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T'Charek Haathi was a female Wroonian who became a starfighter pilot. She did not enjoy the regimented lifestyle of a pilot and went rogue with a few other Wroonian squadron peers. After a disastrous run-in with Imperial forces, she fled to Rodaj and later joined the Rebel Alliance fleet. She did not succeed in the Alliance fleet and became part of the Special Operations Brigade which hijacked war matériel for the Alliance.

Early life
T'Charek Haathi, a Wroonian female, was born on the planet Wroona in the Inner Rim. In her youth, Haathi worked with her grandmother, who ran a successful shipping company on Wroona. Haathi hated being both stable and predictable, and craved excitement and adventure; the work left her constantly bored. She applied to the Imperial Academy in an effort to find some excitement, despite the fact that she knew she would be subject to constant prejudice due to being both female and non-Human. Her application was denied, but she was recruited by the Wroonian defense force when she was eighteen. A year later, Haathi was a qualified starfighter pilot operating within a squadron. However, regimented life in the military was not to Haathi's tastes either as her duties mainly consisted of patrolling Wroona. Eventually, her squadron went rogue, and began raiding Imperial corporate ships. Their assaults were bold, but they drew the attention of the Imperial Navy who struck back against Haathi's unit. The squadron was decimated, but Haathi survived the assault, and managed to make it to the planet Rodaj in the Inner Rim. There, she found work as a miner, and struck up a friendship with former Imperial soldier Ivhin Jayme, and former scout Morgan Q. Raventhorn. Feeling down in her current situation, Haathi and Jayme decided that they would join the Rebellion, and convinced Raventhorn to go with them.

Pilot
Haathi and her companions enlisted with the Rebel Alliance shortly after the Battle of Yavin, and she was assigned to the Alliance Starfighter Corps flying a BTL Y-wing starfighter. Although her experience and abilities made Haathi one of the Alliance's best pilots, her carefree attitude towards regulations and her impulsiveness grated on her superior officers. In addition, the Alliance was in retreat following the Battle of Yavin, hiding from Imperial forces and regrouping their strength. Haathi found the situation monotonous, and found ways to liven up her duties by sabotaging her Y-wing's systems at random just to see how well she could fly without them, yelling "Eject!" into open comm channels just to see who would trigger their ejection seat, and constantly refering to her commanding officer as "Admiral Nerf" just to see how long it would take for him to get mad. Haathi endured several suspensions from flight duty which just made her more bored and annoying than she already was, and finally her commanding officer began to ignore her completely rather than punish her.

At some point, Haathi was assigned as a flight instructor, and posted to a training base. There, she came into conflict with the local quartermaster, Arik Stijhl. Stijhl, a veteran logistics officer, was a stickler for regulations and timetables, and Haathi was the complete opposite. Her training sessions often called for the unauthorized requisition of supplies which, in Stijhl's mind, undermined his authority as the base's supply officer. Eventually, her superiors decided to transfer her to Special Operations. They saw it as a double positive situation&mdash;the Rebellion would be able to retain Haathi's considerable skills, but the Starfighter Corps would be shot of her. Haathi agreed to the reassignment.

Special Ops
Assigned to command a Special Ops team, Haathi immediately recruited her former colleagues Ivhin Jayme and Morgan Raventhorn into her squad, along with a medic. Haathi's team was based out of an Alliance base on the planet Derricon, in the Spirva sector of the Mid Rim, and engaged in shipjacking operations. Although answerable to the base commander on Derricon, Haathi and her team were allowed free rein once off-base. Her actions earned her a promotion from Captain to Major. Over the course of six months, Haathi either fired or lost eight medics in turn until she was assigned Dren Nord, a former surgeon with the Alliance Fleet, despite her protests. Haathi was assured that Nord had experience of field work, but she had her doubts.

