Beck Ollet Beck Ollet was a student at the Junior Academy of Applied Sciences on the Outer Rim planet Lothal ' s Capital City a few years years prior to the Battle of Yavin . He was a close friend of Zare Leonis and played fullback on the Academy ' s grav - ball team , the AppSci SaberCats . Beck was unhappy with the Galactic Empire ' s developmental projects on Lothal since it cost his family their homestead and farm . Unlike Zare , Beck refused to enroll at the local Academy for Young Imperials on Lothal because he disliked its heavily regimented lifestyle . Later , Beck and Zare witnessed stormtrooper s shooting a peaceful group of farmers protesting their eviction to make way for Imperial mining operations . This incident turned Beck against the Empire and made his friend Zare question the " benevolence " of the Empire . During the summer , Beck joined a rebel cell who attempted to sabotage an Imperial mining operation which had been established on his family ' s former jogan fruit orchards . Beck narrowly escaped captured at the hands of the Imperial authorities and was forced to go into hiding . Later , Beck ' s hiding place was discovered by Imperial Stormtroopers who quickly arrested Beck and his associates . Zare witnessed the arrest of his friend , which coupled with the mysterious disappearance of his sister Dhara Leonis , solidified his antipathy towards the Empire . Following his arrest , Beck was enrolled in an Imperial re - education program known as Project Unity , which involved extensive brainwashing and drug therapy . As a result , Beck was brainwashed into becoming a loyal Imperial subject . Later , he played an important role in exposing his former classmate Zare Leonis , who had been transferred to the Imperial Academy on Arkanis . Consequently , Zare was tried and sentenced to death by the Imperial authorities . Leonis later managed to free his friend from his Imperial brainwashing by exposing him to a jogan fruit blossom , which rekindled his memories of how the Empire had destroyed his family ' s orchards . Beck helped Leonis to break out of Imperial captivity and later sacrificed himself during a mission to rescue Zare ' s sister Dhara Leonis . Biography . Childhood . Beck Ollet was a Lothalian student who studied at the Junior Academy of Applied Sciences in Lothal ' s Capital City a few years years prior to the Battle of Yavin . He was a third generation Lothalian who grew up in the Westhills where his parents ran a jogan fruit orchard . After the Galactic Empire purchased his family ' s land , Beck and his family moved to the west side of Capital City . At the time , the Empire had embarked on an ambitious planet - wide development project and were offering local farmers premium credit s to sell their orchards and farms . Ollet was unhappy with this decision but acquiesced since he understood his family ' s financial motivations for selling their orchard . Junior AppSci . After moving to Capital City , Beck enrolled at the Junior AppSci and became a fullback on the school ' s grav - ball team , the AppSci SaberCats . During the autumn season , he befriended Zare Leonis and his girlfriend Merei Spanjaf , two recent migrants from the Core Worlds who also played on the grav - ball team . Unlike Zare , Beck distrusted the Empire and had little interest in joining Lothal ' s Academy for Young Imperials , which he regarded as too regimented for his liking . Following a Crop Management class , Zare met up Zare and Merei at a study hull . During the meeting , Merei used her computer hacking skills to locate Beck ' s old farmstead only to discover that the Imperial authorities had classified the area for some unspecified excavation project . Beck was upset since this land had traditionally been used for jogan - fruit harvesting but Merei believed that there was a glitch on the Imperial Agriculture Ministry ' s database . Following a match between the SaberCats and another team called the Green Dragons , Beck and his friends traveled on their jumpspeeders to his family ' s orchards in the Westhills . During the journey , Beck expressed dismay towards the Empire for planning to demolish a bridge where he used to fish at regularly in order to make way for a larger freight bridge . Upon arriving at Beck ' s old orchard , they encountered an armed guard and his pack of Nek s . While the guard was initially hostile , he let Beck and his friends through after Beck explained that this orchard used to be his home . Beck was further dismayed to find that the Imperials were using harvester droid s to harvest jogan fruit . These droids were incompetent in their work and caused extensive damage to the orchard . This visit only hardened his feelings towards the Empire . The following week , Beck did not speak to Zare and concentrated solely on the practice grid . During a home match against a rival team called the East City Brawlers , Beck lost his temper due to the visiting team ' s aggressive tactics and a biased referee who favored the Brawlers . In a fit of rage , Beck assaulted one of the Brawlkers and was consequently ejected from the game . Beck ' s tantrum caused the SaberCats to forfeit a goal which enabled the East City Bawlkers to place the ball at centre grid . Beck argued with the referee and Zare was forced to drag him off the pitch . When Zare warned him not to lose his temper , Beck protested that the game was rigged . Due to Beck ' s major misconduct foul , the Brawlers