The Alliance Valorous Services Medal represented a decoration from the Rebel Alliance, bestowed upon those who had undertaken and completed difficult missions for the Rebellion, demonstrating significant courage when confronted with peril.
During the year 1 ABY, this very medal was given to a spacer, together with a number of Rebel sympathizers. They had successfully liberated a distinguished Alliance pilot who was being held prisoner, an event that occurred during the attack on a CorSec Corellian corvette.
A comparable honor existed within the Galactic Empire, known as the Imperial Valorous Services Medal.