Philip Piper Tucker

**Philip Piper Tucker**, designated **TP-616**, was a human male Imperial pilot who served the Galactic Empire and it's subsequent Remnant until the destruction of the Eliminator. He was recognized for his spectacular flight skills, impressing even the likes of his supervisors at a young age.

Unknowing of the hidden Vann Mandate continuing the Empire in secret, 616 ran away and hid from the New Republic after the supposed end of Sith Remnant, although his unnaturally gained Force abilities attracted him to the attention of many Jedi. Realizing the revealed threat of Vann using the remains of the Imperials to corrupt the New Republic and build himself a self-serving government, 616 made the choice to join the Jedi Alliance and fight against the corruption. After the apparent victory, Philip picked an easier life, settling back on his homeworld of Naboo, until he would hear of a new threat that the Sith returned, where he would don his uniform again, although repainted to blue, and join the United Federation of Planets, eventually being promoted to leader of Blue Squadron.

## **Biography**

### **Early Life**

Born in Naboo, Tucker was always interested in vehicles and particularly flight. As his father was a mechanic, he got quite some time to spend with starships, learning important designs and features earlier than most. At age 6, Philip began to learn how to fly in his father's old N-1 starfighter, which his father kept as part of an antique collection.

Wanting their son to get good education, his father and mother agreed to applying him to the Imperial Academy, where he would be taken under their care.

### **Imperial Remnant**

As the realization of defeat kicked in, all Imperials already had contingency orders which included taking the students of their academies with them to continue training in secret, eventually becoming fighters of the Imperial Remnant. Philip's Academy was successfully taken and moved to Orinda before the New Republic completely liberated the planet.

Tucker's education continued, however, him and other cadets were not made aware of the changing political landscape nor were let outside of the planet. Eventually at the age of 13, Tucker's infantry training began, referred to as "Cadet 616". Modertely successful, Philip managed to pass and tried to push for piloting service. He was taken to flight training, with the designation TP-616, and proved extremely successful which impressed his supervisors. Confident in his abilities, officers deployed him into serving by legal age.

This was first exposure into the outside galaxy for both Philip and many other former cadets. Learning of the now bigger Republic threat was hard to take in for Philip, as he was excited to fly yet wasn't sure on taking on a larger threat. His days were usually spent under security flight around the orbits of planets he was stationed in.

### **Neo-Sith War**

As the hidden Sith leaders merged and took over the Imperial Remnant, change came to the standard units. With the rising Shadowtrooper and other more valuable units to their leaders, units such as 616 himself were placed in less confidential positions.

616 started to grow suspicious of the changes that the Sith had brought to the Empire and their actions and his colleagues seemed to share similar thoughts on whether this Sith merge was good for them after all.

#### **Meeting Kenta**

In one rather busy day, 616 and other pilots were positioned as temporary guards to their secret base on Taris. That day, they were brought a young Jedi prisoner, Cora Kenta, who seemed rather scared. Left alone in the prison, 616 tried to chat with the prisoner and try to understand what this whole war was about. Kenta talked about the Remnant rebelling and attacking New Republic unfairly to which 616 countered with the Rebel Alliance doing the same, as he had learned from his time in the Imperial academy. As 616 tried to raise points, Kenta's fear turned to anger and she tried to lash out to 616 in rage only to be stopped by the cell.

Admiral Tunner came along with a fellow trooper. Tunner went into the cell and started to torture Kenta for information on the Jedi, which she would not give. As the torture went on 616 and the fellow trooper shared thoughts, that this torture method seemed extreme. Kenta, in a sudden rage, attacked Tunner and fled. 616 and the fellow trooper did nothing but just let Kenta escape. The following days, TP-616 started to question whether this was worth it all, as the Remnant started to seem sketchy yet he wasn't so fond of the Republic from what he was thought either and yet, he continued serving as it didn't seem like there were much choices for him.

#### **Last Day of War**

In the remaining days, most remaining Remnant units, including TP-616, were transfered aboard the Eliminator. 616 and other pilots were under usual orders to take turns scouting nearby systems with TIE squads.

In the very final day, the Eliminator was attacked and crashing and after taking many hits, TP-616 and other units resorted to escape. While trying to find a pod, 616 encountered upon some kind of statue and took its crystal, which shocked him. Before trying to comprehend what just happened, he took the crystal into his pocket and fled. He got onto a TIE Interceptor in time and flew off at the last second as the Eliminator exploded completely.

Tucker stood still for hours in his TIE Interand when he noticed the incoming New Republic forces, he took flight to Yavin IV, however, he was running low on fuel. He waited, letting the gravity pull the Interceptor, before using the last resources of fuel to avoid a full on crash. He crash landed in what looked to be a forest and was exhausted, passing out.

### **Post-Empire**

He woke up the day after the destruction of the Eliminator. He felt strange, like he gained a sixth sense, which was alerting him to two incoming Jedi, Kappa Kavv and Threll Kast, patrolling the area. He was unsure of what exactly gave him this but he had to adapt and make use of it quickly. He waited patiently inside the crashed Interceptor as the two Jedi checked around, waiting for his time to sneak out. Although it seemed like the Jedi could perhaps sense him, he eventually got his time and got out of the Interceptor and ran from the forest. He eventually got out of it, encountering a waterfall with the Jedi Praxeum behind it and was just then found by the former two Jedi. The two seemed to be friendly at first which was a surprise to 616. Kavv offered medical treatment inside the Academy to his crash wounds. Kast told him that the Empire was truly gone now and that he was free. 616 thought it was a trick and ran off. Kast chased after him trying to stop him but 616 tripped and fell off waterfall, landing inside the river. 616 made his way out, unseen by the Jedi, and hid.

