Carver

During the Galactic Civil War, a male human sergeant named Carver served the Rebel Alliance within the ranks of the 61st Mobile Infantry, more commonly known as Twilight Company, as they fought against the Galactic Empire. He had previously deserted an Imperial Academy alongside his classmate, Pol Andrissus, who was nicknamed Charmer. In 3 ABY, during the Mid Rim Retreat, Carver spearheaded an assault on an Imperial fort located on the planet Coyerti. He later commanded a heavy-fire team during the boarding of an Imperial transport. When Operation Ringbreaker, a campaign aimed at Kuat Drive Yards and other Imperial facilities, was proposed by the former Governor Everi Chalis, Carver frequently questioned her knowledge and engaged in tactical debates with the Besalisk Gadren. After Charmer's death in the attack on Mardona III, Carver joined fellow Twilight soldiers in a mission of vengeance against those responsible for his classmate's demise, and subsequently delivered a eulogy at his friend's funeral. When Twilight Company lost the Thunderstrike during a failed extraction on Sullust, Carver participated in the operation to rescue the survivors. During an Imperial counterattack on Twilight Company, the sergeant managed to acquire a belt full of grenades and distributed them among his comrades. In 5 ABY, Carver served alongside Twilight Company on the planet Troithe as part of the campaign within the Cerberon system. He commended members of the New Republic's Alphabet Squadron upon their arrival at his camp and later met with two of them in a speeder garage following the destruction of New Republic forces by the Empire's 204th Imperial Fighter Wing. Carver assumed command of his remaining Twilight Company forces and collaborated with other squad leaders to devise a new strategy, ultimately agreeing to form a squadron under the leadership of the Alphabet Squadron pilots. As they journeyed toward the Scar of Troithe, Carver and his troops formed a convoy of mining vehicles that traveled through a tunnel beneath the city on Troithe. There, the 204th located their forces, and Carver disagreed with the pilots concerning their proposed course of action. Upon reaching the Scar of Troithe, the temporary unit commander conceived a plan to strike the Core Nine mining megafacility before the 204th could utilize the complex. Following reports that the 204th's squadrons were diverting to the facility, Carver and the Alphabet Squadron pilots launched an attack on Core Nine. Carver formulated the attack strategy, but was killed during the ensuing battle. ## Biography ### Joining the Rebel Alliance During the Imperial Era of the Galactic Empire, Carver enlisted in the Imperial Academy, only to defect to the Rebel Alliance shortly after beginning his Imperial service, accompanied by his classmate Pol Andrissus, also known as Charmer. They both joined the Alliance's 61st Mobile Infantry, known as Twilight Company, and were branded as turncoats by fellow members of the company, such as First Sergeant Hazram Namir. During his time with Twilight Company, Carver fought on the Mid Rim planet Phorsa Gedd as part of the Alliance's Mid Rim campaign around 1 ABY–2 ABY, and also at Switchmount, where the company intervened in a local conflict, only to worsen the situation. He and Charmer eventually attained the ranks of sergeant. In 3 ABY, Twilight Company was deployed to the jungle planet Coyerti with the mission of diverting Imperial forces during the breeding season of the Coyerti species. On the campaign's second day, Carver commanded an attack against an Imperial fort, involving a dozen Twilight squads. This marked the first large-scale engagement on Coyerti for Twilight Company's soldiers, who encountered TIE fighters during the battle. Approximately thirty kilometers south of the battle, Namir and his squad, who were engaged in separate missions on Coyerti, observed the distant engagement. As the attack on the fort subsided and night fell, the soldier Brand predicted the fort's fall and praised Carver's competence, while also suggesting that the victory may have come at a significant cost. ### Boarding party Shortly following the Coyerti Campaign, Twilight Company's vessels—the CR90 corvette Thunderstrike and the Braha'tok-class gunship Apailana's Promise—were pursued through the Metatessu sector by Imperial forces due to a hypermatter leak in the corvette's hyperdrive. Consequently, Everi Chalis, the governor of Haidoral Prime who had recently defected to the company, proposed a plan to board an Imperial cargo transport and seize supplies for repairs. Thus, Twilight Company attacked an Imperial heavy freighter, dispatching multiple squads—led by Namir and Sergeants Carver, Charmer, Fektrin, Zab, and Maximian Ajax—onto the enemy transport via boarding pods. Carver led a heavy-fire team that breached blast doors within the freighter, while the other squads created diversions. Once a team of engineers, escorted by Fektrin's squad, had secured the necessary supplies, Fektrin signaled the other squads, including Carver's, prompting a change in tactics. By this point, the squads were spread