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"I'm glad you think I'm not bad, but I want to be the best."

- Corran Horn to Wedge Antilles

Corran Horn was a Human security officer with the Corellian Security Force, husband of Mirax Terrik Horn, and father of Valin and Jysella Horn. He eventually joined the New Republic and learned of his powerful Jedi heritage. He became a powerful Jedi and a Master on the new Jedi Council. Horn's command qualities and experience made him a natural leader among the Jedi, which saw him become the temporary head of the Order during the Dark Nest Crisis.

Biography
Corran Horn was born in 18 BBY, the son of Valin Horn, known widely as Hal, and Nyche Horn. Valin Horn was actually the biological son of Nejaa Halcyon, a Jedi Master, but when Halcyon was killed, Valin was adopted by Rostek Horn, a Corellian Security Force officer who was Halcyon's best friend. Rostek married Halcyon's wife Scerra as well and, as the Great Jedi Purge began, hid all evidence of Valin Horn, who know went by Hal, being a Force-sensitive. Corran Horn himself was raised unaware of any of this history or his own Force-sensitivity.

Horn kept a lucky medallion from his father. It was in fact a commemorative medallion marking Halcyon's ascent to the rank of Jedi Master, a secret family heirloom the full meaning of which Horn did not understand. However, he valued it highly.

His father and grandfather encouraged him to always follow his hunches and to heed any internal sense of discomfort with a situation, knowing that they were manifestations of his Force abilities.

Horn, even fully grown, was quite short, a fact about which he was quite unhappy as a young man.

Horn entered the Corellian Security Force Academy immediately upon graduating secondary school, where he excelled, setting new records&mdash;many of them by beating his father's. He was in the Academy when he heard of the destruction of the Death Star and the warrant placed on Han Solo for his part in it. Horn was left feeling that the smuggler Solo was a blot on Corellia's honor, causing the world to be overly associated with smuggling and lawlessness.



Around 1 ABY, Horn was present in the Corellian city of Doaba Guerfel investigating the extremely powerful Black Sun crime syndicate as an undercover officer. During that investigation, he became aware that Chandra Conrad was willing to come forward as a witness. However, at that same time, he had to attend a vital Black Sun meeting. Horn had to recruit a trustworthy individual to escort Conrad to a later meeting with him, at which point he was able to deal with her safely. Upon finding that the individual had performed well and unable to move against Black Sun due to his undercover position, Horn engaged his new operative to bring in Obrio Caldori, a mid-level Black Sun administrator who was willing to turn state's evidence. Caldori quickly turned over major information when he saw how much Horn already knew, and with his evidence, Horn had a major Black Sun figure, Voydd Blancken, arrested.

Horn strongly disliked Imperial interference in Corellian affairs, and wanted the Empire's influence and presence on Corellia to be minimal. To that end, he believed in keeping a minimal Rebel presence on Corellia so that the Empire would not need to intervene strongly. He disliked the Rebellion, regarding them as a band of criminals who cloaked their law-breaking in talk of revolution. The Imperial Intelligence liaison with whom Horn's division of Corellian Security had to coordinate was Kirtan Loor, and he and Horn mutually despised each other; Horn regarded Loor as arrogant, incompetent, and intrusive. He always tried to avoid having to actually deal with Loor in person.

By 2 ABY, Horn's mother was dead.

In 2 ABY, Horn was partnered with his father. While surveilling Sajsh's booth on Treasure Ship Row&mdash;an outlet for the business of Corellia's top Black Sun lieutenant, Zekka Thyne&mdash;he noticed a man speak with Sajsh and ask for Borbor Crisk&mdash;a rival of Zekka Thyne. Finding this suspicious, he kept an eye on the man, who joined up with another young man, a woman, and a Tunroth. He returned to report to his father, also present in the marketplace, and while doing so noticed the group meet up with a bounty hunter Hal recognized as Jodo Kast. Realizing that the strangers would likely be investigated by Thyne and brought before him in his private stronghold, Horn suggested that he and his father should attach themselves to the group in hopes of being brought along. Hal thought it extremely dangerous, but agreed to at least see what the group was doing.



They followed the strangers and, when they became involved in trying to stop a confrontation between the Brommstaad Mercenaries and a shopowner and his daughter, both Horns drew their blasters to keep the Brommstaad leader from drawing on Kast. The mercenaries admitted that they were outmatched and backed off, leaving the suspicious group thanking the Horns. They discussed the situation of the group&mdash;Haber Trell, Maranne Darmic, Riij Winward, Rathe Palror, and Kast. The group, a freighter crew, stated that they simply had to deliver a cargo to Crisk. The Horns told them that their cargo, the contents of which they did not know, was almost certainly illegal. They introduced themselves as a pair of small-time criminals looking for a position in Crisk's organization. Horn admitted to having overheard their conversation with Sajsh and asked if they could come along to the meeting that night with the man Sajsh had said was Crisk's contact; the Horns knew it would actually be an ambush by Thyne's men. Kast, the leader of the group, said that only Hal could come along. He assigned Horn, Winward, and Darmic to offload the cargo and prepare it for delivery.

Horn headed to the freighter, the Hopskip, with the others and began subtly probing them for information about themselves. While unloading the boxes, he immediately recognized them as sleight boxes&mdash;a smuggling trick box which used small repulsors to neutralize its weight, making its contents difficult to determine. Neither Darmic nor Winward knew the boxes were sleight boxes, or even what sleight boxes were. While unloading the boxes and discussing the morality of the Rebellion with Winward, whom he suspected of Rebel sympathies, Horn was surprised to see Kast return. Kast revealed that he, serving as a rearguard for Hal Horn, Palror, and Trell, had seen them captured by Thyne's thugs and done nothing; he said he had been too badly outnumbered. Kast told them to deliver the cargo to Crisk, having set up a new meeting, while he would free the others from Thyne. Horn angrily insisted on coming along to free his father&mdash;though he denied a family connection to Kast and the others. While Kast left, Horn insisted that Darmic and Winward open some of the poorly-sealed boxes to see just what they were delivering. They found glitterstim and Durindfire gems in two different boxes. Horn came up with a plan to take only those two boxes to Crisk, hiding the rest in a storage facility and only giving their location once the others were rescued from Thyne's fortress. If he and Kast failed, they were to leverage Crisk into attempting a rescue. If Crisk refused, they could use their rich cargo to ransom the captives from Thyne.

During the landspeeder ride to Thyne's stronghold, Horn and Kast happened to discuss art, with Horn finding Kast's keen interest in and knowledge of art unusual, and having to make excuses for his assumed criminal identity to be familiar with the works of Venthan Chassu. When they arrived, they were ushered into Thyne's office, where Hal, Trell, and Palror were all restrained and had clearly been beaten. He was shocked when Kast drew a blaster on him, claiming that Trell and Palror were assassins working for Crisk. They were imprisoned in Thyne's wine cellar, and Kast taunted Horn before he left. Hal, imprisoned in the same cell, realized that Kast had left them a monomolecular stiletto to cut their way out and had warned them, in his taunting, that most of Thyne's forces were being sent after Crisk and the others who were arranging a deal with him, leaving the fortress vulnerable.



The pair ambushed the guard outside the room and allowed Trell and Palror to cut themselves free, telling them to take an airspeeder and leave. They were going after Thyne. They stormed Thyne's office, where Horn stunned one enforcer and Kast, inside the office, killed the other. Thyne, however, fled down his own private escape route. Kast said that he had more business to handle inside the fortress, and left Thyne to the Horns. They pursued him down his escape tunnel. When it widened into a dark cave, the Horns advanced carefully. In the darkness, however, Thyne was able to get the drop on Horn, disarming him and using him as a hostage, blaster pistol to his head, and demanded Hal show himself. Hal did show himself, with a blaster carbine aimed at Thyne. He identified himself as a Corellian Security Force inspector, and demanded that Thyne surrender. Thyne instead demanded that Hal drop his weapon. He pretended to remove his finger from the trigger, but actually kept it on, using his Force abilities to fool Thyne. When Thyne relaxed, he struck him with a stun bolt. Hal carried Thyne out while the younger Horn led the way out the tunnel. There, they were surrounded by the Imperial stormtroopers raiding Thyne's fortress. They identified themselves and Colonel Maximilian Veers allowed them to pass with Thyne. What they never learned was that "Kast" had in fact been Grand Admiral Mitth'raw'nuruodo, helping Darth Vader take down Thyne and in so doing strike at the Dark Lord's rival, Black Sun leader Prince Xizor.

In 3 ABY, Horn, working in the Smuggling Interdiction Division of CorSec, was partnered with Iella Wessiri, and he worked with an astromech he nicknamed Whistler. Horn's supervisor was Gil Bastra, a former partner of his father's. Horn was a relentless investigator, using brute force to push through investigations, while Wessiri preferred subtlety, making them a powerful team. Wessiri's husband, Diric Wessiri, often took an interest in their cases. In one, he became convinced that a suspect was innocent and badgered Horn and Iella to look for evidence of her innocence. They eventually found that Diric was in fact right, and arrested those who were truly responsible.

Horn sometimes had to fly escort duty, which he hated. He was, however, an excellent pilot, his skills honed by space missions in his CorSec T-65 X-wing starfighter.

Around a year and a half after their arrest of Thyne, Horn and his father went on a mission in which they anticipated trouble. With Horn watching from a remote as Hal met with two other men, he found little to worry him and so relaxed. However, the bounty hunter Bossk entered the room and sprayed fire across the table at which Hal Horn was sitting, killing him and his companions. Horn rushed out, but could only hold his father's body in his arms. Horn was impressed by his father's wake and the outpouring of respect for Valin Horn at it, so impressed that he hoped his life could be celebrated the same way. However, without his father, he felt adrift emotionally. He made only one new friend during the rest of his time in CorSec, and she left him six months later.

Horn tracked Bossk down and arrested him, but Loor turned him loose without so much as an arraignment, citing the Trandoshan lack of manual dexterity as making Hal Horn collateral damage in a valid Imperial warrant. Horn was furious, absolutely loathing Loor from then onwards. He longed to kill the man, but was talked down by Bastra, who became his primary mentor after his father's death.

When the Annual CorSec Awards Ball was gearing up in early 4 ABY, around six months after Hal Horn's death, the traditional pool system was changed. Usually, each male CorSec officer bought into a pool, the winner of which was originally given the right to take the Director's daughter to the ball. Over the years, it became a tradition in which a female officer offered herself as the prize, and the proceeds from the lottery system went to the Survivors and Orphans Fund. That year, however, the prize was, unknown to her, Chertyl Ruluwoor. A female Selonian, Ruluwoor was part of a transfer program with CorSec. No one wanted to have to take her to the ball, but Horn, miserable from his father's death, decided that there was no point in making anyone else suffer. He persuaded the significant others of all the other officers in the pool that the pool was rigged to cause that officer's ticket to win the pool. He let them sell him their tickets, eventually gaining every single ticket in the pool. He gave all the proceeds to the Survivors and Orphans Fund and went all-out to make Ruluwoor's night special, flying across the planet to pick up the proper flowers. Ruluwoor made a stunning impression at the ball, and afterwards she and Horn, who had hit it off, made love. While Horn enjoyed the experience immensely, he proved allergic to her fur and her skin was irritated by his sweat, resulting in an uncomfortable experience for both afterwards. Knowing their relationship would not work out, they parted amicably.

During one raid on a glitterstim dealer's warehouse, Horn was nearly shot in the resulting battle. Wessiri shot the man who had Horn in his sights, saving his life. Horn immediately felt grateful to Wessiri and began to think he was in love with her. In the emotional aftermath of the fighting, Wessiri reciprocated his feelings, but they were separated and debriefed before they could act on them. Horn did not see her until two days later, by which time the moment had passed and he realized their feelings were merely the result of the emotional aftereffects of battle.

Horn's division wished to focus on spice smugglers and other serious criminals, but Loor pressed them to pursue Rebel shipping. When they preferred to focus on what they felt were criminals actually hurting Corellia, Loor threatened to bring them up on charges of treason, his ability to do so amplified by the Imperials fleeing to Corellia in the aftermath of the defeat at Endor. Bastra, feeling they were in danger, worked up false identities for himself, Horn, and the Wessiris. In order to be clear of suspicion, Horn and Bastra made up files on a group of dangerous smugglers, which Bastra then accused Horn of murdering. They staged an argument and pretended that their friendship had been destroyed. With Loor convinced they hated each other, they were freer to meet outside the office and set up their escape routes. Loor threatened to bring murder charges against him for the smugglers if Horn ever crossed him.

Around ten months after the Battle of Endor, Horn and Wessiri were assigned to investigate the kidnapping of Fyric Fel, the two-year-old nephew of Imperial fighter ace Colonel Baron Soontir Fel. They went to the Fel estate, where Wessiri interviewed Fyric's parents, Todr and Ajai Fel. They gave up little information and were not particularly cooperative. Horn, after examining the crime scene, was convinced that the kidnappers were extremely skilled professionals. When three strangers pulled up to the estate, Horn interviewed them. They said they were friends of the family coming for a visit, but Horn was immediately suspicious. They were actually Wes Janson, Derek Klivian, and Isplourrdacartha Estillo of Rogue Squadron, sent to offer the Fels asylum in the New Republic, to which Soontir Fel had defected. While Horn asked Wessiri about the three, Loor arrived and took control of the investigation. After deflecting Loor's interest, Horn let the three Rogues go but asked them, if they were truly family friends, to convince the Fels to cooperate.

Horn and Wessiri were able to find a source within the kidnapping gang who informed them that the kidnappers would be at an alley, where they waited. The Rogues arrived there for a meeting with the kidnappers, having been enlisted by Ajai Fel to aid them, but were attacked. Horn and Wessiri drew their blasters and entered the fight, but the ringleader of the plot, Ilir Post, fled. Estillo argued that Post was likely working for the Empire, as Loor had seemed keen to pull the pair of investigators off the case. Horn found that unlikely until Estillo suggested that Soontir Fel had defected, leaving Horn strongly suspicious that the group was from the New Republic. Though not happy about working with Republic agents, Horn was committed to rescuing Fyric and decided that, with the Empire against them, he would have to take what allies he could get.

