Talk:Tycho Celchu


 * Tycho joined Rogue Squadron and flew an A-Wing at the Battle of Endor. 

A-Wings belonged to the Green Squadron. Is there a mistake now? Moff Rebus 21:48, 19 Jul 2005 (UTC)
 * Not exactly. Squadron assignments at the battle of Endor were a little odd; a number of Rogues were assigned to different squadrons (thus, along with Tycho in Green 3, fellow Rogues Kin Kian and Karie Neth were serving as gunners in Gray 1 and Gray 2, respectively).  So, Tycho was a member of Rogue Squadron, but was piloting as a member of Green Squadron while at Endor.  jSarek 05:43, 20 Jul 2005 (UTC)
 * &mdash; We have to remember that at Endor, the units were Groups, not squadrons. A Group constitutes several squadrons, probably four to six (based on the number of fighters at Battle of Endor). Rogue Squadron's members would have been amalgamated into a Group with other squadrons, but if they were divided up and put into seperate Groups, as you say, that would make sense as well. I've come to believe that Red Group was, in fact, comprised of different types of fighters (X-Wings, A-Wings), and that Tycho Celchu is the "Red Two" that Wedge calls out to, or refers to, at three points in the dialogue of the space battle. Each time Red Two is referenced, it is followed by a shot of an A-Wing. When he calls out to "Red Three", that too is followed by an A-Wing, but that A-Wing gets destroyed by a TIE Interceptor, and we hear no further references to a Red Three. When Wedge is in the midst of most of the space battle, we see an A-Wing close at hand, or out in front of him; indeed, it's an exceptionally good tactic for the faster, more nimble A-Wing to be out in front, "stirring up trouble" while the more heavily armed X-Wing trails behind, shooting interlopers off the A-Wing's tail. It seems to be a tactic that the Rogues might develop, given their elite, unconventional nature. So, I propose that Tycho was, in fact, Red Two in an A-Wing. -- Hawke / Rtufo 21:06, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Who ever said Tycho went in the Death Star and broke off when order was wrong it was Jake Farrel -- Plokoon9619
 * Wrong Death Star. Tycho flew an A-wing at the Battle of Endor. jSarek 01:07, 10 Dec 2005 (UTC)

Thats what im talking about. -- Plokoon9619


 * &mdash; No, correct Death Star. The "tunnel run" through the innards of the Second Death Star was commenced by six Rebel craft, in this flight order (as they went down the entrance) -- A-Wing (see above discussion... this is probably Tycho Celchu), X-Wing (Wedge), Milennium Falcon, A-Wing (Jake Farrel), Y-Wing (unknown), X-Wing (unknown). Since Lando ambiguously ordered, "Red Group, Gold Group, all fighters, follow me!", there is no way of knowing which fighters came from which unit, or that what we were looking at was all that remained of those groups. More than likely, those were the only fighters that could gain separation from the engagement and were available to make that run. In any case, it is "canon" that Tycho was in an A-Wing during this action, but that still leaves another A-Wing. It makes logical sense that the screen shot of the A-Wing pilot replying "Copy, Gold Leader" is the pilot of the second A-Wing, since at the instant Lando made the order, the lead A-Wing was already headed down the alternate tube. So, it's perfectly conceivable that the second A-Wing in the tunnel, trailing immediately the Falcon, was this Jake Farrel character. -- Hawke / Rtufo 21:06, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Author Michael A. Stackpole, who created the character, has cleared this question up on his website. 218.215.5.113 03:19, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

How come Michael A. Stackpole says that Tycho Celchu is not the pilot shown in Return of The Jedi; he says that Celchu is the second A-wing pilot ordered out of the Death Star. I'm asking this question because in Episode 6 only 2 fighters go out of the Death Star; the A-wing that Jake Farell is piloting, and a Y-wing, not a second A-wing that Tycho should be piloting. I was thinking that Tycho should have been the one in the A-wing while Farell was supposedly piloting the Y-wing, but then this idea is most likely wrong because Celchu is supposedly piloting the second fighter, which is the Y-wing.- Malak501 November 22 2006 (—Unsigned comment by 24.20.179.249 (talk • contribs).

Yeah, that's what happened. I just watched the movie and the running order is as follows, Wedge, Jake Farrel, Lando, Tycho, Unknown Y-wing pilot, and Kier Santage.

Picture
Come on we can get a better picture than that can't we? The New Essential Guide to Characters had a pretty good picture of him, as I recall. Couldn't we use that one instead? It's so much better. -- AdmThrawn --

There is a picture of him in the NEC, too. --Commander Mike 21:58, 20 April 2006 (UTC)


 * I google imaged him and found several scans that we can use... going to go upload some now. - Breathesgelatin 03:50, 21 April 2006 (UTC)

Tycho on Trial
I may be misremembering, but wasn't the trial of Tycho a sham designed to ferret out the real mole in Rogue Squadron?
 * Yes. Arien Cracken knew that Tycho was not the mole in Rogue Squadron, but he wasn't sure if Tycho was an Imperial Spy. -- SFH 21:10, 9 February 2006 (UTC)

Behind the Scenes
Could Tycho be the a-wing pilot in Rotj that says "Three of them coming in, twenty degrees." The annotated screenplay says that's Red 3, and that the a-wing pilot who says "Got it." is Red 2, which isn't right because Red 2 is later shown as a y-wing. Also, during the part where an a-wing gets blown up and then a y-wing comes in is described as "The dog fight between Rebel X-wings and Imperial TIE fighters rages." I always thought that the guy who says "Got it." and then expilodes is Red 3, and that the twenty degree guy is Green 3(Tycho). Wedgeroks! 15:41, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
 * Umm...what does Tycho Brahe have to do with Tycho Celchu? Are we going to put that Luke Skywalker shares a name with Cool Hand Luke? Is there a missing sentence that I'm not reading? Like "Tycho was named for Tycho Brahe" or something like that because what we have now seems to have nothing to do with the Tycho Celchu character. Cull Tremayne 17:12, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Apparently, Wikipedia confirms that Tycho Celchu was named after Tycho Brahe. To be precise, "Tycho Celchu" appears in section "Named after Tycho", alongside with "Tycho crater on the Moon" et al. - Tycho Brahe on Wikipedia - Skippy Farlstendoiro 09:51, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Cany anyone cite a source for Tycho being named after Brahe? I'm just going to put that Tycho was named after Brahe for the time being, but if anyone has trouble confirming this, we can delete it. Cull Tremayne 21:39, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
 * I reworded the last paragraph in this section to clarify about Tycho and Jake to better match earlier comments in this Talk page. Some more tweaking wouldn't hurt. -Finlayson 17:50, 18 May 2006 (UTC)

Name
I just have a question. In the Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike game, they just refer to him as Tycho. So i was wondering, is his name pronounced Selchu (like the say it is in "X-Wing: Wedge's Gamble"), or Kelchu, like I always thought it was?
 * I would go with the pronounciation from "Wedge's Gamble", since that source is considered canon.