Melak Krayk was a male Human colonel of the Galactic Empire, who was under command of Governor Asclepaides of the Dominus system during the early Galactic Civil War. He was in overall command of the governor's private space station, and had doubled the security on it, taking no chances. The governor decided to plot to join the Alliance to Restore the Republic shortly before the Battle of Yavin, and the colonel loyally followed him to the defection. However, an Emperor's Royal Guard named Selwyn Marhanen was sent by Emperor Palpatine to prevent it from occurring. Despite the colonel's best efforts, the guardsman infiltrated the station and killed the governor and the Rebel diplomats visiting him, by tricking him to board an explosives-rigged shuttle. Krayk ordered the bridge crew to destroy