Westhills skirmish

About six years before the Battle of Yavin, the Lothalian youth Beck Ollet and two other insurgents were involved in a brief skirmish with an Imperial Troop Transport in Lothal's Westhills. After witnessing Imperial forces massacring unarmed protesters during the Spring season, Beck had joined a three-member rebel cell that was dedicated to bringing down the Galactic Empire. Infiltrating a mining camp which had formerly been orchards, Beck and his fellow insurgents managed to plant detonators on Imperial mining droids; damaging the machines.

Pursued by an Imperial Troop Transport, Beck and his comrades fled in a landspeeder. While fleeing to a nearby bridge, Beck's speeder was hit and began to slow down. However, Beck's friend Zare Leonis, who had come on a jumpspeeder looking for his former classmate, managed to slow down the Troop Transport by flinging a detonator underneath the vehicle. This momentary distraction gave Beck and his friends enough time to flee across the bridge in their landspeeder. The Troop Transport then attempted to pursue Leonis but the youth managed to flee across the bridge in time.

Shortly later, Beck and his rebel associates were arrested by Imperial stormtroopers. Under the auspices of the Imperial Security Bureau, Beck was enrolled in an experimental re-education program known as Project Unity. Meanwhile, Leonis infiltrated the Academy for Young Imperials with the intention of finding his sister Dhara Leonis and working against the Empire from within. While studying at the Imperial Academy on Arkanis, Leonis was exposed as a traitor by a brainwashed Beck and subsequently pleaded guilty to his involvement in the skirmish at the Westhills. He was sentenced to death but managed to escape with Dhara due to the efforts of his girlfriend Merei Spanjaf and the Spectres rebel cell.

Appearances

 * Servants of the Empire: Edge of the Galaxy
 * Servants of the Empire: Rebel in the Ranks
 * Servants of the Empire: The Secret Academy