Trey Callum/Legends

"Echo Station Three-T-Eight. We've spotted Imperial walkers."

- Trey Callum

Trey Callum was a Human male sergeant major of the Rebel Alliance Special Forces during the height of the Galactic Civil War. Formerly a member of the Imperial officer corps, Callum defected to the Alliance to fight the Galactic Empire. Under the leadership of Colonel Ledick Firest, Callum commanded a squad of Special Forces soldiers at Outpost Beta on the Echo Base defensive perimeter during the Battle of Hoth in 3 ABY. Callum was the first to report to Echo Base the presence of Imperial All Terrain Armored Transports advancing toward the base during the opening stages of the battle, and he was killed during the first barrage of AT-AT blaster fire.

Biography
"Rogue Leader&hellip;Incoming! Point Zero Three."

- Trey Callum warns Luke Skywalker of the AT-AT presence

Trey Callum, a Human male, was originally a member of the Imperial officer corps, but he defected from the Empire to join the Alliance to Restore the Republic. By early 3 ABY, Callum served as a sergeant major with Alliance Special Forces at Echo Base on the ice planet Hoth.

During the Battle of Hoth, Callum was one of the battle-hardened field officers under the command of Colonel Ledick Firest. He was in charge of a squad of Special Forces soldiers at Outpost Beta, the outermost sentry post of Echo Base's external defensive perimeter. While entrenched near Echo Station 5-T-7, where he was preparing his squad for in-close fighting, Callum received a comlink call from Echo Station 3-T-8 notifying him that forward scout Maren Kelsome had spotted Imperial walkers and was asked to verify. Although the thundering footfalls of the walkers was enough to tell Callum that the Imperial invasion force was close, with a shock of recognition he confirmed the presence of around a dozen approaching All Terrain Armored Transports through his TD2.3 electrobinoculars.

Callum reported back to Station 3-T-8 of his visual confirmation of the AT-ATs, which he also broadcast throughout Echo Base, first announcing the extent of the Imperial ground force. Callum also issued a comlink warning to Rogue Leader Luke Skywalker of the approaching walkers. Soon after reporting his sighting, however, Callum was killed in the opening barrage of AT-AT laser cannon fire.

Personality and traits
Trey Callum, like many Rebel specialists, defected from the Imperial Military. He was an expert at stretching the Alliance's meager resources, particularly at rationing supplies and making the most of the Alliance's small weapons stockpile. During the Battle of Hoth, Callum armed himself with a DH-17 blaster pistol.

Notable appearances
Trey Callum appears in the 1980 film Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back as the Rebel trench officer who first reports the sighting of AT-ATs to Echo Base during the opening stages of the Battle of Hoth. Actor Norwich Duff portrayed the character in the film, credited only as one of several "Other Officers." In The Empire Strikes Back script, as presented in the 1998 PC program Star Wars: Behind the Magic, Callum is identified only as "Trench Officer."

The character was first identified by name on the "Echo Base Trooper Officer" card from the November 1996 Hoth Limited expansion set of the Star Wars Customizable Card Game. The February 2004 article Who's Who in Echo Base, appearing in Star Wars Insider 74, expands on Callum's brief role in the Battle of Hoth, explaining the specifics of his inclusion in a chain of comlink calls that confirms the presence of Imperial walkers. The article was also the first source to confirm Callum's death in the battle.

Character confusion
Trey Callum should not be confused with the character of Maren Kelsome, whom the 1996 second edition of the West End Games sourcebook Galaxy Guide 3: The Empire Strikes Back identifies as the forward Rebel scout who reports the first sighting of AT-ATs to Echo Station 3-T-8, which is then reported to Callum.

Further confusion seems to arise over Callum's possible appearance in The Empire Strikes Back radio drama and the radio drama script, published in The Empire Strikes Back: The National Public Radio Dramatization. During the film scene in which the Rebels first spot the AT-ATs on Hoth, the radio drama is alternatively set within the Echo Base command center, and the reports are heard over comlink. The command center receives a call directly from Echo Station 3-T-8, and General Carlist Rieekan subsequently opens up communication with a young soldier, identified only as "Outpost Beta," who nervously describes the giant size of the walkers, which Rieekan in turn confirms are AT-ATs. This young soldier is in fact Maren Kelsome, as confirmed by Galaxy Guide 3, and, again, should not be confused with Callum, who is the third link in the chain of comlink calls from Kelsome and Echo Station 3-T-8.

Likewise, Callum should not be confused with a character description appearing in "Chapter Six: Ground Combat" of the 1994 second edition of the West End Games Rebel Alliance Sourcebook. The chapter introduction describes how "the advance scout on Echo Base's North Ridge [who was] the first to see the walkers" goes on to rescue a downed snowspeeder pilot once the last AT-AT passes his position. This description would also seem to correspond to Maren Kelsome, though both he and Callum are dead by this point in the battle.

Inconsistencies
While Who's Who in Echo Base, the novelization of The Empire Strikes Back, and Star Wars: Behind the Magic identify Callum as using electrobinoculars to confirm the approaching line of AT-AT walkers &mdash;specifically, Model TD2.3 electrobinoculars, as identified by the 2004 sourcebook The New Essential Guide to Weapons and Technology &mdash;the junior novelization of The Empire Strikes Back claims Callum uses macrobinoculars, which are a less expensive and more resilient visual-enhancement device.

The 2001 video game Star Wars: Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader explains, among several other significant contradictions to canon, that Outpost Beta troops are in command of the Echo Base v-150 anti-orbital ion cannon, which would seem to imply that Callum is therefore in charge of the ion cannon in someway. However, a detailed Battle of Hoth field map illustration in Galaxy Guide 3 shows that Outpost Beta is quite literally the most distant Echo Base perimeter station from the ion cannon.

The Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back PhotoComic, a comic book adaptation using stills from The Empire Strikes Back, gives Trey Callum the line "Imperial walkers on the North Ridge", a line said by an Echo Base controller in response to Callum's intercom message from the film.

Appearances

 * Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back novelization
 * Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back junior novelization
 * Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
 * Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back PhotoComic
 * The Empire Strikes Back (Scholastic)
 * Star Wars 40: The Empire Strikes Back: Battleground Hoth
 * Star Wars: Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike
 * Star Wars: Battlefront

Non-canonical appearances

 * LEGO Star Wars: The Complete Saga
 * LEGO Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy