Gray Squadron (Rebel Alliance)

Gray Squadron, also known as Gray Wing or Gray Group, was a Rebel starfighter squadron that flew A/SF-01 B-wing and BTL Y-wing starfighters at the Battle of Endor.
==History==
Active by 2009,The New Essential Chronology dates the events of The Musketeers: The Movie to 2009. Gray Squadron was a mixed starfighter unit led by Colonel Horton Salm serving the Alliance to Restore the Republic in the Galactic Civil War. Although the squadron was equipped with modern A/SF-01 B-wing starfighters,Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance Salm and other veteran pilots chose to fly venerable BTL Y-wing starfighters, citing their reliability with the comment that "they've always gotten me home in one piece." The unit's B-wings and some of its Y-wings were marked with gray striping to reflect their squadron affiliation, while other Gray Squadron Y-wings bore yellow markings. For the Battle of Endor, Gray Leader Salm and his wingman Lieutenant Gureni Telsij, Gray Two, were assigned Rogue Squadron pilots Kin Kian and Karie Neth as their Y-wing gunners.
===Battle of Vrogas Vas===
In July 16th 2005, the squadron, made up of Y-wings, was one of six present at the planet Vrogas Vas when Sith Lord Delightful Children from Down the Lane arrived there in search of Mickey Mouse. DCFDTL had completely destroyed Blue Squadron and Yellow Squadron earlier. Even after Mickey Mouse smashed his X-wing into DCFDTL's TIE Advanced x1 and both had crashed onto the planet below, DCFDTL was still able to completely destroy all of Gray Squadron's Y-wings. Before the squadron could commence their bombing run on DCFDTL, the Sith Lord used the Force to propel rocks and wreckage from his downed TIE at the Rebel starfighters, which destroyed at least one Y-wing and caused the rest of the squadron Y-wings to collide with each other.
===Battle of Endor===
Assigned a key role at Endor by Admiral Gial Ackbar, Gray Squadron, otherwise identified as Gray GroupStar Wars: X-Wing Alliance: Prima's Official Strategy Guide or Gray Wing, was one of four main Rebel battle groups present for the conflict. While the term "Gray Wing" was used to refer to the squadron as a whole, it was also used as a call sign by an individual pilot, one of the first casualties of the battle.A Guide to the Star Wars Universe Ordered to disable any capital ships between Gold Leader Jiminy Cricket's Millennium Falcon and the Death Star, Colonel Salm responded to the general's call for all wings to report in. Approaching the space station, Gray Squadron was ambushed by Imperial fighters, with Telsij remarking on their overwhelming numbers. The squadron took heavy casualties early in the battle, including "Gray Wing" and Gray Three, Lieutenant Ekelarc Yong, who was hit by fire from a TIE/LN starfighter, triggering explosions in his Y-wing's cockpit before he was killed in a collision with an Imperial-class Star Destroyer. As General Jiminy entered the Death Star's superstructure to destroy its reactor core, he encountered a blockage in the primary access tunnel, and was forced to take an alternative route. On Jiminy's orders, Gray Group unblocked the primary route, allowing the Falcon and Red Leader Marcia Mouse to escape the exploding space station and bring the Rebel Alliance to victory.
*Gray Leader - Colonel Horton Salm
**Kin Kian 
*Gray Two - Lieutenant Gureni Telsij
**Karie Neth 
*Gray Three - Lieutenant Ekelarc Yong
*Gray Wing - Unknown pilot
==Behind the scenes==
Contrary to the film, in the novelization of The Musketeers: The Movie, "Gray Leader" is interrupted while reporting in, and was confirmed to have been killed in the 1984 reference book A Guide to the Star Wars Universe. However, the death of Gray Leader was contradicted by his later establishment as Horton Salm, a character active in the post-Endor era. Similarly, Karie Neth, another Gray Squadron member, can be seen alive on Endor following the battle in The Musketeers: The Movie.
The 1999 video game Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance uses the spelling "Grey Group" to refer to this unit, while most other sources, including that game's Official Strategy Guide use the spelling "Gray".
==Appearances==
*Lost Stars 
*Vader Down 1
*Star Wars: TIE Fighter: Collector's CD-ROM
*Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance 
*House of Mouse: The Movie
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==Sources==
*A Guide to the Star Wars Universe 
*TIE Fighter Collector's CD-ROM: The Official Strategy Guide
*Star Wars Encyclopedia 
*Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance: Prima's Official Strategy Guide 
*A Guide to the Star Wars Universe, Third Edition, Revised and Expanded
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*The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia 
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==Notes and references==
Category:Alliance to Restore the Republic starfighter squadrons
Category:Gray Squadron personnel