#### **Discovering Powers**

TP-616 spent his next years in hiding from the Jedi and trying to understand his gained powers. It seemed he somewhat had a connection to the Force but barely any control over it. He could use it unintentionally depending on his emotions.

After barely escaping many Jedi for a year in Yavin IV, he had enough and snuck past the Jedi to snatch an X-wing and flew out of Yavin IV. Fleeing to the Outer Rim worlds where the Republic didn't hold as much control, he tried to live a normal life while hiding his former Imperial affiliation from the New Republic.

#### **Caught by the New Republic**

2 years later, Tucker heard about the rumors circulating in the Outer Rim about former Imperials possibly being involved with the New Republic and Jedi being hunted and captured. Putting on his old uniform, he took flight into the core worlds with his X-wing to investigate.

Encountering a squadron of more X-Wings, he was able to disguise himself as a part of them and fly into a New Republic cruiser. While he tried to stay hidden, waiting for his time, he was eventually caught and put in a prisoner cell. He waited for hours and then sensed something and only seconds later, a ship had shot at core points of the cruiser and landed on it. The infiltrator was a female twi'lek named Vudana Mraay, who carried two lightsabers and seemed skilled in the Force, killing every guard she encountered, she came to cell controls and released everyone. She seemed to be here for another prisoner, Ralter Yalara, yet Tucker took his chance and tried to run away. Encountering a Commander, he knocked him out and took his blaster pistol and security card then ran suddenly with Force Speed, making his way to the hangar. Vudana, seeing this, found TP-616 and requested the ID card. Not trusting Jedi much, Tucker refused and tried to take an X-wing but was stopped by Vudana, who tried to take the card but realized that she couldn't, she was being stopped by what she felt was the Force, which confused her. Vudana continued to try and take the card, beating 616 and torturing him and eventually she Force choked him, making him pass out. Vudana took the security card and using it, set the cruiser on course to Yavin IV. Her and Ralter left to the planet on Vudana's ship, as Philip was left beaten.

A New Republic squadron came to the aid of the cruiser and found the TIE pilot beaten in the hangar. He was taken to medical treatment on Coruscant, along with the holo-recording of his torture. He would be given treatment on Coruscant, as the recording of his assault by Vudana would be used in the testimony of Jedi in the senate, justifying the deployment of the Jedi Supervise Protocol.

#### **Joining Curt Maverick**

After waking up from his treatment, TP-616 was set free but he didn't have anywhere to go to. He was found by Curt Maverick, a Mandalorian bounty hunter, who noticed that 616 was the same pilot as in that recording who got beat up. Feeling for him, he told him that they were on the hunt for other Jedi and offered him to join him as the pilot of his ship. Realizing he didn't seem to have much other choices, Tucker took the offer.

TP-616 would remain as the Captain Maverick's crew pilot for the remainder of the year. He was involved in dropping them off to the Rogue Jedi temple for the capturing of Jedi but also rescuing them from Coruscant when Brruz Vann revealed himself as the mastermind behind the recent events.

### **Shadow War**

Tucker was forced to cooperate with the new "Jedi" members of Maverick's crew while he was away being healed, as he piloted them to everywhere they required to go.

The crew decided that they needed Ralter and asked to be taken to Manaan. They landed and it didn't take long before they found Ralter but then they were also attacked by an IG unit, numbered 116. As they fought it, IG-116 went to attack 616 and was countered by a blast of lightning, which revealed to the others that TP-616 could use the Force. After fleeing from the IG unit back to their ship with Ralter, they flew to Yavin IV and picked up Kappa Kavv. Soon, TP-616 was questioned about his Force abilities and he explained that he gained what seemed to be strange powers to him after he found a crystal on the Super Star Destroyer. Walian Drayce explained to him about the force crystals and Kappa commented about how 616 felt like a "hole in the Force", able to use it but barely effected by it's presence.

#### **Choosing a Side**

While flying, the crew's ship was encountered by a Star Destroyer. TP-616 thought that this could be his chance to join back with the Empire, so proposed a plan to the others to take them in as prisoners as he supposedly acted as one of the Imperials and found a way for them to escape. Not seeing much other choices, Walian acted like a Sith Lord as others were taken as supposed prisoners. When they were pulled by the Star Destroyer, they went with the plan. 616 planned to stay on the Star Destroyer, becoming a part of this new Empire, until he saw how the others were dealt with by the approaching Dark Side adepts. 616 realized that he didn't want to be part of a cruel regime and chose to go along with the plan anyways. He released the ship and helped the crew out, flying out of the Star Destroyer and jumping to lightspeed.

Tucker stuck with the crew until the war was over, usually piloting the Redeemed Fighter for the crew and being involved in dog-fights, engaging and helping take down enemy fighters and cruisers. Eventually, the war would end with the death of Bruzz Vann in his superweapon, the Nihil.

### **Post-war**

Tucker attended Curt Maverick's funeral as the Outcasts crew disbanded. Following the war, Tucker picked a more civilized life, settling in Naboo. He worked at a starship vendor, getting to still fly-test and work on ships when he could.

### **Joining The Federation**

Tucker found out about the newly formed United Federation and applied to join it, wanting to be a proper pilot again and serve a cause for a better galaxy. With his experience and skillset, he was taken in and promoted in short time, becoming the leader of Blue Squadron. He had formed good relations with Admiral Archer, usually piloting under his lead.