Raymus Antilles

Raymus Antilles was a human male from Alderaan. During his time in the service of the House of Organa, he captained the corvettes Tantive III and Tantive IV. Antilles was killed in action during the secret mission to Tatooine while trying to protect Princess Leia Organa from being captured by Darth Vader.
==Biography==
===Early life===
A human male, Raymus Antilles hailed from the influential and peaceful planet of Alderaan. He was schooled in diplomacy and became a capable starship pilot. Eventually, he came to work for the House of Organa, being entrusted to transport its members across the galaxy. As such, he served in the command staff of Senator Bail Prestor Organa, husband to Queen Breha of Alderaan. Towards the end of the Clone Wars, Antilles piloted the CR70 corvette Tantive III for Bail.
===Imperial Era and early rebellion===
During the fall of the Galactic Republic and the early days of the Galactic Empire, Antilles was captain of the Tantive III. He was present when Bail saved Jedi Masters Yoda and Obi-Wan Kenobi from the Great Jedi Purge. After the birth of Padmé Amidala's twins Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa, Antilles was given charge of Amidala's two droids, R2-D2 and C-3PO, and was instructed to wipe the latter's memory. Over the next years, Antilles began to serve Leia as well as her father.Leia, Princess of Alderaan
A year after the fall of the Republic, Antilles became captain of the Tantive IV. He was present when former Jedi Padawan Ahsoka Tano broke onto the ship and into Bail's quarters to discuss joining the rebellion. Concerned about Bail's safety, Antilles abruptly entered Bail's quarters with a security team whilst he was talking to Tano, but Bail assured him that she was a friend. Shortly after, Antilles was having a conversation with Bail in the Tantive IV's mess hall, when Tano approached the pair to devise a plan to help her remaining friends on the moon Raada. Once signaled by Tano, Antilles and the Tantive IV, along with several other transports and A-wings, traveled to Raada to help evacuate the farmers on the moon from Imperial occupation.
Over the following years, Antilles carefully steered the Tantive IV through countless Imperial blockades and checkpoints, always able to avoid suspicion and detection. Antilles also served alongside Toshma Jefkin for years, sharing many close encounters with Imperial forces.
In 3 BBY,Star Wars: Galactic Atlas places Leia Organa's birth in 19 BBY. The events of Leia, Princess of Alderaan commence just after Organa's sixteenth birthday, which places the events of the novel in 3 BBY. as part of her Challenge of the Heart, Princess Leia commandeered the Tantive IV for mercy missions with Antilles accompanying her on several such as a mission on Wobani to deliver food rations and one to Chal Hudda to deliver vaccines, where they were accompanied by C-3PO.
===Galactic Civil War===
====Escaping Scarif====
Still a servant of the Organas, Antilles proved himself an extraordinary leader, as he broke through countless Imperial blockades to get supplies to the Alliance to Restore the Republic. He continued to serve Leia, after she succeeded her father as Senator of Alderaan. Like few others save her adoptive father, the princess came to trust and rely upon Antilles to the point she insisted of ensuring his family was well provided during his time by her side.
In 0 BBY, the Rebel Alliance went to Scarif to steal the plans to the Death Star, an Imperial battle station equipped with a superlaser capable of destroying planets. Prior to leaving for the battle, Antilles warned Organa about the possibility that the Empire could track them down by detecting any trace of an abnormal hyperspace wake, having a very bad feeling about the mission, but Organa insisted to go.
During the Battle of Scarif, the Rogue One squad succeeded in stealing the Death Star plans and transmitting them to the Profundity before the Imperial security complex was all but destroyed by the superweapon's laser under the orders of Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin. Antilles was given the plans to the Death Star after Darth Vader's attack on the Profundity and immediately rushed the plans to the princess as they escaped into hyperspace aboard the Tantive IV.
====Journey to Tatooine====
Instead of traveling to Alderaan, Leia ordered Raymus to take them to the planet Tatooine in the Outer Rim Territories, where she hoped to find the Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi and deliver a message to him from her father. Antilles shifted course and picked out a new route that adhered to no line, but instead doubled back on itself; first jumping to Ukio], then Roon, and then Kowak. The corvette next jumped to Hypori, but found Vader's flagship, the Devastator, was waiting for them there, with Vader having used the Force to track them. The Star Destroyer released a salvo that damaged the Tantive IV, but with its hyperdrive still intact, the corvette jumped again and traveled to Iskalon and then Vuzsa.
Shortly after jumping into hyperspace during the trip, Antilles checked with the senior officers who confirmed his fear of abnormal hyperspace wake. Antilles realized that they couldn't have had a worse ship for their current critical mission, given their fried electrical gird from the Profundity's electrical overload. Unfortunately for the the Rebels, the Devastator was still tracking them and matching their course. Still worried about the Princess' security, Antilles asked Leia to use one of the escape pods, but Chief Petty Officer Corla Metonae disagreed, arguing that as the Tantive IV was still flying under a diplomatic flag, the Empire would not dare to board them. Antilles doubted this given the importance of what Rogue One had stolen from Scarif and that Darth Vader had been dispatched to retrieve the plans.
