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Pharl McQuarrie was a captain of the Galactic Republic Navy during the Clone Wars and later a general of the Alliance to Restore the Republic during the Galactic Civil War. A native of the Core Worlds planet Ralltiir, McQuarrie's Clone Wars military service saw him participate in the Republic defense of the vital agricultural planet Ukio in command of a Consular-class cruiser. Although the Republic repelled the enemy Confederate incursion from Ukio, Separatist interests captured financial control of the planet nonetheless.

In the decades that followed, McQuarrie served as a respected military advisor for many years on his homeworld, until the Imperial subjugation of Ralltiir just weeks before the Battle of Yavin in 0 BBY. After fleeing his home planet to seek assistance from the Rebel Alliance, McQuarrie returned to take command of the Ralltiiri Rebel resistance movement, helping to deliver information concerning the existence of a secret Imperial superweapon, the first Death Star battlestation, to Princess Leia Organa. McQuarrie's efforts would directly lead to the subsequent Rebel capture of the Death Star plans and the destruction of the Death Star shortly thereafter. General Carlist Rieekan later selected McQuarrie to serve as his second-in-command at the Rebellion's new Echo Base on the planet Hoth, where McQuarrie was instrumental in the facility's construction. He went on to serve in the Rebel defeat at the Battle of Hoth in 3 ABY.