In recent years, the Rebellion has finally come out of the shadows and Arkhan’s lonely, secret war is over. To be able to evade his enemies and make contact with potential Rebellion recruits, Arkhan was forced to be slow to trust and hard to rattle. And the agents of the Empire, of course, were everywhere. In fact, if they had felt that Arkhan were likely to be uncovered, they might have eliminated him themselves to spare Bothawui the embarrassment. Although broadly sympathetic to the Rebellion, the political establishment of Bothawui has been heavily invested in remaining neutral in the civil war it would not have supported or defended Arkhan in the slightest if he had been exposed to the Empire. Over the years, Arkhan has been living a dangerous life. Over the next 20 years, he laid the groundwork for a dozen Rebellion cells and had a minor but laudable role in the creation of the Alliance to Restore the Republic. When Order 66 was initiated and the Jedi Order was exterminated, including a handful of personal friends Arkhan had made over the course of the war, he saw that a renewed war was inevitable.Īrkhan immediately began seeking out like-minded sentients on Bothawui and beyond.

As he observed the increasingly draconian tactics used by the Republic forces throughout the conflict, he became increasingly concerned. Initially supportive of the Chancellor, Arkhan enlisted in the BDC during the early days of the Clone Wars and was deployed in a number of peacekeeping and counter-intelligence operations on Bothawui.

Arkhan Brem’tu, then a young lieutenant in the Bothawui Defense Corps, was one of these individuals. When Supreme Chancellor Palpatine became Emperor Palpatine at the close of the Clone Wars, it was already obvious to some sentients that a new war was on the horizon. Zal fulfills her Duty when she defeats a skilled enemy pilot or obtains a new asset that helps her fight better in the cockpit. Zal feels most alive behind the throttle of a ship, and while she does not always have the chance to dogfight against Imperial aces during her missions with Special Operations, she always has her eyes open for equipment and armaments to customize and improve the craft she flies. Zal couldn’t be happier with this assignment, or with her role in the Rebellion. In the ake of these events, Zal requested (and received) a transfer to Special Operations. Zal, perhaps protected by her lucky charm, was one of only two Soaring Dactillions to survive the battle. Though the Dactillions pushed back the Imperials and A-wing proved itself a superlative interceptor, the cost was high. After a high-attrition raid on the Fondor shipyards left the Dactillions under strength, her squadron was reassigned as test pilots for the new A-wing fighter, stationed on Cardooine.Ī week later, the Dactillions scrambled again, this time using untested prototype A-wing fighters to repulse an Imperial raid on Cardooine. In mere weeks, she was piloting an X-wing in combat situations. She was assigned to a starfighter squadron, the Soaring Dactillions. When she shared her frustration with a friendly Senator she was ferrying, she finally learned why she had been denied a combat posting: Imperial Naval Command suspected her of Rebel sympathies due to her Chandrilan upbringing.įrustrated with the Empire and unhappy with her stalled career, Zal decided to prove Imperial Navel Command right and defected to the Rebel Alliance.

After being turned down for numerous choice assignments, she was finally placed as a shuttle pilot (a post Zal found at least as boring as contemplating the idyllic beauty of the words back on Chandirla). Unfortunately, discrimination graduated with her. Undeterred, Zal pushed through and distinguished herself time and time again before graduation. While at the academy, Zal faced constant harassment, discrimination, and derision from instructors and students alike. All she wanted out of life was to sit behind the stick of a starfighter. But while her brother and sisters were playing with their pet squalls and taking dance and elocution lessons, Zal was racing speeders through the crystal canyons and breaking curfew.Īs soon as she was old enough, Zal left Chandrila and enrolled in the Rengali Imperial Naval Academy, bringing nothing with her from Chandrila but a lucky charm made for her by her older brother. Born and raised on Chandrila, Zal should have been a nature-loving, peace-making scholar like most of the rest of her family and, in fact, most of the rest of the planet.

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