Bettle

"Damned if I know why I let you drag me into this Rebellion of yours." "Because it pays better than smuggling?"

- Bettle and Jerell

Bettle was a smuggler and one of two daughters of Ralltiir resistance leader Jerell (her sister had been killed, a death her father blamed on Imperial governor Dennix Graeber). She teamed up with another smuggler, Jaxa, and the two (and their ship, the Mallixer) became notable in smuggling circles. When the Galactic Empire cracked down on Ralltiir, Bettle and Jaxa became one of many groups of smugglers who attempted to run the blockade. However, that venture was fruitless, and the pair began marketing slugthrowers to warring species located beyond the Corporate Sector; this venture was more successful, and they brought back a full cargo of canta salt and havao tabac, though the Mallixer was damaged in the process.

Bettle could not escape her heritage, though, and her father convinced her to assist in the Rebellion, joking that it paid her better than her smuggling did. She began by returning to running guns to Ralltiir with Jaxa, despite Jaxa's unhappiness with the risk and the near-snagging of the Mallixer by Imperial forces. This disagreement apparently led to them splitting up for a while, though they soon worked out their disagreements and were operating as a team again to make the "Spirva Run," smuggling items from Galladinium's Datalog to rioters in Spirva Sector.

Eventually, Bettle got caught up in the Rebellion itself. Following the Battle of Endor, she was present with her father in an underground communications center on the planet, monitoring communications from the New Republic strike team led by Spike, when Governor Graeber initiated communication with her father, taunting him. In the midst of the communication, Spike's team destroyed the planet's power generators at the same time that a task force of six Mon Calamari Star Cruisers entered the system, ensuring that Ralltiir would be the first Core World to fall to the New Republic.

Following this victory, Bettle returned to smuggling with her old compatriot. During the Thrawn crisis, Talon Karrde formed an organization known as the Smugglers' Alliance, and Bettle and Jaxa eventually joined it. When the New Republic declared the Moruth Doole regime of Kessel to be illegitimate, the Smugglers' Alliance was cleared to occupy the world; Bettle and Jaxa were responsible for developing preliminary distribution plans for the glitterstim market.