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this Imperial Governor controlled the planet Corulag in the years following the Battle of Yavin. Torlock had been a staunch supporter of the Tarkin Doctrine, having been one of the first to join Tarkin's cadre. He believed he was to be the target of an Alliance assassination attempt, and had been replaced by a human replica droid along with his daughter, Frija. It was at this time that he learned of his real daughter's relationship with his closest advisor, Admiral Droon, and learned that they had portrayed him as a traitor to their superiors. The real Torlock fled Corulag only after activated the human replica droids. He was never heard from again. The droid Torlock was later captured by Droon's forces and imprisoned, but not before Droon and Darth Vader set in motion a plan to execute Torlock and blame the assassination on the Alliance. Droon also attempted to eliminate the droid Frija, but she was saved from destruction by Jix, who had been sent to Corulag by Vader to execute Torlock. Jix then found and rescued the droid Torlock, and took them to Coruscant along with Droon. Once there, Jix allowed them to flee Coruscant and the Empire, but they were forced to hide out on Hoth. When Luke Skywalker crashed on the planet after returning from Aridus, he encounter the droid Torlock and Frija. The yearsof hiding weren't kind to the droid Torlock, and its feelings for both the Empire and the Alliance deteriorated into contempt and loathing of both sides of the conflict. Torlock's droid believed Luke would be their undoing, and tried to kill him. Instead, his blast hit his daughter, the droid Frija, and killed her. Luke retaliated by slicing the droid Torlock in two with his lightsaber. Luke, in term, returned to the Alliance with the location of the planet Hoth.