Vaclen Tor was a Human male captain, who served in the Navy of Darth Krayt's Galactic Empire.
In 137 ABY, the Human male captain Vaclen Tor was in command of the Ardent-class fast frigate Steadfast. Assigned to the Coruscant Third Fleet, Steadfast was tasked with protecting the planet Ralltiir, when the Galactic Alliance Remnant and the Empire-in-exile launched a surprise attack on the planet, intending to seize as many Imperial ships as possible.
When fleet's commander, Admiral Peto Kelsan, agreed to the ultimatum of Admiral Edouard Fenel and ordered the overwhelmed fleet to surrender. However, Vaclen Tor refused to do so, reminding Kelsan of their duty to self-destruct the fleet. Admiral Fenel retaliated by authorizing Tor's crew to rise up in mutiny against him. The captain counteracted by reiterating that his crew were loyal to him and the Imperial throne, adding that they would not obey orders from renegades.
Furious at this act of defiance, Fenel ordered all his ships, including Kelsan's vessels, to fire on the Steadfast, but Tor made a clever move and managed to position one of Ralltiir's moons between his ship and Fenel's fleet. Motivated by Tor, Kelsan ordered the fleet to set their ships for self-destruct and then leave in the escape pods. Kelsan chose to stay on the Avenger as it self-destructed.
However, Steadfast took some damage and its lifepods were offline, as was the self-destruct mechanism. Admiral Gar Stazi of the Galactic Alliance Remnant decided to deposit both Vaclen Tor and his crew to the surface of Ralltiir and then send the ship to Emperor Roan Fel as a gift. This effectively denied Fenel custody of Tor and his crew while affirming that the Alliance were allies but not Fel's vassals.
By 138 ABY, Captain Tor remained within the Sith Empire's Navy. He was present during the Sith Imperial assault against the Hidden Temple of the Jedi Order on Taivas, in command of the Intruder. During the space battle against the combined forces of the Galactic Alliance fleet and Fel loyalist vessels, the Intruder sustained severe damage and was destroyed.
As a competent military officer, Captain Vaclen Tor remained true to his duty in the face of great adversity. Despite the odds and the prevailing unpopularity of Darth Krayt's Galactic Empire, Tor remained loyal to the Imperial throne itself. Thus, he also rejected any moves towards compromising or submitting to his government's foes—the Bastion resistance and the Galactic Alliance Remnant.
When his superior officer Admiral Peto Kelsan ordered the fleet to surrender following a coordinated Alliance-Fel Empire attack, Tor maintained his allegiance to the throne by disregarding the former's orders as contrary to Imperial code, which he cited. Realizing that the Alliance and Fel's Empire intended to seize the vessels of the Coruscant Third Fleet intact, he ordered his crew to activate self-destruct devices and to bail out over Ralltiir, thus denying his enemy their objective. This brave tactic won the respect of both Kelsan as well as his Alliance adversaries Admiral Stazi and Captain Bey, who proceeded to support him when Fenel ordered the destruction of all life-pods from the Coruscant Third Fleet.
Vaclen Tor was introduced in the thirty-sixth issue of Star Wars: Legacy, Renegade, published by Dark Horse Comics. Created by series writer John Ostrander for the issue, the character of Vaclen Tor was drawn by established Legacy penciler Omar Francia. Kelsan was colored by Brad Anderson, who had worked on every comic in the series.