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Judder Page is really fricking badass. Like, seriously. Did you read The Unifying Force? He and Pash Cracken owned all 500+ pages of that book. And I was like "But you haven't even been in the series yet!" and they were like "Nah, dude, we got this." And you know what? They were right.

But I'm going to put a bunch of paragraphs here for now, so I can get an idea of what the article will look like when finished.

Makes it easier to put images at the beginning, ya know?

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Hey, what did Fiddy Cent say when his grandmother knitted him a sweater?

"Gee, you knit?"

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Imperial service and defection
The Human male Judder Page was born in 23 BBY on the planet Corulag. When he was just four years old, Supreme Chancellor Palpatine of the Galactic Republic reorganized the galaxy's ruling body into a Galactic Empire and ordered the execution of the many members of the Jedi Order, a group of Force-using peacekeepers who had been protecting the Republic for over a thousand generations. Page's father became a wealthy Senator in Palpatine's New Order, giving his son a pampered childhood. Page grew up hearing tales of the Jedi Knights and began idolizing the legendary group, despising his father for not possessing any of the traits that the Jedi had embodied. Although he was not Force-sensitive, Page committed himself to following in his heroes' footsteps, and took advantage of his father's wealth to train himself in various combat and defensive techniques. While the children of other senators in the Empire's core worlds grew fat and lazy, Page honed his skills, unsure of what advantages they would bring him but content that he was staying active. His efforts were supported by his father, who supposed that Page's youthful idealism would eventually fade away.

Years later, Page's father sent his son to the Imperial Academy in order to put his combat training to use. Although Page had no desire to serve the Empire, he quickly realized the vast avenues of study afforded to the son of a prominent Imperial senator and set himself to learning the theories of planetfall combat from the Empire's best teachers. He despised his instructors, but accepted their teachings and was groomed to be an officer. He graduated from the Academy with honors and was assigned to the Imperial Army, serving under General Veers in a ground assault unit. . Around the same time, he was on leave and at the galactic capital of Coruscant when he heard a speech given by Senator Leia Organa of Alderaan. The beauty and passion of the younger woman attracted him, and he listened to her full speech given to the Council of Galactic Rights. It was unlike the sweet-coated rambling speeches he had heard Imperial senators give before, as she spoke out against the Empire's positions on slavery and humanocentrism. Organa made several implicit references to the Alliance to Restore the Republic, a rebel movement that had recently begun stirring across the galaxy, and Page, understanding the speech's hidden meaning, realized that the Alliance was the dream he had been following his entire life.

Page deserted his post at the first opportunity and joined the Rebel Alliance. Relatively new and still somewhat rag-tag, the Alliance had no special forces or commando brigades until General Crix Madine, himself another defector from the Empire, convinced his fellow members of Alliance High Command that elite commando units would improve the Alliance's chances in their war against the Empire. Madine had led an elite commando unit during his Imperial service, and went about organizing several such units within the Alliance. Page joined a unit led my Major Bren Derlin that was charged with protecting the Alliance's Echo Base on the ice planet of Hoth. Derlin was appointed as the base's chief of security and operations by General Carlist Rieekan, who commanded all rebel forces in the Hoth system. Rieekan hoped to keep the base's existence a secret from the Empire, but when an Imperial probe droid arrived onworld and caught wind of the Alliance's operations, the base was attacked by Page's former commanding officer General Veers, who led a ground assault composed of several AT-AT and AT-ST walkers. Commander Luke Skywalker led the Alliance's Rogue Squadron in snowspeeders against the walkers while Derlin commanded a battalion of soldiers. Page fought in the battle, and the rebel resistance bought enough time for many Alliance forces to flee the planet, Page among them.

Solo's strike team
One year later, Page had attained the rank of Lieutenant in the Alliance and often worked closely with Colonel Airen Cracken as a scout. He was part of a rebel fleet that massed off of Sullust, which, after suffering a devastating defeat at Hoth, was doubtful and demoralized. The fleet received a much-needed morale boost when Captain Han Solo, who had been frozen in carbonite and in the clutches of the crime lord Jabba the Hutt for a year, arrived in-system after being rescued by some of his closest friends. The Supreme Commander of the Alliance, Mon Mothma, soon called a meeting of all rebel commanders aboard the Mon Calamari Star Cruiser Home One, and Page attended as she announced that the fleet would be striking at the Empire's unfinished battle station at Endor&mdash;the second Death Star. Solo, promoted to General, assembled a strike team to land on the forest moon of Endor, recruiting men who had served at Echo Base. He had witnessed their loyalty and dedication, and appointed Derlin as his planet-level unit leader. Eager to serve, Page joined Derlin's commando unit. Their mission was to destroy a Deflector shield generator, which would allow the fleet to mount an attack on the Death Star.

Endor!


 * http://starwarsinterviews1.blogspot.com/2010/06/david-church-interview-lieutenant-page.html
 * http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbTAeFv9-RU&feature=related