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The High Republic: Trials of the Jedi
The final confrontation between the Jedi and the Nihil…
AdmiralRaddus was aMon Calamarimale from theplanetMon Cala. He was anofficer in theMon Cala planetary defense services, commanding those forces during the18 BBYImperialinvasion of Mon Cala and eventually evacuating manycity ships to evade the Empire. He became one of the first Mon Calamari to join the growingRebel Alliance, soon commanding itsfleet as part ofHigh Command. In1 BBY, Raddus wasinvolved inOperation Fracture, an intelligence mission that intended to gather information about a suspected Imperialweapon. The operation revealed that the weapon was a planet-killingbattle station called theDeath Star, and rebelJyn Erso testified to the Alliance that herfather, ImperialscientistGalen Erso, had built a weakness into thesuperweapon for the rebels to exploit.
Alliance High Command, much to Raddus's chagrin, deemed that a mission to retrieve theDeath Star plans would be too dangerous to approve. Jyn, however, took a band of rebels calling themselves "Rogue One" and assaulted thesecurity complex on the planetScarif where the plans were kept anyway. When Raddus heard of this development, he prepped hisflagship, theProfundity, to join her. This prompted the rest of thefleet to be approved for deployment, and when they arrived, Raddus orderedBlue Squadron to reinforce Rogue One on the ground, with the rest of thestarfighters defending the fleet and engaging theStar Destroyers.
Under Raddus's leadership, the Alliance's hodgepodge fleet was effective at battling thedestroyers andTIE fighters. The admiral was able to disableone of the Star Destroyers, so when Rogue OnepilotBodhi Rook contacted theProfundity to explain that they needed Scarif's now-closedshield gate to be broken open in order to transmit the plans, Raddus could shove the disabledship into asecond, destroying them both along with the gate when they fell toward the planet. Erso successfully transmitted the plans to theProfundity but waskilled by theDeath Star itself, and just as the fleet began to jump away tohyperspace,Sith LordDarth Vader arrived in his Star DestroyerDevastator, disabling Raddus's ship and killing him and everyone on board.(Read more…)
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