Dax Olesa

Dax Olesa was born in 42 BBY, just 20 years before the start of the Clone Wars. He fought as a lone skirmisher, attacking key locations in the Separatist systems. He, and a small group of friends, got hold of several high powered weapons and starships, and trained themselves in a secret facility in Dax's house. Shortly before the end of the Clone Wars, when Palpatine announced the rise of the Empire and the Jedi Rebellion, Dax believed him, and joined the Imperial Army.

He left the army shortly after the dissolution of the Senate. He believed the Senate was holding the galaxy together; he was okay with an Empire, but not without a Senate.

He joined the Rebellion, but not before tuning his skills, and attacking the Imperial stronghold on Naboo. He was marked as a traitor and was sentenced to death. As a member of the Rebel Alliance, he quickly rose through the ranks, which culminated in his promotion to the rank of captain, and he earned a positive reputation as a pilot, because of the many feats he accomplished during battle. He died in 53 ABY in a medical facility on Coruscant, 25 years after the Battle of Wayland, due to a poisoning by members of the Imperial Remnant.

Early life
"The Federation will pay for what they did to my parents"

- Dax Olesa

Not much is known about the early life of Dax Olesa. He was born on Charmath in 42 BBY to parents who never had time for him. He was born without a right eye so his parents had a cybernetic one implanted for him. He grew up alone, because of his parents’ negligence, and learned how to look after himself. Despite his lack of attention, he was still very fond of his parents. When he was ten years of age, his parents were killed during a trip to Naboo because of the Invasion of Naboo in 32 BBY. When he heard about the fate of his parents, he was heartbroken. He swore to avenge their deaths and destroy the Trade Federation.

Clone Wars
When Dax was fifteen he inherited his parents’ assets, including their YT-2400 light freighter, house, money, and their weapons. Dax never knew what his parents did when they left, but they always took weapons with them. He invited a few of his friends to come live with him, in his parents' house. His friends, who were orphans as well, agreed. After they had lived for about a week, Dax told them of his promise to avenge his parents' deaths. His friends agreed to help him, and they set up a secret training facility in the house's hangar.

Three of his twenty-two friends went off to buy supplies and weapons, and returned with several units of bacta, a DC-15A blaster rifle for each member of the group and several DC-17 hand blasters. They also brought several training programs and systems. The friends split themselves into four groups and trained for hours each day. Some of the members of the group got themselves odd jobs to help fund their organization. They were able to buy three more ships, and upgrades for their weapons and training systems.

Hypori droid factory
Their first strike was focused on the Hypori droid factory in 21 BBY. They destroyed several droids, but the focus of their attack was not on the battle droids, but their programming. They hacked into the factory's mainframe and changed the programming of the droids from battle droids to service droids, creating a very comical spectacle when hundreds of droids came out of the factory, and 'presented' their weapons to the Republic Troops. This set the Separatists back significantly, and led to the Confederate loss in the Battle of Muunilinst.

Battle of Anaxes
The battle of Anaxes was the second battle that the group took part in, they took down hundreds of droids from the air. They grounded their ships in a small, but safe, valley and ran into the battle. They left as soon as they were sure that the Republic would win the battle.

Dissolution
In 20 BBY when the Clone Wars ended, the group disbanded. It is unknown what happened to the others after that. They were never given any historically documented credit for their part in the war, but each of them had a section added to their files in the Galactic Records.

Rise of the Empire
"The Republic will be reorganized into the first Galactic Empire!"

- -Palpatine

Dax had no feelings about the new government when the Galactic Empire replaced the Republic. He felt that wanted an Empire. He joined the Imperial Army five years before the Battle of Yavin and helped the Empire in gaining control over many worlds. Despite the aid he gave the Empire, he still had his doubts about it. The Jedi had been saviors and heroes of the Republic for millennia. He often wondered why the Jedi did revolt, and why they did it at the end of the Clone Wars, when they had thousands of years to stage a coup. Although he never had any contact with a Jedi, he still could not purge those questions from his mind.

Leaving the Imperial Army
When the Senate was dissolved in 0 BBY, Dax's attention was immediately drawn to it. He spoke to his commanding officer, and had himself transferred to Naboo. As soon as he got to the outpost on Naboo, he began to put a plan into action. He used his training from the Clone Wars to get positioned as a Demolitions Officer. He use this position to activate his plan and stationed as many guards as he could to "protect" a box of explosives, which he had timed to explode when the shifts were changing. His attack killed almost two hundred stormtroopers, and many officers. He was marked as a traitor and sentenced to death.

Dax escaped from Naboo before they could recuperate enough to search for him. He fled to his homeworld of Charmath, and was overjoyed to see his house and training facilities were still intact. He spent a week there before authorities on Charmath were informed about him. He escaped to Yavin IV purely on instinct, and was taken by the Rebel Alliance, who thought he was a member of the Empire.

