Rhysati Ynr

Rhysati Ynr was a Human female from Bespin who served in the New Republic Defense Force as a starfighter pilot with Rogue Squadron during the unit's war against Imperial Intelligence Director Ysanne Isard.
==Biography==
===Going Rogue===
Rhysati Ynr was a Human female from Bespin. The Empire forced her family to flee the planet, and she found a new home with the Rebel Alliance. As a naturally gifted pilot, there was no question that she would make it into the legendary starfighter unit known as Rogue Squadron, and she was recruited into its ranks by Commander Wedge Antilles when he rebuilt the Rogues from the ground up in 6.5 ABY.The Essential Chronology Her goal was to spend her time becoming the best pilot in the squadron.
Ynr was very social with her fellow Rogues, including Corran Horn, Ooryl Qrygg, and Nawara Ven. Although she made it clear that romance was not high on her priority list, at some point she began a relationship with Ven. Rogue Squadron were intensely trained by Antilles over one month at Folor Base before being officially activated by the New Republic's Admiral Ackbar, and Ynr served under the call sign Rogue Seven. She led Two Flight on their first official mission to the Morobe system, but the mission turned into a battle when they were pulled out of hyperspace by the Imperial Interdictor cruiser Black Asp.
When Horn was confined to quarters following his brash actions during a strike at Vladet, Ynr, Ven, and fellow Rogue Erisi Dlarit paid him a visit. Ynr was personally grateful that his theatrics had taken out the Lancer-class frigate Ravager, which otherwise could have picked off a number of the Rogues' X-wings. The Rogues later captured Borleias from the Empire in a second strike after a disastrous first attempt, with Ynr flying one of the only six X-wings available to them for the risky attack.
When Rogue Squadron pursued the Vengeance Derra IV—a Dwarf Star-class freighter belonging to the forces of the Imperial Warlord Zsinj—to Mrisst, Ynr flew with Dlarit and Horn under Captain Aril Nunb in One Flight. The four of them took care of defending TIE fighters and interceptors while Two Flight used proton torpedoes to take down Vengeance Derra IV shields. Rogue Squadron were soon afterward inserted into Imperial-held Coruscant to bring down its planetary shields.X-Wing: Wedge's Gamble
In Coruscant's Azure Dianoga Cantina, Ynr nearly got the undercover Rogues in trouble with stormtroopers when she refused to take lightly one trooper's xenophobia toward the Twi'lek Ven, but the group was saved by a sudden communication the trooper received in his helmet. The squadron ultimately used an orbital mirror control center to create a lightning storm to bring down the shields, while Ynr, Horn, Dlarit, fellow Rogue Pash Cracken, and their allies Inyri Forge and Asyr Sei'lar flew cover in Z-95 Headhunters. The Imperial capital went on to be conquered by New Republic forces with minimal resistance, but Horn was feared dead, with the Rogues' Executive officer, Tycho Celchu, as a murder suspect.
===Going rogue===
It was early 7 ABY, and the New Republic now controlled the galactic capital, but the high-profile trial of Tycho Celchu left the Rogues feeling like they had little to celebrate. The deadly Krytos virus also began to ravage every non-human species on the planet. Rogue Squadron were thus tasked with stealing some bacta, a healing substance, from Warlord Zsinj at the Yag-prime space station. They launched alongside the Y-wings of Defender Wing, with Ynr now flying as Rogue Three. Her and Dlarit's role in the battle was to lead enemy TIEs away from the station, where Antilles and new Rogue Seilar could pick them off. The bacta was captured with ease.
The Rogues' next mission was to Ryloth to obtain the spice ryll kor, following the New Republic Provisional Council's discovery that it could be used to help combat the virus's effects. Ryll Kor and bacta were later synthesized into rylca, a bonified cure for the Krytos virus, but only after Ynr and the Rogues failed to obtain more bacta in the Alderaan system—Zsinj's Super Star Destroyer Iron Fist beat them there and destroyed the bacta-carrying transports of the Xucphra Corporation, to Ynr and her teammates' horror. Rogue Squadron's consolation prize was the cruiser Termagant, left behind by Zsinj.
