Brentin Lore Wexley

Brentin Lore Wexley, a male, resided in Myrra, the capital city of the planet Akiva, during the Age of the Empire. He was Norra Wexley's husband and Temmin Wexley's father. He played the valachord, and Temmin shared his love for playing old miner songs. Brentin, a member of the Rebel Alliance, personally transmitted rebel communications across the Outer Rim Territories. He also had covert training from the rebels, including how to use a bacta patch gun.

Brentin's rebel activities led to his arrest by the Empire. Before the Empire took him, Brentin instructed his son to be kind to his mother. He then joined his wife in the living room, informing her that the Empire was after him, but not her. Subsequently, two stormtroopers and an Imperial officer entered and arrested Brentin, who did not resist. When Norra attempted to intervene, a stormtrooper struck her head with the butt of his blaster rifle. Enraged by the assault on his wife, Brentin hit one of the stormtroopers, only to be stunned. The Imperial officer then presented Norra with a datapad displaying the arrest warrant before leaving her to grieve. The stormtroopers then escorted Brentin to a bala-bala speeder. Temmin followed, pleading with the Imperials to spare his father. The officer then pointed his blaster at the boy, declaring his father a criminal. When Temmin protested that it was unjust, the officer threatened to shoot him. Norra then pulled her son back inside. Brentin was not seen again by his family until a year after the Battle of Endor.

Brentin Wexley's involvement with the Rebel Alliance resulted in his imprisonment at Ashmead's Lock, a heavily automated prison on Kashyyyk, the Wookiee homeworld, which had become a planet-wide labor camp. There, he was placed in stasis alongside numerous other rebel prisoners. Ashmead's Lock was originally a Predori ship, repurposed by Siniteen prison architect Golas Aram as a black site for the Empire's political prisoners. SOL-GDA, an automated computer system powered by the prisoners' life energies, managed the prison. When Temmin turned twelve [years](/article/standard_year] old, Norra entrusted him to her older sister Esmelle and her wife Shirene and departed Akiva to find Brentin. She subsequently joined the Rebel Alliance and became a starfighter pilot. Back on Akiva, Temmin became an independent junk dealer. Following the Battle of Endor, Norra returned to Akiva and reconciled with her son. Temmin and Norra then collaborated with Jas Emari, a bounty hunter, and Sinjir Rath Velus, a former Imperial loyalty officer, to rescue Wedge Antilles, a New Republic pilot, from Imperial custody and disrupt an Imperial emergency summit on Akiva. After the Rebellion on Akiva, Norra and Temmin decided to locate Brentin, utilizing data cubes stolen from Surat Nuat, a Sullustan crime lord. At some point, Gallius Rax, a Fleet Admiral and protege of Emperor Palpatine, forcibly implanted inorganic bio-chips into Brentin and the other Ashmead's Lock inmates, intending to use them as unwitting assassins against the New Republic leadership.

In 5 ABY, Brentin's wife Norra, his son Temmin, and their rebel team joined forces with Han Solo, a rebel smuggler, to infiltrate Ashmead's Lock. Han sought to rescue his Wookiee co-pilot Chewbacca, imprisoned there during a failed liberation mission on Kashyyyk. While the rebels forced Aram to provide information, he withheld the password to bypass SOL-GDA. SOL-GDA dispatched droids to "incorporate" the prisoners, but Han and Jas Emari severed the cable connecting the stasis cells to the system. After shutting down SOL-GDA, Norra's team and Solo freed Chewie and the other prisoners. Upon release, Brentin found his wife and son. Norra was so shocked that Temmin had to support her. After being freed, Brentin followed his teenage son Temmin to Jas Emari's ship Halo where Temmin proceeded to repair his damaged B1-series battle droid companion Mister Bones. Brentin and the other prisoners, excluding Chewbacca, later accompanied Norra and Temmin aboard Han Solo's ship the Millennium Falcon to Chandrila, the capital of the New Republic. During the journey, the haggard Brentin took the opportunity to re-bond with his son. When the newly-repaired Mister Bones recognized Brentin as Temmin's father, he urged the two to hug each other but to be careful not to hurt each other. Brentin recognized Bones as the old B1 battle droid that his son had been fixing. Temmin confirmed this was the case and told his father that he had rebuilt the droid using parts from the Millennium Falcon. He also praised Temmin and his wife Norra for becoming pilots and joining the Rebellion. Upon landing in Chandrila's Hanna City, they were greeted by several New Republic officials including Princess Leia Organa, Captain Wedge Antilles, Chancellor Mon Mothma, and Admiral Gial Ackbar. Unbeknownst to Brentin and his rescuers, their escape aided Fleet Admiral Rax's plans to attack the New Republic leadership. His undercover agent Windom Traducier, a New Republic Senate Guard, erected a transponder atop the Hanna City opera house to relay Rax's commands to the prisoners. Rax timed his attack to precede Grand Admiral Rae Sloane's upcoming peace talks with the New Republic. Chancellor Mothma organized a Liberation Day celebration, making the Ashmead's Lock prisoners the focal point, furthering Rax's scheme.

