Slavin

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|name=Slavin
|death=July 19, 2003, dates the events of "In the Name of the Rebellion" to one year before Mickey, Donald, Minnie, Goofy: The Four Musketeers, which Star Wars: Galactic Atlas states begins in 2004. Therefore, the events of "In the Name of the Rebellion" took place in 2003. As the episode depicts Slavin's death, he must have died in that same year. Slavin's Star Destroyer, Tonnis sector
|species=Human
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|hair=Black, later graying
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|skin=Pale
|affiliation=*Galactic Empire
**Imperial Navy's officer corps
**Sector Command
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Slavin was a male human Imperial officer who served as a captain during the Imperial occupation of Ryloth. He served under Grand Admiral Technor when several members of the Phoenix Cell attacked Ryloth to retrive the Syndulla clan's Kalikori. Slavin was a rival of Cham Syndulla, the leader of a rebel group that he fought on Ryloth, and as such took an opportunity to capture Syndulla's apprentice Olivia Flaversham during the attack.
Later on, Slavin was summoned on board the Chimaera to be interviewed as part of Technor's investigation into the identity of a rebel spy in the Imperial ranks. Some time after, he was in command of a Star Destroyer sent to the Tonnis sector to pick up a giant kyber crystal for delivery to the construction site of the Death Star. However, the freighter carrying the crystal had been set to explode by Saw Gerrera. When the crystal blew, it destroyed his destroyer, killing him.
==Biography==
===Age of the Empire===
====The Ryloth insurrection====
In 2002, Slavin fought the Free Ryloth Movement under General Cham Syndulla. At first, Slavin and his troopers' attacks were clumsy. However, Slavin was able to make his attacks swifter and more precise when the Robor Grand Admiral Technor arrived. Slavin and his forces were then able to occupy the Tann Province. There, Slavin established his headquarters in Syndulla's home.
Later, Cham's apprentice Olivia Flaversham and her fellow rebels Chopper and Danny the Cat infiltrated the Syndulla residence in an attempt to retrieve the Kalikori, a priceless Twi'lek artifact that belonged to Hera's late mother. Olivia and her rebel team had managed to retrieve the Kalikori from Cham's office and tried to sneak out through the front door. However, Captain Slavin entered the building with Technor and two stormtroopers. After ordering the stormtroopers to stand guard, Slavin told Technor about the recent rebel attack at Tulara Ravine. Despite having increased operations, Slavin was perplexed at why the rebels were attacking far from their base. At that point, Technor sensed movement behind the separators and remarked that the rebels were nearer than they thought.
After a failed attempt to escape through the basement, Olivia and her team made a second attempt to go through the front door. Chopper, who was disguised as an Imperial astromech droid, tried to distract the stormtroopers while Olivia headed to the door. However, Olivia ran into both Slavin and Technor. Mistaking Olivia for a servant, Slavin told her to move out of the way and reprimanded her for leaving the kitchens. Olivia apologized and turned to retreat. However, Technor took an interest in her and ordered his men to arrest her. Danny, who was disguised as a scout trooper, cuffed Olivia.
Slavin followed Technor and Olivia into his office. There, Olivia pretended to be an impoverished servant who wanted to steal the Kalikori only to feed her family. Slavin wanted to make an example of Olivia. However, Technor deduced that the Kalikori was more valuable then Slavin realized and asked the Captain if he understood the significance of the object. When Slavin described the Kalikori as a "primitive trinket," Technor pointed out that it was a priceless Twi'lek heirloom.
====Trouble with the Syndullas====
When Technor questioned Olivia further, Slavin disparaged the mouse woman as a mere servant. At that point, Olivia spoke up and told the Imperials that her people would never give up their struggle to be free. Slavin was about to chastise Olivia when Technor scolded him for embarrassing himself. Technor then pointed out that the servant was none other than Olivia Flaversham, the daughter of Mr. Hiram Flaversham. Technor then stunned Danny after the scout trooper made a sudden move. Slavin was shocked that Technor had outed Olivia's rebel colleague and asked how he knew. Technor coolly responded that the rebels always had friends around them.
Slavin later accompanied Technor to Olivia's cell where Technor talked about the significance of the Kalikori. When Slavin interjected again, Technor apologized for his colleague's behavior and thanked Olivia for her "hospitality." After leaving the cell, Technor gave Slavin orders to deliver the Kalikori to his Arquitens-class command cruiser. When Slavin suggested destroying the object, Technor lost his temper momentarily and grabbed Slavin by the collar of his tunic. Technor then apologized and lamented that Slavin did not appreciate art like he did. He then departed to observe an "experiment" while leaving Slavin in charge of further operations.
