Alexsandr Kallus

Alexsandr Kallus, a human male, was born on Coruscant in the waning years of the Galactic Republic, specifically time between 44 BBY and 35 BBY. After Darth Sidious, a Sith Lord also publicly known as Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, declared himself Emperor and transformed the Republic into the Galactic Empire, Kallus enrolled in the Royal Imperial Academy on Coruscant. This was the primary campus for the new regime's military training program. At the Academy, Kallus studied under Wullf Yularen, who regarded him as one of his most promising students. He also formed a friendship with Jovan, who became an informal mentor to the young Coruscanti. Eventually, both completed their studies together, with Kallus graduating at the top of his class. At some point, Kallus became a member of the Imperial Security Bureau, a clandestine organization dedicated to suppressing rebellious activities throughout the galaxy. Kallus was assigned the code name ISB-021 and eventually achieved the ranks of both ISB Agent and captain, serving in the Enforcement, Internal Affairs, and Investigations divisions of the bureau.

Following his graduation, Kallus's first command was leading his own squad of stormtroopers. Around 18 BBY, Kallus and his squad were dispatched by the Empire to help restore order to Onderon for Kallus's initial assignment. The planet had descended into chaos following the Clone Wars. While leading a routine patrol, Kallus was ambushed the squad and incapacitated by a rebel mercenary, a Lasat working for Saw Gerrera. Upon regaining consciousness, the ISB agent found himself unable to move and was forced to witness the brutal slaughter of his squad by the Lasat mercenary. This event instilled in Kallus a deep-seated hatred for the entire Lasat species. Despite this, the Lasat spared Kallus's life, leaving the Imperial confused. Kallus later encountered fellow ISB agent Andressa Divo and discussed with her at length the brutal nature of Gerrera's campaigns. Divo was so disturbed that she hesitated to include specific details in her official reports.

Around 10 BBY, Kallus collaborated with IG-88 to track down Captain Han Solo of the Millennium Falcon, a smuggler who had deserted from the Imperial Army. Kallus used a shuttle to locate Solo during one of his smuggling operations. After discovering that Solo had aiding Enfys Nest on Savareen, Kallus declared Solo an enemy of the Empire. Suspecting Solo of smuggling items to Nest, he instructed IG-88 to inspect Solo's cargo. However, Solo's co-pilot, Chewbacca, attacked Kallus and IG-88. Although Solo and Chewbacca escaped, Kallus and IG-88 returned to the shuttle. Kallus ordered two Star Destroyers to prevent the Falcon from passing. Despite this, the Falcon managed to slip between the Star Destroyers and escape, leaving Kallus in disbelief at Solo's recklessness.

Kallus participated in the cleansing of the planet Lasan in 7 BBY. This planet was the homeworld of the Lasat, the species Kallus despised because of the mercenary who had destroyed his first unit years prior. The operation resulted in the near-total annihilation of the Lasat species, who were driven from their home world. Before the cleansing of Lasan concluded, Kallus received a J-19 bo-rifle from a member of the Lasan High Honor Guard whom he had defeated. The gifting of the bo-rifle surprised and greatly impacted Kallus. Unbeknownst to the Imperial agent at the time, this was the Lasat custom of Boosahn Keeraw.

Kallus later claimed to have ordered Imperial troops to use T-7 ion disruptor rifles against the population, but he later confessed that this was a lie intended to taunt Garazeb Orrelios. These rifles were powerful enough to disable starships and had devastating effects on living beings. As a result of their destructive capabilities, these weapons were eventually banned by the Imperial Senate.

Five years before the Battle of Yavin, a rebel cell was active on Lothal, targeting several Imperial installations. These actions caught the attention of the Imperial Security Bureau, which dispatched Kallus to Lothal to address the situation. He arrived on a shuttle and requested permission to dock with the Lawbringer, an Imperial I-class Star Destroyer orbiting the planet. Captain Hiram Zataire granted Kallus permission to dock. Kallus later dined with Zataire aboard the Lawbringer to assess the captain's loyalty to the Empire. During their meal, they discussed Zataire's son, who was openly critical of the Empire. Kallus deduced that the wine served by the captain was from Alderaan—a planet considered rebellious by the Empire—and had been given to the captain by his son. This allowed Kallus to realize that Zataire's son was on Alderaan, giving the ISB an opportunity to arrest him. Zataire pleaded with Kallus not to harm his son. The ISB Agent stated that the law allowed him some flexibility, provided that Captain Zataire fully cooperated with Kallus's operations on Lothal, a request that the captain agreed to. Kallus's first order to the captain was to have the Lawbringer descend from orbit and hover over Capital City, allowing the citizens of Lothal to witness the Empire's power.

As the Lawbringer hovered over the capital, the rebels conducted an operation against the Empire, stole crates filled with blasters and food. That night, Kallus inspected the damage caused by the Empire. Commandant Cumberlayne Aresko, one of the leading military officers on Lothal, briefed him about the attack. Kallus explained that it was part of a pattern that, if unchecked, could lead to a larger rebel movement.

To eliminate the rebels, Kallus set a trap by making them believe they had discovered the location of Wookiee slaves held by the Empire. Although the Empire was indeed holding Wookiee prisoners, the rebels were given false information about their location. The Ghost docked with a Gozanti-class cruiser that the rebels believed held the slaves. Jedi survivor Kanan Jarrus, Lasan High Honor Guardsman Garazeb Orrelios, Mandalorian warrior Sabine Wren, and the droid C1-10P boarded the ship, while the Lawbringer dropped out of hyperspace and captured the Gozanti-class cruiser and the Ghost. With the ships secured, Kallus and his stormtroopers boarded the cruiser and attacked the rebels. Wren and the droid disabled the gravity generator on the ship, surprising the Imperials and allowing the rebels to escape. During the escape, Kallus captured Ezra Bridger, a new member of the Ghost crew who had boarded to warn the rebels about the Lawbringer's arrival.

With Bridger in custody, Kallus planned to use the boy to lure the rebels back, believing they would attempt a rescue. Kallus spoke to Bridger in his cell and revealed the plan, but Bridger doubted that the Ghost would return, as he had never witnessed anyone risking their lives for others. Despite Bridger's skepticism, the rebels did return, though the boy managed to escape from his holding cell on his own. The Ghost landed in the lower hangar, which the Imperials detected. Kallus ordered all stormtroopers to converge on the lower hangar, where he would meet them, while diverting some to the upper hangar. Bridger, listening to Imperial communications through a stolen stormtrooper helmet, posed as a stormtrooper and suggested that the lower hangar might be a diversion.

Kallus led his stormtroopers to the lower hangar, where he discovered that Bridger had rejoined the rebels. The rebels fled upon seeing the Imperial troops, who pursued them and fired on the Ghost. As the rebel ship prepared to depart, Kallus noticed graffiti art on the hangar floor drawn by Wren and realized it was an explosive. He ordered his men to take cover, but the explosion ripped through the hangar, injuring some of his men. Kallus survived, thrown forward by the blast. The damage caused a hull breach, and many stormtroopers were blown into space. Kallus himself was nearly pulled into space but managed to hold onto the hangar deck until a force field sealed the hull breach. He remained in the hangar as the Imperials recovered from the rebel attack. He was then brought the helmet that Bridger had stolen and left behind, prompting the ISB Agent to realize that Bridger had overheard that the true location of the Wookiee prisoners was the spice mines of Kessel.

Knowing that the rebels would seize the opportunity to rescue the Wookiees, Kallus allowed them to reach Kessel, where they freed the Wookiee slaves from the Imperial forces stationed in spice mine K76. Before the rebels could escape, Kallus and additional Imperial forces arrived, firing on the Ghost and forcing it to flee while the remaining rebels stayed in the mine. Kallus and a squadron of stormtroopers landed at the mine and advanced on the rebels, forcing them to take cover. With the rebels pinned down, their leader, Jarrus, stepped forward and ignited his lightsaber, revealing himself as a Jedi who had survived the destruction of the Jedi Order. Kallus ordered all of his soldiers to focus their fire on Jarrus, giving the rest of the rebels and the Wookiees a chance to enter a cargo container, which would be picked up by the Ghost upon its return.

While the stormtroopers focused on the rebels, Kallus followed Bridger to a walkway overlooking the mine, where the boy had gone to rescue Kitwarr, a young Wookiee who had escaped and was being chased by a stormtrooper. Kallus arrived to see Bridger attack the stormtrooper with an energy slingshot, knocking the trooper over the railing. Kallus, believing Bridger to be Jarrus's apprentice, prepared to kill the boy, but the Ghost arrived to rescue Bridger. Jarrus, standing atop the ship, deflected Kallus's fire back at the ISB Agent. Kallus was struck by blaster fire, knocking him over the railing. He clung to the railing as the Ghost escaped. The stormtrooper, who had also fallen over, clung to the railing as well and asked if Jarrus was the first Jedi that Kallus had ever seen. In response, Kallus kicked the trooper off the railing, sending him falling into the mines.

