Grant Wilson

-Terran Alliance

* Anti-Sith Assault Team

Colonel Grant Wilson, a human male, is a former Delta Force commando and current member of the Anti-Sith Assault Team. Born and raised in California, Wilson commissioned into the Army after graduating from college and joined the United States Army Special Forces, the "Green Berets", before joining the Delta Force in 1988. He was chosen for the Anti-Sith Assault Team in 1991, and took part in Operation Thunderstrike and several operations in the Clone Wars.

## Biography

### Early Life

Grant Wilson was born on February 22, 1963, in Sacramento, California. An only child, Wilson was active in sports throughout his childhood and teenage years. In 1981, he was accepted at West Point, where he played football. He graduated and commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in 1985. He applied to join the Green Berets in early 1986, and completed his training in 1987. In late 1988, he was selected to join the Delta Force, and completed his training in mid 1989. He served in Operation Desert Storm.

### Anti-Sith Assault Team

#### Induction and Training

When the Republic arrived on Terra in 1991, one of the things they agreed to do for the Terrans was train a commando team in lightsaber combat to help serve as a protector against the Sith until a Terran Jedi Order could be trained. Wilson was one of the 12 commandos from across the world chosen as a member of the team.

Wilson and the rest of the team began training under Mace Windu and Anakin Skywalker in December, 1991. Wilson chose a green-bladed lightsaber, and advanced quickly under the tutelage of Windu and Skywalker.

#### Terran Campaign

Wilson's first taste of combat as an ASAT commando came on January 8, 1992. Wilson, as well as 1st Lieutenant Daniel Mofaz, were selected to accompany Skywalker to Baghdad to capture Saddam Hussein as part of Operation Thunderstrike. Wilson remained in the Middle East after the mission was complete, and did not take part in any of the battles of the Terran campaign.

Following the Terran campaign, Wilson remained on Terra. He remained on Terra for almost a year, not deploying to the Andromeda Galaxy until December, 1992, when he was deployed to lead a small team to attempt to track down Cad Bane, a task he worked on for three months.

#### Breaking the Zygerrians

In July, 1993, Wilson was deployed alongside Colonel Tyler Hall to lead a Delta Force team to rescue Obi Wan Kenobi, Anakin Skywalker, Ahsoka Tano, Captain Rex, and a colony of Togrutas that had been captured and enslaved by the notorious Zygerrians. Wilson and Hall led 20 of their 32 men to Zygerria itself.

After landing on the planet, Wilson lead a fireteam of 4 Deltas into the city to clear some of the Zygerrian patrols to give Hall and the other fireteams an opening to reach the palace. Wilson's fireteam took out several Zygerrian patrols before making their way to the palace, where they worked with another fireteam to take out the palace guards.

After Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano had been rescued, and Skywalker had saved the Zygerrian queen from Count Dooku, Wilson and Hall left Zygerria with their team, while ordering the remaining 12 men of their strike team, waiting on a ship in another system, to proceed to the world of Kadavo to free Kenobi, Rex, and the Togrutas.

Wilson and the rest of the team arrived on Kadavo right as the other 12 Deltas freed Kenobi and Rex. The two groups worked together to clear the facility, and successfully freed the Togruta colonists with no casualties. Wilson went with the Jedi to return the Togrutas to their home on the planet Kiros, then left for Zygerria with Hall and the Deltas to help the Terran Alliance in the final stages of the Battle of Zygerria.

#### Battle of Onderon

Less than a month after the Battle of Zygerria, the Onderonian Civil War came to a head. Unable to stay out of the conflict any longer, the Terran Alliance decided to intervene. A force of 10,000 men from the 101st Airborne Division were deployed to invade Onderon and restore the true king of Onderon. Wilson was assigned to lead the force, along with his teammate, Colonel Daniel Mofaz.

Upon arrival at Onderon on August 25, the American troops were landed 20 miles from the capital city. Wilson and Mofaz led the troops to the capital and took it with little trouble, given the Separatists had begun to pull out.

Following the capture of the capital city, and the re-instatement of the true king of Onderon, Wilson worked alongside Vice Admiral Aleksander Vilikov to coordinate the Terran occupation of Onderon while Mofaz left the planet. Wilson remained on Onderon for the duration of the occupation, which lasted for a little over a month. Wilson finally left Onderon on October 1.

#### Jedi Temple bombing

After leaving Onderon, Wilson originally was to travel to Kashyyk briefly. However, when Ahsoka Tano was blamed for the bombing of the Jedi Temple, the ASAT Team commander, Captain Samuel Adams, ordered Wilson to Coruscant as fast as possible.

Wilson arrived on Coruscant late on October 4. By this point Ahsoka had already been captured and handed over to the Republic for trial.

When Adams and Anakin Skywalker discovered that Barriss Offee might be behind the bombing, Wilson, along with Colonel Mofaz and Colonel White, worked with Adams and Skywalker to bring her in. When Barriss attempted to escape, Wilson and his three ASAT comrades trapped her between them. In an attempt to flee, Barriss attacked Wilson, who held her off with White's help until Adams was able to tase her.

After they captured Barriss, the team took her to the court where Ahsoka was on trial to force her to testify. After she confessed her guilt, Wilson helped escort Barriss to the Republic's military prison.

After ensuring she was locked up, Adams and Wilson made their way to the Jedi Temple, where they discovered that Ahsoka Tano had decided against returning to the Jedi Order. Wilson and Adams together convinced her to come with them to Terra, and once she gave in, went with her back to Terra.

#### Black Hawk Down

On February 22, 1994, Wilson was stationed on Coruscant when a UH-60 Black Hawk carrying his teammate Colonel Cheng Han and a number of other men was shot down on Skako Minor. After persuasion from Senator Padme Amidala and Senator Bail Organa, the Senate voted to send a rescue team.

Captain Adams elected to join the rescue, and called in four other ASAT commandos to join him on the rescue, with Wilson being one of them.

Upon arriving at Skako Minor, Wilson and the other ASAT commandos made their way down to the planet on a gunship, and located the area where Han's team was pinned down by battle droids. Wilson and the other ASAT commandos jumped down from the gunship and, along with Han, destroyed the remaining battle droids and two AAT droid tanks. Wilson then helped get Han's team off the planet.

After the rescue task force retreated from Skako Minor, Wilson returned to Coruscant. Only two weeks later, Wilson returned to Terra for a period of duty on the planet.

Wilson remained on the planet for the rest of the war. When Order 66 was issued, he prepared to deploy back to the Andromeda Galaxy, but the Alliance retreated back to Terra before he could be. Wilson helped clone units that had left the Empire and sworn allegiance to the Alliance as they transitioned to life on Earth. A month after the retreat to Terra, Wilson, along with the rest of the ASAT team, met at the Terran Jedi Temple construction site for the first meeting of the entire team since December 1991, where the team swore an oath to see the Empire and Sith destroyed.

## Appearances

* *Rise of the Terran Alliance (first appearance)*