History Characters / XWingSeries

* {{Revenge}}: He spends the entirety of ''The Courtship of Princess Leia'' hunting down Han to kill as gruesomely as possible in order to get this. Amusingly, while Solo thinks it's largely because of destroying his Super Star Destroyer, the X-Wing books show ''Iron Fist'' survived, giving the impression Zsinj was just '''really''' ticked off about being told to kiss Han's Wookiee...

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: There's been a fair amount of debate over whether his last name is "Qyrgg" or "Qrygg".

Daughter of of New Republic Admiral Hiram Drayson. She served with Wraith Squadron as a tactics expert during the Yuuzhan Vong War, and was with the Wraiths on Borleias after the Battle of Coruscant. In 44 ABY she became the new leader of the Wraith Squadron.

Daughter of of New Republic Admiral Hiram Drayson. She served with Wraith Squadron as a tactics expert during the Yuuzhan Vong War, and was with the Wraiths on Borleias after the Battle of Coruscant. In 44 ABY she became the new leader of the Wraith Squadron.

Daughter of of New Republic Admiral Hiram Drayson. She served with Wraith Squadron as a tactics expert during the Yuuzhan Vong War, and was with the Wraiths on Borleias after the Battle of Coruscant. In 44 ABY she became the new leader of the Wraith Squadron.

!!!'''Callsigns:''' Wraith One

* MasterOfDisguise

* CommunicationsOfficer

* HairOfGold: Is a very pretty blonde with strong morals.

!!!'''Species:''' Human

* NotSoHarmless: May act like a spoiled trophy wife, but she is as cold blooded as they come. She also has a fondness for torture, which she is all too happy to indulge her prisoners in.

* FantasticRacism: The Empire's FantasticRacism is Fel's tipping point-during the battle of Derra IV, he realizes that an alien admiral at Vader's briefing, whose name the pilots are never even told, is the real mastermind of the attack, and when it succeeds beyond anyone's expectations, said Admiral is completely ignored and shipped off to the Unknown Regions, while Fel and other humans are publicly honored, confirming Fel's feelings that the Empire is massively hypocritical. (Since the Admiral is [[MagnificentBastard Grand Admiral Thrawn]] Fel doesn't have the complete picture at the time.)

* ActionGirl

* TheMedic

* ExpectingSomeoneTaller: He's about an inch shorter than Luke Skywalker - about five foot six inches. Pilots tend to be smallish. They're more comfortable in cramped starfighter cockpits.

* ItNeverGetsAnyEasier: And he doesn't want it to.

* MauveShirt: By definition in the original films--a common alternative name for this trope is "Wedge-type character". Of course, this series is his DayInTheLimelight.

* NotSoAboveItAll: While he's usually the subject of Wes' pranks, once in a while he's able to turn it around. And boy, does he do it with style.

* BerserkButton: Mechanics, don't screw up while maintaining her X-Wing. A former mechanic herself, she can tell if you've been shirking. She also reacts with great fury when commandos grab at her.

* HiddenHeartOfGold: She's mistrustful, has no patience with incompetence, and says insulting things about friends and strangers alike, rarely making the effort to be nice. But looking at the panels where she's drawn, her body language is usually sympathetic to her friends and allies - pulling out a chair, sitting close to someone who's hurt or distressed, being the medic. Plourr truly cares about her friends and the "common people" of her world, understands fears about family, and can tone down the snark if she has to.

* SleevesAreForWimps: Plourr Illo, past a certain point, is usually shown sleeveless. Even during a briefing when the other Rogues are in their dress uniforms, Plourr gets to go without the jacket. May be excused as this was after the arc in which she left the squadron to rule Eiattu VI; she came back, but it was clear that she didn't have to stay with the same rules.

* ActionGirl

* ActionGirl

* {{Ranger}}
* TheSneakyguy

* HappilyAdopted

An Imperial admiral turned warlord and target of the Wraiths. He is the younger brother of another warlord previously featured in ''Literature/TheCallistaTrilogy.''

!!Captain Darillian

[[folder:Catariun]]
!!Catariun

* TheMagnificent: Subverted, surprisingly. He's always known by the title of Warlord in the novels he appears in, with the implication it's a title he gave himself (''Wedge's Gamble'' outright says he declared himself a Warlord after Endor). However, later background books revealed it was actually a legitimate title given to only Imperial officers who had accomplished tremendous feats in battle, with Thrawn being another recipient.

[[folder:Erisi Dlarit]]
!!Erisi Dlarit
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!!!'''Homeworld:''' Thyferra

* BitchInSheepsClothing: Until ''The Bacta War''. In that one, she's just a bitch.
* HateSink: Once she's revealed to be the traitor? She has NO redeeming qualities, except perhaps acknowledging that Isard is insane.
* TheMole: Is this for Isard in Rogue Squadron.
* RichBitch: She comes from one of the wealthiest Thyferran bacta-producing families, and she's not adverse to use this, as she entices Mirax with lucrative benefits of her family power to leave Corran alone - then threatening to use that power to make Mirax's life hell if she doesn't.
* {{Yandere}}: For Corran. To such an extent that it could be argued her actions at the end of the second book -- which led to his capture and attempted brainwashing -- were designed with the ultimate goal of "Evil Corran" winding up with her after what she assumed would be ''successful'' brainwashing.

[[folder:Teren Rogriss]]
!!Admiral Teren Rogriss

An Imperial Admiral. He was Han Solo's Imperial opposite during the Zsinj campaign and worked closely with Han in trying to take down the warlord - despite the fact that it was technically treason for both of them. He was later in charge of the Imperial expedition to Adumar but switched sides when he was ordered to attack Adumar after having personally promised Adumar that he would honor a decision to not do so.

* InterspeciesRomance: With Rhysati Ynr, a MauveShirt who manages to go the whole series with about ten lines and yet survives.

* BrainwashedAndCrazy; Warlord Zsinj kidnaps and brainwashes him into trying to kill Wedge, and he lets himself be killed in the attempt while FightingFromTheInside

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* DeadGuyJunior:

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: His last name is often misspelled as "Klivan", to the point of getting an in-universe {{LampshadeHanging}}.
-->"And I’ll get back to you on my last name. Lots of people get it wrong.”

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: She defers to Wedge and one or two others on the squad but steps up in their absence, and of course at court she defies attempts to control her. And she's arguably the best fighter in either place.

* BFG: Fond of particularly large blasters.

* {{Ranger}}: Tyria is the last member of the Antarian Rangers from her planet, an organization of clans founded to act as auxiliaries to the Jedi Knights; despite her limited Force-sensitivity, her skills make her a natural fit for the squadron:

* GeneralFailure: Or Admiral in this case. Rushes his forces into an assault on Borleias with little preparation and inadequate intelligence - getting himself and a lot of others killed.

* FakeUltimateHero: He's presented as the Admiral with the best plan to take Borleias - but he's unaware Derricote's stringing him along, and is killed during the assault's failure - forcing the Rogues to take a very risky alternate step to get things done.

* KickTheDog: When Wedge questions his plan, he responds with a barb about Rogue Squadron's high casualty rates that sends him reeling - making a very angry Ackbar threaten to cancel the entire operation if Kre'fey doesn't get his Intel together fast.

* SpiderSense: While she is Force sensitive, it mostly comes across as brief flashes of inspiration as opposed to proper feelings as a true Jedi would have.

!!!'''Species''' Human
!!!'''Homeworld''' Kessel

!!!'''Species''' Human
!!!'''Homeworld''' Kessel

!!!'''Species''' Rodian
!!!'''Homeworld''' Rodia

!!!'''Species''' Bothan
!!!'''Homeworld''' Bouthuwai

!!!'''Species'''' Twi'lek
!!!'''Homeworld''' Ryloth
The commander of a Twi'lek squadron that flies alongside the Rogues. He later briefly becomes a member of the squadron,

* HeroesWantRedheads: One of the more attractive members of the cast and Wedge certainly notices.

!Wraith Squadron

[[folder:Lara Notsil]]
!!Lara Notsil / Gara Petothel / [[spoiler:Kirney Slane]]
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!!!'''Homeworld:''' Coruscant

Lara is an Imperial spy who specializes in creating false identities. She infiltrates the Wraiths, but starts to have doubts about her allegiance.

