Aia Le'tyu

Aia Le'tyu was a Bothan who grew up on the world of. She was a recruiter for the Rebel Alliance and then the New Republic until her death.

Early Life
Aia was born on Tinallis and had a fairly normal childhood until her parents inexplicably moved to in 9 BBY. There, they eked out a living and then suddenly moved again in less than a year, heading to. In 8 BBY her mother was killed by a swoop gang member named B'tekon Lelkrunner. She and her father moved again afterward, this time settling on the planet Ord Zathuun, where Aia would spend most of her teen years. In 1 BBY, Aia's father vanished. On her own, the seventeen year old made friends with a young human man named Don Astred.

Rebellion
Astred had friends in the Rebellion and he convinced both Aia and their friend Tythem Bemelek to join in 0 BBY. Aia then persuaded Mizung Putsem, a bounty hunter to join them. She convinced an old spacer named Lukam to go with them as well. When Astred met with his Rebel contact, Trent Bluesweep, he was impressed with Aia's recruiting skill. However, he recognized Lukam as an Imperial informant and attempted to abandon the Vultan on an uninhabited in the. Lukam, however, had carried a beacon to summon Imperial troops and, thinking Bluesweep had taken them to the Rebel base, activated it. As they landed, Bluesweep ordered the three young recruits to stay aboard the ship while he, Lukam, and Putsem, who he had informed of Lukem's connections went outside. As they approached the edge of the forest, however, they were ambushed by stormtroopers. Putsem shot Lukam in the back of the head and he and Bluesweep raced for the ship. Stormtroopers were forcing their way in and the three young recruits were fighting them off with blasters. Aia was wounded and Bemelek was killed but Putsem and Bluesweep killed the other stormtroopers and they escaped to Yavin 4.

While Astred trained to be an officer, Aia trained under Bluesweep to be a recruiter. She learned how to avoid Imperial attention and avoid recruiting spes and determine likely candidates for the Rebellion. She learned how to organize recruits to move them to a Rebel controlled area, whether on their own planet or across the galaxy. Aboard a, she and Bluesweep traveled the galaxy to select possible recruits from among trillions of beings. Several times she was nearly captured or killed but the two recruiters managed to bring over eight hundred sentients of varying skills into the Rebellion.

In 1 ABY, Alliance High Command felt it would be more effective to split Aia and Bluesweep, giving the Bothan a recruit of her own to train. She was paired with a Twi'lek recruit named Kiles Vao. Vao was difficult to train, nearly getting them killed on, not to mention ruining a chance to recruit several into the Alliance. After more mishaps, Aia finally convinced Alliance High Command to make Voa a starfighter pilot, since that was what he wanted to be when he joined the Rebellion in the first place. She then began training two recruits, a and a human from. The Sullustan was killed on in 3 ABY but the human survived Aia's training.

New Republic and Death
Following the Battle of Endor and the establishment of the New Republic, Aia was stationed at various recruitment offices around the galaxy. Her first post was at an office on, where she recruited several to the New Republic military. In 14 ABY, she requested a transfer to Ord Zathuun where she eventually recruited Pug Neergoss to the New Republic Starfighter Corps. In 21 ABY she died suddenly and unexpectedly while visiting.