Garazeb Orrelios

The planet Lasan was the place of birth for Garazeb Orrelios. During his childhood, a creature in an underground cave attacked a friend of his. His friend's brother rescued his friend by attacking the creature, but was never seen again. Later, Zeb was chosen to become a member of the Honor Guard of Lasan, where he underwent extensive combat and military training, and also received his Bo-rifle, the signature weapon of the Honor Guard. As a Captain, he was responsible for protecting the Royal family of Lasan and the Lasat people. This all changed when the Galactic Empire used T-7 ion disruptor rifles to devastate Lasan, wiping out almost all of his people, including his family, with the exception of his grandmother. He continued to fight, holding off the Imperials from the royal palace until a bomb exploded, leaving Orrelios to awaken among the ruins of his people and retreat with the other survivors.

These events instilled in Zeb a profound hatred for the Empire. He suffered nightmares of Imperials disintegrating his people. Following the massacre on Lasan, Orrelios considered himself as good as dead until Kanan Jarrus, a surviving Jedi, found him. Later, at the age of thirty-nine, Orrelios joined the Spectres rebel cell, dedicating himself to their struggle against the Empire. By 4 BBY, this small rebel group, operating mainly on Lothal, included Jarrus, Hera Syndulla, the Twi'lek captain of their ship, Sabine Wren, a Mandalorian teenager, and C1-10P, an astromech droid. The Spectres operated from the Ghost, a VCX-100 light freighter that also had an auxiliary ship called the Phantom. At some point, Orrelios became friends with Mindiz, a young girl whose parents were taken away for attempting to prevent the Empire from seizing their land.

On one assignment on Lothal, Garazeb Orrelios had to meet Kanan in an alley in Capital City of Lothal. Zeb went to the wrong alley and discovered two Stormtroopers bothering an Ugnaught vendor and his astromech droid. Zeb defended the Ugnaught, which led to a fight with several stormtroopers and Valen Rudor, a TIE fighter pilot known as Baron. In their eagerness to defeat Zeb, they accidentally destroyed a TIE fighter. Zeb emerged from the wreckage and met the grateful Ugnaught vendor, who offered him credits as a reward. Zeb declined, instead asking for one of the vendor's fruits. Kanan was annoyed by Zeb's brief conflict with the Imperials, upset that Zeb was late and had stirred up unnecessary trouble.

Later, Zeb, along with Kanan Jarrus and Sabine Wren, stole Imperial crates containing blasters in Lothal's Capital City. However, Ezra Bridger stole their goods and escaped on a stolen speeder bike, causing Zeb and Kanan to chase him. Under Kanan's orders, he evaded the pursuit. Zeb said he would end Ezra if Kanan caught him. Zeb and his fellow Rebels gathered on the Ghost and picked up Ezra as he was being chased by TIE fighters. Zeb and the young stowaway did not get along from the start. Zeb had him thrown into the ship's closet after Ezra made fun of his body odor.

Zeb and the Rebels escaped their Imperial pursuers and returned to Lothal, where they landed near Lothal re-settlement camp 43, known as "Tarkintown" by the locals, named after Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin. It was home to farmers who had lost their farmlands to the Empire. After selling the stolen blasters to Cikatro Vizago, a Devaronian crime lord, the rebels used the money to buy food for the residents of Tarkintown. When Ezra opened his crate, a Rodian approached him, put his hand on his shoulder, and thanked him. From Vizago, the rebels also obtained the flight plan for an Imperial Gozanti-class cruiser carrying Wookiee prisoners. When Ezra gatecrashed their meeting by falling through the ship's air duct, Zeb and the ship's astromech droid C1-10P voted to get rid of the boy, whom the former called a "Loth-rat." However, the other crew members disagreed, and Ezra was allowed to stay.

As planned, Zeb and the rebels docked with the Imperial Gozanti cruiser, pretending that Governor Wilhuff Tarkin had ordered them to transfer a Wookiee captive. As part of the mission, Zeb pretended to be a "rare hairless Wookiee" to allow the rebels to board the ship. However, Zeb was unwilling to give the Imperials a chance to believe his ruse and knocked them unconscious after a few seconds of silence. Unfortunately, Zeb and the Rebels were unaware that they were walking into a trap until Ezra warned them. When Agent Alexsandr Kallus captured Ezra, Zeb regretfully abandoned him so they could escape, but not before telling Ezra he did good. However, Zeb's rebel companions were displeased with his actions towards Ezra and voted to rescue the young human.

Zeb and his rebel companions infiltrated the Imperial Star Destroyer Lawbringer and rescued Ezra, who had already escaped his detention cell. During their reunion in the Star Destroyer's hangar bay, Zeb mistook Ezra for a stormtrooper because of his stolen Imperial helmet and punched him in the head. After a brief blaster fight with Agent Kallus and his stormtroopers (in which Sabine shut off the artificial gravity for two minutes), the rebels escaped aboard the Ghost. Following their escape from the Star Destroyer, Zeb informed his fellow rebels that the Wookiees were being transported to the mining world of Kessel. The rebels then traveled to Kessel to rescue the Wookiees.

The Ghost slipped through Kessel's orbital security and landed at the mining platform where the Wookiee slaves were disembarking. While Hera and Chopper remained aboard the Ghost and dodged TIE fighters, Zeb and the other rebels landed on the platform and freed the slaves. The rebels were quickly attacked by stormtroopers led by Agent Kallus, who had followed them to Kessel. During the skirmish, Kanan revealed his Jedi identity by using his lightsaber to deflect blaster bolts. Meanwhile, Zeb and Sabine herded the Wookiees into an empty shipping container while Ezra rescued Kitwarr, the Wookiee cub who was the son of the Wookiee leader Wullffwarro. During this, Wullffwarro was shot trying to help Kitwarr. The Ghost extracted the shipping container with the freed Wookiees and the rebels. Following their mission, the Ghost traveled to Lothal to return Ezra. Before Ezra disembarked, Ezra stole Kanan's lightsaber, intending to keep it as a souvenir. However, Kanan convinced Ezra to become his Jedi Padawan and join their crew.

Running low on supplies and fuel, Zeb and the crew of the Ghost reluctantly accepted a mission from the Devaronian crime lord Vizago to steal a cargo shipment from Maketh Tua, the Imperial Minister. During this mission, Zeb and his rebel companions Kanan, Ezra, Sabine, and Chopper boarded shuttle ST-45, a Star Commuter 2000, to the nearby planet of Garel. Traveling undercover, Zeb pretended to be Sabine's ward. Imperial Minister Tua was also aboard the shuttle, negotiating the arrangement with Amda Wabo, an Aqualish arms dealer. Because Wabo could only speak in his native tongue, Lothal's minister borrowed C-3PO, Senator Bail Organa's's protocol droid, along with his counterpart astromech, R2-D2 to translate the deal.

As the ship entered hyperspace, Bridger and Chopper started a ruckus, causing Jarrus to request that the astromech droid be moved to the back of the shuttle. The pilot complied, but in retaliation Bridger demanded that Tua's droids be sent to the back as well. Despite her protest, the droids were ordered to go back, leaving the minister without an interpreter. Zeb then offered Sabine's services as a translator which Tua gladly accepted. Sabine found out from Wabo that the cargo shipment was located on Garel's Hangar Bay Seven but misled Tua into believing that it was in Hangar Bay Seventeen. After disembarking on Garel, Zeb and his rebel companions headed to Bay Seven where they found their cargo shipment.

Much to Zeb's horror, the shipment turned out to be T-7 ion disruptor rifles: weapons that were banned by the Imperial Senate because they could short-circuit an entire ship or vehicle. However, Zeb disputed the official reason for the ban, knowing that these weapons had helped destroy his species. Before the Spectres could load the dangerous contraband into the Ghost, which was docked in nearby Hangar Bay Eight, the rebels were confronted by Minister Tua, Wabo, C-3PO, R2-D2, and several stormtroopers. While Zeb held back the Imperials with his bo-rifle, Ezra, Kanan, and Sabine loaded the T-7 rifles into the Ghost. During the skirmish, the two droids C-3PO and R2-D2 fled aboard the Ghost and became unwilling passengers for a short period.

While traveling through hyperspace, Zeb was despondent because of the role that the T-7 ion rifles had played in the destruction of his homeworld Lasan. Kanan's plan to sell the rifles to Vizago did little to mollify the Lasat, who retreated to his cabin and locked the door. While Ezra was initially angry at Zeb for locking out of his shared room, he came to understand the Lasat's despondency when Hera told him about the role that these weapons had played in the destruction of Lasan. Unknown to Zeb, his actions on Garel had attracted the attention of an old adversary: Agent Kallus, the Imperial officer who had ordered the deployment of T-7 rifles on Lasan. The crew of the Ghost traveled to Lothal with the intention of selling the T-7 rifles to Vizago. Not knowing that the Spectres were friends of his master, C-3PO inadvertently revealed their location to Agent Kallus, who assembled a force to apprehend the rebel band.

Before Zeb and his companions could complete their transaction with Vizago, Agent Kallus arrived with a platoon of stormtroopers and two AT-DP walkers. Following the arrival of the walkers, Vizago fled with half the shipment of T-7's, refusing to pay. During the ensuing battle, Zeb was challenged by Agent Kallus, who unveiled a stolen bo-rifle. Zeb was enraged as the hallowed weapon was a badge of honor for members of the Lasan Honor Guard, who were also the only ones permitted to carry them, and viciously attacked the Imperial. Kallus revealed that not only had he personally murdered the Honor Guardsman whose bo-rifle he held, he had also taken part in the genocide of the Lasat species and given the order for the disruptors to be used, if possible making Zeb even more furious. Utilizing his emotion-laden attacks, Kallus soon gained the upper hand over the Lasat. Before Kallus could finish him off, Zeb was saved by Ezra who used the Force to push Kallus away from him. As a result of Ezra's actions, Zeb developed a better rapport with the young human. During the fighting, the rebels managed to destroy the T-7 disruptors and escape their Imperial pursuers. Following their escape, the crew of the Ghost rendezvoused with Senator Bail Organa and returned C-3PO and R2-D2 to their rightful owner. In return for destroying the T-7 disruptors, Senator Organa paid Spectres several credits to help them cover their living expenses.

After the T-7 disruptors incident, Ezra and Zeb got into a fight. Hera punished them by sending them into town to pick up supplies and told them not to come back without at least one meiloorun fruit. They found some but they had already been sold to the Empire. After failing to acquire them with the Force, Ezra tried to steal them, only to be spotted by troopers. While fleeing, the two rebels were separated, and Zeb found himself cornered by two stormtroopers and Valen Rudor, the TIE fighter pilot whom he had encountered earlier. During a brief skirmish, Zeb leaped into the TIE fighter and tossed the pilot out, taking it for his own. He saw Ezra running from troopers on the rooftops and allowed him to board the starfighter in return for Ezra saving him from Agent Kallus earlier. Zeb and Ezra then flew the TIE fighter into the surrounding countryside.

Once on board the vessel, the two contacted Syndulla and Jarrus, who ordered them to destroy the small ship and proceed to the rebel rendezvous point. Before doing so, Bridger asked Orrelios to check on Morad Sumar's freshly destroyed farm and to help him free the prisoners. After a small confrontation, the pair saved Sumar and two other prisoners from Yogar Lyste, and retrieved a meiloorun fruit. Afterwards, they hid the stolen TIE fighter, but claimed to have destroyed it to Jarrus and Syndulla's approval. Back aboard the Ghost, Wren showed them her new work of art, depicting Chopper's prank.

Later, Zeb and Chopper were present during one of Ezra Bridger's Jedi training lessons on the hull of the Ghost high above Lothal's atmosphere. Both were assigned the job of hurling blue milk cartons and rocks for Ezra to deflect with Jarrus Kanan's lightsaber. Distracted, Ezra was unable to pay attention to Kanan's lesson and fell from the Ghost. Ezra was rescued by Kanan who used the Force to hold him place in mid-air while Zeb fastened a hook and pulled him back into the ship. Following Ezra's lesson, Zeb and the other Ghost crew heard a broadcast by the dissident Senator Gall Trayvis that the Jedi Master Luminara Unduli was imprisoned in the Stygeon system. Unknown to the rebel band, Trayvis was working for the Empire and had planted the information to lure the rebels into a trap.

While Chopper and Hera waited aboard the Ghost and its auxiliary vessel the Phantom, Zeb, Sabine, Ezra, and Kanan infiltrated the Spire, the Imperial prison where Luminara was reputed to be held. Part of the infiltration plan involved Ezra riding piggyback on Zeb as they leapt onto the sentry's platform in order to avoid arousing the Imperial stormtrooper sentries. Seeking to prove his abilities, Ezra disobeyed Kanan's orders and jumped onto the platform and collided with the heavy blast door in the process. This aroused the Imperial sentries and the rebels were forced to fight them. During this skirmish, the Lasat warrior knocked two stormtroopers unconscious by smashing their heads together. Kanan eliminated the other two troopers by using the Force to hurtle them into the door.

After incapacitating the sentries, Zeb and the other three rebels headed down a turbolift to Luminara's isolation cell, which was situated at the bottom of the prison complex. On the way, they encountered two more stormtrooper sentries whom Zeb quickly knocked unconscious and dragged into the turbolift. While Zeb and Sabine guarded the lift, Kanan and Ezra entered the detention block complex to look for Master Luminara. They found Luminara's cell only to discover that she was already dead and were subsequently attacked by the Grand Inquisitor, a Force-sensitive agent of the Empire tasked with hunting and destroying Jedi. While the Jedi were gone, Sabine discovered that they had stumbled into a trap. To delay Imperial reinforcements, Zeb and Sabine jammed the turbolifts.

After a brief duel, Ezra and Kanan reunited with Zeb and Sabine. Together, the four rebels made their way to their new escape point: the Spire's landing platform. During their escape, Zeb and his rebel companions were forced to dodge closing blast doors and the pursuing Inquisitor, who was armed with a double-bladed lightsaber. Zeb narrowly escaped death at the hands of the Inquisitor's lightsaber blade. The rebels then fled into an empty hangar bay, and Zeb delayed the Inquisitor by jamming the hangar bay's blast doors. Before the Inquisitor could hack through the blast door, Ezra and Kanan used the Force to open the hangar bay's outer doors. However, the rebels were then trapped between the Inquisitor and several stormtroopers and TIE fighter pilots who were waiting outside the hangar bay.

During the ensuing skirmish, Zeb threw a thermal detonator at the Imperial troops, which enabled Hera to land in the Phantom and extract them. The rebels' escape from The Spire was also aided by the arrival of a large swarm of tibidees, broad-winged creatures that resembled kites. Hera won over these winged creatures by using the Phantom's signal jammer to mimic their mating call. These tibidees made it hard for the Imperial cannons to target the Phantom. During their flight, Zeb also fired on an Imperial gun turret. The Inquisitor also attempted to stop the rebels by hurling his lightsaber at them, but Kanan deflected its blow. After the Inquisitor retrieved his weapon, Zeb asked Kanan whether his lightsaber could spin in the same way as the Inquisitor's one. Zeb and his rebel companions returned to the Ghost and escaped into space. Despite their failure to rescue Luminara, Zeb conceded that the rebels had made sure that no other Jedi fell into the Inquisitor's trap.

Later on, Ezra Bridger managed to get inside the Academy for Young Imperials located on Lothal. His goal was to steal a decoder that contained the location of a powerful kyber crystal. During this operation, Zeb, Sabine, and Chopper were on the lookout for him. While Chopper, disguised as an Imperial astromech droid, infiltrated the Academy, Zeb and Sabine remained outside, ready to evacuate Ezra after he completed his mission. With the help of a fellow Cadet, Zare Leonis, Ezra successfully stole the decoder from Agent Kallus' office. This information allowed Hera and Kanan to intercept and destroy an Imperial convoy that was transporting the crystal. After the rebels used the decoder, they arranged to give it to Leonis' girlfriend, Merei Spanjaf, who needed it to break into the Imperial data network and find Zare's sister, Dhara Leonis.

