Winged Gundark

"Winged Gundark" was the nickname among the peers of a TIE pilot in the Imperial Navy who attained the nickname for an impressive number of career kills in high-altitude battles by 3 ABY. By that year's Imperial occupation of the planet Bespin,The New Essential Chronology dates the occupation of Bespin to 3 ABY. Winged Gundark had joined the Imperial Obsidian Squadron, flying under the call sign of Obsidian 7 and piloting a TIE/LN starfighter modified for upper atmosphere maneuvers and pursuits.
Following Bespin's occupation, the YT-1300 light freighter Millennium Falcon managed to escape from the planet's Cloud City, resulting in Obsidian Squadron's pursuit of the freighter into space. Winged Gundark piloted one of the pursuing TIE/LN starfighters, though the Millennium Falcon ultimately escaped Obsidian Squadron and Imperial capture. At some point, Winged Gundark, accompanied by at least one other TIE/LN starfighter, flew over an astronomical object, with a large starship above the starfighters. Winged Gundark's nickname was shared with the gundark, a large bipedal furry primate species from the planet Vanqor.The New Essential Guide to Alien Species
==Behind the scenes==
The name Winged Gundark was created for the 1997 Cloud City Limited expansion set of Decipher's Star Wars Customizable Card Game. He would later be mentioned in 1998's Star Wars: Behind the Magic, where Obsidian 7 was linked to one of the TIE fighters seen in the 1980 original trilogy film Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back, thus also establishing his status as the fighter's offscreen pilot in the film. Before the film was released on May 21, 1980, Winged Gundark's fighter appeared simultaneously in The Empire Strikes Back StorybookThe Empire Strikes Back Storybook and the film's novelization,Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back novelization both released April 12 of the same year. Star Wars Year By Year: A Visual History, Updated and Expanded Edition
==Appearances==
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*Star Wars: Episode V The Empire Strikes Back junior novelization 
*Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back Cine-Manga 
*Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back novelization 
*Classic Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back novelization 
*The Empire Strikes Back Storybook 
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==Sources==
*The Empire Strikes Back: The National Public Radio Dramatization 
*Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back: The Illustrated Screenplay 
*Star Wars: Behind the Magic 
*TIE Fighter: A Pocket Manual 
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==Notes and references==
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