So figured that some people might be interested in who the pilots are that we fly around and if able what they look like.

Lets start with Wave 0 and 1.

Rebels:

Wedge Antilles, what needs to be said about him? He is famous for being a survivor of the Battle of Yavin, was Red Leader at Endor and helped destroy the second death star, and in Legends was the leader of Rogue Squadron is one of the best pilots around.

Luke Skywalker, I think we all know well enough if not might I recommend checking out the OT films.

Thane Kyrell, the duotagonist of Lost Stars and a former imperial pilot who defected to the Rebels shortly after meeting Wedge, and a member of Corona Squadron. Lost Stars has additionally been adapted into a manga series that is wrapping up, and is the source of the image.

Garven Dreis, he was Red Leader during the Battle of Yavin and Scarrif and in Legends flew for the Republic during the Clone Wars, hence why he is a pilot for the ARC-170. Though he hasn't been shown to have flown a ARC in the new canon though the old novelization of the first film had him mention flying with Anakin at some point.

Jek Porkins, mister 'I can hold it' who participated and died during the Battle of Yavin. In the new canon the Resistance apparently also has a flight manuver known as a Porkins Belly Run.

Kullbee Sperado was a member of Saw's Partisans and was a background character in Rogue One. Not much else is known about him other than he had a habit of disappearing for periods of time.

Biggs Darklighter, is Luke's friend who died at the Battle of Yavin, his cousin flies an E-Wing, and in Legends he was romantically involved with Nera Dantels a B-Wing pilot from 1.0.

Leevan Tenza, one of Saw's Partisans with little to nothing really being known about him other than he served with Dodonna before the Galactic Civil War.

Edrio Two Tubes, another member of Saw's Partisans and actually flew a U-Wing with Saw during Rebels.

Saw Gerrera, the leader of a Rebel cell on Onderon during the Clone Wars, trained by Ahsoka, Anakin, and Captain Rex, lost his sister hardening him into the radical leader of the Partisans. He died during the Death Star's test firing on Jedha.

Bodhi Rook, an Imperial defector who knew Galen Erso and tried to deliver the news of the weakness to the Rebels only to end up in Saw's 'care', he died help stealing the Death Star plans on Scarif.

Magva Yarro, a woman who attempted to peacefully protest the Empire only to barely survive the Imperials slaughtering them, causing her to join Saw's Partisans.

Cassian Andor, Rebel spy and agent who will have his own show soon, had a reprogrammed Imperial Security Droid named K2-SO, and died help stealing the Death Star plans.

Heff Tobber, the Blue Squadron U-Wing pilot who didn't make it past the shield gate and just flew around providing support during the Battle of Scarif.

Benthic Two Tubes, Edrio's eggmate/twin who was a part of Enfrys Nest's pirates until he ended up joining up with Saw to fight the Empire to get revenge for what the Empire did to his people.

Norra Wexley, she flew at the Battle of Endor, joined the New Republic's fighter corps, and is the mother of 'Snap' Wexley.

Hoton Salm, he flew at the Battle of Endor as Grey Leader and is mostly bald on the top of his head.

Dutch Vander, is Gold Leader and flew at the Battle of Scarif and Battle of Yavin where he was shot down by Vader during his trench run.

Evaan Verlaine, she flew at both Scarif and Yavin being the only surviving Y-Wing pilot and along with Leia went to go and protect fellow Alderanians after the Battle of Yavin when they heard news of the Empire hunting them down.

Imperials:

Howlrunner, her real name is Cive Rashon and she flew as the flight leader of Obsidian squadron at Bespin and at the Battle of Endor. LEGENDS

Scourge Skuto, his real name is Trel Skutu and was a flight leader who respected the aggressive nature of Rebel pilots. LEGENDS

Mauler Mithel, was one of Vader's wingman during the Battle of Yavin he is the one responsible for panicking and hitting Vader's tie and sending him flying off into space when he died. His son later would be a tractor beam operator on the Chimera, Thrawn's flagship. CANON, though other than his appearance in ANH not much is known.

Iden Versio, the leader of Inferno Squad a special forces unit until she defected to the Rebels with Del Meeko after Operation Cinder. She later had a daughter with Del Meeko, Zay.