* BecomingTheMask: She's a little ''too'' good at submerging herself into her false identities... and when she realizes that the New Republic is really a much better place to live than any of the Imperial factions, she decides she ''wants'' to become her false identity and let her "real" self vanish, and if she helps take down Zsinj, no one will be left who can give her away. [[spoiler:Unfortunately, Face was both smart enough to work out who she was and stupid enough to fail at hiding this.]]
* CommunicationsOfficer: She plays this role in her first mission. [[spoiler:She spots an ambush placed by Zsinj via transmissions, and warns the Wraiths of it before they get there. It's during the subsequent dogfight that she comes to an important realization that triggers her HeelFaceTurn.]]
* TheCracker: She takes on this role later on, using a mix of her intelligence background and her R2 unit. This eventually reaches a point that she figures out a way to bring down a super star destroyer.
* DarkSecret: The reader is every bit as aware of it as she is, but Gara Petothel / Lara Notsil is a DeepCoverAgent who's gone through a private HeelFaceTurn, and is unhappily aware that the [[HeroicBSOD badly damaged]] pilot who she's falling in love with is damaged because of her actions.
* DoubleConsciousness: Imperial intelligence agencies demand results ''first'', with the agent's mental well-being somewhere down the list below their physical well-being and just above properly groomed nose hair. Back when her handler was alive and she returned to them between missions she was not troubled by the job, they helped deprogram her and wipe away any attachments and memories she didn't need. Without them...
* DoubleReverseQuadrupleAgent: It's ''not'' easy on her.
* DramaticIrony: The woman who's spent fifteen years training and then acting as TheMole, a role which ''specifically requires betrayal'', realizes within a few months of going without her handlers that she despises treachery and isn't even tempted to backstab Wedge, because it wouldn't be honorable.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: Girl goes through a ''lot'' of internal strife and nearly as much physical peril, and ends her role in the Wraith books with a note of shaky optimism. In later series there's [[spoiler:a company with her name and Donos' combined, suggesting they got together, and then she actually appears for a scene in ''Mercy Kill'', where she reveals she's had multiple children and they're all still alive, and it's strongly suggested that she got to reconnect with her friends in the Wraiths years ago. Considering the turmoil of the decades between the books, after ''Solo Command'' she's had one of the happiest lives in Star Wars.]]
* EvenEvilHasStandards: While she's still TheMole, she has an internal monologue with herself about how Zsinj is a noble villain and Trigit... [[SmugSnake not so much]]. What causes her to first consider switching sides is the realization that Zsinj is actually ''just like Trigit'', and therefore not worthy of her services. The actual decision to make her HeelFaceTurn was made easier by further tropes below, though...
* FakingTheDead: As [[spoiler:Kirney Slane.]] Though "Mercy Kill" implies this is an OpenSecret among the older Wraiths.
* GoodFeelsGood: Along with ThePowerOfTrust, it's what causes her to [[BecomingTheMask become the mask]] and make a HeelFaceTurn.
* HappilyMarried: ''Mercy Kill'' reveals that she and [[spoiler:Donos]] got married and had children. [[RunningGag All of whom are alive.]]
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Practically her signature move. She has on numerous occasions turned her target's own tools and tricks against them in astounding ploys. Key highlights include:
** Hijacking a device Anton Repness used to try and hide his secret dealings and using it to record incriminating evidence instead. And because he also activated it whenever he was feeling paranoid, and vocalized many of his passwords while he was typing them, she got much, much more dirt on him than she anticipated.
** The King of the Droids Plan. [[spoiler: She has her astromech Tonin hijack a substantial portion of 'Iron Fist's' mouse droid population and through them rewires Zsinj's ship out from underneath him completely undetected. When Zsinj is about to jump, she has Tonin reroute the vessel so its course will take it through a star's gravity well, and then send the mouse droids to sabotage the hyperdrive, stranding it in place while she bypasses door after door to rescue Zsinj's test subjects and make her escape. She even has 'Iron Fist' send real-time damage estimates on Zsinj's fleet to 'Mon Remonda', letting them focus fire whenever and wherever a ship shows weakness.]]
* HonorBeforeReason: Not that she has no reason; she takes a lot of time to consider her actions, and thinks everything through once she's come to a decision. But in the end, her honor wins. To put it plainly, [[spoiler: after Myn attacked her, nobody would have been surprised if she had deflected or fled the conflict altogether. Instead, she goes to Zsinj and, even under intense scrutiny, passes information about Iron Fist's destination to the New Republic, rewires Zsinj's own flagship out from under his nose, strands him in the middle of nowhere without a significant portion of his fleet, and on her way out she rescues a number of his test subjects from captivity. And what does she do after she fires up her X-wing? She still joins the fight, saving Wedge's life in the process. It takes her getting shot down to finally end her role in the conflict--and she survived.]]
* IfOnlyYouKnew: PlayedForDrama as Myn starts to try to get closer to her.
* IHaveManyNames: Between the personas she assumes during the series and the ones she adopted off camera that are mentioned at various points in the novels, she has four identities ''that we know of''[[note]]The three in the title bar, plus "Chyan Mezzine", her identity as a member of the New Republic, under which she was responsible for the destruction of Talon Squadron[[/note]]. It's quite possible (indeed, rather likely) that there are others.
* InLoveWithTheMark: She originally joined Wraith Squadron intending to be TheMole, but falls in love with Myn Donos--who happens to be the SoleSurvivor of another NRDF fighter squadron she lured into an Imperial trap with disinformation. This becomes part of the reason for her BecomingTheMask.
* KickTheDog: Talon Squadron was wiped out because of information she discovered. When Myn falls in love with her (and she starts reciprocating), this rapidly becomes problematic.
* KillMeNowOrForeverStayYourHand: In her first mission with the Wraiths, she’s assigned to be Wedge Antilles’ wingmate, and naturally this leads to a moment where she has a perfect chance to kill him. However, [[ThePowerOfTrust the fact that someone gives her that level of trust for once really gets to her]], and it leads to her trying to [[BecomingTheMask become the mask]].
* LossOfIdentity: She was trained from an early age to create a personality and a life, fully immerse herself in it, complete objectives including forming and betraying the closest of connections, and shed it without a qualm. To the point where later she can't even remember if her previous identities had friends and interests. At some point the handler who saw her between missions died before she came back into a splinter of Imperial service. There Gara became disgusted with her commanding officer's [[WeHaveReserves handling of his crew]] and arranged for his escape craft to be spotted by New Republic forces, then assumed a new identity and waited to be contacted, getting put into a New Republic fighter squadron. But something was different this time - she was affected by the PowerOfTrust and genuinely [[TheMole defected]]. She tried to throw away who she'd been and just be Lara Notsil, pilot, but [[ResignationsNotAccepted she couldn't]], and eventually her past came crashing in on her.
-->"All the furniture that made up the way I'd thought and felt about things all my life started coming loose in my head. Nowadays it slides around and breaks into pieces and I have no idea what parts of it are real and what aren't. It hurts, and a lot of the time I don't know who I am anymore."
* MamaBear: During her cameo in ''Mercy Kill'', she makes it very clear to Voort that under no circumstances is he to recruit her children.
* MasterOfDisguise: Is definitely one of these.
* TheMole: And then [[BecomingTheMask not]].
* NiceJobFixingItVillain: One of the first times SanitySlippage gets so big for Gara, is when she is shown holos doctored by Zsinj, that 'prove' she was Lara. Since she didn't make those holos... Lara promptly has a psychotic breakdown. [[spoiler:And ends up remembering Kirney, which helps her come to her true identity.]]
* PowerOfTrust: Sitting in her new X-wing in flight on her first mission with Wraith Squadron, she sees that Wedge Antilles, AcePilot and hero of the Rebellion, is flying ahead of her, no shields. For ''years'' she'd been going out in false identities and betraying her comrades at the behest of her handlers, but now her handlers were dead, and she discovered that she could not stand treachery. Her resulting train of thought is what first triggers her LossOfIdentity, DoubleConsciousness, and attempts at BecomingTheMask.
-->Such an odd feeling. Wedge Antilles was under her guns, yet he trusted her with his life.\\
He had no reason not to, of course. But he ''did''. No one had in-how long? Forever.\\
She could eliminate him with a twitch of her finger.\\
It should have been tempting. Yet, somehow, it wasn't.\\
Such an attack would be treacherous.
* SanitySlippage: She slowly goes through one as she [[BecomingTheMask becomes the mask]] after infiltrating Wraith Squadron. It turns out that Imperial Intelligence was... ''lax'' in concerning themselves with what would happen to an agent after having so many different identities swirling around in their head. She manages to never show it, but some of her inner dialogue is downright depressing as she fights between her two [[spoiler:/three]] different identities in order to stay with her Squadron.
* SecretIdentityIdentity: In this case, rather than being a result of past trauma or a secret superhero identity, her problem stems from a very real conflict between who she wants to be be, and who her Imperial intelligence instructors have trained her to be. The rigorous, cruel methods used by her teachers, the constant assertions to assume her roles flawlessly because nothing else was of consequence, and the dictum to abandon everything, including emotional attachments, that would interfere with her fulfilling her mission is enough to mentally unbalance her for a time. Not only does there come a point when she is (briefly) no longer certain who she is, Lara or Gara Petothel, but she even finds herself missing [[spoiler:Kirney Slane, a practice identity from her early days at the Academy, because Kirney's life was so much simpler and more carefree. This same identity is later adopted by her when her identity is exposed and she must take refuge with Zsinj, because she views Lara as having "died".]]
* ThatManIsDead: "[[TheMole Gara Petothel is dead]]. [[BecomingTheMask Lara Notsil is dead]]. I will answer to those names, but they are no longer mine. I am [[spoiler:Kirney Slane]]. I have no life yet. I will make one, or I will die in the attempt."
* ThoroughlyMistakenIdentity: A particularly old and addled man at a museum confuses Lara Notsil for someone else he once knew. In typical Star Wars fashion, he actually confused her ''for her mother'', an Imperial Intelligence agent, like Lara/Gara/whatever-her-name-is-today herself. This confusion puts another Wraith on the trail to discovering her identity, no less.
* WeWillNotUsePhotoshopInTheFuture: When Gara Petothel [[DeepCoverAgent becomes]] Lara Notsil, she carefully edits all remaining records of the dead woman - there [[FarmBoy aren't many]] - to show Gara's fingerprints and genetic structure, Gara's image. When the BigBad contacts her through Lara's brother, there are family holos in the background, and the Lara in them looks like Gara.
** The latter is justified, as it was done by Zsinj, and considering that the real Lara, her home, and most of her family were blasted from orbit there aren't many records in existence - Lara's brother was not at all upset about someone impersonating his dead sister, so probably wasn't toting happy family holos around - they were likely faked completely.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: In Gara/Lara's first mission with the Wraiths, her X-wing is positioned behind Wedge's and he puts all his shields forward. She realises that she could take him out with one shot, flee and then be feted for the rest of her life by Zsinj or the Imperials as the pilot who shot down Wedge Antilles. But then she starts thinking about [[GoodFeelsGood just what it means that Wedge trusts her enough to put her in such a position]]...
* WouldNotShootAGoodGuy: Lara Notsil gets discovered to be the woman who caused the deaths of Talon Squadron, and she's well aware that the fact that she [[BecomingTheMask became the mask]] and went through a HeelFaceTurn doesn't change her history. Despite being shot at by her love interest, the only surviving member of Talon Squadron, all she does is flee. She goes to the enemy, Warlord Zsinj, as a FakeDefector, and when she actually has to face the squadron she powers down her lasers (and modulates them to create a Morse Code-like repeating message so that when she repeatedly shoots Wedge's ship, the squadron's translator droid is able to relay the full details of her infiltration and sabotage of Zsinj's flagship, thus allowing a trap to be set). Suspecting the situation, Wedge Antilles orders that she isn't to be fired on.

[[folder:Myn Donos]]
!!Myn Donos
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!!!'''Species:''' Human (Corellian)
!!!'''Homeworld:''' Corellia

Donos was a hot-blooded Corellian, until the squadron he commanded, Talon, was destroyed in an ambush just after they were fully instated. He was the only survivor through little more than luck. The ordeal has left him with heavy psychological scars.

