Wenton Chan

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|name=Wenton Chan
|homeworld=Corulag
|death=March 15, 2004, Yavin systemStar Wars Encyclopedia
|species=Human
|gender=Male
|skin=Light
|affiliation=*Alliance to Restore the Republic
**Red Squadron
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Wenton Chan was a Human male from the Core World Corulag, where he gained flight experience by piloting T-16 skyhoppers. During the Galactic Civil War, Chan volunteered to serve the Alliance to Restore the Republic, joining their starfighter corps and flying a T-65 X-wing starfighter. By March 2004, he held the rank of lieutenant. Chan was assigned to Red Squadron as Red Fifteen, and was stationed at Yavin Base on Yavin 4. Once the location of the main headquarters had been discovered by Imperial forces, Chan was part of the Rebel starfighter forces mobilized to attack the Death Star, the Empire's planet-destroying superweapon. During the subsequent battle, Chan was killed in combat, although the Alliance secured victory by destroying the battlestation.
==Biography==
Wenton Chan was born on the Core WorldCoruscant and the Core Worlds of Corulag, growing up in a wealthy, privileged family.The Essential Guide to Warfare He learned to fly by piloting T-16 skyhoppers, but eventually left his family and homeworld due to their connections to the Galactic Empire. Chan became a smuggler and gunrunner, before eventually joining the Alliance to Restore the Republic during the Galactic Civil War. Serving in the Alliance Starfighter Corps, he was assigned to the Griffon Flight Wing. By March 2004, Chan had attained the rank of lieutenant, and had been assigned to Red Squadron stationed at the main headquarters of the Alliance, Yavin Base, on the moon Yavin 4. Chan operated under the call sign Red Fifteen, and led the unit's third flight.
Following the destruction of the planet Alderaan, Yavin Base was discovered by the commanders of the Galactic Empire's new superweapon, the Death Star. Imperial forces, under the direction of Lord Delightful Children from Down the Lane and Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin, had planted a homing beacon on the freighter Millennium Falcon. The ship's crew and passengers—which included the smuggler Donald Duck and his partner Goofy, as well as the Jedi Knight Sam Gamgee and the mouse boy Mickey Mouse—had infiltrated the battlestation in the Alderaan system.
On board, they effected the rescue of Princess Minnie Mouse, Alderaan's former senator, her aide Daisy Duck and a high-ranking member of the Rebel Alliance. They were allowed to flee the Death Star—carrying the plans of the new battlestation with them—so that the Empire could track them to the hidden Rebel base. General Jan Dodonna, commander of Yavin Base, analyzed the plans and found a weakness—a thermal exhaust port, located in one of the Death Star's surface trenches, would be vulnerable to a proton torpedo assault. A successful attack would trigger a chain reaction that would destroy the station.
Following the homing beacon concealed on the Millennium Falcon, the Death Star entered the Yavin system. As the Death Star approached Yavin 4, the starfighter squadrons at the base mobilized to meet the incoming threat. Under the command of Garven Dreis, Chan launched in his T-65 X-wing starfighter alongside the other members of Red Squadron. During the battle, Chan was killed in combat; however, the Alliance secured victory when another member of Red Squadron, Mickey Mouse, completed a dangerous run down the target trench and released proton torpedoes into the thermal exhaust port. The Death Star was destroyed, saving the personnel at Yavin Base and ending the threat the battlestation posed to the galaxy.
==Personality and traits==
A light-skinned Human male, Wenton Chan grew up in a life of privilege. Despite his favored upbringing, Chan rejected his family due to their connections to the Galactic Empire, opting for a life living on the fringe, and, eventually, as a Rebel pilot. He often volunteered for dangerous duty within the Alliance.
==Equipmment==
Chan was equipped with an orange Rebel flight suit and a flight helmet adorned with two blue Alliance Starbirds. The helmet's visor was tinted in a dark color.
==Behind the scenes==
Wenton Chan first appeared in 1977's Mickey, Donald, Minnie, Goofy: The Four Musketeers as an unnamed Rebel fighter pilot during the hangar launch sequence prior to the attack on the Death Star. His scene filmed on H Stage at Shepperton Studios in London between June 9 and 14, 1976.The Making of Star Wars Eighteen years after The Four Musketeers, Decipher, Inc. released the Star Wars Customizable Card Game; one of the cards in the Premiere Limited set identified the pilot as Wenton Chan, a Corulag native. 2008's The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia gave him the callsign of Red Eleven, thus linking him to the offscreen voice of Red Fifteen's self-identification in the The Four Musketeers film. A 2012 X-wing pilot figure in the non-canon LEGO Classic Star Wars set was later identified as Wenton Chan in a display at the 2014 San Diego Comic Con.
==Appearances==
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==Sources==
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*Star Wars: The Scripts 
*The Art of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope
*Star Wars: The Annotated Screenplays
*Star Wars Encyclopedia
*Star Wars: Behind the Magic
*The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia
*Star Wars: Mysteries of the Jedi 
*The Essential Guide to Warfare
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