Aeron Azzameen

Aeron Azzameen was the only daughter of Tomaas Azzameen. She had two older brothers, Galin and Emon and one younger, "Ace" Azzameen, whom she took under her wing.

Biography
Aeron Azzameen was the lone daughter of Tomaas Azzameen and the third of the four Azzameen children. She, along with the rest of the Azzameen household, lived in Azzameen Home Base, a space station. When she came of age, she began working for the family business, Twin Suns Transport Services, and typically flew either a YT-1300 light freighter or YT-2000 light freighter. When Tomaas decided that it was time the youngest Azzameen, Ace, was to learn to fly so he could also assist in the family trade around 3 ABY, the responsibility to train the new recruit fell upon Aeron.

Training an Azzameen
For her first training session, Aeron told Ace, who would be flying with the family MK-series maintenance droid MK-09, that the two of them would make a round-trip to Harlequin Station to drop off and pick up supplies. Both groups flew YT-1300 freighters: Ace, the Sabra, and Aeron the Selu. On the way back to their home, however, the two Azzameens were intercepted by a quick attack on Harlequin Station by the Enkidu, a Pursuer-class enforcement ship, and an accompaniment flying under the Viraxo flag. Though reluctant at first, Aeron agreed to assist the station once the hostile ships attacked and, with the aid of Emkay and Ace, chased the offending units out of the system.

Once the delivery was finished, Aeron shifted her attention to creating a new security system for the family's database. While her efforts proved fruitful, in the process she accidentally deleted the entire database, forcing a manual inspection of the individual containers in the family cargo fields. She enlisted the assistance of Ace and MK-09 and left on the twin YT-1300s. After a brief scuffle with raiders in the field, Aeron and Ace discovered was a crate of illegal spice planted by the Enkidu; Ace chased off the Pursuer-class while Aeron retrieved the container and took it home.

Dealing with the Viraxo
Once the Azzameen children returned home and reported their discovery, uncle Antan Azzameen hatched a plan of retribution against the Viraxo. Aeron was tasked with changing the ID codes for the Selu for a covert mission involving a setup using the Viraxo spice and Imperial entanglements. Aeron was successful, and flew the YT-1300, now known as the Venix, carrying the crate to Viraxo 54 under the guise of normal spaceport traffic. Ace and Emon were to show up shortly thereafter to conduct a hit-and-run attack on the station, drawing the attention of the Empire's forces and forcing the Viraxo to explain the existence of the illegal spice.

The mission did not go as planned, however. Aeron's brothers entered the system too early, forcing her to abort her mission, dump the cargo, and attempt to escape detection. Unfortunately for Aeron, though Ace and Emon were able to destroy most of the attacking craft, the Venix was disabled and had to be abandoned and destroyed. Aeron left the ship in a Zero-G uniform and was picked up by Emon, who left Viraxo space and returned to their home. Though the mission did not go off as planned, the result was what Antan had intended, and congratulated the Azzameen children on their work. Tomaas, however, was less than enthusiastic about his brother's decision to send his children into such dangerous circumstances.

Soon after the Viraxo 54 debacle, though, Tomaas enlisted the assistance of his children to fly cover for the GR-75 medium transport Vasudra as it was to make a cargo transfer of bacta with a group of smugglers. In this mission, Aeron was to fly the YT-2000 light freighter Otana, her father's favored ship. Initially, the transfer went as planned; however, the Azzameens' suspicions were aroused when the smugglers' ship End Run claimed that they had a problem with their pumps and sent three workers to fix them. A few seconds into this supposed repair, Aeron noticed that the workers were headed for the Vasudra's engines, and she correctly called the resulting double-cross. Each of the Azzameen children intercepted the saboteurs and incoming CloakShape fighters and, after the Azzameens' display of power, the End Run completed the transfer and exited the system. Aeron was left at home as Tomaas, Galin, Emon, Ace, and Emkay made their way to deliver the bacta to a clandestine hospital set up for those wounded at the Battle of Hoth.

The Viraxo strike back
"Hailing Rebel commander, this is Aeron Azzameen. The Empire has just driven me and my family from our home. We seek your protection. May we approach?"

- Aeron hails the commander of the fleet

Unfortunately for the Azzameens, forces would once again conspire to act against them. Imperial entanglements intervened in the bacta transfer, forcing the hospital's residents to evacuate and immediately casting doubt upon the motives of the Azzameens. Even more devastating for the Azzameen Family was the loss of the Vasudra and thus Tomaas and Galin. Shortly after, Antan correctly anticipated both the Empire to pay a visit to Azzameen assets and seize them. In order to escape with a fair deal of their possessions, Antan sent out two taskgroups: One containing himself, flying his Action IV transport the Big Score and Emon, flying the Andrasta, and the other containing Aeron in the Sabra and Ace in the Otana. Aeron's group, tasked with retrieving warheads and the contents of Antan's safe aboard the Twin Sun Station. Halfway through Aeron's transfer, a flight group composed of Imperial and Viraxo forces entered the system and began assaulting the station. Ace managed to hold the intruders long enough to allow Aeron and himself to exit the area, forfeiting Twin Suns Station to the Empire.