* AcePilot: While he was very lucky to survive the ambush of Talon Squadron (anybody short of Wedge or Tycho would've been hard-pressed, given the superior enemy force and the fact that all 11 other members were the greenest of rookies), he was also very good. He managed to shoot down at least 5 [=TIEs=] in the engagement. Though it wasn't quite enough to save Eight, the only other other Talon who survived the opening volley.
* AngstComa: After Shiner, his astromech, is destroyed, he cracks and "goes away" into his own head because Shiner was the last Talon - the only thing he had left from his old squad. As long as Shiner survived, he hadn't completely failed them.
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: During the climax of ''Wraith Squadron'', he's able to anticipate General Crespin's CoolManoeuvre that takes out two of Admiral Trigit's escorts, and exploits it by timing his torpedo launch to take advantage of Trigit's anticipated vulnerability. The result is impressive: Trigit gets taken out as he's trying to reconsider his previous position of not surrendering. Thus, he killed his hated enemy just before Trigit ''actually'' surrendered, which would've required Donos to stand down.
* ColdSniper: Even before the destruction of his squadron. Yes, he has looked down a scope at people completely unaware of his existence and pulled the trigger. Yes, he is very, very good at it. Yes, he will do it if ordered to do so. No, he doesn't much like doing that. It's why he transferred to flying X-wings, and probably why he leaves the Wraiths at the end of ''Solo Command''.
* DatingCatwoman: He falls for Lara during the events of the Wraith Squadron series. While he was initially unaware that she was an ex-Imperial spy, his feelings persist even after her cover is blown and she enacts a [[TheMole mole]] scheme.
* [[DefrostingIceQueen Defrosting Ice King]]: Part of his CharacterDevelopment, though his initial coldness isn't ''rude,'' so much as [[TheStoic emotionally shut-down.]]
* HappilyMarried: ''Mercy Kill'' reveals that he and a certain woman named Kirney Slane married and had children, even starting a shipping company together.
* HeroicBSOD: He pretty much lives in one after the destruction of Talon Squadron. [[HesBack He gets better.]]
* ImprobableAimingSkills: He pulls off some ''very'' impressive sniping tricks in the series, and the only times he seems to miss are for ''very'' difficult shots. A particularly notable instance is when he uses his sniper rifle to transmit a vislight detonation signal from ship to ship--he doesn't get it until the third shot, but that he made the shot at ''all''...
* MadnessMantra: "Shiner's not responding."
* NotSoAboveItAll: He’s the one to coin the Squadron’s catchphrase: “Pretty. What do we blow up first?”
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Twice regarding his Corellian Bloodstripes. Early in ''Wraith Squadron'', his refusal to wear them after the Talon Squadron debacle is the first indication to Wedge that something is terribly wrong with him. By the middle of ''Iron Fist'', Myn has recovered enough from this that it's not really an issue, but then he wears them to a meeting with Wedge while ''out'' of uniform, which tells Wedge that something ''else'' is up, because Myn isn't the ostentatious type who would wear the Bloodstripes with civilian clothes for no particular reason--turns out Myn has some well-founded concerns about Zsinj trying to recruit another Wraith.
* PlatonicLifePartners: Somewhat with Tyria Sarkin; throughout The Wraith's tenure as a Squadron the two have been a permanent wing pair (initially 9 & 10, later 3 & 4) and she (pretending to be Talon 8) is part of the group to bring him out of his HeroicBSOD by pushing him beyond his RageBreakingPoint, saving his career and his sanity.
* SurvivorGuilt: It's telling that he's more protective of his droid than his own life.
* YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame: Earned the Corellian Bloodstripes, an award for conspicuous gallantry, during his time as a sniper, but refuses to wear them after the Talon debacle. This is the first inkling Wedge gets that something is ''very'' wrong with him.

[[folder:Garik "Face" Loran]]
!!Garik "Face" Loran
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!!!'''Homeworld:''' Pantolomin
!!!'''Callsigns:''' Wraith One

As a former child star of propaganda holodramas, Face inspired many to join the Imperial army. Now, he attempts to atone for his childhood by flying for the New Republic. In 44 ABY he becomes the head of Galactic Alliance Security.

* AcePilot: He begins the series with a few kills under his belt, and crosses the magic five-kills mark during the first book. He also has the second-highest score of the flight officers during training (only Kell did better).
* TheAtoner: He thinks he needs to pay back for helping the Empire when he was young. [[spoiler:Phanon’s will is partially dedicated to shaking him out of this, stating that mistakes made in youthful ignorance shouldn’t define the rest of his life.]]
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: An expert at reading BodyLanguage. He can tell what planet you're from by the way you ''walk.'' And is confident enough to kill a man based on one of these deductions. And he was right.
* BaldOfEvil: Shaven bald by the time of the Yuuzhan Vong war, and naturally bald by the events of Mercy Kill. While not actually evil, he does eventually rise to the head of a galaxy-wide intelligence agency. Allston said that he wanted Face's appearance to be that of a stereotypical evil mastermind.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: His acting ability is often used for humor, but there's a reason he's the one in charge of the Wraiths once Wedge leaves.
* TheFace: His role in the squad, which in turn is the source of his nickname.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: A large one over his face, marring his boyish good looks. [[spoiler:Phanan actually forces him to fix this in his will. While Face didn't particularly care about the money, Phanan anticipated this and stipulated that if the scar ''wasn't'' removed, the money would instead go to Face's hated childhood rival Tetran Cowall. However, afterwards, Face [[WeWillNotUseStageMakeupInTheFuture uses stage makeup]] to [[LoopholeAbuse simulate having one anyway.]] It's implied via dialogue that Face didn't actually have the procedure done until immediately after his almost-death at the battle with ''Razor's Kiss'', though; if this is so, he only had the fake scar for one chapter anyway.]]
** [[spoiler:By Mercy Kill, or possibly Solo Command, he has ditched the makeup.]]
* {{Glurge}}: The only one of his old roles for which we get a synopsis features Face as a [[BlackShirt loyal Imperial child]] who ends the film being shot by his pro-Rebellion father as he runs to meet the Emperor, and begs Palpatine to destroy Rebels like his father as he dies in Palpatine's arms. Imperial holodramas aren't big on subtlety. [[invoked]]
* HappilyMarried: To Dia by the time of ''Mercy Kill'', although it appears they broke up at some point and she had a daughter whom Face adopted.
* OldShame: How he feels about being a child star for Imperial propaganda movies.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: This is something of a theme with Wraith Squadron members.
* PrettyBoy: Noted for his good looks.
* RankUp: He is promoted to Captain after joining Wraith Squadron.
* SherlockScan: An expert at using body language to deduce facts about people.
* TheSpymaster: He leads Wraith Squadron once Wedge goes back to the Rogues, and eventually becomes head of Galactic Alliance Intelligence. It's noted multiple times that he believes in compartmentalizing information (which ends up backfiring hilariously in ''Mercy Kill'').

[[folder:Ton Phanan]]
!!Ton Phanan
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!!!'''Homeworld:''' Rudrig

Ton is a bitter, sarcastic doctor who is allergic to Bacta, and thus ended up half-cybernetic when the medship he was serving on during the Battle of Endor was attacked. He became a pilot after deciding that he'd rather kill people than heal them.

* CaptainCrash: By his own admission, he's not that great at landing. He also loses three starfighters in the books, though the first time it was due to circumstances beyond his control. [[spoiler:He doesn't survive the last one, though he does at least get a chance to talk to Face one last time before he goes.]]
* CasanovaWannabe: He hits on most of Wraith Squadron's female members. If he got shot down by TIE fighters as much as he gets shot down by women, his career would be over. [[TearJerker Not always played for laughs, though]].
* CombatMedic: Being a doctor can come in handy when you're asked to surrender your weapons. He cut a guy's throat with a laser scalpel at one point when everyone had been relieved of their blasters or vibroknives, because their captors hadn't realised his equipment could re-purposed. He's a good guy, but he's a little creepy about it.
-->"It's a tool of medicine. I wasn't asked to turn over my bandages, bacta treatments, disinfectant sprays, or tranquilizers either, but [[OnceKilledAManWithANoodleImplement I can kill a man with any of them, under the right circumstances]]."
* CollectorOfTheStrange: Likes bugs (he was that kid who liked making girls shriek with them) and winds up keeping some as pets. [[spoiler:They are bequeathed to Face when Phanan dies, on the grounds that Phanan thought they were cute and "cuteness should be preserved".]]
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Face. The first day they met, they were finishing each other's sentences and annoying the hell out of everybody else within hours.
* ImprovisedWeapon: When the Wraiths are captured at the beginning of ''Iron Fist'', the Imps confiscate their weapons... but they don't touch Ton's medical bag. That turned out to be an oversight on their part.
* SadClown: He's a prankster and cracks a lot of jokes, but under the lighthearted exterior is a depressed man who is increasingly bitter about how he gains more prosthetics every year.
* VitriolicBestBuds: He and Face are constantly trading barbs.
* WeaponsOfTheirTrade: In the beginning of ''Iron Fist'' the Wraiths get into a fight where Ton Phanan, the squad's medic, winds up killing someone with a scalpel. When it comes up during their debriefing, he's asked if he surrendered this weapon, to which Phanan matter-of-factly explains that it's not a weapon, it's one of his medical tools. So are his bandages and bacta packs, but under the right circumstances [[DeadlyDoctor he can kill a man with any of them]]. The debriefing officer can only shoot a bemused look at Wedge, who just shrugs.

[[folder:Kell Tainer]]
!!Kell Tainer
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The Wraiths' demolition expert. Kell's father was in the Rebellion during its early days, but panicked and endangered his unit trying to flee during a critical mission, forcing Wes Janson to score his first kill by shooting him down. Kell is attempting to make up for his father's failure but is understandably hostile towards Janson at first, though the two reach an understanding. In later series, he is married to Tyria and has two kids with her, Doran, who became a Jedi Knight, and Jesmin, a lightsaber-wielding Antarian Ranger who joined Wraith Squadron.

He was also in ''Literature/StarWarsScoundrels''.

* AcePilot: He's the most skilled pilot in the squadron except for Wedge (and possibly Janson).
* AlternateHistory: He actually uses this as his backstory for one infiltration mission, calling himself Kell Doran (his birth name) and being a civilian shuttle pilot... basically just being an alternate version of himself, if he had decided to pursue a civilian career rather than join the Rebellion.
* BadassNormal: In addition to his demolition skills, he also has martial arts training, which he uses to good effect in the field at least [[OnceAnEpisode Once A Book]]. See also AcePilot.
* BadLiar: Although it may be a double bluff...
-->'''Cubber Daine:''' You play sabacc, son?\\
'''Kell:''' A little. But I'm not very good at it.\\
'''Cubber:''' Do I look stupid? 'I'm not very good at it', indeed. My six-year-old daughter is a better liar.\\
'''Kell:''' Well, I lie a little, but I'm not very good at it.
* BattleCouple: With Tyria.
* BrickJoke: His last real mission in ''Wraith Squadron'' goes much the same way as his first simulator run near the beginning of the same book. [[spoiler:Five kills, instant ace. Only this time, Runt doesn't get all his points.]]
* CreepyBlueEyes: Is mentioned to have very pale blue eyes, very slightly too dark and narrow which can make him look like a bit like a madman.
* CowardlyLion: Constantly deals with a strong performance anxiety that he mistakes for cowardice. It nearly overwhelms him in the final battle against ''Implacable'', but he's eventually able to overcome it. The fear never completely disappears, but it's never more than a nuisance for him after ''Wraith Squadron''.
* GoodLookingPrivates: Everyone's first impression of him is that he'd look great on a recruitment poster.
* HeroicBuild: When Wedge first sees him, he's surprised that someone so buff can even ''fit'' inside an X-wing cockpit.
* ImprobablePilotingSkills: In his first simulator mission, [[spoiler:he scored "instant ace" (five kills in one mission). He repeats the feat for real in a mission at the end of the book.]]
* LovingAShadow: Played with. He develops a crush on Tyria early on in ''Wraith Squadron'', but she calls him on it, forcing him to confront and admit that he's really just fantasizing about a woman he barely knows. [[spoiler:After flying with her for most of the book and getting to know her, he falls in love with her all over again--and this time she reciprocates immediately, because she actually fell in love with him at first sight but wanted to be sure he was loving the real person and not the fantasy.]]
* MadBomber: Not really, but the others often joke about him being this, and his CreepyBlueEyes mean he looks the part.
* OutOfFocus: He's the main protagonist of ''Wraith Squadron'', but has barely a scene to himself in the latter two Wraith books. [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools Not a bad thing]], as he had finished his CharacterDevelopment arc and this allowed Allston to look at the other characters in more detail.
* PhraseCatcher: Other people, mostly Tyria, tell him "[[SincerityMode Set Honesty to On]]".
* StuffBlowingUp: Bound to happen when he's around. Lampshaded by Falynn, who went out of her way to mark some vehicles in case Kell wanted to explode them.
-->'''Kell:''' I don't ''have'' to blow up everything I see. I just ''like'' to.
* YouKilledMyFather: Wes Janson worries about this early on, considering that Kell is a relatively large man with high proficiency with both unarmed combat and explosives. Subverted, as it turns out that rather than just hating him, Kell is ''terrified'' of Janson, seeing him as [[YouHaveFailedMe a deadly and unforgiving taskmaster]]. When he overhears Janson colluding with Wedge to buy time for another shaken pilot to regain combat efficiency, Kell realises he was mistaken and manages a better working relationship with Janson thereafter.
* YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame: Earned the Kalindor Crescent for bravery and skill in trying to save a fellow pilot from crashing. His reaction? Mild disgust, because despite all his efforts she still crashed and died.

[[folder:Tyria Sarkin]]
!!Tyria Sarkin
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!!!'''Species:''' Human (Toprawan)
!!!'''Homeworld:''' Toprawa

A human female pilot from Toprawa, a planet viciously subjugated by the Empire. Blackmailed by a training officer, her career is flaming out in a combination of poor piloting skills and black-market pressure until Wedge picks her for the Wraiths for her dual talents of minor Force-sensitivity and experience as a Toprawa Ranger, an elite anti-Imperial guerrilla force that had once served the Old Jedi Order before it was destroyed. She eventually becomes a Jedi Knight and marries Kell, with whom she had two children: Doran, who became a Jedi Knight after she trained him, and Jesmin, who joined Wraith Squadron.

* ActionGirl: Even more so than other Wraiths, as her background was one of fight, die, or be viciously humiliated just to survive on Toprawa. Even more so when her Force abilities improve.
* AlwaysSecondBest: Despite being a [[PsychicPowers Force-sensitive]] with no small amount of combat experience, her low scores as a pilot are a constant source of insecurity for her. For instance, initially she can't even use her Force Powers consciously; she just gets suspiciously accurate and life-saving hunches every now and then. She points out how frustrating this is to Kell, how would it feel to be the best pilot as long as you aren't in a cockpit. As noted below, she gets better about this.
* BerserkButton: Her limitations as a pilot, and [[spoiler:Repness' blackmailing her based on them]]. Grinder hits it by accident, and her furious response shocks her squadmates (and Wedge, when he finds out).
* TheEmpath: She is often highly adept at picking up extremely subtle social cues, understanding Runt's split personality mental state based on his use of the pronoun we, seeing Kell's failure to [[LovingAShadow see the real her in his crush]] and so shooting him down despite her mutual attraction, and noticing the reasons that Myn is so bothered by the loss of his droid as really being about survivor's guilt. Kell later suggests it is the Force.
* HadToBeSharp: She was a Rebel on Toprawa, a planet subjugated by the Empire for being involved in the theft of the first Death Star plans.
* PlatonicLifePartners: A soft example with Myn Donos. They are a permanent wing pair, and she (pretending to be Talon 8) is part of the group to bring him out of his HeroicBSOD by pushing him beyond his RageBreakingPoint, saving his career and his sanity.
* SpiderSense: While she is Force sensitive, it mostly comes across as brief flashes of inspiration as opposed to proper feelings as a true Jedi would have.
* TheSneakyGal: She is extremely talented at silent movement, and serves as the Wraith's point man while on the ground.
* TookALevelInBadass: Initially the weakest pilot of the group, she obsessively trains, gains confidence, and becomes one of the most solid members of the Wraiths. After some time, her Force powers even develop enough that she leaves the military and becomes a full-fledged Jedi.
* TookALevelInKindness: After the Wraiths help her find her own self-esteem, she becomes less bitter and much nicer.
%%zce* WhenSheSmiles: From [[LoveAtFirstSight Kell's point of view]], at least.

[[folder:"Piggy"]]
!!Voort "Piggy" saBinring
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Piggy is a Gamorrean who was a result of Imperial experimentation. As a result, his intelligence surpasses by far that of his species, and even most humans. After being forced to [[spoiler:MercyKill Runt during the Yuuzhan Vong War]], Piggy retired and became a professor before Face managed to recruit him again fifteen years later to investigate a rogue Galactic Alliance General.

* AloneInACrowd: He doesn't make a huge deal of it, but the point is poignantly made that he is unique - and therefore alone, as only a totally unique being can be. To him, other Gamorreans are brutish and dull. To humans and most alien races, he is physically repulsive (and suffers from the stigma associated with his species). His washing out into Wraith Squadron had nothing to do with his competence as a pilot or any bad choices on his part.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: One of the most mild mannered and polite Wraiths, he can and will pick up a desk and beat you to death with it if you shoot him.
* {{BFG}}: The ''[[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill two-meter long guts of an X-wing's wing cannon jury-rigged to be portable]].''
* {{Codename}}: "Math Boy"
* DoNotCallMePaul: After the incident with Runt in the Yuuzhan Vong War, he refuses to use the nickname "Piggy" again throughout ''Mercy Kill'' until the end.
* FantasticRacism: He suffers from this a lot, but he also has it towards Yuuzhan Vong. When he is forced to work with one in ''Mercy Kill'', he is constantly expecting to be betrayed, even though Scut was a Shamed One and raised by a human couple after being liberated when he was five.
* FatherlyScientist: Indeed, Piggy knew him as "father". He loved his creations like children. Unfortunately, most of them weren't psychologically equipped to handle their new intelligence and took their own lives; stricken with guilt, their creator followed them into death. Of all his "children", only Piggy chose to live.
** Piggy mentions that he doesn't ''quite'' understand why they died... if he did, presumably he would join them.
* GeniusBruiser: How much of a genius? He's considered a living tactical computer, able to increase the efficiency of pilots he flies with thanks to his mental calculations allowing him to call shots and maneuvers for them. How much of a bruiser? He picks up a desk and slams a ship bulkhead (and an assassin) with it so thoroughly he nearly knocks someone out in the next hallway over from the resulting dent. [[{{Determinator}} All while being gutshot from a blaster.]]
** And at one point, he single-handedly captures a Corellian corvette using an X-Wing's blaster cannon. That he fires like a rifle. [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill He kind of, uh, melted the ship's captain.]]
** His defense against the false charge that got him in the Wraith selection pool--striking a superior officer--is that none of the people he ''did'' hit (during well-moderated challenge matches) were able to speak coherently within a half hour, the time it was filed.
* GoodWithNumbers: This is often useful. He has a habit of trying to control all aspects of a skirmish by transmitting recommendations to his squadmates. He also makes an excellent spotter for snipers since he can calculate numerous variables and give them the information. He's often called upon to plot hyperspace courses; it's implied he can ''mentally'' do the complex calculations necessary to plot one without a navigational computer (though he might only be using this capability to check the computer results).
* IntelligenceEqualsIsolation: Among his own kind, who are more inclined to violence than cognition. (He was one of several Gamorreans whose intelligence was improved in an Imperial experiment; all the rest have committed suicide because of this.)
* JerkassRealization: Realizes just how much his racism was hurting Viull, a fellow Wraith (Viull is a Yuuzhan Vong adopted and raised by humans; Piggy blames the Vong for Runt's death) and how much the other had looked up to him. From then on, he's more respectful to Viull.
* TheLeader: Takes over command of Wraith Squadron halfway through [[spoiler:''Mercy Kill'' following Bhindi's death]].
* MissionControl: He can serve as this for other pilots ''while flying and shooting down other fighters himself''. When the Wraiths were undercover as a pirate gang, Wedge had to specifically order Piggy to stop doing so, because demonstrating such an unusual skill could blow their cover.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: He was originally given the nickname as an insult and tolerated it dispassionately, but Wedge tells him that Jek Porkins, a friend of his and Wes' who died in the Death Star trench run, was also called Piggy, and the name carries no stigma to him and is in fact considered an honorable moniker in their group.
* RetiredBadass: Becomes this at the end of the Yuuzhan Vong War. It takes a personal appeal from Face to get him back in the game.

