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"I am Wedge Antilles. I survived the Battle of Yavin. I survived the Battle of Hoth. Hell… Just a couple of weeks ago I blew up the Death Star during the Battle of Endor. The reason I'm still breathing when a lot of other good Rebel pilots aren't? Maybe it's because I'm better. Or maybe I'm just lucky."

- Wedge Antilles

Wedge Antilles was a Human male from Corellia who became a legendary starfighter pilot. Born in 21 BBY, he was orphaned as a teenager, and joined the Rebel Alliance. Antilles fought in the Battle of Yavin, where the Alliance scored a huge victory over the Galactic Empire by destroying the Death Star. Antilles, along with Luke Skywalker later formed the elite starfighter squadron known as Rogue Squadron. Antilles participated in the Battle of Endor, where the Alliance defeated the Empire by killing Emperor Palpatine.

Antilles served in the newly-founded New Republic, fighting valiantly against remnants of the Empire, such as Ysanne Isard and Zsinj. In his quest to bring down the remaining Imperial leaders, he formed the covert ops group Wraith Squadron, which helped the New Republic immensely. During this time, Antilles married Iella Wessiri, with whom he had two children: Syal and Myri. After the end of the Galactic Civil War in 19 ABY, Antilles retired a hero.

However, he would come out of retirement to fight the Yuuzhan Vong when the invaders threatened to destroy the New Republic and conquer the galaxy. Fighting in the fearsome war, Antilles helped the New Republic win, though the war had a devastating toll on the galaxy. The New Republic was reformed into the Galactic Alliance. In 40 ABY, when the Second Galactic Civil War broke out, Antilles initially fought on the side of Corellia, in the Confederation. Later, he switched allegiances, joining Luke Skywalker and his Jedi Order.

Boyhood
A Corellian, Antilles grew up on a fueling depot in the Gus Treta station, managed by his parents. As a child, Antilles heard that the Jedi were merely a myth, a legend from bygone days. He dreamed of living in Coronet City, the glittering capital of Corellia, and had maps of the city projected onto the walls of his bedroom.

While Antilles was in his last days of upper division school, a pirate ship fled from the fueling station without unhooking its lines, destroying the station in the consequent explosion. Antilles was orphaned but wealthy, left with the insurance payout and the bounty for killing the pirates. He used the credits to buy a Corellian-made freighter, which he modified heavily and put to use as a legitimate pilot. Unable to compete in a market where only smuggling paid enough to keep his small freighter in business, Antilles decided to join the nascent Rebel Alliance as a gunrunner. Antilles proved an asset to the Alliance, with superior skills as both a mechanic and pilot.

Rebel hotshot
"If I may answer a question with a question, how old were you before you first disagreed with a commanding officer&mdash;and later found out you were right?" "Twenty. Which is when I first had a commanding officer."

- Jagged Fel and Wedge Antilles

With his talent in the cockpit apparent, Wedge Antilles soon became a starfighter pilot for an Alliance that was increasingly willing to strike at the Empire. Antilles served in Red Squadron, flying as Red Two. The unit's commander was Garven Dreis, Red Leader. Among the pilots in the unit whom Antilles befriended were Jek "Piggy" Porkins, the butt of many good-natured fat jokes, Cesi "Doc" Eirriss, nicknamed for her political science doctorate, and Jal Te Gniev, Red Five. A standout pilot and natural leader, though considered a show-off, by 0 BBY, Antilles was in a position of responsibility, considered a leader in the squadron. He trained some junior pilots such as Bren Quersey, was responsible for assigning starfighters to the unit's pilots, and was given command of some missions on which Dreis was not present. In 0 BBY, Red Squadron, stationed at the secret Rebel base in the Great Temple on Yavin 4, was joined by a squad of defectors from the Imperial ship Rand Ecliptic, led by Biggs Darklighter and Derek "Hobbie" Klivian.

While on one patrol, Antilles happened across a secret Imperial research facility where prototype TIE models were tested. He reported his discovery to Alliance command, and a lone Y-wing was sent to obliterate a shipment of prototypes as they were being unloaded in a major coup for the young Rebellion.

In 0 BBY, Antilles, along with most of the other pilots stationed on Yavin 4, was part of a mission to strike an Incom Corporation facility and acquire several T-65 X-wing starfighters for the budding Rebellion. In a battle plan devised by General Jan Dodonna, Darklighter led a his squad of TIE/ln starfighter to draw off the enemy fighter complement. Antilles and the other pilots were landed at the facility on a transport, and quickly seized the advanced new fighters and flew them back to the base on Yavin 4.



Shortly thereafter, Antilles commanded an undercover mission to Commenor for the purpose of acquiring smuggled R2- and R5-series astromech droids for the new complement of fighters. The group of Red Squadron pilots&mdash;Antilles, Darklighter, Eirriss, and Porkins&mdash;sneaked onto Commenor in the new X-wings, where they were supposed to play a game of sabacc in a particular cantina until receiving instructions to meet their contact. They played for some time, listening with great interest to news reports of the dissolution of the Imperial Senate, until one of Antilles's cards, during sabacc's usual flux, altered to display a message to meet the smuggler at Hangar Bay 31. Outside the cantina, they encountered a group of thugs who attempted to shake them down for a protection fee on their rented landspeeder. Taking exception to their fat jokes, the hefty Porkins started a fight with the toughs, and despite being heavily outnumbered, the Rebels came out the victors.

At the hangar bay, Antilles met Nera Dantels, the smuggler captain and arranged to escort her to the Alliance with the shipment. On the way off Commenor, the Rebels were ambushed by fighters from a secret base on Folor, Commenor's moon. The defeated thugs had spied upon their meeting and alerted the Empire. Antilles ordered Darklighter to engage the enemy fighters with him while Eiriss and Porkins covered Dantels's Starduster. Antilles destroyed three fighters in the battle, and when Eirriss suffered damage to her fighter's hyperdrive, he ordered her to transfer to the Starduster. Eirriss insisted it would take too much time for her to transfer and the Rebels would be stopped. As Eirriss headed to engage another incoming wave of TIEs, Antilles reluctantly accepted the situation, and Eirriss instead plunged her damaged fighter into the formation of TIEs, taking most of the opposition with her.

Victory at Yavin
Soon after the pilots returned to Yavin, the Death Star advanced on Yavin 4. The base's pilots were quickly mustered for a briefing by General Dodonna. Antilles sat next to the newest Red Squadron pilot, Luke Skywalker, a friend of Darklighter who had, with the assistance of the legendary Jedi General Obi-Wan Kenobi, rescued Princess Leia Organa. Skywalker took the place of Jal Te Gniev as Red Five, as Gniev was down with the measles. Organa, a Rebel leader from the world of Alderaan, just destroyed by the Death Star's superlaser, had obtained the Death Star plans, and from them Dodonna found a critical weakness. He told the assembled fliers that a proton torpedo fired down a thermal exhaust port which lacked particle shielding would cause a chain reaction that would destroy the enormous battle station. Antilles voiced his skepticism that the two-meter target could be reliably struck while flying at full speed, under fire, down a trench in the station's surface, only to be reassured by Skywalker that he had hit targets of that size many times while bush piloting on Tatooine. Antilles remained skeptical, considering the station's powerful defenses a difficult obstacle to overcome.



With only fifteen minutes until the Death Star rounded the gas giant Yavin and could fire on the moon Yavin 4, the Rebel fighter force was dispatched to battle the Empire's greatest weapon. Antilles, astounded at the space station's size, flew with the Reds as they engaged the station's surface defenses. Porkins was quickly killed, and when enemy TIEs emerged to dogfight, John Branon was shot down immediately. When Skywalker was having difficulty evading a TIE tight on his tail, Antilles swooped in to destroy it in a bold head-to-head attack, adding to an astounding kill count of six enemy fighters over the course of the battle. After Gold Leader Jon Vander's trench run was foiled by Darth Vader, Dreis held Antilles, Darklighter, and Skywalker in reserve as he and two wingmen made their own attempt. Dreis's wingmen were killed by Vader and his shot barely missed. Hotly pursued by Vader, he ordered the young pilots to make their own run on the exhaust port and was quickly killed by the Dark Lord of the Sith. Antilles and Darklighter hung back to cover the crack shot Skywalker as Vader and his wingmen again dropped down on the trench runners from behind. Antilles took Vader's initial fire, destroying his micro-maneuvering controls. His fighter damaged to the point where he could no longer remain in the trench, Skywalker ordered him out. Antilles was left observing as Vader killed Darklighter, but was disabled by the timely arrival of Skywalker's companions in the rescue of Organa, smugglers Han Solo and Chewbacca. With cover from their ship Millennium Falcon, Skywalker made the shot that destroyed the Death Star and saved the Rebel base.

In the wake of the Rebellion's crucial victory in the Battle of Yavin, the base's complement turned out to honor Skywalker, Solo, and Chewbacca for their heroism. The victory was tinged with sadness, however, as Skywalker and Antilles were the only Red Squadron survivors from the battle. Antilles emerged with a reputation as a hot young pilot, however, and received medals himself, as well. Antilles soon became fast friends with the budding Jedi Skywalker and Solo, a fellow Corellian smuggler. Antilles also shared a camaraderie with less famous figures such as Finn Darktrin, a Rebel agent who later was discovered to be an Imperial spy, and Voren Na'al, a Rebel historian, journalist, and propagandist.

The day after their victory at Yavin, the Rebels were alarmed to find a Carrack cruiser entering the system. Dodonna called a briefing including Antilles and Skywalker, with whom Antilles was already very friendly, to inform the pilot complement of this and forbid them from engaging it in the hopes that the Imperial ship would pass through the system without noticing the Rebel base. Solo, never one to obey orders, forced the ship down on Yavin 4, allowing the Rebels to dispatch its crew after a battle in which the captain, Skeezer, was captured, keeping the base secure for a brief time more.

Soon after the Death Star's destruction, Antilles was on patrol when a force under crimelord Tyber Zann entered the system, intent on retrieving data from the Death Star's wreckage. Antilles challenged him, but his patrol could not stop Zann's superior force. He called for the Rebel picket to regroup, but before they could drive Zann from the system, an Imperial force emerged in hopes of enforcing the blockade under which the Empire had put the system. The Rebels had to fight off this greater threat, and Zann was able to steal the data he sought and escape.

Forming Rogue Squadron
In Yavin's aftermath, Commander Arhul Narra of Renegade Flight was put in command of Red Squadron. With an increasing core group of pilots flying indeptendent missions with Antilles and Skywalker&mdash;Derek Klivian&mdash;a Red Squadron pilot who had been bedridden during the Battle of Yavin&mdash;Tierfon Yellow Aces pilot and expert gunner Wes Janson, Zev Senesca, Sarkli, and Dack Ralter&mdash;Skywalker and Antilles established developed a new unit under Narra's guidance. The pair co-founded Rogue Group, also known as Rogue Squadron or Rogue Flight, as a subunit of Narra's squadron, with Skywalker serving as Rogue Leader. Primarily an X-wing squadron, they were known for an ability and willingness to use a variety of fighters as suited their mission profiles. Both Rogue and Renegade Flights eventually developed to full-strength squadrons, with Narra remaining the commander of both forces. The unit served as a highly independent elite squadron, having no permanent assignment so that it could be assigned to whichever hotspot in which it was most needed. Antilles made fast friends with his fellow pilots, especially Janson, with whom he shared interests in drinking and gambling and whose skills as a pilot and gunner provoked Antilles's admiration.

When the Rebellion ceased receiving shipments of metal from Vactooine, Skywalker feared there had been trouble with its allies at the mining colony. Skywalker, Solo, Organa, and Chewbacca, as well as their droids C-3PO and R2-D2 and the ancient mining droid Q-7N set out to investigate in the Millennium Falcon, while Antilles and three fellow Rogues escorted them. There they found that an army of rebellious droids, led by 12-4C-41 under the influence of criminal mastermind Olag Greck, had seized the outpost. The Rebels convinced the droids to turn against Greck, foiling the plot.



