Background
Rida began her military service to the empire entierly out of her own choise, hoping to achive glory and recognition for her impressive skill behind a star ship in the imperial navy. Whilst many officers questioned her commitment to the empire (rightfully so) she was too good of an opportunity to give up. After her training she was asigned to several capital ships during her relativly short service of 3 years, managing to score over 60 confirmed kills against rebel and pirate ships. How she managed to stay in the navy long enough to get the kills was the most impressive part as she was a hot headed glory seaking pilot working only to increese the number of medals on her chest. The final straw was lost when she purpisfully abandoned a squadron of bombers she had been asigned to escort in order to hunt down a rebel squad of x-wings. She was dishonerably discharged and without a second thought became one of the many imperials defecting to the rebelion, not due to any ideological or philosophical reason, but to achive more personal glory and be decorated with even more medals.
Motivation
Glory. Rida joined and served in the imperial navy in search of recognition and reward for her service, and just because the empire dropped her its not going to stop her covering her chest and ship in medals.