In the month following his liberation from Ashmead's Lock, Brentin found it difficult to rebuild his relationship with Norra and Temmin. Although he could still use tools and make jokes, he struggled to connect with his family. In the weeks after his liberation, Fleet Admiral Rax began transmitting faint signals into the heads of Brentin and other prisoners. This interfered with their thought patterns and made it hard to concentrate. Rax and his agent Traducier also used these signals to compel Brentin to go on frequent walks throughout the day. Brentin began to arouse Temmin's suspicion when he insisted on walking alone. Temmin blamed Brentin's strange behavior on his mother Norra, who had also begun to be suspicious of Brentin's erratic behavior. As a result, Temmin began to quarrel with Norra and skipped his starfighter training lessons. While Norra was unable to pin down what was wrong with her husband, she confided in her friend Captain Wedge Antilles. She thought that her husband's strange behavior was caused by his imprisonment at Ashmead's Lock. On the evening before Liberation Day, Brentin and his son worked together on building a valachord that Temmin had bought. Due to Rax's signals, Brentin struggled to wield an arc-driver. Unable to concentrate, Brentin decided to go for a walk. Temmin decided to follow his father on that walk, winding through the residential district, the Old Hannatown Market, and eventually ending up at a pier at Hanna City's dock, where he met Windom Traducier. When Traducier saw Temmin, he ordered Brentin to deal with the intruder. Unable to kill his son, Brentin instead stunned him and locked him inside a crate. Later, Brentin returned home to spend time with his wife Norra. After apologizing for his lateness, Norra asked Brentin about his son's whereabouts. Brentin claimed not to have seen their son before dressing into a simple, formal white suit that had been provided by Chancellor Mothma's people. Brentin reassured his wife that Temmin would join them for the ceremony. He remarked that his son was much older now and missed seeing him grow up. He also complimented Norra for joining the Rebellion in his stead. Brentin then reaffirmed his love for his wife and asked if she was okay. After embracing and kissing his wife, the two headed towards the Old Gather-House and Senate Plaza for the Liberation Day celebrations.

Brentin and Norra gathered with the other Ashmead's Lock prisoners at the Senate Plaza, in front of the Old Gather-House. Chancellor Mothma and numerous New Republic military officers and senators greeted the former prisoners. Temmin and Mister Bones arrived and tried to warn Norra, but Senate Guards blocked them. Mothma delivered a speech praising the Ashmead's Lock prisoners for their contributions to the Rebellion. When Mothma commended Brentin for his role in transmitting rebel messages across the Outer Rim, he raised a concealed three-shot hold-out blaster and fired at the Chancellor. Before Brentin could release all his ammunition, Norra yanked his hand upward. Brentin was horrified by his actions and began crying and apologizing. Reacting instinctively, Norra kneed him in the stomach. Brentin then hit her with the pistol. The other prisoners including Jonda Jae-Talwar and Esdo also began attacking New Republic officials and officers. Norra tried to pursue her husband but Brentin fled to the far right of the plaza. Brentin then ran into his son Temmin, who remarked that his mom was right that he was not himself. Brentin tried to protest but found himself raising his pistol at his own son. When Temmin accused him of killing people, Brentin protested his innocence. Temmin then accused his father of being an Imperial agent. Despite Brentin's protests, Temmin challenged his dad to shoot him. Brentin then pointed the pistol at his own head. Temmin tried to save his father and tackled him to the ground. Brentin managed to break free of his son and punched him in the stomach before fleeing across the skybridge to a nearby docking platform.

