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"Pout it on, devils! I've got you right where I&mdash;"

- Venk's last word

Venk was an officer in the Galactic Empire's Navy branch. Shortly after the Battle of Yavin, Venk served aboard Commander Dreed's Star Destroyer as his number-two in command.

Biography
"Do I remember him saying that those Alderaanian dregs have some ships in orbit around...what planet, again? Espirion, sir. Let's kill a few more'' today."

- Venk and an Imperial technician

Venk was an Imperial officer of the Galactic Empire during the Galactic Civil War against the Alliance to Restore the Republic.

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

- Rae Sloane, upon entering the Gorse system

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.

Early life
Rae Sloane was born into the Sloane family on the industrial factory-world Ganthel sometime during the last years of the Galactic Republic. She grew up in the Slaone family home, and grew to dislike the industrial landscape of Ganthel, wishing to become a cadet at an Imperial Academy to become a member in the extensive Imperial military, more particularly, the Imperial Starfleet

Academy days
"What do you see?" "N-nothing." "You fear to contradict your master." "My lord, I don't wish to say the admiral is wrong about&mdash;" "No. That is exactly what you wish to do."

- Darth Vader and Sloane

Sloane continued her education at the academy, and some time during her training, about five years after the Proclamation of the New Order, Galactic Emperor Sheev Palpatine and his chief lieutenant, Darth Vader, a Sith Lord, visited the Baylo school, which was currently located in the Denon system, in order to convene with several Imperial chiefs on the crystalline world of Christophsis, before continuing to their final destination, the planet Ryloth. The meeting was to decide how to better incorporate the military academies that the Empire inherited from the Republic into the Imperial system. Baylo ran several simulations and drills for Sloane and the bridge crew, in order for them to demonstrate their capabilities for Palpatine and Vader. The Emperor soon left, but Vader remained for several hours without once speaking.

Sloane operated as a navigator, insuring the Defiance's courses were correctly set from its navigation computer, and after some time, the last of the Emperor's gusts arrived and Baylo yelled out for the navigator&mdash;Sloane&mdash;to set course to the [[Christophsis system/Canon|Christophsis system. Sloane, however, had already input the galactic coordinates for Christophsis and informed Baylo. The commandant came to double-check Sloane's calculations, and&mdash;without anyone else's knowledge&mdash;altered the correct coordinates that Sloane had programmed so that the Defiance would be swallowed by the Christophsis system's sun, and berated Sloane for her "mistake"; claiming her coordinates would have sent them into Wild Space. Sloane, puzzled that she had been incorrect, stepped down in humiliation as Baylo assigned her courier duty as punishment for her "mistake." Vader, however, spoke up and went to Sloane's computer, returned the programming to Sloane's original and assured her he knew something was amiss as well; worrying Sloane.

Later, per her punishment, Slaone went to report to the two architects of the Empire, in Baylo's office, that Vader's flagship, the Perilous, an Imperial I-class Star Destroyer, was ready to resume their mission to Ryloth as soon as they were ready. Sloane, however, saw on the floor of the office, something that horrified her: the dead body of Admiral Baylo. Palpatine claimed he had "succumbed to his injuries", but in reality, Vader had killed him for committing treason by ways of the Force. As the Emperor and Vader prepared to leave for the Perilous, Palpatine told Sloane to report to her superiors that the Defiance was to be rechristened the Obedience. Sloane did as commanded and continued her officer training on the planet Corellia after the Baylo school was absorbed into the training center located there.

Arriving with Vidian at Gorse
Years later, in the tenth year of the Empire’s reign, Sloane was assigned the position of Captain, to the ’’Imperial-Class Star Destroyer ‘’Ultimatum’’, in place of its commissioned captain, Karlsen, who was on temporary assignment to the Imperial construction committee. During that time, the Emperor’s top efficiency expert, Count Denetrius Vidian&mdash;and his aides&mdash;were stationed aboard the ‘’Ultimatum’’ in order for them to fulfill their orders from the Emperor to increase the production of thorollide, a mineral used in the production of Star Destroyers, in the Gorse system of the Inner Rim. Gorse’s moon, the crystalline Cynda, was mined for the substance, but the mining companies that mined the thorrilide were far behind schedule; meaning Star Destroyers production was slowed in waiting for the precious substance. Therefore, Sloane commanded the ‘’Ultimatum’’ from its bridge and took it to the Gorse system, where, after emerging from hyperspace near the convoy spacelanes between Gorse and its moon, a Gorsian freighter, the ‘’Cynda Dreaming’’, collided with the bridge of the warship. The ‘’Ultimatum’’ went unscathed, the freighter, however, was heavily damaged. Sloane ordered the bridge crew to send a warning on the local Mining Guild’s comm channel, warning the convoy to stay back from the Star Destroyer and reroute the spacelane. Vidian, however, appeared and demanded that Sloane “forget the old way” of slowing down traffic by interfering in the spacelanes, and to reposition the ‘’Ultimatum’’ away from the convoy. Sloane was annoyed at Vidian’s take in ordering her on her own bridge, but obeyed.

Cynda's secret and Vidian's betrayal
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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 Rise of the Empire
 * Aftermath
 * Aftermath

Notes and references
http://www.starwars.com/news/star-wars-uprising-puts-you-in-a-whole-new-galaxy http://www.starwars.com/news/crush-the-rebellion-or-restore-freedom-in-star-wars-commander http://www.starwars.com/news/star-wars-galactic-defense-arrives-on-mobile-devices

"Watch out kid, this thing handles like a drunken bantha."

- Han Solo to Luke Skywalker as he piloted an AT-AT

Appearances

 * Star Wars 1: Skywalker Strikes
 * Star Wars 2: Skywalker Strikes, Part II
 * Star Wars 3: Skywalker Strikes, Part III
 * Star Wars 4: Skywalker Strikes, Part IV