Kendy Idele Kendy Idele was a female human from the planet Iloh . She was chosen to attend the Royal Imperial Academy and shared a room with Jude Edivon and Ciena Ree . At the Academy , she was noted for her excellent skills with a blaster , being able to shoot three flying targets in just one second . After graduating from the Academy , she served the Galactic Empire . After the Battle of Hoth , her entire patrol mutinied on Miriatin , but only one - third of them managed to escape with their lives . She then joined the Alliance to Restore the Republic and became a member of Corona Squadron , joining Thane Kyrell , who was also a former Royal Imperial Academy student . She served in the Battle of Endor , where her job was to protect the other squadron s as they penetrated the Death Star . After the Battle of Endor , she would go on to serve in the New Republic . Biography . Imperial Academy . Kendy Idele grew up on the tropical planet of Iloh during the Age of the Empire . At the age of sixteen , Kendy became an Imperial cadet at the Royal Imperial Academy on Coruscant . She shared a room with the Jelucan i cadet Ciena Ree and the Bespin cadet Jude Edivon . Kendy and Jude debated the merits of walking barefoot on Coruscant before Ciena joked that she and Kendy would get used to Jude ' s habit of quoting statistics . Kendy apologized for her grumpy mood and struggled with braiding her hair . Ciena helped her fellow cadet and taught her how to braid her hair . When Jude suggested that she keep her hair short , Kendy responded that only small children kept their hair short on Iloh . Later , they attended an induction ceremony hosted by Commandant Deenlark . As the months passed , Kendy and her fellow cadets learned how to fire blaster s . During a blaster training exercise , Kendy told her friend Ciena that she had noted the latter ' s interest in a male cadet named Thane Kyrell , a close friend of Ciena and a native of Jelucan . When Kendy asked Ciena whether she was romantically interested in Thane , Jude interjected that romantic relationships between cadets were forbidden at the Royal Imperial Academy . As the exercise dragged on , Kendy twirled her blaser like a pirate from a spice - runner holo . Following a martial arts training exercise , Kendy joked about breaking the Academy ' s ban on romantic relationships for a guy as handsome as Thane ; knowing Ciena ' s close friendship with him . When Kendy asked Ciena what she was going to do on their free day , Ciena expressed her desire to eat real food instead of the Academy ' s nutritive beverages . After Jude recommended that they spend their free time visiting the Museum of Multispecies Sciences , Kendy expressed her desire to dive in the sea instead of a wave pool . Before exiting the room , Ciena asked Kendy if she could show her how to flip her opponent . Kendy jokingly declined the offer on the grounds that she was better in that area than Ciena . As the years passed , Kendy and Jude excelled in their studies at the Royal Imperial Academy , particularly the Core Worlds Classical Culture program . Prior to graduation , Kendy joked with Ciena and Jude , who had been invited to attend a ball at the Imperial Palace , about wearing Imperial uniforms . Jude responded that Imperial uniforms were not appropriate for civilian functions such as the ball . Before the ball , Jude along Kendy took Ciena to a dresses rental shop , there they helped Ciena pick a dress for the ball . After Kendy loaned Ciena her iridescent combs made of shells from Iloh and simple pearl earrings . After graduating , Kendy joined the Imperial Navy . Joining the Rebellion . Reunion with Thane . In Imperial service , Kendy was never posted to a Star Destroyer . She only visited the capital ship three times for day trips . Kendy turned against the Galactic Empire after the Empire destroyed the planet Alderaan with the Death Star . Following the Battle of Hoth , Kendy and her entire patrol mutinied on Miriatin but only one - third of them managed to escape with their lives . She later joined the Rebel Alliance and became a member of the X - wing starfighter Corona Squadron , earning the call sign Corona Five . Kendy ' s fellow pilots included her former Academy classmate Thane , Smikes , and the Twi ' lek pilot Yendor . Later , she and her fellow Corona Squadron pilots attended a briefing chaired by the Alliance Chancellor Mon Mothma . Mothma ordered Corona Squadron not to accompany the rest of the Alliance Fleet to their new rendezvous point . Kendy and her fellow Corona Squadron pilots scouted the Outer Rim planet of D ' Qar for any possible sign of a new Imperial outpost . The Alliance had received information from deep - cover spies on Coruscant that massive amounts of materiel were being processed for the Imperial Starfleet . She informed Thane that there were no artificial power sources on D ' Qar . After determining that the planet had no Imperial presence , Corona Squadron decided