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In-Universe family history.
Shayn Mikel was a human male pilot who served in the Resistance during the First Order–Resistance conflict. He served with distinction during the Battle on Takodana and the Battle of Starkiller Base, destroying 10 enemy vehicles during this time.

Paal Mikel
Shayn's mother's side of the family consisted of a long line of accountants that stretched back to pre-Republic times. His father's line, on the other hand, did not have as much documentation, but was full of distinguished military service. Shayn's great-grandfather, Paal Mikel, had served in the Naboo Royal Space Fighter Corps, flying an N-1 starfighter in Bravo Flight. Paal flew under the callsign Bravo Two, as Ric Olié's second-in-command. In a stark contrast to Olié's vocally observant nature, Paal was very quiet and withdrawn, only speaking up when absolutely necessary. He had a romantic interest in Dineé Ellberger, and married her at age 23. A year later, they had a son together, named Gheri, who would grow up to be a gifted starfighter pilot in his own right. 13 years later, both Paal and Dineé flew a combat mission in the Battle of Naboo against the Trade Federation's Vulture droids. During the brief engagement, Paal shot down five droids, and both he and Dineé witnessed Anakin Skywalker's destruction of the Lucrehulk-class Droid Control Ship Saak'ak.

Gheri Mikel
Shayn's grandfather, Gheri Mikel, was 13 at the time of the Battle of Naboo, in which both his parents fought bravely against the Viceroy Nute Gunray's subjugation of their homeworld. Inspired by his parents' bravery, Gheri decided to join the Grand Army of the Republic at the outbreak of the Clone War. Because of his impressive marskmanship and innate piloting abilities, he was accepted into the Republic Navy and served as a gunner in Low Altitude Assault Transport/infantry gunships during the Battle of Geonosis at age 23.

Christophsis
After the Battle of Geonosis, Gheri was assigned to General Anakin Skywalker's Venator-class Star Destroyer Resolute, Anakin Skywalker's personal flagship. Gheri was delighted to serve under the command of a man who had fought with his parents. Immediately after boarding his new Star Destroyer for the first time, Gheri sought out Skywalker and introduced himself to the legendary Jedi Knight. The two exchanged numerous war stories from both Naboo and Geonosis, Skywalker invited Gheri to be his gunner in his own personal Nu-class transport. Gheri agreed without hesistation. Gheri's first assignment would be to ferry Skywalker from the Resolute to the Negotiator, General Obi-Wan Kenobi's flagship. From there, Gheri would return to the Resolute as Skywalker and Admiral Wullf Yularen engaged Trench's Providence-class dreadnought Invincible and ran a mercy mission to Senator Bail Organa's forces on the surface.

Later, Gheri would fly as clone trooper Hawk's copilot in a LAAT/i gunship to extract Skywalker, Kenobi, Rex, Cody, and Gus from the Twin Towers of Christophsis after Separatist forces overran their positions. Gus had managed to rip off the head of T-series tactical droid TJ-55. Upon extracting the tactical droid's data at the Republic command center, it became immediately clear the Separatists had known the Republic battle plans. Rex and Cody decided to interrogate Gus, Jester, Punch, and Sketch in order to figure out who was feeding information to the enemy, only to discover that it was their platoon's leader, Slick, who had turned traitor. During Slick's attempt to escape the Republic command center, he destroyed most of the Republic's walkers and gunships, although the AV-7 Anti-vehicle Artillery Cannons had managed to escape destruction. Rex and Cody eventually cornered Slick in the Command Center, and placed him under arrest.

Within a week of the ordeal with Slick, Gheri was very pleased that his next assignment would not involve more shuttle duty. Instead, he would fly a V-19 Torrent starfighter in the defense of Skywalker's and Kenobi's fleets while the famed Jedi took on Whorm Loathsom's forces on the ground. Yularen was able to break the Separatist blockade, ending the droid army's occupation of Christophsis.

