Tay Vanis



Tay Vanis was an undercover Rebel Alliance operative who went by the codename of Tiree.

A native of Telfrey, in the Iskalonian system, Vanis had a sister, Tyerle. Both of them lef the planet when they lost the rest of their family after a stormtrooper attack in the city. Vanis fled to nearby Iskalon and then he joined the Rebel Alliance as soon as he could.

Tiree became an undercover operative for the Rebel Alliance, and also the aide of Lord Cuvir, an Imperial Governor in charge of Firro. In that role, Tiree was able to get Imperial data to feed the Alliance. Unfortunately, he was caught by Cuvir himself while reporting Imperial fleet movements in Wor Tandell. Tiree was forced to kill Cuvir and then try to escape. The fight was witnessed by Cuvir's medical droid, 2-1B. However, 2-1B felt no regard for Cuvir, and decided to join Tiree during the escape.

Tiree returned to Alliance service working non-undercover alongside his own droid, R2-D0, aka "Deo".

Tiree became a recruitment agent. He staged a meeting with potential recruits on Mesa 291, an abandoned lidium mine on Bothan's Planet. Unfortunately, the Imperial Security Bureau discovered this operation and sent one of its agents, Mar Barezz, to intercept Tiree and capture him and the new agents. Tiree was caught, but he managed to escape, injured. However, Deo managed to escape from the various scrapes Tiree was caught in, and assisted the new Alliance agents in rescuing Tiree. Finally, Barezz was defeated, his forces crippled, and Tiree and his new pals ran away.

Barezz would continue an obsessive search for Tiree, usually working with his personal friend Ref Mawber, another ISB agent and the head of a network of spies in the criminal organizations of Questal.

Coincidentially, Tiree's sister Tyerle had settled on Questal with her husband. Rogan, trying to escape from the Empire. Unfortunately, the Empire reached Questal, tempted by its production of ardanium and installed Moff Bandor as the governor, and Mawber as his intelligence chief. Tyerle and Rogan joined the Questal resistance.

Unfortunately, Rogan was captured by Bandor's hurlorthrumbic generator. Scared, Tyerle called his brother for help, but Tiree was also captured. The hurlothrumbic generator caused such fear in Tiree's and Rogan's brains, that both of them easily became mindless. However, the Rebel Alliance sent a rescue team for Tiree and Rogan; these Rebels were personal friends of Tiree. Both men could be rescued, and Bandor was captured in the same operation.

Tiree and Rogan needed time to recover from the damage. Particularly Tiree was eager to return to the Alliance, where he was assigned to work as a field agent in the Tharin Sector and the Arkanis Sector.

Then, the Alliance needed a investigation on the loyal planet Iskalon, where Tiree had lived some time before. Tiree was assigned to be part of that investigation, alongside Yom Argo. They were to inspire anti-Imperial sentiments among all the seventeen species of Iskalonians, reaching a certain amount of success. In fact, they were so effective that the Empire decided to attack Telfrey as a retribution.

Some rumors suggest that Tiree was involved in the theft of the plans for the Death Star II, being supposed to receive them from the Bothans and then pass them to the central command. Unfortunately, Tiree was captured on Arcan IV. He left a message in his downed X-Wing to communicate any Rebel sent after him that the plans were hidden in the memory banks of droid LE-914.

Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa searched for Tiree and found his clue, but meanwhile Darth Vader himself was torturing Tiree. Vader left a broken Tiree behind to die, hoping to lure Skywalker to a trap.

However, when LE-914 saw Tiree, she gave the plans to Skywalker, bought him and Organa time to escape and then clutched Vanis. She self-destructed, killing Vanis but also his wardens, and destroying the Imperial installation.

Appearances

 * Marvel Star Wars 74: The Iskalon Effect
 * Marvel Star Wars 79: The Big Con
 * Marvel Star Wars 80: Ellie
 * Rookies