to list the planet as a potential rebel base for the future . After returning to the rebel ship " Liberty " , Kendy told Thane that intelligence work was not as glamorous and dramatic as she thought it would be . Thane responded that the dramatic stuff was most likely to get them killed . When Thane remarked that he was not suicidal , Kendy pointed out that their old friend Ciena had one said that . Unlike Kendy and Thane , Ciena was still loyal to the Galactic Empire and was a promising Imperial Navy officer . When Thane asked what Ciena had reported , Kendy revealed that Ciena had reported that he had supposedly committed suicide on Jelucan . Kendy had learnt this information from her former classmates . Knowing Thane and Ciena ' s close friendship , Kendy deduced that Ciena had covered for him . Thane confirmed that this was the case . When Kendy asked if Ciena had broken an oath , Thane reaffirmed that Ciena was still loyal to him . After asking why Ciena had chosen to remain with the Empire , she recalled that Ciena had said that an oath lasted forever . Kendy was perplexed at why Ciena loved Thane enough to save his life but was still willing to serve a " tyrannical " regime . Thane explained that while Ciena loved him she had never set aside her oath to the Empire . Since Kendy did not understand Jelucani culture , Thane explained that good people could wind up in the service of evil . Disagreeing with Thane , Kenndy responded that good people would lose their goodness if they willingly chose to stay with the Empire . She added that choosing to following an unethical order would open the door to more unethical orders . She then added that making compromises would open one to embracing evil . Kendy explained that she had defected from the Empire in order to preserve her sense of goodness and morality . Both Kendy and Thane feared that their friend Ciena had been corrupted by the Empire . After remarking they would never know , Thane walked away to spend time alone . Rebel fighter pilot . After Thane returned from a trip to his homeworld of Jelucan to support Ciena Ree during the trial of her mother Verine Ree , Kendy along with Yendor , Smikes , and General Carlist Rieekan expressed shock when they learned that Thane had not concealed his association with the Alliance from Ree , who was serving as a Lieutenant Commander in the Imperial Navy . While Yendor , Smikes , and Rieekan expressed anger and disappointment , Kendy remained quiet since she understood the nature of Thane ' s relationship with Ciena . Later , Kendy and her fellow Corona Squadron mates took part in a rebel reconnaissance patrol in the Hudalla system . Corona Squadron was ambushed by a TIE Interceptor squadron led by Ciena and Nash . During the ensuing dogfight , Smikes was killed but Kendy and the other pilots including Thane managed to escape . After witnessing Ciena attempting to shield Thane ' s X - wing from their former classmate Nash Windrider ' s TIE Interceptor , Kendy realized that Thane was right about how Ciena was still the same person they had known back at the Royal Imperial Academy . Prior to the Battle of Endor , Kendy and her fellow Corona pilots attended a briefing chaired by General Crix Madine . When Kendy asked how the Alliance was going to take out the deflector shield generator on Endor , Madine informed her that General Han Solo would lead a strike team on Endor . During the assault on the second Death Star , Kendy and her fellow Corona Squadron pilots were tasked with covering General Lando Calrissian ' s " Millennium Falcon " and the Gold , Red , Green , and Gray Squadrons as they penetrated the superweapon . During the battle , Kendy and her fellow pilots took part in an attack on the massed Imperial Star Destroyers in order to protect the fleet from the operational second Death Star ' s superlaser . Kendy ' s marksmanship helped her to inflict damage on the Imperial ships . Ultimately , the Battle of Endor became a pivotal rebel victory with the deaths of the Emperor , Darth Vader , and the destruction of the second Death Star . New Republic service . Following the events at Endor , Kendy and her fellow Corona Squadron pilots joined the New Republic , the successor government to the Rebel Alliance . Kendy and her fellow pilots took part in the Naboo invasions and helped repel three Imperial attacks on Naboo , which had joined the fledgling democracy . By that stage , the squadron had been joined by a rookie from Nea Dajanam and a Coruscanti exile . After intercepting the remnants of an Imperial attack force , several of Kendy ' s fellow pilots including Yendor went to the Gungan aquatic city of Otoh Gunga to try out an exotic dessert . Her friend Thane stayed behind at the hangar to mourn Ciena , whom he mistakenly believed to have perished aboard the Super Star Destroyer " Executor " during the Battle of Endor . Kendy herself stayed behind to make repairs to his X - wing . While Thane was contemplating