Tohna Tohna was a male human who served as a commander in the Alliance Fleet during the Galactic Civil War . His ship was the " Braha ' tok " - class gunship " Apailana ' s Promise " , which escorted the CR90 corvette " Thunderstrike " , carrier of the Sixty - First Mobile Infantry . He was transferred to the " Thunderstrike " following the deaths of their officers in the Infiltration of the Thunderstrike . Tohna continued to serve on the " Thunderstrike " until it was shot down on Sullust . After , Tohna and the surviving bridge crew helped the Sixty - First soldiers as they defended the Inyusu Tor mining and processing facility from Imperial forces . Biography . Joining the Alliance . Tohna was a helmsman before joining the Alliance to Restore the Republic . During the Galactic Civil War , Tohna was a Commander serving on the " Apailana ' s Promise " , a " Braha ' tok " - class gunship serving the Sixty - First Mobile Infantry as escort to their CR90 corvette " Thunderstrike " . The Sixty - First was led by Captain Micha Evon , nicknamed Howl , and the " Apailana ' s Promise " carried the Sixty - First ' s two X - wing starfighter s on it ' s underbelly , one of which was piloted by Nemenov . In the Elochar Sector . Following a Raid on an Imperial heavy freighter , the " Thunderstrike " and " Apailana ' s Promise " were stationed with a flotilla in the Elochar sector . The flotilla included three other battle groups stationed on a dozen ships including the " Sixmoon " , Captained by So - Hem . During their time there , the " Thunderstrike " took in the survivors of a damaged Light freighter " Trumpet ' s Call " only to find out they were Imperial Spies . The spies stormed the " Thunderstrike ' s " bridge and Lieutenant Sairgon sent out a message to the rest of the flotilla before being shot dead alongside Commander Paonu and several other bridge officers . The rest of the ships fled the sector fled and Twilight soldier Brand and a few others managed to kill the spies and retake the " Thunderstrike " . However the Imperial - class Star Destroyer " Herald " arrived in the sector and open fired on the " Thunderstrike " , damaging it before it escaped with the " Apailana ' s Promise " . Operation Ringbreaker . Concurrent to the events in the Elochar Sector , Howl , Everi Chalis and First Sergeant Hazram Namir had been at Echo Base on Hoth where the Empire eventually attacked them . Howl was killed in the fight . Following the heavy loss of officers , the Sixty - First camped at Ankhural for a while and the " Apailana ' s Promise " was repaired in orbit by a skeleton crew . Namir and Chalis returned and Namir took charge of the Sixty - First as as acting Captain Near the end of their time there , Chalis devised Operation Ringbreaker , which would target a number of Imperial facilities before it ' s prime target , Kuat Drive Yards . Tohna and the crew of the " Apailana ' s Promise " planned the insertion onto their first target , Mardona III . Tohna was then transferred to take control of the " Thunderstrike ' s " bridge crew and controlled the " Thunderstrike " during it ' s attack on Mardona III . The attack on Mardona III was successful and in the following weeks , the Sixty - First wrecked the dockyards of Najan - Rovi , defeated the Imperial Garrison on Obumubo , halted the production on Nakadia , made two further victories on Naator and Xagobah and another win over the Kuliquo belt asteroid mines . The final two targets before Kuat were Sullust and Malastare . Chalis was very convinced of a decisive victory at over Kuat Drive Yards . At Sullust . The Twilight officers couldn ' t agree on how to drop their troops on Sullust . The only thing they agreed on was that the defensive turrets were formidable to take head on . However Tohna devised a plan for the " Thunderstrike " to jump in much closer to the planet and jump out once the dropship s had gone down with the troops . Namir saw at least two flaws in Tohna ' s plan : the first was that a miscalculation would crash the " Thunderstrike " into Sullust at lightspeed and the second was that the first wave of troops wouldn ' t have time to take the beachhead . However Namir approved it anyway as there were not any better options for the Sixty - First . Tohna ' s plan was successful and the dropships delivered the troops down to take the Inyusu Tor mineral processing facility . Namir gave the troops 24 hours to take the facitlity , of which they took it in twelve . They spent the next twelve hours patrolling the facility until the " Thunderstrike " and " Apailana ' s Promise " returned . However , once the two ships reached atmosphere , the TIE fighters of Vixus Squadron appeared from behind the moon and the began attacking the two ships . Tohna had the " Thunderstrike " go in low under the cover of the " Apailana ' s Promise " and it ' s X - wings however the TIE presence became overwhelming and Namir ordered the " Thunderstrike " to pull out . However it was too late for the corvette and the TIEs sent it plummeting to the surface . The " Apailana ' s Promise " and it ' s X - wings fled the system leaving the Sixty - First troops stranded at the facility . Namir led a team to search the wreckage of the " Thunderstrike " and they found Tohna and the bridge crew had barely survived the crash . Namir pulled Tohna out of the wreckage and carried him back to the rest of the Sixty - First at the facility . The Sixty - First then prepared for an imminent assault from the massing Imperial forces down the valley . When the Star Destroyer " Herald " arrived , the Imperial forces attacked the facility . During the battle , Tohna re - organised the bridge crew into runners to take supplies like fresh water and blaster packs to the soldiers at the defensive lines . The " Herald " targeted the outer positions and decimated Sixty - First snipers and scouts . But the " Apailana ' s Promise " soon returned and kept the " Herald " at bay saving Namir ' s defences . Chalis abandoned the Sixty - First and flew up to the " Herald " . There , she detonated 20 Ion bomb s causing large internal damages to the " Herald " and forcing the Star Destroyer to retreat . With the " Herald " gone , the Imperial ground forces could only last so much longer and soon fell . The " Apailana ' s Promise " survived the battle with it ' s batteries drained and it ' s deflectors overheated but it ' s hull stunningly intact . After the battle , Tohna and many others scavenged the wreckage of the " Thunderstrike " and as Quartermaster Hober drained it ' s gun batteries , Tohna called out to make the soldiers cheer . That evening Tohna played a game of Sabacc with Gadren , Brand and Twitch . Tohna invited Namir to join them but the man declined as he didn ' t know how to play . Personality and traits . Tohna was described as short and muscled . He was respected highly by his fellow officer s on the " Apailana ' s Promise " and was transferred to the " Thunderstrike " with high praise from them . Acting Captain Hazram Namir didn ' t know what to expect of the man at the time . Tohna was an enthusiastic man who made many remarks to boost morale in battles such as the attack on Mardona III . Namir even heard his cheers through the comm during their arrival at Sullust . Following the loss of the " Thunderstrike " , Tohna and the other surviving bridge crew members were left without a purpose . Tohna therefore organised them into runners during the Siege of Inyusu Tor to supply fresh water and blaster packs to the Sixty - First soldiers . When the " Thunderstrike " had it ' s batteries drained by , Tohna made remarks about the ship to give it a send off and draw cheers from the soldiers . Behind the scenes . Tohna first appeared in the 2015 canon novel " " , written by Alexander Freed .