A Human Rebel, identified as male, was part of the Rebel Alliance group dispatched to probe Gobindi; this individual was distinguished by a prominent scar stretching from his left eye across to the right of his jaw. The Galactic Empire quickly enforced a quarantine on the world while experimenting with the influenza necrosi virus, citing piracy as the reason for the lockdown. Discovering the Rebel agents, the Empire branded them as wanted pirates.
Following the arrest of a Rodian member of the team, the Human Rebel, known as Wedge Antilles, along with a Bothan confederate, approached Tash Arranda to request assistance in their escape from the planet. During their conversation, the Human Rebel was assaulted by a blob creature carrying influenza necrosi. Despite his companions' intervention to remove the blob, he became infected and subsequently fell unconscious. Antilles and the Bothan then transported him back to their secure location.
The Human Rebel character is featured in Galaxy of Fear: Planet Plague, where his last appearance shows him infected by the lethal influenza necrosi virus. The book does not provide a definitive answer as to whether the man survived long enough to be treated with the cure eventually developed by Doctor Kavafi.