Kallus left the spice mines and returned to the Lawbringer, which remained in orbit over Kessel. From the ship, Kallus contacted the Grand Inquisitor, a dark side warrior tasked with hunting down Jedi survivors. Kallus informed the Inquisitor, who appeared via hologram, about the events on Kessel and that the leader of the rebel cell was a Jedi. The Inquisitor acknowledged that Kallus had done well to inform him.

Following their successful rescue of the Wookiees, the rebels undertook a mission to steal T-7 ion disruptor rifles from Garel. Minister Maketh Tua of Lothal was attempting to procure the illegal weapons from Amda Wabo, an Aqualish weapons manufacturer. The rebels managed to secure the disruptors before the Imperials and disrupted the arms deal, taking the weapons for themselves. They also acquired two droids, R2-D2 and C-3PO, who were part of the arms deal on orders of Governor Arihnda Pryce of Lothal and were secretly working for the rebellious Senator Bail Organa of Alderaan. After the rebels stole the weapons, Tua contacted Agent Kallus and informed him of the events on Garel. Kallus recognized it as the work of the Ghost crew. C-3PO, believing himself to be the prisoner of criminals, attempted to send a distress signal to Governor Pryce, but the signal was rerouted and intercepted by Kallus aboard the Lawbringer. C-3PO provided Kallus with the location of the Ghost, and Kallus falsely told the droid that help was on the way.

The rebels returned to Lothal, intending to sell the disruptors to the Devaronian crime lord Cikatro Vizago. Before the deal could be completed, Kallus and his forces arrived in Imperial Troop Transports, accompanied by All Terrain Defense Pods. While the stormtroopers and AT-DPs engaged most of the rebels, Kallus challenged Orrelios to a one-on-one fight with bo-rifles. The enraged Lasat accepted the challenge, and the two fought while the rebels battled the Imperial forces and destroyed the disruptors. By the end of their duel, during which Kallus taunted Orrelios about the fall of Lasan, Orrelios was near defeat. Kallus attempted a fatal blow, but Bridger intervened, using the Force to push Kallus away. This allowed the rebels to escape, leaving Kallus to watch the Ghost fly away.

Some time passed, and the rebels devised a strategy to enter the Academy for Young Imperials located on Lothal. Their goal was to pilfer a cipher from Kallus' office within the Academy. This device would reveal the whereabouts of an immensely powerful kyber crystal, which the rebels aimed to obliterate. Bridger undertook the infiltration, assuming the identity of a cadet named Dev Morgan. After spending several weeks inside the facility, Bridger initiated his plan to discreetly enter Kallus' office. Upon his arrival, he observed Kallus exiting the office. Bridger, having won a cadet tournament to serve as an aide in the Imperial Complex, showed up—his face hidden by a helmet—with a datapad meant for delivery. The rebel suggested leaving it on the ISB Agent's desk, but Kallus took possession of it himself and departed. Once Kallus was gone, Bridger entered the office, only to be intercepted by cadet Zare Leonis, who recognized that the theft would trigger an alarm. Leonis, also harboring anti-Imperial sentiments, decided to join forces, and together they resolved to steal the decoder.

The following day, the two rebels put their plan into action. To reach Kallus' office from above, Bridger stealthily navigated through a ventilation shaft. Simultaneously, Leonis requested authorization to enter Kallus' office. The cadet informed Kallus that his podracer components had been delivered. Kallus questioned the order, stating that he had neither requested nor required any podracer parts. Leonis insisted that the parts were indeed for Kallus, stalling the Agent to provide Bridger with the necessary time to steal the decoder. Utilizing the Force, Bridger levitated the decoder, causing it to float upwards towards the ventilation shaft opening. Kallus noticed Leonis' surprised reaction to the use of the Force and turned around, but Bridger had already completed the theft before the Agent could see him. Leonis inquired once more if Kallus would sign for the podracer parts, but Kallus declined, maintaining that it was a mistake.

As Bridger made his way back through the vents, he discovered that he and a fellow cadet, Jai Kell, had displayed skills that piqued the interest of the Inquisitor, who was scheduled to arrive on Lothal the next day to evaluate them. Consequently, Bridger, Leonis, and Kell orchestrated an escape from the Academy. However, Leonis remained behind, as he had unfinished business there. To avoid suspicion, he pretended to attempt to prevent the rebels from escaping. Upon the Inquisitor's arrival, Kallus was present and received information about the escape. The Inquisitor recognized "Cadet Morgan" as Bridger, having previously encountered him on Stygeon Prime, confirming that Bridger's presence was an act of infiltration.

After the events at the Academy, Agent Kallus received the assignment of apprehending Jovan, his former friend and mentor. Jovan had begun exploiting his position as an Imperial lieutenant on Ganthel to amass personal wealth. Kallus successfully located Jovan in the small Lothalian town of Dinar. The two engaged in a physical altercation in an alley. Jovan managed to escape, commandeering a stolen TIE starfighter, but Kallus pursued him across the plains of Lothal in another fighter. Despite being a less skilled pilot than his former acquaintance, the ISB agent managed to bring down the rogue lieutenant using a maneuver he had learned from him during their amicable past. Defeated, Jovan pleaded with Kallus to release him for old time's sake, but Kallus refused to allow his personal feelings to supersede his loyalty to the Empire. Kallus then returned to the Imperial headquarters on Lothal as his former friend was taken to jail.

The Imperial authorities on Lothal planned a series of celebrations for Empire Day, commemorating the fifteenth anniversary of the Clone Wars' conclusion and the Galactic Empire's establishment. On Empire Day, the local government also commenced a search for a Rodian named Tseebo, who had absconded with crucial data from the Imperial Information Office where he was employed. Kallus participated in the Rodian's pursuit, even during the Empire Day parade in Capital City. During the parade, the rebels destroyed an experimental TIE Advanced v1 starfighter. Following their escape from the scene, Kallus assumed command of the investigation to locate them and requested blueprints of the city's ventilation systems, sewers, and other potential hiding places for the rebels. Minister Tua demanded that the rebels face punishment for disrupting Empire Day, and Kallus assured her of his agreement, but emphasized that finding Tseebo remained their top priority.

Having fled the attack site, the rebels sought refuge at Ezra Bridger's childhood home, where they discovered Tseebo in hiding. Tseebo had been a friend of Bridger's parents before their disappearance years prior. The rebels examined the stolen information and decided to extract him from the planet to analyze the secrets he possessed. To facilitate his escape from the city, the rebels commandeered an Imperial Troop Transport. Kallus learned of the hijacking and contacted Commandant Aresko, who had established a blockade at the city's edge, to warn him about the approaching rebels. Nevertheless, the rebels blasted through the blockade and escaped to the city's outskirts.

Kallus arrived in his own ITT and chased the rebels out of the city. During the pursuit, Kallus contacted the Inquisitor to inform him that the rebels had breached the main city gate and were heading south. The Inquisitor, boarding his own TIE Advanced fighter, suspected that the Ghost would be waiting and instructed Kallus to impede their escape. Kallus' men breached the hijacked ITT and attempted to board, while Kallus' ITT continued firing. Kallus ascended to the roof of his ITT and leaped onto the rebels', just as the Ghost arrived. Orrelios fired at Kallus, seeking to end their long-standing feud, as Kallus ordered his ITT to fire on the Ghost. The Ghost, in response, destroyed Kallus' ITT. Orrelios, missing his initial shot, fired at Kallus again, knocking him from the side of the rebels' ITT—though he managed to hold on to the vehicle's back.

The rebels initiated their escape onto the Ghost, heading to the top of the stolen ITT to swiftly board the ship. Kallus climbed back atop the ITT in time to witness Tseebo stepping onto the ramp lowered by the Ghost. He fired towards the rebels, prompting Jarrus to ignite his lightsaber and confront the ISB Agent. The Jedi deflected Kallus' blasts before boarding the Ghost, which flew away to escape Lothal. As it departed, Kallus contacted the Inquisitor to confirm that Tseebo was aboard the rebel ship. The Inquisitor and his fighters pursued the rebels off of Lothal, but ultimately failed to stop them or capture Tseebo.

In the wake of the rebel assault on the Empire Day festivities, Governor Arihnda Pryce mandated a planet-wide crackdown on sedition and dissent. Agent Kallus was placed in charge of this crackdown, and all military personnel on Lothal, including Imperial cadets, were drafted to participate. Under Kallus' directives, Imperial cadets were tasked with interrogating residents about illicit activities in their neighborhoods, apprehending criminals, detaining the children of fugitives, and leading stormtroopers on law enforcement raids. Kallus' stringent stance on crime and his orders to detain children appalled some Imperials, such as Cadet Zare Leonis and Lieutenant Chiron, but they understood the consequences of openly defying his orders, given the crackdown's support from the governor and all Imperial ministries on Lothal.