When the New Republic was tipped off about a planned attack on a bacta storage facility from the Palpatine Counter-Insurgency Front, a terrorist cell operating on Coruscant, Rogue Squadron mobilized to fly cover for a commando force. Most of the Rogues stayed low over Imperial City while Ynr and Dlarit flew up to the level of floating skyhooks to cut off any potential enemy escape. The terrorists' airspeeders and AT-STs were made short work of, but in the confusion, the Super Star Destroyer Lusankya suddenly emerged from Coruscant's cityscape.
As it turned out, Imperial ruler Ysanne Isard had fled under the planet's surface instead of offworld when the New Republic had arrived. Corran Horn was also alive and had been held in Lusankya namesake prison, but the Rogue managed to escape before Isard's ship blasted out of its hiding place. He burst into Celchu's trial to declare the man innocent of his murder while meanwhile, Ynr and the rest of the Rogues watched Isard and her massive Star Destroyer escape the New Republic's clutches. Ynr's wingmate Erisi Dlarit joined Isard in her flight, revealing herself to be a spy in Rogue Squadron's ranks.
Despite Lusankya getaway, a ceremony was held to welcome back Horn and to publicly exonerate Celchu. New Republic Chief of State Mon Mothma publicly presented all of Rogue Squadron with the Coruscant Star of Valor, a newly created award intended to be the military's highest possible honor. At the ceremony, the pilots were less than impressed when they learned that the New Republic would not pursue Isard to her new power base on Thyferra, as it did not want to interfere with a planet's internal politics. They promptly resigned their commissions, with Ynr eagerly speaking for both herself and Ven when she added her name to the hat.
The now-independent group of Antilles's Rogues received help from various allies and adoring private citizens, and they operated out of the Yag-prime space station as they pursued the Bacta War against Isard. Their first maneuvers were two separate raids on bacta convoys from her, first in the Chorax system and next in a system with a red dwarf. In the latter engagement, Ynr and Inyri Forge—now flying as Rogues Five and Six respectively—escorted the Bacta Tanker Xucphra Meander to Coruscant after it surrendered to the combined forces of Rogue Squadron and twelve Twi'lek Chir'daki fighters, the latest converts to Antilles's cause.X-Wing: The Bacta War
Ynr later married Ven and resigned her commission permanently shortly before the resurgence of the Empire under Grand Admiral Thrawn. During Lando Calrissian's mission to save Kessel, Ynr piloted an Eta-5 interceptor acquired under illicit circumstances in a bid to stop Kessel from being destroyed by a mysterious force. She loaned the fighter to Antilles during the mission after he expressed an interest in flying it.Fate of the Jedi: Outcast
==Behind the scenes==
Rhysati Ynr was created by Michael A. Stackpole and first appeared in his 1996 novel X-Wing: Rogue Squadron. She played a prominent role throughout the first four entries in the X-Wing series, but she was rarely mentioned in later-published Star Wars reference books that spotlighted the Rogues' adventures. Notably, she was not featured in the Star Wars Insider 59 article Who's Who in Rogue Squadron, published in 2002, and the only official picture of her comes from the Japanese edition of Rogue Squadron.
==Appearances==
*X-Wing: Rogue Squadron 
*X-Wing: Wedge's Gamble 
*X-Wing: The Krytos Trap 
*X-Wing: The Bacta War 
*X-Wing: Wraith Squadron 
*X-Wing: Isard's Revenge
*I, Jedi 
*Fate of the Jedi: Outcast 
==Sources==
*Star Wars Encyclopedia
*A Guide to the Star Wars Universe, Third Edition, Revised and Expanded
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*The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia
==Notes and references==
Category:Antilles's Rogues
Category:Bespinites
Category:Females
Category:Humans
Category:Rogue Squadron personnel