The two rendezvoused at Azzameen Home Base, expecting to meet the Big Score and Andrasta. However, they were forced to wait as neither ship had made it back. Aeron and MK-09 discussed the options they had if something happened to Antan, but had only a few moments to dwell on that as four Razor Fighters flying under the callsign Strelka entered the system and engaged the freighters. The offending starfighters were soon taken care of, leaving the two Azzameens waiting for news from either Antan or Emon. The news would come shortly thereafter when the Andrasta entered Azzameen space. Emon did not bear good news, however; Antan had been captured, and their uncle didn't have the opportunity to divulge his planned location for the family to ride out the Imperial storm. After determining that the Viraxo were behind the Imperial entanglements, the family remnant discussed their options. The short discussion was made even shorter by the entrance of the Imperial II class Star Destroyer Corrupter.

Faced with few options, Aeron suggested joining the Rebel Alliance by relying on her friend Olin Garn's status and word to counter any suspicions concerning the botched bacta run. She provided her brothers with the coordinates Garn had given her in case of trouble, and the remaining Azzameens left their home. Once among the rebels, Aeron hailed the fleet and explained their situation. The Mon Calamrian commander she spoke with expressed sympathy towards the loss of Tomaas and welcomed them aboard, but also showed surprise at the discovery of the fleet. Aeron told him about her friend, Garn, who had become a fairly prominent starfighter pilot, and was then told that the matters would be handled in person. The Azzameens were directed to the Mon Calamari Star Cruiser Defiance, where they would reside for the time being.

Ace and Emkay would end up staying aboard the cruiser as Ace was to join Red Squadron as a new starfighter pilot, while Aeron and Emon would investigate what happened to their uncle. Once Ace had been accepted into the rebellion as one of their pilots, Aeron sent him a congratulatory e-mail. She warned him to be careful, but also praised him for his decision.

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Biography
Kind and good-humored, it was Aeron who took "Ace" on his first delivery at Harlequin Station, but also tried to teach him how to fly responsibly and how to stay safe by not looking for trouble. No doubt she wanted to keep her little brother from turning out like Emon, who was never too far away from the next fight. She was a brilliant computer and systems slicer but also a fair freighter pilot, usually behind the controls of the Selu, one of the family's YT-1300s.

Aeron, while upgrading the Twin Suns Transport Services database, accidentally deleted all contents, so she flew with Ace to investigate the cargo areas and restore it. During that mission, they discovered that Viraxo Shipping were planting spice in their containers.

After the Selu was destroyed in a botched mission against the rival Viraxo family, Aeron took to flying the Otana, her father's personal YT-2000 transport&mdash;obviously an indication of her piloting skill, that her father would entrust her with such a ship.

Following the Imperial ambush that almost certainly killed Tomaas and Galin but also led to the seizure of the Azzameen's assets, it was Aeron's relationship with a Rebel pilot (and former employee), Olin Garn, that allowed the surviving Azzameens to seek refuge with the Rebel Alliance. Unlike "Ace", Aeron decided against becoming a fully fledged pilot in the Alliance, though did perform numerous tasks to aid the Rebels. This usually involved slicing through Imperial or Viraxo networks, finding juicy looking supplies, then along with "Ace" and other former Twin Sun co-workers, "liberating" these supplies before giving them to the Rebels. Her services earned her the Alliance Civilian Battle Award, but during one of these missions, Aeron made the near-fatal decision to travel to the Vergesso Base, just prior to the Imperial attack which wiped out the base situated there. It was up to "Ace" to rescue her, fighting his way through dozens of fighters, and past several Imperial warships, including the Executor, for which she was forever grateful.

Aeron would travel with her brothers and Uncle to Kessel after the latter claimed that he had proof that Tomaas and Galin were still alive and held captive in one of the prisons orbiting the planet. Aeron rode with "Ace" in the Otana, and duly sliced into the prison's network, hoping to locate her father and older brother. But as it transpired, they were not there, and it was a trap engineered by their own uncle, which nearly saw them captured by the Empire themselves. With the help of family friend Dunari, they managed to escape through the nearby asteroids.

Aeron did not take part in the Battle of Endor like her younger brother, which was lucky as, up till then, the Azzameens had largely been using the doomed Mon Calamari Star Cruiser Liberty as their base. -->

Behind the scenes
Aeron was voiced by Julianne Buescher, who also voiced characters in Star Wars: Lethal Alliance (Rianna Saren), The Gungan Frontier, and Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace (game).

Appearances

 * X-wing Alliance

Notes and references
Aeron Azzameen