Wedge Antilles

Wedge Antilles
Biographical Information
Born	21 BBY, Corellia
Physical Description
Species	Human
Gender	Male
Height	1.7 meters
Hair Color	Black, later gray
Eye Color	Hazel
Skin Color	Fair
Chronological and Political Information
Era	Rise of the Empire Era Rebellion Era New Republic Era New Jedi Order Era Legacy Era
Affiliation	First Galactic Empire (Briefly) First Imperial Navy (Briefly) Rebel Alliance Alliance of Free Planets New Galactic Republic Galactic Alliance Five Worlds Confederation Jedi Coalition

Wedge Antilles, a Human male, was a famed Corellian pilot and general, known as a hero of the Rebel Alliance and New Republic. Orphaned at age seventeen after Imperial forces killed his girlfriend Mala Tinero, Antilles would eventually enlist at the Skystrike Academy after Imperials killed the crew of a surrendering rebel ship, earning the designation TIE SS-2-5. He was later able to defect to the Rebel Alliance with Sabine Wren's help. A standout starfighter pilot, he was one of the few to survive the Battle of Yavin, after which he founded Rogue Squadron with his friend Luke Skywalker. Antilles and Skywalker built Rogue Squadron into a renowned unit, and after the Battle of Hoth, Antilles took command. He flew as Red Leader in the Battle of Endor, striking the blow that destroyed the second Death Star alongside Lando Calrissian and becoming the only pilot to survive both Death Star runs.

As the Rebel Alliance became the New Republic, Antilles continued to serve, gaining a reputation as a consummate soldier and the New Republic's greatest pilot. He led Rogue Squadron in a covert mission to bring down Coruscant's shields, allowing the New Republic to capture the galactic capital planet. When denied permission to remove Imperial leader Ysanne Isard from power over Thyferra, he resigned with his squadron and led a private guerrilla war that successfully toppled Isard. Accepted back into the New Republic, he formed Wraith Squadron as a commando unit and led it in operations against the Imperial Warlord Zsinj.

In 9 ABY, Antilles accepted the promotion to general that his friend, Supreme Commander Gial Ackbar, had long desired for him. As a general, he reluctantly moved out of the cockpit and into a role in fleet operations, frequently commanding the Star Dreadnought Lusankya. During a mission to the planet Adumar in 13 ABY, he ignited a romance with Iella Wessiri, a friend in whom he had been interested for several years, and married her after the mission's conclusion. They had two daughters, Syal and Myri, as Antilles became Chief of Staff of New Republic Starfighter Command and then finally returned to command Rogue Squadron in 18 ABY. In 19 ABY, after peace was achieved with the Imperial Remnant, Antilles retired with more than twenty years of service to the Alliance and New Republic, ten as a general.

When the Yuuzhan Vong invaded the galaxy in 25 ABY, Antilles emerged from retirement, becoming the commander of New Republic Fleet Group Three. He participated in the failed defense of Coruscant, then retreated to Borleias. There he made a stand against heavy opposition for several months longer than expected and defeated the famed ex-Warmaster Czulkang Lah, inspiring hope across the New Republic that the war against the invaders could be won. In 29 ABY, Antilles was one of the commanders in the Recapture of Coruscant that ended the war.

He returned to retirement, but after being imprisoned by the Galactic Alliance, the New Republic's successor state, in the run-up to the Second Galactic Civil War, Antilles escaped. He joined the forces of his homeworld, Corellia, as it revolted against the galactic government, reluctantly taking a side against his best friend, General Tycho Celchu, and his own daughter Syal, who had become a Galactic Alliance pilot. He served as the Supreme Commander of the Corellian Defense Force, but he came to believe that the Corellian regime was itself corrupt and immoral. He resigned and instead offered his services to the New Jedi Order, led by his lifelong friend Luke Skywalker. Skywalker formed a Jedi Coalition and, with Antilles's help, destroyed the Centerpoint superweapon controlled by the Corellian Confederation, then went on to defeat the Galactic Alliance's Sith leader, Darth Caedus, and end the war. Afterward, Antilles retired for the third time, hoping to finally be able to live quietly with his family.

