Cauley

"Pull all escort wings in that area off their duty. Send them all against Kanan!" "Against who, Captain?" Renegade One! The guy shooting at everyone!"

- Sloane gives orders to Cauley

Cauley was a male human who served as an Imperial Navy ensign on board the Star Destroyer Ultimatum during the Gorse conflict, in which the Imperial, cyborg Count Denetrius Vidian attempted to improve thorilide mining efficiency on the planet Gorse and its moon Cynda. Shortly after the Ultimatum arrived in the Gorse system, Vidian fed the output from Cauley's terminal on Ultimatum's bridge into his optical implants. Unaware of what Vidian was doing, Cauley was at first confused by the Count's actions, but was soon allowed to return to his work. Later, in the final stages of the conflict, Cauley reported to the Ultimatum's Captain Rae Sloane on the actions of the freighter Moonglow-72 as it tried to prevent Vidian's plan to destroy Cynda from coming to fruition.

Biography
"I've got a TIE pilot chasing after the hauler he's escorting now. It's fleeing, afraid of being targeted by Renegade One. Our pilot's asking if he can shoot his hauler down."

- Cauley reports to Sloane

The male human Cauley served in the Galactic Empire's Imperial Navy as an ensign and tactical officer on board the Imperial-class Star Destroyer Ultimatum during the vessel's mission to the planet Gorse. Commanded by Captain Rae Sloane, the Star Destroyer's purpose was to transport and serve cyborg Count Denetrius Vidian while he improved the efficiency of thorilide mining on Gorse's moon Cynda. When Ultimatum first arrived in the Gorse system, Cauley was stationed at a tactical console on the vessel's bridge, which displayed the locations of all of the other ships in the star system. Immediately after exiting hyperspace in the system, the Ultimatum nearly collided with a freighter named Cynda Dreaming which clipped the larger vessel as it narrowly dodged. Moments later Vidian arrived on the bridge and pushed past Cauley to his console, feeding the visual output from the Ensign's screen into his optical implants, allowing the Count to monitor the nearby vessels and Cauley to return to his work. After thorolide production totals began being transmitted to the Ultimatum by the Mining Guild, Vidian moved away from Cauley's station to a data terminal and then ordered that Cynda Dreaming be destroyed after he discovered it was holding up the convoy of ships heading from Gorse to Cynda.

Cauley was present at his station on the bridge when the Ultimatum oversaw freighters bringing canisters of the explosive chemical baradium-357 from the Calcoraan Depot space station in the Calcoraan system. The chemical was to be used to destroy Cynda, allowing the thorilide it contained to be harvested from the debris by Vidian's vessel Forager. A group of rebels including the pilot Kanan Jarrus had learned of the plan however, and piloting the freighter Moonglow-72 they began destroying the TIE fighters guarding the baradium haulers and then initiating harassing fire on the haulers themselves, preventing them from delivering their loads and scaring the pilots. Cauley tried to follow what the rogue freighter&mdash;dubbed Renegade One by Sloane&mdash;was doing but couldn't understand why it was was not destroying the freighters. Sloane, who had encountered Jarrus before, realised that he and the rebels were trying to scare off the other haulers, which Cauley confirmed, as any vessel Moonflow-72 approached attempted to flee and turn off their ID transponders. The Ensign then received word from one of the surviving TIE fighters that it was chasing a fleeing hauler which it had been escorting and needed instruction on what to do. Sloane began giving orders to run interference but Cauley's communication was cut off with the fighter as it was destroyed by Renegade One. Infuriated, Sloane ordered a wing of fighters to destroy the Jarrus and his freighter. They were unsuccessful however, and ultimately the freighter was able to prevent Cynda being destroyed and land on board the Forager. Vidian was then exposed as having betrayed the Empire, and killed when the baradium in Moonglow-72 was set off by the rebel Skelly.

Personality and traits
"My lord?"

- Cauley is confused by Vidian's use of optical implants

During the Gorse conflict, Cauley was young and fresh faced. When Vidian fed the output from the Ensign's terminal into his implants it caused him to become stationary and stare into the distance, confusing Cauley and causing him to question what the Count was doing. When Vidian gave permission for Cauley to return to his work, Captain Sloane imagined he was relieved to not have the Count looking over his shoulder.

Equipment
While working at his terminal, Cauley wore a headset.

Behind the scenes
Cauley first appeared in A New Dawn, a novel released in 2014 and written by John Jackson Miller.

Appearances

 * A New Dawn