X-Wing: Rogue Squadron
Star Wars discovers the workplace novel, and it is about fighter pilots.
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Star Wars discovers the workplace novel, and it is about fighter pilots.
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A Bothan Rogue whose relationship with a human pilot made the squadron argue about species in public.
Luke’s best friend, cut from the film, partly restored in 1997, and dead in ninety seconds either way.
A pilot with a dead wife, a missing son and a trust problem, travelling with the man responsible.
A B-wing pilot who has watched her entire squadron die twice, and flies with the music turned up.
Crash-prone, relentlessly pessimistic, and still flying decades after everyone expected him to stop.
Red Leader at Yavin, and the pilot who took the first shot at the exhaust port.
The youngest Rogue in the room, carrying a surname that had already died once at Yavin.
A champion racing pilot who took a desk job rather than tell anyone she was ill.
Pilot, mechanic, Sword of the Jedi — and the person the story eventually points at her own brother.
Red Six, four lines of dialogue, and one of the most stubbornly beloved bit parts in the franchise.
A Resistance X-wing pilot from Dandoran who got considerably more life in the comics than on screen.
Gold Leader, flying the slowest craft in the attack down the longest corridor in the galaxy.
A young New Republic pilot who has never fought a war and cannot quite believe the last one was real.
A silent U-wing pilot in black, behind a mask that hides every expression — including, for a long time, her species.
The sole survivor of Talon Squadron, and the Wraith the series uses to write about grief.
A roguish pilot who outlasted his own squadron and has been charging the galaxy for it ever since.
He flew the Falcon into the second Death Star and laughed, and nobody has ever needed the subtitles.
Flew at Endor, came home to a son who had stopped waiting — the New Republic’s most human recruit.
A Gand who refers to himself in the third person until his deeds entitle him to stop.
The opening sequence of The Last Jedi belongs to her, and she does not survive it.
Sent into the Imperial Academy by his own father, he graduated and defected with an entire wing behind him.
Rogue Seven, from Bespin — one of the twelve pilots the first X-Wing novel had to characterise at once.
A teenage scrapyard trader in a 2015 novel, and a Resistance wing commander in a 2015 film.
Defected on principle, and spent the rest of the war discovering that principle is not the same as peace.
Put on trial for treason and murder by the government he had already given everything to.
The only pilot to survive both Death Star runs, and the man an entire book series was built around.
Ten seconds of screen time in 1980, and a decade of novels that made him the squadron’s standing hazard.
A veteran in an A-wing cockpit who mostly just wants to go home.
An Imperial TIE pilot who flew in Operation: Cinder, defected, and spent three novels failing to explain herself.
The pilot who found Luke and Han alive on the Hoth ice, and was dead by the end of the same battle.