Zelos II
In search of starships to procure for the Alliance, Haathi took the team to Zelos II, a planet in the Tyus sector of the Mid Rim. Targeting a spaceport, the team acquired stolen technician uniforms and obtained a set of the installation's remodelling plans that provided information on its security systems. Haathi's plan called for infiltrating the spaceport at night; the native Zelosians shared a pathological fear of the dark, and Haathi intended to use that dread to her advantage. She reasoned that the spaceport guards would be more concerned with the darkness around them and thinking of the moment that their shift would end, rather than be focused on actually guarding the spaceport. Using the stolen uniforms and forged work orders to fool Humanoid and droid personnel alike, Haathi evaluated the potential targets. Out of hundreds of ships in the spaceport, there were dozens of YT-1300 light freighters&mdash;top of the Alliance's list of ships to procure&mdash;berthed in the spaceport. At least two were relatively unguarded, while a third was located beneath a guard tower, in full view of several security monitors, and surrounded by a forcefield cube, a mesh-link power fence, and a blast wall. Haathi, seeing the inherent challenge in stealing the most heavily guarded ship in the spaceport, selected it as their target.

Haathi led Jayme and Nord to a maintenance tower overlooking the freighter while Raventhorn ascended a lighting tower. Dangling from a catwalk, the young technician began to splice into the spaceport's systems to rewire the security monitors covering the vessel to display a computer generated video of the light freighter's docking bay. The video would show the ship undisturbed to mask the team's approach to the ship. While Raventhorn rewired the security monitors, Jayme rewired the backup security computers located in the maintenance tower so that the unit would be under the team's control. Haathi and Nord monitored the spaceport's security patrols to make sure that they did not blow Raventhorn's cover. While Raventhorn and Jayme worked on their assigned tasks, Nord questioned Haathi's decision to take the most heavily guarded ship in the spaceport. Haathi informed him that stealing the other ships would have been boring, and besides which, the ship had called to her, begging her to take it away from the spaceport.

Raventhorn signaled that she had completed her task, and began playing the fake video over the security monitors. Haathi praised her work, but was exasperated to learn that Raventhorn had programmed a full twenty-hour cycle on the video when they only needed one that lasted twenty minutes. With the cameras disabled, Haathi ordered Jayme to begin the next phase. While Jayme headed down to the docking bay, Raventhorn attached a Scomp-Spiker to the security systems. When Jayme signalled that he was in position, Raventhorn triggered the device, sending a power surge through the main security computer, temporarily disabling the forcefield cube and power fence encircling the ship. The spaceport's systems rerouted to the backup computer that Jayme had rigged earlier, keeping the security systems offline for a short time before the auxiliary power kicked in and re-established both the forcefield and power fence. Jayme pole-vaulted the fence and wall, landing just as the power to the security fields was reactivated. Inside the docking bay, Jayme relayed the ship's identification numbers to Haathi, who identified the vessel as The Maker, owned by a Sluissi called Sythluss Leethe.

Using a VoiceBox, Jayme deactivated the security systems from inside to admit Haathi and the rest of the team. Momentarily lost in admiring the ship, Haathi soon ordered Raventhorn to begin work on disabling the freighter's security systems while Jayme and Nord kept an eye on the security patrols. As Raventhorn worked, Haathi resisted the urge to stand over the young woman and ask how much longer it would take. Soon enough, Raventhorn announced that the security systems would be disabled once she had disconnected the stun steps. Haathi, in her enthusiasm to take the ship, had only heard that the defenses were down and began bounding up the entry ramp. The freighter's stun steps triggered as her foot touched the ramp, generating an electromagnetic neuro-shock field that knocked her unconscious and sent her flying backwards. Haathi came to rest in the open and Jayme attempted to take control of the situation, ordering Raventhorn to get Haathi under cover quickly. Nord, meanwhile, had abandoned cover to see if Haathi required his assistance and was standing in plain sight. Jayme ordered Nord to get back into position but the medic started to protest until they were interrupted by one of the security guards who had spotted them from the catwalks above. The guard alerted his colleagues, and a ladder from the catwalks was lowered into the bay. Descending the ladder, the security guards began to fire on the Special Ops team.