[[folder:"Runt"]]
!!Hohass "Runt" Ekwesh
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!!!'''Species:''' Thakwaash
!!!'''Homeworld:''' Thakwaa

Runt is a Thakwaash pilot who was on the verge of washing out due to his species multiple personalities. As a member of Wraith Squadron, he learned to control his personalities and created new ones that helped him develop more skills.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: When sufficiently aggravated, he's able to pick up an enemy hand-to-hand combat specialist like a rag doll and smash him repeatedly against a wall until he dies.
* IronicNickname: {{Justified}}. Piggy excepted, he is easily the physically largest Wraith. He goes by "Runt" because he actually ''is'' the runt of the litter: most Thakwaash wouldn't even fit in an X-Wing cockpit.
* LeeroyJenkins: "The Pilot", one of his personalities. Kell helps train the pilot mind out of this tendency... or, perhaps, trains Runt to use a different mind in these situations.
* SplitPersonality: [[PlanetOfHats Par for the course for the Thakwaash]]. His CharacterDevelopment mostly consists of learning to switch between the personalities better.
* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: [[spoiler:Piggy is shown having to MercyKill him during the Yuuzhan Vong war in ''Mercy Kill''.]]
* SuperStrength: Immensely powerful, which comes in handy often.

[[folder:Jesmin Ackbar]]
!!Jesmin Ackbar
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!!!'''Species:''' Mon Calamari

Jesmin is the niece of Admiral Ackbar. This caused her to constantly be placed by her commanding officers onto safe assignments for fear of her dying under their command and suffering Ackbar's wrath. She joined Wraith Squadron because she knew this would not happen under Wedge. [[spoiler:She is the first casualty of the squadron.]]

* AntiNepotism: She's been stuck in a desk job for most of her career because nobody wants to be responsible for getting Admiral Ackbar's niece killed, which caused her some SurvivorsGuilt-like issues. When she volunteers for the Wraiths, she makes her uncle promise her he won't hold it against Wedge should the worst happen.
* FantasticRacism: Subjected to it. Before the unit was named or the roster finalized, one of the prospective Wraiths, a Quarren - a species that does not traditionally get along well with Mon Calamari - slapped her. Wedge promptly washed him out of the unit and selected Jesmin for the slot that was up for grabs.
* ForgottenFallenFriend: Not in ''Wraith Squadron'', but in ''Iron Fist'' she is mentioned, once, with her name misspelled as "Jasmin". ''Solo Command'' doesn't mention her at all, even though Falynn and Grinder get namedropped as among the squadron's losses. In ''Mercy Kill'', one of Tyria and Kell's children is [[DeadGuyJunior named after her, though.]]
** One possible explanation is that the main character that was most affected by her death was Kell as he failed to save her. ''Iron Fist'' and ''Solo Command'' mainly focus on Face and Myn/Lara respectively and Kell is rarely a viewpoint character in those books. Falynn was a much more important loss to Myn who is the one that mentions her in his segment.
* {{Nephewism}}: Her parents are never mentioned and when she dies Wedge writes a letter to her uncle suggesting that he's her closest living relative.
* NotWhatItLooksLike: Upon learning that his niece has been assigned to a unit of misfits, screwups, and hard luck cases, Admiral Ackbar demands she clarify since she belongs to none of those groups. She has to explain that she volunteered because she knew that Wedge wouldn't play favorites and she would finally be treated as a proper fighter pilot.

[[folder:Falynn Sandskimmer]]
!!Falynn Sandskimmer
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!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Homeworld:''' Tatooine

* AcePilot: Even before joining Wraith Squadron, she was an ace as a Y-Wing pilot. Given the sluggish nature of Y-Wings, that's actually more difficult than becoming an ace in an X-Wing.
* AlwaysSecondBest: She feels this way about her position in the unit: she has a lot of skills, but at least one person in the unit is better than her at each of them. There's also the fact that she comes from Tatooine, which has produced more than its share of great pilots... but that means she gets compared unfavorably to other Tatooine aces. Her desire to prove herself and do things that no one else has done causes her to take a lot of risks, [[spoiler:and eventually gets her killed.]]
** The best way to describe this flaw is that while she is an extremely useful JackOfAllStats, able to take on a variety of different roles as needed, she still sees herself as a MasterOfNone in a squadron of talented specialists.
* FlorenceNightingaleEffect: Some of the other Wraiths speculate that her interest in Donos comes from romantic attraction to him, others feel she wants to fix him, Grinder thinks it'll start with the latter and she will fall for him while helping.
* SourSupporter: Like Luke Skywalker, she's from Tatooine - and she's never met Luke, she wishes she's never heard of him. Falynn is often charged with insubordination because she just doesn't respect most superior officers, or famous Rebels, just because she's supposed to. She does come to respect Wedge... eventually. Wedge points out that she has voiced her low opinion of Luke to one of Luke's best friends, but he won't hold that against her and judges her solely on her merit as a pilot.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: She thinks Wedge is too old to be a good pilot. He proves her wrong. ''Decisively.''
* WithDueRespect: Falynn would probably like [[Franchise/MassEffect Ashley's quote]] about the phrase, it ''is'' how she likes to use it.
* WretchedHive: As revealed in her anecdote about Bunkard Sewer Disorder, the TropeNamer is her hometown.

[[folder:Eurrsk "Grinder" Thri'ag]]
!!Eurrsk "Grinder" Thri'ag
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!!!'''Species:''' Bothan
!!!'''Homeworld:''' Bothawui

* InsufferableGenius: He's a ''very'' good slicer, with pride to match.
** TooCleverByHalf: He's caught out as a prankster because he executed one prank ''too perfectly''. Nobody else in the squadron or among its support staff had the code-slicing skills to pull it off.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: The Glass Prowler from Storinal.
* KilledOffForReal: Dies at the end of ''Wraith Squadron'' when a turbolaser completely destroys his fighter.
* PetTheDog: Arrogant prankster or not, Grinder is willing to share skills of his trade and important knowledge he learns while slicing with some of his teammates, such as Myn and Tyria.
* ThePrankster: Although some of his pranks were ill-timed and potentially harmful, causing Face, Kell, and Phanan to pull one over on him and then blackmail him into stopping.

[[folder:Shalla Nelprin]]
!!Shalla Nelprin
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!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Homeworld:''' Ingo

* ActionGirl: She's a better hand-to-hand fighter than Kell Tainer, which ''really'' says something. Zsinj's best hand-to-hand combat instructor, when asked about a claim that she could kill a Wookiee hand-to-hand, stated that while he didn't think it was possible for a human to pull it off, she came closer than anyone else he'd seen. He gave this assessment with his nose broken, after Shalla nearly kicked his face in as a demonstration. Her one "quirk" is that she has trouble keeping still.
* TheBigGirl
* DeadpanSnarker: Like everyone else in Wraith Squadron, she's willing and ready to hand out the snark wherever.
* TheSmartGirl: Not only is she an effective combatant, she is also skilled at sifting intelligence reports. Which makes sense, [[spoiler:once you learn that her father was likely an Imperial Intelligence officer who went into hiding.]] As a result, she also does quite a bit of the analysis of the group.

[[folder:Dia Passik]]
!!Dia Passik/Diap'assik
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!!!'''Homeworld:''' Ryloth

* AmbiguousSituation: In ''Mercy Kill'', Adra is explicitly described as Dia's daughter whom Face later adopted. This implies that Dia and Face separated before she met someone else, married, had a daughter, and later lost or left her husband before returning to Face (or else that they broke up and she adopted a daughter on her own). None of this is ever completely explained.
* AntiHero
* BrokenBird: Sold into slavery as child to be a dancer, she harbored a polite hatred for others of her species for doing this, and is generally ruthless and sort of hostile to her teammates. She is then forced into ShootYourMate with [[spoiler:Castin Donn (he seems dead, she tells us she thinks he was dead, but it's ambiguous)]] while undercover and has a Heroic BSOD in which she tries to commit suicide. Face stops her, and eventually ends up in a relationship with her, and she defrosts.
* [[CompressedHair Compressed Lekku]]: When Dia and some of the other Wraiths are disguised as Stormtroopers, another member of the squad guesses that Dia is extremely uncomfortable with her sensitive Lekku scrunched up.
* DefrostingIceQueen: Once Face helps her get over some of her issues.
* DoubleConsciousness: Borders on SplitPersonality due to her trauma. This comes to the forefront after [[spoiler:being forced to (maybe) kill Castin]]: she refers to herself as Diap'assik (a ContinuityNod to the discussion of [[FantasticNamingConvention Twi'lek names]] in ''The Krytos Trap'').
* HappilyMarried: To Face by the time of ''Mercy Kill'', although it appears they broke up at some point and she had a daughter whom Face adopted.