Gideon Hask, was a member of Inferno Squad and had a vendetta with Iden and Del after they refused their commander's orders and joined the Rebellion, he went on to join the First Order.

Del Meeko, was a member of Inferno Squad, met Luke Skywalker, and defected with Iden Versio and later the two became lovers around the time of the Battle of Jakku, the two having a daughter, Zay.

Seyn Marana, she was a member of Inferno Squad that with the others tried to infiltrate the remnants of Saw's Partisans after the Battle of Yavin, after some time she is accused of being a traitor and Iden is forced to 'integrate' her and she commits suicide by throwing herself onto the vibroblade that Iden was holding while saying 'For the Empire' to throw off suspicion on the other members of Inferno Squad so the others could carry out the mission.

Valen Rudor, a Tie Fighter pilot that was embarrassed by the Spectres a few times, was to fly a Tie Advanced Prototype, and later took over a bar that was operated by an Ithorian Rebel sympathizer.

Added his Armada art but kept his original image for posterity.

Night Beast, his real name was Doson Makraven and he flew with Obsidian squadron with his nickname coming from his many curfew violations. LEGENDS

Wampa, she flew as escort for Vader's shuttle, with her nickname coming from her icy precision. She was created for the Decipher Star Wars CCG and has no unique pilot art. LEGENDS

Vader, like Luke does he need any sort of introduction? We all know who he is.

Maarek Stele, an Imperial pilot from the classic Tie Fighter video game where he flew all sorts of craft. He was an Emperor's Hand. LEGENDS

Ved Foslo, he is from Lost Stars and was a classmate of Thane Kyrell and Ciena Ree who stole the top of his class rank. He would go on to be a weapon engineer that would make ties more powerful than ever before after the battle of Jakku *cough* TIE/fo *cough*

Zertik Strom, from the original Marvel Star Wars comic run, he was a sector commander. He ended up dying to his rival former senator Simon Greyshade who ran a gambling satellite. LEGENDS

Vermeil, Feroph, and Vizier were all created for X-Wing with no other appearance or information about them.

Scum:

Feen Rau, a mandalorian who fought against the Separatists during the Clone Wars alongside the Republic, he and his squadron later kept people, especially Rebels, away from Concordia Dawn but after finding all of his men killed by Gar Saxon he assisted the Rebellion until the Darksaber was found and he pledged himself to the new Mandalore Bo-Katan.

Old Teroch, was a mandalorian who sold his services as a mercenary and originates from the 'Age of Rebellion: Friends Like These' book. During the Clone Wars he worked security for the CIS and the Hutts, during the early years of the Empire he fought them multiple times while running escort for his clients, with him becoming a mentor to other Mandalorian scouts and pilots by the time of the Galactic Civil War. LEGENDS

Kad Solus, is another character from 'Age of Rebellion: Friends like These', he was born a slave on Tatooine and warned mandalorians of a trap his slaver had set ending in him being freed and adopted by the mandalorians where he trained to be a warrior and pilot. There is no image of him yet. LEGENDS

Joy Rekkoff, he/she seems to be a character made up by FFG with no information about them.

Boba Fett, the clone son of Jango Fett who became a bounty hunter, working for various clients but most notably Jabba the Hutt who he delivered a frozen in carbonite Han Solo to.

Kath Scarlet, the Captain of the Binayre Pirates and originates from Star Wars: Galaxies. She and her pirates operated in Corellia space usually hiding in the asteroids and then popping out to take their targets by surprise. LEGENDS

Emon Azzameen, the middle brother of the Azzameen family operated a cargo company, and originates from X-Wing: Alliance. LEGENDS

Krassis Trelix, a former Imperial supply officer who left and became a slaver, since that is a reasonable job transition (sarcasm). He originates from a short story and has no character art. LEGENDS

Koshka Frost, seems to be another FFG created character, or at least I couldn't find anything about her.

Han Solo, like a few other characters needs no introduction. Though here he is represented by his baby face self.

Lando Calrissian, really right up there with Luke and Han and needs little to no introduction, but hey at least here he owns the Falcon until Han goes and gives it a little 'scratch' when he took it for a spin.