Two months after Yavin, Antilles's friend Jal Te Gniev was still devastated at having missed out on the Battle of Yavin, his place taken by the inexperienced farmboy who had become the Rebellion's greatest hero overnight. He became given to drink and to muttering of how he should have been in Skywalker's place and deserved the youth's glory. Antilles found the older man drunk and belligerent in the halls, and attempted to counsel him, only to be cut short by an alarm. Antilles and Te Gniev rushed to the hangar, where Skywalker's droid C-3PO explained that it had accidentally triggered the alarm. Te Gniev, still intoxicated, insensibly attempted to launch anyway. Antilles, shouting at him to stop, had to scramble out of the way as the bitter veteran clipped the side of the exit and plowed the expensive fighter into a tree outside. Te Gniev faced a military council, led by General Dodonna, that moved to transfer him to a recruiting position on a backwater planet. Te Gniev, who denounced the council directly, emerged angry at his treatment, feeling he had been cast aside in favor of the "golden boy." Antilles, waiting outside for word, explained that Skywalker had personally asked the council for leniency. Te Gniev sarcastically thanked Skywalker before storming off. Not long after, Te Gniev drunkenly let Skywalker's name and mission slip, only to see all those who had overheard slaughtered by the Empire. His commitment to the Rebellion restored, he sped to Jazbina and there sacrificed himself to allow Skywalker to escape Darth Vader's clutches.

Eventually, the blockade gave way to invasion as the Imperial forces struck unexpectedly at the base. Under bombardment, the Rebels undertook an evacuation of the base they had previously saved. Antilles, Skywalker, and Sarkli flew together shooting down enemy landing craft as the command staff attempted to evacuate. When the commanders were trapped inside the Great Temple by invading Imperial troops, Antilles and Skywalker put down and rushed into the temple to save them. They shot their way through the stormtroopers and rescued Dodonna and his staff before making their way to the hangar. There, Sarkli saved them from a pair of All Terrain Scout Transports, allowing the Rebels to make their escape.

After the evacuation, the Rogues were assigned to pick up Tycho Celchu, an Imperial defector, on Dantooine. Skywalker and Sarkli rescued him from Storm Commandos who had captured him just as he attempted to defect. On his next mission with Skywalker, Sarkli defected. Celchu, formerly a skilled TIE pilot, soon replaced him, joining the squadron himself. It was not long before the Rebels were once more established on Yavin 4, sneaking back to reoccupy their old base. There, they were again found out and encircled with an Imperial blockade.

Rogue Squadron was dispatched to Kwenn Space Station, there to search for tips on poorly-traveled hyperlanes that might provide suitable locations for another hidden Rebel base. There, he learned that the Empire had been interfering with many of the formerly safe trade routes to stifle the Rebellion's mobility in the Outer Rim. When Antilles observed the Empire seize the Stellar Manx without explanation, it aroused his suspicion. He dispatched a message droid to Organa, who was herself scouting Malagarr, reporting the oddity and requesting her aid as he, Janson, and Celchu investigated. The trio puzzled over what the Empire was doing with the Stellar Manx, Antilles surmising that they simply wanted to seize it to replace their losses in cargo capacity at Yavin. They were surprised by a trio of stormtroopers, whom they outfought. The Rogues were able to rescue Kar Lamoran, the Manx ' s captain, and recapture the freighter after the Imperials tried to escape in it. They discovered and reported that the operation had been carried out at Darth Vader's orders, and the ship had been destined for Bonadan. Solo and Organa followed up on the tip, taking over the effort of foiling Vader's plot.

During his time as a Rogue, Antilles developed into a noted pilot, considered among the best in the Alliance. He devised the Antilles Maneuver to counteract legendary Clone Wars starfighter tactician Admiral Adar Tallon's Tallon Roll.

Plague on Gobindi
"Test cases. They're using the city to see how effective the blobs are, I'd guess. We're all lab rats."

- Wedge Antilles, to Tash Arranda



Dispatched to the world Gobindi with three other Rebels, Antilles intended to spend only a few days there investigating the Mah Dala Infirmary, which was suspected of being a front for the Imperial Biological Weapons Division. He was trapped for three weeks when the Empire began blockading the planet on the pretense of heavy pirate activity in the area, and around the same time several strange blob creatures began emerging from the forest. The Rebels suspected a connection.

Antilles was outside the Mah Dala Infirmary in the planet's sole city Mah Dala&mdash;consisting entirely of buildings perched atop massive ziggurats projecting from the world's fierce jungle&mdash;when one of the blob creatures attacked a droid who was with a young girl. He rushed to peel the blob off the droid, but it began creeping up his arms. With the droid's aid, he was able to drop it over the railing of the ziggurat. Antilles then introduced himself to the girl, Tash Arranda, and the droid, D-V9. He offered them a tour of the city, and in conversation found that Arranda seemed to have anti-Imperial sympathies, though she had arrived during the blockade&mdash;an action accomplished only by Imperials. When Arranda mentioned that her brother, Zak Arranda, was in the hospital due to an illness, Antilles felt he could trust her, and revealed that no one had left the Mah Dala Infirmary alive recently. At that moment, a squad of stormtroopers rushed to the plaza in which they were speaking and arrested one of the other Rebels, a Rodian, on grounds of piracy. Antilles slipped away; he too was wanted as a "pirate" along with the other Rebels.

He gathered his remaining compatriots and entered Arranda's ship, the Shroud, after trailing her there, asking for her help in getting offworld with whatever clearance codes had gotten them past the blockade originally. Arranda proved to be friendly to the Rebellion, but before she made a decision one of the other Rebels was attacked by another blob. They pulled it away, but the man fell ill immediately. They deduced that the creatures were carriers of the bioengineered malady the Imperial scientists were developing. Antilles took the man back to their safehouse with a last request for Arranda to help them escape.

After giving their companion aid, Antilles and the last Rebel, a Bothan, returned to staking out the Shroud. When Zak Arranda and D-V9 arrived, saw the slime trail, and followed it down the ziggurat and into the jungle thinking Tash Arranda had been abducted by a blob, the Rebels hurried to follow them. The boy and the droid were cut off from ascending the ziggurat by a swarm of blobs, causing them to flee. Antilles and the Bothan gave chase, and shot the blobs off the unarmed pair when they were cornered. D-V9 found a door into the nearby ziggurat, which warned in Gobindi script that a virus was locked within. From it, they were surprised to see Tash Arranda, her and Zak's "uncle" Mammon Hoole, and Doctor Kavafi&mdash;the head of the infirmary who had been replaced by the bioweapon designers&mdash;emerge. Hoole, a Shi'ido shapeshifter, transformed himself into a mammoth frog and leaped the beleaguered individuals to safety atop the ziggurat. With information from the ziggurat inscriptions, Kavafi was able to manufacture a cure, defeating the virus project. Antilles piloted the Shroud past the Imperial blockade and returned to the Rebel base.

Escape from Yavin
When Darth Vader brought his mammoth Star Dreadnought Executor to Yavin for a final strike at the Rebellion six months after the Battle of Yavin, the Rebels were forced to evacuate the base for good. Skywalker and Vrad Dodonna, the son of General Dodonna, departed on a mission to breach the Executor ' s shields with a power gem before it could reach the Yavin system. With backup from Han Solo, they were able to cripple the ship's control systems, buying the Rebellion more time to evacuate. Antilles oversaw the fighter escort for the evacuation transports, which came under attack sooner than expected when Vader ordered blockade commander Admiral Amise Griff to proceed with the attack without Executor. As the transports left, Dodonna, distraught at the death of his son in the attack, stayed behind to detonate concussion charges that decimated the attacking fighters. He was assumed killed in action, his last official act being the promotion of Luke Skywalker to commander.

The Rebel fleet rendezvoused out of the immediate grasp of Griff's forces, but still within the blockade. A Mon Calamari fleet under Admiral Ackbar provided a surprise attack on the blockade forces at multiple points, hoping to draw Griff out of position, but the canny admiral found the Rebels' hoped escape route and cut it off. Solo scouted another, which was blocked by unpredictable stellar flares. Skywalker had to call on his knowledge of the Force to guide the fleet through a safe route, narrowly missing an ambush by Executor.

Escorting the convoy, destined for the new safeworld Hoth, through the Ison Corridor, they came out of hyperspace in the debris of a previous convoy. The Rebel ships had to pick their way through the debris field and a nearby nebula before they could reenter hyperspace, but before they could do so they were set upon by the Imperial force that had destroyed the first squadron of transports. Unable to keep up with the enemy TIEs as they tore into the convoy, Antilles suggested he and Skywalker transfer to the new A-wing interceptors. They docked with the Nebulon-B frigate Redemption and transferred. In the new, speedy interceptors, they were able to ward off the TIE attackers. In the nebula, they held off TIE Interceptors, allowing the transports to proceed safely to Hoth.

The Hoth base would not be ready for occupancy for another two years, however, and the Rogues operated elsewhere. They trained briefly on Tatooine, during which period Skywalker and Antilles, out for a morning flight, noticed the Empire bombing Mos Eisley in retaliation for the smuggling activity based out the starport. They struck against the Imperial TIE/sa bombers, saving the city from annihilation. The Rogues moved on to further missions, escorting a supply convoy which came under attack on Barkhesh and finding and rescuing the crashed Rebel ship Nonnah on Chorax, holding off Imperial forces that attempted to seize the freighter's personnel and captured supplies.

Soon after the evacuation, Antilles was stationed on Thila. The Rogues' performance at the evacuation of Thila proved that they were a highly effective team of pilots.

Seven months after the Battle of Yavin, Antilles, Skywalker, Narra, and Zev Senesca were sent to escort a unit of Alliance Intelligence agents tasked to set up a listening post on an obscure jungle world. While the Intelligence personnel set up their equipment, Skywalker explored the jungle. He rushed back with news that he had discovered graves and a crashed Clone Wars-era LAAT/i transport. As he reported this, an Imperial landing force arrived and attacked. Antilles and Senesca were able to launch their X-wings, but Skywalker and Narra were trapped on the ground. Antilles and Senesca handled the TIEs, with Antilles shooting one down just as it was about to strafe Narra and Skywalker. However, increased TIE reinforcements drove the pilots to orbit; unable to take on that many starfighters, they retreated to the other side of the planet from the Imperial capital ship launching the fighters. With the aide of a clone trooper stranded on the planet since the Clone Wars, BL-1707 "Able", those left on the ground were able to escape, and the Rebels slipped away.



Soon after, the Jabiimi Loyalist leader Nolan Gillmunn requested Alliance aid to his cause as he battled the Empire's control of the planet, exercised through the Jabiimi Nationalist party. The Rebels sent a diplomatic party consisting of Leia Organa, Skywalker, and statistician Jorin Sol, transported by Nera Dantels. Antilles and Derek Klivian escorted them, and remained in orbit as backup while the others landed on Jabiim. Once the Loyalists heard that the Alliance had sent Luke Skywalker, the son of Anakin Skywalker, as a representative, they were furious and ordered Antilles and Klivian to depart Jabiim planetary space. Anakin Skywalker had been ordered off the planet over two decades ago by the Republic, when it had been supporting the Loyalists against the Separatist Nationalists, and as the symbol of their deprivation of aid in their hour of greatest need the Loyalists hated him virulently. As Klivian and Antilles debated what to do next, they were attacked by TIEs aligned with the Nationalist government. The pair of Rogue pilots fled, unsure if killing more Jabiimi would inflame the diplomatic situation with the others on the ground. They ran into an Imperial fleet arriving to capture the Rebels&mdash;sold out by disillusioned Loyalist Tal Hesz&mdash;and enslave the Jabiimi, and decided they had no choice but the rescue their compatriots. The pair outran their pursuers and arrived on the surface in time to save Organa and Dantels from a TIE attack. They conceded they could not save the planet, and so the group rescued Skywalker and Gillmunn from the Imperials. Sol was already captured and about Darth Vader's Star Destroyer, forcing them to leave without him. Antilles and Klivian drew the fleet's fire, allowing the others to escape aboard the Starduster before they jumped to hyperspace themselves.