Biography

First Galactic Civil War

Skystrike Academy

After Imperial forces massacred the surrendering crew of a rebel transport near Teralov, Wedge Antilles enrolled in the Skystrike Academy, located on the planet Montross, to train as an elite TIE fighter pilot. However, his true allegiance was to the Rebellion, for which his job was to search for pilots that desired to abandon the Empire. After contacting Fulcrum, the secret agent relayed a message to the leaders of the Phoenix Cell. They dispatched the former Imperial cadet and Mandalorian explosives expert Sabine Wren on an undercover mission to rescue the cadets. Sabine infiltrated the Academy as a cadet under the name "Ria Talla".

Antilles as a TIE Fighter pilot.

Antilles would eventually meet "Ria Talla" during a TIE fighter simulator exercise, in which they destroyed several rebel Y-wings but hesitated at shooting an unarmed transport. As a result, their fighters were destroyed by a simulated version of the Ghost, flown by Captain Vult Skerris, who lectured Antilles and Wren that the consequence of insubordination was death in combat. Following the exercise, Antilles warned Wren that people at the Academy did not usually care about ethics. After Governor Arihnda Pryce and Kallus arrived to investigate rumors of defectors, Gahree argued that they were undertaking risky action, but Antilles told him and Klivian to relax.

Escaping Skystrike

Later, Antilles met with Wren at a hangar bay where he confided his unease with the recent simulator exercise. He voiced that he had not signed up to kill indiscriminately, and finally expressed a desire to leave, to which Wren revealed her true name and reassured Antilles that the rebels had gotten his message. She then told Antilles and his friends to be ready to leave at a moment's notice, but when he asked Wren about her plan, she responded that she would think it up, much to Antilles' surprise.

An opportunity to escape arose when Pryce had Commandant Goran order the cadets to engage in a mock combat exercise in space. When Wren's support CR90 corvette arrived, Antilles, Gahree and Klivian followed at her direction towards the rebel corvette. However, Governor Pryce disabled their solar collectors, leaving them stranded in space. Under her orders, Captain Skerris destroyed Gahree's fighter as a warning to the rebels and drove away the rebel vessel. Antilles, Klivian, and Wren were brought before Pryce, who demanded to know which one of them was the rebel agent and threatened to fasten Antilles to a torture device. To protect him, Wren identified herself as the agent. The trio was then separated, as Kallus escorted Antilles and Klivian to their holding cell.

Inside, the two pilots argued about the merits of escaping without a plan, when they were freed by Wren after she had escaped from Pryce. Being pursued by stormtroopers, the trio fled down a corridor only to run into Agent Kallus, who due to his encounter with Wren's comrade Garazeb Orrelios, helped them to escape by telling them to head to Hangar 24. Once there, the fugitives commandeered a TIE/sa bomber. Antilles piloted the slow-moving craft which was pursued by Skerris' TIE Interceptor. Despite taking several hits, the trio managed to escape when Wren's rebel comrades arrived in their CR90 corvette, they made the jump into hyperspace together. Upon their arrival at Chopper Base on Atollon, they were greeted by Commander Jun Sato, who welcomed Antilles and Klivian into the rebellion.

