Delevar Corporal Delevar was a Human male who served with the Alliance to Restore the Republic during the Galactic Civil War . Trained as a medic and a scout , he served with General Crix Madine ' s SpecForces . In 3 ABY , he was part of the force assigned to the Alliance High Command ' s Echo Base on the ice planet Hoth . Surviving the Battle of Hoth , Delevar regrouped with the Alliance Fleet , and remained stationed with the armada for a year . In 4 ABY , the Alliance learned that the Galactic Empire was constructing a second Death Star in orbit of the forest moon of Endor , and decided to strike at the superweapon while it was still being built . However , the half - completed battlestation was protected by an energy shield generated from a facility on the surface of the moon . A strike team was organized to infiltrate the moon , and deactivate the shield generator . Delevar volunteered to be part of the team ; although he was considered to be a rookie soldier by Major Bren Derlin , the unit commander , he was highly recommended by General Madine . Delevar attended the briefing aboard the Alliance flagship " Home One " , during which Madine laid out the intended plan of attack , and he later traveled to Endor on board the stolen Imperial " Lambda " - class T - 4a shuttle " Tydirium " . Following an encounter with an Imperial scout trooper patrol , Delevar and the strike team separated from the command crew led by the former smuggler , General Han Solo . Following orders to rendezvous with the general at 0300 , the strike team avoided Imperial patrols until they encountered an All Terrain Scout Transport while making camp for the night . Delevar managed to subdue the walker with a clean shot into its open cockpit with a smoke canister fired from a Caspel launcher that forced the crew to abandon the vehicle . Delevar then participated in the ground engagement of the Battle of Endor , which saw the destruction of the shield generator that subsequently allowed Alliance starfighters to destroy the Death Star . Biography . Service on Hoth . The Human male Delevar served the Alliance to Restore the Republic ' s SpecForces as a medic and scout , and held the rank of corporal . Assigned to Echo Base , the Alliance High Command headquarters on the ice planet of Hoth in 3 ABY , Delevar participated in the Battle of Hoth . Despite Imperial forces attaining a decisive victory over the Alliance , Delevar survived the battle , and managed to escape the planet . Following the battle , he was stationed with the main Alliance Fleet . Briefing and infiltration . One year later , Delevar volunteered to be part of a strike team being assembled by General Han Solo . Although considered to be a rookie soldier by the team ' s planet - level unit commander , Major Bren Derlin , Delevar was highly recommended by General Crix Madine , commander of the Alliance ' s SpecForces . The team was being put together for a mission to disable an Imperial facility on the surface of the forest moon of Endor . This facility projected a powerful energy shield that protected the second Death Star , which was undergoing construction in orbit of the moon . Having learned of its location through the efforts of the Bothan Spynet — and the fact that Emperor Palpatine would be aboard during the final construction phases — the Alliance decided to strike at the battlestation . However , for any attack to succeed , the shield would have to be deactivated before they arrived . Delevar attended a briefing aboard the Alliance flagship " Home One " along with the rest of the commandos , sitting in the front row of the semi - circular amphitheater , where General Madine outlined the basic operation the team would undertake . They would infiltrate the Endor system using a stolen Imperial " Lambda " - class T4 shuttle — the " Tydirium " — and a secret Imperial code that would clear them through the military picket lines . Armed with standard commando gear — including jungle fatigues and pack , standard comlink , low - feedback scanner , sensor scrambler , macrobinoculars , and a heavily muffled blaster — Delevar joined the rest of the unit on the " Tydirium " . Also carried by the team was an E - Web heavy repeating blaster , and a Caspel launcher . The " Tydirium " , piloted by General Solo and his Wookiee copilot Chewbacca , left the Alliance Fleet in the Sullust system , and proceeded directly towards the Endor system . Arriving at their destination , the shuttle was queried by the Star Dreadnought " Executor " in orbit of the moon . The stolen Imperial code allowed them passage through the military lines — although they were unaware that Darth Vader , Dark Lord of the Sith , had sensed the presence of his son , Luke Skywalker , aboard the shuttle and had allowed them to pass on purpose . Battle of Endor . Landing in a forest clearing , General Solo began to lead the strike team toward their objective . Shortly after moving out , the team came upon an Imperial scout trooper patrol consisting of Sergeant Elsek and Corporal Avarik . Although Solo and Chewbacca attempted to take out the patrol quietly , Avarik was alerted to Solo ' s presence when the Alliance general stepped on a twig . Backhanding Solo , Avarik yelled for his partner to go for help . Elsek mounted his speeder bike and attempted to flee , but was subsequently killed when Chewbacca destroyed his vehicle with several shots from his bowcaster . However , the commotion alerted another pair of scout troopers , and they shot off into the forest on their own speeder bikes . Skywalker , along with Princess Leia Organa — who had volunteered to be part of the mission ' s command crew — took Avarik ' s bike and gave chase . Delevar , along with the rest of the squad , waited at the location where they had encountered the initial patrol until Skywalker returned . When it became clear that Skywalker and Organa had gotten separated during the chase , and that the princess had not returned with the young Jedi , Solo decided to take the command crew and search for her . Mindful of the mission , however , he ordered Major Derlin to continue on , and to rendezvous at the target at 0300 . Derlin led the squad toward the shield generator , aware that more Imperial patrols lay between them and their objective . Several times the squad encountered a patrol and managed to hide ; however , Delevar almost compromised their position by preparing to take a potshot at a speeder bike . Derlin managed