Davin Fel Davin Fel was the eldest son of the Baron Soontir Fel and Syal Antilles Fel . Raised on Corellia , he moved with his parents to the Unknown Regions when his father decided to serve Grand Admiral Mitth ' raw ' nuruodo ' s Empire of the Hand . There , he grew up among the Chiss and was admitted to a Chiss military academy , in which he was criticized by his instructors for a willingness to disobey orders or depart from battle plans in order to save others . He graduated and served as a pilot in the Empire of the Hand ' s military , in which capacity he was killed at age twenty . Biography . Davin Fel was born to Baron Soontir Fel and Syal Antilles Fel on Coruscant early in their marriage . Soontir Fel was a prominent and skilled Imperial fighter pilot , while Syal was an Imperial actress under the stage name Wynssa Starflare . Relatively soon after Fel ' s birth , Syal took him and his younger brother Chak to Soontir ' s baronial estate on Corellia to live with Soontir ' s relatives . They were there in 4 ABY when Soontir went missing during the Battle of Brentaal IV ; fearful of retribution from Soontir ' s enemy Director of Imperial Intelligence Ysanne Isard , Syal took the children and fled . They spent months in hiding before Syal was reunited with Soontir , who had defected to the New Republic after being captured . They continued to remain in hiding , however , and Fel ' s very existence was apparently kept secret , with not even Syal ' s brother , Wedge Antilles , seeming to know of the children ' s existence . Not long afterward , Isard succeeded in capturing Soontir , turning him over to Grand Admiral Mitth ' raw ' nuruodo , known by his core name Thrawn . Thrawn convinced Soontir that he needed his aid in pacifying the myriad threats of the Unknown Regions . Soontir became a general in the Empire of the Hand , which Thrawn had set up to bring stability to the Unknown Regions . A few months later , Syal and the children joined him , their disappearance engineered by Thrawn , on the Empire of the Hand ' s headquarters on Nirauan . Fel was reared in the Unknown Regions , where he and Chak were joined by two younger brothers — Jagged and Cem , with Cem being hidden from all others outside the family as a shadow child to preserve the line — and two younger sisters — Cherith and Wynssa . When Thrawn returned to the known regions of space to take command of the Empire , the Empire of the Hand was left in the hands of Admiral Voss Parck , with Soontir a senior officer . The Empire of the Hand remained secret , battling against the various threats found in the Unknown Regions . It consisted not only of Thrawn ' s Imperial forces but of members of Thrawn ' s species who rejected the ban their society , the Chiss Ascendancy , imposed on preemptive strikes . Fel was raised by his father amidst the grim , duty - oriented Chiss culture . Chiss children matured early , and Fel correspondingly began his career early as well . Soontir used his Chiss subordinate Kres ' ten ' tarthi to secure Fel ' s acceptance into a Chiss military academy , where Fel served as a guarantee of his father ' s good faith toward the Chiss . There he was trained on the " Nssis " - class clawcraft , the Empire of the Hand ' s preferred fighter . While Fel graduated , the Chiss instructors regarded him as having been rash , undisciplined , and too quick to would - be heroic action rather than unquestioningly obeying authority , as the Chiss preferred . His younger brother Jagged , who idolized him , followed him into the academy after he had already graduated , where Jagged was offered much the same criticism and compared to his older brother . Fel continued on into military service with the Empire of the Hand as a pilot , as his brother Chak did , waging war against the menaces of the Unknown Regions . He was killed in battle at age twenty in the course of the Yuuzhan Vong invasion , but was remembered fondly by his family . His father , who had been his military superior , felt the burden of Fel ' s death heavily , and Jagged was hurt by the loss of his hero . Personality and traits . Fel could be impulsive , seeking to take quick and risky action to save others against his instructors ' will , a trait for which they reprimanded him . In Chiss society , there was little room for those who disobeyed orders or broke from battle plans from what they saw as misguided heroism . Behind the scenes . Davin Fel was first referenced indirectly in " " , by Michael A . Stackpole , when Jagged Fel stated that both his older brother and younger sister had died in combat . Elaine Cunningham ' s " Red Sky , Blue Flame " then established that Jagged ' s older brother was Davin ; " " , by the same author , established that Davin had indeed been the brother who died . Fel ' s only further narrative mention was in " " . He has never actually appeared in any story , only being mentioned . In both " The Official Star Wars Fact File 122 " and " The Official Star Wars Fact File 140 " , Fel is incorrectly stated to have died in the Battle of Ithor . That battle took place after his death , as clearly established in the source which originated him , " Dark Tide II : Ruin " . " The Official Star Wars Fact File 122 " established Soontir Fel as having multiple children before his defection ; given the established chain of ages , these could only be Chak and Davin . While that issue of " The Official Star Wars Fact File " was riddled with errors regarding the Fel family , this piece of information does not actually conflict with any canon and so has been incorporated into this article . Therefore , Davin Fel must have existed during Soontir Fel ' s time in the New Republic , but no mention of him was ever made , while Soontir constantly fretted about his wife , and no one in the New Republic displayed any knowledge of any Fel children , only of Syal , suggesting very strongly that Davin ' s existence was kept secret . In " Red Sky , Blue Flame " , Jagged Fel is said to be Soontir Fel ' s last living son , which would require Davin Fel to be dead at that point . This has been contradicted by the appearance of Chak Fel in " Survivor ' s Quest " , and by " The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia " establishing that Davin Fel was twenty at the time of his death ; he could not have been born before 1 ABY and therefore would have been no older than eighteen in 19 ABY .