Realizing that the rebels frequently stole food supplies from the Empire, Kallus decided to exploit this habit. The agent contaminated supplies and allowed the rebels to seize them, intending for their contents to poison anyone who consumed them. As anticipated, several residents of the refugee settlement of Tarkintown ingested the poisoned food and fell ill, prompting Garazeb Orrelios to independently raid the Imperial compound in search of an antidote. Upon reaching the medical facility, Orrelios found Kallus waiting for him with four stormtroopers. The ISB agent engaged the Lasat in combat, gaining the upper hand for a time. However, the situation reversed when Hera Syndulla, Kanan Jarrus, Sabine Wren, and Ezra Bridger arrived to rescue their friend, overpowering the Imperials and successfully escaping the compound.

Having failed to thwart the rebels on Empire Day, Kallus devised a scheme to ensnare them in a trap and eliminate them. The plan involved Senator Gall Trayvis, who served the Empire by feigning dissent to monitor and lure rebel forces across the galaxy into traps. Trayvis disseminated a message via a hacked HoloNet News broadcast, stating that he would meet the rebels in the Lothal City Capitol Building on Lothal. The rebels took the bait, and Kallus prepared the trap, although Minister Tua questioned its likelihood of success. The plan appeared to be working when the rebels arrived in the Senate Building, as Kallus and his forces managed to corner Jarrus, Bridger, Hera Syndulla, and Trayvis. The rebels had arrived believing that Trayvis was in danger and that the Empire intended to capture him. Kallus identified Jarrus and Bridger, referring to the latter as "Jabba" in reference to their initial encounter, and encountered Syndulla for the first time. He demanded that they reveal the whereabouts of Orrelios and Wren or face execution by firing squad. The Imperials were caught off guard when Orrelios and Wren, having entered the building from the roof, deployed smoke bombs between the rebels and Imperials, enabling the rebels to fight their way out and escape.

The rebels managed to escape their confinement and descended into the sewers beneath the Senate Building, pursued by Kallus and his troopers. The rebels split up, with Bridger and Syndulla escorting Trayvis while the others fled in a different direction. Trayvis revealed his true allegiance to Syndulla and Bridger, but they managed to knock him unconscious just before reuniting with the other rebels. Kallus and his forces arrived as Jarrus used the Force to halt a large fan obstructing the rebels' path to freedom, and the ISB Agent ordered his forces to open fire on Jarrus. However, the Imperials were too late, as the rebels successfully escaped.

The Spectres' actions eventually attracted the attention of Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin, who paid a visit to Lothal. Agent Kallus, along with Minister Maketh Tua and the Inquisitor, were part of the grand reception that greeted Tarkin's shuttle at the Imperial headquarters. During the meeting, Tarkin reprimanded Kallus for allowing the rebels to attack Imperial personnel, destroy Imperial property, and disrupt the Empire's trade. Kallus, ashamed to admit failure, responded that he had exhausted every resource to capture them but that the rebels had proven elusive. When Minister Tua mentioned that the rebel leader Kanan Jarrus was a Jedi, a skeptical Tarkin asserted that all the Jedi had perished during the Great Jedi Purge. Kallus believed that Tarkin's arrival would provide him with the resources necessary to capture the insurgents.

After the Spectres ambushed an Imperial supply convoy in the town of Jalath, Kallus attended a meeting where Tarkin ordered the Inquisitor to execute the Imperial officers Commandant Aresko and Taskmaster Grint for their repeated failures to stop the Lothal rebel cell. Agent Kallus and Minister Tua were visibly horrified by the Grand Moff's actions, as their two men had been incompetent but loyal Imperials. Nevertheless, Kallus took it as a lesson that failure in the Empire would no longer be tolerated. Tarkin then ordered Agent Kallus to dispatch probe droids throughout Lothal to locate the rebels. Disturbed by the execution of Aresko and Grint, Kallus vowed to avoid such a fate himself.

Under Tarkin's command, Agent Kallus and the Inquisitor devised a plan to trap the Spectres at the Imperial communications tower. Seeking to counter Imperial propaganda, the Spectres had seized the tower complex to broadcast a propaganda message to neighboring systems. Following the rebel assault, Agent Kallus and the Inquisitor arrived with a force of three patrol transports and two Imperial Troop Transports, surrounding the complex and trapping the rebels. Kallus personally confronted Kanan outside the communications tower. When Kanan refused to surrender, the Inquisitor engaged the Jedi in a lightsaber duel. Following a brief confrontation, Kanan's rebel comrades managed to escape. Kallus succeeded in capturing Kanan at the cost of one patrol transport.

At dawn, Agent Kallus delivered the captured Jedi Kanan to Grand Moff Tarkin, who commended the Inquisitor for his work. Before Tarkin could interrogate Kanan, Kallus reported that the Spectres had gained control of the tower's transmitter. Kallus listened to Ezra's broadcast and expressed concern at Tarkin's orders to destroy the communications tower. Tarkin's destruction of the Lothal communications tower disrupted offworld communications on Lothal and neighboring systems, forcing local Imperial authorities to rely on courier droids. Kallus and Tarkin later oversaw the interrogation of Kanan, who, according to standard Imperial procedure, was injected with a truth serum by an interrogator droid. Despite Kallus's best efforts, Kanan's Jedi training enabled him to resist the interrogation droid's mind probes. Displeased with Kallus's results, Tarkin ordered the Inquisitor to torture Kanan, who still refused to divulge any information about the rebellion. Frustrated by Kanan's resistance, the Imperials transferred the captive Jedi to the Mustafar system.

Agent Kallus remained on Lothal while Grand Moff Tarkin and the Inquisitor traveled to the Mustafar system with their Jedi captive. However, Kanan's rebel comrades launched a mission to rescue the Jedi. During that mission, the Inquisitor was killed, and the Grand Moff's Star Destroyer Sovereign and several TIE starfighters were destroyed by the rebels, who managed to flee into hyperspace with the assistance of the rebel network. Following the events in the Mustafar system, Agent Kallus was present at the Imperial headquarters' hangar bay when Grand Moff Tarkin arrived in a shuttle with the Emperor's Fist, Darth Vader. During the meeting, the operative expressed concern that the events on Mustafar would lead people to perceive the Empire as weak and vulnerable. Governor Tarkin disagreed and assured Agent Kallus that Lord Vader would crush the Spectres and their nascent rebellion. Kallus was assigned to Vader's direct command as the Sith Lord and Tarkin initiated a besiegement campaign to punish Lothal and draw out the rebels.

As Vader's crackdown on Lothal unfolded, Kallus convened with Minister Tua to discuss her unsuccessful attempts to locate the Spectres. Under Tua's direction, the Imperial planetary authorities had heightened security and enforced a planetary curfew in accordance with Vader and Tarkin's demands to "squeeze" Lothal. However, Minister Tua doubted the effectiveness of such added security measures, correctly believing that the rebels had already departed the planet. Frustrated, Kallus countered that Tarkin demanded results due to the destruction of his Star Destroyer Sovereign. At that moment, Darth Vader interrupted their conversation and suggested that the Imperials lure the rebels back to Lothal and trap them there.

When the Minister voiced reservations about "punishing" the Lothalian population, the Emperor's Fist responded that she could raise her concerns with the Grand Moff himself, adding that Governor Tarkin had scheduled a meeting with her for the following day. When Minister Tua expressed fear of meeting the same fate as Commandant Aresko and Taskmaster Grint, an unsympathetic Agent Kallus commented that he and Lord Vader would "manage in her absence." Fearing for her life and disturbed by the Empire's increasingly heavy-handed measures, the frightened dignitary secretly contacted the Spectres and arranged to defect to the rebellion. However, Kallus suspected Tua's treason and dispatched a probe droid to monitor her movements.

The next day, Agent Kallus drove Minister Tua in a landspeeder to a disembarkation station where an Imperial shuttle awaited to transport her to Governor Tarkin. Kallus was escorted by several stormtroopers to deter any rebel attack. However, the Spectres sprang into action and attempted to rescue the dignitary. During the ensuing skirmish, Kallus fought against the Jedi Kanan, who had disguised himself as a Stormtrooper Commander. Tua ran to the shuttle but was killed in an explosion deliberately orchestrated by Vader to discredit the rebels. Aware that his probe droid was observing the fray, Kallus feigned anger and accused the rebels of murdering Minister Tua. Despite his efforts, the rebels managed to escape, prompting Emperor's Fist to instruct the ISB Agent to lay siege to Lothal.