However, their plans to get Ezra out were delayed. Ezra and Zare discovered that another cadet, Jai Kell, had shown an aptitude for the Force, drawing the attention of the Inquisitor. After convincing Jai to escape with them, Ezra persuaded Zeb and the other rebels to launch a diversionary attack on the Academy the next day. As planned, Zeb, along with Sabine and Chopper, attacked the academy. This allowed Ezra and Kell to escape using an AT-DP. However, Zare chose to stay behind to find out where his sister Dhara was. He later found out that she had been taken by the Inquisitor for a secret Imperial project known as Project Harvest.

As the Ghost traveled through space, Zeb got into an argument with Ezra and Chopper. This disagreement distracted them from performing a diagnostic scan on the Ghost's auxiliary vessel, the Phantom. As a result, they failed to notice a fuel leak on the Ghost's engine. This oversight left Hera Syndulla and Sabine Wren stranded on Fort Anaxes, a remote asteroid base previously used by the Grand Army of the Republic during the Clone Wars. During their journey to Fort Anaxes, Hera and Sabine were attacked by fyrnocks, predators with silicon-based bodies. With great difficulty, Hera and Sabine managed to escape the fyrnocks with the assistance of the rest of the Ghost's crew.

During Empire Day, Zeb and the other rebels visited a cantina in Lothal's Capital City. At that time, the Rodian Tseebo, who was employed by the Imperial Information Office, had disappeared, leading the Imperial authorities to begin a search. Zeb was present at the cantina when three TIE fighter pilots entered and briefly confronted a Rodian customer. They released him after determining that he was not Tseebo. During the Empire Day celebrations that evening, the Ghost's crew decided to destroy a new TIE Advanced v1 prototype that was on display for the public on Lothal. While Kanan placed a thermal detonator on the TIE's repulsorlift platform, Zeb and Sabine created a distraction for the Imperials by setting off colorful fireworks.

After the destruction of the TIE Advanced fighter, Zeb went to the Old Market in Capital City to meet up with Syndulla, while the other rebels hid in Ezra's former family home. Zeb's large size prevented him from fitting inside. While hiding in the house, the rebels discovered Tseebo, who had known Ezra's parents and had decided to leave the Empire. He was wearing a cybernetic headset that contained valuable information about Imperial military projects and the Empire's five-year plan for Lothal. Later, Zeb met up with Hera and Chopper, and they took off in the Ghost. They then rendezvoused with Kanan and the other rebels, who had escaped with Tseebo in a stolen Imperial Troop Transport. They were pursued by another troop transport piloted by Agent Kallus, who was determined to recapture Tseebo and the rebels.

During a brief ground fight, Zeb fired his bo-rifle at Agent Kallus, causing him to lose his footing and fall off his transport. After rescuing their comrades and Tseebo, the Ghost escaped into space, pursued by a squadron of TIE fighters led by the Inquisitor in his TIE Advanced fighter. During this chase, Chopper was hit by laser fire, forcing Zeb to take his place at the rear gun turret. After a long pursuit, the Ghost jumped into hyperspace. Unbeknownst to them, the Inquisitor had attached an XX-23 S-thread tracker to the Ghost's auxiliary vessel, the Phantom. Later, Zeb remained on the Ghost with the other crew and Tseebo, while Kanan and Ezra departed on the Phantom for the asteroid base PM-1203 to draw the Inquisitor away from the Ghost. Zeb was present when Tseebo was picked up by an Alderaanian blockade runner that took him into hiding. After Ezra completed his Jedi trials, Zeb and the other crew members were there when the young Jedi apprentice revealed his new lightsaber.

One day, Orrelios and the Spectres traveled to Tarkintown to distribute crates of fruits. The Lasat was happy to see his friend Mindiz again, but after the girl took a bite of jogan fruit, she suddenly collapsed. When it became clear that the crates had been poisoned, Orrelios decided to raid the medical facility of the Imperial Complex on his own. However, it turned out to be a trap set by Agent Kallus, and the Lasat found himself at the mercy of his archenemy. Fortunately, the other Spectres came to his rescue just in time and obtained an antidote for the Tarkintown settlers.

Later, Zeb, Kanan, and Chopper visited Old Jho's Pit Stop on Lothal, where they encountered the "galactic entrepreneur" Lando Calrissian. Running low on funds, Zeb decided to bet on Chopper during a game of sabacc with Calrissian, which Calrissian won. As a result, Calrissian became the owner of Chopper. Zeb's reckless action angered Hera, who considered Chopper a member of her crew. To get Chopper back, Lando forced the crew of the Ghost to help him with a risky smuggling operation. This involved trading Hera to the crime lord Azmorigan in exchange for a puffer pig, which Calrissian intended to use to locate valuable minerals. The Empire had restricted the sale of puffer pigs to prevent competition from private entrepreneurs like Calrissian. After overpowering Azmorigan, Hera escaped the crime lord's vessel in an escape pod, and the Spectres returned to Lothal, where Calrissian owned a piece of land.

During the journey, Zeb and Ezra caused some trouble on the Ghost by accidentally releasing the puffer pig, which caused chaos on the ship. After escaping several TIE fighters, the Ghost landed at Calrissian's estate with his valuable cargo. However, Azmorigan and his henchmen had already arrived at the homestead, seeking revenge against Calrissian and his associates. A blaster fight erupted between the Spectres and Azmorigan's henchmen. During the battle, Azmorigan briefly took Zeb hostage, attempting to force the rebels to hand over Calrissian. However, Chopper rescued Zeb by firing the Ghost's cannon at Azmorigan, scaring the gangster. The Spectres then forced Azmorigan and his henchmen to flee empty-handed. Following their adventure with Calrissian, Chopper stole several of Calrissian's fuel canisters, which the smuggler conceded as payment to the Spectres for their assistance.

Zeb, along with Sabine and Chopper, participated in one of Ezra's Jedi training sessions. Kanan was teaching Ezra to use his lightsaber to deflect blaster stun shots from Zeb, Sabine, and Chopper towards a target: a stormtrooper helmet placed on a rock. During the training, Ezra experienced a vision of them fighting alongside the outspoken dissident Senator-in-exile Gall Trayvis, whose broadcasts had boosted the Spectres' morale. After the training session, the crew of the Ghost intercepted a transmission from the Senator praising the Spectres and instructing them to meet at the Lothal City Capitol Building on Lothal. Unbeknownst to the Spectres, this meeting was a trap set by Agent Kallus, and Senator Trayvis was actually working for the Empire.

Suspecting something was amiss, Zeb and his rebel companions decided to contact Merei Spanjaf, the girlfriend of Ezra's cadet friend Zare Leonis. Using the alias Spectre-4, Zeb contacted Merei via comlink and asked her to help them get in touch with Leonis. Merei warned Zeb that they could not contact Leonis electronically because the Empire had begun monitoring all Imperial Academy communications. Facing her own troubles, she angrily warned Zeb to leave Zare alone, as they were putting him in danger. Zeb responded that he and his comrades faced danger every day. Merei then suggested that Zeb send Chopper to contact Leonis. The crew of the Ghost disguised Chopper as an Imperial astromech droid and sent him to contact Leonis at the Imperial Academy. Thanks to Chopper's efforts, Leonis was able to meet Ezra in the marketplace and inform him that the Empire was planning a large security operation at the Lothal City Capitol Building that night.

In response, the Spectres decided to sneak into the building through the sewers to warn Senator Trayvis. While Chopper guarded the manhole, Zeb and the other rebels entered the sewers. Once inside the Senate Building, the rebel group split up, with Zeb and Sabine going one way and Ezra, Kanan, and Hera going the other. Ezra, Kanan, and Hera managed to meet Senator Trayvis but were quickly surrounded by Agent Kallus and several stormtroopers. However, Zeb and Sabine threw smoke grenades, allowing the rebels to escape with Senator Trayvis. To evade their Imperial pursuers, they fled down the sewers and split into two groups. Zeb traveled with Sabine and Kanan, while Ezra and Hera accompanied the fugitive senator. Senator Trayvis then revealed his true allegiance and attempted to kill Ezra and Hera. However, Hera quickly overpowered him. Zeb and his rebel comrades exited the sewers after Kanan used the Force to temporarily stop a large circular fan. After reuniting with Chopper at the manhole, they fled back to the Ghost.

The Spectres' activities on Lothal eventually caught the attention of Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin, who decided to implement a final solution to the rebel problem there. Following their encounter with Senator Trayvis, Zeb participated in Kanan's plan to seize control of the Empire's main communications tower on Lothal. The rebels wanted to transmit a broadcast to counter Imperial propaganda that portrayed them negatively. As part of the plan, Sabine and Zeb drove their speeder bikes past the stormtroopers and took control of the anti-aircraft guns. While Sabine distracted the Imperial stormtroopers by ramming her speeder bike into a gun turret, Zeb hijacked another gun turret and destroyed the third remaining gun turret. Sabine and Zeb's actions allowed Kanan, Ezra, and Chopper to enter the communications tower. Chopper uploaded a data spike into the tower's central computer, which would allow Kanan to broadcast his message to the galaxy. Unbeknownst to the Spectres, Tarkin and Agent Kallus had planned to trap them in the communications tower.

Before Kanan could begin his broadcast, Agent Kallus and the Inquisitor entered the tower complex with a force of three patrol transports and two Imperial troop transports. Zeb shot down one of the gunships but was unable to stop the Imperial counterattack. While Kanan held back the Imperials, Zeb and the other rebels fled up the turbolift to the tower's summit to await their getaway transport, the Phantom, which Hera was piloting. The rebels were cornered by one of the patrol transports, but Sabine destroyed it with a grenade. Zeb and the other rebels then escaped aboard the Phantom and fled into space. However, they were unable to rescue Kanan, who was captured by the Imperials. Despite Kanan's capture, Ezra broadcast a message to Lothal and the surrounding systems before the tower was destroyed by Tarkin, who then blamed the rebels for destroying the tower.

Zeb and the other rebels were deeply saddened by Kanan's capture and were unhappy with Fulcrum and Hera's orders to sacrifice Kanan to avoid exposing the other rebel cells to the Imperial authorities. In their desperation, they hijacked an AT-DP walker in an attempt to access the Imperial network and find Kanan. However, their mission proved futile because the destruction of the communications tower had destroyed the Imperial communications network. Later, Zeb, along with Sabine and Chopper, assisted Ezra's second plan to rescue Kanan. Their plan involved "borrowing" the Phantom, the Ghost's auxiliary vessel, and visiting the Devaronian crime lord Vizago in the hope of finding a lead on Kanan's whereabouts. While Vizago could not provide them with any information about Kanan, he revealed that the Imperials were using courier droids to transport secure information due to the communication tower's destruction.

With Hera's approval, Ezra devised a plan to disguise Chopper as an Imperial courier droid and use him to infiltrate an Imperial computer. Zeb contributed to this plan by ambushing a squad of stormtroopers and kidnapping the courier droid 264. After Chopper had finished downloading files from an Imperial communications ship above Lothal, Zeb and the other rebel crew rescued him by launching a feint attack on the Imperial starship and extracting Chopper. As a result of this mission, the rebels discovered that Kanan was aboard Grand Moff Tarkin's Star Destroyer, the Sovereign, but that the vessel was scheduled to depart for the Mustafar system soon. Later, Zeb and his comrades stole an Imperial Gozanti-class cruiser and used it to travel to the Mustafar system. They hid the Ghost on Lothal to avoid attracting the attention of the Imperials, as the freighter had become familiar to Imperial authorities.

After Ezra sensed that Kanan was on Tarkin's Star Destroyer Sovereign, the Spectres pretended to transport several TIE fighters to the Star Destroyer. After Sabine used their stolen TIE fighter to disable the ship's technological systems, Zeb and his rebel comrades boarded the Sovereign and fought several stormtrooper reinforcements. Their distraction allowed Ezra to free Kanan, and together the two defeated the Inquisitor. During their duel, the Inquisitor's lightsaber fell into the ship's hyperdrive energy conduit, causing an explosion that destroyed the Star Destroyer. Zeb and his rebel comrades managed to escape the derelict vessel but were pursued by a swarm of Imperial TIE fighters. However, Zeb and his comrades were rescued by Chopper and the mysterious rebel leader Fulcrum, who marshaled a small force of rebel starships, including the Ghost, to destroy the TIE fighters. Later, Zeb and his companions discovered that Fulcrum was the pseudonym for the Clone Wars veteran and former Jedi Ahsoka Tano, who had become a key resistance leader in the growing rebellion.

Following Kanan's rescue, Zeb was contacted by the Ithorian tavern keeper Old Jho, who wanted to deliver a number of fugitives, including the poet and painter Holshef, the hacker Merei Spanjaf, her parents Gandri and Jessa, and the Leonises, for the rebels to hide. Since Zeb and his companions were unable to travel to Lothal, he arranged for Jho to deliver the fugitives in his freight hauler to the edge of the Garel system. From there, Zeb and the other crew of the Ghost picked up Merei and her companions before transporting them into hiding on the planet Garel.

After spiriting Merei and her companions into hiding, Zeb, along with Ezra Bridger and Sabine Wren, participated in a mission to rescue Zare Leonis, an old acquaintance who had helped the Spectres during an earlier mission to steal a decoder from Agent Kallus. While on a mission to find his missing sister Dhara Leonis, Zare had been transferred to the planet Arkanis, which hosted a secret facility called Area Null that housed several secret Imperial programs, including Project Harvester. While training as a cadet at the [Arkanis Academy](/article/arkanis_academy], Zare was exposed as a traitor and scheduled for execution. Merei had learned about Zare's predicament by using a fake ISB account to penetrate the Imperial data network on Lothal. She subsequently convinced Zeb and his companions to help rescue Zare.

Together with Merei and Jessa, Zeb and his companions traveled on the Ghost to Area Null. Since they had not obtained Hera Syndulla's permission to borrow the ship, the rebels agreed that they had to complete their mission quickly. After landing on the roof, they made their way downstairs, where they encountered Zare and another prisoner named Beck Ollet, who had already freed themselves. While Merei, Zare, and Beck went to free Dhara, Zeb and Sabine went to the main computer node to lock Imperial reinforcements out of the tower and the elevators. Meanwhile, Ezra guarded the roof so that the rebels could escape. Despite resistance from the local Imperial garrison, the rebels succeeded with their mission to rescue Zare and Dhara. They returned on the Ghost to Garel before Imperial TIE fighters could be scrambled.

Following Kanan's rescue in the Mustafar system, Zeb and his fellow rebels learned that they were part of a larger rebellion against the Galactic Empire. The Spectres also joined the Phoenix Cell and participated in a mission to steal shield generators from an Imperial convoy. In response to the increased rebel activity on Lothal, Darth Sidious dispatched his apprentice Darth Vader to deal with them. Later, Zeb took part in a mission on Lothal to extract the defecting Imperial Minister Maketh Tua, who had become disillusioned with the Empire. While the other rebels went to meet Tua, Zeb and Chopper guarded the rebels' getaway transport, a Star Commuter 2000 shuttle. However, Agent Kallus had already learned about Tua's defection and arranged for her death in a shuttle explosion, which he blamed on the Spectres. The rebels fled, but their shuttle was shot down by Imperial forces.

After escaping an Imperial attack on their safe house, Ezra's former home, Zeb and his companions infiltrated the Imperial Headquarters in Lothal's Capital City. While Kanan and Ezra impersonated a stormtrooper and Imperial cadet, Zeb and the other crew hid in the crates that the former were delivering. The Spectres then encountered Darth Vader at the Imperial headquarters' starport. Following a fierce confrontation, the rebels escaped Lothal with the help of their old friend Lando Calrissian. Following the events on Lothal, the rebels reached a consensus that they could not return to the planet to avoid endangering its inhabitants. Unbeknownst to the Spectres, Darth Vader had placed a tracking device on their shuttle with the intention of "killing two birds with one stone" by eliminating both the Spectres and the Phoenix rebel fleet. Zeb and his rebel comrades escaped Darth Vader's assault on the Phoenix Fleet. However, the Phoenix rebels lost their flagship Phoenix Home, which was heavily damaged by Vader's TIE Advanced x1 starfighter.

