Cleat was a human female who served the Alliance to Restore the Republic as a pilot. During the Attack on Lothal, she flew under the callsign Phoenix Four. Her life ended when Commander Vult Skerris, an Imperial pilot, used his TIE/D Defender Elite to shoot her down as she attempted to penetrate the blockade above the planet.
In 1 BBY, Cleat was a starfighter pilot for the Rebel Alliance and was known by the callsign Phoenix Four. In that year, she participated in a strike force of T-65B X-wing starfighters led by General Hera Syndulla that aimed to attack the Imperial Armory Complex along with the nearby fuel depot situated on Lothal. Upon the rebel strike team's emergence from hyperspace, Cleat commented that despite the Empire's superior numbers, the rebels possessed greater skill. Her sentiments were shared by Mart Mattin, another rebel pilot, and Chopper, Hera's C1-series astromech droid. She and her fellow pilots followed Hera's instructions to remain with their wingmates.
The rebels encountered Grand Admiral Thrawn's Seventh Fleet, which deployed TIE fighters to engage them. Acting on Hera's directives, Cleat and Phoenix Five pilot Duke moved to reduce the number of TIE fighters. Adhering to Hera's orders, Cleat and her wingman each destroyed a TIE fighter. Cleat urged Duke to maintain his pace. During the aerial battle, the skilled Imperial pilot Vult Skerris appeared in a TIE/D Defender Elite accompanied by two TIE fighters trailing Duke.
Cleat attempted to caution Duke, but Skerris swiftly shot him down. Skerris then shifted his focus to Cleat, targeting her X-wing and disabling one of its engines. Via the comlink, Cleat reported a loss of control. Hera instructed Cleat to perform a scissor maneuver to the right, allowing Hera to intercept. Before Cleat could execute the maneuver, Skerris launched a second laser blast at the X-wing's engines. This resulted in the explosion of Cleat's starfighter, leading to her demise. Ultimately, Thrawn's forces decimated Hera's strike team, and Hera herself was captured after a crash landing in Capital City. Cleat's sacrifice, however, proved valuable as Hera and her fellow Spectres successfully destroyed the Lothal City fuel depot, which also inflicted damage upon the Imperial factory and halted TIE/D Defender production on Lothal.
Cleat, a female human with fair skin, was a proficient T-65B X-wing starfighter pilot. She held the belief that the Rebel Alliance's starfighter pilots surpassed the TIE fighter pilots of the Empire, despite their numerical disadvantage. This confidence proved to be ill-founded when she was ambushed by Vult Skerris, the Imperial ace pilot, flying his TIE/D Defender Elite.
Cleat's debut occurred in "Rebel Assault," the ninth episode of the fourth season of Star Wars Rebels. Anna Graves, who also provided the voices for Satine Kryze and Sugi in Star Wars: The Clone Wars, voiced her.