Davits Draven Davits Draven was a human male who served as a general in the Alliance to Restore the Republic during the Galactic Civil War . He was stationed at the Great Temple on the moon Yavin 4 when Jyn Erso was given the task of stealing the Death Star plans by Mon Mothma , a leader of the Rebel Alliance . Extraction Team Bravo , the team responsible for Jyn ' s break out of a labor camp on the planet Wobani , was under Draven ' s command . Biography . Early life . Davits Draven was born on Pendarr III in 45 BBY . Clone Wars . During the Clone Wars , Draven served in the Galactic Republic ' s military Intelligence . During this time , he never met any of the Jedi Generals in command of the Clone Army . Draven routinely worked with the Republic ' s strategists , fleet commander s , and other officer s that would become part of the Empire ' s Military . Age of the Empire . The rebellion . With an urgent drive to stop the Empire before it grew too powerful , Draven joined the Alliance to Restore the Republic , and was trained as a field operative by Airen Cracken . Prior to the outbreak of the Galactic Civil War , Draven carried out surgical strikes against the Empire , conducting sabotage , theft , and assassin ations that earned unglamorous but necessary victories for the Alliance . He became a trusted officer , earning Mon Mothma ' s respect despite his no - nonsense attitude proving difficult at times , and served as a general and as the leading Alliance Intelligence officer on Yavin 4 in Cracken ' s absence . He typically caused Alliance High Command meetings to halt with his blunt speech and pragmatic views , and it often fell to Draven to make unpopular and difficult decisions . Stealing the Death Star plans . In 0 BBY , he oversaw the mission he dubbed Operation Fracture in an attempt to piece together the puzzle of Galen Walton Erso ' s involvement with the Empire ' s Death Star project . Although some in the rebel council believed reports of the superweapon to be a ploy , Draven ' s firsthand experience with Imperial megalomania led him to believe the plausibility of the so - called " planet - killer " . Draven oversaw the rescue of Galen ' s daughter , Jyn Erso , to help with the mission . Meeting and speaking with her , Draven was not impressed with her defiance . After the briefing , he sent a notice to Mon Mothma strongly urging that she reconsider involving Erso in the mission . In Draven ' s mind , Erso was a Rebel deserter and a criminal who showed no loyalty to anyone except herself . Mothma overruled him , arguing that , besides them needing her to identify her father , Jyn Erso was much like other Rebels who had lost their way and deserved a second chance . Nonetheless , he ordered Captain Cassian Jeron Andor to kill Galen Erso if he had the opportunity , countermanding his initial orders to extract the Imperial scientist for questioning . As Operation Fracture got underway , Draven received a communication from Andor confirming the Destruction of Jedha City by the Death Star . The general reinforced the need to kill Erso , and sent a squadron of starfighter s to his location on Eadu with assassination orders . However , Andor called in to inform Draven that Alliance operatives would be caught in the line of fire , but by that time the fighters were already engaged . The strike led to Erso ' s death , and Andor ' s team returned to Yavin 4 . There , Jyn rallied the rebel council , and her Rogue One squad led a mission to Scarif to obtain the Death Star plans . The Rebels rise . Following the Battle of Yavin and the assault on Sunspot Prison , Draven was placed in charge of the interrogation of Grakkus the Hutt after Alliance forces intercepted his prison transport vessel . Smuggler and rebel ally Han Solo was recruited to transport Grakkus , and it was Solo who suggested that instead of a typical interrogation , that they trick the Hutt into revealing his power base . Draven communicated over the radio to inform Solo and his first mate Chewbacca that they were sending X - wings to investigate the base on Teth . Behind the scenes . Davits Draven , portrayed by Alistair Petrie , was first revealed in the first teaser trailer for the " Star Wars Anthology Series " film " " on April 7 , 2016 . The physical similarities between Draven and Agent Kallus , a character from the animated television series " Star Wars Rebels " , led to a popular fan theory suggesting that this character was Kallus , and that the Imperial Security Bureau operative had defected from the Galactic Empire . However , " Rogue One " director Gareth Edwards confirmed in " " , in a story from October 15 , 2016 , that the character ' s name is Draven .