Tycho Celchu

Tycho Celchu was born on Alderaan but chose to attend the Imperial Naval Academy to become a starfighter pilot in service to the Empire. One of his main instructors was Captain Soontir Fel and his classmates included Biggs Darklighter and Derek 'Hobbie' Klivian with whom he became friends. Fel was a good instructor and Tycho was one of the class' best pilots though he was never able to shoot down Fel in any of their simulations. Fel insisted that they owed their loyalty to the Empire now not their various homeworlds, specially after Tycho hit a fellow cadet because he insulted Alderaan and their choice to be pacifists.

After graduation Biggs and Hobbie immediately joined the Rebel Alliance which tainted Fel's accomplishment and he was reassigned, Tycho became a TIE pilot on the Star Destroyer Accuser. It was here that Tycho spent his 21st birthday communicating with his family back home on Alderaan when suddenly the communication cut out. He believed it was merely interference and planned on giving his father a hard time about it next time they spoke but soon he found out that Alderaan had been destroyed, supposedly by the Rebels but he knew it must have been the Empire.

That was the turning point for Tycho who decided to join the Rebellion and on his next leave he just never returned to the Accuser. With some of his former classmates now members of Rogue Squadron he found his way to the Rogues and proved his allegiance to them. While the rebels were working out of Echo Base on Hoth Tycho was promoted to Captain and flew with them at the battle of Hoth. When Luke Skywalker left Rogue Squadron Wedge Antilles became the Squadron Commander and Tycho became the Executive Officer.

Because Tycho's X-Wing was damaged before the Battle of Endor he volunteered to pilot an A-Wing and assist in the destruction of the Death Star alongside Wedge Antilles providing cover for Lando Calrissian in the Millenium Falcon. Flying as Wedge's wing he managed to draw away some of the TIE fighters pursuing them into the Death Star's superstructure allowing Calrissian and Antilles to destroy it.

Approximately a year after the Battle of Endor Tycho volunteered to fly an intelligence gathering mission into Coruscant but was captured before he could be extracted. He spent time in Ysanne Isard's Lusankya prison which she used to break down prisoners and create sleeper agents to strike back at the New Republic. She failed to break Tycho and he was moved to a less secure facility where he managed to escape remembering little of his time in Lusankya, but the damage had been done. Due to his time in Lusankya the New Republic feared that he could be a double agent but they couldn't ignore his service during the Galactic Civil War either. They allowed him to return to the service but put great restrictions on his personal liberties while Wedge Antilles was rebuilding Rogue Squadron.