The Essential Guide to Force Exile/Wedge Antilles

"Impossible’s our stock-in-trade."

- Wedge Antilles

Wedge Antilles was one of the most famous pilots on either side in the Galactic Civil War. Antilles was born on Corellia and was orphaned as a teenager as a result of an accident. Already a gifted pilot, he learned under the smuggler Booster Terrik before Imperial forces killed his girlfriend. Joining the fledgling Rebellion, he distinguished himself as a starfighter pilot, quickly earning his ace status.

Antilles was one of a very small handful of pilots to survive the first Death Star trench run. He fought during the darkest hours of the Rebellion, including on Hoth, serving as part of the elite Rogue Squadron along with Luke Skywalker. In 4 ABY, he was stationed on Tierfon Base. After a mission to Abridon, he was told about a B-wing pilot in Ice Squadron named Seirla Trasani by one of his pilots, Wes Janson. Janson and Antilles had flown together for years, and Antilles trusted his appraisal of Trasani's skills. He approached her and offered her a position in Rogue Squadron, but she declined, saying she felt her squadron needed her more. Antilles also passed along an invitation to dinner from Janson to Trasani, and she accepted, meeting with Janson, Antilles, and two other Rogues, Tycho Celchu and Derek Klivian at a local dive.

The Rogues flew alongside Ice Squadron again over Bespin, where they launched a daring raid to suppress Imperial defenses and steal much-needed Tibanna gas. The raid was successful, part of a series of moves the squadron undertook in preparation for a move against the second Death Star. Meanwhile, Janson had also begun a relationship with Seirla. Assembling at Sullust, the Rebellion threw the bulk of its fleet into a desperate attack against the mammoth battle station and its attendant fleet. Though his full exploits and career are largely chronicled elsewhe The end result was one that changed the galaxy: the second Death Star was destroyed, the Emperor slain, and the Empire reduced to tatters of its former glory. Antilles personally fired one of the two salvos that destroyed the Death Star, making him the only pilot to survive both Death Star runs.

After the battle, he and the other Rogues were able to celebrate on the surface of Endor's moon, but their celebration was cut short not long afterward when they were assigned to a mission to Bakura. While they were gone, Seirla Trasani was presumed lost on a routine escort mission, leaving Janson disconsolate. Antilles and Skywalker helped console their friend over her loss.

Little did they know that "Seirla Trasani" had been an alias for a Force-using member of the Yanibar refuge named Hasla Almani, who had been assigned to infiltrate the Rebel Alliance. Upon her return to Yanibar, she became a squadron commander for a group of B-wings dubbed Paladin Squadron. Antilles continued to fly with Rogue Squadron as their leader, striking against the Empire in a campaign that led to the newly-established New Republic seizing the galactic capital of Coruscant.

Shortly thereafter, the Imperial Director of Intelligence, Ysanne Isard, unleashed the krytos virus, sickening millions. To treat it, the New Republic needed as much bacta as possible&mdash;which Isard foresaw and subsequently seized control over the one planet that could produce it, Thyferra. Antilles and the other Rogues resigned their commissions and began a private war against Isard, whom the New Republic was unwilling to move against openly.

As part of their war, they were assigned to hit bacta convoys, stealing the precious liquid and distributing it where needed. On one such mission, they encountered a group of B-wings that also hit the mercenary guards that were protecting the freighters. Together, the Rogues and the other squadron made short work of the convoy, but both parties wanted the bacta. A standoff resulted, with neither side willing to let the other have the convoy. Antilles was about to order his squadron to attack when the commander of the B-wing squadron revealed that she was Hasla Almani&mdash;the pilot he had known as Seirla Trasani. She offered to allow him to kill her, but pleaded for her people, who were suffering from the virus. Antilles was tempted to seek revenge, but relented and allowed her to leave with the freighter, warning her that he would not suffer this betrayal lightly, and would kill her if they met again.

Though his full exploits and career are largely chronicled elsewhere, this document serves to encapsulate his interactions with the Force exiles of Yanibar. Antilles was born on C