Rake Gahree

Rake Gahree was an Imperial cadet at Skystrike Academy who was friends with both Wedge Antilles and Hobbie. He and his friends attempted to defect to Phoenix Cell with the help of rebel agent Sabine Wren. However, he was killed during the first escape attempt when his TIE fighter was destroyed by Captain Vult Skerris.
==Biography==
===Early life===
Rake Gahree was born to a mother and a father, and had a brother.
===The rebellion===
Rake Gahree was an Imperial cadet at the Skystrike Academy, which trained TIE fighter pilots. He was friends with Wedge Antilles and Derek "Hobbie" Klivian. Two years before the Battle of Yavin, Gahree and his friends became disillusioned with the Galactic Empire after the Imperials began destroying unarmed rebel ships that had surrendered. They sent a message to Phoenix Cell that was picked up by the rebel agent Fulcrum. Fulcrum contacted the Phoenix Cell who dispatched the former Imperial cadet and Mandalorian warrior Sabine Wren to extract them.
After Governor Arihnda Pryce and Agent Kallus arrived to investigate the presence of defectors at the Academy, Gahree and his two friends talked about the risks involved in their escape attempt. Later, Wren met up with Antilles and told him that she had come to rescue him and his friends. An opportunity to escape arose when Governor Pryce and Instructor Goran dispatched all of the cadets on a mock battle exercise. However, this was a trap devised by Pryce to lure the defectors out of hiding. At Wren's direction, the defecting cadets flew their TIE fighters towards a rebel CR90 corvette.
However, Pryce deactivated the TIE's solar collector panels, leaving the pilots stranded in space. A flight of TIE interceptors led by Captain Vult Skerris then attacked the rebel corvette. Under Pryce's orders, Skerris fired a salvo at one of the cadets' TIE fighters; hitting Gahree's craft. Gahree was killed while his friends and Wren watched. Despite his death, his friends and Wren made a second successful escape attempt.
===Legacy===
Antilles and Klivian would later visit Gahree's parents in an attempt to pay their respects to him. However, the pair would swiftly come to realize that their friend's family blamed them for the death of their son, who Gahree's parents wished to take revenge on, growing furious when Antilles and Klivian were offered the chance to return to the Empire by Goran, demanding that they receive justice for Rake's loss.
==Personality and traits==
Rake Gahree was a young pilot who joined the Skystrike Academy, which trained starfighter pilots for the Empire. He was friends with Antilles and Hobbie and shared their disillusionment with the Empire's increasingly ruthless policies. This led them to make an escape attempt which led to Gahree's death. He evidently had a close relationship with his father, mother and brother, who desired revenge on Antilles and Hobbie under the misconception that they had been directly responsible for Gahree's death, turning against Goran when he proved willing to accept Rake's alleged 'murderers' back into the Galactic Empire.
==Behind the scenes==
Rake Gahree first appeared as a supporting character in the Star Wars Rebels episode "The Antilles Extraction," which first premiered on Disney XD on October 8, 2016 where he was voiced by Corey Burton, who also voiced Instructor Goran in the episode.
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==Notes and references==
Category:Cadets of the Galactic Empire
Category:Humans
Category:Imperial defectors
Category:Imperial Navy pilots of the Galactic Empire
Category:Males