Airen Cracken

General (Rebel Alliance)
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**Airen Cracken** was a Human who served as a resistance fighter from the planet Contruum who became a General and Intelligence Chief in the Rebel Alliance during the Galactic Civil War. Even before the Rebel Alliance was established, Airen was an skillful freedom fighter. It was he who led the planetary militia that liberated his planet from the oppression of the Galactic Empire, which led him to be fast-tracked to a General's commission within the Alliance Military. He would go on to lead the division Alliance Intelligence along with General Davits Draven. He flew as a gunner on the *Millennium Falcon*during the Battle of Endor.

## Biography

### Freedom Fighter

Born and raised on the planet Contruum, **Airen Cracken** grew up on his parents' farm and developed an early proficiency with machinery and modifications. He put these skills to use performing repairs on nearby farmers' equipment, and eventually Cracken opened a mechanic's shop. He married a Corellian woman, and had two children. When the Galactic Empire took control of Contruum, Cracken organized his fellow mechanics into a group of guerrilla resistance fighters waging war on the infrastructure of the Imperial occupation. Supply depots, mining operations, star docks, and landing bays were all targets of Cracken's Crew. According to the account in his official Alliance biography, their sabotage distracted and frustrated the Imperial commander while a planetary militia was raised, and they subsequently fought alongside the militia in a years-long war which caused so much damage to the Imperial garrison that it forced the sector's Moff to cede control of the planet to its people.

### Alliance Intelligence

The Alliance source goes on to claim that Cracken grew preoccupied with the thought that other worlds were still laboring under Imperial domination, and left Contruum with the aim of joining the rebellion. However, it seems that Cracken and his crew initially operated independently of the Alliance, traveling from planet to planet aboard a freighter, targeting Imperial facilities. Eventually, the crew caught the attention of the rebels, and Cracken found himself as an officer of Alliance Intelligence. He was a General before the Battle of Yavin, and soon was appointed Alliance Chief for Intelligence. Much of Cracken's work involved overseeing the galaxywide network of agents through which Intell worked to undermine the New Order including spies, scouts, infiltrators, and sympathetic Imperial officers throughout the Outer Rim. Cracken was directly involved at every stage, from recruitment onwards, profiling a number of his most valuable assets, and using his imagination to spawn several innovative operations. His knowledge of useful field modifications and equipment were codified, and his writings proved essential in the training of the Alliance Special Forces.

Rebel Intelligence was represented on the rebel council by one of his trusted field operatives, General Davits Draven. Despite his absence, he still compiled a dossier regarding Operation Fracture at Mon Mothma's request. Sometime after the Battle of Yavin, while serving in his capacity of Head of Security and Intelligence and confronted with the responsibility of rescuing three rebel spies in danger of capture by the Empire, Cracken showed reluctance in recruiting smuggler Han Solo for the mission. However, he was convinced by Princess Leia Organa, citing the fact that they were running out of options and out of time. During the Battle of Endor, General Cracken served aboard the *Millennium Falcon* with at least one other pilot, Lieutenant Blount. The two were initially in the ship's cockpit with its pilot, General Lando Calrissian, co-pilot Nien Nunb, and a navigator. Eventually, Cracken served as the ship's gunner, manning the quad turret during the battle.

### New Republic Intelligence

When the Alliance became the New Republic, Cracken became a vital part of New Republic Intelligence, keeping a watchful eye on former Imperial warlords. During the New Republic's campaign against the Empire for a year after the Battle of Endor, Cracken oversaw a collection of operatives which performed sabotage, spread disinformation, and where necessary conducted assassinations to exacerbate tensions between the feuding Moffs, Admirals, warlords and advisors that had erupted after Emperor Palpatine's death. Cracken still continued to lead the Intel apparatus in his own way, prepared to do what he felt was best for the New Republic, even if it meant bending the rules.