Roja Roja was a human male who served as a soldier in the Alliance to Restore the Republic ' s Sixty - First Mobile Infantry — also known as Twilight Company — during the Galactic Civil War . Biography . In Twilight Company . Roja joined the Alliance ' s Sixty - First Mobile Infantry , also known as Twilight Company , sometime before the Galactic Civil War and was present for the battle of Mygeeto . Like all Twilight soldiers , Roja lived on the CR90 corvette " Thunderstrike " and shared a bunk room with First Sergeant Hazram Namir and a few others . Following the attack on Haidoral Prime , Twilight Company ran into an Imperial patrol and Roja and the others were awoken by the " Thunderstrike ' s " klaxons . Roja asked Namir what was going on and the man could not answer that . The " Thunderstrike " and it ' s escort , the " Braha ' tok " - class gunship " Apailana ' s Promise " escaped the battle intact . Escort to Hoth . Following a raid on an Imperial heavy freighter , Roja , Beak and Namir were assigned to escort former Imperial governor Everi Chalis and their Captain , Micha Evon — also known as Howl — , to Echo Base . Whilst at the base , Roja and Beak were assigned to teams matching their specialities and Namir was put to work with a Alliance Special Forces soldier named Kryndal . Roja managed to bond with the snow speeder technicians with " shocking speed " and as rumours flowed around about the strategy conference , Roja went up to Namir telling the man that Chalis was helping the Alliance High Command make a 1 - 5 year plan for winning the Galactic Civil War . Some more time passed and Namir got into a fight with Kryndal over the point of the Alliance and the war . Roja and Beak eventually found the man and they started telling stories of the incompetence of the stuck up base troops and former battles such as the battle of Mygeeto . The next day , the strategy conference was finished and Chalis and Howl returned to announce their imminent departure back to the rest of Twilight Company . However , they were cut off by a female soldier announcing that the Empire had found them . Battle of Hoth . Roja , Beak and Namir were soon assigned to Perimeter Outpost Delta where they huddled together in a trench line . They got word of a fleet of Imperial - class Star Destroyer s in orbit and Roja began asking questions to Namir that the man could not answer . Beak saved Namir the effort by pointing him south and soon enough , the shield generator went online . The trio passed a pair of macrobinoculars between them and Roja was the first to spot incoming ships . Beak pointed out that they were Gozanti Cruiser s carrying vehicles to the surface . Soon enough , Outpost Beta fell to newly deployed AT - ATs . Scout forces fanned out from the route of the AT - ATs and some a complement of light vehicles and troops . Namir ordered the turrets fire on the floating gunnery platforms as the AT - STs would just be a distraction . However the AT - STs began shooting at the turrets until the outposts armoured defences were rendered useless . One of the personnel near them kamikazied one of the AT - STs with a grenade , taking it down . Once they were finished with the armour and the rest of the enemy withdrew , the trio and a few others found a HAVw A6 Juggernaut which was abandoned and Roja had it working again in minutes . Roja and Beak then drove it with Namir and the others to get back to the main base . When they returned to the main base , they found the defending troops in full retreat and the shield generator on it ' s last legs . A colonel said the base had taken AT - AT fire and the high command had taken a hit . The three went into the base and through the hallways where they found Chalis and the unconscious Captain Howl . Namir ran down the hallways to scout the area whilst Roja and Beak stayed with Chalis and Howl . Namir then returned and they made for the hanger . However , as they got close , they were cut off by Darth Vader and his troops . The three shot at Vader and the Sith Lord leaped and bisected Beak with his lightsaber . Roja then threw a grenade at Vader which was deflected and knocked out Namir . When Namir awoke , Roja and Howl were dead and Chalis had been swept aside by Vader and his troops . Namir took Chalis and they escaped on a shuttle using Chalis ' s clearance codes . The battle of Hoth was an ultimate defeat for the Alliance and it ' s forces were scattered into the Outer Rim . Personality and Traits . Roja wasn ' t described to be a great soldier to work with by Gadren but the Besalisk claimed their were worse ones to work with . Roja asked Namir many questions , most were answered by Beak . During his time on Echo Base , Roja bonded quickly with the snow speeder technicians and was good at fixing things . Behind the scenes . Roja first appeared in the 2015 canon novel " " , written by Alexander Freed .