Ebann Drake was a male human arms dealer operating on Kaderin, heading up an arms-smuggling operation. He had a familial connection to Lady Domina Tagge of the Tagge Corporation, whose organization had clandestine dealings with Drake. Drake received an invitation to participate in what he described as a remarkable prospect, mentioning the event to Tagge, but communication ceased after his departure on the opulent starship Opal Empress. Consequently, Tagge dispatched Doctor [Chelli Aphra](/article/chelli_lona_aphra], a renegade archaeologist, along with the smuggler Sana Starros, to locate Drake and determine the nature of the opportunity, intending to capitalize on it should her relative fail. Upon their arrival on the Opal Empress, Aphra and Starros discovered that Drake, along with the other individuals onboard, had met their death at the hands of cymotes, a type of parasites.