Wyl Lark is the A-wing pilot of Alphabet Squadron in Alexander Freed’s trilogy, introduced in Alphabet Squadron (Del Rey, 2019). The publisher describes him in six words that turn out to be the whole character: a veteran inside an A-wing cockpit who just wants to go home.
That is a rarer position in Star Wars than it should be. The franchise is built on people who leave home and discover a destiny. Wyl has been away a long time, is good at a job he did not choose, and has never stopped counting the distance. Freed uses him as the squadron’s conscience — the pilot who keeps asking whether the person in the other cockpit needs to die today.
Set against Quell’s buried complicity and Chass na Chadic’s death drive, that decency is not sentimental. The trilogy repeatedly tests whether it survives contact with a war that has outlasted its own government, and does not promise in advance that it will.
He is current canon, and part of the most convincing squadron ensemble Del Rey has published.