Around two months after the abandonment of Yavin, with the Rebel leadership centered aboard roving fleets and in need of supplies, as well as compromised should Jorin Sol give away the escape algorithm used to plot hyperspace jumps when the fleet came under sudden attack, Antilles was part of a group that undertook a supply raid on Kalist VI. Antilles led elements of Red Squadron in destroying the escort frigate accompanying the Imperial fuel tanker Nuna's Twins, allowing the Rebels to hijack it. Skywalker and Captain Harran led a prize crew that took over the ship and continued on to Kalist VI, where they planned to steal supplies from the Imperial base and rescue Sol, held captive within. The half-dozen Red Squadron pilots continued on as well, harrying the ship as it emerged over Kalist VI until they allowed themselves to be driven off by the base's TIE complement, reinforcing the undercover Rebels' cover story. At a prearranged time, Antilles led his pilots and a Y-wing bomber group back to cover the mission's escape. Skywalker led the rescue not only of Sol, but of a mass of Jabiimi slaves they had not known to be at the base, and with cover from Antilles the entire group escaped.



In the next month, Antilles was part of a shipping raid over Per Lupelo. The Rebels easily picked off the light enemy fighter cover until Skywalker's fighter lost power in the middle of the battle. With a TIE on Skywalker's tail, Antilles had to rush to defeat his own opponent before saving his friend. They successfully hijacked the four-ship convoy, bringing much-needed supplies to the fleet. After returning the flagship Rebel One, Antilles fetched Skywalker so Rebel spymaster Tungo Li could inform him of a message sent by his childhood friend Janek Sunber, whom Skywalker had encountered as an Imperial officer on Kalist VI. The message stated that Sunber wished to defect. Li considered it a trap, but Skywalker left to rescue him against orders. Meanwhile, Sol left his bacta tank and attacked Deena Shan, a supply officer. He did not kill her, instead revealing that he had been reprogrammed during his Imperial captivity but was fighting his conditioning. Antilles was chosen to interview him under Li's supervision, and Sol was told to rest and return to his duties later in the belief he had overridden his Imperial brainwashing.

As soon as Sol was cleared to return to duty, however, he called in the Imperial fleet and attacked Organa and a portion of the ship's command staff. The fighter complement scrambled to defend the fleet, which could not flee together as Sol had given their escape algorithm to the Empire. The ships scattered, except Rebel One, the bridge of which was in chaos. Antilles remained, defending the headquarters ship and frantically comming the bridge. Finally the injured Sol overcame his conditioning one last time and launched Rebel One into hyperspace, letting Antilles leave the battle. Antilles was able to link up with the fleet element under Admiral Ackbar, and when the remaining crew of Rebel One returned to the fleet with information about an upcoming attack on Ansion, Ackbar sent Antilles and Skywalker to warn the planet, though the Alliance did not have the strength to tackle the attack force head-on.

Defectors and captors
"How was the hovertrain?" "Food was good, but the service was lousy."

- Kasan Moor and Wedge Antilles

When elite Imperial Storm Commando General Crix Madine was willing to defect to the Rebel Alliance, Rogue Squadron screened his pickup from a safehouse in Coronet City, Corellia. Antilles detected odd readings, and scouted the location of the anomaly with Skywalker, only to find Imperial probe droids spying. They destroyed them, but as they did so Imperial ground and air forces moved against the Rogues' superior officer, General Carlist Rieekan, meeting with city officials in the Capitol Tower. Antilles rushed back to help secure the area, and kept protecting it while Skywalker sped to the Tech Center, where Madine was besieged. Antilles held the bombers off long enough that Han Solo and Chewbacca, nearby, were able to help evacuate the beleaguered Capitol Tower just before it was destroyed.

When Gerrard V revolted against the Empire, the Imperial governor began looting the world as he prepared to flee. The Rogues were dispatched to escort General Madine's Y-wings as they used their ion cannon to disable the yachts into which the plundered goods were being loaded. Antilles led half of the unit to one city, where they were attacked by the 128th TIE Interceptor Squadron, an elite unit under Lieutenant Kasan Moor. He had to call in Skywalker's forces to reinforce him. The Rogues defeated the 128th and captured Moor. Moor, an Alderaanian, expressed a desire to defect, and she was admitted to the squadron after some consideration.



Though Antilles remained distrustful of her, Moor began giving the locations of Imperial bases to the Rebellion, leading to strikes by Rogue Squadron. A supply depot on Loronar's Jade Moon fell to Crix Madine's commandos while the Rogues provided air cover and disabled the depot's shield. Antilles and several more Rogues then struck a walker and TIE factory on Balmorra in a swift raid. They subsequently took Y-wings to bomb the Imperial Enclave on Kile II. As that mission was completed, Antilles was ambushed by TIE Interceptors. Unable to avoid them in the sluggish Y-wing, he put down rather than be shot out of the sky, and was captured by Imperial forces before the Rogues could intervene.

His captors transferred Antilles to the penal facilities of Kessel. Aboard a Kesselian hovertrain taking him from his initial holding facility to prison, Antilles was suddenly rescued by his fellow Rogues as they disabled the train. Brought his own X-wing, Antilles was relieved to escape and shared what he had learned aboard the hovertrain: other Rebels were being held in Kessel's prisons. Madine and his commandos were called in to perform a rescue. Antilles helped provide cover as Madine's men raided several penitentiaries based on Antilles's information. After this series of raids and her participation in his rescue, Moor had earned Antilles's trust.

Rogue Squadron then turned its attention to the emerging threat of ambitious and oppressive Moff Kohl Seerdon, formerly Moor's patron. Seerdon was planning to move against Thyferra, the vital world which produced bacta, and shut off Rebel access to the immeasurably important healing agent. The Rogues began striking at Seerdon's holdings, hoping to retard his battle preparations and cripple his supply chain. They began with a hit-and-run A-wing strike at Taloraan, where the Empire mined the tibanna gas which powered their weapons. With support from a CR90 corvette, they destroyed much of Seerdon's accumulated gas stockpile. At the same time, a commando unit attempted to steal several All Terrain Personal Transports from a research facility on Fest. Their escape was compromised, and the Rogues sped to Fest to cover the AT-PTs as they made their way to an Alliance transport under heavy Imperial attack. After shepherding the walkers to safety, they destroyed the research facility.

Seerdon then turned to blockading Chandrila, the peaceful, anti-Imperial homeworld of Rebel Alliance leader Mon Mothma, in retaliation for his recent losses. He isolated one of its major cities and began bombarding it, prompting the Rieekan to send the Rogues to escort a relief hovertrain filled with supplies to the besieged city and eliminate Seerdon's forces. Antilles helped guard the hovertrain as Imperial fighters and bombers assaulted it, and once it reached the city safely he began shooting down Seerdon's bombers. Once that thread was eliminated, Rieekan sent several shuttles to evacuate the population, which the Rogues protected. They then settled in to defend Chandrila until Seerdon's threat was eliminated, letting Seerdon escape the planet. In retaliation for the attack on Chandrila, the Rogues struck at one of Seerdon's bases on Sullust. Flying into a volcano, they destroyed the important shielded station within, exacting their revenge for Chandrila. However, as they finished the mission, they learned that Seerdon decoyed them into the attack and then used it as a diversion, striking Thyferra while Rogue Squadron was otherwise occupied. The Rogues rushed to Thyferra, and in a hard-fought battle they protected Rebel bacta supplies and destroyed Seerdon's invasion force. Skywalker personally killed Seerdon when he shot down the Moff's Sentinel-class landing craft, ending the crisis.



In 1 ABY, Antilles was stationed at the Rebel outpost near Kor Vella on his homeworld of Corellia. While assigned to that hidden base, Antilles got into a dogfight with several TIE Interceptors and his fighter was damaged. While it was repaired, he worked to recruit new allies for the Rebels. He entered into negotiations with a group of Corellian Engineering Corporation workers' union leaders, who were interested in defecting, but wanted to hear Antilles speak about the Battle of Yavin. He had a Rebel agent referred to him by Major Qual'do Herm carry a letter confirming their meeting to a the prospective defectors' spokesman Devlin. Devlin agreed to the time and place, and Antilles gave a speech that convinced them to throw their support behind the Rebel Alliance. Only one, Iris, dissented. Antilles had to send the same agent to reason with her, as he knew she was likely to turn the other union leaders in to the Empire. When she insisted on selling them out and drew a blaster on the agent, he killed her, an outcome Antilles regretted but accepted as the only way to protect the Alliance.

On hearing intelligence reports of Imperials bringing generators from the abandoned Rebel base on Dantooine to Corellia, Antilles called on the same agent to capture the officer in charge of the mysterious project, General Graise, and bring him in for interrogation. The agent did so, and Graise confessed that the generators were being rebuilt and shipped off-planet for use in another project. Antilles sent the agent to assassinate the man in charge of that endeavor, General Boize, allowing the Rebels to recover the valuable generators and stymie the Imperial plot. Further information from documents on Graise's person revealed that he had been running a storehouse of impounded starships and parts. Antilles again ordered the agent to undertake a mission, this time to seize the code cylinder allowing access to the building from Emil, the quartermaster for the storehouse. Once Antilles gained the code cylinder, the Rebels were able to raid the facility for an important boost to their starfleet. With no more tasks for him, Antilles forwarded the agent to Leia Organa for further assignments.

Antilles later used an agent to eavesdrop on two Imperial officers in Bela Vistal in hopes of finding the location of a hidden base in which several confiscated Rebel X-wings were stored. The agent found and infiltrated the base, killed the guards, and disabled the security systems, allowing the Rebellion to retake the fighters. During the Rebel holiday Remembrance Day, 1 ABY, Antilles attended a celebration in Coronet City. There, he tasked a Rebel to rescue several Rebel pilots who had been captured and imprisoned in a prison bunker near an Imperial base erected on Yavin 4. The agent completed the mission and returned to confirm his success with Antilles&mdash;and to ask the famous pilot for an autograph. While traveling to inspect a Corellian Engineering Corporation yard, Antilles was ambushed by 4-LOM and another bounty hunter. After a battle, he was captured and turned over to the Empire. A Rebel strike force freed him and several other captured Rebels, returning them to the Rebel cause.

When Lando Calrissian, Baron Administrator of Cloud City and sympathetic to the Rebels, contacted the Alliance with information that a missing medical shipment of ryll it had been seeking was located on Skip 52 of the notorious hidout Smuggler's Run, Antilles was sent to meet a Rebel ally who had been working for Calrissian at Wrea. He flew the agent through the treacherous asteroid field to Skip 52 in a modified two-seat Headhunter. When they arrived they found that Imperial Intelligence agents under the notorious and secretive Blackhole had already taken control of the spice. Antilles and his ally battled Blackhole's shadow stormtroopers, overcoming them after a drawn-out gunfight. The pair contacted Calrissian, who arranged to ship the ryll to the medical facility for which it had originally been destined.

Freedom's winter
"If the Death Star didn't stop you an' me&hellip;what can these things do?"

- Wedge Antilles, to Luke Skywalker

By 3 ABY, Echo Base had been established on Hoth. Antilles and the other Rogues were assigned there. As an expert pilot and experienced officer, Antilles was put in charge of training new pilots at the base. While escorting a vital supply convoy, Renegade Flight was ambushed near Derra IV; the convoy was lost with no survivors. In the wake of the battle, Rieekan promoted Skywalker to fill Narra's position. When Skywalker went missing during a patrol not long afterward, the Rogues were sent out to rescue him and Solo, who had gone out in search of him upon tauntaun, as soon as the base's T-47 airspeeders were properly adapted to Hoth's cold. Senesca found them after they had managed to survive the bitterly cold night.