After the rebels stole a second Imperial shuttle and escaped Capital City, Kallus reported to Vader again, informing him that the rebels had not yet left Lothal. To draw the rebels out, the Dark Lord ordered the Agent to destroy Tarkintown, a refugee settlement that the rebels had previously assisted. Kallus complied with Vader's orders and sent troops to raze the settlement and round up its inhabitants, who were imprisoned. Later, the rebels managed to escape Lothal with the assistance of the "galactic entrepreneur" Lando Calrissian's droid W1-LE, who helped them build sensor buoys that confused the Imperial forces tracking them down. However, Vader had allowed the rebels to escape in order to locate the Phoenix Cell, which operated a fleet in deep space. In the Emperor's Fist's ensuing attack run, the Spectres suffered heavy losses and were forced into retreat. Upon the Sith Lord's return to their destroyer's bridge, Kallus congratulated Vader on his victory, only for the Sith Lord to demand the bridge be cleared, forcing Kallus to leave so he could speak with the Emperor.

Following the Empire's triumph over the Phoenix Squadron, and despite the rebels' ultimate escape, Kallus received a promotion of some kind and was assigned to assist Admiral Kassius Konstantine in locating the rebels. While aboard the bridge of the Relentless, an officer informed him that Clone trooper Wolffe had reported an encounter with Jedi on the desert planet of Seelos. While Konstantine expressed skepticism, given the clone's history of making delusional distress calls, Kallus insisted that all leads should be pursued and sent a probe droid to investigate.

Wolffe's intelligence proved accurate, and the probe droid managed to locate Kanan and his rebel cell, who were perennial adversaries of Kallus. Upon arriving above Seelos, Commander Kallus and Admiral Konstantine issued an ultimatum to Wolffe, demanding that he and his fellow clones surrender the rebels or face "total and immediate destruction." Instead, Wolffe's associate, Captain Rex, challenged the agent and mocked the stormtroopers under his command. Undaunted, Kallus first dispatched a squadron of TIE fighters to the planet. After the rebels destroyed his TIE fighters, the ISB Commander personally led three AT-AT walkers against the clones' lone AT-TE walker.

Despite entering a sandstorm, Kallus ordered the assault to proceed. Unable to see or detect them, the Imperials were caught off guard, and one walker was destroyed by a well-placed shot to the neck from Ezra Bridger. Kallus then ordered the remaining walkers to fire in the direction of the shot, chasing the ancient walker out of the sandstorm just as the rebel ship lifted off. Unaware that Admiral Konstantine had left the Seelos system to rendezvous with an Inquisitor and was no longer able to provide air support, Kallus ordered his two remaining AT-AT walkers to continue the assault against the "obsolete" Clone troopers.

However, the clones refused to surrender, and their old walker, despite sustaining numerous hits, still had one good fight left in it. To the agent's disbelief, the clones brought their walker right up against Kallus' walker and rammed its legs to overbalance it. Rex then jumped onto the main cannon and openly challenged the walker's crew, deriding them as cowards. Thinking the clone suicidal, Kallus ordered his gunners to "finish him." Before they could do so, Kallus' AT-AT walker was attacked by the rebel ship Phantom and the second AT-AT walker, which had been hijacked by the rebels. Completing the rout, Rex fired a shot from the AT-TE's mass driver cannon right into the neck of Kallus's own walker, crippling it. Kallus and his bridge crew managed to escape the ruined walker on a speeder, though one was left frantically running after it.

Following the events that transpired on Seelos, both Kallus and Konstantine remained stationed on the Relentless alongside the Fifth Brother. On one particular occasion, a crew member detected a power surge originating from a derelict Republic medical station. While Kallus and Konstantine were both doubtful that this was significant, the Fifth Brother held a different opinion and decided to investigate personally. Upon arrival, the Fifth Brother, accompanied by another Inquisitor known as the Seventh Sister, came face to face with the rebels Ezra, Sabine, Chopper, and Zeb. The two sides then engaged in a skirmish. Despite the combined might of the two Dark Side Adepts, the four rebels were successful in escaping and alerting their fellow rebels to the presence of additional Inquisitors.

Later, Kallus was in command of a blockade that surrounded the planet Ibaar, suspecting, correctly, that the rebels would try to assist the exploited population. His fleet successfully fought off an attack by Phoenix Squadron, destroying a CR90 corvette and even eliminating the Phoenix Leader during the battle. The rebels later responded with a prototype Bladewing starfighter which managed to break through the blockade, allowing their supplies to reach the planet's surface. The power displayed by the lone fighter left Kallus in stunned disbelief.

Not long after the Ibaar incident, Swain, a female officer who had been training under Kallus, experienced a change of heart. Realizing she could no longer support an organization that oppressed ordinary citizens, she chose to desert, along with her colleague Cogon, and the pair absconded with a Lambda-class T-4a shuttle. However, Kallus managed to track the shuttle's signal. Aboard the Relentless, he pursued his former protégée to the planet Thrad, where she and her accomplice planned to travel to Klonoid and join a local rebel cell. Kallus pursued Swain and Cogon through the city streets, eventually cornering them in an alleyway. Without his bo-rifle, Kallus appeared to be at Swain's mercy. However, two stormtroopers arrived just in time and shot Cogon in the back. Kallus and his former student exchanged blows briefly, until Kallus was once again pinned down, seemingly helpless. But Kallus, to Swain's surprise, pulled a hidden weapon from beneath his armor and stunned her. He then contacted Admiral Konstantine, instructing him to destroy a suspicious vessel attempting to leave the planet—the very ship Swain and Cogon intended to board. In the end, Kallus had Swain taken aboard Admiral Konstantine's Star Destroyer for interrogation and reported his success to Lord Vader.

Kallus later received a message from Admiral Brom Titus, who bragged about capturing the rebels Jun Sato and Ezra Bridger. Kallus promised to meet Titus at his prototype Imperial Interdictor and warned him to keep Bridger under heavy guard, but Titus brushed off his concerns. Upon Kallus' arrival, he discovered the Interdictor had been destroyed, the rebels had escaped, and a humiliated Titus was adrift in an escape pod, much to Kallus' amusement.

After the Inquisitor known as the Seventh Sister detected a rebel presence on the planet Garel, Agent Kallus ordered Admiral Konstantine to move the Imperial fleet from Lothal to Garel. He persuaded the Seventh Sister and the Fifth Brother to work together to capture Phoenix Squadron, including the Spectres, his long-time adversaries. Kallus also led the ground assault and attempted to capture the Spectres. However, Ezra Bridger used the Force to throw Kallus against a wall, knocking him unconscious. After the Spectres escaped, Kallus contacted Admiral Konstantine to inquire about the rebel fleet's location. Konstantine reported that he was unaware of their position, as the rebels had already jumped into hyperspace.

Agent Kallus and Admiral Konstantine later commanded an Arquitens-class command cruiser in an attempt to capture the Ghost above the planet Nixus. Earlier, the crew of the Ghost had rescued two Lasat refugees, Gron and Chava the Wise, who were searching for the fabled Lasat homeworld of Lira San. Despite their best efforts, the Ghost managed to jump to hyperspace before the Imperials could trap them. However, the Imperials had captured the Weequay pirate Hondo Ohnaka, who had originally informed the crew of the Ghost about the Lasat refugees. Ohnaka was forced to cooperate with the Imperials and located the Ghost using a tracker implanted in his communications device.

Kallus' Imperial light cruiser tracked the Ghost to an imploded star cluster located in Wild Space. Upon exiting hyperspace, Kallus gave the rebels a one-minute ultimatum to surrender before he destroyed their ship. Realizing that Kallus was the prophesied "warrior" from Lasat legend, Zeb used his bo-rifle to guide the Ghost through the hazardous star cluster. When the rebels refused to comply, Kallus dispatched two TIE fighters after the Ghost, but they were torn apart by the star cluster's gravitational forces. Kallus' light cruiser then opened fire on the Ghost, but every shot missed its target. Kallus was forced to retreat his cruiser after it began to sustain damage from the gravity field. Although Kallus hoped the Ghost would be destroyed, he was disappointed when the rebel freighter successfully entered the star cluster.

Kallus' subsequent action was to set a trap for the Ghost's crew at an Imperial construction module situated above the desert planet of Geonosis. Despite successfully luring the rebels into the trap, his forces failed to capture them, and the rebels managed to escape into space. During the skirmish, Kallus engaged the Lasat in hand-to-hand combat. When Zeb attempted to escape in an escape pod, Kallus pursued him into the pod and attempted to subdue him. The escape attempt resulted in Kallus breaking his leg and the pod crashing onto the frozen Geonosian moon of Bahryn.

Zeb spared Kallus' life, refusing to defeat his opponent unfairly. The two enemies were compelled to cooperate to avoid freezing to death and being killed by the bonzami, vicious predators that inhabited the moon. When the creatures attacked and Kallus retrieved his weapon, he passed up the opportunity to kill Zeb and instead helped him fend off the predators. After saving each other's lives, the two adversaries opened up to each other and forged an unexpected connection. After their heat source failed, Zeb found a small meteorite, still glowing and radiating heat, which he gave to Kallus. When the bonzami attacked them again, they managed to escape the underground cavern to the surface after a struggle. Here, Kallus had the chance to shoot Zeb but chose to save him from the bonzami instead.

