Brooks Carlson

Brooks Carlson was a Human male member of the Galactic Empire who defected to the Alliance to Restore the Republic along with General Crix Madine. He was hired as a scout for Madine's Rebel commando unit, eventually becoming a sergeant, and also trained Corporal Dansra Beezer to serve in that profession. In 4 ABY, the Alliance discovered that the Empire was building a second Death Star battlestation in orbit over the moon of Endor, and decided to attack the battlestation while it was still in construction. Carlson, by then a veteran pathfinder, was part of a strike team sent to the moon to deactivate the SLD-26 planetary shield generator protecting the Death Star. The strike team managed to destroy the shield generator, allowing Alliance starfighters to destroy the Death Star.

Biography
The Human male Brooks Carlson was a former member of the Galactic Empire who defected to the Alliance to Restore the Republic along with General Crix Madine during the Galactic Civil War. He was hired as a scout for Madine's commando unit, eventually attaining the rank of sergeant. At some point, Carlson trained Corporal Dansra Beezer to also serve as a scout in the Alliance commandos.

In the year 4 ABY, the Rebel Alliance discovered that the Empire was constructing a second Death Star battlestation in orbit over the moon of Endor. The Alliance decided to attack the Death Star as it was still in construction. However, in order to destroy the station, the Alliance first had to deactivate the SLD-26 planetary shield generator protecting the Death Star on Endor. Carlson was part of a strike team organized by Rebel General Han Solo to infiltrate the moon to destroy the shield generator. The strike team traveled to the Endor system aboard the stolen Imperial Lambda-class T4a shuttle Tydirium piloted by Han Solo, and bypassed the Imperial Navy with the use of a stolen Imperial code.

Behind the scenes
Although he appeared on promotional photos of 1983's Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, Brooks Carlson did not appear on the final film. The photos showed him, along with other Rebel commandos, standing in the second Death Star with the original trilogy's protagonist, Rebel commander&mdash;and Jedi Knight&mdash;Luke Skywalker. Carlson was first brought into canon on a card for the June 1999 Endor Limited expansion set of Decipher, Inc.'s Star Wars Customizable Card Game. He was later given an entry in The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia released in 2008.

According to Leland Chee's blog on starwars.com, he speculates that Decipher used pictures of the same actor to represent Sergeant Brooks Carlson and Corporal Delevar, another member of the Endor strike team.