Jev Talianos

> "*Call me Princess one more time and I'll shove that wrench so far down your throat you'll be tasting metal for the rest of your life.*"
> ― **Jev Talianos** to Vid Paratool
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## **Overview**

**Jev Talianos** was a female fighter pilot from Virujansi who served as a member of Arrow Squadron during the Galactic Civil War. Born into wealth and luxury, she was the eldest daughter of the planet's Imperial Governor, Tel Talianos, an ardent support of Emperor Palpatine. Growing up ignorant of the struggle around her, Jev gradually began to understand the evils of the Empire and abandoned her family. Already a talented pilot with the planet's defense force, she enlisting in the Rebellion as a star fighter pilot alongside fellow defectors Garven Dreis and Anton Merrick. Like her fellow defectors, Talianos paid the ultimate sacrifice, given her life during the Battle of Myyribod. She flew one of Arrow Squadron's Y-Wing bombers and her call sign was Arrow Twelve.

## **Biography**

### **Life As An Imperial**

Jev grew up in the lap of luxury. She was born as the eldest daughter of Tel Talianos, the stern, stoic, business-like Imperial Governor of the world of Virujansi. As a child and adolescent, she was kept hidden ignorant of the policies enacted by her father on behalf of the Empire. She enjoyed the best of private tutors, education, travel, and accommodations, but constantly under armed guard for her own protection.

As a young adult, she managed to escape the Imperial compound for a number of days. While she was away, she was able to see and experience the brutal nature of the Empire's occupation. When confronted by Stormtroopers and not being able to produce her identity card - she had never needed one - she was brutally beaten until she was recognized by one of the soldiers.

Returned to the compound, her furious father executed the Stormtroopers responsible and locked Jev away, forbidding her from ever leaving the compound without a guard. Over time, she managed to learn more about the occupation from the servants in the compound. She also hid her sympathetic tendencies well, convincing her father that she was a loyal Imperial subject. She was even allowed to join the planetary defense forces and the Rarefied Air Cavalry, which served as part of the Imperial war machine. She developed into a comparable pilot, but always remembered the brutality in which she had been complicit. One day, with the help of her servants, she was able to escape the compound in a shipment of storage containers. These containers found their way onto a ship being piloted by Dreis. The pair defected together.

### **The Rebellion**

Originally, Jev sought to keep her identity a secret, enlisting under the pseudonym Janica Reed. However, it wasn't long before she was outed as the daughter of an Imperial Governor. For their part, the Empire was furious with her escape and her own father put a bounty on her head. There was discussion of sending her into hiding for her own safety.

High Command was desperate for pilots, however, and she was allowed to remain. Although she did not fight at the Battle of Scarif, she was reassigned to Arrow Squadron shortly before they were transferred to the Betseeda System. Pleased to be away from the main fleet, Talianos was eager to take the fight to Empire.

### **The Betseeda System**

While Commander Tolamael Benere was training his new unit and developing cohesion, he was intially keeping Jev away from the more intense training exercises, using the rationale that he was unsure of how she'd react in combat. Her experience fighting opponents while flying the Air Cavalry was limited. Talianos protested this view arguing that other pilots in the unit had even less flight hours than she did and Benere did not doubt there abilities.

Eventually, Talianos learned that Benere was under orders to keep her from especially dangerous assignments and that High Command did not want to risk the public relations nightmare of her death. Talianos countered that the entire campaign in the Betseedan System was high risk and that Benere was causing more harm than good by keeping her from training. This argument, as well as being persuaded by Idolon Jdre won the Commander over and Benere knowingly falsified the records transmitted back to High Command all the while allowing Jev to finally train with her squad mates, putting her in one of the durable Y-Wing bombers. She proved to a natural behind the controls of the heavy hitting ship.

Jev participated in the First Battle of Betseeda Prime providing air support for the attacking Betseedan Resistance Forces over the city of Tazion. She also managed to shoot down two attacking Imperial TIE fighters, earning her first kills with the Rebel Alliance.

Shortly after the engagement, a team of bounty hunters and assassins, sent by her father, arrived on Betseeda Prime to capture and/or kill Talianos. They had been tipped off by a traitor within the BRF that recognized Jev from a wanted poster. The assassins were able to capture Talianos and attempted to flee with their prize.

Udas and Danic Polis were able to locate the assassin's ship in Rook's Haven, a smuggler's outpost and dangerous town located on the small planet of Zallos I. After sneaking aboard the ship, they found Talianos. She had been brutally assaulted by her captors. After freeing her and killing a number of the assassins, the trio planted bombs on the ship, detonating it as they fled the planet. Jev was traumatized, both emotionally and physically, from the ordeal. She withdraw into her own head and several of her squadron mates noted a cold darkness developing in the young woman following the encounter. The encounter was not reported to High Command for fear of it leaking to the Imperials and inspiring more bounty hunters to attempt to claim her scalp.

Although physically recovered from her capture, she remained emotionally unsettled. Commander Benere considered pulling her from service, but, one again, was persuaded by his lieutenant, Idolon Jdre to allow her to remain. Jdre believed her best therapy would be punishing those who inflicted the pain.

Jev participated in the Battle of Faan Shaarada and helped to disable several of the turrets on the bow of the Star Destroyer Salient.

> "*Adjusting my vector for another attack run on those turrets.*"
> ― **Jev Talianos** during the Battle of Faan Shaarada
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After the battle, Jev participated in an unsanctioned mission along with her closest friend in the unit and demolitions expert Udas, and Lieutenant Jdre. The trio returned to Virujansi and infiltrated the Imperial compound with the intent to kill her father. There, they found her father, Governor Talianos, dying slowly of illness, unable to move, but still able to speak. Not expecting to find her once proud father in such a weakened state, she wavered. When the elder Talianos expressed no remorse for his actions and began to verbally berate his daughter as if she were nothing more than an insolent subordinate, Jev slit her own fathers throat. The trio escaped the compound and returned to the Betseeda System.

### **Death**

Despite Jev's demeanor remaining cold and isolated, she stayed on with the unit. Several members attempted to get her to open up but with little success. It was during this time that Commander Benere began sending out alternating patrols to various parts of the system. Jev's flight wing, commanded by Vid Paratool, caused serious damage to Imperial shipping lanes and facilities.

However, Paratool was deceived by a faked Imperial distress signal and led his wing directly into a trap. In the opening salvo of the ambush that would evolve into the Battle of Myyribod, Talianos was shot down and killed by attacking TIE fighters. Her loss was tragic and the battle would prove very costly for the squad.

When High Command was informed of her death, they considered stripping Benere of his command. However, given the pressing need for pilots and the successes thus far experienced in during the campaign, they permitted him to remain in command.

> "*She could have stayed out of this fight. By all rights, she could have avoided this entire conflict and lived her days out in luxury. But she didn't. She fought. She pushed back. She gave her life so that others could be free. For that, she'll always be a hero.*"
> ― Udas eulogizing **Jev Talianos**
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