Carver

Carver was a human male sergeant who served in the Rebel Alliance's 61st Mobile Infantry, better known as Twilight Company during the Galactic Civil War against the Galactic Empire. Having formally defected from an Imperial Academy with his classmate Pol Andrissus, nicknamed Charmer. During the Mid Rim Retreat, in 3 ABY, Carver led an attack on an Imperial fort on the planet Coyerti and led a heavy-fire team when boarding an Imperial transport.
During the proposal of Operation Ringbreaker, a campaign targeting Kuat Drive Yards and other Imperial installations, by the former Governor Everi Chalis, Carver questioned her knowledge on multiple occasions and debated tactics with the Besalisk Gadren. After Charmer died during the attack on Mardona III, Carver joined a group of Twilight soldiers in taking revenge on his classmate's killers and then eulogized his late friend at the funeral after. At the planet Sullust, Twilight Company lost the Thunderstrike during their attempted pick up, and Carver took part in the mission to rescue survivors. When the Empire made a counterattack on Twilight Company, the sergeant was able to obtain a belt of grenades and shared them.
In 5 ABY, Carver served on the planet Troithe with Twilight Company during the campaign in the Cerberon system. He commended members of the New Republic's Alphabet Squadron when they approached his camp and later rendezvoused with two of them in a speeder garage after the Empire's 204th Imperial Fighter Wing devastated the New Republic forces. Carver assumed leadership of his remnant of Twilight Company and discussed a new plan with the other squad commanders, agreeing to form a squadron led by the Alphabet Squadron pilots.
Travelling towards the Scar of Troithe, Carver and his forces formed a convoy of mining vehicles through a tunnel under the city on Troithe. There, the 204th located their forces, and Carver disagreed with the pilots on their plan of action. After reaching the Scar of Troithe, the tentative unit-commander devised a plan to attack the Core Nine mining megafacility before the 204th make use of the complex. After reports came that the 204th's squadrons were diverting to the facility, Carver and the Alphabet Squadron pilots led an attack on Core Nine. Carver devised the plan of attack, but died during the battle.
==Biography==
===Joining the Rebel Alliance===
During the time of the Galactic Empire, Carver joined the Imperial Academy, but defected to the Rebel Alliance shortly after entering Imperial service along with his classmate Pol Andrissus, nicknamed Charmer. The pair became a part of the Alliance's 61st Mobile Infantry, better known as Twilight Company, and were dubbed turncoats by other members of the company like First Sergeant Hazram Namir. During his service in Twilight Company, Carver fought at the Mid Rim planetThe Odyssey of Star Wars: An Epic Poem Phorsa Gedd as a part of the Alliance's Mid Rim campaign of circa 1 ABY–2 ABYStar Wars: Timelines and also at the location Switchmount, where the company intervened when the locals were killing each other, only to make the matter worse. He and Charmer eventually rose to the ranks of sergeant.
In 3 ABY, Twilight Company was deployed to the jungle planet Coyerti to divert Imperial forces whilst the Coyerti species had their breeding season. On the second day of the campaign, Carver led an attack on an Imperial fort, which involved a dozen Twilight squads. This was the first large scale engagement on Coyerti by the soldiers of Twilight Company, and the rebels were met with TIE fighters during the fight. Around thirty kilometers to the south of the battle, Namir and his squad, who had been on their own missions on Coyerti, noticed that the engagement was occurring in the distance. As the attack on the fort drew quieter and night time fell, the soldier Brand predicted that the fort and complimented Carver's competency, albeit predicting that he may have won at a cost.
===Boarding party===
Shortly after the Coyerti Campaign, Twilight Company's vessels—the CR90 corvette Thunderstrike and the Braha'tok-class gunship Apailana's Promise—were pursued by Imperial forces through the Metatessu sector due to a hypermatter leak in the corvette's hyperdrive. As a result, Everi Chalis, the governor of the planet Haidoral Prime who had defected to the company shortly before Coyerti, devised a plan to board an Imperial cargo transport and seize supplies for repairs. Thus Twilight Company went and attacked an Imperial heavy freighter, sending multiple squads—led by Namir and Sergeants Carver, Charmer, Fektrin, Zab and Maximian Ajax—aboard the enemy transport via boarding pods. Carver led a heavy-fire team which busted through blast doors in the freighter whilst the other squads made separate distractions.