Following the near-destruction of the Phoenix rebel fleet, the rebel network faced a shortage of bases and facilities. Ahsoka Tano sent Zeb and his companions to meet with an old friend on the desert world of Seelos, who might know where to find such bases. Upon arriving in the Seelos system, the Ghost sustained damages. While Hera and Chopper remained to fix the ship, Rex and the others went down to the planet in the Phantom. There, they discovered that this friend was the former Clone Captain Rex, who lived in an antiquated AT-TE walker with fellow clone veterans Wolffe and Gregor.

After a brief misunderstanding, Ezra diffused the conflict by convincing Rex that Ahsoka had sent them. Rex welcomed Zeb and his companions as allies and introduced his comrades Wolffe and Gregor. Following some discussion, the clones agreed to give the rebels a list of abandoned bases in exchange for their participation in a hunt for joopas, large wormlike creatures that lived beneath the sands of Seelos. Zeb agreed to hunt for the joopa while his fellow rebels and the clones watched from the AT-TE walker in tow. Then, Gregor sheepishly admitted to Wren, Jarrus, and Bridger that joopa loved the smell, taste, and texture of Lasat. When Ezra learned that Zeb was to also serve as the "bait," he tried to warn the Lasat. However, Zeb was quickly grabbed by the joopa and swallowed whole. The rebels and clones worked together to save Zeb and to kill the joopa. After Ezra ignited both of the shock sticks Rex gave him, and touched the energy beam, Big Bongo surfaced, and Rex shot him in the face.

Having honored their side of the bargain, Kanan wanted to leave, but Rex convinced the rebels to stay for dinner. While visiting the communications room, Sabine learned that Wolffe had secretly alerted the Empire to their presence and hidden Ahsoka's messages. When confronted by Rex, Wolffe admitted to his wrongdoing and argued that he had been trying to protect his friends from being punished by the Empire for harboring fugitives. Shortly thereafter, an Imperial probe droid attacked the Phantom and damaged the ship before it was destroyed by Rex.

While Zeb and his companions made preparations to leave on the Phantom, the three clones opted to stay behind to hold back the Imperials. A sandstorm coincided with the arrival of an Imperial force consisting of three AT-AT walkers led by Agent Kallus, a perennial foe of Zeb and the rebels. Despite being outnumbered and outgunned, the clones rode to battle against Kallus' walkers in their antiquated AT-TE walker. At the urging of Ezra, the rebels returned to assist the clones. Zeb, along with Kanan and Ezra, hijacked an AT-AT walker and used it to destroy Kallus' walker. After the Imperials had retreated, the clones agreed to join the rebellion.

Following the events that transpired on Seelos, the Rebel alliance successfully obtained Rex's compilation of Republic bases and installations that were no longer in use. Hera dispatched Zeb, accompanied by Sabine, Chopper, and Ezra, on an assignment to retrieve a collection of medical supplies from a medical space station that had been used by the Old Republic. They made their way to the abandoned medical facility aboard the Phantom. Once they had arrived, Chopper activated the space station's power, enabling the rebels to pinpoint the location of the supplies. Unbeknownst to the rebels, the Seventh Sister, an Inquisitor, was lying in wait for them. She deployed her ID9 seeker droids to keep tabs on their movements and to disable Chopper.

As Zeb and the others explored the medical station, they picked up on Chopper's distress signal. Ezra and Sabine ascended a ventilation shaft. Zeb attempted to follow, but his large Lasat frame prevented him from passing through. Simultaneously, the Seventh Sister and her seeker droids launched an attack on Ezra and Sabine. Sabine managed to evade capture, but Ezra was apprehended by the Seventh Sister and another Inquisitor known as the Fifth Brother. Wren eventually found her way back to the ventilation shaft and successfully freed Zeb. Sabine then recounted their confrontation with the two Inquisitors. Zeb proposed alerting Kanan, but Sabine countered that doing so would allow the Imperials to trace their signals and pinpoint the fleet's location. Ultimately, Zeb and Sabine resolved to rescue Ezra and Chopper.

Utilizing his abilities with the Force, the Fifth Brother proceeded to track down Sabine and Zeb. Despite the rebels deploying thermal detonators, Sabine was unable to activate them. The Fifth Brother then used the Force to hurl the detonators back at the two rebels. Although they both survived the blast, Sabine was captured by the Fifth Brother. Zeb succeeded in destroying the Fifth Brother's seeker droids and recovered the medical supplies they had been searching for. The Lasat also located a damaged Chopper and carried him, along with the medical supplies, back to the Phantom. Determined to rescue Ezra and Sabine, Zeb initially considered confronting the two Inquisitors head-on with his bo-rifle but instead devised an alternative plan.

Employing the Phantom's communication system, Zeb impersonated "Commander Meiloorun" and contacted Sabine and Wren, offering them assistance. The Inquisitors fell for the ruse and advanced towards the hangar bay with their prisoners, intending to face "Commander Meiloorun." However, Zeb had maneuvered the Phantom so that it was suspended upside down from the ceiling. When a seeker droid detected him, Zeb initiated a diversion, allowing Ezra and Sabine to break free from their captors and board the Phantom. Despite the Inquisitors' attempts to use their Force powers to seize the ship, the Phantom successfully escaped into space with the entire team and the majority of the medical supplies. Upon their return to the Phoenix fleet, Zeb and his comrades informed the other rebels about the presence of additional Inquisitors.

After the Phoenix fleet's failed attempt to overcome the Imperial blockade surrounding Ibaar, Zeb and the other members of the Ghost's crew participated in a mission to establish contact with Quarrie, a Mon Calamari engineer residing on the planet Shantipole. Quarrie had engineered a prototype heavy assault fighter known as the Blade Wing, which served as the foundation for the B-wing starfighter. Shantipole's atmosphere was unstable, making it dangerous for many space travelers. At Kanan's urging, Hera agreed to lead the mission. Zeb accompanied Hera and Sabine to Shantipole in the Phantom, while Kanan, Ezra, and Chopper used the Ghost to gather additional relief supplies for the Phoenix fleet's second attempt to breach the Imperial blockade.

While navigating through the canyons, Zeb identified Quarrie's landing field. Despite sustaining a lightning strike, Hera, with assistance from Quarrie, successfully landed the damaged Ghost. With Quarrie's consent, Hera piloted the Blade Wing starfighter during a test flight and determined that its combat capabilities would be instrumental in helping the rebels break the blockade around Ibaar. Zeb and his companions then journeyed to Ibaar aboard the newly repaired and modified Phantom, transporting the Blade Wing starfighter. During the second blockade run, Zeb and Sabine took control of the Phantom's helm, while Hera utilized the Blade Wing to destroy an Arquitens-class light cruiser. This allowed the Ghost, which was carrying the second shipment of supplies, to penetrate the blockade and deliver aid to the people of Ibaar.

Later on, Zeb and his Ghost crewmates intercepted a distress signal from Commander Jun Sato, whose CR90 corvette, the Liberator, had been forcibly removed from hyperspace and captured by an Imperial Interdictor, a newly developed warship equipped with gravity well projectors. When Kanan called for the Ghost's crew to prepare for a rescue operation, Hera, the Phoenix Leader, proposed an alternative plan that involved Kanan, Chopper, and Rex infiltrating the Imperial Interdictor to rescue Sato, Ezra, and the rest of the crew. Zeb played a role in this rescue plan by capturing two stormtroopers. After donning their armor, the three rebels traveled to the Imperial Interdictor aboard a stolen Sentinel-class landing craft. With Ezra's assistance, Kanan, Rex, and Chopper not only rescued the other rebels but also destroyed the Interdictor and two Imperial light cruisers.

Zeb, Kanan, Chopper, and Ezra later provided support to their Jedi ally, Ahsoka Tano, on a mission to investigate the activities of the Inquisitors. Tano had discovered that the Inquisitors had a secondary objective: abducting Force-sensitive infants. Ahsoka had also deciphered two sets of coordinates. While she investigated the first set, Zeb and the Ghost's crew explored the second set, which led them to Hammertown, a settlement located on the planet Takobo. After realizing that the coordinates corresponded to residences, Kanan instructed Zeb and Chopper to remain behind and monitor the spaceport for any signs of the Inquisitors. Meanwhile, he and Ezra proceeded to investigate the coordinates' locations.

After searching the spaceport for several hours, Zeb and Chopper came across two TIE Advanced v1 starfighters being guarded by an ID9 seeker droid, which they had previously encountered during an adventure on the abandoned Republic medical station. Zeb used his bo-rifle to destroy the seeker droid. While examining the starfighters, Zeb discovered Alora, a human infant who had been abducted by the Inquisitors during a prior expedition to the planet Chandel. After freeing the child, Zeb and Chopper used explosives to destroy the two TIEs.

Concurrently, Kanan and Ezra discovered that the Inquisitors had attempted to abduct Pypey, a Force-sensitive Ithorian child. However, Pypey's mother, Oora, had sent him away with a decoy droid. Kanan contacted Zeb and instructed him to locate the other child. Zeb then left Chopper to watch over Alora in the Phantom. Shortly thereafter, Zeb encountered the decoy droid and convinced it that he was there to help. The droid handed Pypey over to Zeb, and the Lasat began to make his way back to the spaceport. However, he was soon spotted by the Fifth Brother and the Seventh Sister, who pursued him to an apartment complex.

Zeb contacted Kanan via comlink to inform him of his new location. Zeb sought refuge in an apartment, where he was soon joined by Kanan and Ezra. Ezra's presence made Pypey uneasy, as the infant could sense his fear. As a result, the Inquisitors closed in on the rebels and began to probe their location with their lightsabers. Reluctant to deal with a crying infant, Zeb passed Pypey to Ezra. To evade the Inquisitors, the rebels separated. While Ezra and Pypey entered a ventilation shaft, Kanan and Zeb confronted the Inquisitors.

Eventually, Zeb and Kanan cornered the two Inquisitors, who were attempting to force Ezra out of the ventilation shaft by piercing the ceiling with their lightsabers. While Kanan engaged the Seventh Sister, Zeb attacked the Fifth Brother but was quickly overpowered by the Inquisitor. Unable to defeat the Inquisitors in combat, Zeb and Kanan jumped out the window and landed on a speeder. The Inquisitors followed them on another speeder and pursued the two rebels through the streets of Hammertown. Kanan managed to disable the Inquisitors' speeder with his bo-rifle, but the Fifth Brother used his lightsaber to disable the rebels' speeder.

Continuing on foot, Zeb and Kanan reunited with Ezra and Pypey outside the spaceport. However, the gates were locked, and they were once again cornered by the Inquisitors. The Inquisitors quickly overwhelmed Zeb and Kanan with their Force powers and demanded that Ezra hand over the child. Before the Inquisitors could finish their task, Ahsoka emerged and defeated the two Inquisitors in a lightsaber duel. While Ahsoka battled the Inquisitors, Zeb and the other rebels evacuated with Pypey aboard the Phantom. They rescued Ahsoka after she was surrounded by Imperial reinforcements, who had been summoned by the Inquisitors.

Before the Imperial attack on the rebel presence on Garel, Zeb and Chopper were shopping for supplies on the streets of Garel when Sabine informed them that they should return to the Ghost. Earlier that morning, Ezra had experienced a Force vision in which he saw his parents, Ephraim and Mira Bridger. Sabine had also learned that an Imperial fleet was departing from Lothal and feared that the Empire was preparing to attack Garel. Having not encountered any Imperial patrols, Zeb doubted that the Empire was planning to attack Lothal. However, Sabine explained that it was standard practice for the Empire to withdraw patrols before launching a major offensive.

Shortly thereafter, Zeb and Chopper were pursued by several Imperial stormtroopers. They fled back to the Ghost's spaceport hangar, where a gunfight erupted. During the gunfight, Zeb shot several stormtroopers, while Chopper sought cover behind a stack of crates. After evading Agent Kallus, the Fifth Brother, and the Seventh Sister, Zeb and his fellow rebels escaped aboard the Ghost. Once airborne, Zeb took control of the Ghost's rear turret and exchanged fire with several TIE starfighters. When Hera executed a risky maneuver to free Commander Sato's command ship, the Liberator, from a Star Destroyer's tractor beam projector, Zeb narrowly avoided being crushed against the projector. After escaping the Imperial fleet, the Ghost and the rest of the Phoenix Squadron jumped into hyperspace.

Following the escape from Garel, Zeb, Hera, and Sabine traveled to Lothal to meet with Princess Leia Organa, the daughter of Alderaanian Senator Bail Organa, who was secretly supporting the rebellion. Having learned about the Phoenix rebels' losses, Bail sent his daughter to provide the rebels with three Sphyrna-class Hammerhead corvettes. As the Alderaanians could not be seen directly aiding the rebels, Bail and Leia arranged for the rebels to steal the ships on Lothal, an Imperial-controlled world. The Ghost's crew arrived on Lothal amidst a skirmish between Kanan, Ezra, Chopper, Leia, and Imperial forces, who had attempted to arrest Chopper and Ryder Azadi, the former governor of Lothal and a fugitive who had befriended the rebels.

As Leia was still portraying herself as a "loyal" Imperial citizen and Kanan and Ezra were wearing Imperial uniforms, Zeb pretended to abduct Kanan and Ezra. Similarly, Ryder pretended to kidnap Leia. After escaping back aboard the Ghost, Zeb and his fellow rebels learned about the deaths of Ezra's parents and offered him their condolences. They then proceeded to discuss their plans to "steal" Leia's three Hammerhead corvettes. As Leia's ships were frequently "stolen" by rebel elements, Supply Master Yogar Lyste, the local Imperial official, had equipped the three corvettes with gravity locks to prevent future thefts.

To infiltrate the Imperial depot, Kanan and Ezra posed as Imperial personnel who claimed to have rescued Leia from the rebels. While the Imperials were distracted, the Ghost's crew and Ryder Azadi disabled the gravity locks and stole the starships. During the raid on the Imperial depot, Zeb and Hera manned the Ghost and harassed the depot's AT-AT walkers. The acquisition of the three Hammerhead corvettes bolstered the Phoenix Squadron's depleted forces. After completing their mission, Zeb and his comrades rejoined the Phoenix fleet in space.

Zeb and Ezra were present in the command room of the Liberator when the Ghost's crew received news of Hera and Sabine's unsuccessful mission to obtain permission from the Mandalorian Protectors for safe passage through the Concord Dawn system. However, Fenn Rau, the Protectors' leader, had allied the Protectors with the Empire and had attacked Hera's mission, destroying several RZ-1 A-wing interceptors. Hera sustained serious injuries during the attack and had to be hospitalized.

When Sabine suggested destroying the Protectors' Fang fighters on the third moon of Concord Dawn, Zeb and Ezra expressed their desire to accompany Kanan on the mission. However, Kanan insisted on only taking Chopper to avoid putting the other rebels at risk. Although Ezra and Zeb were disappointed, they followed Kanan's instructions. Despite Kanan's orders, Sabine joined the mission, determined to seek revenge against Rau. Ultimately, the mission was a success, and the rebels not only destroyed the Protectors' starfighters but also captured Rau.

After Ezra Bridger received information from Hondo Ohnaka, a Weequay pirate, about two refugees fleeing from the Empire, Zeb and the rest of the Ghost's crew traveled to Nixus Hub 218. There, they found Imperial forces arresting two Lasat refugees. Zeb and his fellow rebels attacked the stormtroopers and their commanding officer and rescued the two Lasat, who identified themselves as Gron, a former member of the Lasan Honor Guard, and Chava, a female mystic. They both immediately recognized Zeb as a former captain from the Honor Guard, a fact he had kept secret from his fellow rebels. Soon after, Hondo appeared and revealed that he was Ezra's secret informant.