When they received word from their informant as to where Post was hiding, they raided his estate. They had to shoot their way across an open, guarded lawn, but before they entered the manor, Post appeared on a balcony holding Fyric and a blaster. He ordered them to withdraw or he would kill the child. Horn and the others were caught in a bind, with no shot at Post but knowing that if they withdrew, Post would likely open fire on them. Their dilemma was solved when a shot caught Post in the head, killing him. Fyric dropped several stories from the balcony, saved by Estillo in a diving catch. Horn was confused as to the source of the shot, but as they left they found Todr Fel in the woods with a blaster rifle. He had shot Post knowing that Fyric would be killed if Post lived, and that there was a chance Fyric might live if Post were shot. Horn allowed the Rogue pilots to leave with the Fels and put off filing his reports on the incident as long as possible so that the Imperials would not be tipped off. When the Rogues departed the planet, their transport came under attack by TYE-wing uglies. Horn, having shadowed the ship in his X-wing, destroyed three of the fighters, allowing the ship to escape.

With Horn knowing he was about to escape, he began being more openly defiant of Loor. Eventually, Loor sent Horn to investigate smuggler activity which was supposed to be occurring in the system. Horn took his CorSec X-wing, with Whistler in the astromech socket, to investigate but found two flights of TIE fighters waiting for him, an ambush set up by Loor. He shot down a few of the TIEs and jumped into hyperpsace.



Whister had the complete files for the cover identities, and Horn moved through various cover identities. Whistler encouraged him to join the fledgling New Republic, but Horn insisted that he simply wanted to lay low. During his time on the run, he always managed to fly once a week. He spent the majority of his time as "Eamon Yzalli" on Garqi&mdash;over a year&mdash;as the confidential aide to a succession of governors on the Imperial world. As the last governor he worked under was frequently absent, he worked most closely with the military prefect, Mosh Barris. He his his X-wing with Whistler in an abandoned building, but visited the droid and took the fighter for night flights frequently, easily evading the local patrols. When his centrifugal debris extractor was damaged by a rdava bird striking the intake, Captain Lai Nootka of the freighter Star's Delight brought Horn parts as well as a shipment of proton torpedoes for the fighter. However, the freighter's cargo was found by the Imperial authorities, creating fears of a Rebel presence on Garqi. Minor slicing attacks displaying New Republic crests inflamed those fears, though Horn knew they were only the work of dissatisfied students at Garqi Agricultural University. One of them, Dynba Tesc, had been arrested and was interrogated by Barris. Horn was convinced that when Barris realized she knew nothing, he would let her go, but Barris seemed convinced that Tesc was a genuine Rebel. Feeling guilty over the imprisonment of Nootka and his crew, Horn wanted to free them, but felt unable to without his X-wing in working order.

As Yzalli, Horn spoke with Barris about Tesc's case, suggesting she might know no more than the little she had said. Barris was convinced that she was holding out, and that he could revive his dismal career by rooting out Garqi's Rebel cell. Barris mentioned that Kirtan Loor had been dispatched to Garqi. Already convinced by the Imperial attention to the world that it was time for him to move on, this development only alarmed him more; Horn knew that even despite the fact that he had grown a beard and dyed his hair blond, Loor would recognize him. Further driving him to action was Barris's intent to publicly execute Tesc as an example and in so doing drive her Rebel confederates to reveal themselves as they dispersed. Horn immediately hit upon a solution to his problem, and proposed to Barris that he schedule Tesc's execution for one week later. Horn would tell Tesc that he would arrange her escape, playing on his false identity's Alderaanian origins to convince her that he had decided to oppose the Empire. Gathering her, her Rebel friends, and the crew of the Star's Delight together, they would attempt to escape on the restocked freighter, gathering all the Rebels together where Garqi's TIE complement could destroy them as they fled, ensuring a kill by sabotaging the ship's shields ahead of time. Horn would deliver the parts to the freighter, but in order to keep him from actually being on it, Barris would enter a notation of his execution in the Imperial system. The Rebel slicers, assuming that Yzalli had been found out, would alert their confederates to flee at once. As their slicers could access the Imperial system, neither Horn nor Barris could enter any information on the plan into the computer system. Delighted, Barriss approved the plan. In fact, Horn would use the parts to repair his fighter and use the the supposed Rebels' escape to cover his own, allowing him to escape and free those he had brought into danger.

Horn spoke with Tesc and told her of the escape plan, though he did not reveal his true identity or plans. He removed her from prison and had her pass herself off as "Kirtana Loor" in order to take the Delight's crew out of custody and to the Delight. Using only the TIE pilots he planned to shoot down as workers, he had the ship's cargo restored to it, minus the debris extractor he needed. He also had a duplex circuit in the shield system replaced with a triplex one&mdash;sabotage which could be repaired by giving the freighter's crew the proper codes. Everything was in place for an escape attempt the next day, around the time Loor would be arriving.



The gathering of the crew and Tesc's cell of slicers went smoothly and the Star's Delight began its escape. Horn's final act as Eamon Yzalli was to send a report to Loor stating that Barris had arranged the escape as part of a plot to turn Garqi over to the New Republic. With Yzalli's vague death report filed by Barris, Loor had Barris arrested. Horn wanted to send a message to the Delight with the shield codes, but Barris had deactivated his message account when he declared him dead. Now forced to intervene actively, he made his way to his freshly-repaired X-wing. There he was shocked to have Whistler reveal to him that the droid, through HoloNet contact, had been the mysterious leader of Tesc's slicing ring, known as "Xeno" to the students. Horn launched, caught up to the freighter, and gave Nootka the shield code. He then quickly shot down two of the TIEs with proton torpedoes but had to dogfight with the last two. After shooting one down, he still had the best of the pilots on his tail. A trick maneuver using his repulsorlifts to bounce off the Star's Delight was able to put him in position to destroy the final TIE fighter and escape.

Horn followed Nootka to a New Republic base, where the New Republic's Captain Dromath was extremely impressed upon hearing of Horn's performance over Garqi. He urged Horn to join the New Republic, but Horn maintained that he just wanted to be left alone. Dromath and Tesc told him that the New Republic needed him, and that he was better off fighting the Empire with others than on his own. When Dromath told him that the elite Rogue Squadron was being re-formed and was seeking pilots, Horn was intrigued. He realized that he missed having companionship and that he would never be able to truly escape the Empire without the New Republic. He decided to join the cause.

Becoming a Rogue
"You've got the makings of a superior pilot, but you aren't there yet. You have the skills you need, but there is more to being part of this squadron than flying well. The training you get will be a bit different from the others, but your need to learn is just as great."

- Wedge Antilles to Corran Horn

In 6 ABY, Horn tried out for a position in the elite Rogue Squadron, which was being re-formed under the famous Commander Wedge Antilles. He trained for several months at Folor, where his roommate was Ooryl Qyrgg, a Gand who always spoke in the third person. Used to being on his own, he was relatively distant from the rest of the trainees, and strongly disliked Bror Jace, the pilot generally considered his rival for the top position among the trainees; he thought Jace was arrogant and egotistical.

Near the end of the training regimen, he flew his final iteration of the Redemption scenario, a classic piloting simulation in which he and three other pilot-candidates were required to protect the frigate Redemption while it was evacuated to the vulnerable corvette Korolev. The Imperial frigate Warspite meanwhile harassed them, deploying fighters and bombers. In an earlier simulation, Horn had flown one of the bombers, successfully destroying the Korolev. Horn, flying with Qyrgg, Nawara Ven, and Rhysati Ynr, was now in command of the flight, and decided that he would operate by convention wisdom, ranging ahead to engage the fighters himself while the other three provided a backstop that prevented Korolev from deploying fighters even closer. Horn was able to shoot down the first three TIE bombers, but as he engaged the last three, he found that one of the TIE fighters from the first wave was killing his companions. He had to use the desperation tactic of bouncing the last TIE bomber, which he suspected was piloted by Jace, off his shields, dealing it crippling damage, before he was able to engage the final TIE fighter. He engaged the fighter, launching a proton torpedo which it dodged. As the TIE settled in behind Horn, he became convinced that the pilot had to be the legendary Antilles. He was able to break free of the pursuit, and came around for a head-to-head pass. The other pilot's fire was able to distract his targeting sensors, keeping him from getting a lock, and Horn was rendered dead in space. He won the scenario, however, as his earlier proton torpedo had finally caught up with the TIE and destroyed it. After the mission, he was approached by the other pilot, who was not Antilles at all. He congratulated Horn and departed, leaving Horn impressed by his skill but wondering as to his identity. He was in fact Captain Tycho Celchu,a former Rogue whom Antilles had brought in specifically to defeat Horn, as there was no other trainee significantly above Horn's flying level. Horn's run of the Redemption scenario turned out to be the highest of all the candidates'.

After the simulation, Horn went to maintenance his X-wing. He was approached by pilot-candidate Lujayne Forge. She confronted him over his separation from the rest of the candidates, accusing him of holding the fact that she was from Kessel against her. He explained that he was merely used to isolation and found it difficult to trust others after his time on Garqi, and she invited him to drinks with the other cadets at the DownTime cantina, which he accepted. She also aided him with his maintenance, leaving him owing her a favor.

In short order, Horn received a message telling him to report to the squadron briefing room. He had been selected for the squadron. At the briefing, he learned that the mystery pilot was Celchu, who would be the unit's executive officer. During the introduction, it was mentioned that two of the pilots had death marks against them. Horn, Qyrgg, Ynr, and Ven speculated about who might have them, correctly identifying Riv Shiel as a likely candidate for the Empire's enmity. Horn was amused to learn from "Emtrey", the unit's military protocol droid and quartermaster, that he was the second recipient, Loor having followed through on his threat to use the smuggler incident against him. During Emtrey's search of records to confirm his story, however, the droid came across an Imperial report that Bastra had died. Horn was distraught at the loss of his mentor, but believed it might be a false report by Loor aimed at goading him.

Horn was given the callsign Rogue Nine, and Qyrgg served as his wingman. The next day, he and the rest of the Rogues were sent in to fly through a shooting range in the so-called Pig Trough, a Folor canyon. Horn flew it well, hoping to set a high score, but upon returning to the base and waiting as others completed the exercise and returned, he found that all the others had performed better than he had. Horn was puzzled, knowing the others should not be beating him so consistently. Eventually, he realized that Antilles had had Whistler feed his telemetry back to the rest of the squadron, giving them information about the run and allowing them to score better. Horn was furious, feeling that he had been humiliated.

When Antilles and Celchu entered the hangar, Horn angrily confronted his commanding officer. Antilles lectured him in return, telling him that he had learned a lesson about teamwork. His own score in the training exercise was immaterial; what was important was the cohesion of the squadron. He was a more talented pilot, but was no more important than anyone else. Chagrined, Horn accepted the truth of Antilles's argument. Afterwards, he was approached by Celchu, who told him that his loner tendencies were keeping him apart from the squadron, and advised him to rectify them. Horn was surprised, however, when a guard escorted Celchu away after the conversation, leaving him wondering if the man was some sort of security risk. With the conversation over, he was approached by Rogue Erisi Dlarit, who told him the rest of the pilots were in DownTime and wanted to apologize. Horn attended, and told them not to feel bad for him; that it had been an important lesson for him to learn.

The Rogues continued training, including an attack on General Horton Salm's training wing of Y-wings, in which the Rogues had an eight-to-one kill ratio. After one month of training as a squadron, the Rogues were assigned an astronavigation exercise. Horn was promoted to the rank of lieutenant and given command of the squadron's Three Flight, including himself, Qyrgg, Forge, and Andoorni Hui, and the Rogues were required to pack their gear, all of which made Horn think that their trip was more than an exercise. Their trip would have three legs, with One Flight plotting the first, Two Flight plotting the second, and Three Flight plotting the third. Each had various beginning and ending points with which to work, requiring them to work up multiple courses. However, Horn was able to eliminate most of them by the course of the first and second jumps, leaving him only two routes to refine. He decided to trim some time off the jump to the Morobe system by plotting a course nearer to the center of the Chorax system.

This turned out to be the course they used, but it resulting in the squadron's being pulled out of hyperspace in the Chorax system due to the presence of an Interdictor cruiser which was in the process of capturing a smuggling ship. Horn was nervous at the prospect of combat, but engaged the TIE interceptors escorting the cruiser. Horn destroyed one fighter before he was struck by an ion cannon blast from the Black Asp, disabling his fighter. He was able to bring up emergency power and stop the spin he had been in, but was left floating and vulnerable. When the other Rogues drove off the Black Asp, it fled past Horn, with several interceptors in its wake. Tycho Celchu, flying the squadron's shuttle Forbidden, was able to get a missile lock on two of the interceptors, feeding Horn the targeting data and allowing him to shoot both down with proton torpedoes. The smuggler craft, which was affiliated with the New Republic, clamped Horn's X-wing and carried him on to Talasea in the Morobe system, Rogue Squadron's new base; the squadron had been put on active duty.

Upon reaching Talasea, Horn debarked and found that the ship which had ferried him was the Pulsar Skate, captained by Mirax Terrik, the daughter of his father's old nemesis Booster Terrik, whom Hal Horn had sent to Kessel. Antilles, an old friend of Terrik's, had to defuse the situation. Walking away with Antilles, Horn asked why Celchu was flying an unarmed shuttle, had never had full-power weapons on his training Z-95 Headhunter, and had appeared to be under guard on Folor. Antilles told him that he had complete faith in Celchu, and that the matter was Celchu's business. Horn would have to ask Celchu if he wanted an explanation. However, airing the matter could damage squadron morale, and Antilles asked Horn to keep everything private, to which he agreed.