Later in the day, an Imperial probe droid was discovered spying on the base. The Rebels immediately prepared to evacuate their new base. When Vader's Death Squadron arrived in the system, Rogue Group was assigned to hold off the Imperial landing force and defend the theater shield that protected the base from orbital bombardment and direct landings. With Janson as his gunner, Antilles piloted his T-47 against the Empire's powerful All Terrain Armored Transports as Rogue Three. They first defended Outpost Beta, site of the ion cannon covering the evacuation, then moved on to defend the shield generator against the main force. When the AT-ATs' armor proved too strong for the speeders' blasters, Skywalker ordered a shift to a tactic using the T-47s' industrial tow cables to trip up the walkers. Skywalker made the first pass, but his gunner Dack Ralter was killed in the attempt. Rogue Leader ordered Antilles and Janson to make the first trip. Janson made the harpoon shot, and Antilles looped his speeder around the AT-AT until the machine's legs were entangled and it tumbled to Hoth's icy surface. With the machine's vulnerable neck better exposed, Antilles made a shot that destroyed the downed walker. When Skywalker was shot down, he contacted Antilles and turned command of the Rogues over to him. Rieekan simultaneously commed Antilles with the same decision, asking for an update on the situation. Antilles helped cover the downed Skywalker as he made his way back to base.

The Rebels were unable to hold off the Imperial ground assault, and Organa called the retreat after Imperials entered the base. General Maximilian Veers destroyed the shield generator in the next minute. With their airspeeder damaged and Antilles's right arm injured, he and Janson had to bail from the crippled craft and march to the rear of the base Antilles, with the other surviving Rogues, retreated to the rear of the base, where they transferred to starfighters and prepared to escort the remaining evacuation transports as they ran the gauntlet of the Imperial fleet. Taking off in his X-wing, Antilles defended the loading transports from fighter and bomber attack. Along with a Y-wing crewed by Klivian and Janson, Antilles escorted the transport Thon's Orchard. When a Star Destroyer obstructed escape, Antilles hastily pulled off an expert Tallon Split with Klivian, confusing the Star Destroyer's tracking arrays long enough for him to destroy one of the ship's sensors, giving Thon's Orchard an avenue of escape. Antilles returned to Hoth and waited until Skywalker arrived safely to make his final departure, escorting the Dutyfree, piloted by Rogue Ten Tarrin Datch to safety. Skywalker and Antilles saw the transport out, with Skywalker ordering the transport and Antilles ahead. With navigator Areta Bell plotting a course that kept them out of the reach of Imperial Star Destroyers, Antilles and Dutyfree jumped to hyperspace, but Skywalker hung behind, jumping for Dagobah for Jedi training and not the fleet rendezvous above the galactic plane.

Running the Rogues
"Wedge is in command of Rogue Squadron now, and he told me if I ever needed them they'd come running."

- Luke Skywalker, to Chewbacca

Skywalker eventually made his way to the rendezvous, missing a hand after a confrontation with Darth Vader in Bespin's Cloud City. There, Skywalker had escaped with Organa and Chewbacca, freed from Imperial custody by Han Solo's old friend Lando Calrissian, but Solo had been captured, frozen in carbonite, and given to Boba Fett to deliver to crimelord Jabba Desilijic Tiure. Skywalker, Organa, Calrissian, and Chewbacca devoted much of their efforts to tracking down Fett in an attempt to rescue Solo, pulling Rogue Leader away from his duties. Antilles managed to strike up a friendship with Calrissian, new to the Rebellion. Therefore, while still at the rendezvous point, Antilles was given command of Rogue Squadron, with a promotion from the rank of captain to commander, though Antilles rank meant little to Antilles and he never bothered to correct frequent references to him as a captain. He was put to work rebuilding the survivors of Hoth and new pilots into a working unit, officially stationed aboard Ackbar's flagship Home One and able to quickly lift for any hotspot. Will Scotian was among the pilots he recruited after seeing his excellent record at Oracle Base. Though offered the chance to upgrade to the newer A-wing or B-wing fighters, Antilles insisted that the workhorse X-wing was good enough to remain the Rogues' primary starfighter, preferring that more advanced fighters be given to less talented pilots who needed the edge. Under Antilles's leadership, the refurbished squadron's position as the most elite starfighter unit in the Rebellion was confirmed. He made a point to acknowledge that if Skywalker ever needed the Rogues, he would not hesitate to assist. When Skywalker accompanied the Rogues on missions, Antilles deferred to Commander Skywalker, granting him command and the Rogue Leader designation while Antilles flew as Rogue One.

Antilles was sent to scout the Maw, a black hole cluster suspected of hiding an Imperial prison. Flying a Y-wing for the mission, Antilles entered the Maw's asteroid field with Rogues Three and Four. There they came under attack from TIEs and, after fighting their way through Imperial forces, disabled a force field to gain access to the prison facility. They received a transmission from Karie Neth, the leader of the Rebel prisoners, who was engaged in a prison break. Coming to her aid, Antilles destroyed the prison's defenses, allowing Neth and her contingent of prisoners to escape. Neth would later join the squadron, replacing a Bothan lost during a covert mission. Antilles also rescued Keir Santage, who similarly became a Rogue.

When Admiral Senn's Task Force Vengeance attacked the hospital station Hormuuz in Gelgelar system, the Rogues defended the evacuation, working with Gold Squadron. After their flight, while the injured were being transferred to the medical frigate Redemption, the Rebels came under attack from the Star Destroyer Nemesis. The Rogues and Golds, forced to fly Headhunters, covered the fleet's escape. When a supply convoy headed for the Airam Sector was ambushed in the Halbara system, the Rogues fought off the attack. The Rogues and Green Squadron then made a raid of their own, retaking supplies from the captured Homuuz with capital ship aid.

In order to gauge the strength of Task Force Vengeance, the Rogues were dispatched to a fleet rendezvous point in speedy A-wings. There they scanned the task force's ships as they arrived and destroyed cargo ships bearing munitions as they found them. On identifying Senn's flagship, the Star Dreadnought Vengeance, Antilles departed to report to his commanders. The MC80 Star Cruiser Liberty drew elements of Task Force Vengeance to the Goff system, where the Rogues served as part of a trap that destroyed two Star Destroyers. The Rogues then participated in the capture of the Immobilizer 418 cruiser Compellor in the Battle of Swellen, holding off an Imperial counterattack. They then guarded the Compellor ' s arrival at Mobetta and, after the first attack was defeated, held off a second Imperial assault fleet. Continuing to work with Green Squadron's B-wings, the Rogues participated in an ambush of an Imperial fleet sent to reinforce Task Force Vengeance. Afterward, they received a distress call from the X7 factory Gallofree at Mobetta, and returned there to defend it against Imperial attack. Though they could not save Compellor, they covered the evacuation of the Airam Rebels from the factory at great risk before withdrawing.

Airam leader Tamaron agreed to supply the Alliance with warheads in gratitude, Antilles's Rogues guarded the transfer against Imperial interference. When the Imperials did attack, the Rogues quickly beat off the interlopers. When the Airam clan leader Ilay attempted to negotiate a treaty with Senn, the Rogues were part of the forces that disrupted the meeting, capturing Ilay before retreating. With intelligence on rendezvous Ilay had set up to supply the Imperials, the Rogues, equipped with B-wings, struck the convoy at Dega, destroying all the supply freighters in a prolonged raid. Senn, with his forces reduced and strained for supplies, pressed forward with an Battle of Nocto attack on the Rebel shipyards in Nocto system. The Rebels were able to destroy the Rage and the Vengeance in the battle, killing Senn and putting an end to Task Force Vengeance's menace of Airam Sector.

On hearing a tip that several Rebel scientists captured on Hoth were being held in a detention facility over Bakura, the Rogues were sent to free them. Taking a B-wing, Antilles arrived to find a transport departing the station. He rushed to disable it with the B-wing's ion cannons, allowing a Rebel evacuation transport to dock and transfer the prisoners over for rescue. As a succession of transport ships departed, Antilles disabled each one. When Klivian's fighter was crippled in the dogfight, plummeting to Bakura's surface, Antilles quickly docked with the station and stole a TIE bomber to provide a two-seat craft. Flying to the surface and through a heavily defended ice crevasse, he picked up Klivian and returned to the Rebel forces in orbit. However, when he returned, an Imperial craft recaptured the scientists and fled to Geonosis. Under Madine's direction, Antilles, back in his X-wing, led two Rogues and the transports to Geonosis in pursuit. When Imperial capital ships arrived, it was plain they had flown into a trap. Antilles covered for the transports as they escaped, destroying a Storm Commando escort carrier and losing his own stabilizer in the explosion. Antilles plummeted to the surface, where he abandoned his X-wing and evaded stormtroopers who had themselves landed in escape pods from the destroyed ship. Antilles also encountered B1 battle droids, manufactured on Geonosis for the Clone Wars. He then came under attack from Sarkli, the former Rogue who had turned traitor and now served with the Storm Commandos, after Sarkli commandeered a LAAt/i gunship left on the planet. Taking over a turret on the ground, Antilles shot down the gunship, then found an abandoned Delta-7 Aethersprite starfighter, another Clone Wars relic. He returned to orbit, where Madine had just arrived in a Nebulon-B, and flew it against the remaining Imperial forces.

When reports that a platform over Destrillion was being used for Imperial research arrived, Antilles was sent to scout the facility in an A-wing and note vulnerable points for attack by his squadron in Y-wings. Piloting through a series of energy-shielded tunnels in open space, he made his way to an open area, where he found a swarm of TIE Hunters. Trapped inside by force fields, he had to take on the TIE Hunters alone. After eliminating them, a further tunnel opened, allowing him to continue toward the base. Exiting, he found only an Imperial convoy. He returned to the fleet, which came under fire from the surface of Destrillion's sister planet, Dubrillion. The Rebels had been lured into a trap so that Dubrillion's superlaser could be used against them. Antilles led a Y-wing bombing run to Dubrillion, targeting the focusing dishes for the superlaser. Unable to reach the full facility with a bomber, Antilles put down and commandeered an AT-ST, penetrating the superlaser construct. Within an internal rail system, he then transferred to an idle AT-AT and destroyed the reactor turbines. With the superlaser destroyed, he escaped in his Y-wing.

For a strike at the vital Imperial shipyards of Fondor, Antilles and two other Rogues flew captured TIE Hunters and presented themselves as escorting a captured Rebel transport; the transport was in fact a droid ship programmed to ram the shipyards' control center. They were detected by spaceport control, however, and had to battle to defend the transport. Once the control center was destroyed, the Rebel fleet arrived. Antilles brought down the shields, and then led the Rogues in a run to destroy an Executor-class Star Dreadnought under construction in the yards. He destroyed its cloaking generators and the fleet eliminated the ship.

While the Rogues were traveling with elements of the Rebel fleet, an Imperial Strike Cruiser came across the convoy. Madine scrambled the Rogues to defend the convoy. Antilles sent Dix Rivan wide while he swept the other Rogues toward the Strike Cruiser as it disgorged TIEs. Under Antilles, the squadron cut through the TIEs, while the running Strike Cruiser, its shields focused to the rear, succumbed to fire from Rivan, who had looped in front of it unnoticed.

When Calrissian's informants located Fett in the Cadavine Sector Fleet Imperial Enclave on Gall, a moon of Zhar, Skywalker called on Antilles to help him raid the Imperial installation. The Rogues quickly traveled to the system and set up a prefabricated base on Kile, a moon opposite Gall. Calrissian's agent Dash Rendar, a smuggler who had flown alongside the Rogues at Hoth, docked his freighter Outrider in the simple hangar and quarters the Rogues maintained. Along with Rendar, the Rogues scouted the Imperial Enclave as they waited for Rendar to confirm Fett's presence, learning that two Star Destroyers guarded the base, with a TIE complement that outnumbered the Rogues by twelve to one.