With Imperial reinforcements likely to arrive, Zeb and the other rebels, along with the two Lasat, returned to the Ghost. While traversing the corridors of Hub 218, Gron and Chava revealed that they were traveling to Lira San, a legendary planet believed to be a safe haven for the Lasat species. Zeb dismissed the prophecy and expressed his skepticism about his species' future. Shortly thereafter, the rebels were pursued by more stormtroopers. Thanks to Hondo's intervention, the rebels were able to evade their Imperial pursuers and return to the Ghost with the Lasat refugees. Zeb and his companions then jumped into hyperspace aboard the Ghost.

After entering hyperspace, Chava informed the rebels that she knew the location of Lira San. To find it, Chava explained that the "child" of prophecy must first save "the warrior" and "the fool." Zeb assumed that he was the warrior and that Ezra was the child but was puzzled by the identity of the fool. When Chava began a ritual to guide them to Lira San, Zeb refused to participate and retreated to his quarters. Ezra left the ritual and spoke with Zeb, who confessed that he was grappling with the guilt of his perceived failure to protect his people and the Lasan royal family during the Siege of Lasan. Ezra comforted his friend by encouraging Zeb to protect his people once more by helping Chava and Gron find Lira San.

At Ezra's urging, Zeb agreed to participate in the ritual and assembled his bo-rifle in the traditional Lasat manner, allowing it to interact with Chava's staff. Once Chopper projected a holographic map of the galaxy, the bo-rifle generated a surge of energy that pointed to an uncharted region in Wild Space, an area beyond the Outer Rim Territories. Believing that the prophecy might be true, Hera and Sabine plotted a course using those coordinates. Upon exiting hyperspace, the Ghost encountered an imploded star cluster blocking their path to their destination. Chava quickly recognized this as the maze from the ancient Lasat prophecy.

The rebels' difficulties were compounded when Agent Kallus arrived with an Arquitens-class command cruiser. When Chava identified Kallus as the "warrior" from the prophecy, Zeb initially dismissed the idea due to his animosity towards the man who had played a role in Lasan's destruction. When Chava then clarified that everyone could fulfill the roles of warrior, fool, and child over time, Zeb realized that he had to shape his own destiny and that of the Lasat. Taking a leap of faith, Zeb used the power generated by his bo-rifle to guide the Ghost into the cluster and find Lira San. The Ghost entered the cluster but was miraculously unaffected by its gravitational pull. The Ghost's hyperdrive then automatically jumped into the center of the star cluster. Meanwhile, Agent Kallus was forced to withdraw after losing two TIE fighters and sustaining damage to his warship from the star cluster's gravitational pull.

During the jump into hyperspace, Zeb and his fellow rebels were enveloped by a blinding light and lost consciousness. When they awoke, they found themselves in uncharted space but soon spotted the planet Lira San. Zeb, Gron, and Chava then traveled on the Phantom to Lira San's surface while the other rebels remained behind. Upon landing on Lira San, Zeb and the other two Lasat discovered that the planet was inhabited by millions of Lasat and that Lira San was the Lasat species' original homeworld. Resolving to guide other surviving Lasat to Lira San and considering his fellow rebels as family, Zeb returned to the Ghost and shared the news with his rebel comrades. Using the route that Zeb had discovered through the star cluster, the rebels then plotted a safe course back into known space.

Zeb and his rebel companions later participated in a raid on a Mining Guild Asteroid Belt Gas Refinery to acquire fuel for the Ghost and the Phoenix Squadron. On their way, the Ghost encountered a group of purrgil, large creatures living in space that were capable of traveling through hyperspace. While Hera was wary of the enormous space creatures, Ezra believed that the purrgil did not pose a threat to the Ghost. The Ghost's crew came to the aid of the purrgil when two TIE/mg Mining Guild starfighters attacked the group. During the brief dogfight, Zeb was in the Phantom when Hera drained its power to allow Ezra and Kanan to shoot down the TIE fighters.

As they approached the gas refinery, the rebels quickly realized that the purrgil were seeking the Clouzon-36 gas being extracted there. Zeb and his fellow rebels also attended a briefing in the Ghost's cockpit before the raid on the asteroid refinery. As Zeb entered the room, he complained that the Ghost's doors were no longer automatic. During the briefing, Zeb listened as Sabine and Hera outlined their plans for the raid. Kanan, Ezra, Chopper, and Sabine would jump onto the refinery's bridge, detonate the facility, and secure the landing zone where several canisters of Clouzon-36 were awaiting pickup by the Empire.

While the other rebels took part in the raid, Zeb and Hera remained aboard the Ghost. After Ezra convinced the other rebels not to detonate the facility, Zeb and Hera were informed of the change in plans. At Sabine's request, they landed the Ghost on the gas refinery's platform. While Hera piloted the ship, Zeb manned the laser cannons. After landing, Zeb assisted Sabine and Chopper in moving the canisters onto the Ghost while Kanan and Ezra held off the Mining Guild guards. Zeb used one of the canisters to power up the Ghost.

Towards the end of the skirmish, Zeb and his fellow rebels were cornered by Yushyn, the Mining Guild Boss, several Rodian guards, and two TIE fighters. Fortunately for Zeb and his comrades, Ezra reappeared with several purrgil reinforcements, who overpowered the guards. This allowed the Ghost's crew to complete their refueling and reloading, and they departed into space. Before leaving, the Ghost destroyed the gas refinery to prevent it from falling into the Empire's hands. Later in space, Zeb and his fellow rebels were reunited with Ezra, who revealed that he had established a connection with the purrgil, who relied on Clouzon-36 for sustenance and for jumping into hyperspace. Zeb and his fellow rebels then followed the purrgil group through hyperspace.

Garazeb Orrelios and Hera participated in an operation to pilfer provisions from the Empire. During this undertaking, a Hammerhead corvette belonging to the rebel fleet transferred some supplies to the Ghost while being chased by an Imperial Star Destroyer. Once Zeb had completed the cargo loading, the rebel fleet initiated their jump to hyperspace. However, the A-wing starfighter of Phoenix Squadron pilot Phoenix Two suffered damage to its hyperdrive, leaving it stranded in space. Phoenix Two made an attempt to dock their starfighter with the Ghost's docking ring, but was struck by enemy fire. Before the Imperials could catch them, Zeb and Hera escaped into hyperspace.

The rebels were losing starfighters and pilots at such an alarming rate that they couldn't replace them fast enough. Therefore, the Ghost crew embarked on a mission to seize an Imperial fighter carrier observed orbiting Ryloth, the native world of the Twi'lek species. The Spectres required assistance, so Hera got in touch with her estranged father, Cham Syndulla, the leader of the Ryloth rebels. When Cham and his companions Numa and Gobi Glie met with them aboard the Ghost in deep space, Zeb and the other rebels were present.

Later, Zeb attended a briefing where Hera detailed her strategy to use a stolen TIE/sa bomber to infiltrate and hijack the fighter carrier. However, Cham disagreed with her plan and argued for destroying the carrier to demonstrate the strength of the Ryloth resistance. After some debate, Cham reluctantly agreed to help Hera's rebels steal the Imperial carrier. For this mission, Zeb and his fellow rebels journeyed to the Ryloth system aboard Cham's Nu-class attack/transport shuttle. After exiting hyperspace, the two rebel factions boarded their TIE bomber and made their way towards the fighter carrier.

Hera had arranged for two rebel A-wings to attack their TIE bomber, in order to deceive the Imperials into allowing them to land. The Imperials fell for this deception and permitted the rebels to land their stolen TIE bomber in a hangar bay. However, upon landing, Cham and his companions betrayed the Ghost crew and stunned them. They then proceeded to execute their original plan of destroying the fighter carrier. After recovering from the effects of being stunned, Zeb joined his fellow rebels in thwarting the Ryloth rebels' plot. While Hera, Kanan, Chopper, and Ezra headed to the ship's command bridge, Zeb and Sabine went to the munition racks to prevent Numa and Gobi from detonating their explosives.

Eventually, Zeb and Sabine encountered Numa and Gobi amidst a blaster fight with stormtroopers. After a struggle, Zeb and Sabine used a rigged mouse droid to trip the two Twi'leks, rendering them unconscious. They then restrained their prisoners. Meanwhile, the other Spectres forced the Imperials to abandon the ship. Hera also persuaded Cham to set aside their differences and collaborate to prevent the Imperials from retaking the ship. By joining forces, the two rebel groups repelled Imperial reinforcements. During the fighting, Zeb and Sabine collaborated with Numa and Gobi to shoot down Imperial TIE fighters. After repairing the hyperdrive and destroying an Imperial light cruiser, Zeb and his rebel companions escaped aboard the fighter carrier into hyperspace. Later, Zeb and the rest of the Ghost crew said goodbye to Cham and his companions. By that point, Hera had also reconciled with her father.

Rebel intelligence had uncovered information indicating that the Empire was constructing something above Geonosis. Consequently, Zeb joined his fellow rebels on a mission to probe an Imperial construction module. While Hera, Rex, and Chopper remained aboard the Ghost, Zeb, along with Kanan, Sabine, and Ezra, ventured onto the construction module, only to walk into a trap set by ISB Agent Kallus, a long-standing adversary of the Spectres who had been involved in the Siege of Lasan.

Zeb and his rebel companions engaged the Imperials in combat, with the Lasat finding himself in close-quarters combat with Kallus. While Zeb's rebel companions managed to return to the Ghost, Zeb became separated and fled in an escape pod. However, Kallus pursued the Lasat warrior, and the two continued their fight inside the vehicle. As the pod hurtled towards Geonosis, Zeb threw Kallus onto the controls, breaking them and causing the vehicle to crash-land in a cavern on Bahryn, an icy moon orbiting Geonosis.

Zeb emerged from the crash unharmed, but Kallus suffered a broken foot. After exiting the escape pod, Zeb began gathering supplies from the ship. Kallus, lying wounded on the icy ground, taunted Zeb, saying that the Empire would eventually find them. Zeb responded that he would not allow that to happen. As the night grew colder, Zeb produced a portable heater, but it wasn't sufficient to keep them warm. When Zeb expressed surprise that Geonosis had icy weather, Kallus informed him that they had landed on one of its moons.

Zeb then entered the pod and found a transponder, only to discover that it had been damaged. Kallus suggested that Zeb repair it so that the Empire would be able to locate them. At the same time, they heard a distant roar. Distrusting the Empire, Zeb remarked that he would take his chances with the cold and whatever creature was in the cavern rather than risk being imprisoned by the Empire. Kallus responded that he would do his best to ensure that Zeb received a fair trial. However, Zeb was skeptical of Kallus' promises, having witnessed what the Empire had done to his people and the galaxy.

Later that night, Zeb managed to repair the escape pod's transponder. To pass the time, Zeb and Kallus exchanged views about the Empire and the rebellion. When their heater broke down, Zeb found an alternative heat source in the form of a meteorite. Since the transponder's signal couldn't escape the cavern, Zeb made two attempts to climb out, but failed, prompting Kallus to snigger at him. Before the two could fight, they were attacked by the creature they had heard earlier, which turned out to be a bonzami. Ultimately, Zeb and Kallus joined forces and drove the beast away.

After driving the bonzami away, Zeb questioned Kallus about the Imperial Sterilization of Geonosis, which Kallus insisted he was either innocent of or unaware of. As the two discussed a way to escape the cavern before the bonzami returned with reinforcements, Zeb examined a bo-rifle trophy and discovered that it had been modified for close-quarters combat. When Zeb asked Kallus how he had acquired the bo-rifle, the ISB agent revealed that he hadn't stolen it. Instead, Kallus explained that a Lasat warrior whom he had defeated had given it to him for fighting honorably, a custom Zeb recognized as Lasat tradition.

When Zeb spoke about the Imperial pacification of Lasan, Kallus recounted a violent encounter with rebels on Onderon during the early years of the Empire. Kallus' unit had been ambushed by a Lasat mercenary who brutally massacred all his men but spared Kallus. Upon hearing of Kallus' near-death experience, Zeb felt regret and commented that not every Lasat was the same, to which Kallus compared the Imperials. After resolving their differences and gaining a better understanding of each other, Zeb and Kallus decided to climb out together.

However, as they were climbing towards the surface, the bonzami returned with reinforcements. Following a struggle involving Zeb throwing Kallus to the surface, the two unlikely allies reached the top. Kallus earned Zeb's respect by using his bo-rifle to shoot one of the bonzami. After reaching the surface, the two eventually found shelter from a blizzard. While hunkering down, Kallus expressed regret about his involvement in the Fall of Lasan but insisted that it wasn't personal. Zeb responded that he had already come to terms with that traumatic event.

The following morning, Zeb and Kallus were awakened by the roar of engines. Zeb quickly discovered that the Ghost had picked up his transponder signal. When Zeb invited Kallus aboard and stressed that the rebels would treat him fairly, Kallus responded that he preferred to take his chances with the Empire. As a parting gift, Zeb left him the meteorite they had found as a token of their newfound friendship. Zeb was greeted by his fellow rebels (except Chopper) at the gangplank of the Ghost. When Ezra remarked that it was freezing, Zeb responded that the youth had only been there for two seconds. Zeb and his companions then returned to space.

After Ezra, Kanan, and Chopper returned from a mission to scout the planet Oosalon as a potential rebel base, Zeb and Hera greeted their comrades aboard the Ghost. Kanan had previously instructed Hera to rendezvous the Ghost with the Phantom in deep space, away from the fleet. When Ezra and Kanan entered the ship, Zeb was cleaning his bo-rifle. The Lasat inquired whether the two Jedi had discovered a new site for the rebels. In response, Kanan told them that he and Ezra had encountered two Inquisitors known as the Fifth Brother and Seventh Sister. Kanan also expressed his fears that the Inquisitors were preventing him and Ezra from assisting the rebels in establishing a new base.

Earlier, Ahsoka Tano, a Jedi friend of the Spectres, had visited the Ghost. Later, she, along with Kanan, Ezra, and Chopper, departed on the Phantom for the Lothal Jedi Temple, where they hoped to commune with Master Yoda. As the Phantom entered hyperspace, Zeb, Hera, and Sabine watched from the Ghost's window. To protect the rebellion, Kanan had decided not to reveal their whereabouts to the other rebels.

Zeb and his fellow rebels attended a meeting on the former Imperial fighter carrier, now the new Phoenix flagship, to discuss establishing a rebel base on Berzite's moon in the Yost system. Due to the rebels' low fuel reserves, Sabine's friend Ketsu Onyo suggested that the rebels steal fuel from the Imperial depot at Horizon Base instead. Commander Sato approved the plan and dispatched the Ghost crew to Horizon Base. Zeb and his fellow rebels, with the exception of Chopper, participated in the mission. Chopper was supposed to guard the Ghost but was distracted by the sight of a new droid leg being sold at a nearby stall. Zeb and Ezra showed no sympathy for Chopper and teased him about "going shopping."

The Ghost crew managed to steal the fuel but were pursued by Imperial stormtroopers. All of the rebels escaped, but Chopper was left behind because he had been preoccupied with the leg. Upon returning to the Phoenix fleet, Zeb and his fellow rebels found the fleet under attack from Imperial forces led by Admiral Kassius Konstantine, who attempted to prevent the Ghost from docking with the rebel fighter carrier. However, the rebels were able to land in one of the carrier's hangar bays with Ketsu's help, who used her Shadow Caster to protect the Ghost from enemy fire. Upon landing, Zeb and Ezra began unloading fuel canisters. While the rebel fleet was preparing to travel to the Yost system, Hera and Commander Sato received a warning from Chopper and his new friend AP-5 that the Imperials had set a trap in the Yost system. AP-5 also provided the rebel fleet with the coordinates for Atollon, a world without an Imperial presence.

Zeb and his fellow rebels traveled to Atollon, where they were reunited with Chopper and AP-5. Zeb and his fellow rebels were present when Sabine repaired AP-5 using parts from Chopper's stolen droid leg. He watched with amusement as AP-5 chided Chopper for the "illogical act" of sacrificing his brand-new droid leg, which sparked a heated exchange between the two droids.