As soon as a team of engineers, escorted by Fektrin's squad, had finished securing the necessary supplies, Fektrin signaled the other squads, including Carver's, prompting all of them to change tactics. By this time, the squads had stretched out through the interior of the freighter, with troops being positioned at key points, and so the rebel soldiers began withdrawing back towards the pods gradually. During this time, however, an Imperial Gozanti-class cruiser entered the space engagement. With this in mind, Twilight Company's Captain Micha Evon, better known as Howl, gave the squads five minutes to return to their pods and to the Thunderstrike. Carver and the other squad leaders complained and cursed over their comlinks, but continued regardless. The rebel boarding party ultimately conducted a successful withdrawal to their corvette, despite the loss of Fektrin and Ajax.
===Refuge on Ankhural===
Shortly after the Battle of Hoth, Twilight Company put in repairs to the Thunderstrike and Apailana's Promise on the planet Ankhural. While Captain Howl had been killed during the Battle of Hoth, his senior officers had fallen victim to an Imperial infiltration team which had gotten aboard the Thunderstrike in the Elochar sector on the same day. During the company's time on Ankhural, Carver and a number of other senior members of Twilight Company attended daily meetings which included updates on the repairs to the vessels. In one of these meetings, Namir brought news that a handful of Twilight soldiers had been considering deserting the company out of fear that the Empire would find and obliterate them. Carver and Chief Medic Von Geiz were surprised upon hearing this, and Namir proposed splitting the group up and using a favor one of them owed him.
Some days later, Chalis held a meeting where she proposed a new plan for Twilight Company. She began by explaining the Alliance's situation and told the attendees how the Empire was drawing their own forces from the Core Worlds to pursue the Alliance fleet. Carver questioned how the former governor knew this, to which she told him how she had monitored broadcasts and knew that pulling forces out of active warzones in the Mid Rim rather than from the Core Worlds was too risky. With this in mind, Chalis continued, describing her plan to take advantage of the redeployments and conduct a campaign dubbed Operation Ringbreaker, targeting numerous worlds along the Rimma Trade Route to draw forces from Kuat Drive Yards, which was the final target.
After Chalis explained the redeployments from the Kuat Drive Yards' defenses, Carver openly denied that she could have known this. The former governor insisted that she understood the flow of resources in the Empire and claimed it was the reason Howl had accepted her into the company in the first place. As Chalis then left the meeting attendees to discuss among themselves, Carver and the aliens Mzun and Gadren debated the tactics of invading the Kuat Drive Yards. When Namir then interjected the conversations asking if Twilight Company had any alternative choices, Gadren advised Chalis to leave the room and the attendees in the room decided to have a voice vote. The subsequent vote was ultimately in favor of Operation Ringbreaker.
===Death of a friend===
Twilight Company's first deployment as a part of Operation Ringbreaker was to the warehouse planet Mardona III, where the company's squads planted charges along the many tramways in one of the sectors whilst using a housing block as a fallback position. During the fighting, however, Charmer and his squad were ambushed by an armored worm vehicle, killing Carver's old friend and two of his troops. After Namir interviewed the surviving member of Charmer's squad, the First Sergeant, assumed by many to be the new captain of the company, led a mission to take revenge on the vehicle and its crew. Carver was among the group that joined Namir and other who knew Charmer well as they ambushed the crew of the worm vehicle whilst they disembarked from it outside an Imperial sentry post. The Twilight soldiers then slaughtered the crew and brought the armored vehicle down with a single grenade through the hatch. Namir only called for a withdrawal when the Imperial reinforcements became too overwhelming.
Shortly after, Twilight Company left Mardona III, having completed their mission. A funeral was given for Charmer and the other six fallen soldiers at Mardona and Carver argued with Gadren to obtain the honor of eulogizing his friend. By tradition, Quartermaster Hober, the host of the funeral, called out Charmer's name, with Carver giving his eulogy shortly thereafter, proclaiming his fallen friend a ladies' man. The statement drew nervous laughter from the funeral attendees, and Namir believed it was because that Charmer's good looks had been taken due to an injury in a past battle.
===Stranded on Sullust===
====Fortification at Inyusu Tor====
After attacking numerous other Imperial installments for Operation Ringbreaker, Twilight Company traveled to the manufacturing world Sullust, the third to last target in the campaign. The company took the Inyusu Tor mineral processing facility within twelve hours and awaited pickup from the Thunderstrike and Apailana's Promise. However, when the two vessels arrived, an Imperial squadron ambushed the rebel starships, shooting down the Thunderstrike and forcing the Promise to flee with its two X-wing starfighters. With no transport off of Sullust Namir prepared half a dozen search-and-rescue to squads, Carver among them, retrieve survivors from the fallen corvette whilst the rest of the company fortified the Inyusu Tor facility.
