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"Sithspawn! I'm hit!"

- Anni Capstan

Anni Capstan was a female Human who served in Rogue Squadron as a starfighter pilot during the Yuuzhan Vong War. Recruited at the time of Rogue Squadron's participation in the action between the Yuuzhan Vong and the forces of the New Republic over the world of Dubrillion, Capstan went on to fight alongside her wingmate, Jedi Jaina Solo, at the locations of Dantooine, Garqi, and Ithor. Flying as Rogue Twelve during all of these events, Capstan was killed over Ithor in 25 ABY, where she fell victim to enemy coral skippers.

Biography
A female Human born before 25 ABY, Anni Capstan at sometime participated in a starfighter event near the planet Dubrillion, in which pilots sought to achieve the longest time spent flying in the asteroid group known as Lando's Folly. There, Capstan set a decent time. In the year 25 ABY, the extra-galactic Yuuzhan Vong species invaded the galaxy, and during the initial fighting between the New Republic and the invaders, Dubrillion was targeted. Driven off once, Yuuzhan Vong forces returned to lurk near the planet, and, at that time, Capstan was present on Dubrillion. As New Republic forces planned to evacuate the citizens of Dubrillion and abandon the world to the invaders, Capstan was recruited into the elite starfighter group Rogue Squadron. She was chosen due to her time running Lando's Folly, and was designated Rogue Twelve, filling the position that the previous Twelve, Tik, had filled before his death; Jaina Solo, a Jedi who was quite skilled a flying, was given the position of Rogue Eleven to fill in the gap created by another death.

As the refugee convoy began to depart Dubrillion space, the Yuuzhan Vong forces that had been lurking nearby moved to engage the convoy and its escort. As a part of Rogue Squadron, Capstan launched from a hangar bay on Dubrillion in her X-wing starfighter, and proceeded to place herself between the oncoming Yuuzhan Vong forces and the convoy. While other squadrons took on the coral skipper groups that began to make runs on the convoy, Capstan and the other Rogues, including her wing mate Solo, were given the task of taking out Rock-One, the miid ro'ik capital ship that was leading the invaders' assault. Capstan covered Solo as she made strafing runs on the ship, and her wing mate soon discovered that Rock-One's plasma launchers were vulnerable to enemy attack and not shielded by the gravity manipulating effects of dovin basals just before the launchers fired. Because of this, Solo timed a set of proton torpedos so they flew into the launcher and detonated. Capstan followed her wingmate's lead and also managed to get on of a pair of proton torpedoes into the plasma launcher right after her wing mate's set, and the resulting explosions heavily damaged the plasma launcher.

Just then, Rock-One used its dovin basals to block the hyperspace route that led to the world of Agamar, the convoy's destination. Though some of the ship's managed to make the jump before this occurred, the majority of the convoy was forced to head to the planet of Dantooine instead. With the convoy out of system, Capstan and Rogue Squadron broke off their attack on Rock-One, and traveled to Dantooine. However, Yuuzhan Vong forces soon pursued the refugees from Dubrillion to Dantooine, and attacked them there. Masses of Chazrach ground troops attacked the refugee base that was located on the planet's surface, and Capstan and the rest of Rogue Squadron were tasked with occupying the coral skippers that were accompanying the Yuuzhan Vong ground forces. In the middle of the battle, where New Repbulic ground forces engaged the Chazrach troops of the invades, Jedi Grand Master Luke Skywalker requested that two members of Rogue Squadron complete a run on the largest enemy round vehicle. Rogue Leader Gavin Darklighter and Solo complied, and while Capstan and Rogue Two watched their flanks, the pair fired a quartet of proton torpedoes at the vehicle.

After astromech droid R2-D2 changed the telemetry of the missiles as they were heading towards the vehicle, the gravity anomaly that the vehicle had created the block the threat attempted to move between the missiles and the spine of the vehicle. However, Skywalker, who was in the shuttle Impervious, held the gravity anomaly back with the Force, and then pushed it foreword so that the anomaly hit the vehicle. The vehicle, which was the controller of the Chazrach, was sucked into the gravity anomaly, and destroyed, while the missiles impacted the ground and detonated, killing many of the enemy ground troopers. Because the controlling vehicle was destroyed, the ground troops went mad, and attacked anything around them.

