Dodd Rancit

Rancit was a Human male officer serving in Galactic Empire's Naval Intelligence Agency, a position he'd been appointed to personally by Emperor Sheev Palpatine.

Biography
A veteran of the Clone Wars, Rancit was born in the Outer Rim and attended school at Prefsbelt. During his time in Intelligence, he held the rank of Vice Admiral and was often seen in the company of Vice Admiral Screed. A lover of the Coruscant opera, he was on a first-name basis with Moff Wilhuff Tarkin, the two having known one another since before the Clone Wars, and had even preceded Tarkin as the overall commander of Sentinel Base.

In the years following the end of the war and the formation of the Empire, Rancit became extremely dissatisfied with the course his military career was taking. He felt pushed aside during his time as the commanding officer of Sentinel Base and the secret project being undertaken there, despite its importance to the Imperial cause. His bitterness only grew when his old comrade Tarkin, now a moff while he, Rancit, languished as an admiral, was given command of Sentinel and Rancit himself sent to work in Intelligence, where he developed a casual rivalry with Harus Ison.

Hatching a plot of vengeance against the Empire, and against Palpatine and Tarkin in particular, Rancit arranged for Berch Teller and his crew of insurgents to attack Sentinel Base and later steal Tarkin's personal ship, the Carrion Spike and use it in a variety of anti-Imperial activities. Rancit secretly planned to betray Teller and his crew and destroy the Carrion Spike at Carida, in the hopes of earning himself a promotion and improving his standing with Palpatine.

Teller however had figured out that Rancit was not trustworthy and instead had abandoned the Carrion Spike, sending it on autopilot towards the Imperial fleet at Carida, in order to take a cobbled-together warship to attack a supply convoy en route to Sentinel Base from Desolation Station in the hopes of delaying construction of the Death Star, intending to leave Rancit holding the bag. Rancit, unaware of Teller's counter-betrayal, was aboard the Imperial Star Destroyer Conquest at Carida, and ordered its captain to fire upon the Carrion Spike as soon as it emerged from hyperspace.

Darth Vader arrived with Lieutenant Crest and a contingent of Stormtroopers to arrest Rancit, preventing the Conquest from destroying Tarkin's ship. After proving to Rancit that the Carrion Spike was empty by scanning it fore lifeforms in order to prove to the Vice Admiral that his erstwhile allies had doublecrossed him before he could doublecross them, Vader ordered Crest to take Rancit and load him into an escape pod, then shoot him into space.

As he was taken away, Rancit defiantly told Vader he wouldn't beg for mercy. Unmoved, Vader simply replied that it wouldn't make a difference if he did. The Vice Admiral's punishment was carried out without delay, with the added humiliation that Rancit was made to issue one final order to the Conquest - to fire on his own escape pod and kill him. He did so.

The details of Rancit's treason and death were kept a closely guarded secret from his colleagues in Naval Intelligence on direct orders from Palpatine, so that he couldn't be martyred.

Appearances

 * Tarkin