L3-37, she is a self made pilot droid that added to herself over time, including using astromech droid parts. She was mostly associated with Lando, the two going on adventures until she was damaged and uploaded to the Falcon giving it her navigational data.

You really couldn’t use a picture of ANH (Harrison Ford) as Han Solo?

also fun fact: Denis Lawson (Wedge Antilles) is Ewan McGregor uncle (Obi-Wan Kenobi ~ Episode I-III)

Do we know anything about Dalan Oberos? I'm especially interested given that his Kimogila title is "Returned From the Grave".

2 minutes ago, Cgriffith said:

You really couldn’t use a picture of ANH (Harrison Ford) as Han Solo?

Rebel Han is Harrison Ford. Scum Han is Alden Ehrenreich .

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@Animewarsdude please keep this up. Loving your work.

Kulbee Spreedo and Old Teroch are hilarious. So is Kavil.

14 minutes ago, Cgriffith said:

You really couldn’t use a picture of ANH (Harrison Ford) as Han Solo?

also fun fact: Denis Lawson (Wedge Antilles) is Ewan McGregor uncle (Obi-Wan Kenobi ~ Episode I-III)

I could, but I wanted to save it for the good/real Han.

11 minutes ago, Matanui3 said:

Do we know anything about Dalan Oberos? I'm especially interested given that his Kimogila title is "Returned From the Grave".

I plan to do wave 2 next and then I'll try to do 1-2 ships from each conversion kit until I'm caught up with everything. But I'll try to do Dalan Oberos soon.

31 minutes ago, DarkHorse said:

Rebel Han is Harrison Ford. Scum Han is Alden Ehrenreich .

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@Animewarsdude please keep this up. Loving your work.

Harrison Ford is the real Han Solo regardless if he’s Scum, Rebel or Resistance the character is iconic because of the men who wrote him George Lucas/Lawerance Kasdan and the man who portrayed him Harrison Ford.

Thanks for this thread!

Where do the pics of all the Tie pilots come from? Just curious

16 minutes ago, KiloFiX9 said:

Thanks for this thread!

Where do the pics of all the Tie pilots come from? Just curious

Lets see, I got them all off of the internet, obviously but I think their original sources are:

Howlrunner: FFG art used for her in Armada

Skutu: Character book or source book

Mauler Mithil: I think card game art likely for WOTC's card game, that or art from the card game in Star Wars: Galaxies.

Iden: Google image search from the game.

Gideon: Same as above.

Del: Promotional image with all of the pilots that was cropped on Google images.

Seyn: I think cover art from the Inferno Squad tie in book to Battlefront 2.

Valen Rudor: From Rebels

Night Beast: Not sure, but it looked great and was on his wookiepedia page.

These are awesome, but I've got to comment on the Partisans.

Other than Saw, we don't know that they died during the Death Star attack on Jedha.

We know Benthic survives at the very least, because he shows up in the Ashes of Jedha comic arc. If he survived, others might.

Looking forward to more of these, though I already know most of them. Didn't know Old Teroch had been pictured though, so there's definitely still some surprises out there. Looking forward to seeing if you can find some art of Palob, or if it'll just be a photo of Pablo Hidalgo 😄

Benthic’s eggmate didn’t make it. Poor Benthic.

I don't have images for all of the ship cards, I'll try to update it once good images of them are up.

Wave 2:

Resistance:

Poe Dameron, the son of Shara Bey and ace of the New Republic and later the Resistance. Put him in a pilot seat and he is basically a one man army.

Nien Nunb, an arms dealer and smuggler that Leia and Evaan had help smuggle Alderaanians from Sullust to escape the Imperials, he later went on to be Lando's co-pilot at Endor, and became a Resistance pilot come the time of the ST.

Ello Asty, he was a pilot who reckless and didn't often work well in a team. He, along with a few other pilots on this list, were members of the New Republic's Precision Air Team which performed air shows, bored and learning of a greater cause to fight for from Joph Seastriker he joined the Resistance at its infancy. He was shot down during the Assault on Starkiller Base.