Brentin boarded a HHG-42 Bulkstar that Grand Admiral Sloane had stolen. Sloane had disagreed with Rax's violent tactics on Chandrila, leading to a falling out. Once in hyperspace, Brentin confronted Sloane in the cockpit, assuming she was responsible for the attack. Sloane denied involvement, stating that Rax had set her up too. Enraged, Brentin fired at her but missed. Calming down, Brentin listened as Sloane explained that Gallius Rax was the mastermind. Brentin demanded she take him to Rax. Seeing Sloane was hurt, Brentin pointed out the medkit under her seat. After examining the blaster wound on her band, Brentin used a scatterblaster to paste bacta on her wound. Brentin had learned this skill from the Rebel Alliance. Sloane agreed to help Brentin but told him that finding Rax would not be straight forward. After Sloane received information from the bounty hunter Mercurial Swift that he had discovered that Rax had come from the planet Jakku, the two traveled to the desert planet, which was located in the Western Reaches. After landing, Brentin and Rax visited a bar owned by Corwin Ballast in an attempt to find information about Rax. Ballast yielded no information but Brentin and Rax soon got their answer when they witnessed Rax's Super Star Destroyer Ravager exiting hyperspace with a massive Imperial armada.

Brentin and Sloane, once adversaries, spent months seeking information about Gallius Rax, now self-proclaimed Counselor to the Empire who had brought the Imperial remnants to Jakku. During their travels, Brentin and Sloane encountered an old Anchorite named Kolob, who revealed that Gallius had once been an orphan who ran away and guarded a mysterious facility in the Valley of the Eremite near the Plaintive Hand plateau. Brentin questioned Kolob about the location of the facility and learned that it was far away. He and Sloane also learned that the Hutt crime lady Niima was guarding the only pass to the Plaintive Hand and kidnapping local orphans for Rax. In order to collect more information, Brentin helped Sloane to build a crude listening device which they use to eavesdrop on Imperial conversations. The two befriended a disillusioned stormtrooper named RK-242, who had been beaten up for questioning Rax's orders. From the trooper, Brentin and Sloane learned that Rax had brought the Imperial remnants to Jakku so that the planet's harsh conditions would build them into a tougher and more cruel force. While the trooper revealed that Rax had established a main base beyond the Goazon Badlands, he was unable to provide them with any information about the mysterious facility in the Valley of the Eremite. After the soldier had told Sloane all he knew, Sloane shot him in the head. When Brentin protested that they could have helped the broken man, Sloane responded that "there was no help for him." To reach the Plaintive Hand plateau, Brentin and Sloane sought an audience with Niima the Hutt. When Sloane identified herself, Niima was initially hostile since she had already struck a deal with Rax. Niima ordered her slaves to strip them, shear them, and break their minds. However, Sloane managed to convince Niima to break her agreement with Rax by claiming that the mysterious Plaintive Hand site held a weapon more powerful than the Death Stars. Niima accepted Sloane's counter-offer and announced they would be leaving at dawn.