Appearances

• Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds
• The Force Unleashed II novelization
• Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II (Voice only)
• Star Wars: X-Wing (Mentioned only)
• Star Wars: Empire at War
• Star Wars: Empire at War: Forces of Corruption
• Star Wars Rebels – "The Antilles Extraction"
• —Star Wars Rebels Magazine 33
• —Star Wars Rebels Magazine
• Star Wars Rebels – "Warhead"
• Star Wars Rebels – "Double Agent Droid"
• Star Wars Rebels – "Zero Hour"
• Star Wars Rebels – "In the Name of the Rebellion"
• Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (Voice only)
• Empire 12
• Star Wars radio dramatization
• Star Wars Journal: The Fight for Justice
• Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope novelization (First appearance)
• X-Wing Rogue Squadron ½
• Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
• Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope junior novelization
• Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope PhotoComic
• Star Wars: A Storybook
• Star Wars: A New Hope - The Special Edition 3
• Empire 15
• Star Wars (1977) 5
• Star Wars Manga: A New Hope 4
• Star Wars (1977) 6
• Star Wars: A New Hope - The Special Edition 4
• Star Wars Battlefront: Elite Squadron (Nintendo DS edition) (Mentioned only)
• Star Wars: Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader
• Star Wars: Rebellion
• Star Wars Missions 1: Assault on Yavin Four
• Rebel Force: Firefight
• Star Wars Missions 12: The Vactooine Disaster
• Vader's Quest 1
• Star Wars (2013) 1
• Star Wars (2013) 2
• Star Wars (2013) 3
• Star Wars (2013) 4
• Star Wars 5: In the Shadow of Yavin, Part 5
• Star Wars 6: In the Shadow of Yavin, Part 6
• Star Wars (2013) 7
• Star Wars (2013) 8
• Star Wars (2013) 9
• Star Wars (2013) 10
• Star Wars (2013) 11
• Star Wars (2013) 12
• Star Wars (2013) 15
• Star Wars (2013) 16
• Star Wars (2013) 17
• Star Wars (2013) 18
• Rebel Force: Trapped
• Star Wars: Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike
• Star Wars Missions 17: Darth Vader's Return (Mentioned only)
• Star Wars Missions 18: Rogue Squadron to the Rescue
• Race for Survival
• Galaxy of Fear: Planet Plague
• Star Wars: Rogue Squadron
• Empire 26
• Empire 27
• Empire 29
• Empire 30
• Empire 32
• Empire 33
• Empire 34
• Empire 36
• Empire 38 (Mentioned only)
• Empire 40
• Rebellion 2
• Rebellion 3
• Rebellion 4
• Rebellion 5
• Rebellion 14 (Mentioned only)
• Galaxy of Fear: The Swarm (Mentioned only)
• Galaxy of Fear: Clones (Mentioned only)
• Template:WEGCite
• Template:WEGCite
•  Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided
• Star Wars Galaxies: The Ruins of Dantooine
• Template:SWGTCG
• Template:SWGTCG
• Honor Among Thieves
• The Empire Strikes Back radio dramatization
• Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
• Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back junior novelization
• Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back PhotoComic
• Star Wars Manga: The Empire Strikes Back 1
• Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back novelization
• The Empire Strikes Back: A Storybook (Picture only)
• Star Wars (1977) 40
• Star Wars (1977) 41
• Template:SWGTCG
• Template:SWGTCG
• Template:WEGCite
• Template:WEGCite
• Template:WEGCite
• Star Wars 78
• "Drone Alone"—Star Wars Comic 10
• Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance
• Star Wars: X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter: Balance of Power
• Shadows of the Empire 1
• Shadows of the Empire novel
• Shadows of the Empire audiobook
• Shadows of the Empire junior novelization
• Shadows of the Empire 2
• Shadows of the Empire 6
• Kenner Shadows of the Empire Special (Part 1)
• Kenner Shadows of the Empire Special (Part 2)
• Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire Ertl minicomic
• Template:WEGCite
• Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
• Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi novelization
• Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi junior novelization
• Return of the Jedi radio dramatization
• Return of the Jedi Storybook
• Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi PhotoComic
• Star Wars Manga: Return of the Jedi 2
• Template:WEGCite
