Cobb Vartos was a dark-skinned, male Human Major in New Republic Intelligence who led a team of Intelligence officers to liberate Verkuyl from the Galactic Empire. He along with Selby Jarrad used the guise of corporate bidders for the new bacta refining factory to get into the Verkuylian Imperial Governor's Hall in order to place a listening device in Governor Parco Ein's office and to get close enough to him to force him to liberate Verkuyl, or kill him. He was at the reception for the bidders with Sel and split from her to thoroughly reconnoiter the reception and then to reconnaissance the hall afterward.