alone in his X - wing , Kendy approached him . When Thane asked if she had completed her repairs , she replied that she need a Louar clamp to finish up . However , she planned to take a break that night and return the follow morning . Kendy was planning to leave the hangar to join up with Yendor and the others at Otoh Gunga . When Kendy queried if Thane was going to spend hours alone , Thane replied that he would bid his time reading a holonovel under the beautiful skies of Naboo . Kendy then joked about Thane ' s eightieth birthday and expressed her bemusement at his Jelucani mystical and spiritual beliefs . Thane replied that he was not being weird and stressed that he was obliged to mourn Ciena ' s supposed passing . When Kendy asked how long Thane was going to wear the mourning band of his right arm , he replied that he would stop the annual mourning after the first anniversary of the Battle of Endor , which was scheduled to take place in a few weeks time . Thane vowed to carry the mourning band even after that date in honor of Ciena . When Kendy derided him for being melodramatic , Thane replied that Ciena was his true love . Battle of Jakku . By the time of the Battle of Jakku , Kendy had attained the rank of lieutenant in the New Republic military . Due to their status as former Imperial officers , General Rieekan assigned Lieutenant Idele and Thane on a mission to capture a Star Destroyer in order to bolster the New Republic Defense Fleet . In the lead up to the battle , Kendy expressed doubts that she would succeed since neither of them had ever been posted aboard a Star Destroyer . Thane assured her that they had studied the schematics at the Royal Imperial Academy . Despite her disbelief in spiritual matters , Kendy remarked May the Force be with you . She and Thane led one of the four boarding ships which boarded the Imperial Star Destroyer " Inflictor " , which was being commanded by Thane ' s lover Captain Ciena Ree ; who had indeed survived the Battle of Endor . During the ensuing battle , Kendy and Thane fought their way aboard the ship with blasters , taking down several stormtrooper s in the process . Despite disabling the ship ' s self - destruct mechanism , Captain Ree ordered her crew to evacuate ship so that she could personally crash the ship on the planet Jakku ' s surface in an effort to deny the ship to the New Republic . After realizing Ciena ' s plan , Thane ordered Kendy and the other New Republic soldier s to evacuate the ship . When Kendy asked him where he was going , Thane told her that he would catch up . Instead , Thane went and rescued an unwilling Ciena before the " Inflictor " crashed on Jakku . Ultimately , the Battle of Jakku ended as a decisive victory for the New Republic . The victorious New Republic then signed the Galactic Concordance with the defeated Empire , ending the Galactic Civil War . Personality and traits . Kendy Idele was a short human woman who liked to walk barefoot due to her childhood growing up on the tropical planet Iloh . As a result , she hated wearing shoes . Kendy liked to wear her green hair long and regarded short hair as something only befitting little children . Kendy also had a love for swimming in the sea and regarded swimming laps in the wave pool as a poor substitute . Kendy had a good friendship with Ciena Ree and Jude Edivon , her fellow cadets at the Royal Imperial Academy on Coruscant . During her time there , she learnt how to wield a blaster and became an effective sniper . She could take down three target fliers per second with her blaster . Kendy was also a competent starfighter pilot who flew with the Rebel Alliance ' s Corona Squadron . As an Imperial defector and rebel , Kendy loathed the Galactic Empire for its tyrannical rule and cruelty . Despite her former friendship with Ciena , Kendy was perplexed that her old classmate could love her comrade Thane enough to cover up his defection but was unwilling to leave the Empire . Kendy gained a better appreciation of Ciena after her former classmate saved her and her fellow pilots from being killed during a dogfight in the Hudalla system . Kendy had little understanding of Jelucani culture and spiritual matters in general . Despite her disbelief in the supernatural , Kendy still remarked may the Force be with you on at least one occasion . As a former Imperial officer , Kendy was familiar with the schematics of Star Destroyers . However , she expressed doubt that she would be able to take over such a ship since she had never been posted on one long term . As a rebel and New Republic starfighter pilot , she knew how to repair X - wing starfighters . Behind the scenes . Kendy Idele first appeared in Claudia Gray ' s 2015 young adult novel " Lost Stars " , which was released as part of the " " multimedia project . Her lines are told from the point of view of the main protagonists Ciena Ree and Thane Kyrell . While writing the novel , Gray mentally pictured Idele as being portrayed by .