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 Yale 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.

During the Battle of Endor, Rae Sloane served as an admiral in the Imperial Navy and commanded the Star Destroyer Vigilance. Following the Empire's defeat at Endor, she would organize a secret Imperial meeting on the planet Akiva.

Meeting the Sith
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. 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.

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

- Rae Sloane, upon entering the Gorse system

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.

In the intervening years, she ascended to the rank of vice admiral, but in her spare time she tried to learn more about the history of Kanan Jarrus, who she had met during the Gorse conflict, following his trail from the planet Gorse to Moraga where it ended. There she captured the rebel Morfizo, who was a an old friend of Jarrus, and used him to lure Jarrus. She tried to capture him, but he knocked her down and escaped with Morfizo. After Jarrus's escape she was approached by the Grand Inquisitor, who told her to tell him everything she knew about Jarrus.

She later became an 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.

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.

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

 * "Bottleneck"&mdash;The Rise of the Empire
 * A New Dawn
 * Star Wars: Kanan 12: First Blood, Epilogue: The Ties That Bind
 * "The Levers of Power"&mdash;The Rise of the Empire
 * Aftermath
 * Aftermath: Life Debt
 * Aftermath: Life Debt