Kryndal Kryndal was a Human male who served in the Alliance to Restore the Republic . He became part of the Alliance Special Forces and was stationed at Echo Base during Battle of Hoth . Biography . Joining the Alliance . Kryndal joined the Alliance to Restore the Republic and at some point received four months of training for the Alliance Special Forces . There he learned how to use antique Slugthrower s , disable Proximity mine s and rappel off a Ray shield . Stationed at Hoth . Eventually , Kryndal became stationed at Echo Base on Hoth where the Alliance High Command was massing for a strategy conference centred around the defected Governor Everi Chalis . During his time there , he met Hazram Namir , a First Sergeant in the Sixty - First Mobile Infantry who had extracted Governor Chalis from Haidoral Prime . The man was put to work whilst his Captain and Chalis attended the strategy conference . Namir helped Kryndal warm Power converter s with Welding torch s and Kryndal recommended the special forces training to Namir , but he refused . Fight in the mess hall . A little while later , Kryndal and Namir were sat at a table with a few other Echo Base personnel . Kryndal was sitting with two of his friends , a woman and a snout nosed alien , and they were discussing scenarios where the alliance could take the Core Worlds . Namir was listening to them but was not a very optimistic of their idea . Namir asked Kryndal what would happen when they took Coruscant trying to contradict their positive view of the war . Kryndal then attempted to explain how the alliance had it all planned out for when they overthrow the Empire but Namir still wasn ' t convinced and stated that the war was just a power grab from the unlucky senator s . To really get on Kryndal ' s nerves , Namir compared their passion for the Alliance to the passion of Darth Vader ' s stormtroopers . Feeling extremely insulted , Kryndal swung at Namir and the Sergeant caught his hand and threw him across the table . Namir then elbowed a soldier trying to help Kryndal and dug his knee into Kryndal ' s stomarch . Before Kryndal could receive more grievous harm , the surrounding soldiers wrestled Namir to the ground and Kryndal ' s female friend punched the man in the jaw . Battle of Hoth . As a result of the fight , Namir was put on load - lifting duty where he met captain Han Solo , who believed in his view of the war . A few days later , the Empire discovered and attacked Echo Base . During the battle , Imperial forces got into the base and gunned down many soldiers , including Kryndal ' s alien friend . Namir and his men were forced to retreat from their posts at Perimeter Outpost Delta and when weaving around the hallways of Echo base , Namir stumbled upon the dead alien . Namir also found three other bodies further down the hallway and thought one of them resembled Kryndal . Kryndal ' s female friend managed to get off Hoth alive and came to speak with Namir over a month later via transmission . Personality and traits . Kryndal was very passionate for the rebel cause , he was convinced to the heart that they would succeed one day despite all odds . Hazram Namir held opposite beliefs for the Alliance and came to challenge Kryndal ' s ideas of the war . Kryndal kept firm about what he believed in but when Namir insulted his passion for their leaders , he attacked him . Behind the scenes . Kryndal first appeared in the 2015 canon novel " " , written by Alexander Freed .