throughout the freighter's interior, with troops stationed at key locations, and the rebel soldiers began a gradual withdrawal toward the pods. However, an Imperial Gozanti-class cruiser entered the space engagement. In response, Twilight Company's Captain Micha Evon, known as Howl, gave the squads five minutes to return to their pods and the Thunderstrike. Carver and the other squad leaders voiced their complaints and curses over their comlinks, but complied nonetheless. Despite the loss of Fektrin and Ajax, the rebel boarding party successfully withdrew to their corvette. ### Refuge on Ankhural Shortly after the Battle of Hoth, Twilight Company repaired the Thunderstrike and Apailana's Promise on the planet Ankhural. While Captain Howl had perished during the Battle of Hoth, his senior officers had fallen victim to an Imperial infiltration team that had boarded the Thunderstrike in the Elochar sector on the same day. During the company's stay on Ankhural, Carver and other senior members of Twilight Company attended daily meetings that included updates on the vessels' repairs. In one of these meetings, Namir reported that some Twilight soldiers were considering deserting the company, fearing that the Empire would find and destroy them. Carver and Chief Medic Von Geiz were surprised by this news, and Namir suggested splitting the group up and using a favor one of them owed him. Some days later, Chalis held a meeting where she presented a new plan for Twilight Company. She began by explaining the Alliance's situation and how the Empire was redeploying its forces from the Core Worlds to pursue the Alliance fleet. Carver questioned how the former governor knew this, to which she replied that she had been monitoring broadcasts and knew that pulling forces out of active warzones in the Mid Rim rather than from the Core Worlds was too risky. Chalis continued, outlining her plan to exploit the redeployments and launch a campaign called Operation Ringbreaker, targeting numerous worlds along the Rimma Trade Route to draw forces from Kuat Drive Yards, the ultimate target. After Chalis explained the redeployments from the Kuat Drive Yards' defenses, Carver openly doubted her knowledge of this. The former governor insisted that she understood the Empire's resource flow and claimed that this was why Howl had accepted her into the company. As Chalis left the meeting for the attendees to discuss among themselves, Carver and the aliens Mzun and Gadren debated the tactics of invading the Kuat Drive Yards. When Namir interrupted, asking if Twilight Company had any alternatives, Gadren advised Chalis to leave the room, and the attendees decided to hold a voice vote. The vote ultimately favored Operation Ringbreaker. ### Death of a friend Twilight Company's first deployment as part of Operation Ringbreaker was to the warehouse planet Mardona III, where the company's squads planted charges along the tramways in one of the sectors, using a housing block as a fallback position. During the fighting, Charmer and his squad were ambushed by an armored worm vehicle, resulting in the death of Carver's old friend and two of his troops. After Namir interviewed the surviving member of Charmer's squad, the First Sergeant, assumed by many to be the new captain of the company, led a revenge mission against the vehicle and its crew. Carver joined Namir and others who knew Charmer well in ambushing the crew as they exited the worm vehicle outside an Imperial sentry post. The Twilight soldiers slaughtered the crew and destroyed the armored vehicle with a single grenade through the hatch. Namir only called for a withdrawal when the Imperial reinforcements became overwhelming. Shortly after, Twilight Company left Mardona III, having completed their mission. A funeral was held for Charmer and the other six fallen soldiers at Mardona, and Carver argued with Gadren for the honor of eulogizing his friend. By tradition, Quartermaster Hober, the host of the funeral, called out Charmer's name, followed by Carver's eulogy, in which he proclaimed his fallen friend a ladies' man. This statement elicited nervous laughter from the funeral attendees, which Namir attributed to Charmer's good looks having been marred by an injury in a previous battle. ### Stranded on Sullust #### Fortification at Inyusu Tor After attacking numerous other Imperial installations for Operation Ringbreaker, Twilight Company traveled to the manufacturing world Sullust, the third-to-last target in the campaign. The company took the Inyusu Tor mineral processing facility within twelve hours and awaited pickup from the Thunderstrike and Apailana's Promise. However, when the two vessels arrived, an Imperial squadron ambushed the rebel starships, shooting down the Thunderstrike and forcing the Promise to flee with its two X-wing starfighters. With no transport off of Sullust, Namir organized half a dozen search-and-rescue squads, including Carver's, to retrieve survivors from the fallen corvette while the rest of the company fortified the Inyusu Tor facility. After receiving a nod from Namir, Carver initiated the rescue mission via comlink. The squads reached the