Rieekan had to make the difficult decision of evacuating the base that the men and women under his command had worked so hard to build.

In The Empire Strikes Back, General Rieekan was played by actor Bruce Boa, who also appeared in an episode of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles.

Rieekan was off-planet, inspecting a new satellite transmission system in far orbit around the planet Delaya when the Death Star obliterated his home.