• Template:WEGCite
• Template:WEGCite
• Star Wars Manga: Return of the Jedi 3
• Template:PolyhedronCite
• Return of the Jedi 4
• Star Wars Manga: Return of the Jedi 4
• "Blade Squadron"—Star Wars Insider 149–150 (Mentioned only)
• "Blade Squadron: Zero Hour"—Star Wars Insider 160 (Mentioned only)
• One Last Night in the Mos Eisley Cantina: The Tale of the Wolfman and the Lamproid (Indirect mention only)
• The Truce at Bakura
• "A Day in the Life"—Star Wars Tales 12
• Star Wars 81
• X-Wing: Rogue Leader 1: Return of the Rogues
• X-Wing: Rogue Leader 2: Assault on Corellia
• X-Wing: Rogue Leader 3: Rogues Forever
• Star Wars 85
• Star Wars 99
• Star Wars 100
• Star Wars 107
• X-Wing Rogue Squadron Special
• "Lucky"—Star Wars Tales 23
• X-Wing Rogue Squadron 1
• X-Wing Rogue Squadron 2
• X-Wing Rogue Squadron 4
• X-Wing Rogue Squadron 5
• X-Wing Rogue Squadron 6
• X-Wing Rogue Squadron 7
• X-Wing Rogue Squadron 8
• X-Wing Rogue Squadron 9
• X-Wing Rogue Squadron 10
• X-Wing Rogue Squadron 11
• X-Wing Rogue Squadron 12
• X-Wing Rogue Squadron 13
• X-Wing Rogue Squadron 14
• X-Wing Rogue Squadron 15
• X-Wing Rogue Squadron 16
• X-Wing Rogue Squadron 17
• X-Wing Rogue Squadron 18
• X-Wing Rogue Squadron 19
• X-Wing Rogue Squadron 20
• X-Wing Rogue Squadron 21
• X-Wing Rogue Squadron 22
• X-Wing Rogue Squadron 23
• X-Wing Rogue Squadron 24
• X-Wing Rogue Squadron 25 (Mentioned only)
• X-Wing Rogue Squadron 26
• X-Wing Rogue Squadron 28
• X-Wing Rogue Squadron 29
• X-Wing Rogue Squadron 31
• X-Wing Rogue Squadron 30
• X-Wing Rogue Squadron 32
• X-Wing Rogue Squadron 33
• X-Wing Rogue Squadron 34
• X-Wing Rogue Squadron 35
• Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor
• X-Wing: Rogue Squadron
• X-Wing: Wedge's Gamble
• X-Wing: The Krytos Trap
• X-Wing: The Bacta War
• X-Wing: Wraith Squadron
• X-Wing: Iron Fist
• X-Wing: Solo Command
• Corphelion Interlude (Mentioned only)
• Template:WEGCite (Mentioned only)
• Tatooine Ghost (Mentioned only)
• Heir to the Empire
• Heir to the Empire 1
• Heir to the Empire 2
• Heir to the Empire 6
• Dark Force Rising
• Dark Force Rising 1 (Voice only)
• Dark Force Rising 4
• Dark Force Rising 6
• The Last Command
• The Last Command 1
• The Last Command 2
• The Last Command 4
• The Last Command 5
• The Last Command 6
• X-Wing: Isard's Revenge
• "Blaze of Glory"—Star Wars Adventure Journal 8 (Mentioned only)
• Template:WEGCite
• Template:WEGCite (Mentioned only)
• Template:WEGCite
• Template:WEGCite (Mentioned only)
• Dark Empire audio dramatization
• Dark Empire 1
• Dark Empire 2
• Dark Empire 3
• Dark Empire 4
• Dark Empire 6
• Dark Empire II audio dramatization
• Dark Empire II 1
• Dark Empire II 2 (Mentioned only)
• Dark Empire II 4
• Dark Empire II 5
• Dark Empire II 6 (Mentioned only)
• Empire's End 2
• Crimson Empire audio dramatization
• Crimson Empire 5
• Crimson Empire 6
• I, Jedi
• Jedi Search
• Dark Apprentice
• Champions of the Force
• Children of the Jedi (Mentioned only)
• Darksaber
• Planet of Twilight (Mentioned only)
• X-Wing: Starfighters of Adumar
• Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy
• Before the Storm
• The New Rebellion
• Assault at Selonia
• Specter of the Past
• Vision of the Future
• "Red Sky, Blue Flame"—Star Wars Gamer 7 (Mentioned only)
• Star Wars: Union
• Chewbacca (2000) 3
• The New Jedi Order: Dark Tide I: Onslaught
• The New Jedi Order: Dark Tide II: Ruin
• The New Jedi Order: Edge of Victory I: Conquest (Mentioned only)
• The New Jedi Order: Edge of Victory II: Rebirth
• The New Jedi Order: Star by Star
• The New Jedi Order: Dark Journey (Mentioned only)
• The New Jedi Order: Enemy Lines I: Rebel Dream
• The New Jedi Order: Enemy Lines II: Rebel Stand
• The New Jedi Order: Destiny's Way (Mentioned only)
• The New Jedi Order: Force Heretic II: Refugee (Mentioned only)
• The New Jedi Order: The Final Prophecy
• The New Jedi Order: The Unifying Force
• Legacy of the Force: Betrayal
• Legacy of the Force: Bloodlines (Mentioned only)
• Legacy of the Force: Tempest
• Legacy of the Force: Exile
• Legacy of the Force: Fury
• Fate of the Jedi: Outcast
• Fate of the Jedi: Omen (Mentioned only)
• Fate of the Jedi: Backlash (Mentioned only)
• "Roll of the Dice"—Star Wars Insider 135
• X-Wing: Mercy Kill