When Rendar had ensured the bounty hunter was there, he sent a message to Calrissian that brought the searchers to Kile. Antilles was pleased to catch up with his friends, but they had to act before Fett left. Skywalker came up with a plan to tie up the entire Enclave's defenses with an attack by Rogue Squadron while Rendar led Calrissian, Chewbacca, and Organa, in the Millennium Falcon, to Fett. Antilles was happy to yield command to Skywalker for the mission. Skywalker led the Rogues against the Star Destroyer orbiting the day side of the planet, stirring up a fierce dogfight. Scotian was sent back to base and Rivan was killed in the battle, and as the second Star Destroyer approached, Antilles suggested withdrawing. Skywalker insisted they give Calrissian one more minute before making a final strafing run against the Star Destroyer and returning to Kile. When they retreated, Janson's R2 unit took control of his fighter and began firing on Skywalker. The Jedi was able to disable the craft's engines and targeting sensors, allowing Antilles to attach a grapple to Janson's ship and tow him back to base.



As they landed, Antilles was relieved both his friends had survived. Analysis of Janson's astromech showed it had been programmed to fire on Skywalker, but the investigation got no farther as both Antilles and Skywalker departed to meet Rendar as he returned from guiding the Millennium Falcon. Antilles had to calm his commander down as Rendar revealed he had abandoned the others once they found Fett's Slave I, having been paid only to guide, not fight. As they waited for the Millennium Falcon, detected approaching but with its comm disabled, to land they returned to Janson's astromech only to find it destroyed. Viera Cheran, the Rogue crew chief, had shot it and now held a blaster on Skywalker. Antilles quickly drew and shot her. He went to check her history on the base computer, and was aided by Calrissian when he arrived, empty-handed, as Fett had escaped. They found that Cheran had recently received payments that Calrissian tracked through several dummy corporations to a known front for Imperial Intelligence operations.

A second Death Star
The team searching for Solo dispersed to other assignments, while the Rogues moved on from Kile with that mission's failure. When the CR90 corvette Razor was to rendezvous with the frigate Redemption over Kothlis and relay vital information, the Rogues were assigned to cover the meeting. They arrived with the Redemption only to find Razor being captured by the Imperial-class Star Destroyer Motivator. Antilles, in a B-wing, defended Redemption, then used the powerful fighter, designed to tackle capital ships, to disable Motivator. Out of control, the Star Destroyer plummeted to Kothlis's surface, necessitating a landing to recover the data from the Razor, within the crashed ship. He transferred to an X-wing to escort Madine's commandos to the surface, then defended them from the Motivator ' s complement of walkers, which were emerging from the ship's hulk. The commandos successfully recovered the data, which turned out to be the revelation that the Death Star II was being constructed over Endor. Emperor Palpatine had resurrected his weapon of terror in greater and more powerful form.

While they were with the main Alliance fleet, a message drone from Rendar arrived, requesting that the Rogues travel to Coruscant and await his signal to provide assistance. Skywalker and Calrissian had traveled to Coruscant, capital of the galaxy, in an attempt to rescue Organa from the clutches of Prince Xizor, the head of Black Sun, where they connected with Rendar and Chewbacca. Knowing his comrades were on Coruscant, Antilles agreed to provide reinforcements, and took the Rogues to the center of the Emperor's power, where they waited, hidden among droid-controlled barge traffic in the far reaches of the system.

The Rebel group was able to rescue Organa and escape into orbit, but the forces of the galaxy's most powerful criminal syndicate remained arrayed against them. Rendar sent his signal, and Antilles rushed to find his allies. Finding the battle, Antilles quickly began shooting Black Sun's fighters off the Millennium Falcon and Outrider. Badly outnumbered, neither Skywalker, Rendar, nor Antilles thought they would be able to escape. They feared the odds were even worse when Imperial fighters arrived, but the TIEs shocked Antilles by firing on Xizor's craft. Darth Vader was putting an end to his long-running feud with Xizor, and the Rebels were a secondary concern. When Executor destroyed Xizor's skyhook, the Rebels rushed through its debris field to freedom, though Rendar was lost in the process. They escaped to a secret Alliance base, where Antilles received a message for Skywalker: Rendar had not missed in his attempt to shoot down a missile during the capture of the information about the Death Star II which had eventually found its way to the Razor rendezvous. It had been a well-armored diamond-boron missile that had taken the lives of several Bothans. Skywalker, sobered by the belief that Rendar had died before learning he was vindicated, announced that it was time to move forward and prepared to rescue Solo from Jabba Desilijic Tiure's palace.

When Ace Azzameen and a commando team captured the Lambda-class shuttle Tyderium from Outpost 327 in the Zhar system and came under attack before they could escape, the Rogues were summoned to cover its retreat to the Liberty, which they did successfully. Though they Rebels seized the Endor passcodes from the ship, it eventually fell back into Imperial hands. As Madine's plan to strike at the Death Star required infiltrating Endor with an Imperial shuttle so a unit of commandos could disable the Death Star's shield generator, they needed to steal the shuttle back. Antilles was tasked with acquiring Tyderium from the Imperial Naval Academy on Prefsbelt IV. Sneaking past the academy's sensor network, he subdued its defenses before taking off in Tydirium, covered by his fellow Rogues. After that mission, when vital supplies of tibanna gas for the fleet came under threat at Bespin, the Rogues came to their defense. Antilles defended the tibanna gas platforms, then eliminated Imperial defenses on Cloud City to protect further platforms.

Antilles returned to the Rebel fleet massing over Sullust in preparation for Ackbar and Madine's assault on the Death Star II. He was present at their briefing on the mission, as were Organa, Calrissian, Chewbacca, Solo&mdash;newly freed from carbonite&mdash;and the late-arriving Skywalker. There Madine outlined his plan to sneak a team under Solo, now commissioned as a general, onto Endor to disable the shield generator there that protected the Death Star in advance of the Rebellion's naval attack. As the gargantuan station was not yet completed, starfighters would be able to fly into its reactor core and directly deliver the crippling strike. The most astounding information came from Rebel leader Mon Mothma, who informed the crowd that Palpatine himself would be aboard the station when they struck. A victory at Endor would mean a crippling blow against the Empire. Calrissian, also the recipient of a general's commission, would command the fighters from the Millennium Falcon as Gold Leader. Antilles was placed in charge of Red Wing&mdash;named by Antilles in honor of the squadron that had vanquished the Death Star at Yavin 4&mdash;and would fly as Calrissian's wingman in the very same X-wing in which he had fought the first Death Star, tasked to make another Death Star run. Afterward, Antilles gave his own, more specific briefing to his pilots, facing the traditional skepticism from Klivian but attempted to boost their confidence as they prepared to take on the enormous superweapon.

Once they were prepared and believed Solo should have the shields down, the fleet jumped to Endor. As they approached the ship, Calrissian and his copilot Nien Nunb realized that they were being jammed, and the space station's shields were still up; they had flown into Palpatine's trap. Antilles broke off on Calrissian's orders and with the rest of the fleet engaged the Imperial force emerging from the other side of the Sanctuary Moon of Endor. When a wave of TIEs engaged, Antilles attempted to pull them away from the Rebel capital ships. He fiercely defended the medical frigate Redemption as it came under heavy attack, preserving the ship. The reason the enemy capital ships did not engage revealed when the Death Star opened fire on the Rebel cruisers, destroying the Liberty. Only Calrissian's insistence on engaging the Imperial fleet point-blank, to keep the Death Star from firing, convinced Ackbar not to order a retreat. Antilles first made crippling runs against the bridges of a pair of Star Destroyers in the fore of the Imperial formation, protecting Home One. Then he, Calrissian, Blue Leader Merrick Simms, and Green Wing attacked the main communications ship of the Imperial fleet. As Green Wing's sacrifice cleared the path, they were able to target the ship's reactors by flying within its cargo bay. The ship was destroyed, catching Simms in the blast. Antilles led Red Group well, preserving most of his pilots while they racked up a significant kill count.



When at last Solo's team destroyed the shield generator, Calrissian and Antilles led a squad of fighters across the Death Star's surface and then into an opening that gave them access to a series of narrow, deadly passages in the battle station's superstructure. Antilles was the first in, flying at high velocity through the constricted spaces as TIEs pursued the Rebel craft. Travel was further complicated when, moving at breakneck speed, the ships suddenly lost their instruments due to interference from the heavy-duty power sources nearby. Antilles had to fly dependent on his eyes and instincts, nearly blind at his speed. After Keir Santage was killed by the TIE pursuit, Calrissian sent the others off to draw away the pursuit, leaving only Antilles and Calrissian to make the run with Imperial pursuers remaining on their tails. They emerged into the vast open chamber housing the reactor core. The Millennium Falcon fired on the core itself, while Antilles targeted the power regular with a pair of proton torpedoes. As the core collapsed, the pair flew the same treacherous route to safety with Antilles once more in the lead, escaping in his X-wing just before the second Death Star was consumed by a massive explosion.

The battle did not end there, as the Imperial fleet fought on for just under four hours. With the main communications ship, Executor, and the Death Star destroyed, Imperial coordination was thrown into chaos, undermining the integrity of their defensive action. Only after long hours of fighting did the fleet retreat, giving the Rebels control of the battlefield. The Rebels began salvage and repair operations, their own fleet having sustained high casualties and heavy damage in the brutal fighting.

New threats and the New Republic
"I'm proud to say this is truly the first day of a New Republic, freed from the tyranny of the Empire forever. We're all gathered on the planet's surface. I can hear music and laughter drifting through the trees. I can't help but pause and take a long look at my friends: Luke, Han, the Princess, Lando, and all the other Rebels who fought long and hard in the trenches. Guys like me, guys just doing their job. And I can't help feeling&hellip;we're all heroes now."

- Wedge Antilles

After the battle had concluded, the Rebels held a victory celebration in Bright Tree Village on Endor, the home of the native Ewoks who had aided Solo's commando unit. Antilles was present, where he was overjoyed to see Skywalker had survived confronting Vader and Palpatine, who were both now dead, aboard the Death Star, and his friends on Solo's team lived as well. With the Empire dealt its greatest blow yet, the festivities went on well into the night as Antilles partied with his friends.



The next day, Antilles returned to the fleet on the first shuttle and immediately began patrol duty. Outer-system patrols guarded against the threat of Imperial counterattack while near the fleet salvage action continued and fighters stood ready to counter attacks by Imperial survivors within the battle area. When an Imperial intrusion by the patrol craft Daggerblade disrupted the sensor net, the Rogues were dispatched to secure the area and perform picket duty. While patrolling, he intercepted an Imperial message drone sent to Palpatine. Attempting to access its message, he accidentally triggered the drone's self-destruct mechanism. Antilles quickly clambered from his starfighter in vacuum gear and thrust his hand between the electrite crystal leads of the self-destruct, knowing he had to stop them from making contact or the drone would explode, taking him and the nearby Alliance ships with it. As the mechanism crushed his hand and the fleet evacuated, Antilles remained in vacuum in tremendous pain. Skywalker rushed to the drone in his X-wing and, ejecting his lightsaber from the fighter, used telekinesis and a Force link with Antilles to slice away the crystals with the lightsaber just after Antilles leaped away. The Corellian passed out, but was quickly picked up by a med runner and, with all his fingers saved, put in a bacta tank to heal.

While Antilles spent a day healing, Rebel technicians were able to decode the message. It was from remote Bakura and told of an invasion by strange attackers from the Unknown Regions. After persuasion from Organa and Solo, the Rebel leadership decided to send a fleet to counter the invasion and possibly gain Bakura's allegiance. With Organa as the negotiator and Solo escorting her, Madine thought to put Antilles in charge of the battle group, but when the spirit of Obi-Wan Kenobi told Skywalker he had to travel to Bakura and avert a dire threat, Skywalker was put in command.

The next day, healed, Antilles and the Rogues departed as part of the strike force, stationed aboard the carrier Flurry. They arrived at Bakura to find its Imperial defense fleet engaged against the invaders&mdash;the Ssi-Ruuk. The ranking Imperial officer, Commander Pter Thanas, accepted Skywalker's offer of assistance. The Alliance fleet struck the center of the Ssi-Ruuvi formation, destroying a cruiser and driving the Ssi-Ruuk into retreat. While Skywalker, Solo, Organa, Chewbacca, and their droids landed to negotiate with Wilek Nereus, the Imperial governor, the Rebel ships entered the Imperial defensive pattern, ready for a strike should the Ssi-Ruuk return from the outer reaches of the system. They soon did so, setting up a blockade of the planet outside the range of the defense net.

