Tallissan Lintra

"Gunners! Look alive!"

- Tallissan Lintra during the evacuation of D'Qar

Tallissan Lintra, nicknamed "Tallie," was a human female pilot who served as a lieutenant in the Resistance. Before joining the Resistance, she lived on a farm with her father on Pippip 3. During the war against the First Order she piloted an RZ-2 A-wing starfighter, serving as Blue Leader during the evacuation of D'Qar until her demise at the hands of missiles fired by Kylo Ren's TIE Silencer, taking out the rest of the Resistance Starfighter Corps alongside her.

Biography
"Bombers, keep that tight formation. Fighters, protect the bombers. It's not every day we get a shot at a dreadnought, so let's make this count."

- Tallissan Lintra giving orders to the Resistance squadrons

Tallissan Lintra was born in 12 ABY long after the fall of the Galactic Empire. During her early life she lived on a farm on Pippip 3, where she learned how to fly using her father's RZ-1 A-wing.

In 28 ABY, Princess Leia Organa created the Resistance a small military force with the objective to oppose the First Order. Before 34 ABY, Lintra joined the Resistance and became one of their most capable pilots, impressing even Poe Dameron with her piloting skills. By 34 ABY, Lintra had become a lieutenant in the Resistance.

Before Cobalt Squadron's mission to the Atterra system, the Resistance learned that pirates armed by the First Order had started to raid the star systems in the Cassander sector. In response to the threat of the First Order taking the sector, the Resistance sent Lintra and her A-wing squadron as well bombers from Cobalt and Crimson Squadron to the sector. The Resistance's first target in the sector was a pirate controlled spaceport on Mamkoda, Lintra and her squadron were assigned to protect the bombers while they made their attack run on the spaceport. Lintra and her squadron encountered heavy resistance from the pirates, but ultimately the Resistance bombers destroyed their target.

Three days after their mission on Mamkoda, Lintra and the Resistance forces undertook a relief mission to the world of Caraxl. While the bombers delivered the supplies, Lintra observed and reported to the rest of the forces that First Order TIE fighters were on an intercept course to their position. As their orders were to avoid contact with First Order vessels, the relief mission was aborted and headed back to the Free Virgillia-class Bunkerbuster Ninka were they learned that the pirates' base was in Sheh Soahi. After learning the location of the base, Resistance's forces assaulted the base which resulted in a victory for the Resistance with only two A-wing as casualties.

After the destruction of Starkiller Base, ships from the Resistance fleet arrived at D'Qar with new complements of starfighters that joined the remaining forces stationed on the planet. While Resistance's forces started to evacuate from the base, Poe Dameron designed a plan to destroy a Mandator IV-class Siege Dreadnought after receiving the schematics from Inferno Squad. As part of the plan Lintra, piloting an RZ-2 A-wing starfighter and assuming the callsign of Blue Leader of Blue Squadron, was tasked to lead the Resistance starfighter forces and to escort the bombers to their target.

After the First Order fleet arrival at D'Qar, Lintra and the remaining fighters started their approach to the dreadnought after Commander Dameron had destroyed all the turbolasers on the Fulminatrix's surface. While they started their approach Lintra and several Resistence fighters engaged in a dogfight with several First Order TIE fighters, after clearing a path for the bombers Lintra ordered them to start their dropping sequence on the dreadnought, however the majority of the Resistance bombers were destroyed after one spiraling TIE cockpit detonated the proton bombs in one of the bombers. The only bomber left managed to drop its explosives destroying the dreadnought. As the dreadnought exploded Lintra and the rest of the surviving fighters returned to the Raddus.

After fleeing from D'Qar, the Resistance fleet dropped out of hyperspace. Unknown to the Resistance, the First Order had tracked them through hyperspace and began an attack on their fleet. After being woken up by a klaxon, Lintra and the rest of the surviving fighters started up their fighters in order to engage the First Order, but before they could take off from the hangar, Kylo Ren piloting his TIE silencer fired a pair of missiles into the hangar taking out Lintra, along with the rest of the starfighters.

Personality and traits
"Tallie, start your approach.''" "''Copy that."

- Dameron and Lintra during the evacuation of D'Qar

Tallissan Lintra was a human female who had light skin, brown eyes and blonde hair. As a pilot she proved to be one of the most capable in the Resistance, impressing Poe Dameron with her skills.

Equipment
"Bombs away!"

- Lintra observing the Fulminatrix destruction

Lintra wore a standard green Resistance pilot uniform that included a FreiTek life support unit attached to her vest and a Guidenhauser ejection harness, additionally she wore a synthsilk scarf that her father gifted her. Lintra's red and white flight helmet had the letters "DA" wrote in aurebesh on it, which stood for "Deadly Approach" a punch-line to a well-known pilots' joke. Lintra piloted a blue marked RZ-2 A-wing starfighter and carried a blaster pistol with her.

Behind the scenes
Tallissan Lintra was portrayed by Hermione Corfield in the Star Wars saga film Star Wars: Episode VIII The Last Jedi which was released on December 15, 2017. Corfield's involvement in the film was first announced by Rian Johnson on his Twitter account on October 3, 2017. The character was listed as "A-Wing Pilot Tallie" in the film's end credits, but was identified as "Tallissan Lintra" in The Visual Dictionary and Incredible Cross-Sections reference books released in conjunction with the film.

Tallie was first mentioned in the activity book Star Wars: A-Wing Deluxe Book and 3D Wood Model and made her first appearance in the first expansion pack for the 2017 video game Star Wars Battlefront II where it introduced Tallie's A-Wing as a starfighter hero unit, the pack was released on December 13 two days before the movie.

Appearances

 * Star Wars Battlefront II
 * The Last Jedi: Bomber Command
 * Star Wars: Episode VIII The Last Jedi
 * Star Wars: The Last Jedi: Expanded Edition
 * Star Wars: The Last Jedi: A Junior Novel