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Admiral Raddus was a Mon Calamari male from the planet Mon Cala. He was an officer in the Mon Cala planetary defense services, commanding those forces during the 18 BBY Imperial invasion of Mon Cala and eventually evacuating many city ships to evade the Empire. He became one of the first Mon Calamari to join the growing Rebel Alliance, soon commanding its fleet as part of High Command. In 1 BBY, Raddus was involved in Operation Fracture, an intelligence mission that intended to gather information about a suspected Imperial weapon. The operation revealed that the weapon was a planet-killing battle station called the Death Star, and rebel Jyn Erso testified to the Alliance that her father, Imperial scientist Galen Erso, had built a weakness into the superweapon for the rebels to exploit.
Alliance High Command, much to Raddus's chagrin, deemed that a mission to retrieve the Death Star plans would be too dangerous to approve. Jyn, however, took a band of rebels calling themselves "Rogue One" and assaulted the security complex on the planet Scarif where the plans were kept anyway. When Raddus heard of this development, he prepped his flagship, the Profundity, to join her. This prompted the rest of the fleet to be approved for deployment, and when they arrived, Raddus ordered Blue Squadron to reinforce Rogue One on the ground, with the rest of the starfighters defending the fleet and engaging the Star Destroyers.
Under Raddus's leadership, the Alliance's hodgepodge fleet was effective at battling the destroyers and TIE fighters. The admiral was able to disable one of the Star Destroyers, so when Rogue One pilot Bodhi Rook contacted the Profundity to explain that they needed Scarif's now-closed shield gate to be broken open in order to transmit the plans, Raddus could shove the disabled ship into a second, destroying them both along with the gate when they fell toward the planet. Erso successfully transmitted the plans to the Profundity but was killed by the Death Star itself, and just as the fleet began to jump away to hyperspace, Sith Lord Darth Vader arrived in his Star Destroyer Devastator, disabling Raddus's ship and killing him and everyone on board. (Read more…)
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