Thunderstrike's wreckage and located several surviving crew members, returning to the Inyusu Tor facility afterward. Namir continued to have Twilight Company fortify the facility in anticipation of an inevitable attack from Sullust's Imperial forces and held a meeting with Carver and other squad leaders and senior staff to plan their defense. Carver, among others, pretended that the battle was winnable despite the vastly superior Imperial numbers. #### The Siege After Namir went missing-in-action during a mission into Sullust's capital city, Pinyumb, Chalis assumed command and prepared Twilight Company to seize merchant ships from Pinyumb's spaceport to continue Operation Ringbreaker. However, Namir returned and halted her plan. The temporary captain then briefly outlined his plan to defend the Inyusu Tor facility to Carver and other senior members. Carver called Namir mad, but gave him a grim smile nonetheless. Less than thirty minutes after Chalis's plan was overturned, news arrived that the Empire's attack on the facility had begun, supported by the arrival of the Imperial II-class Star Destroyer Herald. Namir instructed the senior squad commanders to disseminate his defense plan, with Twilight Company dividing into three defensive lines to repel the Imperial attack. As the Imperial forces advanced on the defensive lines, Carver managed to acquire an enemy's belt with several grenades attached. He distributed these explosives among the other soldiers with a grin. Although the Herald attempted to obliterate Twilight Company's defenses from the outside in, the Apailana's Promise returned and kept the Star Destroyer at bay. The destroyer eventually suffered an internal power surge, forcing it to withdraw from Sullust's atmosphere. Meanwhile, the Twilight squads were forced to retreat inside the Inyusu Tor facility by the remaining Imperial ground forces and engage in combat at the facility gates and passageways. These remaining Imperials were defeated, securing a victory for Twilight Company. #### Post battle With Sullust's garrison defeated, Pinyumb was liberated by the city's local movements, the Sullustan resistance and Cobalt Laborers' Reformation Front. Twilight Company supported the resulting interim government while tending to their wounded and scavenging the wreckage of the Thunderstrike. Namir also held daily conferences with the company's senior members, including Carver. During one meeting, the captain announced that the interim government wanted Twilight Company to remain on Sullust for another two weeks, suggesting his plan for the company to leave once the government felt secure, using a repaired Thunderstrike or some other means of transport. After Twilight's chief of engineering, Vifra, supported using a new means of transport off of Sullust, Carver asked Namir what the company would do after leaving. The captain assured him that Operation Ringbreaker was over and that Twilight Company was to find another purpose. Twilight Company held a four hour funeral for its fallen and the Thunderstrike. Carver was among a few dozen who attended a cantina in Pinyumb. The sergeant sat at the bar, recounting the battle on Phorsa Gedd while Namir corrected details. Commander Tohna invited the captain to join a game of sabacc with himself, Gadren, and the soldiers Twitch and Brand. Namir declined, gesturing at Carver, who shouted an obscenity at him. Twilight Company was eventually driven from Sullust by the Empire. ### Campaign in the Cerberon system #### Operations on Troithe In 4 ABY, the Alliance became the New Republic following its victory over the Empire in the Endor system, which resulted in the death of Emperor Palpatine. In 5 ABY, Twilight Company participated in a campaign led by General Hera Syndulla in the Cerberon system, a star system in the Deep Core with a black hole at its center. Stationed on the Acclamator-class transgalactic military assault ship Lodestar, the company slowly fought the local Imperial forces through the various districts of the planet Troithe. One day, Carver was at Twilight Company's camp inside the Lodestar's hangar, where the company ate and cleaned rifles. At that time, three pilots from Alphabet Squadron, a multi-starfighter squadron in the New Republic, passed by, and Carver jokingly asked if they had come looking for applause, calling the New Republic pilots heroes. The BTL-A4 Y-wing assault starfighter/bomber pilot Nath Tensent told Carver that his squadron would accept applause, and the sergeant, nodding briefly and looking between the Alphabet Squadron pilots, remarked that those who asked for applause did not deserve it. Carver further added that a strike team had sent their regards to Alphabet Squadron, commending their shooting. While one of the Alphabet Squadron pilots left, Tensent pulled the RZ-1 A-wing interceptor pilot Wyl Lark with him to converse with Carver and a dozen other soldiers, talking about how their squadron had formed and learning the names of other Twilight troops. #### Into hiding With the Cerberon system slowly falling into New Republic hands, Syndulla departed to support the New Republic's Vanguard Squadron