Activation
Horn's fighter took two weeks to repair, at the end of which he was once more flying fighter missions escorting New Republic ships moving along the edge of the Core. Eventually, they were assigned to cover the repair and extraction of the frigate Battle of Yavin in the Hensara system. The Pulsar Skate and the CR90 corvette Eridain were also present for the mission. Horn was left flying air patrol over Hensara III while the other two flights covered the Battle of Yavin on the ground, where Imperial walkers were searching for it. However, duty Horn expected to be monotonous soon turned anything but when the Strike-class cruiser Havoc arrived and began deploying TIEs. Horn led Three Flight against thirty TIEs while the others rushed back up to aid him. He destroyed six fighters in the battle, becoming an ace, and Havoc was forced to withdraw.

The pilots returned to Talasea, where they celebrated their victory. Jace, however, began hazing sixteen-year-old Gavin Darklighter, who had acquired no kills in the engagement. The squadron decided that a joking punishment was in order, and Ven presented the case to Antilles, Celchu, and Captain Afyon of the Eridain for a judgment. Celchu suggested that Darklighter be apprenticed to the best pilot, and the others agreed. It was assumed that Horn, by virtue of having one more kill than Jace at the Battle of Hensara and four more kills overall. Jace, however, argued that he was the best pilot by virtue of shooting down more of the targets he had faced. While Antilles dismissed an argument of percentages as irrelevant, Horn decided to show confidence in Darklighter. He offered to concede the title of best pilot to Jace and average his own kills with Darklighter's, leaving all three tied at five kills overall. Thereafter, he and Jace would compete head-to-head or with Darklighter averaged with Horn, whichever Jace preferred. Jace agreed to continue averaging Darklighter's kills&mdash;favorable terms for him&mdash;but had both himself and Horn share the title of best pilot. However, in a trick maneuver by Horn, the averaging eliminated Darklighter's position as worst pilot, forcing Ven to serve as Horn's and Jace's errand boy.

One night, Horn was awaken from sleep by a distinct sense of unease. He was sleeping in an outlying, poorly-maintained hut, the result of a windstorm knocking a kaha tree into his and Qyrgg's room at the main building. Horn crouched at the doorway, and when a stormtrooper entered, the unarmed Horn tackled him and used the Imperial's sidearm to kill him. He searched the man and found that the Imperials had been setting explosives in the base. With Qyrgg returned from a walk in which he had killed another stormtrooper, Horn took the stormtrooper's weapons and set out for the main building with Qyrgg. On their way, Qyrgg killed another sentry and Horn took that man's breastplate. The pair slipped into the building, where they awoke and armed Darklighter and Shiel. Stormtroopers entered the hall, and Horn emerged from the other pilots' room firing. Darklighter emerged too soon, however, and took a shot. Horn left him to be tended to by the other pilots, who were awoken by the noise, while he left to secure the hangar. He scattered a knot of troopers with a grenade, then began firing at the numerous troopers in the hangar while Qyrgg and Shiel provided support from outside. His luck did not last and Horn was shot in the chest. Though the other Rogues were able to drive the stormtroopers off and disable the explosives, they had to evacuate the base, and Horn required an extensive session in a bacta tank.

When Horn and Darklighter emerged from their bacta tanks, Antilles greeted them and informed them that Lujayne Forge had been killed in the attack. Horn attended Forge's funeral, and was well in time for the retaliatory attack on Vladet, from which the attack force had come. The Rogues escorted Salm's Defender Wing in an assault on the Imperial base there, but as Three Flight had lost Forge and had Hui still recovering, it was assigned to escort Warden Squadron, which would only be performing cleanup. However, while orbiting and waiting to go in, a Carrack-class cruiser and Lancer-class frigate arrived in the New Republic forces' exit vector. The Lancer-class was designed to shred starfighters, meaning that fleeing Vladet would be extremely dangerous. Horn, inspired by his experience at Chorax, suggested he fly against the Lancer, having the Y-wings of Warden Squadron, which would stand off out of the Lancer's range, target his homing beacon. By interposing the frigate between himself and the proton torpedoes at the correct time, they would strike the capital ship. Salm refused to assent to the plan, but Horn proceeded with it anyway. He successfully weaved through the Lancer's heavy fire, but two late-launched torpedoes maneuvered around the explosion which claimed the Lancer. Only Whistler's timely cutout of the homing beacon saved Horn from being killed.

However, Salm remained incensed at Horn's defiance of orders. Horn was confined to quarters and was threatened with a court-martial. He was visited in his cabin by squadron-mates and friends. One of them was Erisi Dlarit, who explained that she felt immensely grateful to Horn for destroying the Lancer and saving her life. Horn rebuffed her romantic overtures, telling her that she was merely feeling the emotional aftereffects of combat. Immediately after she left, Mirax Terrik entered. She had heard Horn was in trouble and brought him a small care package of Corellian goods to cheer him up, including the traditional Corellian ryshcate. They shared the ryshcate and some of the Whyren's Reserve whiskey she had brought, and when she left Horn realized that he enjoyed her company and the ability to share their Corellian heritage.

The Battles of Borleias
"Overwhelming odds, tough target, scant chance of survival&mdash;business as usual for Rogue Squadron."

- Corran Horn to Wedge Antilles

The Rogues' next mission was to assault a planet known by the codename "Blackmoon" in order to secure a stepping-stone to Coruscant. Salm's Defender Wing was to be involved, and both he and Antilles thought that the mission was likely to go wrong and that General Laryn Kre'fey, the mission planner, was far from thorough in his research and overconfident in his planning. As a result, Salm dropped all charges, deciding that it was more important that Horn be flying for the mission.

His flight status restored, Horn participated in the battle. His Three Flight, still missing a replacement for Forge, was assigned to escort Warden Squadron in a bombing run to soften up the defenses after bombardment from Emancipator brought the Imperial base's shields down. However, Kre'fey called off the bombing run when the shield came down, citing the lack of heavy resistance. The Rogues were assigned to escort the assault shuttles in, leaving Horn with an extremely bad feeling. He was proved right when the base began firing its ion cannon, renewed its shields at twice their previous strength, and began launching fighters. Horn flew against the fighters, protecting the shuttles as they withdrew. Hui was killed in the dogfight, though Horn destroyed the interceptor which killed her. Horn and Qyrgg saved the shuttle Devonian from a TIE attack, but in the process Qyrgg was shot down and forced to eject. Horn and the few other remaining Rogue pilots had to hold off two more squadrons of TIE interceptors which had arrived from a previously unknown base on Blackmoon. They were only saved by the return of Defender Wing, which had been ordered out when the bombing runs were aborted. With all the extravehicular Rogues rescued, they retreated.

The squadron returned to base on Noquivzor, where Lieutenant Judder Page, one of the commandos who had been on the Devonian, bought him a mug of lum in gratitude. While they spoke, Whistler reported that his information-gathering programs had been able to discover the actual location of Blackmoon&mdash;Borleias. Horn and Page had already realized that the extra power and reinforcement squadrons likely came from an additional base that the Imperials did not know about&mdash;a side operation by the proper base's commander. With Whistler's data, they confirmed that the side operation was likely the abandoned Alderaan Biotics facility, which the base commander, General Evir Derricote, had revived to sell Alderaanian goods on the black market. They also discovered that the power conduit between the two bases was exposed when it crossed a rift valley, giving them the ability to destroy it and cut the power. Horn and Page presented this information to Antilles and Salm, who took it to Admiral Ackbar and received permission for another strike. Rogue Squadron would destroy the conduit, while Page's Katarn Commandos would enter the conduit and capture both facilities. The position of the moon, however, would block any quick escape and, due to the timing of the strike, anyone left behind would run out his life support before reinforcements arrived. With Rogue Squadron depleted, it would be a volunteer mission.

For operational security reasons, all the pilots other than Horn were told that they were striking a different planet. Horn volunteered for the mission, though he insisted that he fly as Antilles's wingman in the first run on the conduit. During the long rounds of simulations, Horn's tension with Jace came to a head, and Jace, who was one behind Horn in kills but winning their competition due to Darklighter's averaging, reverted to a head-to-head competition for the upcoming battle. The evening before they were to depart for Borleias, Dlarit invited him to sleep with her. Though he found her extremely attractive, Horn declined, stating he needed to be rested for the mission. When he returned to his quarters, he found Mirax Terrik sleeping in Qyrgg's bunk; Qyrgg was in the medical bay due to losing his arm to debris while extravehicular. Terrik expressed relief that Horn was not sleeping with Dlarit, but when Horn pressed her on the issue she denied any feelings for him. Horn was hurt, but suspected she might have denied them so strongly because the accusation was more true than she wanted to admit. They chatted and apologized for hurting each other's feelings, and Terrik, an expert in collectibles, noted that Horn's good-luck medallion was in fact a Jedi credit, a commemorative medallion struck when a Corellian Jedi reached mastery. When Horn turned in to his own bed, Terrik began hinting that she might like Horn to sleep with her by asking if he was warm enough. Horn, however, said he was warm enough, feeling he would be using Terrik, and she asked him to hand her his spare blanket.

The next monring, Terrik wore Horn's flight jacket and kissed him goodbye as he entered his fighter, but both maintained that they were only friends. They launched from Noquivzor and headed towards Borleias, approaching through canyons along Borleias's moon before they made their way to the surface under the cover of a meteor shower. During the approach, the fuel pump which would replenish his fuel tank from the auxiliary fuel pod attached to his fighter failed, meaning it would take longer to empty the pod and detach it. He and Antilles began their run through the rift canyon while the other four pilots held off the TIEs. They were pursued by a pair of TIE fighters, and misses by one pursuer led to debris striking his fuel pod and beginning a leak. Horn jettisoned it, with the explosion taking out the fighter. This left him dangerously low on fuel. Horn made his run against the conduit, but missed, as did Antilles. While Antilles returned for another pass, he ordered Horn out, as he had barely enough fuel to head back to base.

Horn began flying back to base, but on his way out of the atmosphere, he noticed two TIEs making a run against the Devonian, which was landing Page's commandos. Horn turned back and destroyed one of the interceptors on his first pass, but had to dogfight with the second one, burning up enough fuel to make it impossible for him to return to Noquivzor. With nearly two more squadrons of TIEs launching, the others had to flee, and Horn was told to land on the moon's surface, where his life support system could concentrate the thin atmosphere, and wait for New Republic forces to arrive. He holed up in an inactive volcanic tube, and when a squadron of interceptors began a search pattern for him, he realized they would find him before reinforcements could arrive. He accepted that he would die, but prepared to take as many enemies as possible with him. When one flight passed over his hole, Horn ambushed them and flew out to begin engaging the other fighters. However, as he prepared to make his last stand, he was caught in a tractor beam. He found that Terrik and Celchu, concerned that operational security had been breached by Emtrey's listing of Alderaanian items on the squadron's sell list, had taken the Pulsar Skate to Borleias in an attempt to warn the squadron. When no ambush seemed forthcoming, they settled in on the moon, and when Horn emerged they flew to his rescue, with Celchu shooting down several of the interceptors around Horn as they fled.

Rescued by the speedy Pulsar Skate, Horn arrived at Noquivzor before the rest of the Rogues. When they did arrive, he decided to play a prank on his squadron-mates, sending a live message to the Rogues as if it were a message pre-recorded in case of his death, but quickly broke the deception. He, Terrik, and Celchu had a small party ready for the others when they touched down. However, Jace had beaten Horn's tally of twenty-one kills by just one. Jace did not have long to enjoy that, as he was presumed killed not long after when his disappeared on his way home to Thyferra.

Readying to strike
"I'm not saying I like it, sir, but in CorSec we made deals with criminals on a daily basis. The goal then, just as it is now, is to trade a lesser evil for a greater one. I'd just as soon use Zekka Thyne and some of this other scum as rancor bait, but if they'll help bring Iceheart down, I guess my reservations don't really mean that much. I'm good to go with this, Wedge. I think I'll be fine."

- Corran Horn to Wedge Antilles

The Rogues were transferred to Borleias, where they spent the next month guarding the world. There, Horn and Qyrgg were given a suite of rooms&mdash;a private bedroom for each opening onto a small living room which Horn attempted to furnish as best he could. When Horn was patrolling over the world one month after its conquest, he felt deeply unnerved by the arrival of the Vengeance Derra IV over the world, a freighter which appeared to be unremarkable. Flying with Champion Five and Champion Six, Horn let the Y-wings handle the challenge to the ship as he made a pass to inspect the ship. When Champion Five reported that the ship had given the correct code on the second try, Horn was immediately suspicious, recalling a series of burglaries he had investigated in which the thief, who worked for the company which made the ROMs used in the locks, had built in a password which, when sent the first time, would send the actual password back to the thief for use on the second try. Horn thought that a similar capability might have been built into some of the Y-wing comm components by Imperial Intelligence agents. Horn ordered the freighter to stand by for boarding, but the ship would not stop. Instead, it released four TIE fighters and two TIE bombers. Horn let the Y-wings deal with the bombers as he engaged the starfighters, shooting down one. The Y-wings quickly eliminated the bombers, but Horn kept them from joining the dogfight, worried that the inexperienced pilots would only get in the way. However, when the TIEs took his shields down, Horn had to break away. The TIEs began attacking the Y-wings, and Horn had to shoot down one to save Champion Five. He expected to die, given that another TIE was on his tail, but Champion Six shot that fighter down with a proton torpedo. The Vengeance Derra IV fled.

