Dax Olesa

Dax Olesa was a male Human born in 42 BBY. He fought as a lone skirmisher, attacking key locations in the Separatist systems during the Clone Wars. He, along with a group of allies, overtook several high powered weapons and starships. They also trained themselves in a secret facility in Dax's house. At the end of the Clone Wars Dax joined the Imperial Army.

He left the Imperial Army shortly after the dissolution of the Senate. He believed the Senate was holding the galaxy together. While Dax accepted the new Empire, he did not believe the dissolution of the Senate was acceptable.

He joined the Rebellion, and attacked an 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.

After his death a funeral was held for him, at which a number of celebrated rebel officers were present. His house was transformed into a museum.

Early life
"If you make one more joke about your eye, Dax, I'm going to knock out the other one."

- Unknown friend to 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. 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. He invited a few of his friends to come live with him, in his parents' house. His friends, most of whom 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, using Dax's parents' money, 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 jobs to help fund their organization. They were able to buy three more midsized starfighter, and upgrades for their weapons and training systems.

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 for the republic, 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.

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.

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. Dax kept contact with a few of them.

Rise of the Empire and Leaving the Imperial Army
"The Republic will be reorganized into the first Galactic Empire!"

- Palpatine

Dax 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, and had constant correspondence with his friends about these doubts. The Jedi had been saviors and heroes of the Republic for millennia. He often debated with his Clone Wars friends about 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.

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

- Anonymous Rebel officer

After a thorough background check on Dax, the rebels 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. He destroyed many automated weapons on the surface of the Death Star, and helped 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.

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 by his superiors 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.

Legacy
In 53 ABY, he was poisoned by members of the Imperial Remnant who had been with him on Naboo. He was 97 years old. He traveled to Coruscant and sought 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, to his doctors, from physique and health record that, had he not been poisoned, he would have managed to live for several more years.

Dax had no known family other than his parents, the New Republic had not forgotten his part in the war that led to its inception. 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 repulsor-lifts. 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. His happy disposition always seemed put others in a good mood, and increased morale. 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 noted as a marksman by the Alliance. 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  game by Pandemic. The author of the article, Sw9889, wanted to write an article about a non-Jedi character that would have a large part in the major wars from the canon movies.

The character's name, Dax Olesa, was chosen because it was the first Rebel name the author became familiar with while playing Star Wars Battlefront 2.