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Keir Santage was a Human male who served in the Alliance to Restore the Republic's Starfighter Corps. After being rescued from an Imperial detention center, Santage joined Rogue Squadron, the Alliance's premier starfighter unit. Under the command of Wedge Antilles, Santage operated under the callsign Rogue Seven. Flying a T-65 X-wing starfighter, Santage participated in several missions against the Fondor Shipyards, and often worked closely with Alliance procurement.

In 4 ABY, Santage was serving with the Rogues when they were part of the Alliance fleet assembled in the Sullust system to strike at the second Death Star orbiting the forest moon of Endor. Adopting the callsign Red Seven&mdash;as Commander Antilles had temporarily rechristened the Rogues as Red Squadron to honor the unit that had faced the first Death Star at Yavin&mdash;Santage was one of the handful of Rebel pilots to enter the superstructure of the Death Star with the intention of destroying the reactor core. At the rear of the Rebel fighter formation, Santage's X-wing was hit by laser cannon fire from a pursuing TIE fighter; the snubfighter was destroyed, and Santage was killed.