Calson Calson was a Human male trainee starfighter pilot who was under the command of Ranna Gorjaye at some point during the Galactic Civil War . During a training patrol over a planet , Calson crowded the formation and clipped the wing of Gorjaye ' s fighter , sending both craft crashing into an area known as the Wilds . On the ground , Gorjaye ordered him to fall in line and follow her to a nearby settlement , but Calson refused to take orders from a woman . Setting out on his own , he was killed by a corvaj , a predator native to the Wilds . Biography . Calson was a Human male junior officer who was part of a training patrol of starfighters under the command of Ranna Gorjaye during the Galactic Civil War . During a flight over a planet , Calson crowded the formation , clipping the wing of Gorjaye ' s fighter with his own craft . The two ships subsequently crash - landed in the Wilds , an area of heavy jungle and swamps inhabited by insect swarms and vicious predators . Before Calson could unstrap himself from his stricken fighter , Gorjaye — who had quickly freed herself from her own stricken fighter — manually opened his cockpit and dragged him out . Calson angrily told Gorjaye that he could take care of himself . Gorjaye gave Calson a verbal dressing down for his actions that had led to the crash , telling him that he had to follow her orders to survive . Calson disagreed , refusing to follow the orders of a woman . Indignant , but aware that Calson was her responsibility as he was her subordinate , Gorjaye used a directional transponder and a datapad map to locate a settlement seventeen kilometers northwest from their current position and suggested that they head out immediately . Calson , however , had other ideas . During his descent , he had spotted something in the Wilds and planned to investigate . When Gorjaye ordered him to follow her , Calson relieved himself of her command . Taking his survival gear bag , he used his blaster to begin clearing a path through the jungle . Shortly after leaving Gorjaye , Calson was ambushed by a corvaj , a predator native to the Wilds , and was killed . Gorjaye survived , escaping the Wilds . Personality and traits . Calson was a trainee pilot , but he was not a skilled flyer . His overconfidence in his own abilities led directly to the crash - landing in the Wilds , and eventually to his own death . A chauvinist , Calson refused to take orders from women such as Gorjaye , even though she was his superior officer . Ranna Gorjaye considered Calson to be a " rowdy runt . " Behind the scenes . Calson first appeared in the short text story " Survival Class " , which appeared in " The DarkStryder Campaign " published by West End Games in 1995 . The story served as part of Ranna Gorjaye ' s backstory . The planet on which Calson ' s death occurs is never identified in the text , but Gorjaye ' s biography states that she received flight training on both the planets Salliche and Raithal , indicating that the planet could be either world , although there is no evidence in the story to suggest that this is the case . The only part of the planet mentioned by name is an area known as the Wilds ; while the planet Kiffex is known to have an area called " The Wilds , " no source to date has established a link between the two locations .