The next morning, the crew of the Ghost returned for Zeb after picking up his transponder. Zeb invited Kallus to join them, assuring him he would be treated fairly. However, Kallus declined and chose to wait for the Imperials. After the rebels left, Kallus was rescued by a passing independent trader, as the Empire had exhausted its allocated time and resources searching for him. Upon finally returning to the Imperial fleet, Kallus encountered Admiral Konstantine, who barely acknowledged him, much to Kallus' disappointment after witnessing the camaraderie Zeb had shown him. After limping back to his quarters, he placed the meteorite Zeb had given him on a shelf before reflecting on his sobering experience with his enemy, now privately questioning the Empire.

Following his encounter with Zeb, the doubts within Kallus began to intensify. These doubts ultimately led him to defect to the rebellion. He operated as a spy, using the alias Fulcrum, and provided secret information to the rebellion through transmitted messages.

In 2 BBY, Kallus continued, ostensibly, to hunt the rebels alongside Governor Pryce, Admiral Konstantine, and Grand Moff Tarkin. Pryce then announced that Grand Admiral Thrawn and his Seventh Fleet would be leading their efforts against the rebels. After learning that Thrawn had recently been promoted for his actions in the Battle of Batonn, Kallus remarked that the civilian casualties were higher than those of the insurgents. In response, Governor Pryce stated that there were no longer any rebels in the Batonn sector. Later, Kallus accompanied Pryce and Konstantine to Yarma, where the Phoenix rebels had raided the Imperial floating junkyard Reklam Station. Kallus was present when Thrawn instructed Pryce and Konstantine to allow the rebels to escape with their "meager reward" of five stolen Y-wing starfighters.

Subsequently, Kallus informed the rebels that there were cadets at the Imperial Skystrike Academy who desired to defect to the rebellion. He then accompanied Governor Pryce to the Skystrike Academy. Pryce had arrived after hearing rumors of several cadets attempting to defect and had Captain Vult Skerris conduct a combat simulator in space to draw out the defectors. Her plan was successful, and the Imperials killed one of the defectors and captured the other three. In an interrogation room, Kallus noticed Sabine, and when she revealed her identity to protect the other two cadets, Pryce ordered Kallus to take the other two cadets, Hobbie and Wedge, to another cell. Sabine commented to Kallus, "looks like they have found someone who can do your job," before Kallus led the two cadets to their cell.

When Sabine broke free from Pryce's grasp and fled with Hobbie and Wedge, the Imperials trapped them behind blast doors. Kallus suddenly appeared, opened one of the doors, and advised them on how to escape. He then told Sabine to give his regards to Garazeb Orrelios, and that they "we're even now." Kallus then closed the blast door after the three had left and hid himself until the alarm was deactivated.

Later, Agent Kallus accompanied Governor Pryce on the bridge of a Star Destroyer. Kallus complimented the Governor on her plan to lure the Spectres into a trap at a fuel depot. However, Pryce responded that her plan would only be successful if she captured the rebels. Kallus was present when Pryce dispatched Imperial forces to investigate a distress signal originating from Agamar.

Following his encounter with Sabine at the Skystrike Academy, Kallus learned that the Empire was developing a new weapon at the Imperial Armory Complex. He then contacted Phoenix Squadron, who were planning to attack the factory. Due to the high rate of malfunctioning vehicles produced by the Lothal Imperial factory, the Imperial High Command dispatched Grand Admiral Thrawn to restore order and investigate the factory for saboteurs. Indeed, a rebel cell led by former Governor Ryder Azadi had been sabotaging the vehicles.

With Governor Pryce and Lieutenant Yogar Lyste, Agent Kallus summoned the factory workers for an assembly. Thrawn then delivered a speech criticizing the workers for their poor workmanship. He then forced the former farmer Morad Sumar, a member of Azadi's cell, to demonstrate a 614-AvA speeder bike. Due to a defective engine, the bike exploded during the test demonstration, killing Sumar. Kallus was horrified by Thrawn's actions, but Governor Pryce smirked. Thrawn then ordered his Imperial subordinates to lock down the factory and question the workers. However, the rebel infiltrators Ezra, Kanan, and Chopper managed to evade the screening and headed to Section A2.

While Thrawn and Governor Pryce discussed the secrets hidden inside the factory's Section A2, Kallus requested more information from his superiors regarding the project so that he could question the workers more effectively. Pryce responded that all Kallus needed to know was that the Grand Admiral had a new fighter initiative. When Kallus expressed skepticism about the possibility of one fighter changing the course of the war, Thrawn replied that victory and defeat were determined by the smallest details. Kallus was present when Thrawn ordered another worker to demonstrate an AT-DP walker. At Thrawn's command, Kallus released the walker from its station. When the walker collapsed, Thrawn signaled for his men to arrest the worker.

Later, Kallus and Lieutenant Lyste visited Thrawn's Office, which contained several objects related to the Spectres. When Thrawn asked the two officers about one of Sabine's graffiti art pieces, Lyste remarked that it was merely a section of a retaining wall. In contrast, the more perceptive Kallus recognized the drawing as a starbird, a creature of light that had been adopted as a symbol of the Phoenix Squadron. Kallus interpreted the starbird as a symbol of the rebels' commitment to victory. Thrawn agreed and theorized that the Spectres had a special connection to Lothal.

When Thrawn asked if they had found any more subversives, Lyste informed the Admiral that two workers had disappeared following Thrawn's speech but that they had left behind their uniforms. Kallus suggested issuing an alert, but Thrawn advised against it, believing that the rebels were already inside the factory and had found new disguises. When Kallus asked Thrawn whether he thought the rebels were more than saboteurs, the Admiral responded that the rebels were after the contents of Section A2 and sent Kallus and Lyste to secure it.

Spotting Ezra and Kanan in their stormtrooper disguises with their droid, Kallus ushered them into a turbolift under the pretense of ordering them to secure a perimeter. Inside the lift, Kallus introduced himself to the rebels, who attacked him. However, Kallus managed to convince them that he was an ally by identifying himself as Fulcrum and reciting the code phrase "by the light of Lothal's moons." Kallus also reminded the two that he had befriended Zeb on Bahryn and helped Sabine escape. While Chopper trusted Kallus, Ezra and Kanan were slower to trust their former adversary.

Nevertheless, Kanan convinced Kallus to help them send a signal to his local contact, Ryder Azadi. Kallus led the rebels into a communications station and pretended to fight them. The rebels used their blasters and lightsabers to stun the stormtroopers and officer at the station. Kallus then allowed Chopper to upload Kanan's comlink from the station's port. After the rebels had contacted Ryder, Kallus told them to head to the east gate, where they would find an AT-DP walker in the hangar. To make it appear that Kallus had put up a fight, Ezra hurled the ISB agent against the glass monitor. While injured by the shattered glass, Kallus was pleased that he had helped his new allies escape.

Due to Kallus' assistance, Ezra, Kanan, and Chopper managed to escape the factory on the AT-DP walker and link up with Ryder's cell. They also managed to send the stolen plans to Phoenix Squadron, which discovered that Thrawn was developing a new starfighter. Ezra and Kanan credited Kallus with helping them escape the factory. While Hera and Sabine believed that Kallus could not be trusted yet, Zeb vouched for his former adversary and remarked that he must have accidentally recruited him.

Later, Thrawn questioned Kallus about his encounter with the rebels. Having analyzed the rebels' escape pattern, Thrawn suspected that the rebels had inside help from a mole. Instead of questioning Imperial personnel, Thrawn decided to set a trap for the mole. Feigning loyalty to the Empire, Kallus commended Thrawn for his "flawless" strategy.

Agent Kallus was later made aware of Grand Admiral Thrawn's plan to dispatch E-XD-series infiltrator droids across the Outer Rim Territories to locate rebel bases. While stationed aboard a Star Destroyer, Kallus was informed by another officer that they had lost contact with EXD-9. Unable to locate the droid, the officer suggested alerting Imperial High Command. Kallus advised him against it, arguing that chasing down every communication failure would be a waste of time. Instead, he suggested the officer wait until the next cycle.

Using his Fulcrum alias, Kallus sent a recorded transmission to Chopper Base, warning the rebels that the Empire was dispatching E-XD infiltrator droids across the galaxy. He also added that the Empire had lost contact with one and would soon be searching for it. Fulcrum's warning alerted Kallus' rebel friend Zeb, who realized that the "stray" protocol droid he had found was an infiltrator droid. Working with Chopper and the RA-7 protocol droid AP-5, Zeb overpowered the infiltrator droid. The three rebels then reprogrammed EXD-9 into an improvised bomb, which they used to destroy a Star Destroyer.