Following the discovery of Atollon, the Phoenix rebels established a base on the planet called Chopper Base. Zeb and his fellow rebels assisted in transporting supplies from the fleet to Chopper Base. Zeb and Chopper accompanied the Spectres during a supply run to deliver several power generators. After completing their run, Zeb took the opportunity to relax on a cliff outside the base, overlooking the desert and several large coral plants. Zeb was also listening to music under Atollon's sunset when Ezra joined him. When the young Jedi expressed his worries about not meeting again, Zeb reassured his younger friend, telling him that they would have overthrown the Empire by the time he and Kanan returned. He suggested they could then share war stories.

Later that evening, Zeb and the other rebels responded to a distress call from Sabine, who had accompanied Rex on a mission to investigate the disappearance of Lieutenant Dicer. Dicer had been planting a sensor marker in the base's northern perimeter when she vanished. Sabine and Rex had visited the site only to be attacked by several large, spidery creatures called krykna. The Ghost arrived and chased away the creatures, but Rex was taken by the krykna to their underground nest.

Despite his reputation as a fierce fighter, Zeb was frightened by the krykna and offered to guard the Ghost. However, Hera instructed him to accompany them and instead assigned Chopper the job of guarding the ship. While underground, Zeb accompanied Hera and Sabine, while Kanan and Ezra went to explore a different section. Zeb and his companions eventually found Rex and managed to free him but were unable to locate Dicer. While being pursued by several krykna, Zeb and his companions reunited with Kanan and Ezra. Together, they made their way out of the tunnels and fled back to the Ghost.

Once aboard the ship, Zeb, along with Kanan and Ezra, used the ship's laser cannons to fight off the intruders. However, the Ghost was unable to leave because the krykna had spun a large web around the ship. When Ezra suggested cutting through the web to free the Ghost, Zeb's reluctance annoyed the young Jedi, who remarked that he didn't want to be chomped up by the creatures because they were too afraid to go outside. In the end, the rebels broke free of the web by concocting a plan involving Sabine distracting the creatures with the sensor marker, while Ezra and Kanan used their lightsabers to slice through the web. Following the skirmish with the krykna, the Phoenix rebels erected a fence of sensor markers around Chopper Base to deter the krykna. Zeb, along with Hera and Sabine, stayed behind, while Kanan and Ezra traveled with the former Jedi Ahsoka to Malachor.

Zeb and the other rebels, including Rex, remained at Chopper Base, while Kanan, Ezra, and Chopper accompanied Ahsoka on a mission to Malachor. Zeb and his fellow rebels later greeted Kanan, Ezra, and Chopper when the Phantom landed at Chopper Base. Zeb watched in silence as the now-blinded Kanan hugged Hera. He and his fellow rebels were also saddened when they saw that Ahsoka hadn't come with Ezra and Kanan. Later, Zeb and his fellow rebels returned to the Ghost, where they silently came to terms with Kanan's blindness and Ahsoka's apparent death.

Following the events on Malachor, Zeb participated in a rebel mission led by Ezra to rescue the Weequay pirate Hondo Ohnaka from the Imperial prison on Naraka, whom they had previously encountered at Nixus Hub 218. While Hera waited aboard the Ghost, Zeb and the other rebels climbed under a bridge to avoid Imperial sentries. Zeb pulled a stormtrooper to his death, while Ezra pushed another down into the ravine. After climbing onto the bridge with Sabine, they were joined by Chopper, who jumped down a cliff. Chopper didn't activate his rocket boosters to avoid triggering the Imperial sensor lights. Zeb caught the astromech droid in time.

The rebels headed inside the Naraka prison, where they freed Hondo and his Ugnaught companion Terba from their cell. Following a brief firefight, they evaded stormtroopers. However, Terba was killed during the escape attempt by an AT-DP walker. Zeb took up position outside the prison, while Sabine and Chopper took out the pursuers, and Ezra used the Force to compel the AT-DP pilot to walk off the edge of the platform. The rebels then fled aboard the Ghost. Once aboard, Zeb told Hera that Ezra had used a mind trick on the Imperial pilot.

After returning to Chopper Base, Zeb attended a briefing where Hondo revealed that the Galactic Empire was dismantling Old Republic Y-wings at Reklam Station inside the gas planet of Yarma. Zeb, along with Sabine, Chopper, Rex, and Hondo, later joined a recon mission led by Ezra, who had been promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Commander in light of his success on Naraka. The rebels traveled to Yarma on the Phantom.

While traveling to Yarma, the rebels escaped a Mining Guild patrol at Sereeda Waypoint. Once inside the gassy planet, the rebels were attacked by two Imperial DTS-series Dismantler Droids. Rex attempted to fight one of the pursuers but fell out of the Phantom's rear hatch. However, Zeb grabbed onto his rebel comrade and pulled him aboard the ship. After dispatching the dismantler droids, Sabine parked the Phantom beneath Reklam Station. The rebels and Hondo convinced the Ugnaught laborers aboard Reklam Station to help them steal the Y-wings in return for their freedom.

After the Ugnaughts disabled the conveyor-belt system, Zeb and his team began refueling the Y-wings. However, they were spotted by an Imperial dismantler droid, which alerted the Imperial Commander Brom Titus. Titus activated the magnetic locks, preventing the rebels from escaping with their stolen Y-wings. When the dismantler droid attacked Chopper and Sabine and tried to shake them off a Y-wing, Zeb tried to assist them but was no match for the "clanker." Rex then managed to push the droid off the edge of Reklam Station, sending it to its destruction in the depths of Yarma.

Meanwhile, Ezra knocked out the power systems, disabling the magnetic locks. When Sabine ordered Chopper to use the relay navigation system to autopilot the Y-wings, Zeb shoved a reluctant Chopper into a Y-wing's astromech socket. The rebels, minus Ezra, escaped into space but were intercepted by an Imperial Star Destroyer commanded by Governor Arihnda Pryce. Following a brief dogfight, the rebels were rescued by Phoenix Squadron. Zeb and his team landed the five surviving Y-wings inside the Quasar Fire-class cruiser-carrier Phoenix Nest.

After fleeing into hyperspace, the rebels returned to Chopper Base. When Hera reprimanded Ezra for disobeying orders, endangering his crew, and getting the Phantom destroyed, Zeb tried to take responsibility. However, Hera insisted that the mission was Ezra's responsibility.

Zeb, along with Hera, Chopper, and Sabine, were captured by the former Sith apprentice Maul, whom Ezra and Kanan had previously encountered on Malachor. Maul had lured the Ghost crew into a trap by attacking a Sphyrna-class corvette that was part of the Phoenix cell. Maul threatened to execute the hostages if Kanan and Ezra failed to bring him Kanan's Jedi holocron and the Sith holocron that Ezra had obtained on Malachor. After Maul deduced that the Ghost was their home, Zeb asked the Dark Sider if he was planning to move in. Zeb and Sabine protested when Maul forced Hera to give him a tour of the Ghost to find Kanan's Jedi holocron.

Later, Hera staged an escape attempt. At her signal, Zeb kicked Chopper into two of Maul's repurposed tour guide droids. The rebels then knocked out the remaining droids before heading to the engine room. Zeb carried Chopper down the ladder. Once inside the cargo hold, the rebels tried to trap Maul with the magnetizer. However, the Sith Lord broke free from the magnetizer with his lightsaber. He then reasserted his control over the crew and warned them that they were only alive because he still needed them. Maul took his captives to an abandoned Mandalorian asteroid station called Vizsla Keep 09.

While Zeb and the other rebels remained aboard the Ghost, Maul greeted Kanan and Ezra. After collecting the Sith holocron, Maul led Ezra to the command center. He ordered the prisoners to be executed. Before the tour guide droids could carry out the sentence, Kanan sneaked up behind Maul's droids and beheaded them with his lightsaber. The rebels then rushed to the command room to confront Maul but were blinded by a bright pink light created by the holocrons. Kanan convinced Ezra to close his eyes, ending the ritual. However, Maul escaped into space.

After Imperial forces destroyed a rebel convoy near Teralov, Zeb and the other Spectres attended a briefing at Chopper Base chaired by Commander Sato. During the briefing, the rebels learned from an agent codenamed Fulcrum that several Imperial cadets were planning to defect from the elite Skystrike Academy. The former cadet Sabine was assigned the mission, while Zeb accompanied Hera on a second supply run to Teralov. Later, Zeb was present when Sabine, Wedge Antilles, and Hobbie arrived safely at Chopper Base.

Later on, Zeb, along with his rebel comrades, made their way back to Ryloth. Their mission: to provide supplies to Cham Syndulla, Hera's father and the leading figure of the Free Ryloth movement. The Ghost then collected Cham and Numa, another fighter, as they were being chased by Imperial scout troopers riding 614-AvA speeder bikes. Cham and Numa brought their blurrg mounts onto the Ghost, but one of the pursuing scout troopers managed to follow them. Zeb swiftly incapacitated the scout trooper, and Ezra then took his armor.

After coming aboard, Cham briefed the rebels on the recent Imperial advancements in the Tann Province carried out by Grand Admiral Thrawn. Eager to help, Zeb and the other rebels offered to assist Hera in retrieving the Syndulla Kalikori, a cherished family heirloom, from her family home. While Hera, Ezra, and Chopper infiltrated the Syndulla residence, Zeb and the rest of the rebels launched a diversionary attack against Imperial forces located in a nearby ravine. Following the destruction of an AT-DP walker and an Imperial Troop Transport, the rebels began to retreat but were pursued by a second AT-DP walker.

Despite their attempts to impede the walker's progress, Zeb and the rebels were forced into an intense firefight. Eventually, the walker stopped firing and instead broadcast a hologram message from Captain Slavin, Thrawn's second-in-command. Slavin revealed that the Imperials had captured both Hera and Ezra. He offered to spare their lives if Cham agreed to surrender to the Empire. Cham accepted the offer, and the rebels traveled on the Ghost to the Syndulla residence. Despite this, all of the rebels managed to escape when Chopper detonated several explosives, causing damage to the Syndulla residence. Even though they failed to recover the Kalikori from Thrawn, the rebels successfully escaped into the wilderness aboard the Ghost. Later, Zeb socialized with Cham's fighters and embraced Ezra.

Later, Zeb accompanied the other Spectres and Rex on a mission to recover proton bombs from a destroyed Separatist supply ship on the planet Agamar. After disembarking from the Ghost, Zeb, along with Ezra and Kanan, gained a deeper understanding of the Clone Wars from Rex. Upon inspecting the munitions depot, the rebels discovered that it was completely stocked with proton bombs. They then inadvertently triggered a ray shield trap and were captured by a group of B1-series battle droids commanded by B1-268. B1-268 was about to execute the intruders but received orders from his commander to stun them and take them into custody.

Zeb and the other rebels, including Rex, awoke to find themselves prisoners of Kalani, who was in charge of a Separatist holdout that survived the shutdown of the Separatist Droid Army that came with Order 66. Determined to secure a Separatist Alliance victory in the Clone Wars, Kalani compelled his prisoners to participate in a combat simulation. When Zeb refused, Kalani agreed, citing the Lasats' lack of involvement in the Clone Wars. Instead, he designated Zeb as a hostage for the others to rescue from his command bridge. The other rebels, prompted by Ezra, agreed to participate in the match, stipulating that Kalani would free Chopper if they won and release his stockpile of proton bombs. Kalani accepted their conditions.

A restrained Zeb observed the simulation from Kalani's command bridge. When Zeb's rebel companions scattered Kalani's initial assault wave, Zeb attempted to persuade the tactical droid to surrender. However, Kalani dismissed Zeb's suggestion and revealed that he had set a trap for the rebels in the hangar bay. Despite this, the rebels defeated Kalani's droidekas and forced their way into the command bridge. Rex and the rebels declared victory, but Kalani refused to acknowledge it on technical grounds. Before he could execute Zeb, Ezra convinced Kalani to set aside his animosity towards Rex, arguing that the conflict between the droids and clones had enabled the Empire to seize control of the galaxy. After Imperial forces arrived and attacked Kalani's droids, the two sides agreed to put aside their differences in order to escape Agamar.

Working together, the rebels and Kalani devised a plan to delay the advancing Imperial forces by rolling proton bombs onto the feet of their AT-AT and AT-DP walkers. During the battle, Zeb launched a grenade that damaged an Imperial AT-DP walker. After damaging the front legs of an advancing AT-AT walker, the rebels and droids fled in three Neimoidian escort shuttles that had been repaired by Chopper. While one of the shuttles was shot down, Zeb, his companions, and Kalani's shuttle managed to escape into space. The two sides parted on friendly terms, with Kalani expressing his belief that the rebellion had a slim chance of success against the Empire. Soon after, Hera contacted them. Despite not acquiring the proton bombs, the rebels discovered a new transport for the Ghost.

Zeb interrupted a conversation between Sabine and Fenn Rau to inform them that Hera Syndulla had called them to the war room for a briefing. During the briefing, Hera explained that the rebels had lost contact with the Protectors on the third moon of Concord Dawn. When Rau offered to investigate on behalf of the rebels, Zeb questioned whether Rau was their prisoner. Kanan clarified that Rau was simply a "grumpy house guest." Hera dispatched Rau, along with Sabine, Ezra, and Chopper, on a recon probe. After discovering that the Imperial Viceroy Gar Saxon had eliminated the Protectors, Rau decided to join the rebellion.

Zeb and the other Spectres later joined Phoenix Squadron on a mission to evacuate rebel sympathizers from the planet Mykapo before an impending Imperial crackdown. The Phoenix rebels encountered an Imperial advance patrol engaged in combat with a local rebel cell known as the Iron Squadron. The Iron Squadron used their YT-2400 light freighter Sato's Hammer to destroy an Imperial Gozanti-class cruiser and declined the rebels' offer of assistance. Following Hera's orders, Zeb and Kanan traveled to Mykapo on the Phantom II to assist with the evacuations. Zeb dismissed the Iron Squadron as a group of "Ezras." Later, they and the rest of Phoenix Squadron, with the exception of Ezra, Sabine, and Chopper, returned to the rebel fleet. Zeb and the Spectres later joined forces with Iron Squadron to rescue the Squadron's captain Mart Mattin from Imperial forces.

Encouraged by Ezra, Zeb and the other Spectres agreed to meet with Hondo, who requested their assistance in recovering cargo from a derelict Imperial cargo ship stranded in the upper atmosphere of the planet Wynkahthu. Due to their past encounter with Hondo, Zeb, along with Hera and Sabine, were reluctant to collaborate with the Weequay pirate and his business partner Azmorigan. However, the rebels agreed to help after Hondo revealed that the cargo ship was carrying a shipment of proton bombs, a valuable resource for the rebellion.

Since the cargo ship was trapped above a vortex, the rebels were unable to access the cargo through conventional means. Consequently, Hera tasked the former Imperial inventory droid AP-5 with collaborating with Zeb to devise a plan to recover the cargo. She also assigned Zeb leadership of the mission to express her disapproval of Ezra's fraternization with Hondo. When Ezra protested, Zeb responded that it was his turn to lead a rebel mission. Working with AP-5, Zeb formulated a plan that involved the rebels landing on the cargo ship's hull, navigating their way to the ship's cargo hold, and opening its outer doors to facilitate extraction.

Zeb briefed his recovery team in the Ghost's cargo bay, which included Ezra, Chopper, Hondo, and Azmorigan. When Ezra made fun of Zeb's family name, Zeb retorted that the youth should address any concerns about the mission with Hera. Putting their plan into action, the rebels jumped onto the cargo ship's hull and made their way inside the ship. Zeb then dispatched Chopper to restart the ship's power plant. Soon after, the rebels encountered the Ugnaught Melch, who was one of Hondo's crew. Zeb compelled Hondo to reveal the truth about his disastrous initial mission to recover the ship's cargo, an operation that had resulted in the deaths of Melch's comrades.

While Zeb remained hostile and distrustful of Hondo, Ezra insisted that they could still work with him. Zeb and Ezra clashed again when the latter insisted on forcing his way into the cargo bay with his green lightsaber. Once inside, the recovery team discovered their treasures and proton bombs. Zeb then opened the outer cargo doors, allowing the Ghost to approach the cargo bay. Since the Ghost could not land, Zeb used grappling guns to fire magnetic cables that locked onto the Ghost's hull.

