Yendor Yendor was a Twi ' lek male pilot who fought for the Alliance to Restore the Republic and later the New Republic as a member of Corona Squadron . He held the rank of private . He later served in the New Republic as an emissary to the senate from his homeworld of Ryloth , when he informed the Senate about the Nikto crime lord Rinnrivin Di ' s cartel , that was threatening Ryloth ' s external trade . As a result , Senator s Leia Organa and Ransolm Casterfo traveled to the planet Bastatha to investigate and discovered that Yendor ' s concerns were valid . Later , Yendor hosted Leia when she and her team visited the Ryloth archives to look for information on Rinnrivin and his cartel . Biography . Galactic Civil War . After joining the Rebel Alliance , Yendor was posted to Echo Base on the frozen planet of Hoth . Five days after arriving at Echo Base , Yendor encountered the protocol droid C - 3PO while re - calibrating the base ' s thermal units . In addition , Yendor cleaned out the tauntaun stalls at the base ; a task which he found unpleasant and smelly . During the Battle of Hoth , he served as the former TIE fighter pilot and the Imperial defector Thane Kyrell ' s gunner aboard a snowspeeder . Following Luke Skywalker ' s cue , the Rebel pilot s used their harpoon guns to topple several Imperial AT - AT walkers . Yendor and Thane were among the rebels that escaped the Imperial assault and fled offworld . As a member of Corona Squadron , Yendor flew under the callsign " Corona Two " pilot ing the T - 65B X - wing starfighter during various engagements with Imperial TIE fighter squadron s . After Thane admitted that he had met his lover Ciena Ree , an active Imperial Navy Lieutenant Commander , on the planet Jelucan , Yendor joined his comrades in expressing their dismay . When Yendor suggested that the " Imperial woman " would have killed them , Kyrell defended his actions and stressed that none of his wing mates were endangered . Yendor and his fellow pilots later flew in a dogfight in the Hudalla system , narrowly escaping an Imperial ambush . Yendor later participated in the Battle of Endor , a major victory for the Rebellion that ended in the deaths of Emperor Palpatine and Darth Vader . Yendor continued his service after the Rebel Alliance was transformed into the New Republic . After the Contessa left Corona Squadron to stand for the presidency on her homeworld , Yendor took over the position of Corona Leader , defending the Mid Rim planet of Naboo from invading Imperial forces . After driving off a third Imperial attack on Naboo , Yendor invited his fellow pilots to visit the Gungan city of Otoh Gunga to try out a local dessert that took four hominids to eat and was reputed to induce its consumers into a sugar coma . However , Thane declined because he was still mourning for Ciena , whom he believed had perished during the Battle of Endor . During the Galactic Civil War , Yendor spoke to Prince ss Leia Organa at least a dozen times and the two became acquaintances . Return to Ryloth . In the year 5 ABY , Yendor fought along with a rebel group against Imperial remnants on Ryloth . His group was one of the first to discover the Empire had abandoned their garrisons on the planet , and that Ryloth had regained its independence . Yendor was then elected as Ryloth ' s ambassador to the still forming New Republic . After the New Republic relocated its capital to Nakadia , Yendor was spotted by the former Imperial loyalty officer Sinjir Rath Velus chatting with Senator Nim Tar . Representing Ryloth . Following the end of the Galactic Civil War , Yendor continued to serve as Ryloth ' s emissary for the following twenty - four years . While Ryloth did not join the New Republic , the planet still traded with the new galactic government . About six years before the destruction of the Hosnian system , Ryloth ' s offworld trade and economy was threatened by the smuggling operations carried out by the Kajain ' sa ' Nikto crime lord Rinnrivin Di ' s cartel . In response , Yendor was dispatched by his government to the Galactic Senate on Hosnian Prime to appeal to the Republic for help . During a Senate hearing , Yendor stressed that the New Republic had pledged to ensure that organized crime would not become as powerful as during the Age of the Empire . While the Republic had promised financial regulations and comprehensive patrols of the shipping lanes , these regulations were only enforced sporadically and no patrols had been dispatched to Ryloth for the past twenty years . Yendor ' s report was greeted with apathy from several Centrist and Populist senator s , who questioned the accuracy of his information and insisted that the Senate had no jurisdiction because this was an intrasystem matter . However , the Populist Senator Organa and her Centrist colleague Ransolm Casterfo agreed to investigate Rinnrivin ' s cartel on behalf of the Galactic Senate . Their mission took them to Bastatha where they discovered that Rinnrivin maintained a base on the subterranean world . As their investigation continued , Organa ' s pilots Joph Seastriker and Greer Sonnel discovered that Rinnrivin ' s cartel had links to a paramilitary group called the Amaxine warriors . Yendor later greeted Leia when she and her entourage including C - 3PO visited Ryloth to search the planet ' s archives for information about Rinnrivin . Upon receiving Leia , the two former comrades chatted about their time at Echo Base and Corona Squadron . Yendor also greeted C - 3PO , whom he recognized from his Echo Base days . After meeting Joph and Greer , Yendor led his guests to the archives , which consisted of paper scrolls and documents . There , the New Republic officials discovered that Rinnrivin was a minor spice broker who had inexplicably become the leader of a major crime syndicate in the past seven to ten years . Later , Leia and Casterfo discovered that a mysterious entity was using Rinnrivin ' s cartel and the Amaxine warriors as proxies to destabilize the New Republic . Personality and traits . Yendor was first and foremost a pilot , and far more comfortable in that role than as a soldier or any kind of general . However , he firmly believed in the Rebellion ' s cause , and was willing to do whatever was required of him to help defeat the Empire . As a dedicated rebel pilot , Yendor despised the Galactic Empire and failed to understand his squadron mate Thane Kyrell ' s love for the Imperial officer Ciena Ree . Yendor regarded his fellow Corona Squadron pilots including Thane as friends and once invited them to try out a Gungan dessert following the Naboo Sieges . Yendor was initially reluctant to serve as an ambassador , but ultimately acclimatized well to the role , passionately defending Ryloth ' s rights in the Galactic Senate . As Ryloth ' s emissary , Yendor was concerned with advancing his planet ' s independence and economic interests . He viewed Rinnrivin Di ' s cartel as a threat to Ryloth ' s independence and well - being . Despite the passage time , Yendor had a good memory and could recall meeting fellow rebel veterans like Senator Organa and C - 3PO during the Galactic Civil War . Skills and abilities . Yendor was a skilled pilot and gunner , and a competent leader , despite his reservations . He also grew into an effective diplomat as a member of the New Republic senate , convincing at least Princess Leia of the threat posed by Rinnrivin Di . Behind the scenes . Yendor first appeared in " Lost Stars " , a young adult novel written by Claudia Gray as part of " . " Yendor later appeared in Gray ' s second novel , " Bloodline " , and in a brief interlude in Chuck Wendig ' s " " , where he was given the role of ambassador .