Quick Question: Who else survived the Battle of Yavin?

I need to go check the number of fighters leaving the Death Star at the end of ANH, but besides Han, Luke, and Wedge, I thought I read once that the one leftover Y-Wing was piloted by a...Keyan Farlander? (If it turns out there are more fighters left than that, please feel free to butt in and tell me who they are, if you happen to know.)

SW.com's databank doesn't seem to have Keyan, but I know I've seen him in EU, so would anyone be so kind as to fill me in on his backstory? Wasn't he blond and hailed from Agamar?

 

Thanks, Quest!

 

hmmm does that mean Keyan piloted at Hoth? And maybe even Endor? I would say he could be a very likely person to fill some of those empty pilot seats. I'm surprised he was never mentioned in any Rogue Squadron reference, if he was so good he would prolly have been in there, yes? Unless he had already been promoted to cruiser or capital ship status.

 

2 X-Wings, a Y-Wing, and the Millenium Falcon fly away from the DS at the end, but are we sure that one of those X-Wings was Wedge?

After he lost shields and was ordered away by Luke, it doesn't make a lot of sense for him to hang around in range of the TIEs just to rendezvous with the rest of the group, then race away from the DS.

 

Wedge and luke were the only rogues to survive Yavin. In []iRogue Squadron[/i], Wedge said, "Only two of us survives yavin."

 

Ah but in fact there were at least 12 pilots who ultimately walked away from the Yavin clash

For the Rebels ; we have Skywalker, Solo, Chewbacca, Antilles, Farlander, Rookiee One, Commander Ru Murleen and one Commander Farrell in an experimental A-wing type fighter IIRC

From the Imperial side ; Darth Vader, Veers, General Tagge and the unfortunate TIE pilot who was stuck on Yavin IV for several decades.

 

That unfortunate pilot Quorrl. I never could pronounce his name...

 

Veers was not at the battle of yavin. Also General Tagge died on the Death Star: It was a younger brother of his who showed up later in Marvel comics.

 

True...

 

I would hate to sound like an EU basher, but I don't think Rebel Assualt is cannon-as it has Rookie one destroy the Death Star. That would interfere with the movie quite a bit. WHile the TIE phantom receives offcial recoginition, the stories of the 2 rebel assualt games have never been placed in the timeline, nor has anything or anyone else from those games has reapeared. (Oh, why did they have to kill Rece! She was so cool!)

Course, that's part of the reasons I liked those games so much. They are set in a Star Wars conflict, yet are (almost) totally detached from the movies, and don't try to squeese themselves in. I wish we more semi-infinities games like that.

 

Not accurate -- the early levels of Rebel Assault I are largely considered canonical, except for the final Yavin Death Star attack. It's now believed to have been a training-sim experienced by Rookie One, although he DID likely participate in the raid, simply not firing the final kill-shot. Likewise, the AT-ST Mos Eisley action on Tatooine ties into the events of Force Commander to some extent.

Rebel Assault II -- entirely canonical, an original story conceived by Vince Lee, tying into the Clone Wars. Nothing truly off-key about it (although the cloak-capable SSD Terror was an interesting mid-'90s fillip).

 

Batchie-boy, wasn't it? Dan W. pulled many a loose rug-thread together on that one, connecting the Imdaar project to Thrawn's SD cloaks (and thus to the 19 ABY Bothawui cloak-incident).

Earns his wupiupi, Dan does.

 

Veers was not at the battle of yavin.

In Galactic Battlegrounds, Vader rescues Veers during the Rebel evacuation of Yavin, who had been a prisoner there for the 6 months following the initial Battle of Yavin (he had, apparently, fled the Death Star before it exploded).

 

Sorry about Tagge, sometimes the sheer number of family members he has confuses me. I thought at one point it was discovered that he had fled the Death Star, hence earning Vader's irritation and he proceeded to freeze the other Tagge family members in punishment. But it has been a while since i read that.

Didn't Veers crash/land on Yavin and hide out in the jungle for the 6 months or so and was recovered in the wake of the Imperial takeover of the base ? I was pretty sure that was in Force Commander

EDIT : You're quicker and more accurate than me, Mavrick. I take my hat off to you

 

No that was another planet that was rebelling against the Empire. It was were Veers was working on a prototype at-at iirc it started with a z. But I am sure it was not yavin.

 

There is indeed a mission involving the recovery of Colonel Veers from a crashed shuttle on Yavin. I remember it because I think it is the first time in the campaign you can requisition heavy artillery.

 

Ah I found the planet where Vader goes to free Veers is Zaloris. He was after Dodonna when he was on Yavin IV.

 

I would recommend playing through the level again. Despite being after Dodonna, he does indeed rescue Veers while there as well. Veers, of course, does pop up again later on Zaloris.

 

No it is you who is mistaken as everytime i have played that level I never once meet Veers before Zaloris.

 

Never mind, you're absolutely right. It's in Force Commander where Veers gets rescued from Yavin IV.

 

here we go:
[image=http://www.theforce.net/swtc/Pix/cg/fc/COLVeers.jpg]

http://www.theforce.net/swtc/bast.html

see Force Commander, Mission 8: The Trap at Yavin IV.

http://guidesarchive.ign.com/guides/3732/yavin.html

 

Well that means I was wrong about veers at yavin I never heard of Force Commander though so that is my excuse.

 

[insert Jabba laugh] ho ho ho.....

I just punted with Force Commander, i didn't have a clue which one it was but since i'm right, you can all bow before me