After receiving a nod from Namir, Carver, speaking through his comlink, initiated the rescue mission. The squads arrived at the Thunderstrike wreckage and found a number of surviving crew members, returning to the Inyusu Tor facility after. Namir continued to have Twilight Company fortify the facility for an inevitable attack from Sullust's Imperial forces and held a meeting with Carver and the other squad leaders and senior staff to plan their defense. Carver, among others, pretended that the battle was winnable despite the Imperial forces being vastly numbered.
====The Siege====
After Namir went missing-in-action during a mission into Sullust's capital city, Pinyumb, Chalis took charge and prepared Twilight Company to seize merchant ships from Pinyumb's spaceport and continue Operation Ringbreaker. Namir, though, returned and stopped her plan. The tentative captain then briefly went through his plan to defend the Inyusu Tor facility to Carver and the other senior members. Carver himself called Namir mad, but gave a grim smile at him regardless.
Less than thirty minutes after Chalis's plan had been overturned, news came that the Empire's attack on the facility begun, backed by the arrival of the Imperial II-class Star DestroyerStar Wars: The Rebel Files Herald arrival. Namir had the senior squad commanders pass on his defense plan, with Twilight Company dividing into three lines of defense to hold of the Imperial attack thereafter. While the various Imperial forces advanced on the defensive lines, Carver managed to obtain an enemy's belt, which had a number of grenades attached. He passed these explosives among the other soldiers with a grin.
Although the Herald attempted to obliterate Twilight Company's defenses, from the outside in, the Apailana's Promise returned and kept the Star Destroyer at bay. This destroyer eventually eventually suffered an internal power surge, which forced the ship to withdraw from Sullust's atmosphere. Meanwhile, the Twilight squads were forced to fall back inside the Inyusu Tor facility by the remaining Imperial ground forces and take the fight to the facility gates and the passageways. These remaining Imperial, though, were defeated, securing a victory for Twilight Company.
====Post battle====
With Sullust's garrison defeated, Pinyumb was liberated by the citys local movements, the Sullustan resistance and Cobalt Laborers' Reformation Front. Twilight Company supported the resultant interim government that was formed, whilst tending to their own wounded and scavenging the wreckage of the Thunderstrike. Namir also held more daily conferences with the company's senior members, including Carver.
During one meeting, the captain announce that the interim government had wanted Twilight Company to remain on Sullust for another two weeks, suggesting his plan for the company to leave once the government felt secure, using a repaired Thunderstrike or some other means of transport. After Twilight's chief of engineering, Vifra, backed using a new means of transport off of Sullust, Carver asked Namir what the company would do after leaving. The captain assured him that Operation Ringbreaker was over and that Twilight Company was to find another purpose.
Twilight Company held a four hour funeral for its fallen and the Thunderstrike. After Carver was among a few dozen who attended a cantina in Pinyumb. The sergeant himself sat at the bar, retelling the battle on Phorsa Gedd while Namir corrected details. Commander Tohna invited the captain to join a game of sabacc with himself, Gadren, and the soldiers Twitch and Brand. Namir said that he was busy, jutting at Carver, who shouted an obscenity at him. Twilight Company was eventually driven from Sullust by the Empire.Star Wars: Battles that Changed the Galaxy
===Campaign in the Cerberon system===
====Operations on Troithe====
In 4 ABY, the Alliance transitioned into the New Republic following its victory over the Empire in the Endor system, which had brought the death of Emperor Palpatine. In 5 ABY, Twilight Company took part in a campaign led by General Hera Syndulla in the Cerberon system, a star system in the Deep Core which had a black hole at the center. Residing on the Acclamator-class transgalactic military assault ship Lodestar, the company slowly fought the local Imperial forces through the various districts of the planet Troithe.
One day, Carver was at Twilight Company's camp inside the Lodestar hangar, where the company ate and cleaned rifles. At that time, three pilots from Alphabet Squadron, a multi-starfighter squadron in the New Republic, passed by, and Carver jokingly asked if they had come looking for applause, calling the New Republic pilots heroes. The BTL-A4 Y-wing assault starfighter/bomber pilot Nath Tensent told Carver that his squadron would accept an applause, and the sergeant, nodding briefly looking between the Alphabet Squadron pilots, remarked that those who asked for applause did not deserve it.
Carver further added that a strike team had sent their regards to Alphabet Squadron, commending their shooting. While one of the Alphabet Squadron pilots left, Tensent pulled the RZ-1 A-wing interceptor pilot Wyl Lark with him to converse with Carver and a dozen other soldiers, talking about how their squadron had formed and learning the names of other Twilight troops.