Kallus was on the bridge of another Star Destroyer when he witnessed the other ship explode in flames. Feigning shock and anger, he inquired about what had happened. An officer informed him that one of their infiltrator droid's proton warheads had detonated prematurely. Kallus secretly smiled and later sent a transmission to Chopper Base, praising the rebels for their ingenious plan to neutralize the infiltrator droid. Later, he visited Thrawn and reported that the rebels had reprogrammed an infiltrator droid into an improvised bomb. Both men considered the rebel plan ingenious. When Kallus noticed that Thrawn was in good spirits despite the setback, the Grand Admiral replied that he had narrowed down his search from thousands of systems to the 94 systems to which he had sent infiltrator droids.

Sometime later, Kallus was awakened from his sleep when Lieutenant Lyste put the ship on battle-station mode to intercept a stolen shuttle. Upon arriving on the light cruiser's bridge, Kallus was briefed by Lyste about the shuttle heist. After Lyste's light cruiser trapped the stolen shuttle with its tractor beam projector, Kallus went to the landing bay to interrogate the shuttle thief, who turned out to be the rebel Ezra Bridger. Bridger was disguised as a bounty hunter and accompanied by Chopper and AP-5, who claimed to be unwilling passengers on the stolen shuttle.

Kallus met with Ezra in the light cruiser's detention cell and scolded him for getting captured. Ezra informed him that the Empire was monitoring his most recent Fulcrum Transmission and that he had come to rescue him before he was exposed and executed for treason. Before they could make their next move, Lieutenant Lyste entered the brig to inform Kallus that Grand Admiral Thrawn had summoned both of them for a meeting aboard his Imperial Star Destroyer Chimaera. To protect Ezra, Kallus claimed that the prisoner was a bounty hunter from Lothal. Seeking to gain favor with Thrawn and redeem himself after the incident with Princess Leia Organa, Lyste arranged for Ezra to be brought aboard Thrawn's ship. Kallus and Lyste then traveled to the Chimaera aboard the Sentinel-class landing craft Shuttle TYA77.

Once aboard the Chimaera, Kallus and Lyste headed to Thrawn's Office. Meanwhile, the droids searched for a port to download a new set of clearance codes for the rescue team members Kanan and Rex. Ezra was thrown into the Chimaera's detention block. At Thrawn's Office, Kallus and Lyste were met by Thrawn, Konstantine, and Kallus' former ISB instructor and the Head of the Imperial Security Bureau, Colonel Wullf Yularen. During the meeting, Kallus learned about Thrawn's investigation into Fulcrum and how he was close to discovering the Phoenix Squadron's base on the planet Atollon. Following the meeting, Kallus spent time with his former instructor and took the opportunity to spread disinformation.

Knowing that Thrawn was close to uncovering his identity and feeling he could do more good for the Rebel Network by remaining undercover, Kallus decided to implicate Lyste as Fulcrum. Taking advantage of Lyste's inexperience and naivete, he tricked Lyste into believing that Governor Pryce was Fulcrum and told him to spy on her. Kallus also stole Lyste's code cylinder. After finding AP-5 and Chopper, Kallus freed Ezra from his cell and told him about Thrawn's search for the rebel base. Kallus tried to convince Ezra to give him the location of the rebel base so that he could delete it from Thrawn's database. Not fully trusting Kallus, Ezra insisted that Kallus wait until they had extracted him from the Chimaera. AP-5 then managed to convince Ezra to support Kallus' plan by pointing out that he could get a new set of clearance code's from Thrawn's office.

After tricking Lyste into tailing Pryce, Kallus obtained an Imperial uniform for Ezra. The two then infiltrated Thrawn's office with Ezra using a Jedi mind trick to convince the stormtrooper sentry that he was Lieutenant Lyste. Once inside, Kallus instructed Chopper to delete Atollon and add another planet. Before they could leave, Thrawn returned to his office. Kallus and his rebel allies managed to hide in the dark corners of the office. To distract Thrawn, Kallus then reprogrammed the Grand Admiral's DT-series sentry droids to attack Thrawn, thus implicating Lyste.

Kallus and his rebel companions then headed back to the Chimaera's hangar bay to rendezvous with Kanan and Rex's shuttle. However, Thrawn had learned about the rebel infiltrators and had sent Governor Pryce and Colonel Yularen with stormtroopers to deal with the second set of intruders. Believing that Pryce was Fulcrum, Lieutenant Lyste stunned her. Kallus then tackled Lyste and knocked him to the ground. At that point, Kallus changed his mind and told his rebel friends he would stay behind in order to continue supplying them with intelligence, as Lyste had made himself look like he was Fulcrum by stunning the governor. When Yularen finally arrived, Kallus publicly accused Lyste of being Fulcrum, which Kallus knew would likely result in the Imperial officer being executed after his arrest.

Lyste tried to protest his innocence, but Kallus remained impassive. Later, Kallus attended a meeting with Pryce, Yularen, and Thrawn. Yularen claimed that Lyste's cylinder code implicated him as Fulcrum. Pryce accepted Kallus' explanation, while the ISB agent apologized to Thrawn for failing to stop Lyste's purported assassination attempt. Thrawn publicly praised Kallus for his services and dismissed him and Pryce. In private, however, Thrawn informed Yularen that Kallus was the real Fulcrum. Instead of arresting him, Thrawn decided to use Kallus to lead them to the rebel base.

Some time passed after Lyste's capture, and Kallus utilized a reconfigured mouse droid to secretly listen in on a discussion involving Grand Admiral Thrawn, Grand Moff Tarkin, Governor Pryce, and Admiral Konstantine. While secretly monitoring their dialogue, Kallus discovered that Thrawn was informed about the impending assault on the TIE Defender factories located on Lothal, planned by Phoenix Squadron and General Jan Dodonna's Massassi Group. Kallus then made his way back to Ezra's previous residence, intending to alert the rebels about Thrawn's knowledge of their strategy. However, he realized that his transmitter's signal was being blocked, limiting him to sending only a portion of his intended warning.

The phrase "by the light of Lothal's moons" startled Kallus, and he found Thrawn standing behind him, who was aware of his identity as the mole since Lyste's detainment. Kallus attempted to engage Thrawn in combat, but Thrawn's Death troopers easily overpowered and captured him. Thrawn then exploited the flight paths of General Dodonna's fleet and Kallus' Fulcrum communications to pinpoint the location of Chopper Base on Atollon. When Kallus insisted that no planet existed at that location, Thrawn criticized Kallus' alleged lack of artistic appreciation, explaining that while the Atollon system was absent from Imperial charts, it was depicted in the art of the sector's ancient inhabitants.

Kallus was subsequently escorted to the Chimaera's bridge, where he was forced to observe the battle as a prisoner, with Thrawn and Governor Pryce present. After Thrawn instructed Admiral Konstantine to maintain his Interdictor vessel's formation with the fleet, Kallus derided Thrawn for seeking personal acclaim. In response, the Grand Admiral stated that his sole objective was achieving success for his Emperor. Later, Kallus and his captors witnessed Commander Jun Sato's flagship, the Phoenix Nest, collide with Konstantine's interdictor cruiser, resulting in the destruction of both vessels. This occurred because Konstantine had disregarded Thrawn's command to remain in the center of the formation, instead attempting to achieve individual glory by intercepting Commander Sato's ship.

Before departing for the ground assault, Kallus sarcastically cautioned Thrawn that he had previously been in Thrawn's situation and had been defeated by the rebels. However, the Grand Admiral retorted that he was different. Thrawn's forces successfully stormed Chopper Base, but a mysterious Force entity known as Bendu intervened, devastating the base and allowing the rebels to escape, thus preventing Thrawn from achieving complete victory. Kallus remained on the Chimaera's bridge as Ezra and Sabine's Clan Wren reinforcements launched a surprise attack on the Seventh Fleet's last interdictor cruiser from the rear.

After the rebels successfully destroyed the final interdictor cruiser, Kallus smirked and remarked to Pryce that she had "made a mess of Thrawn's fleet." Infuriated, Pryce ordered two stormtroopers to eject him from the ship through an airlock. However, Kallus, utilizing his ISB combat training, easily subdued his captors and made his way to an escape pod, which he used to flee the Star Destroyer. After contacting Hera, he was rescued by the Ghost. Once aboard, Kallus thanked Jarrus for accepting him, and Jarrus, in turn, thanked Kallus for risking everything for the Rebellion.

Later on, Kallus officially became a member of the Rebel Alliance and held the rank of captain in the Alliance Army. He served within the Alliance's Massassi Group, collaborating with the Spectres. After Hera's squadron of Y-wings returned to Yavin 4 following a mission, Kallus interrupted the Spectres' reunion to inform them that Mon Mothma, the rebel leader, had requested a meeting with them. During this meeting, the rebels discussed details about the Empire's new relay station on Jalindi, which had been provided by Saw Gerrera, the leader of the Partisans. Kallus voiced his disapproval of Saw's methods for obtaining information but ultimately persuaded the Alliance leadership to authorize a mission to plant a spike on the Jalindi relay.

