Squalls Squalls was a sergeant in the Alliance to Restore the Republic ' s Special Forces during the Galactic Civil War . In 4 ABY , the Alliance planned to attack the Galactic Empire ' s second Death Star battlestation orbiting the Forest Moon of Endor , and Squalls served as a demolition expert in the strike team assembled to go to the moon and deactivate the Death Star ' s protective SLD - 26 planetary shield generator . The strike team successfully disabled the shield generator , allowing Alliance starfighters to destroy the Death Star . Biography . Squalls served as a commando in the Alliance to Restore the Republic ' s Special Forces during the Galactic Civil War , a conflict fought between the Alliance and the Galactic Empire . By the year 4 ABY , Squalls had attained the rank of sergeant . In 4 ABY , the Alliance discovered the Empire was constructing a second Death Star battlestation in orbit of the Forest Moon of Endor , and planned to destroy the Death Star . However , in order to destroy the station , the Alliance first had to deactivate the superweapon ' s protective SLD - 26 planetary shield generator on Endor ' s surface . Alliance General Han Solo assembled a strike team for the mission to Endor , of which Squalls was a member , serving as a demolitions expert alongside fellow commando Sergeant Junkin . With Solo as the pilot , Squalls and the rest of the strike team boarded the stolen Imperial " Lambda " - class T4a shuttle " Tydirium " in their journey to the Endor system . Once the shuttle reached the Death Star construction site , it was queried by the Imperial Super Star Destroyer " Executor " , which was in defensive orbit over Endor . However , Solo bypassed the " Executor " with the use of a stolen Imperial code , and the " Executor " gave the " Tydirium " clearance to land on the Forest Moon . After disembarking , the strike team proceeded to scout the area , but Solo and other command crew members Luke Skywalker , Leia Organa , and Chewbacca , along with the droids C - 3PO and R2 - D2 , eventually became separated from the main group after encounters with the moon ' s Imperial scout trooper patrols . Nevertheless , Solo ordered the squad to continue on , and the strike team made its way toward the shield generator under the lead of Major Bren Derlin . Upon nightfall , the squad camped out in a camouflaged shallow ravine , posting two sentries and setting up a blanket grid with its scanning equipment . Shortly after the squad ' s first sleeping shift , the strike team ' s scanners detected an All Terrain Scout Transport walker moving toward their location . The squad managed to jam the walker ' s transmissions and disable its spotlights , before circling the walker to keep it off balance . During that maneuver , the group ' s medic , Corporal Delevar , fired a smoke canister into the AT - ST ' s cockpit window , with the resulting smoke explosion forcing the walker ' s crew to abandon the vehicle and surrender to the strike team . After capturing the Imperials , the squad forced the walker ' s pilot to make an initial comm check - in at blasterpoint . Continuing on to the rendezvous point , the squad forced the walker pilot to make several more check - ins along the way to explain the scout walker ' s absence . Solo and the others then rejoined the strike team , having formed an allegiance with the Ewok tribe of Bright Tree Village , who showed them a route to the shield generator bunker ' s backdoor . Proceeding into the structure , the commandos were ambushed and captured by Imperial troops stationed on the moon . Subsequently led outside the bunker , the strike team ' s capture proved short - lived , as the Ewoks attacked the Imperial troops , with the counterattack eventually turning the tide of the battle in the Alliance ' s favor . Retaking the bunker , the strike team successfully destroyed the shield generator with the use of 7 - PrG proton grenade s . As the Death Star ' s deflector shield was demolished , Alliance starfighter units managed to destroyed the battlestation . Personality and traits . While the strike team ' s explosives — selected by Squalls and Junkin — were highly volatile material adding to the danger of their Endor mission , the pair of demoliton experts volunteered to carry the explosive charges during the mission . Behind the scenes . The character of Squalls was introduced in an excerpt discussing the Endor strike team in " " , with the information reprinted in both " The Movie Trilogy Sourcebook " and the of " Galaxy Guide 5 : Return of the Jedi " . Issue 44 of " The Official Star Wars Fact File " also mentioned Squalls in the Battle of Endor entry which included an excerpt on the strike team members .