After returning, Horn met with Celchu. Celchu had recruited him to investigate Emtrey's odd functions. When told to shut up three times in succession, he entered a state in which all his memories could be accessed. He also had an odd skill in acquiring parts through the black market. Horn presented Celchu with the results of his inquiries, stating that Emtrey had been rebuilt at Echo Base on Hoth in 3 ABY by an officer of the Quartermaster Corps and given special commodities-brokering software. Due to Losca, the builder, dying at Hoth, no one else had been aware of Emtrey's abilities until Horn accidentally reactivated them by instructing the droid to "scrounge" a part on Talasea. Horn concluded that the droid did not seem to be a security risk. He did mention to Celchu that he had tried to slice the captain's file while having Whistler slice information on Emtrey. Celchu told Horn that if he wanted to know anything, he could have asked him, and explained that he had been captured while on a spy mission to Coruscant in 5 ABY. He was imprisoned in the notorious Lusankya prison, where Director of Imperial Intelligence Ysanne Isard turned prisoners into unknowing agents for the Empire. Not remembering their time in the prison, they were capable of being suddenly reactivated and causing great harm. Celchu, however, actually remembered his time in the prison and was adamant that he had not been broken. After transfer to a prison on Akrit'tar, he escaped and rejoined the New Republic, but few other than Antilles trusted him, leading to the security precautions around him. After considering Celchu's apparent sincerity and his repeated saving of his life, Horn decided to trust the man.

Later, Horn received two bad pieces of news. The first was that the wreckage from Jace's fighter had been found; with an Interdictor operating in the area, it was presumed he had been pulled from hyperspace and destroyed. The second was confirmation of Bastra's death report, with the explanation that he had been killed at Loor's hands in an interrogation mishap. Shortly thereafter, Terrik relayed a report of the Vengeance Derra IV being in the GaTir system. Rogue Squadron departed to investigate. With the unit still short on pilots, Horn flew as the wingman to Captain Aril Nunb, a new transfer and the temporary squadron leader, as Antilles was absent at a conference on Noquivzor. Upon arriving, Horn recognized that the ship Contruum's Pride was moving in tandem with the Vengeance, transferring cargo. Numb ordered the two ships to surrender, but they responded by launching TIEs. The Rogues shot down all the fighters and disabled both capital ships. The Battle of Mrisst was a clean victory for the New Republic.

The reason for Antilles's presence at Noquivzor was that Rogue Squadron had been assigned to scout Coruscant for conquest, though this was revealed to no one beyond Antilles. First, however, they were assigned to travel to Kessel in order to free several Black Sun prisoners there. They would be inserted onto Coruscant, where they would cause disruption and serve as an auxiliary force for the New Republic. By taking the most dangerous inmates off the hands of warden Moruth Doole, they would be able to trade for the release of various political prisoners. Horn was extremely uncomfortable with the plan, especially when he realized Zekka Thyne would be one of the prisoners they would free. Horn suggested they simply leave Thyne and falsfily records to state that he had died, but Antilles pointed out that the most dangerous Black Sunners would be the most effective against Isard's regime on Coruscant.

Horn agreed to the plan, and Rogue Squadron took Kessel's moon base before clearing a landing area on the planet. Horn served as part of Antilles's negotiating team, looking over the list of prisoners and examining them as they were brought out. With him on that team were Kassar and Myda Forge, Lujayne's parents and instructors in a rehabilitation program for the inmates. Thyne was released, and brought with him his lover, Inyri Forge, Lujayne's sister. Upon arriving in Rogue Squadron's temporary headquarters, Thyne taunted Horn, attempting to take credit for his father's death. Horn dismissed him. When Thyne left, Horn attempted to convince Forge not to leave with Thyne, but she insisted that she loved him and would go with him. Horn was able to find one prisoner to free who he thought could serve to reign in Thyne&mdash;Fliry Vorru, the notoriously corrupt former moff of the Corellian Sector.

Conquering Coruscant
"You're going to send someone in at that target with the storm raging above it?" [&hellip;] "There's no pilot I know of for certain who can outfly lightning, but I'd sooner bet on Corran than against him."

- Tycho Celchu and Wedge Antilles

Horn returned from Kessel and met up with Terrik on Noquivzor, where Rogue Squadron's base had been transferred. However, he was summoned to Antilles's office. There, he and Erisi Dlarit were informed that they had been assigned to infiltrate Coruscant and scout it for a New Republic invasion. Antilles did not know their cover identities, and could not confirm if any other squadron members were being sent in, though Horn and Dlarit correctly assumed that that was the case. They were immediately flown away to begin their mission.

Horn and Dlarit trained for some time in their assumed identities before they traveled to Coruscant aboard the starliner Jewel of Churba. Horn posed as the telbun servant to Dlarit's Kuati aristocrat. In her role, Dlarit treated him dismissively and abusively and Horn had to act subservient, wearing layers of uncomfortable clothes. He hated the role and was glad to reach Coruscant safely. There they were picked up in a shuttle piloted by their New Republic Intelligence contact on Coruscant, Winter, though she went by the name Rima Borealis with Horn and Dlarit.

They spent a week on Coruscant studying the security situation and medical facilities of Coruscant, preparing reports. Horn used his police experience to surveil the local constabulary and stormtrooper garrisons, checking their discipline and tactics. After a week, he, Dlarit, and Winter decided to examine the security in the Imperial Palace itself. He felt it risky, but decided that it was necessary to find information about how well the building was guarded if the New Republic were to capture it. The three spent time in the Grand Corridor, where Horn observed that security, while unobtrusive, was tight. During their conversation in the Grand Corridor, Winter indirectly brought up Celchu, with whom she had had a romantic relationship before his capture. Horn realized he had lost his trust in Celchu, a feeling which conflicted with the fact that he looked up the man and caused him to be inordinately angry with Celchu. Winter told him some of Celchu's life story, noting that he had seen his entire family die when he was speaking with them by HoloNet when Alderaan was destroyed. At that moment, Horn noted Kirtan Loor walking past. Frightened of discovery and even more overwhelmed by the desire to kill Loor right then, Horn pulled Dlarit into a kiss to cover his face. When Loor had passed, he explained and apologized.

Horn and Dlarit returned to their hotel room, where Dlarit, moved by hearing of Horn's father's death during Horn's outburst in the Grand Corridor, attempted to comfort him physically. Horn was extremely tempted, but realized that the two could never have a genuine relationship and that their attraction was little more than lust. He broke off the encounter and took a walk to attempt to sort out his feelings. He wandered deep into the underlevels of Coruscant, where he decided to focus on the mission and not stress about things that were out of his control. Realizing that he had made his way into a dangerous portion of the undercity, he decided to pause and headed inside a cantina called The Headquarters. There, he noticed Tycho Celchu in a booth. A cloaked figure was leaving the booth, and while Horn could not see him, he recognized his gait as that of Kirtan Loor.

Convinced Celchu was a traitor, Horn rushed to report it, but was intercepted by several of Zekka Thyne's henchmen. Thyne himself appeared, and Horn knew the criminal leader intended to kill him. In desperation, Horn was able to fight his way free and steal a blaster from his captors, taking off on one of the swoops parked outside the cantina. Pursued by Thyne's thugs on more swoops, Horn fled upwards before realizing he made too easy a target. He flew lower, where it was more difficult to target him in the maze of alleys, and set up ambushes occasionally as he outdistances his pursuers. However, one swoop with a sidecar was able to attach a grapple to Horn's swoop. He shot the pilot, but the other swoop remained attached to his, weighing him down. He slammed the trailing swoop into a building, losing the swoop, but the cable and sidecar to which it was anchored remained attached. Horn was able to dismount and rushed into a warehouse, where he found Imperial stormtroopers in the process of a raid on the members of the Alien Combine. With them were almost all the other members of Rogue Squadron. Horn helped them escape and rescued Inyri Forge, one of the swoop riders pursuing him, from an Imperial attack. They withdrew to a place Asyr Sei'lar, one of the Alien Combine leaders, had as a safe house.

Horn left the others there and made contact with Winter. He told her that he needed to speak with Antilles, who he knew had to be on the planet. He had to wait a few days before she took him to The Headquarters, where Antilles met with him. He told the commander that he had seen Celchu meeting with Loor, but Antilles said that Celchu had been at Noquivzor, which had been attacked by Warlord Zsinj. Celchu was presumed dead. In addition, Rogue Squadron had a new assignment: taking down Coruscant's planetary shields in preparation for an invasion. They proceeded to a planning session with Vorru, Thyne, and the Alien Combine leadership. More importantly to Horn, Iella Wessiri was present, now an agent for New Republic Intelligence. He also learned that Terrik was present, having smuggled the other Rogues onto the planet. In the planning session, they sought a way to gain access to Coruscant's central computer system. Horn came up with the idea of inserting falsified code onto one of the subsidiary memory cores used in the main computer. Those cores were manufactured in factories where several members of the anti-Imperial Alien Combine worked, giving them the access to reformat the cores.

Horn and the others continued work building their underground movement, building stocks of weapons and equipment. During that time, he was approached by Gavin Darklighter. The young man looked up to Horn as a mentor, and thought that Horn might be able to give him guidance on the issue of interspecies relations. Darklighter had become attracted to Sei'lar, a Bothan. Horn explained that while interspecies relationships might not be right for anyone, if there was genuine love any problems could be worked around. Terrik and Wessiri arrived during the conversation, however, and Wessiri told the story of his relationship with Ruluwoor. Horn was worried that Terrik might look down on him for it, but she was more amused than disturbed.

When the cores were to be picked up, Horn and Terrik worked with some Black Sun enforcers to secure their exit in case things went wrong. Things did, with the Empire raiding the warehouse where they were being transferred. Horn's bad feeling about the transfer was vindicated when stormtroopers blew the door into the office where he and Terrik were watching the transfer. Horn and Terrik shot the stormtroopers who raided the office and fled to the garage, where they found the Black Sunners fleeing in airspeeders, pursued by stormtroopers on speeder bikes. One of the stormtroopers tried to attack Horn, but Horn was able to knock him off his speeder bike. When one of the Black Sun airspeeders returned with a speeder bike pursuing, which Horn and Terrik eliminated. Forge, piloting the airspeeder, gave them a ride out. Horn was convinced Thyne had betrayed the group, and when Forge took them back to the Black Sun rendezvous, Thyne was there. He leveled a blaster at Horn and Terrik, but Horn told Forge that Thyne had betrayed them. Thyne admitted it, telling Horn that his Imperial contact was Kirtan Loor. Realizing that Thyne had sold her out and left her to die as well, Forge shot and killed him. As he died, Thyne tried to taunt Horn, telling him that someone else in the unit had already sold them out to Loor before Loor even contacted him. Horn immediately suspected Celchu.

Horn reunited with the others, where he learned that the Rogues had been given only two days to bring down the shields. The New Republic fleet was coming. In addition, Celchu was with the others. Antilles had brought him to Coruscant as secret backup, so he had not been at Noquivzor after all. Horn's suspicions of Celchu were inflamed. Antilles explained that Celchu had been meeting with Lai Nootka at The Headquarters, not Loor. Every single one of their supply caches had been raided by Imperials, except the one that Celchu had set up himself, the one the Rogues were currently using. Antilles told Horn that he was absolutely certain Celchu was not a traitor.

The Rogues, boosted by the presence of Winter, Wessiri, Terrik, Sei'lar and Forge, began a planning session to determine how they would bring the shields down on such short notice. Darklighter proposed that they create a massive storm to bring down power. They could do so by redirecting an Orbital Solar Energy Transfer Satellite to boil off one of Coruscant's reservoirs. In order to redirect the orbital mirror, however, they had to take control of one of the subsidiary control centers. To that end, Horn suggested they take control of the construction droid operating nearby and send it rampaging towards the center, which would be evacuated. They could then shut down the droid and take the control center unopposed. Antilles approved the plan, and assigned Horn to fly cover in one of the Z-95 Headhunters Celchu had procured during his time on the world. After checking out his Headhunter for the mission, he spoke to Terrik, telling her that he found her attractive and wanted to get to know her better. She agreed to make their relationship a romantic one. After she left, Horn was approached by Celchu. Celchu told him that he was not a spy, and asked Horn to believe him. Horn did not, and told the captain that when he returned from flying, he would make it his mission to track down the spy in their midst. Celchu accepted that, telling Horn that he had nothing to fear from an investigation, and left.

Horn flew solo, serving as the leader to the four other Headhunters proving air cover. Once Antilles took control of the construction droid and reoriented it, a squadron of TIE fighters were sent against them. He shot down several fighters before destroying an E-Web emplacement that had Antilles and his team pinned down inside the construction droid, then protected Antilles as he transferred from the droid to the control facility. The successful redirection of the OSETS begot a massive storm which brought down the inner layer of Coruscant's shields. However, that activated a new, previously hidden power grid that reinforced the outer shields. Antilles, Celchu, and Winter were able to pinpoint a substation for the new power grid, deep in the middle of the colossal storm, and sent Horn to destroy it. He was pursued by two TIE interceptors, one of which struck a walkway. He evaded the second long enough to fire a concussion missile at the substation, but it did not penetrate enough to do damage. Antilles, monitoring, got the idea to use his access to the Imperial system to slave the pursuing interceptor's trajectory to Horn's next missile shot. Horn fired his last concussion missile, which was followed by the slaved interceptor, destroying the substation and bringing down the shields. With the New Republic fleet arriving, the TIEs shifted their focus to the space defense, leaving Horn free to return to base. On his way, he noticed a strange blip on his sensors. Fellow Rogue Pash Cracken saw nothing, but Horn went to investigate it anyway. His controls locked up, however, with Isard's agents using overrides to take control of his fighter, push it into a turn sharp enough to knock him out, and have him captured by waiting Imperial forces. A building was destroyed on his flight path, making it look as if he had struck it and been killed.

Captivity
"I won't break."

- Corran Horn, to Ysanne Isard

He was assumed dead by the New Republic, and posthumously lionized as a hero of the New Republic and the defining figure of the Liberation of Coruscant. A memorial was erected at the presumed site of his death and a massive, well-attended service was held one week after his "death" in which he was held up both as a hero and as a victim of the Empire, a focal point for New Republic mourning. The green, black, and gray CorSec color scheme used on his flightsuit and fighter was adopted for new Rogue Squadron uniforms as well. Celchu, having had the override codes for Horn's Headhunter, was arrested on charges of Horn's murder and treason, creating a highly-publicized trial. While Celchu was vilified as a traitor and Wessiri served gathering evidence for the prosecution, Whistler determined that Horn had been wrong about Celchu and offered to help the defense to make sure the true culprit did not go unpunished.

