Rae Sloane

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**Rae Sloane** was an officer of the Galactic Empire's naval forces. Sloane was instrumental in the Empire's survival in the aftermath of the Battle of Endor. While still an Imperial cadet at the *Defiance* Flight Training Institute, Rae Sloane had foiled a plot to assassinate the Galactic Emperor Sheev Palpatine and Darth Vader. She went on to rise through the ranks of the Imperial Navy. During the Battle of Endor, Rae Sloane served as an Admiral in the Imperial Navy and held command over the Star Destroyer *Vigilance*. Following the Empire's loss at Endor, she organized a secret meeting on the planet Akiva. After the New Republic liberated Akiva, Sloane escaped offworld. In the following months, Sloane would attain the rank of Grand Admiral, bestowed unto her by Gallius Rax. While Sloane served as the public face of the Empire, Gallius Rax would rule from behind the scenes.

At the instigation of Rax, she initiated faux peace talks with the New Republic. While visiting the New Republic capital of Chandrila, Sloane turned against Rax after learning that his attack on Chandrila involved the use of mind-controlled former prisoners from Ashmead's Lock to kill New Republic officials. When Rae Sloane objected to Rax's methods, her trusted assistant Adea Rite tried to kill her. After escaping Chandrila, Rae joined forces with the former rebel Brentin Lore Wexley to hunt down and kill Gallius. With the help of Brentin and the Republic operative Norra Wexley, Sloane managed to stop Rax from destroying Jakku along with the Imperial and New Republic fleets. After executing Rax, she fled into the Unknown Regions of space with Brendol Hux, his young son Armitage Hux, along with several youthful soldiers, taking on Rax's mission of building a new Empire.

## Biography

### Early Life

#### Childhood

The Human **Rae Sloane** was born on the Core planet Ganthel nineteen years prior to the Clone Wars. Rae's family was not wealthy and the young Sloane longed to live in a richer and greener world. One night while her parents slept, Sloane ran away and made her way to the nearest dock with the hope of sneaking aboard a freighter and traveling across the galaxy. Sloane managed to make her way to the ship dock and hide between two crates of kelerium. At that point, Rae experienced "cold feet" and decided to return home. However, Sloane encountered four members of a local criminal gang called the Kotaska, who dealt in spice and slaves. They trapped her and attempted to abduct her, but because of a nearby droid that set himself off as an alarm, a nearby dock constable chased off the Kostaka and Rae then took the chance to flee home, she never told either of her parents of the night but still desired to leave the planet Ganthel. When the Galactic Empire cleared out the criminal groups on her world, this convinced Rae that it was a force for order in the galaxy. In order to avoid employment at a shipyard or dock, Rae left Ganthel and enrolled in the academy on Prefsbelt.

#### Cadet of the Empire

During her time at the Prefsbelt Academy, Rae partook in the Naval Corps Boxing. Despite never winning "the belt", she nevertheless was skilled at it, and always ranked. Sloane graduated high in her class, and ended up studying navigation as a Lieutenant on board the *Defiance* Flight Training Institute, a facility run by Commandant Pell Baylo based onboard the *Defiance* cruiser. During her time on the starship, Galactic Emperor Sheev Palpatine was invited by Baylo to hold meeting with several chiefs of the Imperial Navy which aimed to decide how military schools the Empire had inherited from the Galactic Republic could be incorporated into the Imperial academies. The Emperor, and his apprentice Darth Vader boarded the *Defiance* in the Denon System where Baylo started running Rae Sloane and the other cadets through drills and simulations on the ships bridge for the Emperor and Vader. Palpatine remained only a short time but ordered Vader to stay and observe, which he did for a number of hours as Baylo constantly berated the cadets as they worked.

When Vice Admiral Tallatz—the last of the Naval chiefs—arrived on the *Defiance*, Sloane programmed a course from the Denon star system to the planet Christophsis, where Palpatine and Darth Vader were transferring from the *Defiance* to the *Imperial*-Class Star Destroyer *Perilous* in order to travel to the planet Ryloth and quash the insurgency there. Baylo then gave the order for the course to be plotted, and when Sloane showed that she had already done it, Baylo claimed her course would send them into Wild Space and changed it. Sloane's course had in fact been correct, but Baylo was planning to kill the Emperor and Vader and had changed the course to take the *Defiance* into the heart of the sun. Once the course was set, the Commandant left the bridge and Rae looked over her calculations to find where she had gone wrong. Vader then approached her and stopped her from jumping the ship to hyperspace, changing the course back to Rae's original. Vader then left and executed Baylo in his office in front of the Emperor. Shortly after the *Defiance* arrived at Christophsis, Sloane entered the office and found Baylo's body, after which Palpatine and Vader traveled to Ryloth.

### Service to the Empire

Sloane would eventually serve as the Executive Officer aboard the Star Destroyer *Executrix*, the personal ship of Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin. Upon her promotion to captaincy, she was assigned to the Imperial Star Destroyer *Ultimatum* and was present during the events of the Gorse conflict, eventually helping Baron Lero Danthe acquire thorilide mining operations on the planet from Count Denetrius Vidian.

### Promotion to Admiral

In the intervening years, she ascended to the rank of Admiral and commanded the Star Destroyer *Vigilance* during the Battle of Endor. Following the destruction of the *Executor*, Admiral Sloane was left as the highest ranking officer in that fleet, and organized the Imperial retreat following the destruction of the Death Star II.

### Meeting on Akiva

During the rise of the New Republic, she organized and led a secret Imperial meeting on the planet Akiva. The meeting was the start of the Imperial Future Council, the goal of which was to plan the future of the Empire after the death of the Emperor and his apprentice, Darth Vader. Before the meeting started, she captured pilot Wedge Antilles of the New Republic while he was scouting the system. As the meeting went on, she realized there was no hope for the IFC, as the members were constantly squabbling. When Wedge Antilles escaped his cell and summoned the New Republic to war, Sloane was forced to abort the meeting and abandon the planet. Narrowly surviving the Battle of Akiva, she would return to the Super Star Destroyer *Ravager*.