Jorn Kulish

Jorn Kurlish was a male pilot who flew a Z-95 Headhunter within the Ividal Sector Forces unit during the last years of the Galactic Republic. During the Clone Wars, Kurlish accompanied Foxfire Squadron to the Uvadala system after the Ividal Sector Forces were called upon by the Republic to contribute fighter squadrons to participate in a battle against the Confederacy of Independent Systems. During the engagement, the Headhunters of Foxfire Squadron were deployed as bombers to fire plasma warheads on the Separatist forces. While firing his warheads, Kurlish, lowered the blast shield on his helmet to protect his eyes from the flash caused by the detonation of the explosives. However, after the explosion had passed Kurlish's helmet jammed and he almost crashed into a mountain before he was able to remove it.

In the aftermath of the battle, Foxfire Squadron were sent to load their Headhunters onto a Republic Venator-class Star Destroyer for passage back to Ividal. Kurlish declined to accompany them because after his experience during the battle he wasn't keen to fly his fighter again and he quit his job. Kurlish instead gained passage off-world with the Republic Group agents Tobb Jadak and Reeze Duurmun aboard the YT-1300 light freighter Stellar Envoy.

During the journey, Kurlish took his helmet out to help explain to the two agents the reason why he quit. Kurlish subsequently disembarked at Denon and noticed that he had left his helmet behind. decades later, during the Galactic Civil War, the prospective Jedi Luke Skywalker used Kurlish's helmet whiletraining against remotes aboard the Stellar Envoy–then known as the Millennium Falcon.

Behind the scenes
Jorn Kurlish was first mentioned in the StarWars.com article Star Wars: The Essential Guide to Warfare: Author's Cut, Part 10: The Rise of the Empire, an article in series by Jason Fry and Paul R. Urquhart that published content written for the reference book The Essential Guide to Warfare'' that didn't make the final cut. The cut-content consisted of a portion of text written from an in-universe perspective by Jorn Kurlish on his experiences during the battle over Uvadala and served to provide a backstory for the helmet worn by Luke Skywalker aboard the Millennium Falcon during the events of the film Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope.