RJ-909

RJ-909 was the designation of^[3] a human^[2] TIE fighter pilot who served the Galactic Empire's Starfighter Corps during the Imperial Era. When the Imperial cadet Han Solo attempted to escape from the Carida Academy in a stolen TIE fighter^[3] on the planet^[4] Carida^[3] sometime between 13 BBY and 10 BBY,^[1] RJ-909 and a number of TIE pilots gave chase,^[3] led by the academy's flight instructor, Yurib Nakan.^[5]

As the pilots attempted to shoot him down, Solo maneuvered around the fighters, putting RJ-909 in the flight path of another fighter. Despite the other pilot's warnings, RJ-909 could not break away in time, killing them both when the two fighters collided with each other.^[3] Not long after Solo's subsequent capture, Nakan displayed a hologram of the collision while reprimanding the cadet in his prison cell.^[5]

Behind the scenesEdit

RJ-909 first appeared in the first issue of the comic-book miniseries Star Wars: Han Solo - Imperial Cadet, though only the character's TIE fighter was shown in the comic. It was written by Robbie Thompson, illustrated by Leonard Kirk,^[3] and published by Marvel Comics on November 7, 2018.^[6]

AppearancesEdit

• Han Solo - Imperial Cadet 1 (First appearance) (Starfighter only)
• Han Solo - Imperial Cadet 2 (Appears in hologram) (Starfighter only)

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