One of the bosuns also intercepted an Imperial transmission, priority red. This directive allowed any CR90 corvettes to be searched and held, confirming Antilles' fears. The most dire news of all, however, was the report from Second Officer Toshma Jefkin of Darth Vader in the hall of the Profundity. With little time left, Antilles returned to his quarters and attempted to write three letters, one for his wife, and two for his daughters, but he was never able to find the words. As he was gathering his thoughts around the Alderaanian corvette exited hyperspace and they soon realized the Devastator was not far behind.
===Boarding of the Tantive IV===
After jumping from Vuzsa, the Tantive IV's motivator finally gave out and forced the ship out of hyperspace in the Tatoo system. Shortly after this, Vader's Star Destroyer emerged from hyperspace and began pummeling the corvette with turbolaser fire. Antilles ordered the rear guns to fire back and to put full power to the rear deflector shield.
Realizing that the ship was lost but that he could still save the princess, Antilles searched desperately for Organa after assembling his security forces until he found her with R2-D2. Antilles asked Organa to escape in a pod, but she refused to leave. Wanting to end his life like he lived it, by fighting, Antilles rushed down the hall and started to shoot at his enemies. The captain was able to kill several stormtroopers before three of them tackled him and identified him as the ship's captain. Antilles was then brought to Darth Vader, who had boarded the corvette.
Upon being notified by TK-9091 that the Death Star plans weren't on the main computer, Vader asked Antilles what they had done with the plans while strangling him. A loyal guard to the princess, the captain protected Leia's identity, assuring the Sith Lord that they had received no transmissions because the Tantive IV was a consular ship on a diplomatic mission, leading Vader to ask Antilles where the ambassador was in that case as Antilles desperately fought for air.
As he began to lose consciousness, Raymus Antilles found himself strangely hopeful. Acknowledging that his life had come to an end, Antilles hoped before expiring that Leia would find a way to escape and deliver the plans to the rebellion so they could destroy the Death Star. The Dark Lord then broke his neck and tossed Antilles' lifeless body to the side after the unsuccessful interrogation. The Imperials then released the captain's corpse into the void of space along with those of his crew.The Odyssey of Star Wars: An Epic Poem
==Personality and traits==
A loyal servant to the royal family of Alderaan, Raymus Antilles was a level-headed captain entrusted by Bail Organa's command staff. Antilles' main priority was the safety of Bail Organa and his family, willing to break with a security team into Bail's quarters to protect him if he felt that there was any danger. Antilles was very dutiful to Organa, as demonstrated when the Viceroy entrusted him with wiping out the memory of C-3PO.
In the years leading up to the Galactic Civil War, Antilles continued to serve the Organas by being entrusted the safety of Princess Leia Organa. When it became clear that the Empire would soon find them, Antilles was more concerned about the princess' safety than his own, having warned her previously of the dangers of the mission and asking her to leave the Tantive IV with an escape pod. As captain, Antilles was willing to go down with his ship if necessary. A brave man, Antilles remained loyal to the princess and the rebellion to the end, refusing to reveal her identity to Darth Vader and even lying to the fearsome Sith Lord, who strangled him to death.
Antilles loved and cared for his family. Shortly before his death, Antilles tried to write three letters for his beloved wife and their two young daughters, whom he had barely seen, with two of them destined for his daughters to see once they grew up to tell them that while they would grow up without him to their side, it wasn't because for the lack of his love for them, but because he loved them so much that he was determined to give everything to ensure they could live the life they deserved. By this point, Antilles realized that the most bitter irony of war was that his greatest acts of love for his family were the very ones that kept him apart from them.
Raymus Antilles was a human male who stood 1.88 meters and had light skin, brown eyes and brown hair.
==Behind the scenes==
Raymus Antilles was portrayed by Peter GeddisThe Making of Star Wars: The Definitive Story Behind the Original Film in the 1977 film Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope, the first installment of the Star Wars original trilogy. Rohan Nichol later portrayed Antilles in the 2005 film Star Wars: Episode III Revenge of the Sith, the last installment of the Star Wars prequel trilogy. Tim Beckmann portrayed him in the 2016 Star Wars Anthology film Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.
Denis Lawson, who played Wedge Antilles in the original trilogy, was asked by director George Lucas to assume Raymus Antilles' role for Revenge of the Sith, but Lawson declined out of a lack of interest to rejoin the Star Wars franchise even though accepting the offer would have allowed him to star alongside his nephew Ewan McGregor, who starred in the prequel trilogy as Obi-Wan Kenobi.
After being cast as Antilles for Revenge of the Sith, Rohan Nichol suffered an accidental shaving incident that left a noticeable nick on his chin that wouldn't stop bleeding in time for the film's production. Nichol apologized to Lucas for the blemish, to which he jokingly responded that Antilles "must have gotten [the cut) in the Clone Wars."
==Appearances==
===Non-canon appearances===
*LEGO Star Wars: A New Hope DK Reader
*Phineas and Ferb: Star Wars
*LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga
==Sources==
==Notes and references==
Category:Alderaanians
Category:Alliance Fleet captains
Category:Galactic Republic individuals
Category:House Organa military personnel
Category:Humans
Category:Individuals with he/him pronouns
Category:Males
Category:Members of Bail Organa's resistance movement
Category:Pilots