Qorl


 * " We’re not out of this yet. Twice I’ve been shot down on Yavin Four. My luck’s not so good when it comes to getting out of this system."
 * &mdash;Qorl

Qorl was a former TIE fighter pilot who was downed not once, but twice over Yavin Four. He played several important roles in the adventures of the Solo children both on Yavin’s fourth moon and off.

Biography
Qorl was a TIE fighter pilot serving in the Imperial forces assigned to the first Death Star. During the Battle of Yavin, Qorl’s TIE fighter was badly damaged, forcing the pilot to crash land it on fourth moon of Yavin. Despite suffering many injuries related to his crash, Qorl managed to make due and eke out a life of hermitage on the moon’s jungles.

After over twenty years of solitude in the jungles, in 23 BBY, Qorl’s downed TIE fighter was stumbled upon by Jacen and Jaina Solo. Jaina reveled at the opportunity to dabble in mechanics and intended to install a new hyperdrive into the damaged starfighter.

Qorl discovered the Solo Twins working on his craft and saw an opportunity to escape. He immediately kidnapped them at blaster-point and forced them to finish the repairs. All the while as he held the twins captive, Qorl learned from them of the events of the last twenty three years, and especially of the downfall of the Empire at Endor many years prior.

When the repairs were complete, Qorl left Yavin IV in search of any remnants of the Imperial hierarchy to report to. What he found was the Shadow Academy and the Dark Jedi Brakiss and Tamith Kai. Qorl informed the two of the existence of the Jedi Praxeum on Yavin, which led to the Solo twins and several other students of Luke Skywalker’s being captured by the Dark Jedi of the Shadow Academy.

During this time Qorl joined the forces of the Second Imperium. He participated in an attack on the New Republic cruiser Adamant, which he captured and turned over the valuable cargo (replete with hyperdrive cores, turbolasers, and other military equipment) to the Imperium. During his service he was injured badly and had to have several wounds repaired with cybernetic implants, including his entire left arm.

Qorl’s tenure with the Second Imperium ended dramatically when, during a battle over Yavin IV, he was once again shot down to the moon below. Once again presumed dead, he was content to live out the rest of the rest of his life in solitary quiet.

And yet, it seemed that Qorl’s path was inexorably intertwined with those of the Solo children. In 26 BBY, in the midst of the Yuuzhan Vong invasion, the Peace Brigade learned of the location of Skywalker’s Jedi Praxeum and (desiring to collect on the galaxy-wide bounty on Jedi called for by Tsavong Lah) attacked the Jedi training site. After the initial attack by the Perace Brigaders, Anakin Solo managed to escape the training grounds in a stolen freighter along with Valin Horn, Sannah, and the hostage Brigader pilot Remis Vehn. The freighter however crashed deeper into the jungle, and Anakin began to lead a salvage mission to repair the ship so they could flee the planet.

The next morning Anakin was jarred awake by a bedraggled old man who introduced himself to the youngest Solo as Qorl. Anakin instantly recognized the old Imperial pilot from stories his old siblings had told him. Anakin took to Qorl immediately and put him in charge of watching Vehn, as well as coordinating the repair of the freighter, while Anakin set out to rescue Tahiri from her captivity by the Vong on the moon.

After Anakin had rescued Tahiri, the two were evacuated from the Shapers’ base by Qorl in the repaired Peace Brigade frigate. Though the flight away from Yavin was perilous, the group managed to flee from the grasp of the Yuuzhan Vong forces on the moon.

Appearances

 * ’’Young Jedi Knight series’’
 * ’’New Jedi Order series: Edge of Victory I: Conquest’’