[[folder:Castin Donn]]
!!Castin Donn
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!!!'''Homeworld:''' Coruscant

* TheCracker: He is too serious to be a PlayfulHacker, but he is still at least semi-heroic as a member of the Rebel Alliance.
* FantasticRacism: It's not so much that he believes other species inferior; it's more that he's had no experience and didn't empathize with them, so picked fights and just generally does not get along.
* InsufferableGenius: Takes over from Grinder as the squadron's new slicer and has the same kind of ego, though he's less playful and prone to grandiose statements. His squadmates wonder if he's as good.
-->"It'll work. My codes and patches always work."\\
''[the others look at him]''\\
"Well, mostly."
** TooCleverByHalf: He lacks Grinder's caution, ''especially'' when it comes to slicing. This comes back to bite him when [[spoiler:he opens an access panel without scanning it for traps first, triggering a silent alarm. In a similar situation in the previous novel, Grinder had scanned a seemingly-standard security panel before attempting to open it and found it contained a false layer; this foresight allowed him to bypass both without tripping an alarm.]]
* ItsAllMyFault: He was a slicer who, at the end of ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'', broadcast images of the second Death Star's destruction on Imperial Center/Coruscant. Citizens went wild and some tried tearing down a statue of the Emperor. Then stormtroopers came to "restore order" and fired on the crowd. Their blasters were ''not'' set to stun. Castin was there and rescued a small child before it could be trampled, but felt some responsibility for the deaths anyway.
* {{Jerkass}}/JerkWithAHeartOfGold
* MildlyMilitary: The Wraiths are known for not always following protocol, but Wedge insists on a measure of professionalism which Castin just isn't up to. He has bad posture when asking to meet with Wedge - which Wedge would allow from someone who's served with him for a while, but not the NewMeat - he's always slouching in general, he tries to question Wedge's authority while the other Wraiths are present, and [[spoiler:he flagrantly disobeys orders - not in the ignoring-a-new-order-in-combat sense, which other Wraiths have done, but in a much riskier and ultimately catastrophic way]].
* SmugSnake: Talks a big game about his abilities as "the best" slicer, and while his technical skills are certainly impressive enough, [[spoiler: his impatience and reckless approach just get him killed for his trouble, and he also nearly blows the cover of his fellow wraiths onboard the 'Iron Fist'.]] He never does learn that someone in his own squadron is just as good as he is or possibly even better, as the reader by this point has been treated to scenes of Lara Notsil casually hacking New Republic flight simulators, and turning one of Repness's own devices against him. [[spoiler: And with time, patience, and a loyal astromech, Lara not only succeeds where Castinn fails, but is able to sabotage 'Iron Fist' altogether.]]
* TheGreatestStoryNeverTold: [[spoiler:Near the end of his life]], he starts to get over his racist disdain for nonhumans when he finds, to his surprise, a sudden deep sympathy for [[spoiler:the ones held captive on ''Iron Fist''. To the point where he cuts his own chance for escape short by freeing one.]]
* TooDumbToLive: He was warned, repeatedly, not to try to [[spoiler:infiltrate the ''Iron Fist'' until they had more intelligence from the initial meeting between Zsinj and the Hawk-Bats. He not only disobeys these orders, but goes to extreme lengths to do so. This results in him getting in over his head and killed.]]

[[folder:Elassar Targon]]
!!Elassar Targon
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!!!'''Species:''' Devaronian
!!!'''Homeworld:''' Devaron

* BunnyEarsLawyer: He is very eccentric, but is also a very good medic.
* LargeHam: "Elassar Targon, '''Master of the Universe!'''" This first comes up after the Wraiths question whether Elassar is sufficiently crazy to be part of the squadron.
* TheMedic: When he first joins up, he's a fresh graduate who's also trained as a medical corpsman in the Academy, and thus gets immediately assigned as the new official unit medic, replacing temporary fill-in Lara Notsil (who'd previously been assigned the role after Phanan's death).
* TokenReligiousTeammate: He's strongly superstitious, and when Runt sneezes during a meeting, he takes it as a sign they'd forgotten an important detail in the planning.[[note]]They had, but it had nothing to do with Runt and everything to do with a communication problem between Wedge and Chewbacca.[[/note]] Just before the mission, Wedge spots Targon putting charms all over Runt's fighter, to the latter's annoyance.

[[folder:Bhindi Drayson]]
!!Bhindi Drayson
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* AMotherToHerMen: A negative example: she views all the new young members of Wraith Squadron as "kids" and constructs her plans around what she thinks will give them the best chance to survive. Unfortunately, this impairs her judgment and limits Wraith Squadron's options in several cases, and [[spoiler:leads to her death when she takes the whole team on what should be a two person scouting operation, which causes them to be detected and her getting shot while trying to hold off reinforcements chasing them]].
* DeadpanSnarker
* DiesWideOpen
* TheLeader: During ''Mercy Kill''.
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Her shrieking reaction to everything going wrong on the infiltration of a secret Pop-Dog base and encountering a second team of Wraiths:
-->'''Bhindi:''' This is not going to end well, this is not going to end well, this is not going to end well.

[[folder:Baljos Arnjak]]
!!Baljos Arnjak

[[folder:Sharr Latt]]
!!Sharr Latt
!!!'''Species:''' Human

Sharr is a human male who was a member of Wraith Squadron during the Yuuzhan Vong War, and led a team of Wraiths fifteen years after the war that investigated General Stavin Thaal. He specializes in psychological warfare.

* {{Codename}}: "Mind Boy".
* DeadpanSnarker
* GuileHero
* TheLeader: Of the second team of Wraiths in ''Mercy Kill''.
* ManipulativeBastard
* OutOfFocus: Sharr is the [[spoiler:leader of the second Wraith team, but after the teams merge, he gets very little development.]]
* NoodleIncident: "I've only ever strangled a man to death once, but I was very, very successful at it."

[[folder:Myri Antilles]]
!!Myri Antilles
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!!!'''Species:''' Human

Second daughter of Wedge and Iella, she followed in her mom's footsteps and became a spy. She is an expert in disguises and gambling.

* ActionGirl
* {{Codename}}: "Gamble Girl".
* DaddysGirl: Implied in ''Mercy Kill''. She refers to Wedge as "Daddy" while referring to her mother as "Mom," takes after him to some degree with many of her skills and participation in Wraith Squadron, and when she calls him for an evac when the Wraiths are in trouble, he comes as soon as is physically possible.
* IAmNotMyFather: Averted: She's perfectly happy with being well known because of the accomplishments of the rest of her family, but she also wants to make a name for ''herself'' so that when people hear her name they'll stop telling her that she "must be proud" of her father/mother/sister.
* ProfessionalGambler: As a young teenager during the Vong War, she grew up in the ''Errant Venture'''s casino, and her first job was a dealer.
* TechnicalPacifist: She always has her blaster set on stun, and dislikes it when another Wraith kills when they don't absolutely have to. However, she is still willing to kill if necessary.
** In fact, her CharacterDevelopment is learning when to drop the 'Pacifist' part entirely.

[[folder:Turman Durra]]
!!Turman Durra
!!!'''Species:''' Clawdite

Turman is a Clawdite actor who joins Wraith Squadron to bring down rogue General Stavin Thaal.

* ButtMonkey: Throughout ''Mercy Kill'' he is subjected to various discomforting situations, all PlayedForLaughs. These include being accidentally drugged (and gagged so the others don't have to hear his non sequitur theatrical soliloquies) as well as being stuck in a artificial (and living!) sea creature suit for days, which left him screaming for a shower.
* {{Codename}}: "Stage Boy".
* LargeHam: Over-acts in almost every chapter he's in.
* MasterOfDisguise
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: As a Clawdite, he can impersonate several species, though he notes that his human features are rather bland, so he uses neoglith masques a few times instead.

[[folder:Trey Courser]]
!!Trey Courser

* TheBigGuy: Trey dwarfs the majority of the reformed Wraiths.
* ChivalrousPervert: He is always flirting with Jesmin.
* {{Codename}}: "Muscle Boy", but unwillingly. He argued that it didn't cover all of his talents and did not show him in a comprehensive light when assigned it, but accepted it after Myri offered the suggestion of "Pretty Boy" instead.
* DeadpanSnarker
* DemolitionsExpert
* GeniusBruiser: He's used as the units enforcer, but he is also their mechanic, demolitions, and technology guy.
* GreaseMonkey

[[folder:Jesmin Tainer]]
!!Jesmin Tainer

Jesmin is the force-sensitive daughter of Kell and Tyria, and chose to become an Antarian Ranger instead of a Jedi.

* {{Codename}}: "Ranger Girl": she had wanted "Tree Girl", but Huhunna took it.
* DeadGuyJunior:
* NiceGirl: Generally, she's pretty sweet.
* {{Omniglot}}: She speaks several languages, including at least one Wookiee dialect.
* {{Ranger}}
* TheSneakyguy
* SpiderSense: Thanks to her Force sensitivity.
* StarCrossedLovers: Her fiancé and fellow Ranger was killed investigating a black market bacta scheme. [[spoiler:Which General Thaal and the Pop-Dogs turn out to be behind]].
* StealthExpert

[[folder:Viull "Scut" Gorsat]]
!!Viull "Scut" Gorsat
!!!'''Species:''' Yuuzhan Vong.

A Yuuzhan Vong Shamed One who was rescued by Galactic Alliance Intelligence when he was just five years old. He was raised by a human couple alongside human siblings, and his father told him stories of Wraith Squadron, who had rescued him from an Imperial Admiral. He jumped at the chance to join the legendary unit, and uses his bio-fabrication skills to create neoglith masques for them.

* BerserkButton: Being harassed for being a Yuuzhan Vong. The one time he yells is when Piggy claims that Yuuzhan Vong have no idea what logic is.
* BrutalHonesty: Always lets Piggy know exactly what he thinks of him.
* {{Codename}}: "Lab Boy".
* HappilyAdopted
* HeadbuttingHeroes: With Piggy: he thinks that Piggy is too traumatized by the Yuuzhan Vong war to work as a spy, while Piggy is convinced that Yuuzhan Vong are AlwaysChaoticEvil and Scut will turn on them any moment. Fortunately, they later get over it and work together well.
* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: Although he can sometimes be blunt, particularly when the target of FantasticRacism, Scut is very civil and sometimes even jovial. Not bad, considering he's a ''Yuuzhan Vong''.
* TheSmartGuy: For the science side of things.

[[folder:Wran Narcassan]]
!!Wran Narcassan

Shalla Nelprin's nephew, who took on his maternal grandfather's surname because for unspecified reasons he considered his father a poor role model.

* {{Codename}}: "Gun Boy".
* FriendlySniper

[[folder:Thaymes Fodrick]]
!!Thaymes Fodrick
!!!'''Species:''' Human

* {{Codename}}: "Comm Boy".
* CommunicationsOfficer
* DeadpanSnarker
* ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy: His aim is leagues worse than any other member of the squad.
* PlayfulHacker: Got recommended for the Wraiths after Face caught him slicing into secure systems.
* ThoseTwoGuys: With Drikall.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Huhunna]]
!!Huhunna
!!!'''Species:''' Wookiee
->"''Let's finish this operation and get off this world of spindly little trees.''"

