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 bought into his lies. He always had his doubts about the Jedi betrayal and was always alert for anything proving it wrong. He joined the Imperial army out of a sense of patriotism to his galaxy, but when things started to get out of hand he began to regret his decision. The dissolution of the Senate was the last thing holding him back from leaving the army. 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. He died in 53 ABY in a medical facility on Coruscant, 25 years after the Battle of Wayland.

= Biography =

Early Life
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 cybertechnic one implanted for him. He grew up virtually alone, learning how to look after himself. But despite his lack of attention he was still very fond of his parents. When he was 10 his parents left him to go to Naboo they were killed in 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 their house, their 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 lived peacefully 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 tank for the Bacta, a DC-15A Blaster Rifle for each member of the group, as well as several DC-17 Hand Blasters. They also brought several training programs and systems. The friends trained for hours each day and split themselves into four groups. By the time the Clone Wars started, five years later, they were all master pilots and sharpshooters. 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 main of their attack was not on the droids themselves, but rather the progamming. They hacked into the factory's mainframe and changed the programming of the droids from battle droids to service droids. This set the separatists back significantly, and led to the confederate loss in the Battle of Muunilinst.

Battle of Anaxes
The second battle that the group took part of was the Battle of Anaxes. They came in completely unexpectedly and took down hundreds of droids from the air. They grounded their ships in a small, but safe, valley and ran into the thickest of 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.

Rise of the Empire
When the Galactic Empire took over Dax had no feelings on the matter. If anything he wanted an empire. He joined the Imperial army five years before the Battle of Yavin and helped the Empire in delivering many worlds into its clutches. Even as he aided the Empire he still had his doubts. The Jedi had been saviors, and heroes of the republic for millenia. why would they rebel? And if they were bad why rebel now? They would have had so many opportunities to take over the galaxy. Although he never had any contact with a Jedi he still could not purge this question from his mind.

Leaving The Imperial Army
When Palpatine shut down the senate 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. He 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 sentanced 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 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 sentance 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 a test 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 so it would be 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.

Rise to Captain
Dax was an accomplished soldier by the time the Battle of Restuss took place. During the Battle of Restuss he fought as well as he did in every other battle. It seemed like nothing special was about to happen. 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, so they set up in the Med-Facility in the city. As the city was being destroyed and the rebels were escaping, Medical Facility had to be evacuated as well. They had an escape plan and were following it, but 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 escorted 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 hi home on Charmath, and lived out the majority if the rest of his life there he took part in no more wars and became old quite peacefully.

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 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.

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 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, which 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 in his lifetime he also had a very hard time with showing compassion. This is the very reason he believed the Empire was a good solution for the galaxy. 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 and were afraid of him slightly, but they knew he would not hate them unless given reason to. Perhaps he was so unforgiving because he was afraid. Afraid that someone would show him love then take advantage of him. Afraid that he would suffer the same fate as his parents but for different reasons.

=Talents and Abilities= Dax was a very accomplished pilot. He was able to do maneuvers some thought to be impossible. Many of these maneuvers he did from his realistic simulation program. He learned because the program would inflict injuries similar, but not lethal, to those inflicted by crashing a ship if one messed up. He used this program to force himself to learn quickly. In addition to piloting he was also a great marksman. He trained using a program with virtual enemies that inflicted real blaster wounds. 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. This article was started on 2/11/10 and completed on 2/12/10 by sw9889 who, at the time this article was written had no Wikia account. The sequence of events that led this article to being created is pretty comical. Sw9889 was not a common internet poster, but he was a huge Star Wars fan since his childhood. He was playing Battlefront 2 one day and became (over the course of several years) familiar with some of the AI characters. Dax Olesa was the first name that stuck in his head and also the first character he became familiar with. He asked on Wikianswers if he should write an article on Dax but was informed that there were already some. After a quick check he noticed that this wasn't true. So he began to make a new article for Dax on Wookieepedia. He cpmleted the introductory paragraph and posted it. Then he was about to try to edit the article to add more information to Dax's life but when he arrived on the edit page he was horrified to see it was empty. So he rewrote the article again. Than the same thing happened. So once again he foolishly attempted a third rewrite. The next thing he knew he was banned from editing articles on Wookieepedia. He tried to research the reason for this ban and discovered it was because he was trying to post a Fanon article on a (mostly) Canon website. The one who banned him (grunny, a Wookieepedia administrator) suggested for him to post the article on the Star Wars Fanon website. This is the first article written by sw9889.