Yendor

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**Yendor** was a Twi'lek male pilot who fought as a member of the Rebel Alliance its successor the New Republic as first and foremost far more comfy as a pilot of Corona Squadron rather than the role of a soldier. Firmly believing in the cause, he was willing to do whatever was required to help beat the Galactic Empire. He held the rank of private and would later serve in the New Republic as Ryloth's emissary to the Senate. Though he was reluctant to serve as an emissary, he acclimatized well into the role, defending Ryloth's rights with passion. Decades after the Galactic Civil War, Yendor had grown concerned with advancing his worlds independence and economic interests. When he informed the New Republic of a crimewave that had been threatening Ryloth, Leia Organa of Alderaan and others then went to investigate and discovered the concerns that were presented by Emissary Yendor were indeed valid.

## Biography

### Service to the Rebellion

#### Battle of Hoth

After joining the Rebel Alliance, **Yendor** was posted to Echo Base on the frozen planet of Hoth. Five days after arriving at Echo Base, Yendor encountered the protocol droid C-3PO while re-calibrating the base's thermal units. In addition to his usual duties, Yendor cleaned out the tauntaun stalls at the base; a task which he found unpleasant and smelly. During the Battle of Hoth, he served the former TIE Fighter pilot and the Imperial defector Thane Kyrell as a gunner aboard their snowspeeder. Following Luke Skywalker's cue, the rebel pilots used their harpoon guns to topple several Imperial AT-AT walkers. Yendor and Thane were among the rebels that escaped the Imperial assault and fled off the ice planet.

#### Later Rebellion Ventures

As a member of the starfighter squadron designated Corona Squadron, Yendor had flown under the callsign of "Corona Two" piloting the T-65B X-Wing starfighter during various engagements with Imperial TIE Fighter squadrons. After Thane Kyrell had admitted that he met his lover Ciena Ree, an active Lieutenant Commander of the Galactic Empire's Navy, on their home planet of Jelucan, Yendor joined his comrades in expressing their dismay. When Yendor suggested that she would have killed them, Kyrell defended his actions and stressed that none of his wing mates were endangered. Yendor and his fellow pilots later flew in a dogfight in the Hudalla System, narrowly escaping an Imperial ambush. Yendor later fought in the Battle of Endor, a victory for the rebels that ended in the deaths of Emperor Palpatine and Darth Vader.

Yendor continued his service after the Rebel Alliance was newly transformed into the New Republic. After the Contessa had left Corona Squadron to stand for the presidency on her homeworld, Yendor had taken over the position of Corona Leader, defending the Mid Rim planet of Naboo from invading Imperial forces. After driving off a third Imperial attack on Naboo, Yendor invited his fellow comrades to visit the Gungan city of Otoh Gunga to try out a local dessert that took four hominids to eat and was reputed to induce its consumers into a sugar coma. However, Thane declined because he was still mourning for Ciena, whom he believed had perished during the Battle of Endor. During the long duration of the Galactic Civil War, Yendor spoke to Princess Leia Organa at least a dozen times and the two became acquaintances.

### Representing Ryloth

In the year following the Battle of Endor and the death of Emperor Palpatine, Yendor fought with Twi'lek rebels against Imperial Remnants on Ryloth. His group was one of the first to discover the Empire had abandoned their garrisons on the planet, and that Ryloth had regained its independence. Yendor was then elected as Ryloth's ambassador to the still forming New Republic. After the Republic relocated its capital to Nakadia, Yendor was spotted by the ex-Imperial loyalty officer Sinjir Rath Velus chatting with Senator Nim Tar. Following the end of the Galactic Civil War, Yendor continued to serve as Ryloth's emissary for the following twenty-four years. While Ryloth did not join the New Republic, the planet still traded with the Republic with Yendor acting as emissary of Twi'leks. About six years before the Hosnian Cataclysm, Ryloth's offworld trade and economy was threatened by the activities of Kajain'sa'Nikto crime lord Rinnrivin Di's cartel.

In response, Yendor was dispatched by his government to the Senate on Hosnian Prime to appeal to the Republic for help. During a Senate hearing, Yendor stressed that the New Republic had pledged to ensure that the organized crime would not become as powerful as during the Age of the Empire. While the Republic had promised financial regulations and comprehensive patrols of the shipping lanes, these regulations were only enforced sporadically and no patrols had been dispatched to Ryloth for twenty years. Yendor's report was greeted with apathy from several of the Senators, who questioned the accuracy of his information and insisted that the Republic Senate had no jurisdiction because this was an intrasystem matter. However, Senator Organa and her colleague Ransolm Casterfo agreed to investigate Rinnrivin's cartel on behalf of the Senate. Their mission took them to Bastatha where they found Rinnrivin maintained a base there.

As their investigation continued, Organa's pilots Joph Seastriker and Greer Sonnel discovered that Rinnrivin's cartel had links to a paramilitary group called Amaxine Warriors. Yendor later greeted Leia when she and her entourage including C-3PO visited Ryloth to search the planet's archives for information about Rinnrivin. Upon receiving Leia, the two former rebels chatted about their time at Echo Base and Corona Squadron. Yendor also greeted C-3PO, who he recognized from his Echo Base days. After meeting Joph and Greer, Yendor led his guests to the archives, which consisted of paper scrolls and documents. There, the New Republic officials discovered that Rinnrivin was a minor spice broker who had inexplicably become the leader of a major crime syndicate in the past seven to ten years. Later, Leia and Casterfo found a mysterious entity was using Rinnrivin's cartel and the Amaxine Warriors as proxies to destabilize the New Republic.