Zeb and Ezra used the magnetic cables to transport the proton bombs aboard the Ghost, where Sabine stored them away. Following Zeb's orders, the proton bombs were loaded first, and Hondo and Azmorigan were forced to wait. After Azmorigan disappeared, Zeb went to find him, instructing Ezra to continue loading the cargo. Zeb was then stunned by a DT-series sentry droid, which took him to the brig. There, he found Hondo in a cell. Zeb used his comlink to contact Ezra for help. Ezra and Chopper rescued the two prisoners, and they made their way back to the cargo bay.

However, the recovery team encountered the sentry droid. Despite Zeb and AP-5's orders, Azmorigan shot and destroyed the sentry droid. This triggered the droid's comrades, which pursued Zeb and his team back to the cargo bay. While Zeb and Ezra exchanged fire, Hondo and Azmorigan seized the opportunity to flee aboard the Ghost. Chopper quickly followed suit. Despite destroying one of the droids, the two rebels were forced to retreat as the ship began to list into the vortex. They used the magnetic cable system to reach the Ghost but nearly fell into Wynkahthu's depths when the droids destroyed the grappling gun connecting it. Zeb and Ezra survived because Kanan pulled them to safety.

The rebels and their confederates escaped aboard the Ghost before a vortex tore the cargo ship apart. Once aboard, Hera and Ezra thanked Zeb for his leadership. The rebels were pleased with their loot of proton bombs. However, Hondo was disappointed that Melch had snuck aboard one of his cargo chests and thrown out the treasures in the process. Having accomplished their objectives, the two groups parted company.

Zeb, along with Hera, Sabine, and Commander Sato, remained at Chopper Base while Ezra, Kanan, and Chopper embarked on a mission to infiltrate the Imperial Armory Complex on the planet Lothal. Phoenix Squadron had learned that the Empire was manufacturing a new weapon there and were planning to destroy the factory. After Ezra and Kanan's local contact Ryder Azadi lost contact with the other Spectres, Azadi contacted Phoenix Squadron via hologram. Zeb, Sabine, and Sato listened as Hera and Ryder discussed the new Imperial commander Grand Admiral Thrawn and Ryder's plan to launch a diversionary attack on the factory's east gate.

After Ezra's team escaped the factory with the weapon blueprints, Zeb, along with Hera and Sabine, corresponded with their comrades on Lothal by hologram. When Sabine expressed shock that their longtime adversary Agent Kallus had assisted Ezra's team in escaping the factory, Zeb vouched for Kallus and mentioned that he had accidentally recruited him on Bahryn. In response, Hera advised her comrades to treat Kallus with caution until they could determine his true motives.

Following the raid on the Lothal Imperial factory, Zeb participated in a briefing organized by Sabine to discuss the upcoming rebel strike on the Imperial factory. During the briefing, Zeb and the other rebels noticed that Ezra appeared to be unwell. When Ezra saw Maul walking past Zeb, Ezra alerted him, but Zeb saw nothing. When Ezra fainted, Zeb and Kanan attended to him. After Ezra recounted his vision of seeing Maul to the other Spectres, Zeb reported that he saw nothing beside him and believed that Ezra was overworking himself. Later, Ezra and Kanan departed for Dathomir to deal with Maul.

At the request of Senator Bail Organa and Rebel Command, Zeb, along with his fellow Spectres and Rex, embarked on a mission to locate Saw Gerrera and investigate the apparent disappearance of the Geonosian species. After landing on Geonosis, Hera tasked Zeb and Sabine with finding the energy source that Saw had detected before losing contact with Rebel Command. Zeb and Sabine soon discovered an operational military-grade deflector shield generator in the middle of the desert. Believing that Chopper Base could benefit from the technology, Hera ordered Zeb and Sabine to extract the deflector core. When Zeb questioned what the shield generator was protecting, Sabine urged him to work faster.

Despite a sandstorm, the two rebels extracted the deflector core. Before they could return to the Ghost, Sabine and Zeb discovered the presence of inactive droidekas. Zeb wanted to abandon the mission, but Sabine convinced him to proceed. After the Geonosian Klik-Klak, who was being pursued by the other Spectres and Saw, activated the droidekas, Sabine used the deflector core to generate an energy field to protect the two of them. Zeb and Sabine held off long enough for Saw and the other Spectres to capture Klik-Klak and deactivate his remote controller.

Zeb and Sabine then brought the deflector core aboard the Ghost. After Hera informed them about the arrival of an Arquitens-class command cruiser, Zeb volunteered to enter the labyrinth to reestablish contact with Kanan and Rex's team. Zeb reached the central air shaft and used a communication device to establish contact between the other Spectres and the Ghost. After Kanan requested a pick-up, Zeb returned to the Ghost just in time to escape a strafing run by two TIE bombers. Once they were airborne, Zeb and Sabine took out the pursuing TIE bombers with the Ghost's cannons.

The Ghost then flew into the air shaft and picked up the other Spectres, Saw, and Klik-Klak. The rebels then became embroiled in an argument over Saw's harsh interrogation methods and his plan to take Klik-Klak offworld for interrogation. The rebels and Saw then put aside their differences to repel Imperial Jumptroopers from Captain Brunson's light cruiser. Zeb exchanged fire with the Jumptroopers. After repelling the Imperial troops, the rebels took their ship into the depths of Geonosis. There, they discovered poison canisters, which confirmed that the Empire had perpetrated genocide against the Geonosians. After freeing Klik-Klak and the Geonosian queen egg, the rebels blasted their way through the light cruiser. They escaped offworld with Saw, news of the Geonosian genocide, and a new deflector core.

When the Phoenix rebels organized a training exercise, Zeb was upset that he had to stay behind as Chief of Security at Chopper Base. Zeb was unhappy at being left behind with Chopper and the inventory droid AP-5, whose company he did not enjoy. Unwilling to help AP-5 with inventory duties, Zeb departed for the base's command center. There, he was informed by a rebel officer that a sensor beacon in Sector 6 had been damaged by meteorites. Zeb and Chopper departed for Sector 6 to investigate the damaged beacon.

Upon arriving, the two discovered a seemingly damaged protocol droid lying among two dead krykna. Believing the droid to be a stray, Zeb took the protocol droid back to Chopper Base for repairs despite Chopper's protests. Unknown to Zeb and the others, the protocol droid was actually an E-XD-series infiltrator droid designated EXD-9. EXD-9 was part of a broad Imperial sweep of the Outer Rim Territories for rebel bases commissioned by Grand Admiral Thrawn, who was hunting the rebellion down. After the recharged EXD-9 began scanning the base depot, AP-5 hired the droid as his assistant. Zeb took a liking to EXD-9 after the protocol droid inadvertently made fun of Chopper.

Later, Zeb received a warning from Fulcrum that the Empire was deploying Infiltrator droids to hunt down rebel bases and that one of these droids had lost contact with the Empire. After seeing the schematics, Zeb realized that EXD-9 was an Infiltrator droid. Returning to the depot, he warned AP-5 and Chopper just before EXD-9 assumed his "attack mode" and attacked the rebels. EXD-9 used his amplified height and fast movements to overpower Zeb and throw him to the ground. Following a fierce struggle, Zeb severed the droid's left hand, forcing it to retreat.

After discovering that EXD-9 had attacked and cannibalized another astromech droid, Zeb, Chopper, and AP-5 resolved to join forces to prevent EXD-9 from alerting the Empire to Chopper Base. Their plan involved luring the Infiltrator droid out of hiding and AP-5 deactivating it. Putting their plan into action, Chopper lured EXD-9 out of hiding, and Zeb ambushed the droid. The droid put up a fierce fight and hurled Zeb against the containers. Following a struggle, Zeb subdued EXD-9 long enough for AP-5 to deactivate the droid. This triggered the droid's self-destruct mechanism, but Chopper froze the timer before it could detonate a proton warhead.

To prevent the Empire from discovering the location of Chopper Base and EXD-9 from destroying the base, Zeb and his droid comrades came up with a plan to reprogram EXD-9 and send him back as a bomb to the Empire. AP-5 reprogrammed EXD-9 back to his peaceful mode and set the proton warhead to detonate once it had logged back into the Imperial network. Zeb and his comrades then followed EXD-9 back to his pod. Zeb used his bo-rifle to shoot out EXD-9's long-range transmitter, thus preventing EXD-9 from transmitting his report to the Empire and forcing him to return to his base. When AP-5 expressed doubts that his work was successful, Zeb praised him for his work. In return, AP-5 commended Zeb for his "admirable" work.

The following day, Zeb contacted Hera to tell her that they had an incident but had reasserted control. When the other rebels returned, Zeb and his comrades attended a briefing at the command center where Fulcrum informed them that the reprogrammed Infiltrator droid had destroyed a Star Destroyer. When Sabine inquired about the details, Zeb responded that it was a long story. AP-5 proceeded to retell the story, but Zeb playfully silenced his friend.

Zeb and his fellow Spectres, along with Fenn Rau, attended a meeting where Fenn, Kanan, and Rau convinced a reluctant Sabine to take up the Darksaber, an ancient Mandalorian weapon, to reunify the Mandalorians and rally them to the rebel cause. Sabine began learning using a training saber, which was actually a stick that Zeb had helped Kanan fashion earlier.

Zeb and his fellow Spectres embarked on a mission at the request of Senator Bail Organa to rendezvous with another group of rebels in deep space. While waiting amidst starship wreckage, Zeb and the others listened to an Imperial HoloNet News broadcast by Alton Kastle about former Senator Mon Mothma's alleged treason against the Empire for denouncing the Ghorman Massacre. The rebels then sighted a tactical infiltration pod, which Zeb and Chopper had encountered earlier on Atollon.

Zeb urged the others to destroy the pod, while Hera tried to power down the systems to evade detection. After the E-XD infiltrator droid piloting the pod spotted the Ghost, Ezra managed to destroy the ship after a brief chase. However, they failed to stop the probe droid from alerting the Empire. Shortly thereafter, a rebel Taylander shuttle Chandrila Mistress, escorted by the Y-wing squadron Gold Squadron, emerged from hyperspace.

After the rebel ship docked with the Ghost, Zeb and his fellow Spectres met Mothma's senatorial attaché Erskin Semaj and Gold Leader Captain Jon Vander. The Spectres then proceeded to refuel Gold Squadron's Y-wings. Zeb and his fellow rebels chatted with the pilot Gold Two. When Zeb credited his rebel cell for destroying Grand Moff Tarkin's Star Destroyer Sovereign, Gold Two chastised them for making it harder for other rebel groups to operate in the Outer Rim Territories. The argument between the Spectres and Mothma's rebels was interrupted by the arrival of an Imperial light cruiser and a Gozanti cruiser.

After Gold Two was wounded, Zeb carried her to the Ghost's medbay while Ezra manned the pilot's Y-wing. During the ensuing gun battle, Zeb manned the Ghost's cannons and fought off several TIE fighters. The rebels escaped after Gold Squadron bombed the light cruiser. Mon Mothma and her crew were forced to flee the Chandrila Mistress and seek refuge aboard the Ghost. After Hera introduced Zeb and his fellow rebels to Mon Mothma, the rebel leader personally thanked Zeb and Ezra. Zeb remained aboard the Ghost during the rebels' journey through the dangerous Archeon pass to Dantooine.

While journeying within the Archeon Nebula, the rebels found themselves chased by a cutting-edge TIE Defender and a pair of TIE Interceptors. During the ensuing dogfight, Zeb took control of the Ghost's rear-facing guns. He successfully eliminated one of the TIE Interceptors after the nebula's intense radiation caused the enemy fighter's deflector shields to fail due to overheating. Upon exiting the nebula, the Ghost was cornered by two Star Destroyers under the command of Governor Pryce and Admiral Konstantine. However, the rebels managed to jump to hyperspace after Ezra and Jon launched proton torpedoes into the Archeon Nebula using their Y-wings. Zeb, along with his fellow rebels, was present when Mon Mothma delivered a speech to the assembled rebel fleet, an event that marked the formation of the Rebel Alliance and the beginning of the Galactic Civil War.

Zeb, along with his Spectre comrades Hera and Ezra, remained on board the Ghost as Chopper and AP-5 embarked with Wedge Antilles on a mission to acquire clearance codes from the Imperial Security Bureau's base situated on Killun 71. Zeb made light of the fact that the irritable Chopper and the grumpy AP-5 would make difficult co-pilots for Wedge. Hera, however, assured them that the droids and Wedge were the ideal team for the task. While AP-5 successfully stole the clearance codes without any issues, Chopper was hijacked by a group of Imperial listeners aboard a Gozanti-class cruiser, who reprogrammed him to act as a double agent spy droid. The Imperial controller LT-319 intended to exploit Chopper to discover the location of Chopper Base.

Zeb and Ezra were engaged in a game of dejarik when AP-5 and Wedge made their return to the Ghost. Although Zeb and Ezra dismissed AP-5's warnings concerning Chopper's suspicious behavior, Hera took AP-5 seriously and narrowly prevented Chopper from downloading the Ghost's hyperspace logs. After Chopper proceeded to the engine room and forced the Ghost out of hyperspace, Zeb followed the other rebels into the engine room to confront the rogue droid. However, Chopper locked them inside the cargo hold and exposed them to the vacuum of space. The rebels barely avoided being sucked out into space thanks to Hera's quick thinking. After AP-5 ventured outside and unlocked the cargo bay, Zeb and the other rebels made their way back to the cockpit.

Zeb used his bo-rifle to stun Chopper, remarking that he had wanted to do that for a long time. However, Hera instructed him to handle her droid with care and to help him regain an upright position. After reconnecting him to the ship's systems, Hera utilized Chopper's visual processor to transmit a message to the Imperial listeners. She then employed Chopper to send a large volume of data, including his Imperial programming, back to the Imperial cruiser. This data overload resulted in the destruction of the Gozanti-cruiser but caused Chopper to seize. After Chopper became unresponsive, Zeb and Ezra displayed visible sadness despite their dislike for the droid. However, the two rebels joined Hera in celebrating the return of their friend after Chopper rebooted to his original programming. Zeb and the other rebels were later present when they retrieved AP-5 from space and witnessed him arguing with an apologetic Chopper.

Zeb was asleep in the bunk beneath Ezra's bed when the young Jedi was awakened by Kanan's Jedi holocron, which started playing a holographic recording of Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi's warning to the Jedi regarding the Great Jedi Purge. This turned out to be a ploy orchestrated by the former Sith apprentice Maul to lure Ezra to Tatooine in order to draw Kenobi out of hiding. Ezra and Chopper subsequently encountered Kenobi during a mission to Tatooine, which resulted in Maul's death. When Ezra and Chopper returned in Maul's ship Nightbrother, Zeb was in the process of loading cargo. Upon Zeb inquiring whether "this means what I want it to mean," Ezra reassured Zeb, along with Kanan and Hera, that this would be the last time they would encounter Maul. Ezra then apologized for running away and emphasized that the Spectres were his family.

Zeb participated in the Battle of Atollon. Before the Phoenix Squadron and General Jan Dodonna's Massassi Group could initiate their assault on Lothal, Grand Admiral Thrawn's Seventh Fleet emerged from hyperspace and established a blockade around Atollon. In response, Hera devised a strategy for the rebels to engage the fleet, enabling Ezra and Chopper to escape offworld aboard Maul's former ship, the Nightbrother. As the rebels prepared to confront Thrawn's forces, Zeb inquired of his friend Rex if he had any regrets about joining the rebellion. Rex responded that it was preferable to hunting joopas. During the initial phase, Zeb and Rex manned the guns aboard the Ghost while Hera piloted the ship.

Despite suffering significant losses, the rebels facilitated Ezra and Chopper's escape. Commander Sato sacrificed his life and flagship, the Phoenix Nest, by ramming Admiral Konstantine's interdictor vessel, creating an opening for Ezra's Gauntlet fighter to jump to hyperspace. Having accomplished their objective, the rebels retreated to Chopper Base to prepare for Thrawn's ground assault. Zeb and Rex collaborated to activate Sabine's prototype deflector shield generator, which provided protection for the surviving rebel ships and forces.

