks as no threat, and also ignored Kiviett's suggestion to apply forest camouflage to all the Imperial vehicles and armor.[1] Toss would report that Mission 759/B was a success[3] in discovering Endor as a location for the Death Star's construction.[1]

Ultimately, Palpatine was displeased with IX3244-B's superficial reports, and sent a second Survey Team led by Sergeant Pfilbee Jhorn to Endor. Jhorn was also displeased with the report, and the failure to mention the presence of such dangers as Gorax, condor dragons, and Sanyassan Marauders made Jhorn view IX3244-B as disgraces to the Imperial Military.[4] In 4 ABY,[2] the Alliance to Restore the Republic defeated the Empire in the Battle of Endor, and a captive Kiviett reported his experience with IX3244-B to Alliance historian Voren Na'al.[1]

Personality and traits

"Their technology is laughably primitive."
―Captain Toss dismissing the Ewoks' potential danger in his holoreport[1]
Sergeant Pfilbee Jhorn was displeased with Toss's superficial holoreport.

Toss was burdened with important duties on the frigate, and thus sent Kiviett and other Survey Team members to further investigate the Ewoks. He considered the Ewoks' primitive weapons to be no match for stormtroopers, and also viewed the remote location as perfectly meeting Vader's requirements. Toss further laughed at Kiviett's reported trouble with the Ewoks, believing them to be no threat and saying exterminating the species could be easily done if they proved to be too much trouble. Toss further agreed with Darth Vader that an environment already capable of supporting Human life was better than wasting time on constructing life-support systems and domes for the Death Star shield generator.[1]

In Kiviett's mind, Toss ignored the former's report on the Ewoks being a threat because he was in such a rush to be credited with establishing the new Death Star's construction site. He likewise also ignored Kiviett's suggestion for forest camouflage added to the Imperial vehicles and armor on Endor.[1] Likewise, Palpatine was not satisfied with Toss's rushed report, and Jhorn felt no differently during his assignment leading the second Survey Team.[4]

Behind the scenes

Toss was created for "Report to Imperial Command", a short narrative story included in 1987's The Star Wars Sourcebook, authored by Bill Slavicsek and Curtis Smith. As the in-universe author of a report on IX3244-B's survey of Endor,[3] the character was later named in "Imperial Scouting Party," a story released in 1990 for Michael Stern's Galaxy Guide 5: Return of the Jedi.[1]

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Notes and references

  1. ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 1.13 1.14 "Imperial Scouting Party" – Galaxy Guide 5: Return of the Jedi
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 The Official Star Wars Fact File 11 (END10, The Battle of Endor)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Report to Imperial Command" – The Star Wars Sourcebook
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 The Illustrated Star Wars Universe
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