score enough points to win the fifth match in the grav ball season . Beck ' s misbehavior led Zare to seek a meeting with the school ' s athletic director Janus Fhurek . However , Fhurek brushed aside Zare ' s concerns and claimed that passion was part of the sport . Instead of giving Zare advice on how to manage Beck ' s temper , the athletic director instead derided the Aqualish player Hench Sina as a brute . This incident cause Zare to distrust Fhurek since Hench had done nothing wrong . Later that week , Zare advised Beck not to be provoked into fouls against the Thrashers , the SaberCats ' next opponent . Zare ' s diplomatic but firm approach succeeded in addressing Beck ' s aggressive behavior . During the sixth grav ball match , the SaberCats defeated the Thrashers by 44 to 18 points . Rising Discontentment . Outside of school , Beck Ollet developed ties with the growing underground resistance against the Galactic Empire on Lothal . Following the grav - ball match , Beck brought his two friends to visit his family ' s former orchards , which had since been turned into an Imperial mine . They also discovered that several anti - Imperial insurgents had attached detonators to several Imperial seismic surveyor droids . Zare contacted the Imperial authorities with his comlink . When Imperial stormtroopers arrived , Beck told the authorities that the insurgents had fled north ; when in fact they had actually gone south . This incident led Beck ' s friend Zare to suspect that he was somehow connected to the anti - Imperial resistance on Lothal . Following the failed bombing incident , Zare was visited by Lieutenant Piers Roddance from the Security Ministry . Zare told the lieutenant everything but omitted Beck ' s act of misleading the stormtroopers . Beck and his friends did not discuss the orchard incident throughout the winter season . Whenever Zare or Merei questioned him , he would claim that he had to study for the final examinations . During a match against the South Capital City Volunteers , Beck ' s aggressive maneuvers and willingness to bend the rules annoyed Zare but won him the praise of the school ' s athletic director Fhurek , who commented that he was a fan of " smashmouth " grav - ball . Despite the AppSci SabreCats ' final victory over the Mavericks during a subsequent match , Beck found little to celebrate after he discovered that the Imperial authorities had turned his family ' s former orchards into a mine . Beck took Zare to the mine and expressed his distrust and aversion towards the Empire . This forced his friend to revise his views about the Empire ' s " altruistic " motives . Beck and Zare ' s discontentment with the Empire grew during the spring season when the two boys witnessed Imperial stormtrooper s shooting a peaceful gathering of farmers in the Westhills . These farmers had gathered to confront an Imperial government official over the loss of their homes and farms in the orchard - lands . Despite the peaceful nature of the protest , the Imperials deployed stormtroopers and AT - DP walkers . When the farmers refused an order to disperse , Lieutenant Roddance ordered his troops to open fire on the gathering . The two boys managed to escape on Beck ' s unregistered jumpspeeder but were greatly traumatized by the incident . A contemporary HoloNet report claimed that the farmers had provoked the shooting by destroying mining equipment and attacking surveyors . Beck also learned about the disappearance of Zare ' s sister Dhara Leonis , who allegedly ran away during an Imperial training exercise . However , Zare suspected that the Empire was concealing the truth behind his sister ' s disappearance . Beck was also present when Zare physically assaulted the athletic director Fhurek , who made the offhand remark that treason ran in Zare ' s family . Beck and three other AppSci students were forced to restrain Zare and drag him away . Beck later consoled Zare that the unpopular athletic director had to wear a cold pack over his eye . In late spring , Beck presumably graduated from the Junior Academy of Applied Sciences alongside his friends Zare and Merei . The Summer of Rebellion . During the summer holidays , Beck Ollet disappeared and did not respond to messages sent by his friend Zare to his comlink and datapad . Beck ' s parents told Zare that their son was spending the holidays riding jumpspeeders around Lothal with his cousins prior to starting work as a harvest supervisor . However , Zare suspected that this was merely ruse and that Beck was involved in illegal activities . Knowing that the Imperials were monitoring HoloNet , Beck got one of his former classmates , the Rodian Frid Kelio to get in touch with Beck . Two days later , Beck visited Zare outside his the Leonis family ' s apartment complex . During a brief conversation , the two talked about Zare ' s missing sister Leonis and discussed their antipathy towards the Empire . Beck also hinted that he was involved in an anti - Imperial resistance group . A few days later , Beck confirmed to Zare that he had indeed joined an underground resistance group during a visit to an Imperial mining camp built over his family ' s former orchards . Later , Beck and two other insurgents staged an attack on the mine and managed to damage several Imperial mining droids with their detonators . However , they were forced to flee on their landspeeder when an Imperial Troop Transport arrived and pursued them . During the pursuit , Beck exchanged fired with the Imperial pursuers . Leonis managed to protect his friend from capture by throwing a detonator under the Troop Transport , delaying its pursuit and allowing Beck and his associates to flee into hiding . The following day , Zare and Merei received a message from Beck to meet him at his old school ' s grav - ball grid . During their meeting , Beck revealed that the Imperials had traced his landspeeder . During their meeting , Beck and Merei both encouraged Zare to infiltrate the Imperial Academy so that he could fight against the Empire from within and to find his missing sister . Later , Beck and two other rebel associates were arrested during an Imperial raid on a shop which served as their base . One of the stormtroopers that participated in the raid was Ames Bunkle , a friend of Zare ' s sister Dhara . The last that Zare saw of Beck was his friend being bundled away into an Imperial transport . This incident which reinforced Zare ' s desire to infiltrate the Academy and bring down the Empire from within . Imprisonment and re - education . Following his arrest , Beck was interrogated by the Imperial Security Bureau and later tried before a security tribunal . During interrogation , Beck was uncooperative and kept to his story that he was a new recruit to a three - member resistance cell dedicated to bringing down the Empire . He cited the destruction of his family ' s fruit orchards in the Westhills and the shooting of protestors as his motives for joining the rebel cell . However , Beck managed to conceal his cadet friend Zare Leonis ' role as the unknown jumpspeeder rider who had attacked the troops pursuing his landspeeder . Beck was tried and found guilty by a security tribunal , which enrolled him in an experimental re - education program called Project Unity . As a ward of Project Unity , Beck was subjected to political indoctrination and given drugs . These drugs caused Beck to develop a glassy - eyed and blank facial expression . He and the other Project Unity participants also wore orange jumpsuits . During his imprisonment , Beck was transferred to the planet Arkanis where he was housed at Area Null , a secure tower that was connected to the local Imperial Academy . Due to his brainwashing and drug treatment , Beck came to believe that the Empire was a force of good . He also rationalized the shooting of the farmers in the Westhills by claiming that they had been manipulated by the enemies of the Empire . Later , Beck ' s former classmate Zare Leonis , who was now an Imperial cadet , was transferred to the Arkanis Academy as a reward for his apparent loyalty to the Empire . However , this was a trap engineered by the Grand Inquisitor to expose his connection to the Spectres , a rebel cell that included Leonis ' one - time classmate Dev Morgan . The Arkanis Academy was run by Commandant Brendol Hux , who ran a secret society known as the Commandant ' s Cadets , which aimed to create elite soldiers . To join the Commandant ' s Cadets , prospective recruits had to kill a fellow cadet and make it look like an accident . With the help of Lieutenant Chiron , who had been sent to investigate Commandant Hux , Leonis managed to infiltrate the Commandant ' s Cadets . Before he could be formally inducted , Leonis had to wait outside the ceremonial room as a group of Project Unit participants exited . Beck was part of the group and pointed his finger directly at Leonis . The " rehabilitated " Beck then proceed to expose Zare ' s involvement in illegal activities on Lothal and his true reason for wanting to join the Imperial Academy . As a result , Zare was arrested and tried by Colonel Julyan on several charges including fraudulent enlistment , disobeying lawful orders , dereliction of duty , destruction of Imperial property , and providing aid and comfort to the enemies of the Empire . Leonis pleaded guilty to all charges and was formally expelled from Imperial service . In addition , Colonel Julyan sentenced him to death . While Zare was waiting on death row , Lieutenant Chiron arranged for Beck to talk with his former friend . Due to his respect for Leonis , Chiron wanted to save Leonis from execution by convincing him to enroll in Project Unity . During his meeting with Leonis , Beck tried to convince Leonis to accept Chiron ' s offer and claimed that Project Unity had helped him . However , Leonis refused to consider Project Unity because it involved drugging and brainwashing . Beck tried to allay Leonis ' fears by claiming that the medications calmed him and made him more susceptible to accepting other points of view . Leonis then attempted to reason with Beck by discussing how Imperial forces had opened fire on displace farmers in the Westhills . While Beck could remember that earlier incident , he rationalized that the farmers had been manipulated by " greedy , secretive organizations " that wanted to return the galaxy to corruption and disorder . While conceding that murder was horrible , he argued that the Empire had to deny its enemies the use of their " tools " by any means necessary . When Leonis pointed out that the victims were Imperial citizens , Beck reiterated that the Empire had to do its duty and urged Leonis to join Project Unity . Unable to reach Beck , Zare ordered him to leave ; prompting Beck to reply that Leonis did not " want to be helped . " Redemption and death . Prior to Zare ' scheduled execution , Leonis told Lieutenant Chiron to