Rookie One

Rookie One is the handle of an otherwise unnamed Rebel pilot. Rookie One was a farmboy from Tatooine, who lost his parents after an accident early in his life. In Mos Eisley he met with the rebel Turland Hack while training. Impressed by the young hotshot, Hack wanted to help the rookie become the best in the fleet.

Soon after his training by the Anchorhead Base, Rookie One was essential to the assault against the Devastator along with his educator, Ru Murleen. He fought in the Battle of Yavin, under Blue Squadron where he managed to neutralize a giant cannon on the Death Star's surface. There are indications that he also participated in the Trench Run, where Jake Farrell saved his life.

After the battle, Rookie's wherabouts are uncertain. There is some indication that he was a staff of the Echo Base and had a minor action in the Battle of Hoth. He was one of the last who fought his way until the hangar to escape the base in his X-wing on the nick of time.

Some time later, he rescued the freighter Corellia Star on the planet Dreighton, which gave the Alliance hints on a secret Imperial project on Belt of Arah. Being a part of the Rascal Group, Rookie destroyed the Imperial mining facility there, but soon after they received an attack and Rookie witnessed the Phantom TIEs, being the sole survivor of the group. With this information, Rookie travelled to Imdaar and with the cooperation of Ru Murleen, he managed to infiltrate the Terror. The couple captured a TIE phantom, and destroyed the facility before surrendering it to the Alliance.

After the mission was over, it is known that the two Rebels were romantically involved.

Behind the scenes
Rookie One is the character of the games Star Wars: Rebel Assault and its sequel. In the first game, his name and face do not appear, and his gender is customizable, so that the players can identify themselves with the character. According to Star Wars: Rebel Assault II: The Hidden Empire however, Rookie is male.

It is no coincidence that Rookie One and Luke Skywalker have much in common, it is deliberately done this way by LucasArts to make the player feel like Luke Skywalker from the Original Trilogy.

Non-canonical bio
The first game is S-canon and Rookie One does feats that don't fit in the timeline, like repelling an AT-ST assault on Mos Eisley which is frowned by fans (later sources mention a Skirmish in Mos Eisley which can be related to it but no AT-STs were there), participating in the Battle of Hoth while the game takes place before its colonisation and most of all, blowing the Death Star I. For obvious reasons, these have been silenced from his 'biography' but some of them should bear some amounts of canonicity.

As for the Hoth-like sequence, it is not clear if it should be 'deleted' altogether, if it should be regarded as having occurred on a planet other than Hoth, or if we should retroactively consider it to happen later than the game, in the Hoth-era. In the latter case, this is a semi-canonical indication that Rookie One was one of the staff of Echo Base and participated in the Battle. However all this is only a matter of subjective interpretation.

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Rebel Assault
 * Star Wars: Rebel Assault II: The Hidden Empire