Brentin and Sloane traveled with Niima's caravan to the Plaintive Hand for over a week. While traveling through a valley, Sloane expressed impatience at the slow pace of the journey. He tried to remain optimistic and joked that their fates were married to the Hutt's. When Sloane advocated stealing a wheel-bike, Brentin expressed his preference for staying on their current course. When Sloane remarked that she was motivated by a desire for vengeance against Rax, Brentin told her that his primary motive for embarking on this journey was to prove to his wife and son that he was no longer a puppet of Rax. When Sloane derided him for lacking vengeance, Brentin countered that she lacked a family and thus did not understand love. Unable to reconcile their differences, Sloane proceeded with her plan. She knocked out a guard and stole his blaster. However, a wheel-bike driver saw her and alerted Niima. Niima ordered her slaves to attack Sloane. Due to her Imperial combat training, Sloane managed to hold the attackers at bay. Unwilling to abandon his ally, Brentin entered the fray and tackled the slave behind her. Brentin fought the salves off with a machete and helped Sloane to his feet. Niima then charged at the two trouble-makers, intending to crush them with her massive serpentine body. However, the caravan soon came under attack from Imperial turbolasers. One of Counselor Rax's Sentinel droids had learned about Sloane's presence in the convoy. In order to prevent Sloane from reaching the Jakku Observatory, he had ordered the facility's turbolasers to bombard the convoy. Brentin and Sloane managed to escape the bombardment by fleeing into the eastern pillar of the Plaintive Hand plateau. For an hour, Brentin and Sloane hid behind the eastern pillar, seeking refuge from the turbolasers, Niima, and her slaves. During that time, Brentin asked Sloane what she thought Rax was hiding beyond the Valley of the Eremite. Sloane speculated that Rax was hiding a weapons facility. Brentin then recalled that he had once intercepted an Imperial transmission from Adumar or Wild Space about a laboratory or a hidden facility. Sloane then spotted a Corellian shuttle approaching and told Brentin they would hijack it. Unknown to Brentin and Sloane, the shuttle was carrying his wife Norra and the bounty hunter Jas Emari, who were out hunting for Sloane.

Before the shuttle could approach them, its crew were startled by the arrival of three Imperial Lambda-class shuttles. Brentin and Sloane were then taken prisoner by stormtroopers under the command of Counselor Gallius Rax himself. Brentin watched as Sloane confronted her former ally–turned enemy. An enraged Niima also demanded that Rax reveal what he was hiding in the Plaintive Hand and attacked his troops. Rax's troops managed to subdue Hutt, who was wounded by blaster bolts. After reminding Sloane of his new authority, Rax ordered that she be brought to watch his "show." Disregarding Brentin as an inconvenience, Rax ordered his men to shoot him. However, Sloane stepped in front of the rebel and insisted that he come with her. Sloane told Rax that Brentin was one of his former mind-controlled assassins and asserted that had a right to see what the Counselor had wrought. After learning that Brentin was a rebel, Rax decided he could use him too and ordered his men to bring them back to the main Imperial base. Rax transported Brentin and Sloane to his main base in a shuttle. Upon disembarking, the stormtroopers shoved him and Sloane down the ramp, causing him to lose his footing. One of the stortrmoopers who ushered him forward stopped to kick him in the side while his compatriots last. The two prisoners were led to a hangar where Rax had assembled his new contingent of child soldiers, who had been trained by the former Imperial Commandant Brendol Hux. In order to demonstrate his plan to tear down the "old Empire," Rax ordered his child soldiers to kill the stormtroopers. Both Brentin and Sloane were horrified by Rax's bloodlust and savagery. Brentin himself lost his balance and fell on top of the body of a slain stormtrooper. Brentin and Sloane were then bound hand and foot in magnacuffs and brought inside a tent on the roof of the Imperial command center. As representatives of the Rebellion and the Old Empire, Rax wanted his unwilling guests to watch his speech. Following Rax's speech, New Republic military forces entered the Jakku system and engaged Rax's Imperial remnant forces, beginning the Battle of Jakku. Rax, Brendol Hux, and the child soldiers then departed for the mysterious facility in the Valley of the Eremite.

