Dhara Leonis Dhara Leonis was a star cadet at the Academy for Young Imperials on the planet Lothal approximately fourteen years after the rise of the Galactic Empire . She disappeared during her time at the academy . The Empire claimed that she ran away , but her brother , Zare Leonis , did not believe the Empire ' s story . He became a cadet at the Imperial Academy to investigate his sister ' s disappearance . Dhara was identified as a Force - sensitive and abducted by the Grand Inquisitor as part of an Imperial project codenamed Project Harvester . Zare Leonis was later transferred to the Officers ' academy on Arkanis , where his sister was being kept . His efforts were nearly in vain when he was revealed as a traitor to the Empire and scheduled to be executed . However , with the help of his friend Beck Ollet , his girlfriend Merei Spanjaf , his parents and those of Spanjaf , and a bold group of rebels known to some as " the Spectres , " he escaped and pulled off a daring rescue . The entire group then took refuge in Garel City , Garel . Biography . Childhood . Dhara Leonis was the daughter of Leo and Tepha Leonis , two agricultural scientists who worked for the Imperial Ministry of Agriculture . She was one year older than her younger brother Zare Leonis , a grav - ball player . Both Dhara and Zare were raised from young by the family ' s nanny droid Auntie Nags . Since their parents ' work involved moving between different places , Dhara and Zare spent much of their childhood traveling through the galaxy . Some of the worlds that she and her family had lived on in the past included Hosk Station , Moorja , and Viamarr . Dhara had a warm and friendly relationship with her younger brother . According to Zare , she always beat him when playing the game of " find and seek . " Moving to Lothal . About fourteen years after the rise of the Galactic Empire , Dhara and her family moved to the planet Lothal , a hitherto sleepy Outer Rim world that was undergoing substantial industrial development under Imperial rule . Since she was fifteen years old , Dhara enrolled at Lothal ' s Academy for Young Imperials while her family settled down at an apartment in Lothal ' s Capital City . Since her brother Zare was a year younger , he had to attend the Junior Academy of Applied Sciences . To celebrate Dhara ' s acceptance to the Imperial Academy , her family hosted a farewell dinner at their Capital City apartment that was attended by several prominent local Imperial officials including Assistant Vice Minister Sarkos , Lieutenant Piers Roddance , and Governor Arihnda Pryce . During the farewell dinner , her father Leo gave a speech extolling the Empire ' s progress and offering his daughter into the Empire ' s service . Dhara also introduced one of her new Imperial Academy classmates , Ames Bunkle , to Governor Pryce . Prior to departing , Dhara had a quick conversation with her brother . She confided that she was going to miss him . She also promised to talk regularly with him and update him about Academy life once orientation had ended . She also assured Zare that he would succeed at his new school and urge him to do well in his studies . Following Governor Pryce ' s speech , Dhara left for the Imperial Academy . A month later , Zare and her parents visited her during the Academy ' s Visiting Day . After singing the Imperial anthem and listening to a speech by Commandant Cumberlayne Aresko , Dhara joined her family at a table in a large amphitheater . After exchanging jokes with Zare , she informed her family that she had been selected for the Imperial officers ' training program . While her father Leo expressed pride that his daughter would have the opportunity to lead stormtrooper s into battle , her mother Tepha was worried that her daughter would be sent to the battlefield . During their meeting , Dhara and her family talked about her brother Zare ' s " unhappy adventure " at Beck Ollet ' s former orchard in the Westhills . Tepha reported that one of her colleagues in the Ag Ministry had mistakenly filed the land for mineral extraction . Meanwhile , Leo defended the land reclassification on the grounds that Lothal was too far from the trade routes to sustain a viable jogan fruit trade and contended that Ollet ' s former orchard would be more profitable as a mine . This conversation revealed the growing tension between her pro - Imperial father and her more liberal mother and brother . When Dhara asked about the family ' s nanny droid Auntie Nags , Zare chuckled that she was unhappy about his involvement in grav - ball ; which the droid regarded as a dangerous and dirty sports . Winter Break . During that year ' s winter break , Dhara returned to visit her family for the holidays . By that stage , Zare was growing more disillusioned with the Empire ' s policies towards Lothal . Her brother was unhappy that the Empire was turning good farmland and orchards into mineral mines . Zare was also at odds with his athletic director Janus Fhurek , a bigoted Imperial loyalist who disliked Alien s . While her mother Tepha was growing concerned about the Empire ' s heavy - handed policies , her father Leo continued to defend the Empire ' s policies as a preliminary to progress . Dhara returned home in time to attend Zare ' s fifteenth birthday celebration . Having turned fifteen , Zare was eligible to enroll at the Academy for Young Imperials and was preparing his enrollment application . After their parents had viewed Zare ' s application , Dhara certified that her brother was of good moral character but joked that Zare had a history of stealing sweet - sand cookies and annoying their nanny droid Auntie Nags . She was also able to certify that Zare had no history of insurrection , rebellion , or aiding the Empire ' s enemies . As a result , Zare was able to transmit his enrollment application to the Imperial Academy . Later , Dhara and Zare had a private conversation in her bedroom . Zare noted that her bed was immaculately made ; a trade which Dhara attributed to her highly - regimented academy training . At Dhara ' s prompting , Zare related his grievances with the Empire ; namely the destruction of his friend Ollet ' s orchards and his problems with Fhurek . Sensing her younger brother ' s despondence and disillusionment , Dhara tried to convince Zare to think about the " bigger picture . " She rationalized that Ollet ' s orchards was a small loss compared to the potential wealth and development that would come from Imperial mining projects . She also conceded that the Empire ' s civil servants did made mistakes but argued that these did not make the Empire bad . Dhara also advised her brother Zare not to get on the wrong side of the Empire and reiterated her familial love for him . Disappearance . By the time of Lothal ' s spring season , Dhara had advanced in her officer training at the Academy for Young Imperials . With a green status , she applied for an internship program at the Imperial Headquarters in Capital City . Dhara also participated in an Imperial military training exercise in Lothal ' s Easthills and was incommunicado with her family for more than a week . After a week had elapsed , her family received word from Commandant Aresko that she had allegedly run away during her training exercise . This news was a shock to her family who knew that Dhara was a loyal and committed Imperial citizen . The Imperial authorities placed a planet - wide alert for her but despite their efforts , she was not found . Her brother Zare suspected that the Empire was not telling the truth and concocted a plan to infiltrate the Academy for Young Imperials in order to discover the truth behind Dhara ' s disappearance . Zare was tacitly supported by their mother Tepha , who promised to keep this plan a secret from their pro - Imperial father Leo . With the help of his hacker girlfriend Merei Spanjaf , Zare learnt that his sister had been forcibly dragooned by the Grand Inquisitor into a secret Imperial project called Project Harvester , which aimed to identify Force - sensitive individuals to train as Inquisitors , secret agents of the Empire tasked with hunting down Jedi survivors of the Purge . Project Harvester was run from a secret installation on the planet Arkanis that was connected to the Imperial Academy there . Zare and Merei shared this information with Tepha but kept it a secret from Leo , who believed that the Empire was doing everything it could to find his daughter . While Zare desired to rescue his sister , his mother Tepha feared that she would lose both her children . Later , Zare was transferred to the Arkanis Academy at the middle of the year under the pretext of rewarding his loyalty to the Empire . However , this was part of a plan by the Grand Inquisitor to uncover Zare ' s connection to a local rebel cell . Rescue . During her time in captivity , Dhara was imprisoned in a cell in Area Null , a tower at the Arkanis Academy that the Empire used for several classified operations . She was detained in Cell Seventeen and kept isolated from her family for several months . As a result of her long captivity , Dhara became delusional and initially thought that her brother Zare was an illusion created by the Grand Inquisitor . Her brother Zare had infiltrated the Arkanis Academy as a Cadet in the hope of rescuing her . However , he was exposed as a traitor and scheduled for execution . With the help of his former classmates Beck Ollet , Merei Spanjaf , and a rebel group known as the Spectres , Zare managed to escape his cell and penetrate Area Null . While Dhara initially mistook her brother for an illusion , Zare managed to convince her that he was real . Zare also told her that the Inquisitor , her former tormentor , was dead and that their parents were waiting to see them . As a result , Zare won her trust and led her out of the cell . Upon exiting the cell , Zare ' s companions Beck and Merei reported that several stormtroopers were pursuing them . While fleeing past the control room , Beck sacrificed his life to allow his companions to escape by charging at the Imperials with a thermal detonator . The ensuing explosion buried Beck and the stormtroopers under a great pile of stone chunks and jagged metal rubble . Shortly thereafter , the doors of an auxiliary elevator opened and an Imperial military officer named Lieutenant Chiron stepped out with four stormtroopers . Chiron attempted to force Zare and his companions to surrender . Zare responded by trying to reason with his former mentor and revealed that the Empire had kidnapped his sister Dhara . Despite being confronted by evidence of the Empire ' s wrongdoing , Chiron was still loyal to the Imperial cause but vowed to investigate the matter . Before anyone could react , Dhara used the Force to summon chunks of rock and metal down on Chiron and his stormtroopers , killing them . This exertion weakened her , and Zare had to lead her into the elevator . Upon reaching the roof , they were picked up by the Spectres ' modified freighter , the " Ghost " . After the " Ghost " had entered hyperspace , Zare and Merei led Dhara to a bunk aboard the ship . She lay down without speaking and stared at the bunk above her . While alone with Zare , she told him that , in a dream , she had foreseen through the Force that he , Merei , and Beck would come to rescue her . She also recalled seeing Chiron and his stormtroopers but could not remember what had transpired next . Knowing that she had killed Chiron and his men , Zare calmly assured her that everything was all right and told her to get some rest . He also promised her that their parents would be waiting for them when she woke up . Upon arriving on Garel , Dhara embraced both her parents and told them not to let her go . Personality and traits . Dhara Leonis was a beautiful and intelligent young woman who excelled in her training at the Lothal Imperial Academy . Due to her leadership skills , Dhara was recruited into the Academy ' s officer training program . Growing up under the Empire , Dhara believed that the Empire was a force for good in the galaxy . While she acknowledged that the Empire made mistakes , she still believed that the Empire had the interests of its people in mind . Despite being more talented than her younger brother Zare , they still had a strong familial bond and looked out for each other . Prior to her kidnapping , Dhara was both ambitious and sincere in her desire to serve the Empire and was considered Commandant Aresko ' s top cadet . Powers and abilities . As a Force - sensitive individual , Dhara Leonis had the ability to sense the presence of other people . She was also able to read the thoughts of other people . While her Force powers gave her an edge over the other cadets , this caught the attention of the Academy ' s authorities , who informed the Grand Inquisitor . Despite receiving no training in the Force , Dhara was still able to summon chunks of rocks and metal on a group of Imperials that had cornered her and her rescuers on Arkanis . While doing so , she shrieked in rage and pain , her eye s seen as " burning like fire , " indicating potential use of the dark side of the Force . She could also experience Force vision s . Behind the scenes . " " series author Jason Fry described Dhara Leonis ' s use of the Force in " " as a " dark - side tantrum , " stating that he deliberately left the character of Kanan Jarrus out of her rescue , as he would have sensed her use of the dark side and started asking questions .