Boss Roke was a male Human who was head of one of the mining operations on the world of Kessel, serving as a subordinate to Moruth Doole. He was killed by a mysterious, many-legged creature while seeking out a large deposit of glitterstim deep within one of the mines. At the time he was accompanied by Kyp Durron, Han Solo, and the Wookiee Chewbacca, who barely escaped alive.