Kamino
Shortly after the Battle of Christophsis, Gheri was assigned to co-pilot an LAAT/i gunship to Kamino, accompanying ARC trooper Colt's visit to oversee the training of Bravo Squad and Domino Squad. Although Gheri considered this a boring assignment, he also knew he was fortunate to be away from the dangers of the battlefield.

Toydaria
Shortly after Gheri's visit to Kamino, Republic forces under the Command of Nikto Jedi Master Ima-Gun Di were engaged in the Battle of Ryloth. The Separatists had destroyed Di's fleet, and the native Twi'lek civilians were in desperate need of food and medical supplies. Although the Republic could not spare reinforcements to hold the planet, they could spare a some resources to help the Twi'lek Resistance fighters. In order to do this, however, the Republic would have to convince the Toydarian King Katuunko to allow them to use his planet as a staging ground. Toydaria was a neutral system, so the Republic would need permission to send military forces there, even if only for humanitarian purposes. In order to resolve the matter, the Republic had dispatched Senior Representative Jar Jar Binks of Naboo and Senator Bail Organa of Alderaan. Gheri accompanied the Senator to Toydaria, serving as a gunner on Organa's personal CR90 corvette Tantive IV.

Separatist forces became aware of this operation by intercepting holographic communications between the Jedi Council and Senator Bail Organa, and sent Trade Federation Senator Lott Dod to negotiate with the Toydarians, hoping to discourage an agreement between the Republic and Toydaria. They successfully convinced the Toydarians to (officially, at least) deny the Republic's request. Unknown to the Separatists, the Toydarians agreed to allow a very small shipment of supplies to Ryloth aboard a trio of Pelta-class frigates, and King Katuunko entered negotiations for joining the Republic.

Rugosa
Shortly after his assignment on Kamino, Gheri flew an LAAT/i gunship to extract Grand Master Yoda, the Toydarian King Katuunko, Clone Lieutenant Thire, and clone troopers Jek and Rys at the conclusion of the Mission to Rugosa. After his experience on Christophsis, Gheri was becoming frustrated at being assigned to non-combat missions. Although he understood the importance of his work, the monotony of shuttle duty was beginning to wear thin on him.

Bith system
After the Mission to Rugosa, Gheri began continued flying V-19 Torrent starfighters, mostly in training flights. While Skywalker's fleet was stationed near the planet Bith,Jedi Master Plo Koon's fleet was destroyed by the Subjugator-class heavy cruiser Malevolence. Upon hearing the news of Koon's situation, Skywalker and Tano embarked on a mission to rescue their stricken comrade. Gheri would ultimately be faced with disappointment when he learned that Skywalker had decided to only take his personal G9 Rigger freighter Twilight without a fighter escort. He longed for the thrill of combat, and didn't appreciate being left on the sidelines of the war.

Kaliida Nebula
After a disappointing break from the action in the V-19, Gheri asked General Skywalker if he could join Shadow Squadron, which flew Y-wing starfighters. Even though Shadow Squadron was an all-clone unit and Gheri was a recruit, Skywalker allowed Gheri to serve as Shadow Five's gunner in the Battle of the Kaliida Nebula. Despite Shadow Squadron suffering almost 50% casualties in the attack, the mission ended up being a partial success. Shadow Squadron disabled the Malevolence by destroying its ion cannon, but General Grievous escaped harm. Due to Gheri's obvious skill, Skywalker granted Gheri the rare privilege of flying on any mission he wished, although he was still subject to regular assignment when required. This one-of-a-kind arrangement would allow Gheri to participate in some of the most crucial battles of the Clone War.