When the Rebels and Imperials had prepared a coordinated attack, Skywalker appraised Antilles of it, but warned him to be on alert for treachery from Nereus. The Ssi-Ruuk launched their own attack unexpectedly, which the combined forces were able to repel with the aid of Skywalker, captured by the Ssi-Ruuk with aid from Nereus, terrifying the Ssi-Ruuk into abandoning their flagship once he got free. Once the aliens retreated, though, Thanas opened fire on the Rebels under the treacherous governor's orders. Trapped, seemingly with no way out, the Rebels were suddenly able to escape when Skywalker used the captured Shriwirr to draw Thanas's Carrack Dominant out of position. Antilles led his fighters to protect Shriwirr while the Millennium Falcon recovered Skywalker, who convinced Thanas to surrender as a Bakuran revolt swept Nereus from power. The Bakurans elected to join the Alliance, and Thanas supervised the disarmament and withdrawal of Imperial forces before defecting. Victorious, the fleet returned to Endor.

Antilles remained stationed on Endor, where the Alliance had set up a base. Antilles volunteered for salvage duty, as efforts to recover both Rebel and Imperial wreckage and bodies continued. As Skywalker returned to active duty with the squadron and resumed command, Antilles was bumped to Rogue Two. He began to hope that the Rebellion had earned victory, and hoped that he could soon retire from military service. Heartened by the crucial defeat of the Empire at Endor, many worlds flocked to the Rebel banner. Approximately a week after the destruction of the second Death Star, the Alliance to Restore the Republic re-formed as the Alliance of Free Planets, an interim government put in place to ease the transition to the New Republic.

At that time, Antilles was summoned from flying a salvaging Y-wing for a scouting mission commanded by Skywalker. With the Empire reeling, Rebel forces were being dispatched to reconnoiter major Imperial locations. Celchu, Janson, and new Blue Leader Ten Numb were also along for the assignment, which was to assess the disposition of Antilles's home system. They spent a week searching the system for signs of the Empire, but it seemed that the Empire had withdrawn from control of Corellia. At the end of that week, they were in Coronet City and hoped to relax. They were at a cantina, beginning a night on the town, when Imperial forces suddenly struck in an attempt to terrorize the city. Under the command of Storm Commando General Weir, a light assault force attempted to reassert Imperial dominance. The Rogue detachment held their attackers at bay, and Antilles managed to capture Weir's aide while Numb attempted to track the withdrawing Weir. Antilles, Skywalker, and Janson followed while Celchu went to retrieve their fighters. They were too late to catch Weir, who captured Numb and rushed into orbit.



Celchu arrived with their astromech-piloted starfighters, allowing them to continue the pursuit. As they tracked Weir's craft through heavy civilian traffic, they were attacked by droid-piloted TIE fighters packed with explosives. After defeating the suicide drones, which attempted to menace civilians when they proved unable to slow the Rogues sufficiently. Weir escaped, but R2-D2 was able to track him and Numb to Tralus, where they learned that stormtroopers had been using the Selonian tunnel network as a base. Familiar with the natives of his own system, Antilles led negotiations with the Selonian leader Leyli, who agreed to provide scouts who could lead the quartet to the hidden Imperial base. They stormed Weir's stronghold, where the panicky general ordered an evacuation. Antilles commandeered a TIE fighter to follow Weir, who was fleeing in an interceptor. Celchu shot down their pursuers while Antilles shot down Weir, landed, and beat the Storm Commando into submission as he crawled from his wrecked fighter. Though Numb had died after Weir's torture, the general was brought to justice in Alliance custody.

Antilles returned to Endor, where he pondered the situation once more. He realized that victory would not come soon, and he could not shirk his commitment to the war against the Empire. Skywalker admitted to him that he was considering resigning soon to devote his efforts to restoring the Jedi Order. Skywalker left it to Antilles to begin selecting replacement pilots for Rogue Squadron, which had found itself badly understaffed in the wake of Endor and Bakura.

A month after the Alliance of Free Planets was formed, the Provisional Council declared the New Republic and completed the transition from revolutionary insurgency to full interplanetary government.

Personality and traits


Early in his career, Antilles was placed in a position of responsibility in which he had to make difficult decisions that led to the deaths of his compatriots.

He was noted for being brave.

Antilles was optimistic. He was known for his sense of humor, though he remained a serious man inside the cockpit.

As a young pilot, Antilles's interests lay in sabacc and Corellian ale, through which mediums he formed fast friendships with many of his compatriots.

Even as a young Rebel, Antilles had a tremendous respect for the Jedi and their ideals of peace and compassion.

Very concerned with his pilots, Antilles earned the full respect of his subordinates, who knew he put their well-being foremost. He had no ulterior ambitions, strongly disliking military bureaucracy and uninterested in playing politics.

Antilles was uncomfortable with adulation, instead preferring to do his job protecting others. Though a consummate military man, Antilles's sense of duty hid a deep desire to retire and live as a man of peace. He hoped to resign after the victory at Endor, but as it became clear the Alliance would not soon achieve victory, he could not allow himself to cease serving the cause of freedom.

Behind the scenes
No actor voiced Antilles twice in the Star Wars radio dramas. Antilles was played by Meshach Taylor in the Episode IV radio drama, Don Scardino in the Episode V radio drama, and Jon Matthews in Episode VI's dramatization. Antilles was voiced by Robert Foster in the video gamesStar Wars: Rogue Squadron and Star Wars: X-wing Alliance. Foster also voiced Antilles for Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds, in which Antilles narrates the Rebel campaign. He is also credited as voicing Antilles in Star Wars: Force Commander, and dialogue files for Antilles exist in the game data, but the character was cut and does not appear in the finished game.

In the novelization of A New Hope, Antilles is identified as "teenaged."

Early life


Wedge's early life was split between attending school on Corellia and working aboard the Gus Treta space station with his older sister Syal, where his parents, Jagged and Zena, operated a starship-refueling depot. Syal ran away from home when Wedge was seven, and he heard nothing about her for many years afterwards. Wedge spent half of every year of his youth at a farm school on Corellia and spent the other half on the orbital station, learning how to pilot and service starships. He grew up wanting to become an architect.

When Wedge was sixteen, the pirate Loka Hask pulled away from the station while the fuel lines were still attached to his craft Buzzzer. The resulting fireball would have killed all aboard had the Antilles not sacrificed themselves to save the station. Wedge was devastated and set out in a Z-95 Headhunter borrowed from Corellian smuggler Booster Terrik to seek vengeance. Numb with shock and determination, Wedge tracked the pirates to the Jumus system and coldly obliterated Buzzzer, though Hask escaped.

By 2 BBY, Wedge was working in Gus Talon, where he had fallen in love with a girl called Mala, whose father Rallo was a mechanic. However, when Wedge was away, Imperials tried to arrest Rallo on charges of co-operating with the rebellion, Rallo and his associates fought back. As punishment for this act of insurrection, the Empire decimated Gus Talon and took away the survivors. This distraught Wedge, who was saddened by the fact that he had never had a chance to express his love to Mala, and brought about his hate for the Empire.

Galactic Civil War


Insurance money allowed Wedge to buy a freighter, and he spent a couple of years running supplies for Terrik to the nascent Rebellion. He only joined its starfighter division during an open call for pilots.



During this time, Wedge, Luke, and Wes Janson began to tell new recruits to Rogue Squadron a fictional tale set during the evacuation of Hoth; one that involved Wedge and Wes being shot down and Janson dying on the planet. When the story was concluded, Wes would step out, alive, and startle the new recruits quite handily.





It was shortly after this failure that Rogue Squadron was temporarily decommissioned, and Wedge participated in many different PR events for the New Republic. It soon became apparent that in order to solidify the New Republic as a major force in the galaxy, the Empire would need to be driven off Coruscant. To that end, Wedge reformed Rogue Squadron in 6.5 ABY, bringing in many new recruits that would go on to become as famous as he himself had been during the height of the Rebellion: Former CorSec officer&mdash;and later Jedi Knight&mdash;Corran Horn, the Gand Findsman Ooryl Qrygg, and Gavin Darklighter, who would later become leader of the Rogues.

In the initial missions of the reformed Rogue Squadron, Wedge would lead the Rogues as they destroyed an Imperial Lancer-class frigate, defended themselves against a stormtrooper attack on Talasea, and leveled the Imperial base on Vladet. The unit's mechanic, Zraii, ran out of space on the fuselage of his X-wing to display his starfighter kills, displaying them instead in units of 48 or even 144 kills per symbol. Wedge chose Tycho Celchu as his executive officer, despite General Horton Salm's protests that Tycho was a traitor.

In the following missions, Wedge lead the Rogues in ill-fated attempt to take the planet Borleias (code named "Blackmoon" at time for secrecy), an important staging area for an assault on Coruscant. While the Rogues were forced to flee from the stronger than anticipated defenses, Wedge and the Rogues returned shortly thereafter with a new attack plan formulated by Corran Horn and successfully took Borleias. In the fighting, Horn was left behind at Borleias, and Wedge planned an immediate return to rescue him as soon as the fighters were refueled. However, he was pleasantly surprised to learn that Horn was still alive and had actually beat the Rogues back to base thanks to a surprise rescue by Tycho Celchu and Mirax Terrik.

Conqueror of Coruscant
Thanks to the capture of Borleias, the stage was now set for the Alliance's assault on Coruscant. First, Wedge led the Alliance effort to free members of Black Sun from Kessel and insert them into Coruscant to harass the Empire under Ysanne Isard. Wedge and the other Rogues were inserted covertly into Coruscant to pinpoint targets of opportunity and gauge the level of resistance. Under the guise of Colonel Antar Roat, Wedge and Pash Cracken surveyed the capital for some period, at which point he was instructed to try and find a way to bring the planetary shields down for an invasion. Wedge, unbeknownst to almost everyone, had secretly placed Tycho Celchu on Coruscant as a backup in case things went awry. When the spy in Rogue Squadron—Erisi Dlarit, and Black Sun member Zekka Thyne betrayed an attempt to slice in code to lower the shields, Tycho was able to rescue Wedge and the other Rogues, along with members of the Alien Combine, from certain death or capture. However, Wedge suffered some cracked ribs in the fighting. Wedge then led a crew to take over a construction droid to act as a diversion while the Rogues used an orbital mirror to start a monstrous thunderstorm, which brought down the shields.

Wedge was then widely proclaimed as the "Conqueror of Coruscant," and was a key speaker at the funeral of Corran Horn, believed dead under suspicious causes. It was on Coruscant that Wedge first became acquainted with his future wife, Iella Wessiri. However, on his first attempt to take her out to dinner, Wedge was surprised to find her husband, Diric Wessiri, had returned unexpectedly. Wedge enjoyed getting to know Diric, although Iella was forced to shoot him later, a source of much pain for both of them. In the following weeks, Wedge helped neutralize the station at Yag'Dhul, escort a bacta convoy, study the Krytos virus, and lead a diplomatic mission to Ryloth all the while trying to prove Tycho Celchu's innocence during his trial for murder and treason. Wedge did testify in the case, but felt his testimony did more harm than good. As the trial came to a head, Wedge successfully destroyed an airspeeder carrying a bomb that was targeting a bacta center after a harrowing chase through the crowded metropolis of Coruscant.

Immediately afterward, the Super Star Destroyer Lusankya blasted its way out of Coruscant to Thyferra, where Ysanne Isard immediately took control. Wedge and the rest of the Rogues, including a newly escaped Corran Horn, resigned their commissions to fight what became known as the Bacta War. A positive side effect of the reappearance of Isard and the escape of Horn was that Tycho Celchu was acquitted, to Wedge's great delight. As Isard fled in Lusankya, the real spy in Rogue Squadron, Erisi Dlarit, fled to join her mistress.

The Bacta War
"We'll put that in your biography. General Antilles was so good he couldn't fail when he tried to."

