Kre'fey's task force then returned to Garqi, where Darklighter deployed to screen the recovery of Horn's team. Darklighter was embarrassed and resentful, and Antilles perceived that, knowing that Darklighter's skills were far from the worst in the squadron. [9][6][14][19][5] All color illustrations of Darklighter show him with hair of such dark brown coloration as to appear black. In the wake of the disaster, Senatorial oversight of the military was reinstated. [21] The Rogues were expanded vastly, turned into a multi-fighter unit based around E-wings and B-wings, and based on Lusankya, which Antilles departed the squadron to command, leaving Celchu as Rogue Leader. [35][4] Finally, in 29 ABY, the Galactic Alliance leadership decided that the time was right to retake Coruscant. There, Darklighter insisted to Solo that Bwua'tu, now commanding the First Fleet, be given command of Kuat's defense. Though the pair were biologically prevented from having children, Darklighter proposed that they adopt, suggesting two indigent children who lived outside the Rogue Squadron hangar, and Sei'lar insisted they adopt at least one Bothan. Star Wars: Empire #8 Darklighter (part 1 of 4) Everybody remembers the scene in A New Hope where Biggs Darklighter heroically sacrifices himself during the attack on the Death Star. [6], By the time Darklighter returned to the Yag'Dhul station, the squadron had purchased its old fighters from the New Republic, friendly forces within the bureaucracy having classified the fighters as surplus. Their insertion to the planet amid a meteor shower was clear, but a patrol of twelve TIE/LN starfighters was detected crossing their path. Celchu suggested that Darklighter be apprenticed to the best pilot in the squadron, a solution with which Antilles concurred, thinking that Horn, who had the most kills, would not be particularly rough on the young man. [19], On the mission, the Rogues were ambushed by six squadrons of fighters, a full wing. The Rogues destroyed the Strike Cruiser Termagant with a proton torpedo volley, then entered a dogfight with the remaining TIEs. Calrissian was able to determine that no tracking devices had been used, meaning that refugees were selling each other out. Krennel issued a holographic message in which he accused the New Republic of framing him and positioned himself as a foe of superweapons. Meanwhile, Darklighter reviewed the list of pilots who had run Dubrillion's asteroid belt and selected the best to fill the openings in the squadron. Solita Darklighter (daughter) [26], Darklighter continued battling the Yuuzhan Vong for several more months. There they established their new base. [19], Darklighter, along with the other Rogues, believed Sei'lar dead. Ultimately unsuccessful, it saw Solo wounded and put on medical leave. The subject of this article appeared in the Rise of the Empire era. Darklighter brought down two Interceptors with proton torpedoes before the Imperials were even aware of his presence, then followed a third down into the Halanit colony, destroying it in view of Dlarit, who was present as commander of the Thyferran TIE complement. At a signal from Kre'fey, Darklighter rounded on him, accusing Fey'lya of attempting to deliberately mislead the New Republic and its military and attempting to cover up a massive threat. Darklighter's parents were very proud indeed. Gavin's grandfather looked only at the end of his life, regretting missed opportunities. Dera Darklighter (daughter) Only by emptying his entire proton torpedo magazine into the singularity and diving towards it to pick up enough momentum to pull up and skim just past its event horizon did he escape, but he lost his shields in the process. Of course it isn’t that way, and part of the film making process is footage … Darklighter was assigned to hold the Murgo Choke, one approach into the nebula. Darklighter very nearly refused to comply, but finally accepted Solo's reasoning. During their layover at Sluis Van, Thrawn began one of the first battles of his campaign. [1] The time Antilles spent with him comforted him greatly and helped him work through his grief. Darklighter pulled the Rogues away to check them out, and found a pirate fleet of uglies, badly damaged, waiting in the asteroids. Thinking it unlikely to be a Yuuzhan Vong assassination attempt, Darklighter entered his office and was amused and pleased to find Antilles and Celchu. While the others covered them, Darklighter and Antilles crept into the residence. Grand Master Skywalker—who had infiltrated the Temple at the start of the operation and had managed to breach the exterior of the building to allow marine reinforcements to enter before being med-evaced—confirmed that the Temple was not only full of Sith, but Abeloth was present as well. The Bothan admiral told him that the exotic fighter was called a coralskipper and was used by a mysterious alien race—the Yuuzhan Vong—who had recently invaded the Outer Rim and made use of biological technology. Darklighter took to the squadron, however, and was the one to create its twelve-starfighter crest, which quickly caught on as the symbol of Rogue Squadron despite having no official endorsement. