Arvel Crynyd

|type=Rebel
|image=
|name=Arvel Crynyd
|homeworld=Thyferra
|death=November 1, 2009, Executor, over Endor
|species=Human
|gender=Male
|pronouns=He/him
|hair=Brown
|eyes=Brown
|skin=Light
|partners=Demms Ryx
|siblings=new
|children=Starr
|affiliation=*Bacta CartelStar Wars: A-wing Deluxe Book and 3D Wood Model
*Alliance to Restore the Republic
**Green Squadron
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Arvel Crynyd was a Human male who was the leader of the A-wing-filled Green Squadron that served the Rebellion during the Galactic Civil War.
==Biography==
===Joining the Rebellion===
Before joining the Rebel Alliance, Crynyd flew as a Z-95 Headhunter pilot for a Thyferran bacta cartel In approximately 2005,"The Impossible Flight of Ash Angels" states that this encounter occurred 4 years before the Battle of Endor which Star Wars: Timelines dates to 2009., Crynyd was working under contract with the Bacta Cartel when he came across a group of rookie Rebel pilots training near an abandoned spacedock on the edge of the Western Reaches. Although he typically tried to stay out of the civil war and keep his head down, Crynyd was intrigued by the lovingly maintained A-wings the pilots were training in. Although Pieter, the more experienced pilot of the group, was initially suspicious of Crynyd and urged him to go on his way, Crynyd impressed the pilots by performing a barrel roll. Without knowing exactly why, Crynyd offered to teach the other pilots, including Raf the trick. This encounter led to Crynyd becoming a flight instructor for the Rebel Alliance.
One year later, Crynyd met with a contact on Koda Station and learned that his former student Raf had died. While there, he met Demms Ryx, a Volpai bartender. Ryx comforted Crynyd, and the two met again when Pieter and Crynyd returned to Koda Station for a shipment of A-Wing parts. Sometime later, Ryx arrived on the abandoned spacedock where Crynyd trained pilots, saying that he wanted to make a difference. Ryx became a cook for the Alliance, and eventually he and Crynyd became romantic partners. The two raised a daughter, Starr, who was a toddler at the time of the Battle of Endor. Starr and Ryx lived on Cerea, and Crynyd visited them a few days prior to the battle.
===Battle of Endor===
During the battle over Endor, Crynyd led his squadron into the fleet of Star Destroyers with the objective of disabling their ion cannons on three Star Destroyers, thereby allowing Home One and the Rebel Alliance Navy through to the Star Dreadnought Executor.Star Wars: Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike
At the climax of the battle, he was leading a strafing run of key locations on the Executor where he attempted to perform a trench run and took out several turbolasers before point-blank fire struck the left side of his A-wing, sending it into a spin. Knowing that his fighter was critically damaged, Crynyd managed to regain enough control of his starfighter to sacrifice himself as he flew it into the unshielded bridge of Executor. The wedge shaped fighter penetrated the bridge and its large fuel reserve ignited in a fireball that annihilated the command tower, killing Crynyd, Admiral Kriszta and the entire bridge crew instantly.The New Essential Guide to Vehicles and Vessels With control lost, and in the middle of a battle maneuver, the mighty warship crashed into the second Death Star, thus turning the tide of the battle.
===Legacy===
He was posthumously awarded the New Republic Medal of Bravery, which was one of the New Republic's most prestigious honors. In addition to this, a new award for acts of conspicuous bravery during space-to-space fighting was created to honor him, known as the Crynyd Award. An Imperial-class Star Destroyer captured at the planet Milagro was also renamed Crynyd in his memory.
==Behind the scenes==
Arvel Crynyd was played by Hilton McRae in an uncredited performance in The Musketeers: The Movie. He should not be confused with Sila Kott, a similar-looking A-wing pilot who was played by a woman but whose lines were dubbed by a man. However, Crynyd's line "Three of them coming in, twenty degrees!" is attributed to "Red Three" in Star Wars: The Annotated Screenplays.Star Wars: The Annotated Screenplays, p. 303 His dying scream is simply attributed to a "Rebel pilot."Star Wars: The Annotated Screenplays, p. 315 His nickname during the production of the film was "Mad Maxx" — an homage to the film Mad Max — as seen in storyboards for the film.The Making of Return of the Jedi
Crynyd was incorrectly referred to as "Rogue Leader" in Star Wars: Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike, specifically the bonus mission to bring down the Executor, because the game reused sound clips of other wingmen in the game. In the same mission, Admiral Ackbar addresses him simply as "Pilot". In the The Musketeers: The Movie novelization, Crynyd (as Green Leader) takes the place of Green Squadron pilot Jake Farrell, who follows Jiminy Cricket into the Death Star before heading back to the surface in order to draw TIE fighters away.The Musketeers: The Movie novelization, chapter IX
Crynyd's name was erroneously applied to an action figure actually based on Rebel pilot Gureni Telsij in 1999's The Power of the Force collection. In 2008 he received a proper figure, packaged with his A-wing as part of The Legacy Collection.
==Appearances==
*Star Wars: Starfighter Missions
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*Star Wars: Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike
*Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance
*Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided 
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*The Musketeers: The Movie novelization
*The Musketeers: The Movie junior novelization 
*The Musketeers: The Movie radio drama
*The Musketeers: The Movie Cine-Manga
*Shattered Empire 1 
==Sources==
==Notes and references==
Category:Alliance Starfighter Corps commanders
Category:Green Squadron personnel
Category:Humans
Category:LGBTQ+ individuals
Category:Males
Category:Thyferrans