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"Nice work, Rogue Squadron. We might make a name for ourselves, after all."

- Luke Skywalker, following the Imperial ambush of Mos Eisley

"Did Skywalker make that shot?" "That was me." "Hey, I thought I was the best!"

- Crix Madine, Luke Skywalker, and Wedge Antilles, following Skywalker's precision shot to destroy the shield generator on the Jade Moon

"Let's head home. I need to paint some TIE Fighters on my fuselage."

- Luke Skywalker, following the raid on Balmorra

"Nice job, Skywalker. I beginning to see why they say you're the best."

- Kasan Moor

Shortly following the Rebels' evacuation of Yavin Base circa .5 ABY, Skywalker, in command of the newly formed Rogue Squadron attached to a roving Alliance capital ship command base, led a series of missions against the Empire. During a leisurely early morning run through Tatooine's Beggars Canyon in their X-wings, Skywalker, Antilles, and another Rogue unexpectedly encountered an Imperial ambush of Mos Eisley. They were able to drive away a pacification force of TIE bombers and Viper probe droids.

Rogue Squadron's duties soon turned to a campaign of search-and-rescue and escort missions for Alliance forces under the command of General Carlist Rieekan. Skywalker helped to escort a supply convoy of much needed war matériel from resistance forces through Imperial territory on the humid world of Barkesh. They later assisted in a race-against-time recovery against TIE interceptors and bombers of a downed Rebel ship, the Nonnah, that had been carrying a number of Rebel soldiers and stolen Imperial equipment and had crash landed on the fog-shrouded world of Chorax. Flying RZ-1 A-wing interceptors, the Rogues helped protect a Lambda-class shuttle that worked to extract the crew from the crash site.

When Imperial officer Crix Madine expressed to the Rebellion his desire to defect in 1 ABY, Skywalker led the squadron in T-47 airspeeders into Coronet City, the capital city of Corellia, where Rieekan was engaged in a meeting with city leaders in the Coronet Capital Tower concerning Madine's defection. The Rogues helped fend off a concentrated attack on the capital tower by TIE bombers and, with the timely intervening help of Solo and Chewbacca in the Millennium Falcon, were able to oversee Madine's safe transition into Alliance hands and help evacuate the citizens trapped in the tower just before its destruction. During the battle, Skywalker utilized for the first time an ingenious new tactic to defeat All Terrain Armored Transports. Using his speeder's harpoon and tow cable, he and his rear gunner tangled up the legs of two AT-ATs, tripping them to the ground and effectively rendering them inoperable.

Skywalker and the Rogues, in conjunction with a flight of Gold Squadron Y-wings led by Madine, responded to a distress signal sent to the Rebellion from the planet Gerrard V, where the local Imperial governor was looting the city following a previous failed anti-Imperial revolt by the planet's inhabitants. The Alliance force was met by the elite 128th TIE Interceptor Squadron under the command of Lieutenant Kasan Moor. Engaging the 128th in a dogfight above Gerrard V's urban centers, the Rogues were able to help the planet gain its independence. Madine used his Y-wing's ion cannons to disable Moor's interceptor during the skirmish. Captured by the Rebellion, she too decided to defect from Imperial forces and joined Rogue Squadron under Skywalker's command.

Moor provided the location of an Imperial supply depot on the Jade Moon, a weapons repository for local Imperial bases within the Carosus system. Although Antilles expressed his skepticism of Moor's trustworthiness to Skywalker, the latter was willing to allow her the opportunity to prove herself. Skywalker and the Rogues flew air cover for a commando team led by Madine, that was to infiltrate and raid the moon's supply inventory. During the raid, the Imperial forces raised a shield around the base, preventing Madine and his forces access. Skywalker, however, destroyed the base's nearby shield generator that was located at the end of a winding canyon with a salvo of proton torpedoes, reminiscent of his actions that destroyed the first Death Star only a year prior. The shot was executed at a near-impossible angle and under the fire of a series of missile launchers, earning the impression of Madine. At the conclusion of the battle, Skywalker expressed to Moor his pride that she was now fighting for her own ideals.

Further intelligence from Moor led the squadron on a hit-and-run mission to the Imperial factory world of Balmorra, where Skywalker was instrumental in the destruction of AT-AT and AT-ST manufacturing facilities, again in the cockpit of a T-47; a raid on the planet Kile II in Y-wings, which saw Skywalker help to raze the local Imperial Enclave, crippling Imperial Navy operations in that sector. During the battle, however, Antilles' Y-wing was ambushed and shot down by TIE Interceptors, leading to his capture. This inevitably led the Rogues to the Imperial prison world of Kessel, where Antilles had been shipped. Flying an X-wing specially equipped with an ion cannon, Skywalker assisted in the disabling of a ray shielded armored hovertrain to rescue Antilles before it could deliver him to the central prison facility. Immediately thereafter, Skywalker once more flew cover for Madine's commandos as they infiltrated the extensive prison complex to rescue a number of other incarcerated Rebels.

With Rogue Squadron once more at full strength, the Alliance faced a new threat&mdash;the Imperial Moff Kohl Seerdon, who had set his aims on the precious bacta supplies of Thyferra, hoping to cripple the Rebellion's medical efforts. Skywalker and the Rogues were tasked with a series of quick hit-and-run raids to disrupt Seerdon's operations. The first included an A-wing strike against the Imperial tibanna gas mining colony of Taloraan. During the Taloraan raid, a group of Rebels had stolen three AT-PTs from an Imperial research facility on the icy planet of Fest. The Rogues raced to help their comrades, whose escape had not gone as planned. Skywalker personally escorted the AT-PTs to safety through a heavy fire zone, once more employing the harpoon and tow cable tactic to bring down three AT-ATs. He then proceeded to destroy Seerdon's research facility.

In retribution for the Fest raid, Seerdon initiated a blockade of the planet Chandrila. The Rogues were once more rushed into action, first helping to escort an armored hover train carrying supplies vital to the Chandrilan resistance forces, and then overseeing the escape of civilians aboard evacuation shuttles. Rogue Squadron was ultimately able to secure the city after a contested dogfight. When Moor spotted Seerdon escaping from the scene in his own shuttle under the escort of several TIE Interceptors after the battle, Skywalker personally ordered her to refrain from pursuing him, warning her that they did not know how many ships he had backing him up.

Rogue Squadron soon engineered their own brand of retribution, destroying an Imperial geothermal energy transmitter, the Capacitor, above a volcano on the planet Sullust. However, the effort turned out to be nothing but a diversion by Seerdon, drawing the Rogues away from his true intentions: the seizure of Thyferra's bacta, to cut off the Rebellion's supplies for good. Skywalker led his squadron into battle against Seerdon's forces in the Thyferra skies. The skirmish culminated in a final head-to-head dogfight between Skywalker and Seerdon himself, in a modified Sentinel-class landing craft. Skywalker was able to destroy Seerdon's craft, killing him, finally securing the planet's bacta.

At some point during this period, Skywalker, Antilles, Dak Ralter, and Zev Senesca entered into a friendly race through Beggar's Canyon in T-16 Skyhoppers. Skywalker defeated each of his squadronmates, ritualistically finishing the race by "threading" the eye of the Stone Needle, though he admitted afterwards that he felt bad since he was a certified expert at the course.

Notes:
 * I've listed the defection of Corellia as the first time Skywalker employed the tactic of tripping AT-ATs with tow cables. This may, in fact, first occur at an earlier time of which I am unaware.
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