Ched Varga was a male starfighter pilot who joined the Rebel Alliance at some point during the Galactic Civil War and became noted as a Y-wing pilot. Rebel pilots at that time frequently tested their skills in the unofficial "pilot proving grounds," competing to set the best time on a series of courses through a Rebel salvage yard hidden in an asteroid field. At some point prior to 3.5 ABY, Varga was killed in a crash while flying a course that saw pilots negotiate a figure-eight comprising a series of rings and tunnels that intersected above a frozen nitrogen lake in a cavern at the center of a large asteroid.
The wreckage of Varga's Y-wing was still in the cavern when pilot Ace Azzameen undertook the same challenge in 3 ABY. Azzameen's MK-series maintenance droid, MK-09, cited Varga's death as an example of the dangers of the pilot proving grounds.
Ched Varga was created for the 1999 LucasArts video game Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance. The wreckage of a crashed Y-wing can be seen in the pilot proving grounds scenario "Crazy Eight." The pilot of the fighter is not named in the description of the training scenario shown in the game, but was identified as Ched Varga in Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance: Prima's Official Strategy Guide. The game's mission file for the scenario also contains a more detailed description that includes Varga's name and death while attempting the course.
Ched Varga's wrecked Y-wing
Ched Varga was created for the 1999 LucasArts video game Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance. The wreckage of a crashed Y-wing can be seen in the pilot proving grounds scenario "Crazy Eight." The pilot of the fighter is not named in the description of the training scenario shown in the game, but was identified as Ched Varga in Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance: Prima's Official Strategy Guide. The game's mission file for the scenario also contains a more detailed description that includes Varga's name and death while attempting the course.