Steven Laramie

Steven Laramie is an Officer and pilot in the . He has flown in many battles including the Battle of Eltar, Battle of Gratha, and Operation Lothal Freedom.
==Early Life and Career==
Laramie was born on Earth sometime during the of Grand Admiral Thrawn and raised in an unknown city. He enlisted with the Marines soon after graduating from High School and trained as a pilot eventually joining the and becoming its leader. At some point during the late 1990s, he married and started a family. He and his squadron were placed on standby status following the September 11th Attacks for any possible attacks or signs of pending attacks on the West Coast as fears were heightened across the country due to the attacks and the sudden appearance of the Galactic Empire.
==Imperial Encounter==
Laramie and his squadron were scrambled from to intercept a group of unknown objects approaching the city of . The objects turned out to be Imperial TIE Fighters which the Knights outnumbered 2 to 1. During the skirmish, Laramie instructed his pilots to be careful of civilian targets noting that the stuck out like a sore thumb on the city skyline before deciding to attempt to lure the TIEs away from the city. While most of his fighters led the TIEs out over the , Laramie led two TIEs towards the desert after managing to find the radio frequency that the TIEs were using and picking up a noticeable "Oops" from one of the pilots after a potshot managed to strike the . Eventually, Laramie deployed his 's emergency parachute over one of the TIE cockpits before ejecting from his plane and causing a crash into a canyon wall in which both TIEs lost their wings.
Laramie landed not too far from the downed TIE cockpits and overheard one of the TIE pilots commenting about "cheap crap fighters" and that Laramie deserved a medal for his flying. Laramie eventually contacted the two Imperials Typher Marlion and Marten Rawlkins expressing surprise that the two were human saying he expected to find something with a bunch of tentacles. Eventually, the three set off for where Laramie would provide some food for his two prisoners as Marlion expressed an opinion that the Empire had no interest in recovering lost pilots. Indeed, Marlion's commander ordered a sent to the crash site, but never followed up on the droid's findings. The next morning, the three arrived at where they were transported to Area 51 for further debriefing and an interview with Bryan Khayman. Laramie stuck around with the two Imperials even as Death Star III destroyed Khayman's homeworld of KO-35 and the weapon's commander planned to set its sights on the planet Eltar. Laramie quickly volunteered his squadron to fly a squadron of s with Khayman and R2-D2 replacing a member whose F-18 had been downed during the entanglement with the TIEs.
==War with the Empire==
The Knights flew in the Battle of Eltar where most of them were lost except for Khayman and Laramie although R2-D2 suffered heavy damage and Khayman was nearly shot down until Marcus Jacobs and the Astro Megaship interfered at the last minute. Laramie's X-Wing had suffered minor damage and the Megaship was used to transport both X-Wings back to Earth. After the battle, Laramie became involved in training new pilots on the X-Wing with Khayman taking command of the Knights. When the construction of Death Star IV was discovered, Laramie volunteered to fly his X-Wing in the offensive against this battle station taking the callsign of Eagle One with Khayman and the Megaship serving as Knight One. The two would fire the combined fatal shots that destroyed the station as it prepared to destroy Gratha. Returning to Earth, Laramie joined Marlion and Rawlkins as they were released from custody and traveled to New York City and awaited reassignment under the newly-formed Remnant. The three pilots also agreed to keep in touch with each other no matter where they were assigned.
==Remnant Era==
Laramie continued to serve with the Marines in training pilots on the X-Wings and newly added s. He continued to swap news with Marlion and Rawlkins as Marlion placed roots in Philadelphia and Rawlkins moved from assignment to assignment. In 2010, he attended the funeral for Khayman who had been killed by Darth Sidious. At some point, he was named as Commanding Officer of the Knights as enough pilots had been trained on the A-wing and X-wing fighters.
In 2018, Laramie flew in Operation Lothal Freedom along with Marlion and Rawlkins where the Knights took down the flagship of First Order General Armitage Hux with the help of Remnant General Tevin Felth and the Felth's Pride. In 2019, Laramie was contacted by Marlion as the Remnant was looking to know the whole story of the three pilots. Laramie convinced Marlion that it was an unofficial inquiry as the matter was being looked into by Spectres members Lucy Felth, Darius Carpenter, and R9-D2 as a similar interview had been conducted with Rawlkins who had now been assigned to by Troy Khayman.
==Future==
Sometime in 2022, a movie was produced by Darius and Lucy about the story of the three pilots with the three credited as Creative Consultants and some elements of the story fictionalized by Josh Myers, most of which ended up on the cutting room floor.
By 2030, Laramie was a General and assigned to The Pentagon himself. He frequently visited with Rawlkins and the two held "conference calls" with Marlion who was still in Philadelphia. Most of these "conferences" took place around the visits of Major Hochster from the Remnant Security Bureau as the three found it amusing to annoy the Major who when he visited Rawlkins would shout at the sight of Laramie and disconnect Marlion or disconnect Laramie and Rawlkins when visiting Marlion.
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