Subsequently, Kallus and Rex piloted the VCX-100 light freighter Ghost while the Spectres embarked on a mission to Lothal to steal a TIE/D Defender. The rebels' strategy involved meeting with the smuggler Cikatro Vizago's ship, the Broken Horn, to infiltrate Lothal. Kallus cautioned against trusting Vizago, but Ezra disagreed. Before the Spectres departed, Hera placed Rex in command of the Ghost. Kallus initially assumed that Hera was referring to him, pointing out his past command of Star Destroyers. However, Rex clarified the situation, and the former Imperial relinquished the pilot's seat to Rex.

Following the Spectres' mission to the Lothal Jedi Temple, Kallus accompanied Hera and Rex aboard the Ghost to the planet Seelos, which was the location of Joopa Base, the home of Rex's fellow Clone veterans Gregor and Wolffe. At Gregor and Wolffe's modified AT-AT walker "Joopa Base," the rebels also encountered Hondo Ohnaka, a Weequay pirate; Melch, his Ugnaught companion; and Ketsu Onyo, a Mandalorian bounty hunter and former friend of Ezra. After briefing them, these allies consented to assist Ezra in liberating his homeworld of Lothal.

During their journey back to Lothal, the rebels and their allies waited in hyperspace aboard the Ghost, intending to latch onto an Imperial container transport as suggested by Hondo. Despite Kallus and Rex's skepticism, Hondo's plan proved successful, allowing the rebels to infiltrate Lothal by attaching themselves to a container transport. Upon landing, Kallus, along with Rex, Gregor, and Wolffe, aided Ezra and Ryder's forces in defeating Governor Pryce's forces at the Lothal cliff dwelling. The rebels also managed to capture Pryce, who was crucial to Ezra's liberation strategy.

Before the assault on the Dome, the center of Imperial authority on Lothal, Kallus and Ryder escorted the captive Pryce. When Pryce denounced Kallus as a traitor, he responded that he ceased betraying himself on the day he betrayed the Empire. With the assistance of the White Loth-wolf, Ezra compelled Pryce to reluctantly assist them in gaining entry to the Dome.

The rebels then traveled to the Dome in two patrol transports. For the mission, Kallus disguised himself as an Imperial Navy Trooper and monitored Pryce, who followed all of the rebels' instructions, to ensure that Pryce provided the correct codes. Thanks to Pryce's cooperation, the rebels successfully fought their way into the Dome and seized the command center. Working alongside Ezra and Ryder, Kallus assisted in issuing a false Protocol 13 to recall the entire Imperial garrison on Lothal to the Dome.

Although their plan was initially successful, they were unable to launch the Dome into space due to the arrival of Grand Admiral Thrawn aboard the Chimaera. Thrawn had his assassin, Rukh, disable the power terminals powering the Dome's deflector shield generator, enabling him to bombard Capital City. After Ezra departed to confront Thrawn, Kallus participated in a two-pronged assault to reactivate the generators. He, Zeb, and Gregor formed Team B, which was assigned the task of reactivating the southern power terminal.

Despite facing significant resistance, Kallus and his team reached the southern power terminal. There, they were attacked by Rukh and several Death troopers. While Zeb engaged Rukh in combat, Kallus and Gregor fought the Death troopers. During the battle, Gregor was shot in the chest and fatally wounded. Kallus tended to the injured Clone trooper, who urged him to restore the shields. Following Zeb's instructions, Kallus activated the power terminal, resulting in a surge that killed the trapped Rukh.

After this, Ezra instructed Mart Mattin, a young rebel, to summon a pod of purrgil. The purrgil destroyed the Imperial blockade and attached themselves to the Chimaera, causing the ship, Thrawn, its crew, and Ezra to vanish into hyperspace. With Thrawn's elimination, the rebels completed their objective of launching and destroying the Imperial dome. Kallus escaped with his fellow rebels aboard the Ghost before the "Dome" exploded.

As the Ghost flew over the cheering crowds, Kallus noted that the people of Lothal were now fully supportive of the rebellion. General Syndulla responded that the rebels would be ready if the Empire desired a conflict. Despite the rebels' concerns, the Empire never returned to Lothal.

Following the Liberation of Lothal, Kallus continued to operate under the Fulcrum alias. During one mission for the Alliance, he was assigned to establish contact with the grand-engineer known as Lony Coleema. Accompanied by his companion droid Dee-Four, they met Coleema at the asteroid outpost Z-LOQ. After a brief exchange, Coleema successfully transferred crucial information into the droid. Before departing, Kallus provided her with a subspace transponder in case she needed to request assistance from the Alliance. Shortly afterward, Coleema was abducted by the bounty hunter IG-88 and transported to a planet. There, Coleema encountered and activated a droid named Are Zero Are Zero "Roro," who activated the transponder, alerting Kallus to her predicament. Using the ship Glimmer of Hope, he and Dee-Four rescued Coleema and Roro from the planet. Subsequently, Coleema awoke on the ship and, after being briefed by Kallus, expressed her desire to return home.

Following the Galactic Civil War, Zeb escorted Kallus to the planet Lira San, revealing to the former ISB agent that the Lasat species had not only survived the Empire's wrath but were thriving. The Lasat people, having forgiven Kallus, welcomed him as one of their own. Kallus retired to Lira San.

Kallus later authored a memoir, reflecting on his role in the war, from Imperial agent to Rebel defector, titled Honor Lost on Lasan: Serving the Empire, Fighting for the Alliance. In it, he described his realization of the Empire's evils. Some planets integrated his text into their educational programs to educate future generations about the war. Beaumont Kin, a historian, referenced the impact of Kallus' memoirs in his own history book, The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire, following the Battle of Exegol.

As an Agent within the Imperial Security Bureau, he held a strong conviction in the Imperial cause, demonstrating unwavering loyalty to the Empire. Kallus also appeared to possess a certain degree of personal allegiance to Darth Vader, the Emperor's Fist, executing his commands with an enthusiasm that was not evident in his obedience to other leaders. He also seemed slightly displeased at not being included in his superior's discussions with the Emperor. Kallus harbored a deep aversion to disorder and rebellious actions, dedicating his efforts to maintaining stability within the Empire. He displayed a sense of superiority over others, which amplified his disdain for lawlessness in the Outer Rim Territories. Through his position as an ISB Agent, Kallus aspired to achieve greater recognition within the Empire. He viewed each defeat of rebel insurgents as a victory for the Empire, a victory that could potentially lead to greater opportunities. Nevertheless, he had declined several promotion offers to remain on the front lines with the Imperial Security Bureau, stating that his duty was to serve the Empire, not his personal ambitions.

A proficient combatant, Kallus did not command soldiers from a distance but instead fought alongside them on the front lines, even against the crew of the Ghost. Kallus eagerly sought to engage Orrelios in bo-rifle combat on Lothal and appeared to take pride in his involvement in the Lasat species' destruction, although his actual role in the event would later prove to be less significant than he claimed. Kallus considered his actions necessary to fulfill his duties and ensure stability and efficiency within the Empire. While he valued honor, Kallus demonstrated his ruthlessness by once kicking one of his men into a chasm to his death for posing an innocent question. When serving under Vader's direct command, Kallus displayed a twisted enthusiasm in carrying out his superior's instructions, such as assisting in luring Maketh Tua to her death.

Beneath his outward confidence, Kallus was not as cold and heartless as he appeared. He was genuinely disturbed by the sudden and brutal execution of Cumberlayne Aresko and Myles Grint on Governor Tarkin's orders, whom he had regarded as loyal fellow Imperials. Despite being a hardened soldier who rarely exhibited any vulnerability, he revealed a more sensitive side when forced to cooperate with Zeb to survive, revealing that his tough exterior was merely a facade to conceal the sadness, confusion, and sense of loss that haunted him. His conversations with Zeb revealed that he held a somewhat idealized view of the Empire, firmly believing that Zeb would receive a fair trial if he surrendered and cooperated. Kallus also repaid his debt to Zeb by allowing his friend Sabine Wren and two defecting pilots to escape.

Kallus also appeared to intentionally ignore at least some of the Empire's atrocities, stating that he "never asked questions" regarding the missing population of Geonosis and arguing against the notion that the Empire was responsible. He revealed that he kept his bo-rifle not as a trophy but out of respect for the Lasat he had defeated, who had presented him with the weapon as a gift for defeating him in accordance with Lasat tradition. He developed respect for Zeb and apologized for his role in the Imperial pacification of Lasan, claiming that he had not intended it to be a massacre. In light of the unique bond he formed with his enemy, he was saddened by the cold and indifferent reception he received from his own comrades upon his return. His loyalty was further tested when one of Grand Admiral Thrawn's campaigns resulted in a high number of civilian casualties, prompting him to express his concerns to the Grand Admiral.

