Adea Rite Adea Rite was a female human who served as Admiral Rae Sloane ' s personal assistant after the Battle of Endor . She was present during the abortive Imperial emergency summit on the planet Akiva . Rite was taken captive by New Republic forces during the Rebellion on Akiva . However , Fleet Admiral Gallius Rax arranged her escape and Rite found herself serving Admiral Sloane again . In secret , Rite was an undercover agent of Rax , whose agenda for the Empire clashed with Sloane ' s personal beliefs . Rite died while attempting to kill Sloane during the attack on Chandrila . Biography . Summit on Akiva . During the Age of the Empire , Adea Rite served as Admiral Rae Sloane ' s personal assistant . Her job was to hand Sloane paper s , fetch cups of caf , ask for signatures , and deliver communications , but she longed to be more , to deepen her service to the Galactic Empire . She worked closely with Sloane and the two grew to respect each other , with Sloane wishing there were more Imperials like her and Rite admiring Sloane greatly . She found that there was no better time to be alive , because in the cracks of the Empire there was room for advancement for people like her . On Akiva , during the meeting of the Imperial Future Council , Rite kept Sloane up to date on the events taking place on the planet , which were growing more tumultuous by the day . When Captain Wedge Antilles escaped their custody on Akiva , she went to chase him down personally , but was ambushed and injured by the Rebel pilot . She continued to serve Sloane , and was on the " Golden Harp " , their escape vessel , when it crash landed on the " Vigilance " . She was then captured by the New Republic . Rax ' s secret agent . Fleet Admiral Gallius Rax saw to it personally that she never found herself in a prison cell on Chandrila , the capital world of the New Republic . Rite returned to assist Sloane once again , aboard the " Executor " - class Star Dreadnought " Ravager " . Because Sloane did not trust Rax , who served as her new advisor , she asked Rite to investigate his past as well as to catalog all ships in the Imperial service at the time of Emperor Sheev Palpatine . Rite was also tasked with writing a proposal for a new breeding program . Unknown to Sloane , Rite was monitoring all of Sloane ' s activities and reporting them to Rax , her secret lover . Rite accompanied Sloane to the Liberation Day Peace Talks on Chandrila . As Sloane discovered that the intended peace initiative on Chandrila , orchestrated by Rax , was a ploy for using prisoner s of war to attack Chancellor Mon Mothma and the Galactic Senate , she was furious and vowed to destroy Rax . Hearing this , Rite attempted to assassin ate Sloane , who had realized that her own assistant betrayed her . Sloane shot Rite in the chest and fled the planet . Personality and traits . Adea Rite was a young Corellian human female who served in the Imperial Navy following the Battle of Endor . She served as a personal assistant to Admiral Sloane but longed to deepen her service to the Empire . She grew to respect Sloane for her selfless service and commitment to the Empire . Rite regarded the chaotic aftermath following Endor as an opportunity to advance her career in the Empire . As a staunch Imperial loyalist , Rite opposed the New Republic and sought to make a name for herself by recapturing the starfighter pilot Wedge Antilles . Despite her training in unarmed combat , she was defeated by Antilles . While outwardly loyal and devoted to Admiral Sloane , Rite was a secret agent of Fleet Admiral Gallius Rax , who had differences of opinion with Sloane on Imperial strategy and tactics . She had a romantic relationship with her secret benefactor and was loyal to him . Rite was even willing to kill her employer Admiral Sloane to prove her loyalty to Rax . Behind the scenes . Adea Rite first appeared as a minor antagonist in Chuck Wendig ' s 2015 novel " Aftermath " . She also appeared in the novel ' s 2016 sequel " " .