Paron Ree Paron Ree was a male human First Waver villager from the planet Jelucan . He was married to Verine Ree and the father of two daughters , Wynnet and Ciena . Wynnet died during childbirth , leaving Ciena as his only child . Paron and Verine raised their surviving daughter to value honor and keeping promises . He also encouraged his daughter Ciena to excel in her studies and took pride in her when she obtained a place at the Royal Imperial Academy and became an officer in the Imperial Navy . At some point after the Battle of Hoth , his wife Verine was wrongly accused of embezzling funds . Despite knowing the charges against his wife were false , he refused to resist the Galactic Empire . Paron was also upset that their fellow villagers including the Nierre family had failed to support his family in their hour of need . However , he was heartened when Ciena ' s friend Thane Kyrell , a former Imperial cadet who had joined the Rebel Alliance , held a vigil for Verine . When Verine was wrongfully convicted , he and his daughter were upset with the verdict . However , he reluctantly accepted the verdict because he though that questioning the Empire was an act of disloyalty . Biography . Fatherhood . Paron Ree was a male human villager from the First Wavers , a group of settlers who had been exiled to the Outer Rim planet of Jelucan for remaining loyal to their king several centuries before the Age of the Empire . He married Verine Ree , a fellow First Waver . About nineteen years before the Battle of Yavin , Paron ' s wife gave birth to two baby girls : Wynnet and Ciena Ree . Wynnet died in childbirth but Ciena survived , leaving Paron and Verine with one child . When Ciena was eight years old , Paron and his family traveled with their muunyak beast to Valentia , the capital city of Jelucan . Valentia had been settled by a more affluent and multi - species wave of migrants known collectively as the Second - wave rs , who looked down on the valley dwellers as primitive and superstitious peasants . The Rees were traveling to Valentia to attend a ceremony celebrating Jelucan ' s formal incorporation into the Galactic Empire . Due to the mountainous terrain , their journey took two hours . After a few second - waver boys made fun of the Rees and their muunyak , Paron told his daughter Ciena not to let their comments affect her . He added that their day was over and that they knew it . Knowing they were in a second - waver area , Verine then whispered for her husband to keep his voice down . Before leaving to attend a speech by Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin , Paron remarked that the Empire respected hard work and absolute loyalty , values that the valley dwellers shared . He added that the second - wavers were more concerned with making money . He also said that the Empire would be bringing Ciena and her generation more choices to excel and that the Force was guiding them . During the trip , Ciena befriended a second - waver boy named Thane Kyrell , who had defended her from a group of bullies . After meeting Tarkin himself , the two children decided to aspire for a career in the Imperial Navy . Ciena and Thane became friends after he offered to let her use his flight simulator . Supporting his daughter . Over the next eight years , Paron and his wife Verine continued supporting their daughter Ciena ' s ambitions to secure a place at the Imperial Academy , which prepared Imperial citizens for service in the Imperial Military . When Ciena was thirteen , Paron and Verine sent their daughter Ciena to support Nierre and his family , whose family honor was at stake after Nierre was accused of abusing his position as an Imperial communications monitor . The Rees believed that nobody should want to hide anything from the Empire and the Nierre ' s accusers were dishonorable . In the end , the Rees celebrated when Nierre was acquitted . Paron and his wife also found work at a nearby mine , where Verine worked as a supervisor . One evening , Paron returned on their family ' s ridgecrawler , a mountain - ready hovercraft introduced by Imperial - backed merchant s . Verine was unable to return early since she had another late night shift . Though Paron missed her , he took pride in her work . When Ciena asked if she could borrow the ridgecrawler so that she could practice on Thane ' s flight simulator , Paron expressed a disapproval of his daughter ' s close friendship with a second - waver and suggested that she practice with the new simulators in Valentia . When Ciena responded that she helped Thane and that he respected her , Paron relented and allowed his daughter to borrow the ridgecrawler so that she could travel to Thane ' s home . In return , he secured a promise from Ciena that would have finished her lessons and cleaned the kitchens by the time that they had returned . Paron urged his daughter to become a better pilot than the Kyrell boy and to aim for a place at the Imperial Academy . Ciena laughed and responded that she and Thane were going to join the Imperial Navy . Paron smiled at his daughter ' s remark . Paron and Verine ' s loving relationship with their daughter contrasted with Thane ' s abusive relationship with his father Oris Kyrell , who had a foul temper and occasionally assaulted his son in a drunken fit of rage . Oris favored Thane ' s older brother Dalven Kyrell and neglected his younger son . Paron and his wife were delighted when their daughter Ciena secured a place at the prestigious Royal Imperial Academy in the galactic capital Coruscant at the age of sixteen . Both Paron and Verine accompanied Ciena to the spaceport and hugged her on the landing ramp before she departed for Coruscant . Paron and Verine kept in touch with their daughter while she was studying at the Royal Imperial Academy . In the third year of Ciena ' s study , they contacted her by hologram to inform her about the death of their beloved muunyak beast . Ciena excelled in her studies at the Imperial Academy and was allocated a place in the Academy ' s command track . She would go on to serve in the Imperial Navy during the Galactic Civil War against the Rebel Alliance . Trial and tribulation . Following the Battle of Hoth , Paron ' s wife Verine was falsely accused of