Tanda Marelle was a Human female senior reporter who worked for the NewsNet Galactic Resorts shortly before the Clone Wars and during the Galactic Civil War. She was also a master art and jewel thief, called the "Tombat" and believed to be male by the galactic media. Despite her unsavory alternate profession, she was an important informant for the Rebel Alliance. Among other things, Tombat stole a pair of six thousand years old Manderon slugthrowers from Fitz Roi and the corusca gem necklace of Imperial Moff Landric's wife.