Temmin Wexley, he was a young man (early to mid teens) when his father was taken away by the empire and his mother, Norra Wexley, left him to go join the Rebellion. He became a businessman focusing on junk dealing and built a murderous B1, named Mister Bones, to keep him company. After Endor he reconciled with his mother and began learning how to fly. His father began an unwitting assassin and helped kill Gallius Rax (villain from Aftermath trilogy). He became a member of New Republic's Precision Air Team which performed air shows, bored and learning of a greater cause to fight for from Joph Seastriker he joined the Resistance at its infancy. Before TFA he goes on to marry Kare Kun. He was away on a mission during TLJ.

Kare Kun, she was created for the Poe comic series and was a member of the same squadron Poe was a part of while they served the New Republic, she later joined the Resistance and ended up getting command of her own squadron and married Temmin Wexley.

Jessika Pava, she idolized Luke Skywalker and was inspired to become a ace pilot like the stories said Luke was, she joined the New Republic and seeing how the New Republic wasn't doing anything to stop or dissuade the First Order she joined the Resistance. She often flew as a part of Poe's squadron and had a bad habit of her astromechs being destroyed for one reason or another when going on missions causing her to need replacements and for the astromechs to call her 'The Great Destroyer of Droids' hence her new updated 2.0 ability. She was on a mission during the events of TLJ.

Joph Seastriker, he is from Bloodlines and worked with Leia, Greer Sonnel, and Senator Ransolm to bring down the Amaxine Warriors a cartel that was secretly backed by a First Order agent. Being a member of New Republic's Precision Air Team, which performed air shows, when he found a cause worth fighting for it grabbed the interest of some of his squad mates all of whom, alongside himself joined the Resistance at its infancy.

Bastian, he participated in the Assault on Starkiller Base and cheered on Poe. He along with other pilots that often flew with Poe was away on a mission during the events of TLJ.

Jaycris Tubbs, he was a keen mentor to new fighter jocks and died quickly in the opening engagement of the Battle of D'qar.

Tallissan Lintra, she was born on a farming world and learned how to fly using a crop dusting RZ-1 A-Wing that her father owned and when Leia created the Resistance she joined shortly afterwards. She participated in the Battle of D'Qar and survives the battle until shortly after the battle Kylo flies into the Raddus' hanger and kills her and the rest of the pilots that were in or manning their ships.

L'ulo L'ampar, he flew for the Rebellion at the Battle of Endor and went on to become the leader of Green Squadron after Arvel Crynid. After the Galactic Civil War he joined the Resistance and went on to serve with Poe, flying a RZ-1 against the First Order. While protecting escape pods with innocent people from criminals led by Agent Terex, he was shot down.

Greer Sonnel, she was a racer who flew a purple RZ-1 A-Wing that was sponsored by Han Solo, but her career was cut short when she was diagnosed with Bloodburn a disease that caused fevers, overheating, and death. She became Leia's assistant due to Han's connection to try and help her keep a normal/less intense life so to not aggrevate her disease so she could live a normal lifespan. She, Leia, Joph, and Senator Ranslom helped bring down the Amaxine Warriors a cartel that was secretly backed by a First Order agent. Despite her disease she joined the Resistance as a pilot.

Zari Bangel, was a member of the New Republic's Precision Air Team which performed air shows, bored and learning of a greater cause to fight for from Joph Seastriker she joined the Resistance at its infancy.

First Order:

Commander Malarus, was a First Order commander who was given narcotics to boost body mass, strength, and reduce aging. She effectively is pumped full of Glitterstim, hence the ability. She was sent by the First Order to capture Agent Terrex for his rogue mission to try and take out the Resistance, causing him to be fitted with a cybernetic piece to ensure his loyalty. She ended up flying against Poe in his X-Wing, crashed and was taken by the locals to be tried for her crimes.

TN-3465, she was the pilot that Phasma grabbed to fly her around to chase after the individual who saw her record of lowering Starkiller's planetary shield. She flew a Tie/sf and afterwards her BB astromech was destroyed and she was killed so Phasma wouldn't have any loose ends that could come back to implicate her. Her 'name' comes from Phasma being the one to give her version of the report and making sure that the proper identification was used.