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. Condition. There were four pipefighters, and together they produced a network of laser fire that launched a beam into space. Huff, said Jula, had looked out long ago and chosen to ignore it, to build up his own world on Tatooine. Darklighter stunned the woman and Antilles made Yonka the offer to defect. Sei'lar flew with reckless abandon and skill, as she had since her argument with Fey'lya, but slammed into a TIE Bomber. In 25 ABY, Rogue Squadron was attached to the First Fleet and stationed on the Ralroost under Admiral Traest Kre'fey, the brother of Karka Kre'fey, who had slapped Darklighter on Coruscant almost twenty years ago. The New Republic fleet was supposed to launch a surprise attack and secure a crystal gravfield trap from the Bilbringi shipyards, which was needed to detect the cloaked asteroids in Coruscant's orbit. Take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. [19], Rogue Squadron's next strike was at Commenor, where the components in the implanted device which killed Sette had been traced. When it was revealed that Booster Terrik, Mirax's father, was in the next room, however, the legendary smuggler forced Huff to provide the arms at prices below market value. [8], They detected no Vong following them, so Kre'fey offloaded the refugees onto Dantooine, as he did not have enough supplies to sustain them, and made for the Core to report in. A young Gavin Darklighter in Rogue Squadron. Darklighter and the other pilots spent two weeks in intense training and simulations for the mission. Darklighter was forced to stand helplessly by and watch as the Leresai destroyed a space station, killing twenty-one innocent Bothans in retaliation. The Vong picked off a full four of his pilots, leading him to take great pleasure in destroying several landing craft. When Dan'kre led Sei'lar away to talk, Darklighter let her go and turned to the bar, where the other non-Bothans were congregating. When the Second Galactic Civil War broke out, Darklighter continued to serve the Galactic Alliance despite having friends on both sides, but increasingly grew to resent Jacen Solo's methods of operating the Galactic Alliance. Darklighter became increasingly taken by Sei'lar, and finally worked up the courage to ask Horn about interspecies dating. Gavin Darklighter was a Human male from Tatooine born during the Imperial Period. Solo began to wonder if Darklighter's ascent to command could be the key event he had sensed which would swing the tide of the war firmly in the Galactic Alliance's favor. Antilles planned to hold Borleias against the Vong as long as he could, providing a secure route for escape from Coruscant and destroying as many enemies as possible. No longer in New Republic service, the fighters were given new, individualized paint jobs and transponder codes; Darklighter's X-wing was repainted to resemble Tatooine's top predator, the Krayt dragon. Instead, he was eager to destroy the superweapon, being infuriated that he had provided evidence of its existence over a year ago and no action had been taken. At Bwua'tu's request, Darklighter transferred over to the Ackbar to be there when Organa Solo awoke. Without the formalities of rank, the cafeteria was turned into an area of recreation, with sabacc, astromech races, and other such amusements. When the Yuuzhan Vong invasion fleet arrived, its formation resembled that of a yammosk, with multiple tentacles of coralskippers and small gunships radiating from the main body of capital ships. They provided fighter cover for his operations and, when the Wraiths joined the task force, frequently worked in joint missions such as the feint at Lavisar. [4], In short order, the Galactic Republic was ready for the invasion of Coruscant. Ten being known to be Qrygg, Darklighter, who was known to be in the squadron at the time, must thus have had a line in the novel, though his callsign—and thus his precise line—are unknown. Star Wars fan, Sonic fandom restored, trying to learn SFM to share all things silly and fun.Profile picture and made by Cosmic Pixel Horn came alongside him in the Imperial base and assured him that, while the pain would never leave him, it would recede in time. Darklighter was a major supporting character throughout the X-wing series; Rogue Squadron lacked any scenes written from Darklighter's point of view, but every subsequent X-wing novel written by Stackpole included Darklighter's point of view. Fel and some of his pilots stayed behind, flying joint operations with the Rogues. Zsinj ambushed them, however, and the Rogues destroyed a Carrack-class cruiser on the way out—through Zsinj's forces. His other main subordinate was Major Alinn Varth, who led Three Flight. They accepted him as a peer, but Darklighter always looked to them as leaders. After that was complete, Darklighter, along with the rest of Rogue Squadron, was awarded the newly created Coruscant Star of Valor, the highest military decoration the New Republic could give, in a ceremony in which Terrik was also revealed as having survived. Darklighter accepted Skywalker's wisdom and opened a private channel to Solo, apologizing for having bowed to political pressure, ordering her to watch over the Skywalkers, and letting her know that she still had a place in the squadron. As the ships prepared to leave, however, the Victory II-class Star Destroyer Corrupter under Ait Convarion, one of Isard's four Star Destroyers, jumped into the system, unleashing a torrent of fire. All the pilots were sent down in independent cells, none knowing if any others were along. [26], On Garqi, Horn had learned that the Yuuzhan Vong's vonduun crab armor was allergic to the pollen of the Bafforr tree. With the Jedi gone from Coruscant, Abeloth and her Sith allies infiltrated the Senate and governmental bodies, even going as far as to arrange for Abeloth's