Defaris Muslo was an Imperial governor who despised the Alliance to Restore the Republic, blaming them from the death of his daughter, Marna. Cruel, cunning, and manipulative, Muslo was known to construct elaborate traps to capture Rebels. Muslo was unaware that his daughter was, in fact, a Rebel operative who was torture to death by an Imperial interrogation droid. Imperial Intelligence suspected that Muslo was a Rebel operative like his daughter, and target him for assassination.