Brentin, using his rebel training, freed himself from his restraints by utilizing the dust in Jakku's air. Wexley then freed Sloane, and they sought transport to pursue Rax. Before they could leave, Brentin and Sloane encountered Norra and Temmin's bodyguard B1 battle droid Mister Bones. Brentin managed to stop his wife from shooting Sloane dead, prompting an angry rebuke from Norra. Still believing Brentin to be hostile, Mister Bones grabbed Brentin's wrist and slammed him hard against the wall for hurting Temmin. Norra stopped the droid before he could hurt her husband further. Brentin told Norra that he was not with the Empire and asked if their son was alright. Sloane vouched for Brentin and said that the Liberation Day attack was not his doing. Norra wanted to bring Brentin and Sloane back to Chandrila but Sloane managed to convince her to help them hunt down Rax, who had fled to the Plaintive Hand plateau. Sloane reluctantly agreed to help them stop Rax but warned them that she would set Mister Bones to "break their bones" if they were deceiving her. Brentin served as co-pilot during Sloane and Norra's flight to the mysterious weapons facility in the Plaintive Hand plateau, which turned out to be the Jakku Observatory. While flying, the group witnessed the Imperial Super Star Destroyer Ravager crashing into Jakku's atmosphere. The downing of the Imperial command ship turned the tide of the battle in favor of the New Republic. Despite the dust storm created by the Ravager's collapse, Sloane managed to land Norra's Corellian shuttle safely at the Jakku Observatory. The Jakku Observatory turned out to be a secret research facility which the Emperor had used to plot safe routes into the Unknown Regions. The Observatory was also built over a deep borehole which led to Jakku's core. As part of the Contingency, the late Palpatine had ordered Rax to lure the Imperial and New Republic forces to Jakku and then detonate the planet; effectively destroying the two belligerents. Rax planned to lead a few "worthy" Imperials into the Unknown Regions to rebuild the Empire.

