Captain Lorth Needa is a character featured in the Star Wars movie. He was a male human who fought in the Battle of Hoth as the captain of the Imperial Star Destroyer Avenger, a vessel belonging to the Sith Lord Darth Vader's Death Squadron, after serving as lieutenant commander of a Carrack-class light cruiser. He fought many Rebel transports that were leaving successfully throughout the conflict, but it was his search for one—Captain Han Solo's Millennium Falcon—that ultimately proved to be his downfall. The Falcon was in the Avenger's sights after a protracted pursuit when Solo abruptly altered direction and rushed the Star Destroyer's bridge before vanishing from its sensors.