While the Malevolence attempted to escape the Nebula, Gheri manned the gun turrets onboard the Resolute. After his previous mission's failure to kill the Grievous, Gheri hoped that pounding the nasty cyborg's ship with as much laser fire as possible could eventually destroy it. Grievous and Sith Lord Darth Sidious had other plans. Sidious tricked Senator Amidala into traveling directly into the battle zone, allowing Grievous to hold her hostage aboard the crippled cruiser. Gheri was not surprised when Skywalker gave the order to stop firing; from what he had understood about Skywalker's war stories on the Battle of Naboo, it was likely that the General had some attraction to the Senator. What did surprise him, however, was Skywalker's manner of destroying the Malevolence; the General had programmed the navigation computer to crash the ship into a nearby moon upon activation of the hyperdrive.

Rishi moon
While Clone Commander Cody and Clone Captain Rex were making the rounds on listening station inspections, Gheri continued training in the V-19. The training exercises were cut short, however, by General Skywalker ordering all fighters to return to their carriers so that the fleet could make a hyperspace jump to the Rishi moon. Cody and Rex had come under attack by BX-series droid commandos, B2 super battle droids, and B1 battle droids at the Rishi Station. The clones at the station had already suffered numerous casualties, including Clone Sergeant O'Niner, Nub, Cutup, Droidbait, and CT-327. Because the droids had destroyed the alert beacon and hard-wired the all-clear signal, the clones were forced to destroy the station. With the help of Rex and Cody, Hevy, Fives, and Echo destroyed the Rishi Station to shut down the all-clear signal, although Hevy gave up his own life to set off the detonator manually. The loss of the all-clear signal alerted the Republic Navy that the nearby planet of Kamino would shortly be under attack. The timely arrival of Skywalker's fleet prevented General Grievous from launcing an invasion of the Republic's clone production facilities. Upon the clones' extraction, Gheri continued with his starfighter training.

Action over Bothawui, sidelined for Ruusan
After the Battle of the Rishi moon, Gheri began flying with Gold Squadron. Taking the callsign Gold Two, he would participate in the Battle of Bothawui with General Anakin Skywalker. After Skywalker's astromech droid R2-D2 was captured during the battle, Anakin would undertake a mission to search for him. With replacement astromech R3-S6 as navigator, Skywalker would take the outer corridor of the suspected Confederate space, while Gold Squadron would go up the middle. Skywalker eventually located the distressed R2 series astromech droid at the Skytop Station on Ruusan, and mounted a rescue mission to recover R2 and destroy the listening post. The new R3 unit, which turned out to be a spy for General Grievous, was destroyed in the mission and R2 was reunited with Skywalker. Although Gheri shared in Skywalker's delight at rescuing a loyal comrade, he was disappointed that Skywalker had not invited him to pilot the Twilight

Rodia
After Skywalker's mission to Skytop Station, Gheri joined the complement of pilots onboard Jedi Master Luminara Unduli's Star Destroyer Tranquility. When protocol droid C-3PO transmitted an emergency message from Rodia requesting assistance, Gheri flew an LAAT/i gunship to extract Senator Padme Amidala, Rodian Senator Onaconda Farr, Gungan Senior Representative Jar Jar Binks, C-3PO, and a captive Viceroy of the Trade Federation Nute Gunray. Before he could extract the Republic diplomats, however, he received orders to conduct patrol flights and destroy any remaining battle droids from the skirmish. Other gunship crews would handle the extraction. Gheri was furious at being denied the opportunity to confront the Neimoidian scumbag who had brought so much pain to Naboo, but he knew that it was only his ability to follow orders that kept him on his superiors' good side.

Shortly after Gunray's capture, he was transferred onto a Republic frigate to be taken to the Tranquility. Although there was hardly any chance of combat, Gheri volunteered to man the gun turrets for the transfer. Immediately after Gunray's imprisonment, the Tranquility came under attack by a Separatist frigate, which launched a boarding ship carrying a battalion of B2 super battle droids, as well as the Dathomirian Nightsister and Sith assassin Asajj Ventress. The assassin boarded the starship, rescued Gunray, and escaped by stealing the Tranquility's Republic frigate with the help of traitorous Senate Commando Captain Argyus.

