Willrow Hood was a Human male
miner who lived and worked on
Cloud City, a floating station located
above the gas giant Bespin. He
worked for A'roFilter, a mining
company sympathetic to the Alliance
to Restore the Republic, as the head
of the department responsible for
dealing with the Rebel Alliance,
supplying discounted Tibanna gas.
Eventually, though, the Galactic
Empire invaded and conquered the
planet; in order to protect the
Rebellion contacts Hood was
responsible for, the miner took
A'roFilter's main computer's
memory core, as it contained the
encrypted information on Rebel
contacts. Hood passed on the
entire core to fleeing rebels, rather than
risk it falling
into the wrong hands. Luke
Skywalker was eventually given the
memory
core which was carried with him to
Dagobah in his x-wing.
Willrow Hood was able to therefore
save the Alliance's interests.
Hood remained on Cloud City
throughout the Imperial
occupation, suffering imprisonment
and torture but revealing nothing.