in the Bormea sector. Meanwhile, Alphabet Squadron, Twilight Company, and the other units under Syndulla's battle group prepared for an attack by the Empire's 204th Imperial Fighter Wing, which had been lured by Alphabet Squadron's New Republic Intelligence advisor Caern Adan. Half of Twilight Company, led by Namir, hid on an asteroid approaching Troithe, expecting the fighter wing to hide upon it as part of a sneak attack. However, when the 204th arrived, it engaged the Lodestar and its squadrons, resulting in the loss of the Acclamator-class assault ship and the 204th's Star Destroyer, the Edict. As the 204th descended to Troithe, their bombers forced Twilight Company's squads to quickly abandon their positions. Carver was among two dozen Twilight soldiers on Troithe who rendezvoused at a three-story speeder garage in the lightly urbanized Highgarden District. Tensent and Lark joined them, having lost contact with the rest of Alphabet Squadron and the other squadrons. As distant blasterfire and explosions sounded, one soldier on lookout deduced that blasters and handhelds were in play and suggested intervening. Carver rejected this suggestion, which Tensent questioned. The sergeant explained that he wanted to remain at the garage to meet more stragglers and that intervening in what he believed was a civilian riot would not help, citing Twilight Company's actions at Switchmount. Twitch mentioned the attack on Mardona III as another example, and Carver suggested that the nearby fighting would be over by the next morning. #### Assuming leadership A number of stragglers joined the New Republic rendezvous overnight, with around twenty rebel sympathizers joining them. The next morning, Carver held a meeting with the other senior Twilight members, including Twitch, Vifra, Tensent, Lark, and a few others. He began by summarizing the situation of Twilight Company, announcing that the line of command officially fell to him. Several others protested the sergeant, but he cut them off by adding that they were guests of the locals, how Tensent and Lark outranked them all, and suggesting that the other attendees add in what the company was working with. After various meeting attendees added their input, their agenda moved to their tactical situation, where the Sullustan Lien Toob went through reports on the riots and the 204th's bombing runs, which targeted any uprisings that broke out. Carver suggested reestablishing a base of operations and making a rally point of their allies, which sparked another round of debating. Tensent interjected, stating that they would need to keep the 204th's TIEs grounded. Vifra coined the idea of an ion pulse, but Carver added that they did not have any warheads. Lark then suggested retreating, arguing that the 204th had no reason to protect Troithe's civilians while fighting the New Republic like its local forces did. Vifra suggested spreading out and holding positions until reinforcements arrived, but Carver countered this, claiming that Imperial reinforcements could arrive first. The human squad commander Junior coined falling back to the Scar of Troithe, a continent that had been heavily mined out. When Carver asked what use that had, Toob told him about the Core Nine mining megafacility there, which was used for core drilling and freighter launches. As a debate on reaching Core Nine ensued, Carver coined the idea of using the facility as a fallback position for Lark and Tensent. Lark described the 204th's tactics when Tensent then proposed increasing their airpower by forming their own squadron of airborne vehicles. Carver asked the Y-wing pilot if he would lead this unit if the sergeant allowed them, but Tensent volunteered Lark for the position instead. #### On the move Carver and the other troops traveled twenty kilometers to the outside of the Highgarden District. In that time, Tensent took a trip to a district called the Web to secure airspeeders for Lark's new squadron and ground vehicles for the rest of the remnant, which Lark used his time to pick out of the Twilight soldiers for. After reaching the rendezvous outside Highgarden, the soldiers set up camp in a decaying playground. However, an Imperial aligned group attacked the Twilight encampment, although they were thwarted when Tensent obliterated the enemy's positions with his Y-wing. The Twilight Company troops entered a network of tunnels that went beneath the city to travel to the Scar of Troithe. These soldiers were loaded into unarmed tunnel-tanks, mining transports and repulsorcars, which formed a convoy along with Tensent and Lark's starfighters and the airborne vehicles used by Lark's new squadron which the engineers worked to refurbish. Carver discussed plans with Lark whenever the pilot had docked his A-wing with the caravan. Soon enough, a TIE fighter of the 204th came across the convoy, but was destroyed by Lark. When discussing this matter via comm with the other commanders, Twitch suggested fortifying against 204th reinforcements, but Carver decided that the caravan would instead keep travelling. #### TIE fighter attack The suspicions of 204th reinforcements were confirmed when a