The Devaronian Gev Hessan was the owner of the HH-87 Starhopper known as the Rover. Following his death, Wedge Antilles, a pilot, took control of the vessel for expeditions into the Outer Rim Territories. Above the planet Akiva, he faced an Imperial-class Star Destroyer from the Galactic Empire. Admiral Rae Sloane recognized Antilles's ruse of pretending to be the deceased Hessan, who had flown the ship, and the Rover was ensnared by the tractor beam of the Vigilance. Inside Docking Bay 42, Antilles set the proton torpedoes to detonate. The subsequent explosion of the ship led to the demise of several stormtroopers, which allowed him to flee into the Vigilance's ventilation system.