Randd

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**Randd** was a Human who served in the Galactic Empire in the Galactic Civil War as a Grand Moff of Exterior Sector in the Outer Rim Territories. Sometime after a rebellion on the planet Akiva, Randd was considered to be one of the most elite surviving officers. Because of this, Randd was chosen by Fleet Admiral Gallius Rax, *de facto* leader of the Navy, to be part of Shadow Council, a proposed successor to Ruling Council of the Empire, with Grand Admiral Rae Sloane as a figurehead. As such, he was at a meeting where Rax set the stage for the Battle of Jakku. Days before the battle, he had promoted Empire officer Ciena Ree to be *Inflictor's* Captain. He was responsible for tactic in the battle, and though they lost, he survived and went on to lead Imperial Remnants.

## Biography

### Fall of the Empire

#### Imperial Shadow Council

**Randd** was a Grand Moff who lived in the Era of the Empire and the aftermath of Endor. By the fifth year in the conflict, he held a position as the special governor of the Exterior, a remote sector located in the Outer Rim that at the time was one of the few remaining Imperial allied Sectors in the face of New Republic advances and defections. A New Republic was the successor government of the Rebel Alliance after the deaths of Palpatine and Darth Vader over Endor. Due to his elite status within the Imperial Remnants, he was invited by Fleet Admiral Gallius Rax to join the Shadow Council, an elite ruling council charged with reconstructing the Empire.

Randd was also known to have a wife named Danassic, who regarded him as stern and lacking humor. The council had a meeting aboard Rax's Super Star Destroyer *Ravager* in the Vulpinus Nebula, home to the largest of Imperial Remnants under command of Grand Admiral Rae Sloane. During the Shadow Council's dinner, the Grand Moff had questioned the Imperial propagandist Ferric Obdur about what kind of narrative the Empire would promote in the aftermath of the battle at Endor. Randd replied that the Empire should promote the narrative that it was the wounded hound kicked out brutally, unjustly, by a deadbeat father. At that point, Rax entered the room and praised the delegates for their ideas. Gallius then revealed that he also commanded other remnants in Almagest, the Recluse's Nebula, the Queluhan Nebula, the Ro-Loo Triangle, and the Inamorata. Randd and others listened as Rax outlined his plan to use the Imperial-allied factories in Xa Fel, Anadeen, and Turco Prime to rebuild weapons, vehicles, and starships for the Imperial conflict against the Republic.

During the Chandrila attack, the Grand Moff met Fleet Admiral Rax in his chamber. He then received orders to mobilize the Imperial fleets to travel to a set of coordinates, which turned out to be the Inner Rim planet of Jakku. Fleet Admiral Rax had also ordered Randd to coordinate the mobilization with Grand General Hodnar Borrum. When the Grand Moff expressed puzzlement at Rax's orders, Rax insisted he carry out those orders. Randd relented when Rax alleged that Sloane had approved of Rax's orders. Rax then ordered the Grand Moff to convene a meeting of the Shadow Council. During this meeting, Randd was the only Shadow Council member to make eye contact with Rax; a sign of deference. Rax claimed that Sloane had been lost to the New Republic and that every effort was being made to rescue her. Randd listened as Rax claimed the temporary title of Counselor to the Empire and announced that the Imperial remnant fleets would assemble on Jakku for a test of taking advantage of the New Republic's setback on Liberation Day; setting the stage for the Battle of Jakku. In secret, Rax planned to eliminate the other council members, except for Brendol Hux.

#### Hour of the Counselor Rax

Following the Empire's relocation to Jakku, Randd along with General Borrum, Brendol Hux, and Ferric Obdur remained members of the Shadow Council. In the months after the attack on Chandrila, Impeiral forces of the weakened Empire waited for the New Republic to launch their attack. After the New Republic discovered their presence and sent a scout ship and a probe droid, Randd opined that they should allow the enemy to arrive at the battle at a slow pace since that would give the Empire time to bolster their numbers. He also informed the Counselor Rax that veterans of Ryloth were arriving in the Star Destroyer *Diligent*. Leading up to the Battle of Jakku, Randd tried to warn the Empire Counselor that bringing the Empire to the desolate planet of Jakku could wear down the souls and minds of their troops. However, the Counselor Rax reassured him that the Imperials who had come to Jakku were the greatest of the Imperials and that they would not break. Counselor Rax claimed that the harsh conditions would only bolster and harden Imperials like calluses.