Haathi regained consciousness to find herself under The Maker, protected from the incoming fire by the entry ramp. She had no feeling in her legs and Raventhorn held several fingers up in front of her face to test her responses. Haathi answered in a flippant manner that seemed to satisfy the technician, who then told her to stay put before disappearing. As feeling began to return to her legs, Haathi maneuvered herself to survey the situation. The guards were trading fire with her team, who were in cover behind cargo crates. No member of her team had been injured yet, despite the fact that the guards' blasters were set to kill while her team's were on stun. Haathi started to wonder if the effort to take The Maker had been worth it; resolving not to let the guards rob her of her prize, she issued orders to fall back to the ship. Suddenly, Nord killed one of the security guards, having set his own weapon to kill. Haathi immediately ordered him to switch back to the stun setting, which he refused to do unless she could get them out of trouble. Haathi ordered Jayme to stun him; when he began to comply, Nord ducked into cover and followed orders.

The guards in the docking bay began to thin out, as several had retreated to the upper level where they were better positioned than Haathi's team. Haathi ordered Raventhorn to complete her work on disabling the stun steps. Raventhorn complied, and as she worked, a security guard fired on her, striking the forward landing strut. The guard, standing on the lowest rung of the ladder leading up to the catwalks, had Raventhorn dead in his sights. Raventhorn was blocking Haathi from using her weapon to neutralize him. Haathi feared the worst until Raventhorn took the two cables attached to the stun steps that she was holding and jerked them in the guards' direction. The electromagnetic neuro-shock field hit the guard, stunning him. Seeing this, Haathi ordered Raventhorn to use the cables to charge the ladder rungs, which in turn sent the stun blast surging through the metal catwalk attached to it. The neuro-shock field stunned the remaining guards.

As the team began to fall back to The Maker, Jayme helped Haathi to her feet and into the ship's lounge area. Haathi brushed off being treated with a medpac, and ordered Jayme to help her to the cockpit while asking if anyone could think of other surprises Leethe may have included in the security systems on his ship. Raventhorn mentioned a sealed cockpit hatch was a possibility, but doubted that he had installed one&mdash;until they were confronted with it. Haathi groaned, Raventhorn began to figure out a way passed it, and Jayme simply attached detonite tape to the door, then used a shot from his blaster to detonate it. The resulting explosion disengaged the hatch's locking mechanism, admitting Haathi into the cockpit. Dropping into the pilot's seat, Haathi rerouted all power to the engines launching the freighter as security reinforcements took pot shots at the departing ship.

Gelgelar
Haathi flew The Maker to an alliance drop point on the planet Gelgelar, in the Elrood sector of the Outer Rim Territories. The drop point was commanded by Arik Stijhl, and Haathi's main reason for stopping at the base was solely to show off her new ship and promotion to Major. The Maker was given clearance to land, and Stijhl welcomed Haathi, Jayme and Nord to Gelgelar. Haathi was disappointed to learn that Stijhl was no longer a Major himself, and had since been promoted to Colonel. Covering her true reason for arriving at his base, Haathi claimed they needed supplies as Nord requested and received permission to disembark. Stijhl summoned his administrative aide, Maglenna Pendower, to take their requisition needs. As Pendower took their request, Raventhorn&mdash;who had been working on the freighter's faulty power grid, commed them to tell them something. Just as she was about to, static erupted from the comm and the entire ship lost power. As the emergency lighting kicked in, Pendower headed straight for the maintenance bay where Raventhorn was working. Haathi ordered Jayme to follow Pendower, then headed off the ship in search of Nord.

Morgan working on power grid. Accident. Morgan dead, revived. Assassin droid on ship, attacks drop point. Battle. Survivors escape in The Maker.

Haathi's team to replace supplies lost at Gelgalar. Transfers Nord for Magdalenna Pendower.

Personality and traits
Hates stability and predictability.

Easily bored.

Not power hungry.

Listens to suggestions.

Doesn't pull rank unless she has to since she doesn't want to be the authority figure she hates.

Easygoing, quick witted, natural leader who can talk her way out situations.

Places welfare of friends above the needs of the Alliance.

Look to rank issue Captain->Major.

Notes and references
Category:Females Category:Rebel Alliance members Category:Wroonians