arrange for Beck Ollet to bring his final meal : two jogan fruit s with sprigs of blossom . The scent of the jogan fruit blossom helped to break Beck ' s mental conditioning and rekindle the memory of how the Empire had destroyed the orchards and killed people who dissented with them . Zare was then able to reason with his friend and convinced him to help him rescue his sister Dhara . Freed of his Imperial brainwashing , Beck revealed that they were above the ceremonial room in Area Null , the secluded tower that housed Project Unity . At Zare ' s suggestion , the two friends agreed to take out the two stormtrooper sentries by using grav - ball moves . Beck tricked the guards into entering by claiming that he was ready to leave Zare ' s cell . When the stormtroopers entered , Beck rammed himself into the first trooper ' s midsection while Leonis wrested the blaster from his hands . Leonis then shot down the second stormtrooper before shooting the stormtrooper that was struggling with Beck . Stealing the stormtroopers ' blasters , the two friends made their way into the corridor and blasted the guards manning the detention block ' s control room . At Zare ' s instruction , Beck also shot out the cameras in order to delay Imperial reinforcements . Before they could proceed with their plan to rescue Dhara , another starship arrived on the roof of Area Null . This starship was the " Ghost " and carried Beck ' s old friend Merei Spanjaf , her mother Jessa Spanjaf , and three rebels from the rebel cell known as the Spectres : Dev Morgan , Garazeb Orrelios , and Sabine Wren . Several stormtroopers arrived in the main elevator shaft but Beck and Leonis eliminated them with their blasters . Shortly later , they were rejoined by Merei and her new rebel allies . Together , Beck and his rebel allies devised a plan to rescue Merei . While the Spectres and Jessa hacked into the main computer node to lock Imperial reinforcements out of the building , Beck along with Leonis and Merei went to rescue Dhara . Merei also handed Beck a thermal detonator . After hacking into the computer console , Merei discovered that Dhara was housed in cell seventeen . While Beck watched the main elevator for Imperial reinforcements , Zare went to fetch his sister from her cell . Shortly later , they were attacked by stormtrooper reinforcements who had regained control of the control room . While exchanging fire with stormtroopers , Beck told his friends to make their way up the stairs to the roof while he took care of the stormtroopers . Before Zare or Merei could object , Beck took the thermal detonator that Sabine had handed him earlier and charged headlong at the stormtroopers . Beck was killed during the ensuing explosion which buried the stormtroopers under a heap of stone chunks and metal debris . However , his selfless sacrifice gave his friends sufficient time to escape Area Null with Dhara . Leonis ' last sight of his late friend was Beck ' s hand clutching a spring of jogan blossom . Personality and traits . Beck Ollet was a big - built youth with blonder hair and pale skin . He had a hot temper which sometimes got him into trouble on both the grav ball grid and with the authorities . Beck ' s aggressive maneuvers and willingness to toss out the playbook unnerved his best friend Zare Leonis but won him the praise of the school ' s athletic director Janus Fhurek , who liked aggressive sports . Despite his hot temper , Beck was still able to develop a good friendship with Zare and Merei Spanjaf , two recent immigrants . Beck disliked the Galactic Empire since it purchased his family ' s jogan fruit orchards and turned it into a mine . This led him to join a nascent anti - Imperial resistance group on Lothal . Beck ' s hot temper and fierce dislike for the Empire ultimately got him into trouble when he was arrested after planting explosives on Imperial mining machinery . In Imperial captivity , Beck displayed courage and tenacity in his refusal to cooperate with the Imperial authorities . His respect and loyalty to Zare led him to conceal Zare ' s involvement as the unknown jumpspeeder rider who had attacked the Imperial Troop Transport . As a result of being subjected to Project Unity , Beck was brainwashed and drugged into becoming an Imperial loyalist . This programming led him to rationalize the murder of the farmers in the Westhills by believing that they had been duped into resisting the Empire by shadowy forces . His new sense of loyalty also led him to expose his former friend Leonis as a traitor and rebel sympathizer . Beck was able to overcome his programming after Zare got him to smell a jogan fruit blossom , which rekindled his memories of how the Empire had destroyed his family ' s orchards and murdered people . After being freed of his mental indoctrination , Beck took part in a mission to rescue Leonis ' sister Dhara . During their rescue attempt , Beck used techniques he had learned in grav - ball to help Leonis to overpower the stormtrooper guards . Most importantly , Beck ' s devotion to his friends led him to sacrifice his own life so that they could escape their Imperial pursuers . Skills and abilities . Beck Ollet was a grav - ball player who played fullback on the AppsCi SaberCats , the Junior AppSci ' s grav - ball team . He was aware of several manoeuvers including a handoff and center striker sneak . These skills came to good use on both the grav - ball grid and during an escape from Area Null .