Horn awoke on what he thought to be a transport, where he was met by Ysanne Isard herself. He was defiant, but she confidently informed him that she would break him at her Lusankya facility, to which she was taking him. She also told him that she had seeded Coruscant with the Krytos virus before she let the New Republic capture it, causing a horrible plague among several nonhuman species. Horn was taken to Lusankya, where he was heavily drugged. In the first phase of Isard's brainwashing, he was put in a simulator in which he flew a TIE interceptor. Disoriented, amnesiac, and uninclined to question his surroundings, he took pleasure in flying and following orders. He shot down two TIEs, then two Uglies, easing him into the true focus of Isard's brainwashing: orders to shoot down two X-wings. While flying, he noticed that they had the Rogue Squadron crest emblazoned on them. He froze, though in his drugged state he was not conscious why, and his simulated TIE was destroyed. He was rebuked by Isard for his failure, and he apologized, seeking to prove himself worthy.

He was latter drugged and put into the simulator again, forgetting his previous experience. From the beginning of this session, however, he was wracked by a sense of unease. He felt manipulated and disliked it. When two X-wings appeared, labeled as piloted by Tycho Celchu and Kirtan Loor, Horn realized that Loor was no pilot and Celchu's performance did not match his flying style at all. Putting together the facts, he realized that he was being brainwashed by Isard and ended the simulation. Isard appeared and told him that his ordeal was far from over, but Horn remained defiant. Even her promise of an intense narco-interrogation did not daunt him, as he knew that he did not possess any serious New Republic secrets. When Horn did not divulge any valuable information, Isard resorted to torture.

Torture yielded no results, and when it became clear Horn would not break as Isard wished, she had him incarcerated with the general population of Lusankya. One of the prisoners, Urlor Sette, took him to see the leader of the Rebel prisoners, a man known only by his first name of Jan. Horn did not realize that he was the legendary General Jan Dodonna of the Clone Wars and Rebellion. He also met the Imperial leader, General Evir Derricote, the former Borleias commander and the architect of the Krytos virus, now imprisoned by Isard. Horn questioned Dodonna on several points about Lusankya's security setup and immediately began planning to escape.

Horn spent one week with the general population, laboring during the day in making gravel. At the end of that week, he made his first escape attempt, intending to ride the conveyor belt on which the gravel was taken out of the quarry in which they worked. Knowing that the guards had their blasters set to stun, he expected that even a failed attempt would provide him with knowledge with which to make a second attempt. However, he was singled out by a guard before he even reached the conveyor belt. The guard struck Horn with his blaster, and Horn retaliated by reflexively throwing his bucket of gravel into the guard. He refused to take the guard's weapon as he fell, knowing that would only get the other prisoners killed in a failed attempt to fight their way out of the prison. He was stunned by the other guards, and remained paralyzed but awake.

Horn was taken to a medical facility, where he lay on the floor while the guard was treated. With his ear pressed to the floor, he clearly heard feet marching on the other side of it. While Horn was kept under observation in the medical ward, he realized that the likeliest explanation for what he had heard was that the gravity on the prison floors was reversed. Artificial gravity had the prisoners walking on what would otherwise be the ceiling, and so any attempts to escape upwards would only lead them deeper into Lusankya. It was by going down, from their perspective, that prisoners could actually escape aboveground. When he returned to his living quarters, he shared his discovery with Dodonna and Sette. He spent a week persuading them to allow him to make an attempt to prove his theory. They eventually agreed, and had the other prisoners stage a fight to provide a distraction while Horn threw a rock at the ceiling. It did not come down, the artificial gravity being outweighed by natural gravity at that distance from the floor. Horn's theory was correct.

Horn offered Sette and Dodonna the chance to escape with him, but they both declined. He made some preparations and tested his ability to fit through the gate before he finally made his actual escape effort. He made his escape at night, going with Sette to the latrines. There, he soaked his tunic in water to reduce his infrared signature and Sette walked back to their quarters to make those monitoring the sensors that one person had gone to the latrines and returned. Horn squeezed through the loosely-secured gate into the quarry. There, he was attacked by Derricote, who had noticed his experimental stone-throw and resolved to keep an eye on Horn and foil his escape in order to redeem himself to Isard. Dodonna, however, followed Derricote and attacked him, giving Horn enough time to kill the Imperial. Horn offered Dodonna another chance to escape, but Dodonna felt he had a duty to the other Rebel prisoners. Dodonna returned, and Horn dragged Derricote's body with him under the conveyor belt, where he crawled out into a room with access to maintain the belt machinery.

Horn traveled into the properly-oriented portion of the prison, which he found to be far more well-appointed than he expected. He dumped Derricote's body into a garbage chute, and upon exploring the facility in which he found himself, could find no way out other than a turbolift which required a code to operate. He was trapped in the opulent area when stormtroopers arrived and began searching it methodically. Horn was forced to hide in a cabinet, but he knew a look inside would reveal his presence. As he heard the stormtroopers searching the other cabinets next to his, he willed them to grow frustrated and give up, as Derricote, whom Dodonna had reported missing, would not fit inside. The stormtrooper checking his cabinet gave it only a cursory look, stopping before his gaze reached Horn. With that area cleared, the stormtroopers departed.

He emerged into the library, where he searched the datacards to find the trigger to the escape tunnel he was certain had to be built into the area. He found only a holdout blaster hidden inside a false box of datacards. With that avenue failed, he tried accessing the computer terminal there. He was able to call up his own record from Lusankya, which declared him "unsuitable for conversion." He accessed Celchu's record, and found the same designation. Celchu had not been converted in Lusankya; he was not the spy. Horn considered the issue carefully, and came to the conclusion that only one person could have given Jace's course to Thyferra to the Imperials and known Horn's Headhunter override codes: Dlarit, who was from Thyferra and had checked out Horn's Headhunter with him before they flew.

Annoyed by the hologram of Emperor Palpatine which appeared when a certain spot was stepped on, Horn realized that the hologram kept people off the spot. Horn stood on it, inside the hologram, long enough for the lift built into the floor to activate and carry him down to a tunnel-shuttle system. Horn boarded the shuttle, which took him to another lift. That lift brought him to an abandoned room full of Jedi relics, which he explored. He cast off his ratty tunic, donning Jedi robes from a mannequin. His attention was caught by a display which held a Jedi credit identical to his lucky medallion. He got the hologram associated with the exhibit to play, showing Jedi Master Nejaa Halcyon with his apprentice&mdash;a boy who looked extraordinarily like Valin "Hal" Horn. Shocked, Horn appropriated the items from that exhibit, including his grandfather's lightsaber. While there, however, three soldiers entered the room. Horn was able to kill all three, two of them with the lightsaber.

After doing so, Horn realized that the Jedi memorabilia and the Coruscant time he heard on the standard time channel he could pick up on one of the dead men's comlinks signaled that he was, in fact, on Coruscant. He used the comlink to contact Whistler, who guided him to the courthouse where Celchu's trial was ongoing. His entrance to the courtroom proved extremely shocking. Horn apologized to Celchu for suspecting him and was sworn in as a witness. Horn testified that Celchu was not the traitor, as proven by the files in Lusankya, but the trial was interrupted by horrible news. The Lusankya prison had been inside a Super Star Destroyer of the same name, and with Horn escaped, Lusankya erupted from where it had been buried within the Coruscant cityscape, killing untold civilians as it escaped from Coruscant with Isard aboard. With it went Dlarit.

Bringing down Isard
Horn rejoined Rogue Squadron, and spent the next ten days hunting down the last remnants of the Palpatine Counter-Insurgency Front, an Imperial terrorist group which had been headed by Kirtan Loor after the New Republic's capture of Coruscant. Loor, having failed Isard, had actually defected to the New Republic. He was shot, however, by Diric Wessiri, a Lusankya agent who had reemerged during Horn's captivity. Iella Wessiri, protecting Loor, shot and killed her husband before she knew who was attacking. Horn and Wessiri grieved his loss together. Isard, meanwhile, took Lusankya to Thyferra, where she was intalled as its leader in a coup. Ten days after Horn's reemergence, a ceremony was held celebrating his return and announcing Celchu's innocence, rehabilitating his reputation by claiming he had been aware that his trial was a deception to draw out the true spy. At the reception following the ceremony, Horn was approached by Luke Skywalker. Horn had returned Halcyon's memorabilia to the museum after his escape, but Skywalker gave him the lightsaber back, telling Horn that his researches had revealed that Nejaa Halcyon was Horn's grandfather, explaining Horn's family history. He offered Horn the chance to train as a Jedi, but Horn refused, saying he had to deal with his obligation to free the other Lusankya prisoners first. Councilor Borsk Fey'lya, who was present, informed him that there would be no action against Thyferra; as Isard's installation was an internal political matter, the New Republic would not interfere for fear of frightening off potential members. Horn was outraged, and resigned in protest to take action himself. Almost all the rest of Rogue Squadron followed suit.

Personality and traits
Horn was an extremely tenacious and relentless individual.

Horn believed in having stable relationships and not basing his romantic encounters on simple lust.

Horn had an extremely positive relationship with his father. He looked up to him and felt that he could share his problems with Hal, to whom he looked for moral guidance. They made an excellent team, and were drawn even closer by the death of Horn's mother. The death of Hal Horn left Horn feeling lost, without his mentor. He felt emotionally adrift and without his moral compass. Leaving Bastra and Wessiri when he escaped from Corellia made him feel even more alone. Only with his joining Rogue Squadron did he find companionship again, and Wedge Antilles and Tycho Celchu provided role models to fill the roles Hal Horn and Gil Bastra could no longer fill. However, Horn's uncertainly over whether he could trust Celchu led him to feel betrayed and angry with him, though he acknowledged that this was not a logical feeling.

Horn's mother volunteered with the Coronet City Museum of Fine Art, giving Horn a chance to take in a great deal of art as a young man, and he developed a taste for art and ability to analyze it.

On Corellia, Horn regarded the Empire as an intrusive, unneeded presence, and wanted to limit its interference as much as possible. In general, he felt that the Empire was evil and oppressive, yet he regarded the Rebellion as a criminal group and had no problem imprisoning its members, especially as a Rebel presence gave the Empire more justification to intervene in Corellian affairs. However, he was willing to work alongside Rebels and against the interests of the Empire if he felt that he was achieving a greater good. He eventually joined the New Republic in order to protect galactic citizens against what he saw as Imperial tyranny, though he was still not entirely comfortable with the New Republic's criminal roots and easy association with smugglers in its early days.

While Horn was determined to protect civilians during his time in Corellian Security and the New Republic, he was more interested in looking out for himself during the dangerous period when he was on the run from the Empire. He felt it too risky to put himself in danger to aid others unless they were in extremely serious or if he had brought their predicaments upon them. After his time on Garqi, Horn was left something of a loner, distant from others and with difficulty trusting them. It took Lujayne Forge to help him integrate into the squadron.

Horn loved to fly, and was irritable when he was unable to. Even when operating with his cover identities between leaving Corellian Security and joining the New Republic, Horn managed to fly at least once a week.

Horn was willing to give his life to protect others, and when facing lethal situations he was able to comfort himself with the idea that his death would save others, leaving him calm and focused.

Horn remained extremely defiant in the face of capture, mocking Ysanne Isard even during his time in Lusankya.

Powers and abilities
Horn was able to enter a state in which he was calm and centered, giving him better reflexes and helping him avoid being shot even before he realized he was Force-sensitive. Another ability he had while still untrained was the capacity to implant thoughts in individuals, though he did not even realize he was doing so.

Chertyl Ruluwoor
"We both knew we were living out a fantasy, but it wouldn't have worked in the long run. I had no desire to move to Selonia and become part of a broodhome. Chertyl knew she couldn't bear the children I'd want. We remained friends and both have wonderful memories. In fact, that was the best ending I had for any of my relationships."

- Corran Horn to Mirax Terrik

Around six months after his father's death, the Annual CorSec Awards Ball took place. Usually, each male CorSec officer bought into a pool, the winner of which was originally given the right to take the Director's daughter to the ball. Over the years, it became a tradition in which a female officer offered herself as the prize, and the proceeds from the lottery system went to the Survivors and Orphans Fund. That year, however, the prize was, unknown to her, Chertyl Ruluwoor. A female Selonian, Ruluwoor was part of a transfer program with CorSec. No one wanted to have to take her to the ball, but Horn, miserable from his father's death, decided that there was no point in making anyone else be separated from loved ones.

He persuaded the significant others of all the other officers in the pool that the pool was rigged to cause that officer's ticket to win the pool. He let them sell him their tickets, eventually gaining every single ticket in the pool. He gave all the proceeds to the Survivors and Orphans Fund and went all-out to make Ruluwoor's night special, flying across the planet to pick up the proper flowers and renting a repulsorlimo. Ruluwoor made a stunning impression at the ball, and afterwards she and Horn, who had hit it off, made love. While Horn enjoyed the experience immensely, he proved allergic to her fur and her skin was irritated by his sweat, resulting in an uncomfortable experience for both afterwards. Knowing their relationship would not work out, they parted amicably.

Iella Wessiri
"In the immediate aftermath of that I thought I was in love with her&mdash;or in lust, at least. Before then we'd just been friends, like you and I are. Maybe there were some core sparks of something but nothing we'd noticed or acted on. And that night, well, we both felt it."

- Corran Horn to Erisi Dlarit

Horn had a close friendship with Iella Wessiri, his Corellian Security Force partner. They were merely friends until one incident in which Wessiri saved his life in a battle at a glitterstim dealer's warehouse. Horn felt extremely grateful, and began to feel that he was in love with Wessiri, a married woman. She responded similarly, but before they could do anything, they were separated and debriefed. Horn did not see her for another two days, at which point he had realized his attraction had been the result of the emotional comedown from combat. Neither ever again considered a physical or romantic relationship, and Horn was glad that they had not taken a step he felt would have ruined Wessiri's marriage and their friendship.

