Duty Roster " Duty Roster " is a short story in the anthology " From a Certain Point of View " . The story was written by Jason Fry and is told from the point of view of Col Takbright , a hot - tempered pilot who is known as " fake " Wedge . Plot summary . The hot - tempered Rebel Alliance starfighter pilot Col Takbright is taking part in an X - wing simulator exercise inside the Massassi Temple on Yavin 4 . He repeats the mistake of letting the older pilot and instructor Puck Naeco maneuver him into position for a kill shot . In a bad mood , Col remarks that he hates the name " Fake Wedge " . Puck reminds the younger pilot not to take the bait . After Col leaves , another pilot John D . Branon asks Puck what set Col off . Puck says that the younger pilot was set off by his remark that it ' s impossible to hit a two - meter target with a proton torpedo , even with a computer . Shorty later , several pilots enter the room including Biggs Darklighter , Elyhek Rue , Bren Quersey , Wenton Chan , and Wedge Antilles himself . Col is annoyed when Rue mistakes him for Fake Wedge . In private , Col reflects on his anger issues including his tendency to damage helmets and furniture in fits of rage . Red Squadron ' s Commander Garven Dreis , General Antoc Merrick , Puck , and John D . had lectured Col about his eruptions . Col aspires to be like pilots with placid interiors such as Chan and Antilles . Col had left his homeworld of Uquine and joined the Rebellion after witnessing the Empire ravage worlds for ore and fuel and murdering those who opposed it . Col realizes that his anger is rooted in Imperial atrocities and thinks that people like Antilles were not angry enough . Later , Col and the rest of Red Squadron gather at the briefing room as the rebel pilots assemble for their strike against the Death Star . Col overhears John D . and Biggs talking about the latter learning to fly starship s by practicing with a T - 16 skyhopper and shooting womp rat s . Despite his hopes , Col is not assigned a slot on Red Squadron for the strike mission since all the places are full . While alone in the briefing room , Col throws a tantrum and begins hurling chairs and tables . Before he can throw his flight helmet , Wedge enters the room to collect his helmet . While Antilles expresses sympathy with Col ' s frustration , Col complaints that Antilles gets to fly against the Empire while good pilots like him sit down and do nothing . Wedge tells Col that he is flying for a lot of people in the galaxy and reassures him he is not alone in this fight unless Col insists on pushing everybody away . After righting the tables and chairs , Col enters the war room where he spots Prince ss Leia Organa , General Jan Dodonna , and other rebel commanders overseeing the rebel attack . He also finds his fellow pilots Rye , Chan , Quersey , and the Mon Calamari Kelemah . When Col asks when they are planning to call Kay - One - Zero , Quersey doubts that they are planning to evacuate since most of the essential equipment left with the fleet . When Kelemah mentions that the port stabilizer on Wedge ' s fighter is misaligned , Col remarks that Wedge is taking a big risk . Kelemah responds that the Rebel Alliance is taking the biggest risk in the galaxy by attacking the Death Star . On the tactical display , Col watches Gold and Red Squadrons launching their attack on the Death Star ' s turbolaser defenses . The rebels watch as Imperial TIE fighters launch a counter - attack , shooting down John D . ' s starfighter . Luke Skywalker ' s X - wing also briefly disappears before reappearing . Studying the telemetry from Gold Squadron ' s Y - wing starfighter ' s sensors , Col opines that the starfighters have no room to manuever in the Death Star ' s Meridian trench . He adds that their forwards shields are taking a beating from the Imperial turbolasers . The Imperials cease firing only to deploy TIE fighters against the Y - wings . With the rebel strike team sustaining losses , Col and his comrades cheer for Wedge . Skywalker , Darklighter , and Antilles ' X - wings make a dash for the Death Star ' s trench . Antilles ' starfighter is damaged and he is forced to pull out of the trench . Shortly later , Darklighter ' s starfighter is hit , leaving Skywalker ' s fighter as the only rebel ship in the trench . Col then watches as Skywalker shuts down his targeting computer and the " Millennium Falcon " appears out of nowhere and ambushes Skywalker ' s TIE pursuers . This allows Wedge to retreat back to Yavin 4 and Skywalker to fire a proton torpedo into the Death Star ' s thermal exhaust port , destroying the superweapon . Col and his fellow pilots celebrate their victory . Col and his fellow pilots greet the survivors of the Yavin strike team . Reconciling with Antilles , Col hugs him and credits the ace pilot for taking out six TIE fighters . When Wedge replies that he hopes everyone sees it the way he does , Col jokes that if they don ' t , Wedge can tell the others that it was " Fake Wedge " up there . He adds that he ' ll be honored to be mistaken for Wedge and tells Wedge that they have been invited to the celebration .