Luthen Rael

Hiding behind the facade of an eccentric antiquities dealer on Coruscant, Luthen Rael was the secret mastermind behind the early days of the rebellion. At his side was Kleya Marki, who Luthen rescued as a child from a war zone when he was known as Sergeant Lear. When his associate Bix Caleen, a savvy salvage yard owner, offered him a rare and illegal Starpath unit for purchase, Rael went to Ferrix personally to broker the deal. But his interest wasn’t in the merchandise; instead, the well-informed spy had his eye on the person who procured it: Cassian Andor.

Rael met with the potential rebel recruit just as Pre-Mor security forces closed in to capture Andor as a murder suspect and Luthen attempted to persuade Andor to help fight the Empire. They escaped Ferrix together, and Rael offered him his biggest job yet: the robbery of an Imperial vault on Aldhani. He gave Andor a Kuati signet, a large crystal pendant made of sky kyber, as collateral payment.

After embedding Andor on the Aldhani crew despite the protests of Vel Sartha, their leader, Rael returned to Coruscant. He continued to manipulate operations behind the scenes by working with different rebel cells, earning him the alias “Axis” in the Imperial Security Bureau. Rael remained in contact with senator Mon Mothma, Partisan leader Saw Gerrera, and his own network of secret spies within the Empire.

Andor, a loose end from Aldhani who continued to gain the attention of the Empire, ultimately became a risk to Rael’s operation. When he learned of Maarva Andor’s funeral, Rael returned to Ferrix himself to see that Cassian was taken out. But after the people rioted against the Empire during the ceremony with devastating results, Andor voluntarily went to Rael to offer to join the fight for real and Rael accepted.

Luthen and Kleya continued their work against the Empire in secret, gathering information from undercover sources while keeping an eye on their operatives. When previous allies, such as Mon Mothma’s old friend Tay Kolma, turned into security threats, Luthen ordered their assassination in the name of protecting the rebel cause.

Luthen sent Cassian on a mission to Ghorman to assess the activities of an anti-Imperial group called the Ghorman Front. Despite Cassian’s concerns about the group’s impatience and inexperience. Luthen continued to support their activities, knowing that even if their efforts against the Empire failed, the planet’s high profile in the galaxy would generate attention.

While Luthen’s tactics separated himself from rebel leadership on Yavin 4, he sent Cassian to Coruscant to extract Mon Mothma from the Imperial Senate after he learned that Bail Organa’s escort team could not be trusted. Shortly after hearing that an Imperial secret weapon was behind the Empire’s supposed energy project from one of his undercover sources, Luthen killed the source, ISB Supervisor Lonni Jung, and passed on the intel to Kleya.

Back at his gallery, Luthen attempted to take his own life when ISB Supervisor Dedra Meero arrived to arrest him. Kleya infiltrated the hospital where Luthen was being held and detached the machines keeping him alive, ending Luthen’s life and ensuring that Dedra and the Imperials wouldn’t have the chance to learn any of the secrets he gave his life to protect.