Erisi Dlarit
Horn and Erisi Dlarit were both pilots in Rogue Squadron during its rebuilding. While they socialized, Horn was first approached romantically by Dlarit in the aftermath of the Battle of Vladet. She told him that she had feared for her life when the Lancer-class frigate arrived, and suggested that she was feeling physically grateful. Horn told her that what she was feeling was merely the aftereffect of combat, citing his experience with Wessiri. He let her down gently, as even though he was physically attracted to her, he was uncomfortable with her attentions. Horn did entertain some ideas of a relationship with her, however, and found her extremely appealing. Yet he declined a fairly direct invitation to sleep with her before the Second Battle of Borleias due to his need to sleep, though even he considered himself a fool for doing so.

During their mission to Coruscant, Horn and Dlarit posed as a telbun and his mistress, sexual partners. However, Horn held back from becoming intimate with her, justifying his decision as for mission security and confused by his feelings for Mirax Terrik. However, he ultimately realized that she came from an entirely different society&mdash;she was accustomed to wealth and opulence and Horn simply was not. He did not feel he could be a part of her world. It did not fit him. When she attempted to seduce him in their hotel room, however, Horn nearly gave in to his desire to be with her before he decided that it would be a mistake to begin a physical relationship when he knew their emotional one would not work out. He stopped their encounter and explained his feelings to Dlarit, who accepted them. With separation from her during the later stages of their mission planning, Horn decided that any possible relationship between the two would be a disaster. They simply were not compatible.

Horn ultimately decided to pursue a relationship with Mirax Terrik, and his realization that Dlarit was a traitor to the New Republic destroyed any remaining interest he might have had in her.

Mirax Terrik
Horn first met Mirax Terrik when she ferried him from the Chorax system to Talasea when his fighter was disabled. They originally did not get along well, each blaming the other for his or her father's activities; Hal Horn had tracked down the notorious smuggler Booster Terrik and had him imprisoned on Kessel. However, Wedge Antilles quickly intervened to tell each of them that the other deserved respect. When Horn was restricted to quarters after the Battle of Vladet, Terrik brought him a care package and they talked, sharing a ryshcate and whiskey, during which time Horn realized that he greatly enjoyed her company. The night before the Second Battle of Borleias, Terrik was sleeping in Horn's quarters due to Qyrgg offering her his bunk. She and Horn spoke, with Horn feeling cut by her denial of feelings for him when she acted jealous of Dlarit's attentions to Horn. She subtly invited Horn to sleep with her that night, looking for cause to hate him in the morning, but Horn, feeling that he would be using her to avoid his own feelings of loneliness and nervousness, declined.

Horn enjoyed spending time with her and enjoyed their shared Corellian heritage. While he considered her merely a good friend, he was willing to admit that he could fall in love with her if he let himself. After working alongside her during their infiltration of Coruscant, Horn realized that he wanted a romantic relationship with her, and asked her out just before he flew to bring down the shields. She agreed, but their courtship was disrupted by the fact that he was shot down and captured.

Behind the scenes
In X-wing Rogue Squadron: Family Ties, Horn's hair is colored black and his eyes are colored blue, both in conflict with his canonical hair and eye colors of brown and green, respectively.

Early life
During his time in CorSec, Corran and his partner Iella Wessiri protected several well-known individuals from kidnapping threats. Two such people were Wynssa Starflare and Siolle Tinta, the latter of whom Corran enjoyed a brief but passionate romance with.



Corran's mother died in a landspeeder accident in 3 ABY.











Fight for Thyferra
"A tyrant dead; a traitor dead; a Super Star Destroyer dead; and, if Escorol, Iella, and the Ashern have done their jobs, a planet liberated. Not a bad day at all."

- Corran Horn

Corran began carrying his grandfather's lightsaber. The squadron moved to the Yag-prime space station in orbit around Yag'Dhul. Because they were no longer officially part of the New Republic, Corran's X-wing, as well as 17 million credits, were the only resources that Rogue squadron had available to them at the beginning of their war against Ysanne Isard. Corran, Mirax Terrik, and Gavin Darklighter are sent on a mission to Tatooine to attempt to procure supplies from Gavin's uncle, Huff Darklighter, and encountered Booster Terrik, Mirax's father, who was also negotiating for the same supplies. Upon hearing why the Rogues need the supplies, Booster blackmailed Huff into giving them the supplies for free, but Mirax insists on paying a fair price. Booster accompanied the trio back to Yag'Dhul.

Corran participated in a raid on a bacta convoy in the Chorax system, and with his wingmate, Ooryl Qrygg, and transported a portion of that bacta to Halanit, a frozen world which was struck by a mysterious disease. Later, on a scouting mission to Thyferra, Corran was badly wounded in a firefight with stormtroopers, and was rescued by former squadron mate Bror Jace, who rejoined the squadron for the remainder of the war. Corran participated in several hit-and-run operations against bacta convoys, each now protected by one of Ysanne Isard's Star Destroyers, the Corrupter, the Virulence, or the Avarice.

After Ysanne Isard had the entire population of Halanit killed for accepting Rogue Squadron's bacta, Corran participated in the squadron's retaliatory Destruction of a bacta refinery on Qretu 5.

On a hit-and-run operation in Alderaan's Graveyard, the squadron is ambushed by the Aggregator, an Interdictor cruiser on lease to Ysanne Isard from High Admiral Teradoc, as well as the Corrupter. The Corrupter was destroyed and the Aggressor chased off in the resulting Battle of the Graveyard. High Adrimal Teradoc refused to lease Isard another Interdictor cruiser for the remainder of the war after this incident.



Corran participated in a mission to Elshandruu Pica to bribe Captain Sair Yonka to switch sides with his Star destroyer, Avarice. Later, Corran, Mirax, Gavin Darklighter, Rhysati Ynr, and Inyri Forge served as the escort flight for a convoy led by Talon Karrde's traitorous lieutenant, Melina Carniss, and by extension, Ysanne Isard, where Booster, Wedge, and Tycho had laid a "trap" for the Lusankya. While waiting for the convoy to arrive, Corran found out that his father had left a message for him about his Jedi heritage with Whistler, but decided against playing it for the time being. The night before the Battle of Thyferra, Corran and Mirax Terrik agreed to marry.

During, the battle, Corran, Ooryl, Tycho, and Nawara Ven broke off from the squadron's assault on Lusankya to chase the shuttle Thyfonian, which appeared to be transporting Ysanne Isard. Corran killed Erisi Dlarit, who was flying escort for Isard. Corran was unable to penetrate Isard's improved shields with his lasers, and was out of proton torpedos, but was able to give Tycho a targeting lock on the shuttle. Tycho destroyed the shuttle just before it entered hyperspace.

After the battle, Corran discovered the Lusankya prisoners had been moved from the Super Star Destroyer. He also learned that his wingmate, Ooryl, had been proclaimed Janwuine, and that he and the rest of the squadron were invited to his Janwuine-jika. He helped General Airen Cracken negotiate the removal of several guns from the Star Destroyer Booster Terrik had captured in the Battle of Thyferra. At this time, Booster learned of Mirax's engagement to Corran, and based on his reaction, Corran and Mirax have Wedge marry them before the squadron's victory party, resulting Booster losing a million credits in a bet with Talon Karrde, who predicted that they would do just that.



Zsinj Campaign
Joining the rest of his squadron in rejoining the New Republic, Corran spent some time unsuccessfully searching for the Lusankya prisoners, and then joined the campaign against Warlord Zsinj. After presumably participating in the destruction of the Implacable at Ession, Corran, along with the rest of his squadron, were assigned to the Mon Remonda as part of General Han Solo's anti-Zsinj task force. While part of General Solo's task force, Corran participated in several raids against Zsinj, including a raid on Lavisar and the destruction of the Super Star Destroyer Razor's Kiss.

Corran was presumably present for Zsinj's ambush of the Solo task force at Levian Two, and participated in a raid on the Binring Biomedical Facility on Saffalore. When his Zsinj-brainwashed squadron mate, Tal'dira, attempted to kill Wedge Antilles before a battle at Jussafet, Corran was forced to destroy his squadron mate&mdash;although in effect, Tal'dira had fought his brainwashing committed suicide, by shifting all his shield power to his aft shield allowing Corran's shots to hit his X-wing's unprotected bow, when Corran made him realize that his actions were highly dishonorable.

Corran Participated in some of the predominately Wraith Squadron speculation sessions on the nature of Zsinj's brainwashing program. Corran, along with Myn Donos, Cubber Daine, and Emtrey acquired the Millennium Falsehood &mdash;a decoy of the Millennium Falcon which the task force loaded with explosives and intended to use a bait for Zsinj&mdash;from a Corellian scrapyard. Corran participated in several proceeding missions to draw Zsinj's attention to their decoy Millennium Falcon, including missions to Kidriff 5 and Belsmoth.

Millennium Falsehood's appearances eventually led to a large-scale, two stage space battle between the core of Warlord Zsinj's fleet and General Solo's task force at Vahaba and Selaggis. While engaging Tetran Cowall's ersatz 181st Imperial Fighter Group, Corran's force sensitivity allowed him to sense that his opponent was not a living being&mdash;tipping his squadron off to the fact that half of the TIE interceptors they were flying against were really flying bombs piloted by droids. Although Zsinj and his Super Star Destroyer Iron Fist managed to escape, the battle was a decisive victory for Solo's forces, costing Zsinj much of his fleet. Because of a deception which made it appear as though the Iron Fist had been destroyed, this was Corran's last major action in the Zsinj Campaign.

Rescue of Lusankya prisoners
"It's been a long time, General. Are you ready to go home?"

- Corran Horn



Corran continued his service in Rogue Squadron through the Thrawn Campaign. He and his Squadron fought at the Battle of Bilbringi, destroying a Golan Space Defense Station with the aid of New Republic Frigates Tyrant's Bane and Liberty Star, although he was surprised by the retreat of Thrawn's fleet. He only later discovered that Thrawn had been assassinated by his own bodyguard during that battle, and that Captain Gilad Pellaeon, not the Grand Admiral, had ordered the retreat. Following the battle, Corran received a promotion to the rank of Captain.

At a welcome-back party for the squadron on Coruscant, Corran received a "message" from Ysanne Isard in the form of one of Corran's fellow Lusankya prisoners, Urlor Sette&mdash;rigged with a device which would kill Urlor when activated by Corran's voiceprint. Urlor's death greatly disturbed Corran, who felt it was a personal defeat, as he had promised to rescue Urlor and the other Lusankya prisoners.

Components of the device which killed Urlor were traced to a xenobiological facility on Commenor locally referred to as "the old Xenovet place." Corran and his squadron, along with commando squads led by Captain Judder Page and Colonel Kapp Dendo, staged a raid on the facility. They found some of the Lusankya prisoners there, including Lag Mettier&mdash;although they were near death, and had been locked up in a barn for over a week, when Ysanne Isard had, according to Lag left with the rest of the prisoners.

Corran and his squadron fought in the Battle of Liinade III, the first battle in the New Republic's campaign against Prince Admiral Delak Krennel's rule of the Ciutric Hegemony. While leading Three Flight in a mission to pacify a hydroelectric power plant after the New Republic emerges victorious in the space battle, Corran's X-wing was shot down by stormtroopers wielding Merr-Sonn PLX-2Ms, ordering the rest of three flight away from the area, to protect them against the possibility of the facility having additional unexpected defenses.

Exploring his surroundings, Corran discovered and neutralized a secret Imperial facility were plans for a Death Star-like Pulsar Station were being analyzed for flaws. The search for a site where Krennel could have been constructing such a station led to Distna, a moon of the gas-giant fifth planet of the Corvis Minor system, which reports indicated may have been hollow. Corran and the rest of Rogue Squadron escorted former Rogue Squadron pilot Nrin Vakil, who was flying an unarmed T-65BR recon X-wing, on a reconnaissance mission to the moon.

The mission ended in disaster. Ysanne Isard, in league with Prince Admiral Krennel, had set a trap for Rogue Squadron. As Rogue Squadron's One Flight and Two Flight escorted Nrin for a close run on the moon, six squadrons of starfighters launched to attack the squadron &mdash; a squadron each of TIE Fighters, TIE Interceptors, and TIE bombers from both Corvis Minor V and Distna. Corran led Three Flight in engaging the fighters from the gas giant, in an attempt to keep the rest of the squadron's exit vector open. Though successful in thinning the numbers of their ambushers, Corran's X-wing was crippled and the squadron lost two pilots&mdash;Lyyr Zatoq and Khe-Jeen Slee&mdash;and appeared to have lost pilots Asyr Sei'lar and Wes Janson as well. The squadron was saved by the surprise appearance of Interloper and Stranger TIE Defender Squadrons under the command of Imperial Colonel Broak Vessery. The surprise rescuers escorted&mdash; or, in Corran's case, towed&mdash; the survivors from the system.



The Squadron was brought to a TIE Defender factory, under the command of Ysanne Isard, who had not actually been in shuttle that Tycho destroyed at Thyferra, and revealed the Isard in league with Krennel and in possession of the Lusankya prisoners to be a clone. Isard claimed to want only amnesty from the New Republic and the destruction of the her clone, and was willing to help Rogue Squadron infiltrate Ciutric, shatter Krennel's rule of the Hegemony, and rescue the remaining Lusankya Prisoners as a sign of good faith.

Corran, along with the rest of the squadron, began training in TIE Defenders, which they would use to infiltrate Ciutric. Corran was very distrustful of Isard, and strongly opposed attempts by the base's technicians to place a restraining bolt on his astromech droid, Whistler, but eventually reluctantly agreed to attach the bolt himself on Wedge's request. Whistler, however, had been reconfigured inside from his time with Corran as part of the Corellian Security Force, so the restraining bolt only communicated to him the signals from the controller, as opposed to actually shutting him down. Corran communicated the squadron's situation to Whistler, and Whistler, while 85% of the base's security forces were watching a fighter simulation, escaped with Wedge's astromech droid, Gate, and delivered a message from Corran to his wife, Mirax.