to stop him in time , and upbraided the commando for his reckless action . At nightfall , Derlin ordered the squad to make camp in a shallow ravine , well protected by underbrush . Posting two sentries and setting up a blanket grid with the scanning equipment , the squad settled down to rest . Shortly after starting the first sleeping shift , the scanners picked up a large target moving toward them . Derlin suspected that the contact was an All Terrain Scout Transport ; his suspicions were proved correct when its twin spotlights were spotted in the distance . Ordering the squad to take cover , he hoped that the AT - ST would pass them by . When it became clear that it would not , Derlin ordered Corporal Dansra Beezer , the squad ' s communications expert and slicer , to jam its transmissions . Lieutenant Greeve , the squad ' s sharpshooter , knocked out both of the spotlights with precise shots from his A280 blaster rifle . To keep the scout walker off balance , Derlin ordered the squad to circle it , although he was afraid that the walker pilot would simply start blasting away at the forest now that his vehicle was blind and deaf . True to Derlin ' s fears , the scout walker began firing randomly into the trees and foliage . Delevar , aware that the battle could alert other Imperial forces in the area to their presence , grabbed the squad ' s Caspel launcher and loaded a smoke canister into it . Moving into a trench in front of the walker , Delevar took careful aim at the face of the cockpit . Derlin — believing that the launcher contained an explosive round , and fearing that the resulting explosion would " definitely " tip the Imperials off to their location — shouted at Delevar to stop . Knowing exactly what he was doing , the commando ignored the order and fired the grenade straight through the cockpit window . The resulting explosion of smoke in the cockpit forced the walker pilots to abandon the vehicle , surrendering with tears streaming from their eyes . The squad captured the pilots , and forced them to make a comm check - in at blasterpoint . With this accomplished , Derlin approached Delevar ; the major affected a growl , and told the commando if he " ever " did anything like that again , he was to tell him first . Then he slapped Delevar on the shoulder and congratulated him on a job well done . Delevar and the squad continued on to the rendezvous point , forcing the walker pilot to make several more check - ins on the way to explain the scout walker ' s absence . At 0300 , the squad met up with Solo and the command crew , who had entered into an alliance with a native tribe of Ewoks , the moon ' s indigenous species . After an initial reconnaissance of the target , the Ewok scouts informed General Solo and the strike team that there was a secret entrance to the bunker on the other side of the ridge . Although the entrance was guarded by four scout troopers , one of the Ewoks , Paploo , stole one of the guards ' speeder bikes . Three of the four troopers gave chase , leaving one behind to guard the door . General Solo and the strike team took the trooper prisoner , and subsequently infiltrated the bunker to plant their explosives . However , the entire mission had been designed by the Emperor himself as a trap for the Alliance . He had allowed the Alliance to gain intelligence on the Death Star and the location of the shield generator , and had arranged for an entire legion of troops to be on the moon . Delevar and the strike team were captured by Imperial forces laying in wait , both inside and outside the bunker . With the shield still active , the incoming Alliance Fleet could not assault the Death Star ' s reactor core as planned , forcing them into a protracted engagement with a large Imperial fleet led by the Star Dreadnought " Executor " . Delevar and the strike team were rescued by the Ewok tribe the command crew had befriended . Retaking the offensive , the Rebels and the Ewoks engaged the Imperial forces in battle around the bunker . During the fight , Chewbacca managed to commandeer an AT - ST , and Solo used its communications system to fool the bunker personnel into opening the back door with a fake message claiming that the Rebel forces had been routed . Able to access the bunker once more , Solo and the strike team planted proton grenade s in the structure . The resulting explosion destroyed the shield generator installation , which in turn allowed Alliance starfighters to destroy the Death Star by destroying its reactor core . Personality and traits . Although an experienced soldier , Delevar was considered to be a " rookie " by the other members of the strike team , including Major Derlin , an opinion that was reinforced when he almost blew the team ' s cover on the Endor mission by taking a potshot at a speeder bike . Despite this , he was known to pride himself on being an efficient soldier in General Madine ' s commando organization ; he was calm when facing an AT - ST , and had enough tactical sense to know that a smoke canister would disable the crew of the scout walker without causing a large commotion . Skills and abilities . Like all the commandos assigned to the strike team , Delevar had extensive training in the use of blasters and explosives . He was also trained in the use of a Caspel launcher , and was an experienced medic . Behind the scenes . Delevar first appeared in as an unnamed commando during the briefing scene aboard " Home One " . In " " , published in 1990 , a commando named Delevar appeared in the short text story " Night Attack " . It was not until the 1999 release of the " " Endor Limited " " expansion for the " Star Wars " Customizable Card Game that the unnamed commando from the briefing was identified as being Delevar . " Galaxy Guide 5 : Return of the Jedi " establishes that Delevar is a rookie at the time of the Battle of Endor . However , his " Star Wars Customizable Card Game " entry from the " Endor Limited " set states that he is a veteran of the Battle of Hoth . " The Official Star Wars Fact File " entry on the strike team asserts that while Delevar was an experienced soldier , he was still considered to be a rookie by the rest of the team . According to Leland Chee ' s blog on starwars . com , he speculates that Decipher , Inc . used pictures of the same actor to represent Delevar and Sergeant Brooks Carlson on their respective CCG cards . Carlson was portrayed by stuntman Alf Joint , who was uncredited in the role .