After the shield withstood Thrawn's initial assault, Zeb and Rex ambushed several Imperial AT-DP walkers that were advancing through the narrow canyon leading to Chopper Base. After Rex destroyed the majority of the walkers with detonators, Zeb destroyed the final one using a rocket launcher. However, the two were forced to retreat when Thrawn deployed several AT-AT walkers, which were protected by deflector shields. After reuniting with Kanan, the rebels engaged in a game of cat and mouse with Thrawn's death troopers within the tunnels beneath the Atollon Coral Mesa.

Zeb and Rex eventually rejoined Hera, General Dodonna, and the other rebels back at Chopper Base. Before they could escape aboard the Ghost, they were surrounded by Thrawn and his death troopers. Before Thrawn could eliminate them, Kanan's enigmatic friend known as Bendu, a powerful Force-wielder, attacked the base with a lightning storm. The rebels seized the opportunity to escape offworld. By that point, Ezra had brought Clan Wren Mandalorian reinforcements led by Sabine, who successfully destroyed Thrawn's second interdictor cruiser. This provided the remaining rebel forces with the window they needed to jump to hyperspace towards Yavin 4.

After their defeat at Atollon, Sabine took Ezra, Chopper and Kanan to Mandalore to assist the battle, while Zeb, Hera, Rex and the rest of the surviving Rebels went to Yavin 4. Upon the their victory on Mandalore, the four go to Yavin 4, where they are greeted by Zeb. Excited to once again see their comrade, they began to joke and jest with him.

When Kanan inquired about Hera's whereabouts, Zeb informed him that she was away on a supply mission. He also revealed that Yavin 4 served as the central hub for various Rebel cells that had united, including the surviving members of Phoenix Squadron. Shortly thereafter, Hera and her squadron made a dramatic entrance into the base, having somehow managed to survive a perilous situation. Zeb and the other Spectres swiftly moved to ensure her well-being. Following a brief reunion with her team, Kallus dryly commented on the sentimentality of the moment, before relaying Mon Mothma's request for their presence.

Zeb participated in the briefing, detailing the specifics of the Empire's newly constructed relay station on the planet Jalindi. The Spectres volunteered for the undertaking, which involved tapping into Imperial communications while refraining from destroying the facility. Upon reaching the planet, Ezra, Sabine, and Chopper descended towards the relay dish, aiming for a stealthy approach. Zeb voiced his apprehension and disapproval regarding their method of reaching the dish, but Kanan reminded him that a free-fall was necessary to avoid detection. Shortly after the trio began working on the dish, Zeb alerted Kanan and Hera to the arrival of an Imperial light cruiser, the Marauder, into the system. As the cruiser approached, Zeb reported the deployment of two TIE Defenders. Hera promptly ordered Zeb to man the turret. Kanan advised Hera to fly low through the fog, allowing him to guide them through the obscured visibility, which would disrupt the enemy's systems. Zeb attempted to target the Defenders, but their shields mitigated the impact of his shots.

Zeb, noticing their flight through the fog, questioned their strategy. Upon grasping the plan, after a Defender collided with a pillar, Zeb concentrated his fire on the remaining Defender, ultimately destroying it. Simultaneously, a U-Wing, commanded by Saw Gerrera and Edrio, arrived to demolish the relay station, extracting Ezra, Sabine, and Chopper. Angered, Hera sought to retrieve her team, but the arrival of a Star Destroyer forced Saw to initiate a hyperspace jump. Sabine, Ezra, and Chopper rejoined the crew, having assisted Saw in a separate mission and securing several technicians for the Rebellion.

Following their initial unsuccessful attempt to assist Lothal, which culminated in the Battle of Atollon, the Rebels commenced planning for a second attempt. Their strategy involved a deep cover operation, utilizing the vessel, the Broken Horn, instead of the Ghost. The two ships docked to facilitate the transfer of supplies onto the Broken Horn. Rex inquired about Zeb's absence from the supply loading, which included puffer pigs. Zeb explained that his presence frightened the creatures. Rex playfully remarked on his uniqueness, prompting Zeb to question if it was clone humor. To maintain their cover, the Spectres, including Zeb, adopted new attire to conceal their identities. Chopper entered the bridge, mocking Zeb and Ezra's headwear. Upon landing at Jhothal, Zeb received orders to scare the puffer pigs, in order to rescue Vizago from Imperial custody.

Following Vizago's rescue, Hera instructed the team to split up, tasking Sabine, Ezra, and Chopper with heading to Jho's cantina, while she, Kanan, and Zeb searched for transportation. Zeb successfully located transport, deeming it "convenient." However, Zeb was compelled to engage in combat with stormtroopers. After reuniting with the rest of the team, along with Jai Kell, they entered the deserted cantina, where Zeb disabled the controls. The group once again separated. Zeb and his unit were pursued by a probe droid, followed by two additional droids. Eventually, Zeb and his team regrouped and reached the surface, where they were greeted by Ryder in a U-Wing, co-piloted by Marida Sumar, facilitating the Rebels' escape.

Later on, Zeb, Ezra, Sabine, and Ryder Azadi were found observing an Imperial research facility situated in Lothal's wilderness. Zeb was originally doubtful of the TIE/D Defender Elites until he witnessed the fighter firsthand. Ezra and Sabine infiltrated the facility, while Zeb and Ryder remained concealed in the vegetation. Before Commander Vult Skerris had the chance to pilot the prototype, Ezra and Sabine commandeered the fighter and made their escape. As Ezra and Sabine engaged with Imperial fighters, Zeb and Ryder rejoined Kanan and Hera at Ryder's U-wing. When Zeb complained that he knew that the "kids" would pull off "something crazy," Kanan told him not to worry and departed with Hera to find the two Spectres. Zeb, Kanan and Hera later found Ezra and Sabine with the stolen flight data recorder.

The next day, Zeb, accompanied by Ezra and Jai Kell, disguised as scout troopers, returned to the TIE Defender Elite crash site to recover the ship's hyperdrive unit. Sabine proposed that the TIE Defender Elite's hyperdrive could be installed on Ryder's U-wing, providing the rebels with a means of escape. While Zeb waited on a speeder bike, Ezra and Kell searched the rocks. They located the hyperdrive with the assistance of a white loth-cat. Shortly after, Ezra and Kell were confronted by the Noghri tracker Rukh, dispatched by Thrawn to hunt down the rebels. As Ezra and Kell fled on a speeder bike, Zeb remained behind with the hyperdrive and successfully evaded an Imperial search party led by Governor Pryce. Zeb commandeered their Imperial Troop Transport and escaped with the hyperdrive, eventually reaching the Lothal resistance camp.

Initially, Zeb's rebel comrades mistook him for an enemy, but they were relieved when Zeb emerged from the vehicle with the hyperdrive. This allowed Sabine to install the hyperdrive on the U-wing. Following Hera and Chopper's departure from Lothal on the U-wing with the stolen flight data recorder, Zeb and the other rebels encountered a pack of loth-wolves, which led them into a network of underground caves and tunnels. These tunnels led them to Lothal's southern hemisphere.

After the Spectres and Ryder established a base in the caves they had recently discovered, Zeb and his comrades roamed Lothal's plains, where they stumbled upon the Mining Guild ore crawler Crawler 413-24, which was extracting minerals from Lothal's surface. Encouraged by Zeb, the rebels boarded the ore crawler and neutralized a security droid. After Ryder had used his speeder to transport the rebels aboard the crawler, Zeb and his comrades penetrated the cockpit, where they overpowered the Trandoshan Mining Guild captain Seevor. However, they were unable to prevent him from sending a distress signal. After knocking Seevor out, Zeb and Kanan entered the processing chamber. While Zeb searched the upper deck, Kanan searched the lower deck.

The two encountered several indentured prisoners including Vizago, who had been imprisoned for smuggling the Spectres into Lothal. Kanan was then attacked by the Trandoshan foreman Proach, who wielded an electro-whip. Proach managed to disarm Kanan of his lightsaber. Zeb rushed to Kanan's rescue and pointed his bo-rifle at the foreman. The foreman retreated to the upper deck using his electro-whip and fought Zeb. Zeb was unable to strike the Trandoshan with his bo-rifle. As the two squared off at a narrow catwalk, Proach tried to throw Zeb off, but the Lasat used his prehensile feet to pull his opponent over, leaving the two dangling over the guardrail. Despite Proach tightening his laser-whip around the Lasat's forearm, Zeb shook off his opponent. Proach fell to his death, and the rebels liberated the prisoners.

When an Imperial patrol arrived to investigate Seevor's distress transmission, Zeb helped the other rebels and liberated prisoners to maintain a ruse. Zeb used Proach's helmet and laser-whip to disguise himself as a foreman while Vizago plied the Imperial troops with smooth-talk. Though the Imperials left, Seevor escaped and shut down the crawler's reactor. Ezra pursued Seevor and killed the Trandoshan following a struggle. Following the death of Seevor, the freed prisoners agreed to join the Rebellion with Vizago taking control of the crawler. The Spectres then received news from Hera that Rebel Command had authorized a strike against the Imperial factories on Lothal. Zeb and the other rebels were designated as part of the ground support team.

As a part of the Rebel Alliance's ground support team on Lothal, Zeb, along with his fellow Spectres Kanan, Ezra, and Sabine, planted explosives on the air defense batteries stationed outside the Imperial Armored Complex on Lothal. When Zeb asked Sabine if the explosives were powerful enough, she assured him they would be. In response, Zeb remarked that the towers appeared larger up close. After planting their explosives, the rebels retreated on speeder bikes. When Ezra told him to hop on, Zeb hauled the youth to the backseat and insisted on driving the bike. Despite their success in taking out the air defenses, Thrawn's fleet wiped out Hera's T-65B X-wing starfighter squadron, forcing the rebels to abort their mission and retreat.

After regrouping with the Lothal resistance in Lothal's wilderness, Zeb helped Ezra and the others build Loth-bat gliders at Ezra's old hideout in order to rescue Hera. After they were built, Zeb joked to Kanan about the Jedi being glad that he is unable to see the gliders and jokingly says that he's glad the force is with Kanan. Zeb and Chopper then used a speeder bike to tow the gliders. Zeb then told the others to bring Hera Back.

Following the other Spectres' return from their rescue mission, Zeb and Chopper learned from Ezra that Kanan had perished during the mission, Zeb proceeded to give a sad-struck hug to the young Jedi. Overcome with grief, he and Sabine resolved to avenge Kanan's death by sabotaging Pryce's parade celebrating the Empire's "victory" over the Rebels. Zeb and Sabine departed the rebel camp on speeder bikes. Upon reaching the outskirts of Capital City, Zeb and Sabine scanned the horizon with macrobinoculars and Zeb noticed that the factories weren't producing smoke where he proclaimed to Sabine that "the Empire doesn't give days off" which led to their suspicions of the cause. Zeb also knocked out a scout troop. After using the scout trooper's speeder bike to link to the Imperial network on Lothal, Zeb and Sabine discovered that Governor Pryce was holding the parade to hide the fact that the destruction of the Lothal City fuel depot had destroyed the Empire's fuel supply and knocked out the TIE Defender factory on Lothal. Consequently, the two realized that Kanan had not died in vain.

With the Noghri tracker Rukh relentlessly pursuing them, Zeb and Sabine lured him into a trap on Lothal's open plains. Despite outnumbering Rukh, the Noghri was equipped with a cloaking device and fought off the two rebels. Following a fierce fight, Sabine exposed Rukh by detonating a paint bomb on him. This allowed Zeb to knock Rukh out. Overcome by rage, Zeb began bashing Rukh but was stopped from killing him by Sabine. After Sabine painted Rukh, Zeb sent him back to Capital City.

Reinvigorated, Zeb and Sabine returned to the rebel camp and informed Hera, Chopper, and Ezra that their mission to take out the TIE Defender factory on Lothal had succeeded. By then, Hera and Ezra had made peace with Kanan's death as well. The rebels then departed on a mission to save the Lothal Jedi Temple from the Empire.

Despite his skepticism, Zeb accompanied the other Spectres to Lothal's Jedi Temple. Zeb and the Spectres were then taken to the Temple by Dume and his fellow Loth-wolves, which were capable of generating hyper tunnels. Upon their arrival at the temple, the Spectres discovered that the Empire and Mining Guild had set up an excavation camp. To investigate what the Empire was doing to the Lothal Jedi Temple, Ezra and Sabine decided to infiltrate the excavation camp.

To facilitate the mission, Zeb incapacitated a pair of scout troopers, enabling Ezra and Sabine to steal their armor. While Ezra and Sabine infiltrated the excavation camp, Zeb, along with Hera and Chopper, maintained watch outside the camp. While surveying the camp, Zeb spotted an an old man, who turned out to be the Imperial Minister Veris Hydan. Zeb then saw Ezra open a portal to a gateway. After Ezra and Sabine informed them that the Emperor was interested in the Lothal Jedi Temple, Zeb convinced Hera to remember the purpose of their mission.

Using the Lothal Jedi Temple key stone as a guide, Ezra and Sabine attempted to unlock the Painting of the Mortis gods. Though Sabine was detained by stormtrooper sentries, Ezra managed to unlock the painting. Zeb and Hera witnessed these developments and wondered if Sabine had been discovered by the Imperials. When Hera remarked that Ezra had moved to the shadows, Zeb was initially disbelieving and took over the macrobinoculars. After Minister Hydan discovered Sabine's presence and raised the alarm, Zeb and the other rebels retreated from the Temple.

After retreating a safe distance, Zeb, Hera, and Chopper continued to watch the Temple. They did not know if Ezra had escaped capture; Ezra had in fact entered a portal which led to the World Between Worlds. Knowing that the Imperials had taken Sabine prisoner, Zeb and his rebel comrades decided to infiltrate the camp. After leaving Chopper to guard the painting where Ezra had disappeared into, Zeb and Hera headed towards the building on the far side of the camp to which Sabine had been taken: the mobile command center where Minister Hydan was interrogating Sabine about her knowledge of the portal.

As part of their rescue plan, Hera decided to detonate one of the thrusters beneath Hydan's mobile command center. On Hera's instruction, Zeb signaled Sabine by knocking on the hull of the mobile command center. This caused the structure to tilt upwards and crash on several crates. Zeb, Hera, and Sabine took the opportunity to escape but were pursued by several stormtroopers and death troopers. Zeb knocked out a stormtrooper in the process. Heading towards the portal, the Spectres encountered Ezra, who had barely escaped the Emperor's clutches. Ezra convinced Zeb and Sabine to help them seal the portal to prevent the Empire from accessing the World Between Worlds.

After locking back the portal, Zeb carried an unconscious Ezra, and the rebels escaped aboard a stolen Mining Guild excavation driller as the Jedi Temple sank into the ground around them. Following their mission, Zeb complimented Ezra by telling him that "if that was what he and Kanan used to do on their Jedi missions," he could keep it.

Following the events at the Lothal Jedi Temple, Zeb, along with the other Spectres and Ryder Azadi's Lothal resistance group, participated in Ezra's plan to lure Governor Pryce into a trap at the Lothal cliff dwelling. Capturing Pryce was key to Ezra's plan to liberate Lothal from Imperial rule. This plan involved using Ryder Azadi to lure Pryce and her forces to the rebel base by pretending to betray the rebels.

During the assault on the Lothal rebels' cliff base, Zeb used his mortar to fire upon Imperial patrol transports and stormtroopers. When his mortar ran out of juice, Zeb tossed it at the troopers. Outnumbered, Zeb and the remaining rebels retreated to a defensive position on the Mining guild ore crawler. When Governor Pryce bombarded the ore crawler, Zeb, Ezra, and the other Spectres escaped the wreckage but were taken prisoner by Pryce's forces.