During the infiltration, Corran grew a mustache and dyed his hair black, posing as "Captain Pyr Hand," a member of Colonel Antar Roat's "Requiem Squadron," a nine-fighter TIE Defender unit. As part of Corran's false Identity, he went by the nickname "klick" because he "was a dead shot at that range." Corran grew to like the Hegemony's pilots, partially because they seemed more interested in defending their homes than destroying the New Republic, and partially because they were extremely bad at sabacc.

Krennel, staging for a strike at Coruscant, had called extra forces to mass at Ciutric at the time a New Republic fleet under the command of Admiral Ackbar had arrived to take the planet. As the battle over Ciutric broke out, Rogue Squadron made their move to free the Lusankya prisoners. Realizing that the commandos Isard had promised to send to assist them would not be coming, Corran, along with Nrin and Ooryl, landed and fought their way to the prisoners, Corran personally cutting open the door to Jan Dodonna's cell with his grandfather's lightsaber.

Although Hegemony troops swarmed the prison, and Isard's clone sent an assault shuttle to destroy it, Wedge Antilles shot down the shuttle before it could do extensive damage, and the appearance of Colonel Kapp Dendo and his team of Noghri saved Corran and the prisoners from the ground troops. The appearance of General Garm Bel Iblis with two Victory I-class Star Destroyers won the space battle for the New Republic, killing Krennel and breaking his hold on the Hegemony. Isard's clone was killed when Wedge Antilles traced her communications with the shuttle and destroyed the building she occupied with concussion missiles, and the real Ysanne Isard was killed while trying to take control of the Lusankya by Iella Wessiri, who had been tipped off to Isard's survival by Corran's message to Mirax.

Further Actions
Corran and Mirax had a home on Coruscant. When the resurrected Emperor Palpatine returned to helm the Empire, Coruscant became a battlefield. Debris from the conflicts above devastated vast swaths of the city, including the Horn family home. Luckily, none of the family were in residence at the time.

Jedi training


"Anybody goes missing next time it's me. You can do all the worrying, okay?"

- Mirax Terrik Horn

In 11 ABY, Mirax Terrik Horn was captured by roving warlord Leonia Tavira's Invids pirate group, who were seemingly invincible in battle. To find her, Corran began studying the ways of the Force. He enrolled in Luke Skywalker's Jedi academy on Yavin 4 under the alias Keiran Halcyon, who was an ancestor of his grandfather Nejaa Halcyon. Corran played a message left by his father which told him more about his Jedi heritage.

Corran and Luke initially had differences over the training methods Luke used. Having been in the CorSec police force, and a member of Rogue Squadron, Corran preferred a more structured training regimen in comparison to Skywalker's more lax course of self discovery – which in turn led to several internal conflicts and arguments over methods. Corran was convinced that Kyp Durron's fall to the dark side could have been prevented if Luke had enacted more control over his students. After aiding in the defeat of the spirit of Exar Kun, Corran left the academy to find his own Jedi path. During this time, he successfully slipped into Corellia, where he visited his (step)-grandfather and learned more about his Jedi heritage. There, he and Rostek Horn decided on a plan for Corran to infiltrate the Invid pirate organization. With some help from his old flame Siolle Tinta, and his father-in-law Booster Terrik, Corran was able to successfully infiltrate the pirate group.

"If the wind no longer calls you, it is time to see if you have forgotten your name."

- Elegos A'kla to Corran Horn

During his infiltration, Corran learned that Tavira's success was due to a group of Force-users called Jensaarai, who also happened to be the true reason of his Jedi grandfather's death after the Clone Wars. After working his way up through the pirate ranks he became a member of the pirate elite Bolt Squadron. In one particular mission as a pirate, Corran rescued a Caamasi named Elegos A'kla from a fellow pirate who had attempted to kill Elegos, whose uncle, Ylenic It'kla, had fought alongside Nejaa Halcyon when he died. With the knowledge he'd gathered from Rostek, and some intrepidity from Elegos, Corran was able to construct his own lightsaber. It was a dual-phase type, normally with a standard length silver blade, but could change to a purple blade more than double in length.

Corran acted out his part as a pirate by day, but by night he donned his Jedi robes and lightsaber, and set out to terrify the Invids into fleeing the organization. He covered his time as the mysterious, avenging Jedi by pretending to get drunk and be hung over. Corran was able to spook the idle pirates on Courkrus into a frenzy, making them believe that doom was coming to them for all their misdeeds. Eventually, word of the Jedi reached Tavira, who sent a few Jensaarai to kill him. Corran revealed himself to the Jensaarai in a five-on-one battle, only to find that Luke Skywalker had foreseen the battle through the Force and with Ooryl Qrygg's assistance came to help.

Interrogating the captive Jensaarai, Corran and Luke were able to find out the location of Tavira's forces and set out to destroy the Invid organization once and for all. During the battle at Susevfi, Corran found himself saber-to-saber with the Saarai-kaar, the leader of the Jensaarai, whose master had killed Nejaa Halcyon. After a pitched battle, Corran and Luke were able to defeat the Jensaarai, and after Elegos (with Corran's aid in projecting the memories passed from one Caamasi generation to the next) they were able to come to at least a temporary peace. However, the battle was not over, as Tavira's Star Destroyer was in a position to kill Corran and end the would-be rescue, but once again Corran's Alter Mind ability saved him from harm. He used this ability to project into Tavira's mind the image of the Errant Venture becoming the Executor-class Star Dreadnought Lusankya. He then displayed the Sun Crusher launching from the Lusankya.  In a panic, Tavira ordered her forces to flee the system.

After Mirax's successful rescue, Luke awarded Corran his Knighthood, but Corran chose not to pursue a full-time career as a Jedi. Rather, he chose to stay with Rogue Squadron, where he felt his time would be better spent helping the New Republic as well as allowing him more freedom to start a family. Corran assured Luke that he would be available when needed.

Camaas Document Crisis
Corran and Mirax had a son, Valin, in 13 ABY. While Corran remained a member of Rogue Squadron for the next several years, he participated in some Jedi actions while he was still part of Rogue Squadron. In 14 ABY Corran was dispatched to Wayland to determine whether or not the Disciples of Ragnos had visited the planet to drain its Force energy. He also took an apprentice named Raltharan at the same time Kyle Katarn took Jaden Korr and Rosh Penin as apprentices, it is also probable that he took part in the following Battle of Korriban where the Jedi triumphed over the Disciples of Ragnos.

By the time the Caamas Document Crisis broke out, Corran was again in active duty in Rogue Squadron. While on the Errant Venture during a secret mission to gather information about Vengeance, an organization which appeared to be inciting internal conflict within the New Republic, Corran encountered Talon Karrde. Although Corran was annoyed to find out that Karrde had already known that Corran was present on the ship, Karrde agreed to forward any information he found about the group.

As the Unrest related to the Caamas Document turned into an excuse for internal factions of the New Republic to take up old feuds with eachother, Rogue Squadron, under the command of General Garm Bel Iblis were frequently assigned to stomping out such disputes before they could turn to actual bloodshed. During one such action, a feud, between the Frezhlix and the Sif'kries, Corran's knowledge of his Father-in-law's smuggling operations proved to be extremely useful. Frezhlix forces under the command of Plarx moved to blockade Sif'kric to block the planet's annual Pommwomm shipment. Because Pommwomm needed to be processed within thirty hours of being picked, if the Frezhlix blockade remained in place, the Pommwomm would become useless, destroying 20% of Sif'kric's annual economy, however, the New Republic task force could not legally begin hostilities against the blockade.

However, Corran was able to identify one of the freighters on the inside of the blockade, the Sycophant Jolly, as being a false identity of the Hoopster's Prank, a ship owned by Booster. Using the premise of investigating a smuggling vessel, Rogue Squadron was able to break up the blockade, allowing the Pommwomm shipment to get through, although unfortunately, it could not be done without hostilities, as the Frezhlix force opened fire on the New Republic task force.

During a later incident, Corran and his squadmates were not so successful at diverting disaster. Rogue Squadron received a panic call from Bothawui. Two Leresai had been killed in a riot on Bothawui, and a Leresen fleet had moved against Bothawui, intent on enacting their retributive code of justice, which called for killers to be put to death, or, if the killers themselves were not available, ten innocents from the killer's "tribe." However, as Rogue Squadron was prevented from intervening due to sabotage to their X-wings by two Leresai mechanics. When Wedge Antilles ordered the Squadron to lock their S-foils in attack position, Corran sensed immediate danger through the force. Upon closer inspection, Wedge and Corran discovered that their X-wings had been booby-trapped to prevent them from either locking their S-foils for attack or firing, and the squadron was unable to prevent the Leresai from destroying a station orbiting Bothawui, killing 21 innocent Bothans.

Fleets from opposing factions began massing over Bothawui after the Leseren incident. Fearing that Vengeance would attempt to bring down Bothawui's planetary shields, Bel Iblis sent Antilles and Corran on a secret mission to prevent such a sabotage, as he had been barred from sending an overt military force to defend Bothawui because of the political turmoil surrounding the Bothans and the Camaas Document. Soon after arriving on the planet, the two Rogues were pickpocketed, however, their belongings were returned to them by Moranda Savich, an employee of Talon Karrde who had lifted their wallets from the original thieves. The pair soon joined forces with Savich, who was on a similar mission from Talon Karrde.

By monitoring transmissions, the team was able to confirm that Vengeance was probably present on Bothawui, however, they were unable to pinpoint the operatives. After a few days with limited success, Moranda came to the realization that in order to stage an operation of this size required to take down Bothawui's shields, Vengeance would probably have to set up a business, as it would be too suspicious for people to be frequently entering and leaving an apartment at odd hours. The thee spent the next four days visiting the fifty businesses which had been set up in Bothawui's capital city of Drev'starn since the military buildup over Bothawui had began. Corran correctly predicted that the proprietors of Exoticalia Pet Emporium were members of Vengeance, however, he and wedge were summoned off Bothawui in preparation for a data raid on Yaga Minor, leaving Moranda to stop the insurgents. While she was unable to stop Vengeance from bringing down Bothawui's shields, she was able to befuddle the organization's time frame, which, in part, lead to the the Imperial defeat at the subsequent Second Battle of Bothawui.

The raid would have ended in disaster, however, the appearance of Talon Karrde changed the course of the battle. Rogue squadron escorted Karrde to the Imperial base, and was able to provide Admiral Gilad Pellaeon with data to expose the ersatz Grand Admiral Thrawn, who was commanding the battle, and a cease-fire was negotiated. Luke Skywalker and Mara Jade returned from Nirauan with a full copy of the Camaas Document, and a Peace treaty between the Empire and the New Republic was brokered.

New Jedi Order
"Perhaps it is not for me to sculpt the Force's flow to my purposes, but for me to be sculpted into that which more easily works with the Force."

- Corran Horn

Corran finally resigned from Rogue Squadron following the signing of the Bastion Accords in 19 ABY, choosing to devote himself fully to Jedi training. At the time of his resignation, he held the rank of Commander. Corran and Mirax had a daughter, Jysella during this time.

Corran attended the wedding of Luke Skywalker and Mara Jade. Because of the high profile of the marriage, Corran suggested that Luke have two wedding ceremonies, a private one and a more public one, similar to how he and Mirax had had two wedding ceremonies. Luke thought it was a good idea, and he and Mara had a private, Jedi ceremony followed well as a public, more secular one. When a group of unreformed imperials attempted to disrupt the second ceremony, Corran joined a group old-time Rogue Squadron pilots led by Wedge Antilles in repulsing the threat, as none of them had specific roles in the ceremony. sometime prior to 25 ABY, Corran and Mirax had a daughter, Jysella.



At the beginning of the Yuuzhan Vong invasion, Horn was teamed with Ganner Rhysode. This pairing proved difficult, as a result of their clashing personalities, views of the Jedi and the Jedi's role in the galaxy. Corran Horn and Ganner were given a mission to ensure the safety of a group of archeologists on the planet Bimmiel. After landing on Bimmiel, and finding the archeologists, Corran and Ganner started to gain a tenuous respect for each other while fighting off the local creatures. They later found out that the Yuuzhan Vong had been to this planet some 50 years before, and had recently returned. Ganner insisted on attacking them, but Corran argued that was not their mission. However, two of the archeologists were captured leaving them no option. While trying to save them, Corran was seriously injured. It was then that the Yuuzhan Vong warriors arrived. Corran held off the Yuuzhan Vong warriors to buy time for Rhysode and others to escape. Horn defeated both warriors but was bitten by an amphistaff. Rhysode felt Corran's life force dim and returned to save him against Corran's instructions.

After Corran recovered, he went with Ganner and Jacen Solo on a mission to Garqi. There they discovered that pollen from the bafforr tree native to the planet Ithor had the ability to destroy the vonduun crab armor worn by the Vong, due to a major allergic reaction. To hide the secret, Corran had the trees burned and added other fires to cover the location. At this time the Yuuzhan Vong began calling him Silverblade.



Corran next traveled to Ithor, which lay in the path of the Yuuzhan Vong. The New Republic made a stand at the planet, hoping to resist the invasion long enough to make use of the bafforr tree pollen. The battle became a stalemate, until Corran Horn offered to duel Commander Shedao Shai for the fate of Ithor. Though Horn eventually won, Shai's subordinate, Deign Lian, was ordered by Warmaster Tsavong Lah to unleash a plague of toxins upon the planet, in order to eliminate any chance of a pollen based bioweapon. The toxins turned the once lush planet into a barren wasteland and the atmosphere of Ithor into a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen. Afterwards the combined forces of the New Republic and the Remnant attacked the retreating forces of the Yuuzhan Vong destroying the cruiser Legacy of Torment. When the ship broke up parts of it fell into the hydrogen and oxygen rich Ithor atmosphere, causing Ithor to burst into flame. Corran was blamed by the media for the loss of Ithor, calling him "The man who killed Ithor." He returned to Corellia and went into seclusion. He also spent time traveling the galaxy aboard Errant Venture with Mirax.



