Yorr

"Command station, this is ST-321, code clearance blue. We are starting our approach. Deactivate the security shield."

- Yorr to Death Star Command.

Yorr was a human male captain who served the Galactic Empire during the Galactic Civil War. He was a member of several important and influential organizations within the Empire, such as the Imperial Demonstration Team. He was the pilot of Darth Vader's shuttle prior to the Battle of Endor.

Biography
A Human male named Yorr, at some point before the Battle of Endor, was a member of a specialized group within the Imperial Military known as the Imperial Demonstration Team. He also served as a test pilot on various TIE prototype starfighters.

Yorr became a member of a starfighter squadron within in the Imperial Navy known as Onyx Squadron. His call sign was Onyx 2. He served alongside Colonel Jendon, his wingman. He had scored at least twenty-four combat victories.

He was a former member of the Imperial Demonstration Team. Captain Yorr was the pilot of Darth Vader's shuttle, ST 321, on its way to the Imperial superweapon, Death Star II. Upon arriving at the station Yorr and his copilot Jendon made final readings, monitored descent functions. It was a sequence they'd each performed a thousand times. Yorr requested clearance to land and transmitted the transmission code. The port controller said that the shield would be deactivated when the code was comfirmed. Biting the inside of his cheek and smiling nervously at Jendon, Yorr told him to hurry saying that their passenger was in no mood to wait.

Personality and Traits
Yorr was a human male with brown hair and brown eyes. He had a light skin completion. Yorr was worried about how Vader might react while having to wait to land, and was afraid to look at the Dark Lord himself during the flight.

Behind the scenes
Yorr made his first appearance in the novelization of Return of the Jedi. Yorr appeared in Richard Marquand's 1983 film Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi, where he was portrayed by actor Jasper Jacob. Yorr appears in Star Wars: The Annotated Screenplays as part of the Return of the Jeid screeenplaynfeatured in the book. The script for Return of the Jedi is featured on Star Wars: Behind the Magic where Yorr is mentioned. He would also be featured in the junior novel as well. Jasper spent two days filming his work during March 1982. Jasper had a hard time memorizing his dialog. This lead to them having to do many takes, but director Richard Marquand was very understanding. The scene Jasper appears in as Yorr was cut down to only a few lines.

Appearances

 * ''Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (novel)
 * Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
 * Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi junior novel