Sharr Latt

"My name is Sharr Latt. I'm a Wraith."

- Sharr Latt

Sharr Latt was a Human male from the planet Coruscant and a member of Wraith Squadron during the Yuuzhan Vong War. After the fall of Coruscant in 27 ABY, the Wraiths made their way to Borleias, where much of New Republic Fleet Group Three under Wedge Antilles was stationed, and were incorporated into the New Republic Intelligence units under the umbrella of Iella Wessiri Antilles. There, Latt served as an adviser to Jaina Solo on psychological warfare during the New Republic's occupation of Borleias, aiding her in creating the appearance that she was an avatar of the Yuuzhan Vong goddess of deception, Yun-Harla. Latt also helped plan Luke Skywalker's mission to Coruscant to hunt down the deranged Dark Jedi Lord Nyax, though he did not accompany this mission, instead temporarily joining Twin Suns Squadron under Solo to act as one of her personal advisers. At Borleias, he served aboard a B-wing starfighter as a gunner, piloted by a Mon Calamari pilot named Beelyath, and was responsible for launching the Goddess missile as Twin Suns Ten, luring several Yuuzhan Vong pilots to their death in a dovin basal minefield as they chased the projectile.

Biography
"We’re going out there. We’ll find a pool fed by cool underground springs. We’ll bathe one another while Piggy stands guard, and see what develops from there. Or, we can talk psychological warfare and how it is applied to the Yuuzhan Vong.” ”I’ll take the psychological warfare."

- Sharr Latt, flirting with Jaina Solo on Borleias

Sharr Latt was a native of Coruscant. At some point in his life, he joined the New Republic Defense Force and became part of Wraith Squadron as a psychological warfare expert around the time of the Yuuzhan Vong War.

Adviser to a goddess
Latt was present along with other members of the Wraiths during the Siege of Borleias. After Jedi Knight Jaina Solo arrived from the Hapes Cluster to join the New Republic garrison at Borleias, she discussed the possibility of using a Yuuzhan Vong suspicion that she was related to their deception goddess, Yun-Harla, against the Yuuzhan Vong in the Pyria system. The garrison commander, Wedge Antilles, saw potential in her idea and assigned two pilots of Wraith Squadron, Latt and Gamorrean Voort saBinring, to help Solo execute her disinformation and psychological warfare campaign. This essentially involved creating the appearance of Solo being an avatar of Yun-Harla.



In their first meeting, Latt took the opportunity to casually flirt with Solo, though she rejected his overtures flatly. Instead, he informed her that he and saBinring would be her advisers, supervising her deification into Yun-Harla. He criticized some of the deceptions she had employed against the Yuuzhan Vong at Hapes&mdash;such as when Solo fired tracers at enemy vessels that gave the Yuuzhan Vong ships her sensor signature, causing them to fire on one another&mdash;saying they were too one-dimensional and that they could be eventually deciphered. Latt advised Solo that as a goddess, she needed to have an endless supply of deceptions to continually confound the Yuuzhan Vong, ones that they couldn't figure out. Solo agreed and also began taking up several other mannerisms that marked her as special and even worthy of a deity, such as not doing manual labor and only doing work related to creating deceptions or combating the Yuuzhan Vong. Latt noted that he and saBinring fit into that plan by serving as the unusually dressed and mannered companions that one might expect a goddess to keep around her.

Latt also aided Solo in making her personal squadron, Twin Suns Squadron, into the personal bodyguard of a goddess. Their unit saw looser regulations, full torpedo loads, and had a separate mess from the rest of the pilots, even the elite squadrons of the Borleias garrison. He also told her that she could have a porter to act as her personal servant and Solo chose her boyfriend and fellow Twin Suns pilot Jagged Fel for the role with glee. However, when informed of his new duty, Fel rejected the plan. Latt was at first indignant, but Fel informed them that he had a better person in mind for the role: Jedi Master Kyp Durron, who was also in Twin Suns Squadron. Latt liked this plan better and furthermore recommended that all the pilots in Twin Suns have their titles and ranks inflated to help elevate their prestige, as the unit's unorthodox command structure would not be affected by the addition of ranks or titles. Also, when Solo allowed her pilots to decorate their snubfighters however they pleased, Latt suggested that Solo decorate her own craft with images of voxyn, a Yuuzhan Vong-created creature designed to kill Jedi. Solo had already faced off against voxyn and survived, but the beasts had slain several of her friends; Latt therefore figured that having Solo identify herself with such a symbol would confuse the Yuuzhan Vong.

Service in Twin Suns
Latt later joined Twin Suns Squadron and flew with the unit during the final stages of the Battle of Borleias. In this capacity, he served as the gunner for a B-wing starfighter, which Solo had been given. While a Mon Calamari pilot named Beelyath flew the craft through groups of coralskippers, Latt manned the weapons station of the starfighter. As a wave of coralskippers closed in on the Twin Suns' position, Latt fired off the Goddess missile, a specially engineered projectile that emulated the specific gravitic signature of Solo's starfighter. As the Yuuzhan Vong craft's sensors operated on gravitic frequencies, they were fooled into chasing the missile. Latt then remotely piloted the missile through a dovin basal minefield, luring many Yuuzhan Vong fighters to their demise before slinging the missile around a mine and ramming it into the final pursuer. Shortly after this, however, the Executor-class Star Dreadnought Lusankya rammed the Domain Hul worldship, effectively marking the end of the battle, as the New Republic forces withdrew thereafter. Although Borleias had been lost, the New Republic had inflicted heavy casualties on the Yuuzhan Vong forces and had slain one of the premier strategists of the Yuuzhan Vong, Czulkang Lah.

Personality and traits
Sharr Latt was a jokester and a flirt, making multiple advances towards Jaina Solo, all of which were rejected. He routinely tried to make light of numerous situations and employed witticisms and sarcasm in his day-to-day conversations. However, Latt also knew how to be serious, particularly when his job required him to be; as a Wraith, he was dedicated to completing his missions. Many of his more extravagant mannerisms were actually ploys to divert attention from himself even while being the center of attention; people didn't see Latt for who he was as a result. He was a skilled pilot able to hold his own even in an elite unit such as Twin Suns Squadron, capable enough to remotely pilot a missile with enough skill to lead several Yuuzhan Vong starfighters to their destruction. Latt was also an expert in psychological warfare, having been trained in that discipline, and he had no problems with telling a higher-ranking officer when he thought their work in that area could have been better or could use improvement.

Behind the scenes
Sharr Latt's first and insofar only appearances are in the Enemy Lines Duology, written by author Aaron Allston. While it is possible that he may have been in the Wraiths during other parts of the Yuuzhan Vong War, no source has explicitly stated that.

Appearances

 * Enemy Lines I: Rebel Dream
 * Enemy Lines II: Rebel Stand

Notes and references
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