However, Governor Pryce's forces were attacked by Hera Syndulla's reinforcements including Rex, Kallus, and the clone trooper officers Gregor and Wolffe. While the Ghost took out Pryce's patrol transport, the remaining Imperial troops were overwhelmed by a pack of loth-wolves. Zeb took several surrendering stormtroopers prisoner and witnessed the white loth-wolf deliver a captive Pryce to Zeb and his fellow rebels: Ryder, Rex, and Kallus.

The second stage of Ezra's plan to liberate Lothal involved infiltrating Capital City and seizing control of the "Dome," which turned out to be a mobile Imperial Planetary Occupation Facility. Zeb, posing as a prisoner, traveled to the Imperial Complex with Ezra, Sabine, Kallus, and their prisoner Pryce aboard a patrol transport. After landing, Zeb attacked the stormtroopers and held the blast door open long enough for him, Sabine, and Ketsu to get in.

Inside the complex, Zeb and his fellow rebels fought their way into the Dome's command center, shooting down several stormtroopers during the ensuing gun battle. To distract the Imperial officers inside the command center, Zeb and Hondo tossed Melch onto the transparisteel canopy of the command center. This distraction enabled Ezra and the other rebels to enter the command center and force the Imperial officers' surrender.

Having secured the Dome, the rebels initiated Protocol 13, a planetwide evacuation of all Imperial forces on Lothal. Though this plan worked, the rebels were not able to start the Dome's engines and lift off before the return of Grand Admiral Thrawn's flagship Chimaera. Since Thrawn's Noghri assassin Rukh had disabled the Dome's deflector shields, Thrawn was able to bombard Capital City, destroying several buildings and inflicting casualties on the civilian population. In order to stop the bombardment, Ezra offered to come aboard the Chimaera to surrender.

While the rebels discussed their next response, Zeb suggested that they use the Dome's cannons against the Chimaera, but Rex said they would not be strong enough. Sabine proposed that the rebels study the base schematics to find a way to raise the shields and take control of the power terminals. After Ezra departed to confront Thrawn, the rebels adopted Sabine's plan.

When Imperial reinforcements attempted to retake the command center, Zeb helped Hondo and Melch ambush and drive away the attack party. Putting Sabine's plan into action, Zeb along with Kallus and Gregor were organized into Team B, which was tasked with going to the Dome's south tower to reactivate the city's shields. There, they were attacked by Rukh and several death troopers.

During the skirmish, Zeb fought Rukh while navigating through the power conduits of the north tower. After he took Rukh down there with him, Zeb trapped Rukh's leg between two metal bars on a conduit. When the shields turned on, Zeb watched as Rukh was electrocuted. When Thrawn tried to contact Rukh on his comlink, Zeb mockingly told Thrawn that Rukh was unavailable and that he shouldn't bother calling back while Rukh screamed in the background.

When the Chimaera was taken into hyperspace by a pod of purrgil, Zeb and the rest of the rebel forces escaped from the Dome aboard the Ghost, which was being flown by Wolffe, Mart Mattin, and Cikatro Vizago. After escaping the Dome, Sabine triggered its self-destruct mechanism. Following the Liberation of Lothal, the Spectres considered finding Ezra. However, they received a prerecorded transmission from Ezra that was played by Chopper. In that message, Zeb was given the top bunk in their cabin back though at least until Ezra had returned. Following the Liberation of Lothal, Zeb also said that they didn't need the Rebel Alliance due to their victory. Despite the rebels' expectations, the Empire did not return to Lothal.

Despite earlier reservations about the need to be involved in the wider Rebellion, Zeb would continue serving the Alliance. By the time of the Mutiny on Mon Cala, Orrelios was a member of the Alliance High Command and attended a meeting of the High Command at the Mako-Ta Base along with Hera.

Following the Alliance's decisive triumph at the battle of Endor, which witnessed the demise of Emperor Palpatine and the end of the war itself, Orrelios escorted Kallus aboard a Nebulon-B2 frigate. Together, they journeyed to Lira San to demonstrate to Kallus that he had not eradicated the entire Lasat race.

Orrelios also enlisted in the New Republic Defense Fleet and dedicated himself to training new recruits. Around 9 ABY, Zeb was relaxing in a bar at Adelphi Base. He approached Captain Carson Teva after hearing a distress message left by Greef Karga about a pirate siege on Nevarro. When Teva said that he would request permission from Coruscant to get the New Republic involved, Zeb told him that he would never get an answer in time as they had not returned a dispatch in weeks. After Teva expressed his intent to talk to them in person, Zeb commended the captain's attitude and wished him good luck. When Wren finally found the missing Bridger on Peridea, she told him about Orrelios's training work.

Haunted by the near annihilation of his people, Garazeb Orrelios presented a rough and irritable exterior, prone to outbursts of anger and violence. However, beneath this facade, Zeb was a deeply compassionate individual who held great affection for his fellow members of the Ghost crew, as well as those negatively impacted by the Empire. Zeb possessed a strong moral compass, urging Kanan against selling disruptor rifles to Cikatro Vizago for financial gain. Nevertheless, he kept his Honor Guard medallion and a small pouch of Lasan dust in his quarters as reminders of his home. He frequently expressed his disdain for the Empire by physically assaulting stormtroopers, an act he thoroughly enjoyed. He utilized his formidable combat skills to defend defenseless citizens oppressed by the Empire, even refusing monetary compensation for his actions. He often voiced his frustration by exclaiming "Karabast!"

Despite his fundamentally kind nature, Zeb was quick to anger and prone to impulsive actions, which often led him into trouble. Agent Kallus easily provoked him into needlessly risking his life by taunting him about the genocide of his people. Zeb attempted to project an image of stoicism and seriousness, but he also possessed a dry sense of humor and occasionally revealed a more childlike side. His skills were invaluable to the crew, but his impulsiveness sometimes caused difficulties. He once made a bet with Chopper in a game of sabacc and lost, much to his surprise. Ezra and Chopper frequently involved him in their juvenile antics.

Hera maintained a maternal relationship with Zeb, as she did with most of the crew, and Zeb held her in the highest regard, rarely questioning her instructions, referring to her as the "sane one" of the crew. He reluctantly formed a brotherly bond with Ezra after initially reacting with hostility towards him, even resorting to physical threats on several occasions. After being compelled to abandon Ezra following a failed rescue attempt, he experienced a profound sense of guilt until the boy's return. He particularly detested the crew's droid, Chopper, whom he considered useless in most practical situations and little more than a nuisance and liability to the crew. Gradually, he came to accept the droid's eccentricity and expressed genuine surprise and gratitude when Chopper saved the crew. Still, this did not stop Zeb from teasing Chopper on one occasion about his mismatched ambulatory strut. Despite their tense relationship, Zeb still respected Chopper sufficiently to come to his aid during a fraught mission to recover medical supplies from an abandoned space station. Although Kanan was not quick to trust Rex, Wolffe, and Gregor, Zeb got along with them very well despite being tricked into being joopa bait. When Rex joined the Rebels and began to be a more constant presence around the crew, Zeb would often joke around with the former clone captain.

Due to his experiences during the Siege of Lasan, Zeb believed that he had failed to protect his people and the Lasan royal family. His guilt and shame led him to hide the fact that he had once been a Captain in the Lasan High Honor Guard from even his fellow rebels. Zeb was also skeptical of the supernatural and initially believed that the Lasat refuge of Lira San was a myth. Zeb was able to overcome his past guilt by fulfilling an ancient Lasat prophecy which involved him fulfilling three different roles: the "Child," the "Fool," and the "Warrior." In the process, Zeb made a leap of faith by letting the Force guide his bo-rifle to Lira San.

Zeb showed ingenuity when he used a stolen Imperial Troop Transport to ferry a stolen hyperdrive back to his rebel comrades. Later, Zeb showed initiative when he convinced his rebel comrades to board a Mining Guild ore crawler.

Although a formidable combatant, Zeb held honor in high regard and refused to engage an injured foe. Despite the adversarial nature of his relationship with Imperial Security Bureau Agent Kallus, a surprising bond formed between them during a mission on Geonosis. He came to understand that Kallus wasn't the monster he'd believed him to be, and that the Imperial agent also valued honor. This newfound respect was strengthened when the two unlikely allies had to work together to survive the harsh cold and dangerous bonzami monsters while stranded on the ice moon of Bahryn. This experience led Zeb to the realization that not every member of the Empire was inherently evil.

In spite of his bravery, Zeb harbored a strong dislike for insects, particularly the large krykna creatures found on Atollon, which he greatly feared. On missions, Zeb was a cooperative team member who followed his leader's orders. After Ezra's reconnaissance mission on Reklam Station went wrong, Zeb volunteered to take responsibility until Hera clarified that the fault lay with Ezra. Zeb viewed the Iron Squadron as a group of inexperienced and naive individuals, similar to Ezra, who didn't fully grasp the gravity of their fight.

Zeb held a negative opinion of the pirate Hondo Ohnaka, considering him untrustworthy and deceitful. He harbored distrust for the pirate, viewing him as a liar after discovering that Hondo had withheld crucial information during a retrieval mission on the planet Wynkahthu: specifically, the loss of most of his Ugnaught crew in a previous attempt. Zeb's disdain for Ohnaka was evident when he threatened to tear off the Weequay's arms and demanded that the rebels' cargo of proton bombs be prioritized over Hondo and his companion Azmorigan's treasure. Despite his dislike for Azmorigan, Zeb's concern for his team's safety prompted him to search for the Jablogian. When Ezra questioned his leadership of the mission, Zeb asserted that it was his turn to lead, given Ezra's previous command roles. Despite assuming the leadership position, Zeb still deferred to Captain Syndulla's authority.

Initially, Zeb, a seasoned warrior, expressed disappointment when he couldn't participate in a training exercise because Captain Syndulla required someone to guard Chopper Base. While Zeb found AP-5's jokes about him irritating, and the inventory droid's meticulous attention to detail somewhat bothersome, he still admired AP-5's clever plan to repurpose a captured E-XD infiltrator droid into a time bomb against the Empire. Through their collaboration with Chopper in defeating the Infiltrator Droid EXD-9, Zeb and AP-5 developed a greater respect for each other. Zeb appreciated AP-5's wit and ingenuity, while AP-5 came to admire Zeb's martial skills and capabilities. Zeb was also known for his good sense of humor during challenging times, such as during the Battle of Atollon.

The death of Kanan during a mission to rescue Hera filled Zeb with immense grief and rage. Driven by a desire for revenge against the Empire, he and Sabine resolved to disrupt the Imperial victory parade. Subsequently, Zeb and Sabine discovered that Kanan's sacrifice had not been in vain, as the explosion that took his life had significantly crippled Imperial military production on Lothal. Zeb nearly killed the Noghri tracker Rukh but refrained from doing so at Sabine's urging, who spared his life but spray-painted the Imperial tracker. Although initially hesitant about the Spectres' mission to save the Lothal Jedi Temple, Zeb insisted that they proceed despite learning of the Emperor's interest in the excavation site.

During the Liberation of Lothal, Zeb effectively collaborated with his rebel comrades in an operation to trap Governor Pryce and in an assault on the "Dome." Zeb's intense hatred for the Empire and Rukh led him to find satisfaction in Rukh's electrocution following the restoration of the Dome's shields. After the Battle of Endor, Zeb and Kallus journeyed together to Lira San, the original homeworld of the Lasat people, where the species continued to flourish.

Being a Lasat, Zeb possessed physical capabilities surpassing those of humans, including enhanced strength, agility, and reflexes. He could effortlessly overpower stormtroopers, execute incredible jumps and leaps, manually adjust the Ghost's dorsal turret from outside the ship, and briefly contend with and push back the equally strong Fifth Brother, although he was eventually defeated.

His strength allowed him to lift and carry other beings, such as Chava, Ezra Bridger, or Kallus. While stranded on Bahryn, Zeb displayed remarkable skill in climbing out of an icy cave while carrying Kallus.

Zeb's strength was also evident in his ability to confront the Imperial Infiltrator Droid EXD-9. He could withstand significant damage from the powerful recon droid. Furthermore, Zeb demonstrated the ability to hold a hyperdrive unit in one hand while simultaneously clinging to rocks. Zeb utilized his physical strength to subdue the Mining Guild captain Seevor. He also performed admirably against the Mining Guild overseer Proach, who wielded an electro-whip. Despite being outmaneuvered by his opponent's agility, Zeb employed his strength and brute force to secure victory. While the electro-whip caused him pain, Zeb managed to shake off Proach and hold on long enough for Kanan to come to his aid.

Zeb's formidable hand-to-hand combat skills were largely attributed to his Lasat physiology, and he would have fatally wounded Rukh during their initial encounter if not for Sabine's intervention. During the liberation of Lothal, Zeb used his prehensile legs to force open the blast doors to the Dome's upper level and later to trap Rukh's leg between two metal bars.

Having been a member of the Lasat Honor Guard, Zeb was a proficient fighter trained in the art of the bo-rifle. His large size and combat skills made him the "muscle" of the small Lothalian rebel cell. He enjoyed engaging in combat and defeating stormtroopers. While Zeb couldn't match the Force abilities of the Inquisitors known as the Fifth Brother and the Seventh Sister, he successfully rescued his companions Ezra and Sabine by leading them and their captors to a hangar bay, where they made a quick escape in their shuttle, the Phantom. Zeb's combat skills fostered a sense of pride in his warrior abilities, and he took offense when referred to as a child or fool.

Despite lacking formal training, Orrelios proved to be a competent pilot, once commandeering an Imperial TIE fighter and teaching himself to fly it. During this impromptu flight, Orrelios managed to hover, spin, fire the cannons, fly sideways, and land without causing any damage to the craft. Orrelios and Bridger were forced to land to clean the canopy, which had been covered in fruit juices. After resuming flight, Orrelios attacked an Imperial prisoner transport convoy and rescued Ezra Bridger by flying upside down with his head and arms hanging out of the open cockpit, controlling the yoke with his feet.

Despite his combat prowess, Zeb was no match for the Force abilities of the former Sith Maul, who easily defeated Zeb and his comrades. Zeb also demonstrated competence as a tactician, collaborating with the former Imperial inventory droid AP-5 to devise a plan to evacuate cargo from a derelict Imperial cargo ship. He also possessed familiarity with technology such as grappling hooks and magnetic cables.

Although Zeb and Sabine were outmatched by Rukh's cloaking device, they successfully worked together to overcome him. Zeb was also a skilled marksman, using his mortar to target Imperial troops and patrol transports during a skirmish at the Lothal cliff dwelling.

Garazeb Orrelios was initially introduced as a character from the upcoming animated series Star Wars Rebels at the January 2014 Nuremberg International Toy Fair. Zeb is mentioned on the packaging of the LEGO Star Wars Rebels Ghost model, encouraging players to position Zeb on patrol in the Ghost's 360-degree rotating cockpit. The Nuremburg box labeled the character "Zeb Orretios," but images of the finalized set boxes corrected his name to Orrelios.

The character is voiced by veteran actor Steve Blum in the series. Orrelios's introductory video stated that he was a new species based on Ralph McQuarrie's concept art for the Wookiee Chewbacca. However, the concept art had already served as the basis for the Lasat species, and the Launch Pad department of Star Wars Insider 148 accurately identified him as a Lasat.

The character made his live-action debut in "Chapter 21: The Pirate," the fifth episode of the third season of The Mandalorian. Steve Blum reprised his role as the voice actor, and a motion capture artist performed the physical movements.

Zeb Orrelios makes an appearance in Angry Birds Star Wars II. He was aboard the Ghost when Sabine Wren and Hera Syndulla rescued the orphan Ezra Bridger and escaped from Agent Kallus. In the LEGO Star Wars Rebels Movie Shorts, Orrelios, Jarrus, and Syndulla were shown drinking in the Mos Eisley Cantina when Bridger called for a rescue. They boarded the Ghost and rescued the young orphan. Bridger then suggested they charge the Star Destroyer's bridge and hide behind it, eventually resulting in the warship jumping to hyperspace. On another occasion, the Ghost sustained damage from a Star Destroyer, necessitating a stop at a space station for repairs. Orrelios and Jarrus departed in escape pods and landed on a planet. Bridger rescued them and transported them to the station in time to complete the repairs on their starship.