- Tycho Celchu

Antilles, operating from the Yag-prime station at Yag'Dhul, led Rogue Squadron in a stunning campaign that resulted in the capture of an Imperial Star Destroyer and a Super Star Destroyer, the downfall of the Bacta Cartel, and the apparent end of Ysanne Isard—all while operating largely independent from the New Republic or any other government. He was aided by Elscol Loro, Iella Wessiri, Booster Terrik, Talon Karrde, and Tal'dira's squadron of Chir'daki fighters. Upon the successful resolution to the Bacta War, Wedge and the Rogues were informed that their resignations had been "misplaced", and they were allowed to rejoin the New Republic.

Wedge also went on to found Wraith Squadron after the Bacta War in 7 ABY, leading them during the New Republic campaign against Warlord Zsinj. During this campaign, Wedge would endure the strain of trying to manage the washed-out, rejected pilots of the Wraiths, the effects of Zsinj's Project Minefield and Project Funeral, the apparent duplicity of Lara Notsil, crewing aboard a dilapidated YT-1300 freighter named the Millennium Falsehood, and Wes Janson's horrible jokes and pranks. Wedge also proved himself not only a competent commander, but an understanding one as well, even bending regulations to provide a much-needed morale boost on the cruiser Mon Remonda. However, soon after completing Wraith Squadron's objective to take down Warlord Zsinj was completed, Wedge Antilles, Wes Janson, and Myn Donos left the Squadron for the Rogues as Wraith Squadron itself was reassigned to Intelligence.

Thrawn Campaign
Antilles would return to Rogue Squadron shortly after Zsinj's defeat and lead them during the Thrawn campaign. At the start of Thrawn's attacks, Wedge accompanied Han Solo as a back-up man during Han's attempts to get smugglers to ally themselves with the New Republic. After Thrawn attacked Bpfassh, Wedge was part of the New Republic delegation sent to assess the damage. When the Noghri commandos attacked the party trying to seize Princess Leia, Wedge helped fend off the attackers.

He was kept busy throughout Thrawn's reign of terror in 9 ABY, serving primarily from an X-wing cockpit in battles such as the Battle of Sluis Van and the Battle for the Katana fleet. Also, Wedge and the Rogues would provide an escort for Leia Organa Solo and the Millennium Falcon on a number of occasions. Wedge was present at the final Battle of Bilbringi, which saw the ultimate defeat of Thrawn. Thanks to some help provided by one of Talon Karrde's captains, Aves, Wedge and the Rogues were able to penetrate the Bilbringi shipyard and successfully attack a Golan II orbital defense platform.

Following the victory at Bilbringi, Admiral Ackbar promoted Antilles to general an Fighter Command Liaison. Accustomed to leading from the front, he resisted until he was granted permission to personally command Rogue Wing as well. After his acceptance of the rank of general, he came up with the Antilles Four-Step Instant Speech.

Special operations against the Emperor Reborn
During the resurrection of Emperor Palpatine in 10 ABY, Wedge teamed with Lando Calrissian to command the Rebel fleet from the Star Destroyer Emancipator during the Battle of Mon Calamari against the Imperial World Devastators.

Later, Antilles, Lando and a group of New Republic commandos hijacked a shipment of the new X-1 Viper war droids on their way from Balmorra to the Imperial headquarters on Byss. The New Republic troops hide in the Vipers' cramped innards until the Vipers were unloaded on Byss. There the commandos activated the droids and advanced on the Emperor's Citadel. They were able to defeat the Imperial forces until huge mutant chrysalides were released. The New Republic force fled the droids to seek cover before the Vipers were defeated. Wedge, Lando and other surviving New Republic personnel were evacuated by Salla Zend and her friends as a chrysalide closed in.

Wedge, Lando, Kam Solusar, and R2-D2 would later infiltrate Palpatine's flagship, Eclipse II over Onderon, in an attempt to destroy the massive vessel after boarding it using the Millennium Falcon. While dozens of Rebel starfighters launched a diversionary assault, the Rebel team successfully took control of the helm and R2-D2 jumped the ship back to the exact coordinates of Palpatine's Galaxy Gun orbiting Byss. As the two massive weapons collided, Lando and the other Rebels extracted under fire from the Imperial crew as the Galaxy Gun fired a final projectile into Byss, setting off an unstoppable nucleonic reaction. As the Falcon flew away, Byss was destroyed, as were the two most dangerous superweapons to date.

Final Imperial threats
In 11 ABY, after the fall of Coruscant to the reborn Emperor's forces, Antilles was ordered to reconfigure Rogue Squadron into a multi-fighter unit. Antilles felt this would destroy the cohesion of the unit, but his commanders felt that the prestige coming from using the Rogue Squadron name would be worth it. Antilles established a force using V-wing airspeeders, B-wings, and E-wings, with over 100 starfighters in total devoted to Rogue Squadron. For that reason, he chose to base it on Lusankya. During this time it fought in the First Battle of Mon Calamari and Second Battle of Phaeda, although the Lusankya (under Antilles's command) did not join the squadron in battle until the latter conflict. Later, he gave up fleet command (though he kept his rank) to return to his activities as a pilot and occasional covert agent. After defeating the Imperial forces, Wedge played an important role in rebuilding Coruscant and salvaging orbital debris.

Later that year, Wedge, along with Chewbacca, led the mission to the Maw cluster to rescue the Wookiee prisoners held there from the frigate Yavaris. He ran into more than he could handle when Admiral Daala in an Imperial star Destroyer and Tol Sivron in the prototype Death Star returned to the Maw after Wedge had captured it. Wedge and the majority of his forces escaped and both threats were ended with the aid of Han Solo and Kyp Durron. After being assigned as her bodyguard, he had a brief romance with Qwi Xux (one of the principal designers of the first Death Star) which developed after he was assigned as her bodyguard, but they later parted on good terms. The next year Wedge accompanied Admiral Ackbar and the Solos to Nal Hutta. While Leia was on a diplomatic mission to the Hutt world, Wedge and Ackbar participated in war games, with Wedge even beating the Calamari admiral in the first round. After learning of the Darksaber under construction in the Hoth asteroid belt, Wedge was placed in charge of the mission to destroy the Hutt superweapon Darksaber. From the frigate Yavaris, Wedge led a full scale attack on the weapon before it was destroyed by an asteroid collision.

He took on a diplomat's role in 13 ABY, when he, Tycho, Wes, and Hobbie were assigned as the New Republic's official envoy to the planet Adumar. Even with a corrupt Intelligence leader and a hundred starfighters to contend with, Wedge managed to win Adumar over to the New Republic side through his own methods, which resulted in the unification of Adumar. Wedge also later fought in the Battle of Adumar, which ended the Imperial threat to Adumar and affected the desertion of Imperial Admiral Teren Rogriss. Wedge met Iella Wessiri again on Adumar, and eventually proposed to her. She accepted, and they were married after the Adumar incident was over.

In 14 ABY, he paired with Jedi student Jaden Korr, from Luke's Academy. They went to the planet Kril'dor, where they had to take out an Imperial tibanna gas station. Wedge created a simple plan that required an X-wing pilot and a Jedi Knight. The mission was a success, with the Remnant forces defeated.

Wedge commanded a New Republic fleet in the Battle of Almania in 17 ABY. It was Wedge who deduced that the opposing Star Destroyers were controlled by droids. Wedge exploited that weakness to win the battle. Later under Garm Bel Iblis's command, he and Corran Horn investigated the "Vengeance" organization on Bothawui during the Caamas Document crisis in 19 ABY. He also flew at the head of Rogue Squadron during the Battle of Yaga Minor which marked an end to the Galactic Civil War.

Wedge eventually retired after the end of the Galactic Civil War. He and Iella had two daughters, Syal and Myri.

Yuuzhan Vong War
"Antilles, you are obviously deranged. You should have been put out to pasture years ago.''" "''I was, Pwoe. I should have been left there. And if the Advisory Council had conducted its part of the war with the Yuuzhan Vong in any competent fashion, I could have been left there."

- Councilor Pwoe and General Wedge Antilles

When the extent of the Yuuzhan Vong threat became clear to the New Republic, Antilles was asked to re-enter active duty. Holding his old rank of General, Antilles was placed in command of one of the three fleets defending Coruscant. During this time, Wedge and Iella allowed Han and Leia to take Syal and Myri to the Maw with Luke's and Mara's son, Ben Skywalker, and the other Jedi children. Following the fall of Coruscant, Antilles and his fleet fled to the Pyria system where they retook the planet Borleias from Yuuzhan Vong control.

After taking the planet, Antilles established the "Blackmoon" as his base of operations, collecting scattered fleet elements that had retreated from Coruscant. While preparing to receive the Yuuzhan Vong counterattack, members of the Advisory Council arrived in-system. Led by Senator Pwoe, the Council members ordered Antilles to prepare a delaying action at Borleias to provide enough time for their escape. Realizing that a static defense of the system would not hold long against a full Yuuzhan Vong assault force, Antilles managed to wrangle more ships and even the vaunted Lusankya out of the remaining New Republic space forces. With these new resources, Wedge put into motion his plan for the defense of Borleias.

When the Lusankya arrived to reinforce General Antilles's position, it dropped out of hyperspace directly into the midst of the Yuuzhan Vong fleet. The Lusankya and New Republic forces managed to defeat the Yuuzhan Vong fleet and accidentally won a battle which Antilles had intended to lose.

During the preparations, Antilles also oversaw the formation of the Insiders, a resistance group inside the New Republic which intended to place agents on Vong worlds and set up resistance groups against both the Yuuzhan Vong and the perceived-incompetent New Republic government.

In later action during the Battle of Borleias he used the Starlancer feint to draw a large contingent of Vong forces to attack before they were ready and used Operation Emperor's Hammer to destroy a Yuuzhan Vong ground army on Borleias.

In the last stages of the siege that followed, Antilles managed to escape in an abandoned X-wing, and single-handedly destroy at least an entire squadron of coralskippers in defense of a transport without the aid of an astromech droid, a great achievement for the aging ace pilot. Even though his own fleet was severely weakened, including the loss of the Lusankya in Operation Emperor's Spear, the New Republic counted the Battle of Borleias a victory, as it took months for the Yuuzhan Vong to retake the planet, thus giving time for the other survivors of the attack on Coruscant to regroup.

Antilles continued leading elements of the Galactic Alliance Defense Force throughout the war. He partook in the Liberation of Coruscant, where he flew an X-wing in an attempt to prevent a modified coralskipper infected with Alpha Red from infecting Zonama Sekot.

Second Galactic Civil War
"Great, who brought the old Wedge out of retirement?"

- Derek "Hobbie" Klivian

Wedge retired after the end of the Vong war, and did not participate in the Swarm War. When tensions escalated between the Galactic Alliance and his homeworld of Corellia, Wedge initially resolved to remain retired and not to choose between his allegiance to the Alliance and his allegiance to his homeworld. However, after Galactic Alliance Intelligence operatives came to his home and moved him to a holding cell on Coruscant, his decision became much easier.

After escaping, he took up the position of General in the Corellian Defense Force, eventually becoming a coordinator between the Minister of War of the Corellian system and the Five World Prime Minister Aidel Saxan. Wedge was responsible for planning the assault on the planet Tralus in a way which would not kill a large number of Corellian civilians. Along with Han Solo, he commanded Corellian forces at the Battle of Tralus, where he fought against his own daughter, Syal Antilles. Wedge also openly disagreed with and condemned some of the more dangerous actions Thrackan Sal-Solo planned.

He was appointed as Admiral of the Corellian forces the day after Sal-Solo's death and was tasked with defeating the Blockade of Corellia. Antilles was also appointed the Supreme Commander of Corellia's forces, and was present at the Kiris asteroid belt when Gejjen maneuvered the Solos into arranging an audience with Queen Mother Tenel Ka.

