Brooks Carlson Brooks Carlson was a Human male member of the Galactic Empire who defected to the Alliance to Restore the Republic during the Galactic Civil War along with another Imperial , Crix Madine . Carlson was hired as a scout for General Madine ' s Rebel commando unit , and also trained Corporal Dansra Beezer to serve in that profession . In the year 4 ABY , the Alliance decided to attack the Empire ' s second Death Star battlestation in orbit over the Forest Moon of Endor . Carlson , by then a veteran scout and pathfinder with the military rank of sergeant , was part of a strike team sent to the moon to deactivate the SLD - 26 planetary shield generator protecting the Death Star . The strike team managed to disable the shield generator , allowing Alliance starfighters to destroy the Death Star . Biography . Service and defection from the Empire . The Human male Brooks Carlson lived during the time of the Galactic Civil War . Originally a member of the Galactic Empire , Carlson defected to the Alliance to Restore the Republic along with the Imperial Army commander — and later Rebel general — Crix Madine . Carlson was hired as a scout for Madine ' s commando unit , the Alliance Special Forces . At some point during the war , Carlson trained Corporal Dansra Beezer to also serve as a scout in the Alliance commandos . Service in Han Solo ' s strike team . By the year 4 ABY , Carlson had attained the military rank of sergeant . During that year , the Alliance discovered that the Empire was constructing a second Death Star battlestation in orbit over the Forest Moon of Endor . The Alliance decided to attack the Death Star while it was still in construction ; however , in order to destroy the station , the Alliance first had to deactivate the SLD - 26 planetary shield generator on Endor protecting the superweapon . A strike team was organized by General Han Solo to infiltrate the moon . Carlson , by then a veteran scout and pathfinder , joined the team . Carlson and the rest of the strike team traveled to the Endor system aboard the stolen Imperial " Lambda " - class T - 4a shuttle " Tydirium " , piloted by Solo . Queried by the Super Star Destroyer " Executor " in defensive orbit over Endor , Solo gave a stolen Imperial code , and the " Executor " provided the shuttle clearance to land on the Forest Moon . Shortly after landing on the moon ' s surface , the strike team waited while Solo and the team ' s command crew — Luke Skywalker , Leia Organa , and the Wookiee Chewbacca — scouted the area ahead to make sure it was clear . In the process , Solo alerted a scout trooper patrol to the strike team ' s presence , resulting in a speeder bike chase between Skywalker , Organa , and several of the Imperial scouts . Carlson and the rest of the squad waited until only Skywalker returned . When it became evident that Organa was missing , Solo took the rest of the command crew to search for her , ordering the squad to continue on and to rendezvous at the deflector shield generator at 0300 hours . Major Bren Derlin , the strike team ' s commanding officer , led the squad toward the shield generator . Several times along the way , the squad encountered Imperial patrols and managed to hide . However , Corporal Delevar , the team ' s medic , almost compromised their position by preparing to take a potshot at a speeder bike ; he was consequently stopped and reprimanded by Derlin . When night fell , Carlson and the squad made camp in a camouflaged shallow ravine , posting two sentries and setting up a blanket grid with their scanning equipment . Shortly after their first sleeping shift , the scanners detected an All Terrain Scout Transport walker moving toward their location . Corporal Beezer and another member of the squad , Lieutenant Greeve , jammed the walker ' s transmissions and destroyed its spotlights with a sniper rifle , respectively , and the squad circled the walker in order to keep it off balance . Delevar fired a smoke canister into the AT - ST ' s cockpit window when it began firing randomly into the trees and foliage . The resulting smoke explosion forced the walker ' s crew to abandon the vehicle and surrender to the strike team . The squad captured the Imperials and forced the walker pilot to make a comm check - in at blasterpoint . 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 . Solo and the others then rejoined the rest of their group , having allied themselves with the Ewok tribe of Bright Tree Village , who showed the Rebel commandos a route to the shield generator bunker ' s backdoor . Carlson and the rest of the commandos proceeded into the bunker ; however , they were soon ambushed by Tempest Force , the Imperial Military legion stationed on the moon , and the entire strike team was captured and led outside the bunker . Their capture proved to be brief , however , as the Ewoks attacked the Imperial troops , turning the tide of the battle in favor of the Rebel Alliance . The Rebel commandos successfully destroyed the shield generator with the use of 7 - PrG proton grenade s . With the Death Star ' s deflector shield destroyed , Alliance starfighters were able to destroy the Imperial superweapon . Personality and traits . Brooks Carlson had fair skin . His hair was gray in 4 ABY . Carlson was a veteran scout and pathfinder by the time of the Battle of Endor . Equipment . During his service with the Endor strike team , Carlson wore the forest camouflage gear of the team ' s members . He was armed with an A280 blaster rifle . Behind the scenes . Although he appeared in promotional photos of 1983 ' s , Brooks Carlson did not appear in the final film . The photos , displayed in the 1998 " " CD - ROM , show Carlson , along with other Rebel commandos , standing in the second Death Star along with Luke Skywalker and the Sith Lord Darth Vader . Although uncredited , stuntman Alf Joint portrayed the character . Carlson was first brought into canon , and given a name and backstory , on a card for the June 1999 " Endor Limited " expansion set of Decipher , Inc . ' s " Star Wars " Customizable Card Game . Carlson was later given an entry in " The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia " , released in 2008 . In his blog on StarWars . com , Lucasfilm Holocron continuity database keeper Leland Chee speculated that Decipher used pictures of the same actor to represent Sergeant Brooks Carlson and Corporal Delevar .