Sol Rivas, is the man who saw Phasma's data record of her sabotage, he was able to escape her trying to kill him long enough to get to a TIE/fo and escape for a moment, only to end up on a planet and held captive by a primitive race before Phasma got to him and killed him.

The five pilots below were created by FFG, but hey they are way better names than what they originally had.

Scum:

Proach, he was a member of the mining guild that operated a craft inspired by the World Devastators that was being used to strip mine materials from Lothal, he was stopped by the Spectres, he ended up getting in a fight with Zeb and fell of the craft to his death. His character name is a name Pat Roach the actor who played the burly mechanics from Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Seevor, he was a member of the mining guild that operated a craft inspired by the World Devastators that was being used to strip mine materials from Lothal, he was stopped by the Spectres, he tried to charge at Ezra but tripped on Ezra's light saber and ended up falling into a smelter where he died. He was voiced by Seth Green.

Ahhav is a FFG created character so lacks character art or any real character info.

Yushyn, he was a member of the mining guild and the boss of a asteroid belt gas refinery. The spectres came in stole fuel, and destroyed the base, but not before a purrgil, space whale, grabbed Yushyn and dragged him to the planet/astroids' depths.

38 minutes ago, GuacCousteau said:

These are awesome, but I've got to comment on the Partisans.

Other than Saw, we don't know that they died during the Death Star attack on Jedha.

We know Benthic survives at the very least, because he shows up in the Ashes of Jedha comic arc. If he survived, others might.

Looking forward to more of these, though I already know most of them. Didn't know Old Teroch had been pictured though, so there's definitely still some surprises out there. Looking forward to seeing if you can find some art of Palob, or if it'll just be a photo of Pablo Hidalgo 😄

I incorrectly assumed they all died based of the scene,

And very might well use picture of Pablo if I can't find another image.

Didn’t realize Proach and Seevor were pilots

4 hours ago, Cgriffith said:

You really couldn’t use a picture of ANH (Harrison Ford) as Han Solo?

also fun fact: Denis Lawson (Wedge Antilles) is Ewan McGregor uncle (Obi-Wan Kenobi ~ Episode I-III)

It's funnier if he doesn't use Ford, tbh.

This is great, thank you; it reminds me of when I was writing my own Star Wars: Saga Edition RPG adventures and constantly poring over Wookiepedia for information and falling down a rabbit-hole for hours...

Reminds me, I need to go through all my West End Games SWRPG books and see if any obscure names pop up.

5 minutes ago, Captain Lackwit said:

It's funnier if he doesn't use Ford, tbh.

For you any many others possibly, not me. While is an outstanding actor, and portrayed Han Solo well he is not and will never be Harrison Ford. Harrison Ford brought wit, charisma, charm, and bravado to the character. He embodied the character, he was the scoundrel.

...and Wedge, has to be my favorite as far as secondary film characters go. Denis Lawson's performance is wonderful for someone who's mainly locked in a cockpit; always cooly professional, he reacts to movement and explosions off-screen while saying his lines.

"They're heading towards the medical frigate."

1 hour ago, Cgriffith said:

For you any many others possibly, not me. While is an outstanding actor, and portrayed Han Solo well he is not and will never be Harrison Ford. Harrison Ford brought wit, charisma, charm, and bravado to the character. He embodied the character, he was the scoundrel.

That's why Erenreich is an excellent, different Han Solo. The optimistic young man Han was before things got as bad as they did, before he lost that hopefuly spark and became the Scoundrel we all know and love. Something people seem to forget about Han Solo is that he wasn't always the man we met in Mos Eisley.

But that over the original trilogy, he remembered to be the man he once was- or at least tried his best to be. Compare Alden to ESB / RoTJ Han and you'll find it's much closer than ANH Han. For good, good reason at that.

It's such a shame then, that he lost that spark once again, when his family fell to pieces.

I want to join in on the fun, but can't figure out how to insert photos! I'm sure I'm not the first to ask this question. I keep running into file size issues. Am I doing something wrong? Is their a trick? Teach me your ways!

11 minutes ago, BrotherFett said:

I want to join in on the fun, but can't figure out how to insert photos! I'm sure I'm not the first to ask this question. I keep running into file size issues. Am I doing something wrong? Is their a trick? Teach me your ways!