After about a year, Corran Horn returned to the Jedi and began to assume a more active role in fighting the Yuuzhan Vong. He helped Nen Yim escape the Vong-formed Coruscant, and accompanied her, Tahiri Veila, Harrar and Yu'shaa to Zonama Sekot, a living world. There, Nen Yim learned of the connection between Sekot and the Yuuzhan Vong, though Yu'shaa&mdash;Nom Anor in disguise&mdash;killed her before she could impart her secrets. Corran attempted to stop Nom Anor, though the former Executor fled the planet. They remained on the living planet as it made hyper jumps to the core and eventually arrived in the Coruscant system. During this time Tahiri asked to be his apprentice to help complete her Jedi training. He agreed on a provisional basis until they could get Luke Skywalker's approval.

In the battle for supremacy of Coruscant, Corran flew a Sekotan Fighter in defense of Zonama Sekot against the Yuuzhan Vong. Later all ships were grounded on Zonama Sekot as the living world attempted to bring about peace between the Galactic Federation of Free Alliances and the Yuuzhan Vong.

Dark Nest Crisis
As of 35 ABY, Corran was granted the rank of Jedi Master for his actions during the Yuuzhan Vong War and became a member of the Masters' Council, where his belief that the Jedi were answerable to the Galactic Alliance came into conflict with Kyp Durron on a number of occasions. With Luke Skywalker away on a mission to Woteba, Cal Omas manipulated the Council into appointing Corran as the temporary leader of the Jedi Order&mdash;believing that Corran's disagreement with other Masters about the role of the Jedi would split the order, thus ending their interference in the growing Dark Nest crisis. After the Conclave on Ossus, Corran attempted to resign over his role in the schisms the Order had been facing, but Luke Skywalker refused, telling him to stop shouldering the blame for the Jedi, both over the schism and the destruction of Ithor. It was Horn's second attempt to resign, but Luke said that he would not refuse if Corran tried again.

At some point prior to 40 ABY, Corran established the Jedi Teaching Center on Corellia.

Confederation-Galactic Alliance War
"I'm just reading the mood like everyone else."

- Corran Horn

In 40 ABY, tensions between Corellia and the Galactic Alliance led to a war that strained the Jedi Order. In the opening operation, Corran commanded Team Slashrat that watched Coronet's main spaceport for large starfight activities. Despite his Corellian roots, Corran helped Luke and the Jedi Order by watching over the Jedi on Corellia and looking after new Jedi trainees shelter on Coruscant. Like all of the other Jedi Masters, Horn was shocked about Jacen's and Ben's actions during the GAG raid to capture Corellian insurgents on Coruscant.

Corran would later play a part in the escape of his wife, Wedge, Iella and Myri Antilles along with Han and Leia Solo and Lando Calrissian from Corellia where they left for the Errant Venture. While on the Venture Corran aided Jagged Fel, Zekk and Jaina Solo in their attempt to capture Alema Rar. Alema fired a blowdart at Corran who caught it out of the air and placed it in a datapad. After Alema's escape, Corran asked Luke what he wanted him to do. Luke told him to go to Coruscant, which he did.



When Luke Skywalker departed for Hapes to search for Mara Jade, Corran was placed in charge of the council. After the death of Mara, Luke used the Force to draw Lumiya out of hiding. Corran and the other members of the order found it increasingly difficult to ignore the call, and Corran told Luke that the whole council was willing to aide in the hunt, but Luke refused. Corran later attended Mara's funeral and afterwards during a meeting with the rest of the council, Corran admitted that he believed that Jacen was manipulating the order. Corran and the rest of the Jedi Order decided that Jacen Solo was too dangerous and needed to be dealt with. Afterwards, he and the rest of the Jedi Order took part in the Battle of Kashyyyk. He flew a StealthX fighter against the Galactic Alliance Fifth Fleet along with the rest of the Jedi Order. Their mission proved unsuccessful because Darth Caedus had anticipated the attack.

After the battle, Corran relocated with the rest of the Jedi Order to the Sanctuary Moon of Endor. He volunteered to lead Kyp Durron's proposed mission to “capture-or-neutralize” Jacen Solo, despite misgivings about Kyp's "local guide" for the mission, Seha Dorvald, who had previously worked as a spy for Jacen, but Master Skywalker selected Kyle Katarn to lead the mission instead. Horn flew a StealthX in an attempted ambush of Jacen and the the Anakin Solo, as part of Red Sword Flight, along with Kyp Durron, Luke Skywalker, Twool, and Sanola Ti, although the ambush was called off when Skywalker sensed Allana's presence in Jacen's starfighter. He later flew as Rakehell Five, leading the second flight of Rakehell Squadron, under the command of Wedge Antilles during the Battle of Centerpoint Station, as part of a ruse to allow Luke Skywalker, Ben Skywalker, Saba Sebatyne, Leia Organa Solo, Han Solo, Iella Wessiri Antilles, and R2-D2 to infiltrate the Anakin Solo and rescue Allana.

Personality and traits
"When Corran finds trouble, he never seems to have any difficulty just diving in, especially when the lives of others are at stake. Nice trait to have in a friend."

- Wedge Antilles

Corran Horn was stubborn, hard working, and courageous. Corran preformed actions which he had believed would result in his death in order save his companions on multiple occasions, although he was rescued both times.. Corran in general supported the concept of law and order, being one of the predominate pro-Galactic Alliance advocates on the Jedi Council during the Dark Nest Crisis, however, he believed that the value of law and order had it's limits, and did not support Jacen Solo's rule of the Galactic Alliance.

Corran was a highly independent-minded individual, and had trouble learning to trust others, especially in the time following his father's death. Corran Shared a typical Corellian disdain for odds, and often felt a need to be "the best," although he was able to learn from an object lesson that this was not as important as the success of the mission from Wedge Antilles, early in his career in Rogue Squadron. However, despite his disdain for odds, Corran was still a rational thinker, and was instrumental to developing the plan which lead to the deactivation of Coruscant's shields before the New Republic's Invasion. Corran took promises seriously, turning down a chance to begin Jedi training with Luke Skywalker after his escape from Lusankya because he had promised to rescue his fellow prisoners, and precipitated a mass-resignation of Rogue Squadron from the New Republic when Borsk Fey'lya forbid such a rescue mission.. He often clashed with Booster Terrik, who he perceived as an immoral smuggler who had been his father's nemesis, but they learned to tolerate each other with the help of mutual friend Wedge Antilles, who helped Corran realize that his father was never in a personal feud with Booster, only a professional one.

Powers and abilities
"Sure. I can't move a rock with my mind, but, boy, can I make the rock think it's been moved."

- Corran Horn

Corran discovered his Force connection in his adult life when he escaped from Ysanne Isard's prison ship, the Lusankya. Although Luke Skywalker offered to train him, he felt that his first duty was to freeing the Lusankya prisoners and declined the initial offer. Luke did teach him some Jedi relaxation techniques, which proved useful in battles to come.

After beginning Jedi training, Corran quickly discovered that the Halcyon family was weak in telekinetic abilities, but made up for it with their ability to influence beings by projecting illusions and an ability to absorb energy and if needed redirect it to greatly enhance their Force powers, including telekinesis. His abilities to manipulate energy even allowed him to withstand lightsaber contact with only minor charring of the skin. Nor were they restricted to lasers and similar sources; they also spread to include things like heat and fire. He had the ability to absorb the heat and flames and convert them into Force power which could then be used to bolster his own powers and make his relatively weak telekinetic powers very strong. The absorbed energy had to be used relatively soon after absorption since his body was not able to cope with the increased amount of energy for long.

Like all Halcyons, Corran Horn had an affinity for Force Illusion. Similar to a Jedi mind trick, this power gave Corran the ability to project not only imagery but all other sensory information into the minds of other beings. It was discovered during his training and was nurtured into one of his most powerful abilities.



Corran favored a dual-phase lightsaber and constructed one shortly after he left the academy to search for his wife. The lightsaber's initial phase was a 133-centimeter-long silver blade due to a Durindfire crystal, but by twisting the grip a second crystal fell into place and the blade lengthened to 300 centimeters and changed to a brilliant purple.

When he first joined the Jedi Academy he helped Kam Solusar build the initial training program that would later be expanded and thus helped lay the foundations for the training structure of the New Jedi Order. Corran seemed to favor a more regimented type of training, no doubt a by product of his time with CorSec and when the Jedi relocated to Ossus, the new academy adopted just this sort of regime, but still with an emphasis on trainees' advancing at their own pace.

In many ways Corran embodied some aspects of the Old Jedi Order, both in the way he was trained and in his outlook on the Jedi as a whole; perhaps mirroring the Jedi of old, he felt that they should serve the Galactic Alliance. Mace Windu had held a similar view in his time, but remarked that the Jedi should rather serve civilization, as civilization brought peace and justice, of which the Galactic Republic was the prime example in his time. Corran seemed to feel the same way, realizing that a stable Galactic Alliance was the best way to ensure lasting peace.

Corran also embodied the spirit of the Corellian Jedi of the Old Republic, who were often regarded as unorthodox by other Jedi.

Siolle Tinta
"Siolle Tinta and I got along famously once we discovered we shared similar opinions about art."

- Corran Horn

While working with CorSec, Corran was assigned to guard Siolle Tinta, daughter of the owner of Tinta Lines, who was the target of a kidnapper. They developed a relationship during this time after discovering that they both enjoyed similar forms of art. Their relationship ended fairly soon after Corran's partner, Iella Wessiri, caught the kidnapper. They realized that while they had one similarity in the types of art that they enjoyed, their lives were different enough that a long-term relationship would not work out. However, they parted as friends.





Mirax Terrik
"For as long as I've known her she's had a habit of predicting how many weeks my relationships would last, and she's always been right on target. With us, no prediction."

- Corran Horn to Mirax Terrik

Mirax joined Rogue Squadron in their Campaign against Ysanne Isard's control of Thyferra. Corran and Mirax grew closer over the course of the Bacta War, much to the annoyance of Mirax's father, who Corran met in an embarrassing incident during a supply run to Tatooine. On the night before the Battle of Thyferra, Corran asked Mirax to marry him, and Mirax agreed. Mirax's father was not pleased when he found out about his daughter's engagement after the battle, however, Wedge Antilles married them in the hold of the newly captured Lusankya while Booster and Talon Karrde were inspecting the guns on his new Star Destroyer, the Errant Venture, before Booster had much of an opportunity to complain, although they would later have a more formal ceremony on Coruscant. Mirax and Corran would eventually have two children, Valin and Jysella

Leonia Tavira
"So, you forced me to destroy my diversion, leaving me with need for a replacement. I think I will have you become my new diversion"

- Corran thinking

While attempting to infiltrate the Invids under the alias Jenos Idanian, Corran found himself in a peculiar situation. While flying as the leader of the elite Bolt Squadron of the Khuiumin Survivors, Corran found himself in a clash with Leonia Tavira's consort, Remart Sasyru. Remart wanted to kill Caamasi Elegos A'kla, and in order to prevent this, Corran ordered him not too, claiming that he wanted to take Elgos as a body servant, provoking a fist fight. Leonia Tavira, who had apparently only entered a relationship with Remart because he was Jenos's rival and wanted to see how Corran would get rid of Remart, had him killed for insubordination and striking a superior officer, believing that Jenos had staged the whole incident knowing that Tavira would have Remart executed. Tavira, who was attracted to Corran, and offered him a month to recover and make a decision as to whether he would enter a relationship with her or not.

Corran, while believing that a relationship would help him further infiltrate the Invids, realized that he also was entering a relationship because he was attracted to her, which he believed to be wrong, attempted to put off a full time relationship as far as possible. Eventually, he would feign his own death and go on to rescue his wife Mirax, ending his involvement with the Invids.

Behind the scenes


Michael A. Stackpole, the author who first introduced Corran Horn and wrote the majority of the pieces in which he appears, was asked to pose as his character for a card in the Star Wars Customizable Card Game. Despite his vastly different appearance from the illustrations and descriptions of the character, Stackpole agreed and appears in the image above.

Corran Horn is a character who fits a number of the criteria for being a "Gary Stu": he is an exceptionally skilled fighter pilot who also happens to be a Jedi Knight, had a tragic background, and effectively is the most major of major characters in the first four X-wing novels. However, this description (or variants thereof) could be applied to several characters in this universe, and he has demonstrated flaws (recklessness and self-righteousness) that have at times done as much harm as his positive traits have done good.

Corran Horn's lightsaber is originally said to gain its silver hue from a Durindfire gem in I, Jedi. However, in the Dark Tide Duology, it is said to gain it from a diamond focusing crystal.

Appearances

 * Interlude at Darkknell
 * Star Wars Galaxies
 * Side Trip
 * X-wing Rogue Squadron 25: The Making of Baron Fel
 * X-wing Rogue Squadron: Family Ties
 * Missed Chance
 * 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
 * X-wing: Isard's Revenge
 * I, Jedi
 * Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy
 * Specter of the Past
 * Vision of the Future
 * Star Wars: Union
 * Survivor's Quest
 * Dark Tide I: Onslaught
 * Dark Tide II: Ruin
 * Agents of Chaos II: Jedi Eclipse
 * Balance Point
 * Edge of Victory I: Conquest
 * Edge of Victory II: Rebirth
 * Emissary of the Void
 * Star by Star
 * Dark Journey
 * Enemy Lines I: Rebel Dream
 * Enemy Lines II: Rebel Stand
 * Destiny's Way
 * Ylesia
 * Force Heretic II: Refugee
 * The Final Prophecy
 * The Unifying Force
 * Dark Nest I: The Joiner King
 * Dark Nest II: The Unseen Queen
 * Dark Nest III: The Swarm War
 * Betrayal
 * Bloodlines
 * Exile
 * Sacrifice
 * Inferno
 * Fury