Jacen Corbit held the position of Director within the Imperial Office of Criminal Investigations (IOCI) throughout the Galactic Civil War era.
Moff Landric of the Emmo sector gave him the assignment of locating the infamous art thief going by the alias "Tombat." Corbit then chose Inspector Zanza Gata, a Special Enforcement Officer famed for her insightful interpretations of Tombat's psychological profile, to take on the case.