A female Wookiee member of Sharr's team. Quickly forms a close partnership with Jesmin.
----

* BerserkButton: Corrupt military officers, which is why Sharr recruited her.
* {{Codename}}: "Tree Girl".
* StarfishLanguage: Although Sharr understands her Wookiee dialect, and Jesmin can speak it.

[[folder:Drikall Bessarah]]
!!Drikall Bessarah
!!!'''Species:''' Devaronian

->'''Appears in:''' ''Literature/XWingSeries''

-->"''Don't call me Doctor. You only get that honorific if you're licensed to practice medicine.''"

The medic (not a doctor) of Sharr's team.

* {{Codename}}: "Drug Boy".
* TheMedic
* ThoseTwoGuys: With Thaymes.
* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: Utterly convinced that drugging someone is the best solution for any problem.

!New Republic / Galactic Alliance

[[folder:Iella Wesseri Antilles]]
!!Iella Wesseri Antilles
[[quoteright:330:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/iella.jpg]]
!!!'''Species:''' Human (Corellian)
!!!'''Homeworld:''' Corellia

->'''Appears in:''' ''Literature/XWingSeries'' | ''I, Jedi'' | ''[[ComicBook/StarWarsUnion Union]]'' | ''[[Literature/NewJediOrder The New Jedi Order]]'' | ''Literature/LegacyOfTheForce''.

Corran's former partner during their time at C-Sec and later romantic interest/wife of Wedge.

* AwesomenessByAnalysis: Her greatest strength, which made her a first-rate detective for the Corellian Security Force, and later an elite intelligence and counterintelligence officer in New Republic Intelligence.
-->'''Corran:''' If she can't find a spy, there isn't a spy.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: She's a shoulder to cry on for any friend who needs it, she doesn't hold a grudge against the outlaws she pursued in her former career, and she has a strong moral code that can help prevent her colleagues or even her service from JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope. But after brainwashing and killing her first husband, Ysanne Isard finds out that she does have a nasty side to her after all. When she finally catches up to her, Isard gloats that she has too many blackmail files on too many New Republic leaders to ever let her come to trial. Iella agrees... [[spoiler: which is why Isard won't be judged in a public court of law. Having tried to seize control of a New Republic ship, she's guilty of piracy and thus eligible to be judged behind closed doors by a military court. After which she'll be imprisoned for the rest of her natural life on the ''Lusankya'', cared for by droids, never seeing another sentient being again, and with only a few select members of the New Republic military even knowing that she's still alive]].
* EnemyMine: Sort of. Half the people she works with as a New Republic Intelligence agent are smugglers that she used to chase when working for [=CorSec=]. It's downplayed in that she hasn't actually been a cop in a while.
* {{Foil}}: To Ysanne Isard. They're both intelligence professionals, among the best their side has to offer. Being one of the good guys, however, Iella lacks the raw ambition and ChronicBackstabbingDisorder that led Isard to plot her way onto the Imperial throne after Palpatine's death. More importantly, she lacks the HobbesWasRight view of human nature that motivates Isard to treat everyone around her as a disposable chess piece to be used before it has a chance to use her. Because of that, Iella has enough people she can trust and count on in her life to recover from even the worst blows the universe deals her. Whereas for Isard, the equivalent experiences simply make her more and more unhinged, ultimately driving even her most senior advisers and underlings to fear for their safety and abandon her. It also makes Iella a much better spy, since Isard is basically incapable of dealing with even her agents, her allies, and her sources, except through coercion and deceit.
* GuileHero: She can and does shoot people. She'd just rather outsmart them instead.
* HappilyMarried: To Wedge Antilles. To Diric Wessiri before that.
* HonorBeforeReason: Or pride before reason, at any rate. Cuts herself off from Wedge after he starts dating Qwi Xux to spare herself the pain of being reminded that she missed her chance, and even after that relationship is over, initially refuses to consider dating him because she won't be second place to someone like Qwi. She gets better. With some boosting from Wedge.
* ImprobableAimingSkills: Her skill with a blaster ''pistol'' impresses freedom fighter Elscol Loro. One wonders what Wes Janson would think.
-->'''Elscol:''' A head shot at this range?\\
'''Iella:''' Shoots high.
* LawmanGoneBad: A straight-laced detective in her homeworld's police force, who deserts it to join a violent revolutionary organization bent on overthrowing the government and taking over the galaxy. Thankfully, this being Star Wars, that organization is the Rebel Alliance, where she's able to return to the kind of values and moral code that Imperial pressure had been steadily driving out of her previous employers.
* LikeBrotherAndSister: With Corran, from their time as partners in CorSec to their many missions together in the Rebellion and later the New Republic. It also doesn't hurt that the woman Corran eventually marries, Mirax Terrik, is a sister in all but name to the man Iella eventually marries, Wedge Antilles.
* MayDecemberRomance: Exact ages are never given, but her first husband, Diric, was at least twenty years older than she was.
* MoralityPet: To Elscol Loro. She manages to guide her away from some of her more cold blooded inclinations as an insurgent.
* MundaneUtility: Her analytical skills can be put to great use tracking down criminals, identifying moles, locating the weak spots in an organization she's trying to infiltrate, or figuring out how to lure her enemies into a trap. They can also determine with a very small margin of error how long it'll take for Corran's various relationships to go down in flames. The fact that she declines to put an end date on Corran and Mirax's relationship is her way of hinting "she's the one, what are you waiting for?"
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: In direct contrast to Corran, she's not at all upset to find out that Mirax is an infamous smuggler and daughter of same. On the contrary, it's something of a relief to know she has someone that good watching her back.
* RedOniBlueOni: The more cold, analytical, dispassionate Blue Oni to her former partner Corran Horn's more impulsive Red Oni. Interestingly, she mostly shares the Blue Oni traits with Wedge Antilles (and, from what we see of him, with her previous husband Diric).
* RelationshipSalvagingDisaster: With Wedge. She's heartbroken by his relationship with Qwi Xux, realizing that she waited too long to signal her interest, and effectively cuts him off to avoid having her mistake constantly shoved in her face. Thankfully, Wedge's relationship with Qwi doesn't last, and the crisis on Adumar pushes him back into her life, ultimately leading to them getting together and marrying.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Initially averted during the Adumar mission, where she won't break her orders or betray her superior even when he's at odds with Wedge. [[spoiler: Then subverted when she's shown proof that her superior is actively plotting to kill Wedge and his fellow pilots as part of a broader conspiracy, at which point she immediately abandons him]].
* SpacePolice: A former detective in CorSec.
* TakeAThirdOption: At the end of "The Bacta War", has the option of either taking a surrendering Fliry Vorru into custody and letting him use the info he has on the New Republic's corruption to weasel out of it, or gun him down and hand him a final victory by becoming as bad as he is. Her solution is to let Elscol shoot him - but only after sneakily setting her blaster to stun. And to avoid him taking advantage of the corrupt courts, Iella proposes he simply be dumped back on Kessel, where the squadron got him from in the first place.
* WouldNotShootACivilian: There are a lot of habits from her former life as a cop that she's perfectly comfortable discarding, more so than Corran is. This isn't one of them. Occasionally leads her to butt heads with other Rebels, especially Elscol Loro.
* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Her home system of Corellia is closed to her by the pro-Imperial Diktat's regime, doubly so because she's a former public servant who not only joined the Rebellion, but abandoned the Corellian police to do so. There are a lot of Corellian Rebels for her to share the black mark with, however. Probably even a contributing factor in her relationship with Wedge, as Corran points out to him that you "can't beat a homeworld girl."

[[folder:Diric Wessiri]]
!!Diric Wessiri
!!!'''Species:''' Human (Corellian)
!!!'''Homeworld:''' Corellia

->'''Appears in:''' ''Literature/XWingSeries''

Iella's first husband. He was captured and tortured by Director Isard to be used as one of her agents to infiltrate the rebels. Iella mortally shot him when he ambushed, assaulted, and killed a witness (for Tycho Celchu's trial) that she was protecting--which he believed to be General Evir Derricote (the witness was actually Kirtan Loor; defense attorney Nawara Ven was also wounded in Diric's attack). He revealed that he was brainwashed by Isard before he passed away.

* DiedInYourArmsTonight: He dies in Iella's arms.
* ManchurianAgent: The one ''actual'' case of a Lusankya agent that readers actually see in the X-Wing Series.
* MayDecemberRomance: Was over 20 years older than Iella.
* NiceGuy: He's a genuinely kind and considerate man, who does what he can to help Tycho (despite being a Lusanka agent), helps Wedge evade reporters after his testimony to help Tycho goes horribly and shows amazing understanding of Wedge's nascent feelings towards Iella when he immediately tells him he bears no grudges for anything that might have happened between the two while he was a prisoner.

[[folder:Winter Celchu]]
!!Winter Celchu
->See her entry on the Characters/StarWarsClassicEra character page.

[[folder:Horton Salm]]
!!Horton Salm
[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/salm_headshot.jpg]]
!!!'''Species:''' Human
!!!'''Homeworld:''' Norval II

* AcePilot: Widely acknowledged as one of the best Y-Wing pilots at the time of his appearances. Tellingly, it's his ship's ion cannons that bring down Baron Fel, something even Wedge couldn't do.
* AscendedExtra: He was one of the Y-Wing pilots in "Return of the Jedi".
* BaitAndSwitchTyrant: Not Wedge's immediate superior, but otherwise resembles the trope pretty well.
* ElitesAreMoreGlamorous: A lot of his issues with Wedge in the first book stem from this. He gets annoyed with Rogue Squadron being turned into a propaganda symbol, as it means the more average-skilled squadrons he trains are trying to compete with them and will get themselves killed.
* FourStarBadass: Even though he's a general, still commands a full wing of Y-Wing bombers, and can mix it up in a dogfight with the best of them.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Officious and antagonistic, especially towards Tycho, it's nevertheless shown his by-the-bookness is his attempt to drill his units to obey orders and work as a team to keep them from getting needlessly killed - as opposed to the maverick Rogues who suffer huge casualties. He charges Corran with disobeying orders to save his unit, but when the chips are down does the same thing to save the Rogues. Later, he's sincerely appalled he treated Tycho so poorly when the truth about Cracken knowing he was innocent all along comes out.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: After complaining for several chapters about the Rogues ignoring the rules whenever they feel like it, he goes against orders and brings his own squadrons back to a battle in order to rescue the Rogues. He insists afterward, however, that Wedge ''not'' merely gloss over the fact that Salm had disobeyed a direct order. Salm considers it especially problematic that he did so just because he had a personal feud with the officer giving the orders, but the most important thing is that he wants to avoid setting an example to his subordinates that following orders is optional.

