Ooryl Qrygg is a male lungless Gand who served the New Republic as a starfighter pilot, flying an X-wing with Rogue Squadron as Rogue Ten and acting as wingman to Corran Horn, Rogue Nine. He is one of the original intake in Michael A. Stackpole’s Rogue Squadron (Bantam Spectra, 1996).
He is also the best piece of alien writing in the series, because Stackpole builds him out of grammar. Gand self-reference is earned: an individual speaks of himself in the third person and by the least personal name he is entitled to, and progresses toward the first person only through deeds his society recognises. Watching Ooryl’s pronouns change over the course of a novel is a more elegant way of tracking a character arc than most Star Wars fiction attempts.
Underneath the linguistics he is simply an outstanding wingman — patient, literal and completely reliable — paired with the most self-regarding pilot in the unit. The friendship between Ooryl and Corran is the load-bearing wall of the first four X-Wing novels.
Ooryl is Star Wars Legends. His homeworld is left blank here rather than inferred from his species; on this site a dash means unverified, not absent.
