X-Wing: Rogue Squadron
Star Wars discovers the workplace novel, and it is about fighter pilots.
Topic
x-wing
33 entries filed under this topic across the library, the dossiers and the dispatches.
- 3books
- 1comics
- 27dossiers
- 2dispatches
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Books (3)
All booksX-Wing: Wraith Squadron
A squadron built entirely out of pilots nobody else wanted.
I, Jedi
The first Star Wars novel written in first person, and it uses the trick properly.
Who is involved
Dossiers (27)
All dossiersAsyr Sei’lar
A Bothan Rogue whose relationship with a human pilot made the squadron argue about species in public.
Booster Terrik
The only private citizen in the galaxy who owns an Imperial Star Destroyer, and he runs it as a shopping centre.
Bror Jace
A Thyferran from a bacta dynasty, and the best pilot in the squadron according to the only person asked.
Castin Donn
The squadron’s slicer, recruited for what he could do to a computer rather than what he could do to a TIE.
Derek “Hobbie” Klivian
Crash-prone, relentlessly pessimistic, and still flying decades after everyone expected him to stop.
Dia Passik
A former slave in a squadron of last chances, carrying a grudge the New Republic could not process.
Erisi Dlarit
The Rogue who was working for the other side the whole time, with a bacta cartel behind her.
Falynn Sandskimmer
Talented, competitive, and on her last chance before the New Republic discharged her.
Gara Petothel
An Imperial intelligence agent who infiltrated the Wraiths and then could not decide which identity to keep.
Garik “Face” Loran
A child star of Imperial propaganda films who grew up into the New Republic’s best undercover officer.
Gavin Darklighter
The youngest Rogue in the room, carrying a surname that had already died once at Yavin.
Halla Ettyk
A well-known Alderaanian attorney, prosecuting an Alderaanian pilot for betraying the people who destroyed their world.
Horton Salm
The bomber commander who thought Rogue Squadron was overrated, and judged one of its pilots for treason.
Iella Wessiri
A police detective who became a spy, in a series that never once put her in a cockpit.
Kell Tainer
A demolitions specialist in a fighter squadron, which is exactly the sort of hire the Wraiths were invented to make.
Mirax Terrik
A smuggler’s daughter who married the son of the officer who put her father in prison.
Myn Donos
The sole survivor of Talon Squadron, and the Wraith the series uses to write about grief.
Nawara Ven
A trial lawyer who flies an X-wing, and the only reason Tycho Celchu got a defence at all.
Ooryl Qrygg
A Gand who refers to himself in the third person until his deeds entitle him to stop.
Pash Cracken
Sent into the Imperial Academy by his own father, he graduated and defected with an entire wing behind him.
Rhysati Ynr
Rogue Seven, from Bespin — one of the twelve pilots the first X-Wing novel had to characterise at once.
Shalla Nelprin
A commando first and a pilot second, which is the whole point of the unit.
Ton Phanan
The Wraith who is held together by prosthetics and gallows humour, in roughly equal measure.
Tycho Celchu
Put on trial for treason and murder by the government he had already given everything to.
Tyria Sarkin
The worst pilot in the squadron on paper, kept on because flying was never the only thing being measured.
Voort “Piggy” saBinring
A Gamorrean mathematician — which reads as a joke until you learn what was done to him to make it true.
Wes Janson
Ten seconds of screen time in 1980, and a decade of novels that made him the squadron’s standing hazard.
From the database
Comics (1)
All comicsStar Wars Handbook
Three companion volumes — character and hardware guides to X-Wing Rogue Squadron, Crimson Empire and Dark Empire, assembled from the comics…
Written about it
Dispatches (2)
All dispatchesHow to read the X-Wing novels
Ten Legends books, two authors and one squadron: a practical route through the series that made Wedge Antilles a lead character.
The Bantam years and the Del Rey years
Two publishing regimes, two completely different ideas of what a Star Wars novel is for.
