Reconnaissance run on the First Order base

The reconnaissance run on the First Order base occurred in 34 ABY, following the Hosnian Cataclysm. Tracing the route of Starkiller Base's phantom energy beam, the Resistance identified the location of the First Order base. General Leia Organa ordered Black Squadron to develop a way to launch a reconnaissance mission on the base.

Jessika Pava designed a minimal stealth recon pod that would be towed into the Starkiller Base system by a T-70 X-wing fighter, passively skim above the base's atmosphere while taking measurements, and then be picked up again by the X-wing. While Pava planned to pilot the pod, Temmin Wexley volunteered with his wife Karé Kun piloting the X-wing. The two had just been married and wished to spend as much time together as possible in the event that the Resistance was wiped out shortly thereafter.

The reconnaissance mission worked, although Wexley was barely able to make it out of the atmosphere of Starkiller Base, sustaining damage and requiring him to broadcast the data to his wife, giving up his location to the First Order. However, she was able to recover his damaged pod by clamping it between the wings of her X-wing, bring them back to D'Qar. However, due to this, the First Order was able to learn the location of the Resistance base.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Episode VII The Force Awakens
 * Star Wars: The Force Awakens novelization
 * Poe Dameron 27: The Awakening, Part II