====Into hiding====
With the Cerberon system slowly falling into New Republic hands, Syndulla departed to support the New Republic's Vanguard Squadron in the Bormea sector. Meanwhile Alphabet Squadron, Twilight Company and the other units under the Syndulla's battle group prepared for an attack by the Empire's 204th Imperial Fighter Wing, which had been coaxed by Alphabet Squadron's New Republic Intelligence advisor Caern Adan. Half of Twilight Company, led by Namir, hid on an asteroid approaching Troithe expecting the fighter wing to hide upon it as a part of a sneak attack. However, when the 204th arrived, it engaged the Lodestar and its squadrons resulting in the loss of the Acclamator-class assault ship and the 204th's Star Destroyer, the Edict.
As the 204th went down to Troithe, their bombers forced Twilight Company's squads to swiftly abandon their positions. Carver was among two dozen Twilight soldiers on Troithe which rendezvoused at a three story speeder garage in the lightly urbanized Highgarden District. Tensent and Lark joined them, having lost contact with the rest of Alphabet Squadron and the other squadrons. As distant blasterfire and explosions sounded, one soldier on lookout deduced that blasters and handhelds were in play and suggested intervening. Carver shut down this suggestion, which Tensent questioned the thinking of. The sergeant then explained that he wanted to remain at the garage to meet more stragglers and that intervening in what he believed was a civilian riot would not help, citing Twilight Company's actions at Switchmount. Twitch mentioned the attack on Mardona III as another example, and Carver suggested that the nearby fighting would be over by the next morning.
====Assuming leadership====
A number of stragglers joined the New Republic rendezvous over night, with around twenty rebel sympathizers joining them. The next morning, Carver had a meeting with the other senior Twilight members, including Twitch, Vifra, Tensent and Lark, and a few others. He began by summarizing the situation of Twilight Company, announcing that the line of command officially fell to him. Several others protested the sergeant, but he cut them off by adding that they were guests of the locals, how Tensent and Lark outranked them all, and suggesting that the other attendees add in what the company was working with.
After various meeting attendees added their input, their agenda moved to their tactical situation, where the Sullustan Lien Toob went through reports on the riots and the 204th's bombing runs, which targeted any uprisings that broke out. Carver suggested reestablishing a base of operations and making a rally point of their allies, which sparked another round of debating. Tensent interjected, stating that they would need to keep the 204th's TIEs grounded. Vifra coined the idea of an ion pulse but Carver added that they did not have any warheads. Lark then suggested retreating, arguing that the 204th had no reason to protect Troithe's civilians while fighting the New Republic like its local forces did. Vifra suggested spreading out and holding positions until reinforcements arrived, but Carver countered this, claiming that Imperial reinforcements could arrive first.
The human squad commander Junior coined falling back to the Scar of Troithe, a continent that had been heavily mined out. When Carver asked what use that had, Toob told him about the Core Nine mining megafacility there, which was used for core drilling and freighter launches. As a debate on reaching Core Nine ensued, Carver coined the idea of using the facility as a fallback position for Lark and Tensent. Lark described the 204th's tactics when Tensent then proposed increasing their airpower by forming their own squadron of airborne vehicles. Carver asked the Y-wing pilot if he would lead this unit if the sergeant allowed them, but Tensent volunteered Lark for the position instead.
====On the move====
Carver and the other troops traveled twenty kilometers to the outside of the Highgarden District. In that time, Tensent took a trip to a district called the Web to secure airspeeders for Lark's new squadron and ground vehicles for the rest of the remnant, which Lark used his time to pick out of the Twilight soldiers for. After reaching the rendezvous outside Highgarden, the soldiers set up camp in a decaying playground. However, an Imperial aligned group attacked the Twilight encampment, although they were thwarted when Tensent obliterated the enemy's positions with his Y-wing.
The Twilight Company troops entered a network of tunnels that went beneath the city to travel to the Scar of Troithe. These soldiers were loaded into unarmed tunnel-tanks, mining transports and repulsorcars, which formed a convoy along with Tensent and Lark's starfighters and the airborne vehicles used by Lark's new squadron which the engineers worked to refurbish. Carver discussed plans with Lark whenever the pilot had docked his A-wing with the caravan. Soon enough, a TIE fighter of the 204th came across the convoy, but was destroyed by Lark. When discussing this matter via comm with the other commanders, Twitch suggested fortifying against 204th reinforcements, but Carver decided that the caravan would instead keep travelling.
====TIE fighter attack====
The suspicions of 204th reinforcements were confirmed when a squadron of TIE fighters were reported to be approaching the caravan by one of Lark's new pilots, Gorgeous Su. Carver ordered for all of Twilight Company's weapons to be ready, while Lark headed for Su's position, intending to distract the TIEs. Carver disapproved of their plan, not wanting to lose two pilots, but Lark reminded the sergeant-turned-unit-commander that he was in charge of his squadron and continued with his idea.
As Lark moved in to assist Su as the convoy slowly passed through the entrance to another tunnel. The final mining car in the caravan, carrying twenty soldiers, detonated itself as it passed through the entrance, blocking the tunnel with rubble so that the TIEs could not pursue Twilight Company. Su, though, had been killed by the 204th's squadron in the process. After, Lark told Carver that the actions should have been his call, but the sergeant overruled him. Carver called for the caravan to come to a halt temporarily six hours after the TIE fighter encounter to repair an overheating repulsorcar.
====Battle plans====
When Twilight Company reached the Scar of Troithe, it's troops took shelter in a ravine, with Carver ordering them to stick to the shadows and keep quiet. He and the other commanders soon met under some shade, where Carver deduced that they were no longer the 204th's priority as the fighter wing was not conducting thorough searches. Lark suggested that the 204th wanted to use the Core Nine facility, but, after a moment of silence, Carver asked what the fighter wing was interested in about the mining facility that they could not find elsewhere. Junior suggested that they might want to use Core Nine's large excavation equipment to destroy Troithe.
Carver reminded Lark of what he had said about the 204th's possible lack of intent for civilian lives, asking if it counted for a whole planet. Lark denied that he knew, arguing examples for and against the matter. Toob claimed that they should worry about the capabilities of the 204th and not the intent. Several conversations arose about the matter, with Carver, Twitch and the Houk Jorgatha, Su's brother, briefly discussing plans to attack Core Nine. Lark then coined the idea of the 204th wanting to instead escape, raising pre-existing suspicions that the fighter wing had lost both of it's capital ships and had been stranded in the Cerberon system all along.
Carver stated that both the 204th leaving and the 204th destroying Troithe were conceivable outcomes, with Twitch suggesting that the fighter wing could do both, and thus the sergeant-turned-unit-commander told Lark that standing back instead of taking Core Nine was not worth the possible consequences. After Lark agreed with him, Carver concluded that the facility was their next target. That evening, Twilight Company received a message from their allies in the city that every TIE squadron was heading for Core Nine.
====Fallen soldier====
While Lark and his squadron fought the 204th's TIE fighters above, Twilight Company advanced onto Core Nine from the nearby canyons, either on foot or by speeder bike. The plan of attack was Carver's. While the squad leaders passed updates over their comms, the sergeant reported TIE vectors. A number of squads fought inside the facility, while dozens of other soldiers still fought to get inside. Carver, however, had been killed by this time, and Tensent noticed that he had gone silent over the comm.
The battle was soon won by the New Republic after Syndulla arrived aboard the MC75 Star Cruiser Temperance along with Vanguard Squadron. The 204th retreated aboard Core Nine's freighter as Lark had predicted. Post-battle, Lark talked to Syndulla about their friends who had fallen, including Carver and Su.
==Personality and traits==
Carver frequently showed cynicism to others' claims and plans. For example: When Everi Chalis predicted that the Imperial Navy was drawing forces from the Core Worlds and that attacking installments would catalyse that, Carver denied that she knew this. Additionally, he showed opposition to Namir's plan to defend the Inyusu Tor mineral processing facility, despite giving a vague smile. Carver also opposed Wyl Lark's plan to divert TIE fighters from their convoy whilst they were travelling to the Scar of Troithe through a tunnel.
In the wake of Charmer's death, Carver join the group of soldiers which enacted revenge for his fallen comrade. He also was insistent in giving Charmer's eulogy and argued with Gadren in order to gain the opportunity. Carver had experience in leadership, leading an attack on an Imperial fort during the Coyerti campaign, a heavy-fire team during the raid on an Imperial heavy freighter, giving out orders during the rescue mission of the Thunderstrike surviving crew on Sullust, and assuming command of a splinter of Twilight Company which was separated from Namir and the rest of the company. Although Brand considered Carver's plans to be costly, Carver himself was keen to conserve the aircraft of Lark's squadron.
Carver was a human male with a burly figure and a haircut considered to be similar to that of a stormtrooper by Nath Tensent.
==Equipment==
Carver used a comlink during the raid on an Imperial heavy freighter, the Siege of Inyusu Tor, and during the battle at Core Nine. At the Siege, he was able to acquire a belt ridden with grenades, which he shared with the other soldiers of Twilight Company.
==Behind the scenes==
Carver first appeared in the 2015 novel Battlefront: Twilight Company, written by Alexander Freed.
==Appearances==
*Battlefront: Twilight Company 
*Shadow Fall 
==Notes and references==
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