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Tarrin Datch was a starfighter pilot who served with the Alliance to Restore the Republic. A product of the Datch family-owned space city Pellezara station, he became a skilled flier while helping to manage the many cargo freighters of the space station's clients. Datch joined the Rebellion as a seventeen-year-old in 1 BBY, after helping a fugitive Alliance freighter carrying stolen Imperial cargo and the Rebel special operative Jan Ors reach its destination. His value to the Rebellion's cause came in the dual ability to pilot both starfighters and the Alliance's dilapidated cargo transports; his talents earned him a position with the elite Rogue Squadron, under the command of Luke Skywalker, as Rogue Ten. Datch fought most notably during the Galactic Civil War at the Battle of Hoth with Rogue Group, participating in the delaying action that bought time for the transports of Echo Base to evacuate the planet. He later piloted the GR-75 medium transport Thon's Orchard through the Imperial blockade of Hoth.