assumed form, Senator Kem, to be elected as the Galactic Alliance's Chief of State. Skywalker declined, telling Darklighter that Fey'lya was only doing as he thought best and that the problem would not be fixed by losing faith in democracy. The Rogues flew cover, but a spy in Karrde's organization had leaked the location, causing Isard to ambush them with Corrupter and an Interdictor rented from the warlord Treuten Teradoc. Darklighter once more released Solo to tend to her Jedi duties and see her newborn cousin, Ben Skywalker, though the unfavorable status of the Jedi was soon lifted. Escorting the hostages aboard the freighter to the airlock for evacuation, Darklighter found four voxyn waiting between him and the airlock. Kre'fey informed him that he had insulted the family honor and challenged him to a duel, but Darklighter refused. [15], The task force left dock and arrived in the Levian system, site of a recent raid by Zsinj. Instead, Darklighter was generally able to work for administrations and superior officers he did not care for, reminding them of his position but never being outright insubordinate. Darklighter refused to be taken in by appeals to pride and told Dlarit that he was not stupid enough to turn around to engage her while Corrupter cut him off. The Alien Combine members marched him to a warehouse-like area. Upon observing a suspicious freighter, Antilles scrambled the Rogues from the Larkhess; shortly after doing so, the freighter launched a mass of TIEs which had been hidden inside a cloaked cargo bay. Celchu, who had spent time in Isard's Lusankya facility, immediately fell under suspicion and was arrested and accused of sabotaging Horn's fighter to cause his death. When he expressed this emotion, Biggs was brought up, and Antilles shared stories of the man, giving Darklighter a better feel for his cousin as a person. Jula explained that all Darklighter men reached a point in their lives at which they looked at the outer world, at the possibilities beyond. New Republic[1]Rogue Squadron[1]Galactic Federation of Free Alliances[4]Galactic Alliance Defense Force Fleet Command[5]Rogue Squadron[4]Galactic Alliance Fourth Fleet[3] Darklighter flew into combat with Antilles to protect Solo, Skywalker and their team. He did the same when Dlarit taunted him over Halanit. As Shiel was grounded, Darklighter was paired with Rhysati Ynr for the mission. [12], The Rogues were then transferred to Mon Remonda, Solo's flagship, to provide direct support to Solo's task force. They were to be inserted covertly on the planet and to scout its defense network for weak points. At some point, the Darklighters themselves moved onto the farm, and Darklighter spent several of his formative years where Luke Skywalker had grown up. However, Halanit had been totally destroyed, and Darklighter demanded that the Rogues make Isard and her cronies pay. Ralroost and its accompanying task force hypered in, battered their way to the superweapon, and destroyed it as Darklighter and the surviving Rogues and Avengers kept the Yuuzhan Vong off the capital ships. When he wanted to pursue a relationship with Sei'lar, it was Horn he asked about interspecies dating. She left, and Darklighter never learned of her survival. The Rogues pursued it and Darklighter ordered its boarding. The anti-Imperial guerrilla group led by Elscol Loro and Sixtus Quin had also joined the effort. He was nearly killed by return fire before Sei'lar returned the favor, tugging Darklighter down and blasting the stormtrooper. [13] Darklighter next appeared in Stackpole's Dark Tide Duology, in which Stackpole established Darklighter as Rogue Leader. With that, Fey'lya realized he could not succeed. 1998 The Power of the Force. After a brief conversation with Herrit Gordon, a New Republic diplomat who had been posted to Bothawui, Darklighter was confronted by Karka Kre'fey, the grandson of Laryn Kre'fey. [2][33] Meanwhile, the Jedi made multiple runs in their starfighters, penetrating the approaching fleet and destroying multiple yammosks. To those outside, they would appear simply to be Antilles's senior advisors. The captain made the choice to stand down and defect, and Darklighter, Shiel, and two Chir'daki pilots were assigned to escort the Alazhi to its destination. Rogue Squadron was assigned to the effort. [8], Though Darklighter may have found some stability in his personal life, it was hardly a time of peace. The Rogues escaped and fled up a large building, but were pinned down by stormtroopers when Celchu suddenly appeared in a Z-95 Headhunter fighter, destroying the opposition. They were shortly joined by the Twi'lek warrior Tal'dira, whom they had met on Ryloth, and a squadron of his hybrid Chir'daki fighters. When Donos fired on it from its port, it sideslipped starboard, directly into Darklighter's sights; he destroyed the shuttle and killed its pilot, Colonel Lorrir. [23][2], The matter of Darklighter's rank is slightly confused. [6], Some time later, Darklighter's father purchased the Lars family farm from Throgg, whom Huff Darklighter had been planning to ruin financially due to the imposition of an alien landowner tax, and allowed Throgg to stay on as a tenant rather than let Huff ruin him and gain the farm. Kre'fey asked Darklighter if the reports he had heard regarding his grandfather's unpreparedness for battle at Borleias were true. During the confrontation between Daala and the Jedi Order in 43 ABY, Darklighter remained sympathetic to the Jedi. 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