Coruscant and Cato Neimoidia
Three years into the Clone War, Gheri would fly Alpha-3 Nimbus V-wing starfighters in the Battle of Coruscant and Aggressive ReConnaissance-170 starfighters in the Battle of Cato Neimoidia. By this time, he had destroyed 15 Separatist droid starfighters, including standard Vulture droids, Hyena-class bombers, and deadly droid tri-fighters. Unbeknownst to almost everyone in the Republic, every clone trooper had an inhibitor chip implanted in his brain to ensure immediate compliance with the every order. One of these commands, code-named Order 66, instructed every clone trooper to execute his Jedi General as a traitor. During the Battle of Cato Neimoidia, Gheri witnessed Darth Sidious issue Order 66 over his cockpit holoprojector. His clone pilot comrades, who had served the Republic honorably for more than three years, immediately obeyed Order 66 and executed the Kel Dor Jedi Master and Jedi High Council member Plo Koon by shooting down his Delta-7 Aethersprite-class light interceptor with their laser cannons. Gheri watched in horror as the catastrophe unfolded right before his very eyes, making him one of very few people who knew the truth of the Jedi "rebellion." Fearing for his life, Gheri fled the battle and flew home to Naboo. Meanwhile, in the Galactic Senate building on Coruscant, Supreme Chancellor Sheev Palpatine issued the Proclamation of the New Order, which established the Galactic Empire and declared that the entirety of the Jedi Order were traitors to the New Order. The clone troopers, once symbols of hope, became associated with death and destruction as they were reorganized into the first generation of Imperial stormtroopers. Having seen the cold-blooded brutality of the Galactic Emperor firsthand, Gheri swore to never kill for the Empire.

Steevin Mikel
Shayn's father, Steevin Mikel, was deeply influenced by the war stories from the Battle of Naboo and the Clone War, and decided to defect to the Alliance to Restore the Republic at age 18. He quickly proved himself to be a gifted pilot, and was assigned to fly Y-wing starfighters with Gold Squadron on Yavin 4 under the callsign Gold Three. Steevin quickly became very fond of his craft, since it packed plenty of firepower with its laser and ion cannons. Two years later, at age 20, Steevin would take part in the pivotal Battle of Yavin, in which Luke Skywalker destroyed the battlestation by using the Force to shoot a pair of proton torpedoes into a thermal exhaust port, starting a chain reaction in the space station's superlaser reactor core. Steevin was the only Y-wing pilot to survive the attack on the Death Star, but the loss of his entire squadron would only fuel his commitment to destroy the Empire. Upon the recommendation of General Jan Dodonna, Steevin took an extended leave of absence back home to Naboo while Gold Squadron rebuilt its ranks. This took longer than expected, and when he returned to the Alliance, he was temporarily reassigned to fly with Rogue Squadron, under the callsign Rogue Five, at the newly-established Echo Base on Hoth. Steevin was not very happy with this arrangement, since it meant that he would mainly be flying T-47 airspeeders, only seldom getting a chance to fly his beloved Y-wing. Compared to flying in space, Steevin considered the airspeeders to be the most boring vehicles in the galaxy. Three-and-a-half years after losing his squadron at Yavin, he would finally get some much-needed excitement during the desperate Battle of Hoth, a bitter defeat for the Rebel alliance. The Empire had located Echo Base, and Darth Vader had sent AT-AT commander Maximilian Veers and Blizzard Force, a unit of All Terrain Armored Transport walkers, to destroy the planet's deflector shield generator. Rogue Squadron was sent to intercept and down the walkers using their magnetic harpoons, though Steevin went into battle without a rear-seat gunner. The walkers eventually broke through, allowing Imperial cold weather assault stormtroopers to enter the base and forcing the rebels to evacuate. Despite his speeder being downed by crossfire, Steevin escaped the planet without injury aboard his starfighter. Six months after the Rebellion's defeat on Hoth, he would again fly his trusty Y-wing with the newly-rebuilt Gold Squadron during the pivotal Battle of Endor. During this engagement, General Han Solo led a ground-based strike team to destroy the Death Star's shield generator on the moon. Solo's longtime smuggler friend Lando Calrissian led Gold Squadron, flying the Millennium Falcon into the depths of Death Star II to destroy the reactor core. Besides the destruction of the Death Star, the battle also resulted in the death of Galactic Emperor Darth Sidious, the redemption of Anakin Skywalker, the destruction of Darth Vader's flagship Super Star Destroyer Executor, and the complete defeat of the Stormtrooper Corps at the hands of Endor's indigenous Ewoks of the Bright Tree Village. It was at this point that Steevin considered his quest fulfilled. Although the Rebel Alliance still had more battles to fight, Steevin requested and received an honorable discharge from the Rebel military. By this time, 15 enemy TIE/LN starfighters and TIE Interceptors had fallen victim to his starfighter's cannons over the course of his military career. After the victory celebrations on Endor, Steevin settled down on Naboo to start a family as the Rebel Alliance reorganized itself as the New Republic.

