Powerful and influential, Rhys was a prominent figure in galactic politics and the Galactic Empire itself. Secretly, however, he was a prominent member of the Vigilant Movement, and rumored to be its leader. In 7 ABY, Valak came crashing down on the Vigilant Movement, and Rhys was one of the Imperials who was hit the hardest. It was believed he was killed by agents of COMPNOR and the Imperial military, and for the most part this was true, as Rhys had entered into a coma and kept under the care of Kartijan Lore of FineLine Spaceways.