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Original generated catalogue card for Jek Tono Porkins

Catalogue entryHumanAge of Rebellion

Jek Tono Porkins

Red Six, four lines of dialogue, and one of the most stubbornly beloved bit parts in the franchise.

Species
Human
Homeworld
Bestine IV (Legends)
Affiliation
Alliance to Restore the Republic
Rank
Red Six
First appearance
Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope (1977)
Callsign
Red Six
Portrayed by
William Hootkins
Homeworld (Legends)
Bestine IV

Jek Tono Porkins is a human male Rebel Alliance pilot, Red Six at the Battle of Yavin, played by William Hootkins in A New Hope (1977). He meets Biggs Darklighter at General Dodonna’s briefing and is killed early in the attack on the Death Star’s surface.

In Star Wars Legends he is a trader and pilot from Bestine IV who, with the rest of the Bestines, was forced off his homeworld when the Empire selected it as the site of a new military base — a small, characteristic piece of Expanded Universe worldbuilding that turns a background casualty into a displaced person with a reason to be there. The homeworld above is labelled as Legends because that is the shelf it comes from.

Catalogue entry. This figure has a verified record here rather than a full write-up — the encyclopedia labels its own depth instead of padding it.

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