Between the years of 3 ABY and 4 ABY, Inferno Squad, an Imperial Special Forces group, embarked on a mission to locate and capture Beilert Valance, a cyborg who had once fought for the Galactic Empire. Valance had become rogue upon discovering that Yuralla Vega, someone he loved, was killed by the Empire. Darth Vader, a Sith Lord, personally requested Inferno Squad for this task. The squad's objective was to prevent the Rebel Alliance from gaining access to potentially classified Imperial data that Valance might have documented. To achieve this, they were ordered to capture Valance and wipe his memories. During their pursuit, Inferno Squad ambushed Valance and the crew led by the bounty hunter T'onga, who were aiding Valance after his rescue on Bestine, at the black-market spaceport of [Depatar], successfully erasing his memories.