embezzling funds from the mine that she worked at . Verine was remanded in Imperial custody prior to her trial . In the meantime , Paron secured work as an administrator at a local Imperial garrison . Due to the charges stacked against his wife , Paron had to work hard to prove his loyalty and integrity and could not afford to turn up late . Paron informed his daughter Ciena of the news via hologram . Ciena , who was now a Lieutenant Commander , was given leave by her superiors to return to Jelucan and support her family through their trial . After Ciena arrived home , Paron remarked that he should not have asked her to come since that would have endangered her position in the Imperial Navy . Ciena reassured her father that her superiors would understand a mistake had been made and that the truth would come out . However , Paron was pessimistic that the authorities would identify the real culprit . Ciena then expressed her hope that the real culprit would be caught and noted that her father was looking frail . Paron replied that he had lost track of time since Verine ' s arrest and had stopped eating regularly . To expedite the case , Ciena requested a meeting with the magistrate the following day . Paron then brought out some meat and root vegetables from the refrigeration unit , which Ciena started making into a stew . While Ciena was cooking , he expressed his relief that his daughter had come . When Ciena apologized for not visiting earlier , he stated that he understood that she was fighting a war . When Ciena noted that none of their kindred had posted flags outside their house to support their family in their hour of trial , Paron replied that none had come to offer their support . While their fellow valley kindred knew that the charges against Verine were false , Paron explained that they were unwilling to stand against the Empire , which they had pledged their loyalty to . Despite the fabricated nature of the charges , Paron refused to challenged the Empire since it would break the Jelucani tradition of honor . Realizing that he had raised his voice , Paron apologized to his daughter and explained that he was facing a difficult trial . After dinner , father and daughter resumed their conversation about Verine ' s trial . When Ciena asked her father why he was pessimistic that the Empire would find out the real culprit , he responded that she already knew the answer and told her not to insult them both by making him tell her why . At that point , Ciena deduced that the embezzler was a high - ranking Imperial official who had falsified the records . After Ciena noted that the magistrate would not publicly question Imperial officials , Paron told his daughter that she should take pride in being a member of the Imperial Navy and that she and other like - minded individuals embodied the good in the Empire . However , he pointed out that every ruler had its bad side and admitted that the people of Jelucan had seen more of the Empire ' s negative side , including pollution and environmental despoliation . Despite this injustice , Paron endeavored to remain loyal to the Empire . Since none of their kindred had come to support the Ree family in their hour of need , Ciena volunteered to maintain a vigil at midnight so that he father could rest . Fortunately for the Rees , Ciena ' s old friend Thane Kyrell , who had joined the Rebel Alliance , arrived in a ridgecrawler , and volunteered to stand vigil with them . Out of respect for the Rees , he even brought a red flag to show solidarity with them . In line with the Jelucani tradition of hospitality , Paron offered Thane his protection and hospitality , even serving him a bowl of soup . At his daughter ' s urging , Paron retired to bed . The following morning , Paron went to work at the local Imperial garrison . In his absence , Ciena and Thane flew in the Kyrell family ' s old V - 171 airspeeder to their childhood hideout known as the Fortress . There , the two made love and discussed their political differences about the Empire and the Rebellion . The following day , Thane left to rejoin the Rebel Alliance . Paron and his daughter then attended the trial . He kept his head bowed low throughout the proceedings since he could not bear to see his wife in the dock . Despite the fabricated nature of the charges , the magistrate swiftly convicted his wife of all the charges and sentenced her to six years of hard labor . Following the trial , Ciena remarked that Verine ' s conviction was a miscarriage of justice . Despite the injustice , Paron was unwilling to challenge the Imperial government ' s verdict on the grounds that they had pledged their loyalty to the Empire . He added that while life was unfair , they would endure and prevail " not as crude matter but in the realm of the spirit . " While disagreeing with her father ' s unwavering loyalty to the Empire , Ciena still hugged and comforted him . Later , Ciena returned to Imperial service and was caught up in the rapid decline of the Empire which followed the Battle of Endor . Personality and traits . Paron Ree was a human man . By the aftermath of the Battle of Hoth , he was a middle - aged man with graying hair . Paron Ree was known for his unyielding and tough but fair - minded personality . As a Jelucani valley dweller , he believed that it was honorable not to break an oath that want had made . He initially welcomed the Empire for bring jobs and development to Jelucan but became disillusioned with the corruption and pollution that accompanied Imperial rule . Paron was a loving husband to his wife Verine and a supportive father to his daughter Ciena . He believed in supporting fellow kindred when their loyalty and integrity was called into question . Despite recognizing that his wife had been falsely convicted by the Empire , he refused to oppose the Empire since he was unwilling to break his oath to the Empire . Behind the scenes . Paron Ree was a secondary character who first appeared in Claudia Gray ' s 2015 novel " Lost Stars " , which was part of the multimedia " " series . Most of his lines are written from the point of view of his daughter Ciena Ree , one of the novel ' s two main protagonists . While writing the novel , Gray mentally pictured Paron Ree as being portrayed by .