Shayn Mikel
Shayn was born 14 years after the Battle of Yavin, on Naboo. Much like his father and grandfather, Shayn Mikel grew up with war stories from bygone eras. He learned how to fly behind the controls of his father's beat-up old Y-wing, which Steevin was allowed to keep after leaving the Rebellion. Much to Shayn's frustration, the New Republic failed to seriously consider the threat posed by the First Order, a military junta that considered itself a successor to the old Galactic Empire. By this time, Shayn had gained flying considerable experience behind the controls of his T-85 X-wing starfighter in the New Republic Starfleet, and defected to the Resistance Starfighter Corps. There, he downgraded to an older X-wing model, the T-70. It was in this craft that Shayn distinguished himself from his peers in Red Squadron. The less sophisticated systems put less weight in the spacecraft, improving maneuverability to the point that Shayn sometimes felt that it responded to his thoughts, instead of his touch. He would further modify the craft by removing all provisions for proton torpedo launchers, concussion missiles, and targeting computers, turning it into a pure fighter.

34 years after the Battle of Yavin, at age 20, Shayn would get his first opportunity to put his piloting skills to the test at the Battle on Takodana. Rey, a female scavenger from Jakku, had encountered the astromech droid BB-8, who was being hunted by the First Order. With the help of defecting Stormtrooper Finn, she had escaped Jakku aboard a stolen YT-1300 light freighter, none other than Millennium Falcon itself. Rey and Finn sought the assistance of General Han Solo and his Wookiee co-pilot Chewbacca to return the BB unit to the Resistance base on D'Qar, in the Ileenium system. The five traveled to Maz Kanata's castle on Takodana, where spies alerted both the Resistance and the First Order to the droid's presence. Along with Black Squadron Commander Poe Dameron, Shayn flew his X-wing in combat against the First Order's TIE/fo space superiority fighters, just as Solo, Chewbacca, Finn, and BB-8 were about to be taken prisoner by the First Order. Rey was captured by the evil First Order leader Kylo Ren, but BB-8 was safely returned to the Resistance base. There, Shayn and the other Resistance fighters listened as Finn and Solo briefed Red Squadron, Blue Squadron, and General Leia Organa on the upcoming attack on Starkiller Base, a mobile planet with a built-in superweapon that posessed the power to destroy an entire star system. The base had already wiped out the New Republic's capital on Hosnian Prime by destroying the Hosnian system, and the Resistance base had already been selected as the next target. The Resistance decided to target Starkiller Base's thermal oscillator, which would lead a collapse of the entire planet and the destruction of the superweapon. Despite both Resistance squadrons suffering heavy casualties, Dameron was able to successfully complete the mission, and Shayn returned with his six surviving comrades to D'Qar.