Black Bates

Black Bates is ahuman male pilot served in the Resistance fleet during their war against the First Order. In the year 34 ABY, during the Attack on the Resistance fleet he piloted a U-55 orbital loadlifter, and, after witnessing the destruction of two other transports at the hands of the Supreme Leader's Star Dreadnought Supremacy asked Vice Admiral Amilyn Holdo whether to turn back or press forward. As Holdo desperately told him to push full-speed ahead to the planet Crait, the pilot and his transport were hit and destroyed.