[[folder:Edor Crespin]]
!!Edor Crespin

* AcePilot: It's heavily implied that he earned his General rank through merit. Further, he's not at all afraid of mixing it up in a proper battle.
* CoolManoeuvre: Creates one in the climax of "Wraith Squadron" to take out both of Admiral Trigit's escorts at once with his A-wing.
* EyepatchOfPower: The result of losing an eye to a bombardment by Warlord Zsinj. Wedge suspects he has a mechanical eye replacement that can see through the patch.
* HeelFaceTurn: It's mentioned as part of his backstory that he was a defector from Imperial service.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: General Crespin plays a very similar role in the Allston books to that which General Salm does in the Stackpole ones.

[[folder:Atton Repness]]
!!Atton Repness

* BaitAndSwitchTyrant: Inverted. He first appears as an officer investigating an attack on the Wraiths and is actually a ReasonableAuthorityFigure who accepts Face's rather odd explanation for how he knew who the attackers were after seeing some evidence. It's only afterwards that Face discovers he's the same guy who ruined Tyria's career.
* {{Blackmail}}: How he got Tyria to keep quiet - he'd been falsifying her grades to help get her to go along with his scheme. When she threatened to expose him, he countered with this, threatening to reveal his tampering and let her crash out of flight school if he fell.
* FellOffTheBackOfATruck: He has a clever money-making scheme--claim to be an ace teacher of remedial pilots while actually fiddling their test scores to make them better, then only let the pilots keep the new scores if they will go on smuggling runs for him that involve selling 'lost' military equipment to the black market.
* GrayingMorality: He's one of the few people from EU books from this era who is both a bad guy and a loyal member of the New Republic military, not simply working undercover for the Empire or anything.
* {{Jerkass}}: Sleazy, corrupt and takes advantage of young female pilots under his command. After falsifying charges against Tyria, even had the gall to say she'd come on to him.
* WouldHitAGirl: His response to Lara threatening to expose him is to beat her unconscious, then keep her drugged in his ship's infirmary.

[[folder:Laryn Kre'fey]]
!!Laryn Kre'fey

* DroppedABridgeOnHim: Abruptly KilledOffForReal in the first attack on Borleias.
* FakeUltimateHero: He's presented as the Admiral with the best plan to take Borleias - but he's unaware Derricote's stringing him along, and is killed during the assault's failure - forcing the Rogues to take a very risky alternate step to get things done.
* AFatherToHisMen: Attempted, but doesn't really succeed. He does at least lead his troops from the front, though.
* GeneralFailure: Or Admiral in this case. Rushes his forces into an assault on Borleias with little preparation and inadequate intelligence - getting himself and a lot of others killed.
* KickTheDog: When Wedge questions his plan, he responds with a barb about Rogue Squadron's high casualty rates that sends him reeling - making a very angry Ackbar threaten to cancel the entire operation if Kre'fey doesn't get his Intel together fast.
* MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch: He and his grandchildren are both somewhat sore about how, after the events mentioned in ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'', Bothans are now thought of mainly as spies and the contributions of their warriors are ignored. This leads to him acting recklessly to prove himself.
* RedeemingReplacement: He's not a villain, but gets his own in his grandson Traest. Because of Laryn's failure, Traest ended up getting sent to a less prominent satellite of the main Bothan military academy - where he met a teacher who not only turned him into a highly effective (if unorthodox) tactician and strategist, but opened his eyes to the failures of Bothan society. He went on to become one of the great military figures of the Yuuzhan Vong War.

[[folder:Tomer Darpen]]
!!Tomer Darpen

* AssInAmbassador: And how. After all, it's not often an ambassador directly arranges for the death of the pilots in his diplomatic mission.
* CaptainCrash: His reputation, complete with the nickname 'Ejector Darpen' (referring to his ejection seat accidentally triggering ''after'' a crash-landing, at which point it was no longer needed), though as he insists, [[OnceDoneNeverForgotten this only happened once]].
* FriendInTheBlackMarket: Janson remembers him as being this way, or at least very close to it, when he was in the military service, which is why he's surprised to now find Darpen as a diplomat. It makes a lot more sense when Darpen turns out to be a spy, not a diplomat.
* FullCircleRevolution: What Wedge fears that he represents. Wedge argues that there's no point in having overthrown the Empire if people like Darpen are simply going to play by Imperial rules and give the New Republic's blessings to Imperial-style aggressive, violent, autocratic regimes like the one on Cartann.
* {{Jerkass}}: There is nothing remotely pleasant about the way Tomer conducts himself.
* RogueAgent: As the book goes by it becomes clear that his superiors have little idea what he's planning on Adumar, and he imposes strict communications blackouts to prevent them from finding out.
* SmugSnake: Smug, condescending and totally fine with Red Flight killing young Cartaan hopefuls if it gets Adumar into the Republic. Even after he's revealed, he's so confident he'll get out of it he doesn't drop the act for a second - unaware one of his own subordinates has recorded him getting Wedge and the others sent to their deaths.
* TheSpymaster: What he's revealed to be, though he pretends to be a diplomat.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Is so determined to ensure that Adumar joins the New Republic that he starts undermining New Republic principles, [[spoiler:creates a war of conquest, and tries to get Wedge killed when the latter starts getting in his way.]]

[[folder:Sair Yonka]]
!!Sair Yonka
!!!'''Homeworld:''' Commenor

* DefectorFromDecadence: Despite initially leaving Imperial service due to a combination of his disdain for Isard personally and the hefty bribe Wedge paid out to him, he became a loyal officer of the New Republic Navy afterward.
* FourStarBadass
* PunchClockVillain: Introduced as such. He was disturbed by some of the Empire's more extreme measures, but served dutifully protecting Rim worlds from pirate attacks, something he knows would be necessary under any government. This position likely made him more amenable than Isard's other captains might have been when Wedge came to talk him into a HeelFaceTurn.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Delivers a excellent one to Isard upon defecting from her forces, which is so good her closest advisor barely stops himself from applauding during it:
-->"Madam Director Ysanne Isard, I regret not being able to bring you this message personally, but not that much. In the time I have been associated with you I have found you to be sociopathically self-centered, prone to irrational and impulsive reactions to situations, and prey to a preference for appearance over substance. I have no doubt these affectations were seen as skills by the late Emperor, and indeed may have enhanced your ability to comply with his orders, but by no means are these traits that make for great, or even ''adequate'' leadership."

[[folder:Hallis Saper]]
!!Hallis Saper
!!!'''Homeworld:''' Bonadan

* BunnyEarsLawyer: Regularly does her work while wearing a 3PO protocol droid head (named Whitecap) on her shoulder.
* IntrepidReporter: Her sense of ethics puts her solidly here, even if she uses some "sludgenews" techniques at times (see {{Paparazzi}} below).
* ObfuscatingStupidity / ClarkKenting: [[spoiler:She uses Whitecap to divert people's attention from her own features, so that she can record more discreetly by taking Whitecap off.]]
* {{Paparazzi}}: She knows all the techniques of this type of journalism (called "sludgenews" in-story). She got out of sludgenews because she decided it didn't really make the universe a better place, but she's kept some of the techniques handy.
* StopCopyingMe: When Whitecap malfunctions partway through the novel, it does this.

[[folder:Stavin Thaal]]
!!Stavin Thaal
!!!'''Homeworld:''' Carida

* BigBad: Of ''Mercy Kill''.
* BornInTheWrongCentury: Or at least the wrong decade. His plan to desert his employer and reappear as a CEO/crime kingpin, commanding a fleet of resources he quietly misappropriated over the course of his service, is similar to what many senior Imperial officers and politicians did after the Emperor's death when they struck out on their own - much the same way Thaal's corruption mirrors the way many Imperial officers would behave even when nominally working for the Empire. (Which only makes sense when you remember that he himself used to be an Imperial, a Carida Academy graduate no less). Had he been a senior officer at the time of Endor, he almost certainly would have been one of the warlords: as it is, he's doing the next best thing.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: What he aspires to be, faking his death and reappearing under a new identity as a tycoon. It doesn't work out.
%%* [[spoiler:DeathFakedForYou]]: How Wraith Squadron brings him down.
* FallenHero: He used to be a New Republic war hero, but since then has devolved into a corrupt criminal who uses his men as his personal criminal syndicate.
* FourStarBadass: Is the leader of the "Pop Dogs", a New Republic unit that after the fall of Coruscant during the Yuuzhan Vong War waged very effective guerrilla tactics against them.
* FromCamouflageToCriminal: A senior general with extensive black market ties who's planning to fake his death and become a full-time criminal.
* KickTheDog: [[spoiler:The fate of his second Mistress, Keura]]
* NotInThisForYourRevolution: A villainous example. The Wraiths are initially investigating him because of his rumored ties to the Lecersen Conspiracy, a plot by various senior figures in the Galactic Alliance to overthrow the government and restore Imperial rule. The rumors are true, but the Wraiths discover that he's been corrupt since long before he was involved with the conspiracy, and much of the criminal infrastructure they discover is there purely for his own interest.
%%* VillainousBreakdown: Probably a record, too. Only the BigBad of Arrow can possibly match the speed.

!The Galactic Empire

[[folder:Ysanne Isard]]
!!Director Ysanne Isard
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!!!'''Species:''' Human (Coruscanti)
!!!'''Homeworld:''' Coruscant

->'''Appears in:''' ''Webcomic/EvasiveAction'' | ''ComicBook/AgentOfTheEmpire'' | ''Interlude at Darkknell'' | ''Galaxies: Trading Card Game'' | ''[[Literature/ShadowsOfTheEmpire MaraJade: By the Emperor's Hand]]'' | ''Literature/XWingSeries''

The director of Imperial Intelligence and the commander of the ''Lusankya'', and effectively the leader of the Empire for a brief time.