Kallus' growing disillusionment with the Empire and his friendship with Zeb eventually led him to secretly assist Sabine in her operation to extract defecting Imperial cadets Wedge and Hobbie from the Skystrike academy. He provided Sabine Wren and the cadets with instructions on which levels to avoid, stating that he and Zeb were now even. Kallus' advice proved genuine, and Sabine and the cadets successfully escaped. Similar to Minister Maketh Tua, Kallus' growing dissatisfaction with the Empire's brutal methods motivated him to begin aiding the rebels. Kallus' sympathy for the rebellion led him to leak information about Thrawn's secret TIE fighter program to the Phoenix Squadron. He also assisted Bridger and Jarrus in escaping from the Lothal Imperial factory. Kallus was also visibly horrified by Thrawn's ruthless efforts to eliminate saboteurs at the factory, particularly the simulation "accident" that resulted in the death of the worker Morad Sumar.

Kallus' pro-rebel sentiments led him to leak information about Grand Admiral Thrawn's E-XD infiltrator droids to the rebellion. This information enabled the rebels Zeb, Chopper, and AP-5 to neutralize the threat. Kallus was impressed to learn that the rebels had reprogrammed the infiltrator droid into an improvised bomb, which destroyed an Imperial Star Destroyer.

Kallus' dealings with the rebellion led him to trust Ezra, Chopper, and AP-5 when they arrived to rescue him from Thrawn's crackdown. Kallus also manipulated Lieutenant Lyste's trust to deceive him into spying on Governor Pryce and framing him as Fulcrum. Kallus' newfound sympathy for the rebellion made him willing to harm his fellow Imperial comrades to advance the rebels' interests and protect his identity as Fulcrum. Kallus also maintained a respectful relationship with his former ISB instructor, Colonel Wullf Yularen. Kallus exploited Yularen's respect for him to mislead the Colonel into believing that Lyste was Fulcrum. However, Thrawn deduced that Kallus was the real Fulcrum after discovering that Kallus had withheld information about the identity of the rebel operative Ezra Bridger.

Kallus' newfound loyalty to the rebels prompted him to attempt to warn them that Thrawn had learned about their planned attack on Lothal. After Kallus engaged Thrawn in a fierce but ultimately futile fight, the Grand Admiral remarked that he possessed the heart of a rebel, which Kallus took as a compliment. During the Battle of Atollon, Kallus watched the attack on the Rebel base with anger and despair, but he seized every opportunity to taunt his former Imperial comrades. Governor Pryce grew impatient with Kallus' taunts and ordered her stormtroopers to throw him out of the airlock. However, Kallus was able to overpower his guards and escape in an escape pod to join the rebels. When Kallus expressed his gratitude to his former rebel foes for taking him in, Jarrus commended him for risking everything to aid the rebellion.

As a rebel, Kallus shared Mon Mothma's aversion to the Partisan leader Saw Gerrara's brutal tactics. Kallus also believed that the smuggler Cikatro Vizago was untrustworthy and cautioned his rebel comrades against placing their trust in Vizago.

Kallus fought alongside Ezra and his former rebel adversaries during the Liberation of Lothal. When confronted by Governor Pryce regarding his defection, Kallus responded that he ceased betraying himself on the day he betrayed her Empire. Having befriended Zeb, Kallus traveled with Zeb after the Galactic Civil War to Lira San, where he reconciled with the Lasat people he had once persecuted.

Kallus received training in both riot control and heavy combat, and he wore an ISB helmet specifically designed for these situations. He underwent extensive training to achieve proficiency in combat, becoming a formidable opponent in hand-to-hand engagements. During the fall of Lasan, Kallus defeated a Lasat guardsman, who presented Kallus with a bo-rifle as an acknowledgment of his defeat. He successfully modified this weapon for close-quarters combat and was able to hold his own against Orrelios, a trained Honor Guardsman, during a fight on Lothal. While Kallus received training in unarmed combat during his time at the Imperial Academy, he was outmatched by Grand Admiral Thrawn in combat. Later, Kallus utilized his close-quarters combat skills to overpower two stormtroopers and escape the Chimaera aboard an escape pod.

As a high-ranking Imperial officer and ISB operative, Kallus possessed familiarity with code cylinders and the workings of Imperial institutions. He leveraged his internal knowledge of the Imperial Military to leak crucial intelligence to the rebellion and attempted to mislead Thrawn. He also demonstrated a high level of skill in robotics and programming, as evidenced by his reprogramming and redesign of an MSE-series-6 ("mouse") droid for surveillance, as well as his reprogramming of Grand Admiral Thrawn's own assassin droids.

After defecting to the Rebellion, Kallus effectively utilized his combat skills, fighting alongside his rebel comrades. He also leveraged his knowledge of Imperial protocol and procedure to infiltrate the Dome and initiate Protocol 13.

Agent Kallus wore a gray Imperial uniform accompanied by black boots, gauntlet gloves covering his hands, and a fleximetal cuirass. The armor demonstrated considerable durability, capable of withstanding a ricochet shot from an E-11 medium blaster rifle. His distinctive ISB combat helmet featured blast-proof cheek pieces. His belt was equipped with an identity disk. The metallic rank insignia on the left breast of his armor consisted of one row of four tiles, comprising two blue, one silver, and one red. Later, his rank insignia changed, consisting of five tiles, with three blue and two yellow. During his tenure as a Commander, Kallus possessed at least one red-tipped code cylinder. Kallus also carried a RK-3 blaster.

In combat, Kallus utilized a J-19 bo-rifle, a gift from a member of the Lasan High Honor Guard whom he had defeated, demonstrating proficiency in both ranged and close-quarters combat. As a Fulcrum operative, Kallus possessed the skills to operate a transmitter, which he kept in Ezra's former residence. Upon joining the Rebel Alliance, Kallus wore an earth-colored Alliance uniform, displaying the rank of Captain.

Agent Kallus serves as one of the primary antagonists in the animated television series Star Wars Rebels, where he is voiced by British actor David Oyelowo. Kallus was conceived as a rebel hunter and the most frequently recurring antagonist for the rebel crew, one who would be actively involved in conflicts between the rebels and the Empire. Kallus underwent several design iterations, including one in which he was portrayed as a Chiss, a species that originated in Star Wars Legends novel Heir to the Empire by Timothy Zahn. The production team ultimately decided on a human character, and Oyelowo was selected to play the role. Carrie Beck, the show's co-creator, stated that Oyelowo was able to provide "a voice that is very authoritative, very commanding, and very cool without betraying any sense of insecurity or weakness."

The character was first unveiled at the 2014 Hasbro Toy Fair. He appeared in numerous trailers, including the full trailer released on May 4, 2014, before becoming the subject of his own introductory video. He made his initial on-screen appearance in Star Wars Rebels: Spark of Rebellion, the show's premiere television movie that debuted on October 3, 2014. Multiple chapters in the chapter book Battle to the End, which served as a supplement to Star Wars Rebels, are written from Kallus' perspective.

Initially recognized solely by his last name, the given name of Alexsandr for Kallus was revealed by Dave Filoni, the creator of Star Wars Rebels, during a podcast conversation with The Wookiee Gunner, a Star Wars fan website, in July of 2017. Leland Chee, a member of the Lucasfilm Story Group, verified the spelling and canonicity of the name through his Twitter account. The first official publication of the name occurred when the title of his StarWars.com Databank entry was updated from "Agent Kallus" to "Alexsandr Kallus" following the broadcast of the episode "In the Name of the Rebellion" on October 23, 2017, which marked the character's initial appearance after his formal defection from the Empire. Filoni clarified in the interview that villains are often not given a first name because of the lack of personal connection, but as Kallus' character evolved into a more virtuous individual, providing him with a first name enhanced his completeness as a character. He received the name Alexsandr in honor of Alex Spotswood, a member of the Star Wars Rebels production team, who consistently portrayed Kallus in the "temp recordings" of the script by the crew throughout the show's production, starting from the first season.

The Official Star Wars Fact File Part 86 suggested a younger age for Kallus, indicating he was born just a few years prior to the Battle of Naboo and was a teenager during the Clone Wars (implying a birth year around 35 BBY), whereas Star Wars Rebels: The Visual Guide previously indicated that Kallus was in his late 30s upon his arrival to Lothal, suggesting a birth date ranging between 44 BBY and 42 BBY.

The Star Wars Rebels Facebook page once stated that Kallus obtained his bo-rifle from Lasan as a souvenir. However, the Rebels episode titled "The Honorable Ones" subsequently established that Kallus did not regard the weapon as a trophy; instead, he acquired it as a gift from a Lasat guardsman. This article prioritizes the account of events presented in "The Honorable Ones," assuming the Facebook post is outdated.

Kallus, in his role as Agent, makes an appearance in Angry Birds Star Wars II. He is featured in certain cutscenes and is also a playable character. When utilized in gameplay, he possesses the ability to summon 8 stormtroopers, a power that mirrors the abilities of Wicket and the Ewoks.