Samoc Farr/Legends

Samoc Farr was a Rebel pilot who served at the Battle of Hoth in 3 ABY. She was the younger sister of Toryn Farr.

Battle of Hoth
"Imperial walker shot me down&mdash;"

- Samoc Farr, to her sister, Toryn Farr

By 3 ABY, Samoc Farr, a talented pilot of the Alliance to Restore the Republic who had served in several battles, was stationed at the Alliance High Command's secret Echo Base on the remote Outer Rim Territories ice planet Hoth. Farr flew with the elite Rogue Group under the command of Luke Skywalker during the critical Battle of Hoth against the Galactic Empire's invasion force of assault walkers, attached to Darth Vader's personal fleet of Imperial-class Star Destroyers, Death Squadron. Farr and the Rogues were tasked with delaying the inexorable advance of the Imperial walkers long enough to buy time for the base's vulnerable GR-75 medium transports to evacuate valuable Rebel personnel and equipment.

At some point during the battle, Farr's T-47 airspeeder was one of several Rogue craft shot down by an All Terrain Armored Transport, though she survived. Badly wounded, Farr was eventually brought back to Echo Base's main hangar during the late stages of the conflict as the final remnants of Rebel personnel rushed to escape the planet before Imperial snowtroopers descended on the base. She was left lying amidst an assortment of similarly wounded Rebel soldiers being treated by medical droids around the flight deck of the Bright Hope, the last remaining Rebel transport yet to depart. Toryn Farr, Echo Base's chief controller and Farr's older sister, soon arrived in the hangar after ordering the final evacuation code signal to the troops still fighting in the field to find the flight deck flooded with wounded and dying. She hastily began to help load the wounded onto the Bright Hope and eventually discovered her sister among the hangar's casualties, injured but still conscious. That Samoc had been shot down during the battle led Toryn to believe that the engagement had been truly horrific considering her younger sister was among the Rebellion's best pilots. Toryn found her sister medically untreated in the haste to evacuate and covered in burns&mdash;her red hair and eyelashes were gone, and her hands and face were charred. Toryn carried her sister aboard the transport despite the pain she knew it must have caused her as snowtrooper blaster fire exploded around them. The Farr sisters were among the last to board the Bright Hope before it blasted away from Hoth. As a vessel designed to safely carry 90 passengers, the Bright Hope had been cleared of vital equipment to make room for hundreds.

Survival aboard the Bright Hope
"This goes on and on." "What do you mean?" "We're still alive. The Imperials are having a hard time killing us. I'm wondering how the Imperials will finally do it."

- Samoc and Toryn Farr, following their survival of the Bright Hope's blockade run

Aboard the final transport, Toryn strapped her wounded sister into a vacant seat near the boarding hatch and knelt beside her to keep her body stable for the ship's impending blockade run through the line of Star Destroyers waiting in orbit. The Bright Hope was disabled and all but destroyed by concentrated fire from the Imperial fleet and the Mist Hunter, the craft of the bounty hunters Zuckuss and 4-LOM, who had entered the Hoth system in the midst of the space battle on an Imperial assignment. Although a large portion of the Bright Hope had been completely blown away, the Farr sisters survived, among 108 others.

When Toryn regained consciousness following the transport's ordeal, she found Samoc alive and conscious as well, but shaking and moaning&mdash;with her burn wounds still untreated, Samoc had fallen into shock. After Toryn retrieved and covered her sister with a brown bantha-wool blanket that had spilled from an overhead cupboard, Samoc grimly whispered to her that the Imperials had failed to kill them, first after Samoc had being shot down over the Hoth battlefield, then nearly being shot by stormtroopers while boarding the transport, and finally surviving the blockade run; she could only wonder how they would finally do it. Toryn refused to think about that possibility, but realized that she and her sister, for all the battles they had been through, had never been that close to death. Instead, she wrapped her sister tighter in the blanket, and promised to look for something with which to treat her burns as she went off to search the crippled transport for a way to save themselves.