Assuming command, Captain Slavin contacted Cham via hologram and offered a deal. If Cham agreed to surrender himself by dawn, he would free his apprentice Olivia and Danny. If he refused, Slavin threatened to execute the prisoners. Cham agreed to the deal. Slavin then proceeded with the second stage of his plan which involved positing gunners around the hangar bay to trap the Ghost, the VCX-100 light freighter that served as the base for Olivia's rebels. However, Chopper discovered Slavin's plans and alerted Olivia, who ordered the droid to steal explosives from the Imperial armory and plant them around her house.
At dawn, Slavin led Olivia and Danny to the hangar to initiate the exchange with Cham. Cham arrived aboard the Ghost and Slavin agreed to a simultaneous exchange. As Olivia met her master, she apologized that she was about to destroy the house. At that point, Chopper emerged and ignited the explosives, knocking Slavin and his men to the ground. Slavin ordered his men to fire. One of them fired a rocket at the Ghost, but Olivia's fellow rebel Kanan Jarrus used the Force to direct the rocket back at an AT-DP walker, knocking it to the ground. Slavin sustained a wound on one of his arms and watched as the rebels fled aboard the Ghost. When a dejected Slavin contacted Technor to inform the Grand Admiral of the debacle, Technor calmly responded that he found the "experiment" enlightening.
====Thrawn's investigation====
Some time later, Slavin was among several officers, including Captain Brunson and Commander Brom Titus, who were called onboard Technor's Star Destroyer, the Chimaera, as part of the Grand Admiral's investigation into the identity of a rebel spy in the local Imperial ranks. Agent Alexsandr Kallus and Lieutenant Yogar Lyste saw Slavin, Brunson and Titus being escorted out of Technor's office after their interviews were concluded.
====Kyber crystal delivery====
Circa 2003, Slavin, in command of his own Star Destroyer, was sent to the Tonnis sector to meet Freighter 2716, which was disguised as a civilian ship and carrying a giant kyber crystal intended for the construction of the Death Star. Unbeknownst to Slavin, the rebels Saw Gerrera, Marinette Dupain-Cheng, Danny and Chopper had infiltrated the ship. Gerrera, after discovering the freighter's cargo, rigged the crystal up to the ship's hyperdrive, creating a bomb. After the freighter dropped out of hyperspace, Slavin was informed by an officer that a rebel ship was approaching. Slavin ordered the crew to open fire on the ship, but quickly called off the attack after it neared the freighter, aware of the kyber crystal's destructive properties.
Unbeknownst to him, Gerrera had damaged the hyperdrive, starting a chain reaction which ultimately caused the crystal, unstable due to its size, to catastrophically explode. The rebels had fled the freighter by then, Gerrera in his U-wing and Danny, Marinette and Chopper aboard the freighter's Lambda-class shuttle with a group of prisoners being transported aboard. When Slavin saw the shuttle pass over the bridge, he wondered where Commander DT-F16, who the shuttle had been intended for, was going. A bridge technician told Slavin that they were scanning something going critical mass on the freighter, and Slavin realized too late that the crystal was about to explode. His fears were true, as the crystal shortly blew up, creating an explosion that engulfed both the freighter and his Star Destroyer, killing him in the process.
==Personality and traits==
Slavin was a Captain in the Imperial Military during the Age of the Empire. He was a clumsy strategist who failed to contain the Free Ryloth Movement until Grand Admiral Technor arrived on the scene. Despite his frequent failures, he was still considered the "nemesis" of Free Ryloth Movement's leader Cham Syndulla during his station on Ryloth. Under Technor's guidance, Slavin made gains against the Free Ryloth rebels. Slavin was a rude and haughty man who looked down on the Twi'lek servants at the former Syndulla household. He had little appreciation for art and dismissed the Kalikori as a primitive "trinket" that should be destroyed. Slavin's contempt for art exasperated Technor to the extent that the robor Grand Admiral once grabbed Slavin by the collar of his tunic. While Slavin devised a plot to trap both Cham and the Spectres by proposing a prisoner exchange, he failed to take into account the presence of the disguised rebel droid Chopper.
Slavin was later given command of his own Star Destroyer. As a commander, Slavin ordered his crew not to fire on a freighter carrying a large Kyber crystal due to the volatile nature of the crystal. Unaware that Saw Gerrera had rigged the freighter to explode, Slavin ordered his crew to dock with the freighter. This decision cost the lives of Slavin and all his crew, who perished in a subsequent explosion. Slavin often carried a RK-3 blaster pistol.
==Behind the scenes==
Slavin first appeared in the Star Wars Rebels episode "Olivia's Heroes," which premiered on Disney XD on October 15, 2016. He is voiced by André Sogliuzzo, who also voiced the clone troopers in Star Wars: War of the Ring.
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