General Ristt was a Human male who served the Rebel Alliance as the ranking officer at an asteroid field base at some point between 0 BBY and 1 ABY. When the Rebel-allied smugglers Han Solo and Chewbacca returned late to the base from a mission to retrieve the mystical Talisman artifact, Ristt aided a communications officer in establishing video contact with their freighter, and subsequently watched in horror as the ship narrowly avoided colliding with the base before speeding away. Fellow rebel Luke Skywalker went on to retrieve Solo and Chewbacca from the moon Panna Prime, and Ristt later appeared in a cartoon created about the day's events.