Caregg Oldathan Caregg Oldathan was a male pilot from the planet Commenor who was called out of retirement in 40 ABY to fly a BTL - S8 K - wing assault starfighter against the forces of the Galactic Alliance in the Second Galactic Civil War . One day , while leading Grayfeather Squadron in sweeping a quadrant of space above Commenor , Oldathan discovered a massive cloaked asteroid headed for his homeworld . With there being nothing that Oldathan ' s K - wing could do to stop the asteroid , which had broken into multiple chunks of rock , from colliding with Commenor , Oldathan chose to pursue fleeing Galactic Alliance starships that had cloaked the asteroid to prevent them from using the trick again . Biography . Called out of retirement . Caregg Oldathan was a male BTL - S8 K - wing assault starfighter pilot who was honorably retired by 40 ABY . That year , the Second Galactic Civil War broke out between the Galactic Alliance and the Confederation , with which Oldathan ' s homeworld of Commenor sided . In response , the Commenorian Navy called Oldathan out of retirement , and he held the rank of lieutenant in command of the K - wing Grayfeather Squadron . The Galactic Alliance began dispatching a constant stream of units to engage Commenor ' s planetary defenses to prevent them from lending their strength to the Confederate war effort . Due to the persistent attacks , Oldathan and his K - wing were unable to get their respective valuable rest and maintenance , and Grayfeather Squadron was reduced to a total of five K - wings . With another day yielding another attack upon Commenor , Oldathan led Grayfeather Squadron as Grayfeather One against the Galactic Alliance Third Fleet . Lieutenant Danen served as his bombardier - gunner for the mission , and his K - wing was armed with concussion missiles instead of proton torpedos , as the latter were in short supply for Commenor . However , at about one minute to contact with the opposing forces , Oldathan and Grayfeather Squadron were diverted to investigate a potential unidentified vehicle on the night side of Commenor , a couple of thousand kilometers away from their current location . When Grayfeather Squadron made it to the target area , all it found was a Commenori courier shuttle trying to escape past Galactic Alliance forces . Though there was no apparent Galactic Alliance threat in the area , Oldathan had the squadron search the surrounding space using spiraling patterns , with Oldathan and Danen searching alone while the remaining four K - wings broke into wing pairs . Discovering a cloaked asteroid . While searching , Danen reported seeing a star disappear momentarily from the Jeweled Lizard constellation , and when Oldathan also saw it and then observed another star in the Jeweled Lizard disappear and reappear , he suspected that they were seeing a cloaked capital ship blocking their view of the stars as it moved . He reported the anomaly to Starfighter Control , and Grayfeather Squadron was promised reinforcements to deal with the new threat , though any that came would be aging reserve squadrons . Using the other Grayfeather Squadron K - wings ' reports of the anomaly to triangulate and locate its position , Oldathan took his starfighter near to the cloaked object , and the crew of Grayfeather One approximated a diameter of at least thirty - to - forty - thousand kilometers . Oldathan relayed to Starfighter Control that the cloaked object heading for Commenor was meteor - sized , and he was cleared to fire upon it . Oldathan had Danen launch two concussion missiles , and the cloak was lifted from the object shortly after the warheads impacted , revealing a nickel - iron asteroid with a mass of millions of tons . Just then , a frigate with a cloaking device on its nose departed the asteroid , followed by a host of smaller starships . Before Grayfeather One could do anything , the asteroid broke into dozens of smaller pieces , all headed for Commenor . Realizing that his K - wing was incapable of stopping the asteroid chunks aimed at his homeworld , Oldathan informed Starfighter Control of the impending danger . He and Danen then went to engage the frigate with the cloaking device alone , hoping to delay the enemy vessels ' exit so that the rest of Grayfeather Squadron could arrive to destroy the frigate and prevent the cloaking technique from being used again . In the end , Commenori forces failed to stop the asteroid shards , which impacted the planet ' s population centers with the force of city - buster bombs . Personality and traits . Caregg Oldathan understood that the Galactic Alliance ' s attacks upon Commenor were meant to wear down Commenori forces to prevent them from aiding the Confederation , and he had a good enough understanding of cloaking devices to recognize the use of one when he saw the signs . When Grayfeather Squadron was diverted from the fighting above Commenor to look for a starship , Oldathan was impatient to get back , as leaving the battle zone made him feel like he was running away . Oldathan was disturbed by signs that both sides of the Second Galactic Civil War were ignoring some parts of the interplanetary rules of war , and rumors of Commenori entertaining themselves with bloodsports bothered him . When the asteroid headed for Commenor revealed itself and broke into smaller fragments , Oldathan realized that there was nothing he or even Commenor itself could do to stop it from impacting with the planet . Instead of firing fruitlessly on the massive chunks of asteroid , he chose instead to engage the fleeing frigate to buy the rest of his squadron enough time to reach the enemy ship and destroy it , knowing that he and Danen would most likely die in the attempt . Behind the scenes . Caregg Oldathan ' s only appearance was in " " , a 2007 novel by Aaron Allston . The pilot was later mentioned in Grayfeather Squadron ' s entry in " The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia " , released in 2008 . Oldathan ' s species was not identified in the aforementioned sources .