During her search of the Bright Hope's interior, Toryn happened upon the medical droids 2-1B and F4-7, who had previously served in the Echo Base medical lab. She ordered the latter, who was equipped with excellent burn-treatment programs, to tend to the wounded Samoc, despite knowing that the droid would adhere to its command by bypassing all other Rebel wounded no matter the extent of their injuries. She reasoned that if there was a way to survive, she wanted Samoc to live, for she had once promised her mother that she would take care of her sister, the youngest in the Farr family.

Continuing through the transport, taking stock of their situation, Toryn eventually compiled a list of all survivors aboard in an effort to determine who would be selected to fill the 18 available passenger spots in the Bright Hope's three still-functioning escape pods, which would be jettisoned back to Hoth to give those Rebels most valuable to the Alliance's cause the best chances of survival. When the list of 108 survivors was broken down to 56, eliminating 52 who were identified as too badly wounded by the ship's medical droids to attempt survival in Hoth's unforgiving environment, Samoc was among those selected to remain aboard. Toryn's leadership abilities earned her a nomination to join the escape pod party, but she refused. Aside from the fact that she knew she was still needed aboard the transport, she would never leave Samoc behind.

An unexpected rescue
"You left one of our best pilots off your list of people to save&mdash;Samoc Farr. You think the Rebellion doesn't need good pilots?"

- Toryn Farr, to 4-LOM, explaining the illogic in the bounty hunter's rescue proposal

With little left to do following the escape pods' departures back to Hoth but prepare for the Bright Hope's inevitable boarding by a nearby Imperial-class Star Destroyer that had begun mop-up operations on similarly crippled Rebel transports, the ship's remaining passengers began to stockpile weapons and tend to the wounded. They were interrupted, however, when another ship was spotted approaching the Bright Hope, which one Rebel, Rory, identified as the Mist Hunter&mdash;the same craft that had disabled the Bright Hope, though those aboard were unaware of the role it had played in neutralizing the transport.

The bounty hunters Zuckuss and 4-LOM soon docked with and boarded the Bright Hope, intending to capture the 26 Rebels aboard identified by the Imperial Most Wanted List as having the largest bounties placed on them. Toryn Farr was foremost on the list. Trying to masquerade as hunters with Rebel connections in one of the largest Imperial bounty hunter guilds, 4-LOM attempted to persuade his 26 targets to come with him aboard the Mist Hunter, where he claimed they would be safely transported to the Rebels' rendezvous point in a remote location of space beyond the Galactic Rim of the galaxy. However, none of the Bright Hope's passengers believed him. Growing desperate, 4-LOM physically ensnared Toryn, the most valuable Rebel, and dragged her aboard his ship and into a secure holding cell. When she protested that the bounty hunters were not there to rescue them, the droid insisted that their efforts were genuine, to which she responded that Samoc, one of the Rebellion's most talented pilots, was left off the list of those to be rescued, a blatant lapse in logic. 4-LOM did not respond.

Eventually, Toryn was able to convince the hunters to rescue the remaining passengers still aboard the Bright Hope, including Samoc, after the duo realized their guise of a rescue attempt had ended in utter failure. And, rather than making the long and hazardous journey to the rendezvous point beyond the reaches of the galaxy, Toryn had convinced their rescuers to deliver them to the Rebel underground on the nearby planet Darlyn Boda, where Samoc would be able to receive badly needed medical treatment.

Crap begins here
With the help of her sister and the bounty hunters Zuckuss and 4-LOM, she was delivered to the Rebel underground on Darlyn Boda, where she finally received medical treatment. Additionally, 4-LOM allowed her to apply the Ankarres Sapphire to her wounds, a rare jewel reputed to have healing powers.

Along with Toryn and four other surviving members of the Bright Hope, Samoc finally reached the Rebel rendezvous point with the aid of the two bounty hunters.

Appearances

 * Of Possible Futures: The Tale of Zuckuss and 4-LOM