As a fan of belt-tightening, Randd trusted the Counselor Rax and regarded him as an admirable, capable, Imperial hero of the Empire. Unknown to Randd and his comrades, Rax was planning to destroy Jakku, the Empire, and the Republic forces as part of the Emperor's posthumous Contingency plan. Imperial Grand Moff Randd officiated over a ceremony at the space station Wrath over the Ponemah Terminal where he personally promoted Imperial Naval Commander Ciena Ree to a rank of Captain and assigned her command of the Imperial Star Destroyer *Inflictor*. During the ceremony, Moff Randd took the opportunity to speak of Ree's meritorious and selfless Imperial service to the Empire. He also assigned Commander Brisney as the vessel's Imperial Security Bureau officer, Commander Erisher as the ship's systems officer, and Ree's fellow cadet of the Royal Imperial Academy Nash Windrider as the *Inflictor*'s flight commander. Moff Randd then informed the assembled officers and crew that the Empire was assembling for a major battle against the rebellion.

#### Failure of a Galactic Empire

After the New Republic's Galactic Senate dispatched its fleet to Jakku, Grand Moff Randd attended a briefing with his fellow Shadow Councillors via hologram while aboard the *Inflictor*. He informed Rax and his fellow Councillors that the enemy fleet would be larger than the Imperial forces. However, he reassured them that the Empire had the *Ravager* and dismissed the New Republic fleet as a ragtag force of incompatible ships and squadrons. In his view, the united Empire fleet would allow them to defeat the Republic. Randd and his fellow Imperials then listened to the speech of Counselor Rax extolling the Imperial forces to destroy the New Republic. During the Battle of Jakku, Rax commanded the Imperial fleet from the bridge of the Super Star Destroyer *Ravager*. During the space battle, Randd's tacticians devised a tactic of using the Star Destroyers to form a defensive perimeter around *Ravager*. Throughout the battle, the Star Destroyers of the Imperial Starfleet remnants would open formation periodically to allow *Ravager* to fire its turbolasers at the enemy fleet. Under Gial Ackbar's leadership, enemy ships were able to tighten the perimeter but were unable to break through.

Randd's tactics began to unravel when Captain Groff of Star Destroyer *Punishment* panicked and rammed his ship into the *Starhawk*-Class battleship *Amity*. This created a gap which allowed the New Republic Commodore Kyrsta Agate's Starhawk *Concord* to attack the *Ravager*. The Super Star Destroyer managed to cripple the smaller Republic ship with her cannons, causing the *Concord* to descend into Jakku's atmosphere. However, Agate used her ship's tractor beam to drag the *Ravager* down with her. New Republic starfighters and ships then began attacking the SSD *Ravager*'s rear engines. With the ship's weapons systems recharging, the *Ravager* was unable to repel these attacks. As the engines were taken out, the *Ravager* descended into Jakku's atmosphere. Realizing that his ship was lost, Randd panicked and fled in an escape pod. The downing of the *Ravager* turned the tide of the Battle of Jakku in the New Republic's favor. As the battle dragged on, his tactics proved in-effectual against the New Republic forces, who attacked on multiple fronts.

Captain Ree attempted to contact Grand Moff Randd to suggest a change of tactics but lost communications when her ship was boarded by New Republic soldiers. Ree ordered a mass evacuation of the *Inflictor* and set the ship to crash on Jakku's barren surface in an effort to deny the ship to the New Republic. While Randd and Windrider believed that she had perished during the crash, Ciena was rescued by her lover Thane Kyrell, who had joined the New Republic Starfleet. The Battle of Jakku ended as a catastrophic defeat for the Imperial remnants and allowed the New Republic to become the dominant government in the galaxy. Due to the events on Jakku, the defeated Empire was eventually forced to sign the Galactic Concordance which ended the war in the New Republic's favour. Surviving Imperial forces retreated to the Queluhan Nebula for a renewed offensive against the Republic. A month after the Battle of Jakku, Randd and several of other Imperial officers, including Windrider, nominated Ciena Ree for the Imperial Distinguished Medal of Imperial Honor.