Battle Of Yavin
After a thorough background check on Dax, they found his Clone Wars record and his death sentence from the Empire. Dax had never made any attempt to hide his history, but the Alliance copied it, and purged his history from the Galactic Records. He was accepted into the Rebellion after an assessment of his skills. The Rebels, who were impressed with his skill gave him the rank of lieutenant, and set a small platoon of troops under his command.

When the Battle of Yavin began, he was part of a team of fighter pilots in non-registered ships, to make it harder for the Empire to figure out if they were rebels, or refugees. Throughout the battle Dax showcased his piloting skills, and destroyed many automated weapons on the surface of the Death Star, helping to keep many of his companions alive. He was one of the few pilots to survive the battle that saw the destruction of the Death Star.

Rise to captain
"You should have listened to what we said, thank you for not."

- Anonymous Rebel Officer

Dax was widely considered, by his peers, to be an accomplished soldier by the time the battle of Restuss took place. After the Imperial Moff ordered a civilian evacuation of the city if Restuss, and the battle began, some of the Rebel soldiers were in need of medical attention. They set up a med-facility in the city. As the city was being destroyed and the Rebels were escaping, the medical facility had to be evacuated as well. They had an escape plan and were followed it, to the letter. As they were exiting the facility, the door was blown away and they were trapped by several hundred kilos of rubble. There was an alternate route, but it was underground and extremely treacherous.

Dax noticed their plight even as his fighter rose up and was about to exit the system. Dax canceled his course and flew down to the facility. He use the guns on his fighter to blow a huge hole into a wall, but not before calling in to make sure everyone was away from that section of the building. He grounded his vessel a few feet from the facility to cover the escaping personnel and patients. Dax led them to the hangar, which was just barely still standing, and escorted them out of the system.

When the battle was over he was scolded for not listening to a direct order, and then thanked for doing so. He was given high honor, and promoted to captain.

End of the Galactic Civil War
Dax remained a captain for the rest of his military career with the Alliance. At the end of the war, when the New Republic was established, he was offered a position as a General in the New Republic Military, but he declined. He went back to live at his home on Charmath and lived most of his remaining years there. He took part in no more wars and grew to an old age, for a Human being.

Death
In 53 ABY he was poisoned by members of the Imperial Remnant who were with him on Naboo. He was 97 years old, but he thought his body and mind were still strong. He traveled to Coruscant to seek medical treatments. He was treated by many doctors, but none were able to cure him. He died in the facility, while he was sleeping. It was clear from his physique, and health record that, had he not been poisoned, would have managed to live for several more years.

Legacy
Dax had no known family other than his parents, but he was still remembered very fondly by the New Republic's government. He had a funeral held for him in his own house on Charmath. Many former Rebels were present including, Thrak Gorshun, Aaron Gunnar, and even Luke Skywalker came. His casket floated through the crowd on repulsorlifts. His body was in his Rebel Uniform, and was adorned with all of his awards and medals. It is unknown if any of his friends from the Clone Wars were present at this funeral.

His house was transformed into a museum honoring him and many other Rebels whose lives he had saved years earlier.

Personality and traits
Dax was always very fond of humor. He always had a comical line to say, and was very quick witted. His happy disposition always put others in a good mood, and increased morale. This is why he and his comrades won so many battles. Even as he was dying, he was still making jokes. His face had grown gray, and grotesque, and he couldn't stop making fun of himself. There are many reasons he loved humor so much. The most prominent of these reasons is as a self defense. His parents never showed him love or attention, so he turned to humor. He made jokes to make his life seem less like a nightmare.

Even as he made so many people smile, he also had a very hard time with showing compassion. Many times when he was fighting in the Clone Wars he would come across sentient Federation soldiers, and torture them, even as he killed them. He refused to believe that only some of the Federation was responsible for his parents' death. He believed each member of the Separatists were to be punished for what was done to him. Many were afraid of him for this reason, but they knew he would not hate them unless given reason to. Perhaps he was so unforgiving because he was afraid. He was afraid that he, like his parents would die innocently.

Talents and abilities
Dax was considered, by many of his commanding officers, to be a great pilot. He did maneuvers that many of his peers could not do. The training program he used inflicted non-lethal wounds, similar to wounds inflicted by crashing a ship.

In addition to being considered a stellar pilot, he was also a noted marksman. The training program he used put him in the center of a virtual battle. The program made it seem as though his life depended on winning these battles, it inflicted real blaster wounds, and had very realistic enemies. Both of these programs were custom made for the friends who set out to get them.

Behind the scenes
Dax Olesa was a Rebel soldier in the Star Wars Battlefront 2 game by Pandemic. The author of this article wanted to put out an article of a non-jedi character who would have a large part in the major wars from the movies.

The article was originally intended for Wookieepedia, but after the author was banned from editing articles, he posted it on SWFANON.

The name Dax Olesa was chosen because it was the first Rebel name the author became familiar with while playing the game.