Aurelant Aurelant , a Draedan male native to the aquatic world of Sesid , was born into a family with seventeen brothers and twenty - two sisters . During the Galactic Civil War , Aurelant led a crew of pirate s as the captain of the " Daggadol " , a subaquatic vessel , which he used in his fight against the Galactic Empire ' s presence on the Draedan homeworld . When Leia Organa of the Alliance to Restore the Republic came to Sesid during Operation Yellow Moon , Aurelant and his crew helped the Rebel leader with her mission . Biography . Missing a meeting . Aurelant was a Draedan male who led a resistance movement opposed to the Galactic Empire on his homeworld Sesid during the Galactic Civil War . Growing up as one of eighteen brothers and with twenty - two sisters , he was from a very small family by normal Draedan standards . One of his many brothers came to own a company that collected escape pod s that had been fired from Sesid ' s surface and then recondition and re fuel them for future use . Following the Battle of Hoth in the year 3 ABY , the Alliance to Restore the Republic began implementing a plan to distract the Empire from the gathering of its Alliance Fleet over the planet Sullust in preparation for what would be the Battle of Endor . Titled Operation Yellow Moon , the plan was for Prince ss Leia Organa and a small team of Rebels to travel to the Corva sector and meet with a series of local rebel assets and resistance leaders including Aurelant in an apparent recruitment run , while secretly planting a series of hyper - transceiver s that would alert the Empire to the recruitment effort and the planned meeting point for the recruits , Galaan . Organa arranged to meet with Aurelant on a volcanic island slightly east of Sesid ' s mainly island chain , where she also hoped to plant the second of her transceivers . Aurelant and his crew , who were aboard the submersible vessel " Daggadol " , were forced to miss the agreed upon meeting due to a level of Imperial activity in the area consisting of stormtrooper s on waveskimmer s and the " Imperial " - class Star Destroyer " Shieldmaiden " in orbit Saving the princess . Organa and her crew were unaware of the Imperials , and headed to the island as planned . After waiting for Aurelant and giving up hope that he would come , the rebels attempted to leave the island but ran into the Imperials who gave chase . The waveskimmers quickly disabled the boat that Organa and her allies were traveling in , but before the stormtroopers could close in , Aurelant surfaced in the " Daggadol " from beneath the boat and opened fire on the Imperials , while opening the doors to let the rebels in . Not knowing it was Aurelant onboard the " Daggadol " , but having few other options , the princess and her allies boarded the submarine . Wanting to test Organa ' s courage , Aurelant at first pretended to be a pirate interested in claiming the bounty on her head , and demanded she make him a better offer . Organa questioned if he supported the Empire , and when he claimed not to she offered him and his men a place in the Alliance . Impressed with her display of bravery in the face of apparent danger , Aurelant revealed himself to the rebels and congratulated Organa . The princess explained that she needed to get off world to her yacht the " Mellcrawler " to continue her mission , and after ensuring that Organa ' s communications specialist Kidi Aleri and demolitions expert Antrot were capable of tuning his Horvax - 16 transmitter , Aurelant revealed a plan to get her out safely past the Star Destroyer in orbit . Using his vast network of siblings , the Draedan would launch hundreds of the escape pod s that were set up all over Sesid in case of emergency . The rebels would be able to reach their starship inside one of them undetected in the chaos . Organa would be able to escape , and the Draedans would profit thanks to his brothers deal with the Empire to recondition the pods . The escape worked as planned , and Organa and her allies were able to get to their ship without detection . Personality and traits . Aurelant was a massive Draedan with green skin and red eye s who stood a head taller than the rest of his crew . He had a toothy grin of brilliantly white teeth and arms crowded with pale tattoo s . The captain considered his family of forty siblings shamefully small by the standards of his species and believed that no self - respecting Draedan would ever support the Empire . He bore some bias against other species , claiming that Organa was brave " for a human " and calling the Cerean Kidi Aleri a " cone head " . Upon first meeting Princess Leia Organa he initially concealed his identity and pretended to be a pirate interested in collecting the bounty on her so that he could gauge how brave she was based on her reaction . After she offered he and his men a place in the Alliance he was satisfied with her fearlessness and offered to help , reassuring his new allies that he would still benefit from aiding them via his brother ' s business . Equipment . Aurelant wore dozens of bracelet s on his wrists and necklace s around his neck over a breastplate and red pauldron scavenged from a set of stormtrooper armor . He carried a heavy cutlass that hung at his hip on a brown belt worn over a pair of green pants . He captained the submersible vehicle " Daggadol " . Behind the scenes . Aurelant first appeared as a secondary character in the novel " " , which was written by Jason Fry and Cecil Castellucci and released on September 4 , 2015 .