Derik Lavi

"I flew all the way from Israel to chase space criminals in this piece of junk."

- Upon seeing the Felth's Pride for the first time.

Derik Lavi is an Israeli-born Remnant Army Officer who transferred in after his required Israeli military service was completed. He was assigned during the war as a cook on board the Star Destroyer Firestorm after objecting to a ground deployment for personal reasons which was approved largely due to General Veers being annoyed at the frequent reports being filed against him by Tevin Felth. After the war had ended, he was sent back to Israel to work with Mossad as the Empire, United States, and Israel worked to locate victims of Moff Jerjerrod's criminal rampages across Europe where he was trained as an assassin by Mossad. He was involved with the operation to rescue hostages that were taken during the hijacking of America Airways Flight 937 and was known to have cheered news reports of Ryan Pratchard's AT-AT squadrons blasting their way across Lebanon. He would later work with the New York officers again when a Mossad agent who was undercover in Black Sun was found dead. During this visit he informed Miguel Chavez that the gang leader responsible for trying to kill him had escaped from a civilian jail and was later killed as an escaped prisoner by Imperial troops under the command of Hector Gonzalez in Colombia and later offended Tevin by referring to the Felth's Pride as a "piece of junk". He is currently assigned to the New York office.

In 2019, Tevin mentioned to Richie Terrik that Mossad Director Orli Elbaz had recalled Derik back to Israel.

Relationship with coworkers
"I will kill you 18 different ways with this paperclip."

- After Max assumes that he dates women over the internet.

Derik has a decent relationship with his coworkers, although Max Walertin tends to annoy him resulting in Derik revealing that he can kill 18 different ways with a paperclip (and receiving a headslap from Bryan Khayman as well) after Walertin assumed that he dated women on the internet. Max once annoyed Derik so bad that Hodurski found Max cowering in a supply room begging to not let Derik find him.

Methods of killing
Derik has claimed to be able to kill people without leaving a trace using various weapons including office supplies.

These include:
 * A paperclip (18 different ways)
 * Backhanding someone across the neck
 * Driving like a psychopath (Tyler: I think he was a cabbie in a previous life.)
 * Staples (34 different ways)
 * And other ways that are only hinted at.
 * And other ways that are only hinted at.