During a heated exchange, Sloane gestured towards an illustration depicting a mining shaft penetrating through layers composed of mantle and schist. Possessing a deep understanding of geological formations, Brentin identified that the shaft was being utilized to trigger a seismic explosion originating from the planet's core. He observed that the facility was equipped with retractable vents designed to seal the shaft, but they were currently in a locked state. Brentin successfully persuaded Norra to grant Sloane permission to confront Rax directly. Prompted by Norra, Brentin consented to attempt to re-seal the shaft, motivated by the desire to safeguard both his son and the nascent New Republic. Furthermore, Brentin aimed to demonstrate his unwavering commitment to the New Republic, an entity he had previously fought to establish. As Brentin labored to seal the borehole, he engaged in a dispute with Norra regarding her decision to deny Sloane a weapon for her confrontation with Rax. In response to Norra's skepticism, Brentin endeavored to reassure her that he was no longer under the influence of the inorganic chip. Despite Brentin's assurances, Norra remained unconvinced and questioned her husband's rationale for collaborating with a former adversary of the Rebellion. Brentin countered by asserting that Sloane had severed ties with the Empire and that they were now united in pursuit of a shared objective. He then reiterated his affection for Norra, emphasizing that his alliance with Sloane was driven by a desire to rectify the wrongs he had committed. Although Norra remained hesitant to trust Sloane, Brentin argued that her perception of Sloane was unduly negative. Brentin effectively employed his slicing expertise to secure one of the baffles, but he encountered difficulties in bypassing the defenses of the remaining ones. After Rax gained the upper hand over Sloane and commenced torturing her by fracturing some of her fingers, Norra experienced a change of heart and hastened to aid her erstwhile enemy. Brentin ceased his endeavors to seal the borehole and joined the fray. Before Rax could deliver a fatal blow to his wife, Brentin collided with the Counselor. Rax retaliated by kicking Brentin away with his boot and discharging a blaster shot into his chest, inflicting a mortal wound. With his final breath, Brentin managed to express his love for Norra, leading to a reconciliation between the two. Brentin's demise served as a catalyst for Norra, inspiring her to confront Rax, and she succeeded in wounding him with a blaster shot to his shoulder. While Norra grieved over the loss of her husband, Sloane pursued the injured Rax and eliminated him by firing multiple shots into his abdomen. ### Legacy Despite his passing, Brentin's contributions were instrumental in enabling Sloane and Norra to triumph over Gallius Rax. Sloane successfully completed Brentin's mission to reseal the Observatory's borehole, thereby averting the destruction of Jakku and the Imperial and New Republic forces. The Battle of Jakku marked the conclusion of the Galactic Civil War, resulting in a decisive victory for the New Republic and paving the way for the surrender and dissolution of the Galactic Empire. Norra repatriated Brentin's remains to his home planet of Akiva, where he was mourned by his wife, son Temmin, relatives, and friends. In accordance with Akivan customs, Brentin's body was enveloped in a delicate cloth. His body was then interred in a salt marsh, where the salt would facilitate its decomposition. This practice aligns with the Akivan tradition of returning the deceased to the embrace of nature. As a tribute to his departed father, Temmin placed the mechanical arm of his late companion Mister Bones atop Brentin's body. Like Brentin, Mister Bones had perished during the Battle of Jakku. Brentin's son Temmin would later become a starfighter pilot within the ranks of the New Republic and subsequently the Resistance. Norra, on the other hand, eventually married Wedge at a later time. ## Personality and traits Brentin Lore Wexley exemplified the qualities of a devoted husband and father to his wife Norra and son Temmin. He harbored sympathetic sentiments towards the Rebel Alliance and was apprehended by the Empire due to his involvement with the Rebellion. Prior to his arrest by the Empire, Brentin advised his son to treat Norra with kindness. Furthermore, he offered no resistance during his arrest, as he sought to avoid endangering his wife and son. Brentin also possessed musical talents, playing the valachord and exclusively performing cheerful miner tunes. As a consequence of his prolonged confinement at Ashmead's Lock, Brentin appeared emaciated, exhibited pale complexion, and had bloodshot eyes. The trauma inflicted by his imprisonment, coupled with the influence of signals emanating from Fleet Admiral Rax, impeded Wexley's ability to rebuild his relationship with Norra and Temmin. Brentin experienced profound horror and shame at being compelled by Rax's signals to assault New Republic officials. He was also deeply traumatized by the need to resist signals urging him to murder his son Temmin during the attack on Chandrila. Following the assault on Chandrila, Brentin regained control over his mental and physical faculties. While he initially displayed animosity towards the Imperial Grand Admiral Rae Sloane, he consented to collaborate with her after she revealed that Rax was his true tormentor. Sharing a common adversary, the two forged an alliance to pursue and eliminate Rax. Despite enduring hardship at the hands of the Empire, Brentin demonstrated a willingness to cooperate with Sloane in order to redeem himself in the eyes of his wife Norra and son Temmin. He consciously avoided succumbing to the allure of vengeance. Brentin's patience and capacity for enduring suffering stood in contrast to Sloane, who was accustomed to exercising authority and dictating the course of events. Brentin successfully persuaded his wife Norra to assist him and Sloane in thwarting Rax's plans. Although Norra initially harbored distrust towards Brentin, she became convinced of his rehabilitation after witnessing his assistance to her and Sloane in their fight against Rax. His death during the confrontation with Rax facilitated Norra's forgiveness of her husband. ## Skills and abilities Brentin possessed proficiency in the use of tools and machinery. He imparted these skills to his son Temmin. Brentin's aptitude for machinery enabled him to transmit messages across the Outer Rim on behalf of the Rebellion. Additionally, Brentin possessed the knowledge to transform a scatterblaster into an improvised bacta patch gun. Brentin utilized his slicing skills to intercept Imperial transmissions during his tenure with the Rebel Alliance. Subsequently, he employed his slicing skills in an attempt to close the valve doors that covered the borehole leading to Jakku's core. Brentin successfully sealed one of the doors, affording Sloane sufficient time to close the remaining ones and prevent Jakku's self-destruction mechanism from activating. ## Behind the scenes Brentin is a secondary character who made his debut in a flashback sequence within Chuck Wendig's 2015 novel Aftermath. The scene was presented from the perspective of his son, Temmin Wexley. Brentin subsequently appeared as a supporting character in the sequel novels Aftermath: Life Debt and Aftermath: Empire's End, where his background and personality were further developed.