During the course of the blockade, Wedge Antilles met with Jacen Solo to discuss the political and military situation. Wedge asked for more time from Jacen to help settle Corellian politics and bring about a peaceful resolution, and also told Solo that he had lost his sense of humor in everything. Antilles later resigned from the Corellian Defense force after being removed in favor of a more aggressive admiral by Dur Gejjen. Corellian agents tried to assassinate him, but he escaped with the help of Mirax, Corran, Iella, and others. Wedge, Corran, and his family had settled into a small apartment nearby when Han, Leia, and Lando Calrissian arrived looking for him. Their presence drew CorSec attention and the group escaped in the Pulsar Skate, a pair of X-wing fighters, and Lando's yacht the Love Commander. After defeating a CorSec corvette, the entourage escaped to the Errant Venture, where they planned their next actions in an attempt to prevent full scale war.

Wedge later joined the Jedi led Resistance against Jacen Solo and was asked by Luke to form an elite starfighter squadron loyal to the Jedi. Wedge then formed Rakehell Squadron which included Corran Horn and Jaina Solo as well as several other Jedi, New Republic veterans and his own daughter Syal. He led the squadron against Galactic Alliance forces in the battle for Centerpoint Station. During the engagement, the Rakehells were engaged by Rogue Squadron and Wedge was forced to down his opposite number, Lensi.

Personality and traits
"Blackmoon Eleven, what did you think you were doing going after an entire squadron?''" "My job." "That's, 'My job, sir'." "My job,sir." "''Son, if you develop piloting skills in proportion to your nerve, someday they'll call you the greatest pilot of all time.... Blackmoon Eleven, are you still there?"

- Gavin Darklighter and (unbeknownst to Gavin) Wedge Antilles

Wedge Antilles was a passionate, fun-loving, committed man who would rather fly starfighters than anything else. For many years, Wedge had no life except for the Rebel Alliance, and distanced himself emotionally from most relationships, going so far as to insulate himself from many of his pilots so that he would not be hurt by their inevitable deaths. Wedge carried the burden of command and of lost friends for all his life; in some way, he had "survivor's guilt." However, he did have a circle of close friends, and Wedge enjoyed being around them as well as being known for looking out for the best interests of those around him.

He was, however, a Corellian fighter pilot, and as such had little respect for odds and was, as Mirax Terrik Horn put it, "so egotistical, you [Wedge] think you can keep your ego under control". His single saving grace being that most of the time when he did indulge his ego as a pilot, it tended to be his enemies, not he or his friends, who suffered for it. According to his future wife, Iella Wessiri, Wedge was quite different in the cockpit, capable of amazing and unpredictable actions that kept him alive through many engagements. Wedge was a natural pilot, more than a match for pilots like Soontir Fel and Luke Skywalker, despite not having the advantages of the Force or years of formal Imperial training.

Mala
For much of his life, Wedge did not consider relationships with others, as he was busy serving the Alliance, and later the New Republic, although he did fall in love with a girl named Mala early in his life.

Reina Faleur
Following the Battle of Endor, he briefly romanced Reina Faleur.

Qwi Xux
Later, when he was assigned to free the prisoners at the Maw Installation, Wedge met and was assigned to guard Omwati scientist Qwi Xux. Wedge first started off as a bodyguard for Qwi, but that eventually grew into a mutual attraction. Wedge liked to write poems about Qwi, especially her hair. However, both Qwi and Wedge realized that, to them, their relationship was a test run, more or less, and that what they had was more of admiration and infatuation. Because of this realization, they mutually broke up and stayed as friends.

Iella Wessiri
His first serious, long-term romance was with Iella Wessiri, whom he met while undercover on Coruscant, primarily after the death of her husband. Wedge continued to see her through the campaign against Zsinj, but apparently the two grew more distant.

During his harrowing diplomatic mission to Adumar, Wedge came back in contact with Iella Wessiri. He finally realized that she had been avoiding him and decided not to leave her until she forced him to or he wanted to leave. Shortly afterwards, he proposed to her and she accepted. The two were married after the Adumar incident. They eventually had two daughters, Syal and Myri.

Portrayal
Denis Lawson portrayed Wedge throughout all three films, except in one scene in A New Hope. During the pre-battle briefing on Yavin 4, Luke briefly chats with Wedge, who is seated next to him. In this scene, Wedge scoffs at the idea of successfully hitting such a small target as the Death Star exhaust port. Although he is portrayed by a different actor here, the shooting script and novelization of the film identify the character as Wedge. Due to the long controversy over this inconsistency (the explanation being unknown), fans sometimes refer to this character as "Fake Wedge".

The fact that Lawson did not play Wedge in that particular scene sparked some discussion between fans who wanted to know who did. The speculation eventually revolved around two actors: Jack Klaff (who played John D) and Colin Higgins. It was thought by the majority of those concerned that Klaff was "Fake Wedge." However, in 2005 Pablo Hidalgo confirmed that Colin Higgins was the actor in question. Colin Higgins has since appeared at Celebration IV, where he discussed his brief stint as Wedge.

Denis Lawson's first name was misspelled "Dennis" in the credits of Episodes IV and V. It was correctly spelled in VI.

Denis Lawson is the uncle of Ewan McGregor, who played Obi-Wan Kenobi in the prequel films.

Voice
The sound of Wedge's voice is distinctly different in each of the three films. In Episode IV, his voice was dubbed by David Ankrum, but not in the two subsequent films. It is unclear why Ankrum's voice was not used in the final two films.

Wedge was voiced by Meshach Taylor in the Star Wars radio drama, by Don Scardino in Empire Strikes Back radio drama and by Jon Matthews in the Return of the Jedi radio drama.

Lawson returned to the role of Wedge to voice him in Star Wars: Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader. Chris Cox provided Wedge's voice in Star Wars: Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike. In Star Wars: X-wing Alliance Wedge gives the briefing of the three stages of the Battle of Endor where he has a distinct Scottish accent (Denis Lawson is Scottish).

Continuity
Wedge appears briefly (about one or two scenes) in all three major battles of the movies: Yavin, Hoth and Endor. Only his first name is heard in dialogue and as a character, perhaps he passes unnoticed to the casual viewer, lost among the bulk of other minor Rebel pilots of equal screen time.

This did not prevent the devoted fans of the Star Wars series to notice his recurrence, which explains his popularity; Wedge is recognized as a "survivor", the one minor character to survive all three movies without the blessings of 'fate' (i.e. luck, destiny, or the Force or just the "character shield") that allow the major protagonists to survive constant peril and certain death. Furthermore in Hoth he flies the first speeder to take down an AT-AT and is mostly responsible for the destruction of the second Death Star. He is also the only identified pilot to have survived both Death Star attacks.

Furthermore, he was one of the two main characters in the popular Rogue Squadron video game series, (the other being Luke) and was the perfect example of the ideal Rebel freedom fighter.

Interestingly, Wedge has been made into a term to describe characters in fiction outside of Star Wars. A Wedge-type character is a minor supporting character possessing little backstory who nevertheless survives numerous dangers. The opposite of a Wedge-type character is a redshirt, a reference to the security officers on Star Trek whose purpose is to be killed in action to demonstrate danger and peril while sparing the core characters. In the Final Fantasy video game series, Biggs and Wedge are names used for a duo who appear in multiple games in the series. Both are homages to Biggs Darklighter and Wedge Antilles respectively.

the script for Star Wars describes Wedge as "sixteen", but this has since been superseded

Appearances

 * Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds NOT DONE
 * Star Wars: X-wing
 * Star Wars: Empire at War
 * Star Wars: Empire at War: Forces of Corruption
 * Star Wars Empire: Darklighter
 * Star Wars radio dramatization
 * Star Wars Journal: The Fight for Justice
 * Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope novelization
 * X-wing Rogue Squadron ½
 * Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
 * Star Wars 5: Lo, The Moons of Yavin
 * Star Wars 6: Is This the Final Chapter?
 * Star Wars: Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader
 * Star Wars Missions 1: Assault on Yavin Four
 * Star Wars Missions 12: The Vactooine Disaster
 * Vader's Quest
 * Star Wars: Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike
 * Star Wars Missions 17: Darth Vader's Return
 * Star Wars Missions 18: Rogue Squadron to the Rescue
 * Race for Survival
 * Galaxy of Fear: Planet Plague
 * Star Wars: Rogue Squadron NOT DONE
 * Star Wars Empire: "General" Skywalker
 * Star Wars Empire: In the Shadows of Their Fathers
 * Star Wars Empire: The Wrong Side of the War
 * Star Wars Rebellion: My Brother, My Enemy
 * Star Wars Rebellion: Small Victories
 * Galaxy of Fear: The Swarm
 * Galaxy of Fear: Clones
 * Star Wars Galaxies
 * Star Wars Galaxies: The Ruins of Dantooine
 * The Empire Strikes Back radio dramatization
 * Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back novelization
 * Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
 * Star Wars 40: The Empire Strikes Back: Battleground: Hoth
 * Star Wars 41: The Empire Strikes Back: Imperial Pursuit
 * Star Wars: X-wing Alliance
 * Star Wars: X-wing vs. TIE Fighter: Balance of Power
 * Shadows of the Empire novel
 * Shadows of the Empire comic
 * Return of the Jedi radio dramatization
 * Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi novelization
 * Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi
 * Star Wars: Return of the Jedi 4: The Final Duel
 * The Truce at Bakura
 * Star Wars 81: Jawas of Doom
 * X-wing: Rogue Leader
 * Star Wars 85: The Hero
 * Star Wars 99: Touch of the Goddess
 * Star Wars 100: First Strike
 * Star Wars 107: All Together Now
 * X-wing Rogue Squadron: Apple Jacks Special Bonus Story
 * Lucky
 * X-wing Rogue Squadron: The Rebel Opposition
 * X-wing Rogue Squadron: The Phantom Affair
 * X-wing Rogue Squadron: Battleground: Tatooine
 * X-wing Rogue Squadron: The Warrior Princess
 * X-wing Rogue Squadron: Requiem for a Rogue
 * X-wing Rogue Squadron: In the Empire's Service
 * X-wing Rogue Squadron 25: The Making of Baron Fel
 * X-wing Rogue Squadron: Family Ties
 * X-wing Rogue Squadron: Masquerade
 * X-wing Rogue Squadron: Mandatory Retirement
 * Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor
 * X-wing: Rogue Squadron
 * X-wing: Wedge's Gamble
 * X-wing: The Krytos Trap
 * X-wing: The Bacta War
 * X-wing: Wraith Squadron
 * X-wing: Iron Fist
 * X-wing: Solo Command
 * Corphelion Interlude
 * A Day at the Races
 * Tatooine Ghost
 * Heir to the Empire
 * Heir to the Empire comic
 * Dark Force Rising
 * Dark Force Rising comic
 * The Last Command
 * The Last Command comic
 * X-wing: Isard's Revenge
 * Dark Empire
 * Dark Empire II
 * Empire's End
 * Crimson Empire
 * I, Jedi
 * Jedi Search
 * Dark Apprentice
 * Champions of the Force
 * Children of the Jedi
 * Darksaber
 * Planet of Twilight
 * X-wing: Starfighters of Adumar
 * Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy
 * Before the Storm
 * The New Rebellion
 * Assault at Selonia
 * Specter of the Past
 * Vision of the Future
 * Star Wars: Union
 * Star Wars: Chewbacca
 * Dark Tide I: Onslaught
 * Dark Tide II: Ruin
 * Edge of Victory I: Conquest
 * Edge of Victory II: Rebirth
 * Star by Star
 * Dark Journey
 * Enemy Lines I: Rebel Dream
 * Enemy Lines II: Rebel Stand
 * Destiny's Way
 * Force Heretic II: Refugee
 * The Final Prophecy
 * The Unifying Force
 * Betrayal
 * Tempest
 * Exile
 * Fury
 * Outcast
 * Omen
 * Abyss

Non-canon appearances

 * Star Wars Infinities: A New Hope
 * Star Wars: Rebellion
 * Star Wars Infinities: The Empire Strikes Back
 * Star Wars 78: Hoth Stuff
 * Star Wars Infinities: Return of the Jedi
 * A Day in the Life

Notes and references
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