Rae Sloane

"I'm Admiral Rae Sloane. You are under arrest for conspiring against the Galactic Empire, long may it reign."

- Rae Sloane, arresting Jas Emari and Norra Wexley

Rae Sloane was a human female who served as the captain of the Imperial Star Destroyer Ultimatum, within the first decade of the Empire. Despite only filling in for the actual Captain Karlsen who was on assignment to a construction committee, she was proud to have achieved captaincy of a capital ship by the age of thirty. She was charged with escorting Count Denetrius Vidian to the planet Gorse.

After the Battle of Endor, Rae Sloane served as an admiral in the Imperial Navy and commanded the Star Destroyer Vigilance, intercepting New Republic pilot Wedge Antilles over the planet Akiva where a secret meeting was to occur.

Biography
"These yokels act as if they haven't seen a Star Destroyer before!"

- Rae Sloane, upon entering the Gorse system

The human female Rae Sloane was born on the industrial world of Ganthel which she left to join an Imperial Academy in order to avoid ending up employed at a shipyard or loading dock. She ended up training as a cadet 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 the 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 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 several hours as Baylo constantly berated his cadets as they worked.

When Vice Admiral Tallatz&mdash;the last of the Naval chiefs&mdash;arrived on the Defiance, Sloane programmed a course from the Denon star system to the planet Christophsis, where Palpatine and Vader were transferring from the Defiance to the Imperial-class Star Destroyer Perilous and continue on to the planet Ryloth to quash 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 of the Christophsis system. Once the course was set, the Commandant left the bridge and Sloane 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 Sloane'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 disembarked and traveled to Ryloth.

Sometime afterwards, Rae Sloane was given the captaincy of the Imperial Star Destroyer Ultimatum during the events of the Gorse conflict, and eventually helped Baron Lero Danthe acquire thorilide mining operations on the planet from Count Denetrius Vidian.

Sometime afterwards, Rae Sloane ascended to the rank of Admiral and commanded the Star Destroyer Vigilance after the Battle of Endor, later capturing pilot Wedge Antilles over the planet Akiva where a secret Imperial meeting was planned to occur.

Behind the scenes
Rae Sloane was created for John Jackson Miller's novel A New Dawn. An excerpt from the novel including Sloane was first released on July 15, 2014, as part of the Star Wars 2014 Sampler.

Appearances

 * A New Dawn
 * "The Levers of Power"
 * Aftermath
 * Aftermath