Raymus Antilles/Legends

Raymus Antilles was a prince of Alderaan and the captain of the Alderaan Diplomatic Cruiser Tantive IV from the time of the Clone Wars until his death in 0 BBY at the hands of Darth Vader. He served the Royal Alderaan Civil Fleet under Senator Bail Organa.

Biography
Raymus Antilles was a native of the peaceful planet Alderaan, a member of the prominent House of Antilles, the uncle of Corla Metonae, brother of Queen Breha Organa and son of former Senator Bail Antilles. He wore the iconic gray uniform of an Alderaan starship captain, and carried a target blaster. Following the transmission of Order 66, Captain Antilles recovered a Jedi homing beacon from the ruined Jedi Temple, encountering opposition from turncoat clone troopers in the process. The beacon helped Bail Organa locate Jedi Masters Obi-Wan Kenobi and Yoda. Captain Antilles transported the Jedi back to Coruscant, and later ferried the weary Masters to the medical center of Polis Massa.

When Bail returned to Alderaan aboard the Tantive IV, it was in the company of the droids R2-D2 and C-3PO, as well as Bail's newly-adopted child, Leia Skywalker. To preserve the truth of the girl's parentage, Bail ordered Antilles to have C-3PO's memory wiped, though R2-D2 was able to avoid this fate.

Over the next nineteen years, Raymus Antilles continued to command the Tantive IV, and act as the master of C-3PO and R2-D2.

Early during the Galactic Civil War, Raymus fought for the Rebel Alliance, commanding the modified Corellian Corvette Sundered Heart which participated in the Battle of Kuat. He personally destroyed six Imperial shipyards in orbit of the planet, in order to begin the operation of stealing the X-wing prototypes. Later, while back in command of the Tantive IV, he was part of the mission which intercepted plans for the Death Star.



During the Battle over Tatooine, he commanded Blue Squadron from the cockpit of the Tantive IV. When the Imperial-class Star Destroyer Devastator captured his ship and the 501st Legion stormed the cockpit, he was captured and taken to Darth Vader. The Sith Lord strangled Antilles to death after he refused to give information on the location of the Death Star plans.

Despite sharing the same surname, Captain Antilles was not related to Rebel pilot Wedge Antilles.

Behind the scenes

 * Raymus Antilles was played by Peter Geddis and Rohan Nichol in A New Hope and Revenge of the Sith, respectively. He was voiced by David Ackroyd in the Star Wars radio drama and by Stephen Stanton in Empire at War.


 * George Lucas proposed to Denis Lawson, the actor that played Wedge Antilles in the original trilogy, to make a cameo as Raymus Antilles (much as Jeremy Bulloch had a cameo as Captain Jeremoch Colton). However, Lawson turned down the offer, and Lucas returned to his original choice, Nichol.


 * Since Raymus Antilles was played by a different actor in A New Hope (for that matter, one who does not appear to be nineteen years older than Rohan Nichol), some fans have assumed that the "Captain Antilles" killed by Darth Vader was not the same character seen in Revenge of the Sith. Since C-3PO refers to a "Captain Colton" in the novelization of Episode IV, and the name Colton Antilles was also given in C-3PO: Tales of the Golden Droid, this character is sometimes identified as Colton Antilles, Raymus Antilles's son. However, Leland Chee has confirmed  that the captains in both films are the same character, which has led fans to assume that the man shown in A New Hope is an entirely different man, neither Captain Colton nor Raymus Antilles.

Appearances

 * Bailed Out
 * Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith
 * Dark Lord: The Rise of Darth Vader
 * Captain Threepio
 * Star Wars: Empire at War
 * Star Wars Empire: Princess... Warrior
 * Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope novelization
 * Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
 * Star Wars Journal: Captive to Evil
 * Trooper
 * LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy
 * Children of the Jedi