With the majority of the refugees loaded into freighters, the New Republic evacuated the base. Capstan and the remnants of Rogue Squadron accompanied them into the orbit of Dantooine, but a Yuuzhan Vong cruiser similar to the one they encountered at Dubrillion was using its dovin basals to prevent any of the convoy from escaping. Despite this, the convoy was rescued after the Bothan Assault Cruiser Ralroost and the Victory-I class Star Destroyer Corusca Fire arrived in the system, and drove off the cruiser so the convoy could make a getaway. After he battle on Dantooine, Solo moved into the squadron barracks and took up a room with Capstan.

Later that year, Capstan flew with the Rogues again, this time at the Yuuzhan Vong occupied world of Garqi. There, they flew from the Ralroost, and were tasked with taking the coral skippers that came to engage them while the battered freighter the Lost Hope tried to enter Garqi's atmosphere; the Lost Hope contained a reconnaissance team, including Solo's brother Jacen Solo, which was tasked with obtaining valuable information about the enemy. When two of the ten coral skippers that came to engage Capstan and Rogue Squadron targeted the Lost Hope, she and her wingmate moved to engage them. Solo quickly blasted the first enemy craft apart, and while she covered for Capstan, Rogue Twelve went at the last coral skipper from the side, shopopting it with all over her laser cannons. However, the dovin basals of the enemy craft absorbed up all of the shots.

Despite this, Capstan scored a hit with one of a pair of proton torpedoes after the skips crossed in front of her, destroying the coral skipper completely. The Lost Hope exploded just then, due to an unknown causes seen by Capstan and the others; unbeknownst to them, the explosion had been one engineered by the New Republic forces, and the reconnaissance team had ejected from the doomed Lost Hope via the shuttle Best Chance, to land unnoticed on Garqi by both their friends and their enemies. After withdrawing from the area around Garqi, the pilots were informed that the team had actually made it to the surface. Later, Capstan and Rogue Squadron were tasked with escorting the reconnaissance team back off Garqi. As soon as the Ralroost completed it's microjump in the system, Capstan and her wingmate launched from its bays. They soon detected the Best Chance rising to meet them, but it was then that the Yuuzhan Vong forces arrived, with the cruiser Burning Pride leading the battle group.

Rogue Twelve and Eleven came at a group of six coral skippers heading for the Best Chance, and Capstan fired two torpedoes, one after another. The first detonated prematurely, as intended, and the gas cloud forced the group of craft apart. The second missile met two of the coral skippers that had fled when confronted with the gas cloud, and destroyed both of them. While Solo took out one of the remaining craft, Capstan managed to damage another with her lasers. Despite the arrival of New Republic reinforcements, which consisted of two Victory-class Star Destroyers, the battle seemed to be going poorly until the space forces of the Imperial Remnant came to Garqi. While Imperial Nssis-class Clawcraft helped mope up the remaing coral skippers that were harassing the Best Chance and the New Republic battle ships, two new Star Destroyers helped turn the tide of the battle. A group of clawcraft escorted Capstan and Solo back to the Ralroost before the entire New Republic allied group departed the system, their mission of getting the Best Chance out a success.

Appearances

 * Dark Tide I: Onslaught
 * Dark Tide II: Ruin
 * Balance Point
 * Edge of Victory II: Rebirth
 * Star by Star
 * Enemy Lines I: Rebel Dream
 * Destiny's Way
 * Ylesia
 * Invincible

Mentions

 * Dark Tide 1:
 * Chapter Twenty??? - confirmed, old Rogue 12 died before Battle of Dubrillion
 * Chapter Thirty Two
 * Chapter Thirty Three
 * Chapter Thirty Four
 * Dark Tide 2:
 * Chapter Ten
 * Chapter Twenty
 * Chapter Twenty One
 * Chapter Twenty Eight
 * Chapter Thirty
 * Chapter Thirty One
 * Chapter Thirty Seven (post-Death)