Nawara Ven Nawara Ven , known in Ryl as Nawar ' aven ( meaning " silver - tongued " ) was a Twi ' lek X - wing pilot and attorney who served as a starfighter pilot and Executive Officer of Rogue Squadron . Biography . Joining Rogue Squadron . Ven joined the Rebellion after seeing many of his clients , whom he knew to be innocent , railroaded by Imperial authorities . He was invited to try and test for Rogue Squadron following its reformation . Owing to his legal skills , Ven was often called to arbitrate disputes between squadron members . One such time was when Bror Jace was picking on Gavin Darklighter , saying that to date , he was the worst pilot in the squadron . Bror Jace wanted to decide what his " punishment " should have been — namely to be " apprenticed " to the best pilot — fetching caf , drafting reports , that sort of thing . However , Corran Horn argued that he was the best pilot and he wasn ' t particularly inclined to mess with Gavin the way that Bror wanted to . Nawara decided to argue his case before Wedge Antilles , Tycho Celchu and Captain Afyon of the Eridain . Corran agreed to add his kills to Gavin ' s and go by percentage averages than total number of kills . Unfortunately for Nawara , this meant that he was the worst pilot in the squadron . Nawara also began to form a relationship with Rhysati Ynr in the early days of Rogue Squadron . During the first battle of Borleias , Nawara was shot out of his X - wing but he was rescued by Tycho Celchu who flew a shuttle in the battlezone , rescuing pilots who were EVA . He participated in the Second Battle of Borleias using Lujayne Forge ' s X - wing . During the squadron ' s mission to infiltrate Imperial Center , he was responsible for evaluating the inhabitants of Invisec to assess their support of a New Republic invasion . While deep undercover with his squadmates , he successfully defended fellow Rogue Gavin Darklighter when the youth was wrongly accused of being a bigot by Bothan Rebel Asyr Sei ' lar . Later , Ven led the squadron in a delegation to his home planet of Ryloth , in order to obtain the ryll kor necessary to fight the Krytos virus ravaging Coruscant ' s nonhuman population . Ven was called upon to act as defense counsel for fellow squadron member Tycho Celchu against charges of murder and treason . The trial ended when fellow Rogue Corran Horn , whom Celchu was accused of killing , burst into the courtroom . Shortly thereafter , Ven and his squadmates resigned their commissions , in order to wage an insurgency against Isard ' s junta on the bacta - producing planet Thyferra , in the conflict that became known as the Bacta War . Ven was twice wounded when enemy TIE Fighters scored direct hits on his X - wing fighter . While he completely recovered after the first instance , during the second a micro - meteorite severed his right leg below the knee . Though fitted with a prosthesis , he was no longer fit for combat . However , squad leader Wedge Antilles made him Rogue Squadron ' s Executive Officer in recognition of his able administrative and intelligence skills . Following the conclusion of the hunt for Warlord Zsinj , Ven retired from military service altogether and married Rhysati Ynr , a woman from Bespin whom he met while with the Squadron . The two resigned their commissions to start a family . Later , he served as an officer aboard Booster Terrik ' s freelance Star Destroyer " Errant Venture " and helped to rescue Jedi students stranded on Trogan during the Yuuzhan Vong War . Legal career . Two years after the Second Galactic Civil War , Ven , working as a lawyer , defended Luke Skywalker and the Jedi Order against charges brought against them by Chief of State Natasi Daala and the Galactic Alliance , in the Chief ' s attempt to bring the Jedi to heel for not adhering strictly to the law . Although he was dismayed by Skywalker ' s plea of guilty and the fact that he was not a part of the final agreement between Daala and his client , Ven continued to defend other Jedi , including Tahiri Veila and Valin Horn . While he won Veila ' s case , Ven was defeated while defending Horn , successfully persuading the judge to deem the Jedi mentally unstable yet unable to prevent the man ' s sentence to confinement in carbonite . Ven later represented the entire Jedi Order , fighting the executive order Daala had imposed on them . He won , lifting many of the restrictions .