Linking directly to an image already online via the "Insert image from URL" option in the "Insert other media" portion (when typing a reply, it is in the bottom right of the reply box above the "Submit Reply" button for me) gets around that if you're wanting to link to something that is already online or you have the image uploaded to an image sharing site.

All four of these characters originate from Shadows of the Empire. Before the prequels were made, Lucas Arts test-ran a multi-media promotional story that involved the events between Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. This promotion included an N64 game, comics, a full hardbound massive novel, tie-in spinoff novels, action figures, etc. Generally speaking, the story follows Luke, Leia, Lando, the droids, and Chewie as they deal with attempted assassinations on Luke, while recruiting Han’s “Not Han” smuggler buddy to fill in for the rogue scoundrel.

**A note on Shadows of the Empire’s canonicity... SotE is in a bizarre place in canon where most of it is now Legends, but some bits of SotE are now official Canon. It is worth noting that the entire story was written so as to not conflict with events in ESB or RotJ. Dash Rendar, the Outrider, Leebo, and Black Sun, as well as the Falleen race, are now all officially Canon . Black Sun was canonized with the Clone Wars, the Outrider was canonized mentioned below, and Dash Rendar and Leebo were canonized in the journal book released in Setember 2018 titled “Solo: A Star Wars Story: Tales from Vandar.” As far as I’m aware, Guri, Xizor, Starvipers, and the Virago are currently Legends , still.

Dash Rendar, a.k.a. “Not-Han”, is yet another smuggler flying a “Not the Millenial Falcon” YT-2400 named the Outrider. He tends to be a focal point in the story, and the player character in the N64 game. Like Han, he was also a Corellian, and was also at Hoth for the battle. Indeed the first few levels of the N64 game have you going through ice caverns and flying a snow speeder. Dash’s personality is more of a braggart Top Gun fighter ace, and more than a little full of himself. Luke doesn’t like him. Trivia point: In A New Hope special edition, the Outrider can be seen blasting off from the Mos Eisley space port as Luke and Obi-Wan arrive. Shadows of the Empire ends with Dash faking his death and the destruction of the Outrider, and blasting into hyperspace as a convenient reason for not being around in RotJ. He later shows up in other media, where it’s revealed that he didn’t want Black Sun coming after him, and would rather not get stuck in the middle of the Galactic Civil War.

Leebo, or LE-BO2D9 was Dash Rendar’s dry-witted co-pilot. He was an LE series repair droid made by Cybot Galactica. Typically Leebo piloted the ship while Dash manned the Outrider’s guns.

Prince Xizor was a Falleen of house Sizhran, the leader of the Black Sun crime syndicate, and served as the story’s main antagonist. He started off amiable and charming, trying to seduce Leia (through Falleen pheromones), until kidnapping her and showing his hand as being the one trying to assassinate Luke. Xizor drew the ire of Vader once Vader realized he was trying to kill Luke, which resulted in Vader destroying Xizor’s Skyhook space palace, and Xizor along with it. Xizor’s personal ship was the Virago, a custom prototype Starviper he had commissioned through MandalMotors. Upon his death, the Starviper production rights were released from his ownership, allowing the ships to be mass produced on open market. Mandal Hypernautica also began manufacturing the ships.

Xizor’s personal bodyguard was Guri. Guri handled most of Xizor’s business affairs, and was even mistaken as the head of Black Sun. Lando described Guri as being cold enough that ice wouldn’t melt if stacked on her, and said that there was something spooky about her. In truth, Guri was a human replica assassination droid custom built for Xizor. The only way she could be detected as synthetic was because her temperature was colder than that of a human, and her synthetic muscle tissue confused scanners. Guri was ultimately able to escape the destruction of Xizor’s palace and the skyhook, thus surviving the events of Shadows of the Empire. She later appears in comics and novels, where she sought out one of her creators and had him reprogram her to be free of all vestigial servitude towards Black Sun and Xizor’s niece, Savan.

These are way cool!! Thank you.

Joy Rekkoff is a she

Ah... Thanks for the post. I've been saying it for a long time now, it's a huge wasted opportunity that FFG didn't think to (or chose not to) include pilot pic&bio on the back of the ship card..