Wedge Antilles
Wedge Antilles is a male film character who features in Star Wars.
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Biography
Wedge Antilles was a male human born in the galaxy far, far away on the planet Corellia.
In 2 BBY, after Imperial forces massacred the surrendering crew of a rebel transport near Teralov, Antilles contacted Fulcrum to defect alongside Gahree and Klivian; Fulcrum in turn relayed his message to the leaders of the Phoenix Cell. They dispatched the former Imperial cadet and Mandalorian explosives expert Sabine Wren on an undercover mission to rescue the cadets. Sabine infiltrated the Academy as a cadet under the name Ria Talla. Antilles met 'Talla' during a TIE fighter simulator exercise, in which they destroyed several rebel Y-wings but hesitated at shooting an unarmed transport. As a result, their fighters were destroyed by a simulated version of the Ghost, flown by Captain Vult Skerris, who lectured Antilles and Wren that the consequence of insubordination was death in combat. Following the exercise, Antilles warned Wren that people at the Academy did not usually care about ethics. After Governor Arihnda Pryce and Kallus arrived to investigate rumors of defectors, Gahree argued that they were undertaking risky action, but Antilles told him and Klivian to relax. Later, Antilles met with Wren at a hangar bay where he confided his unease with the recent simulator exercise. He voiced that he had not signed up to kill indiscriminately, and finally expressed a desire to leave, to which Wren revealed her true name and reassured Antilles that the rebels had gotten his message. She then told Antilles and his friends to be ready to leave at a moment's notice, but when he asked Wren about her plan, she responded that she would think it up, much to Antilles' surprise. An opportunity to escape arose when Pryce had Commandant Goran order the cadets to engage in a mock combat exercise in space. When Wren's support CR90 corvette arrived, Antilles, Gahree and Klivian followed at her direction towards the rebel corvette. However, Governor Pryce disabled their solar collectors, leaving them stranded in space. Under her orders, Captain Skerris destroyed Gahree's fighter as a warning to the rebels and drove away the rebel vessel. Antilles, Klivian, and Wren were brought before Pryce, who demanded to know which one of them was the rebel agent and threatened to fasten Antilles to a torture device. To protect him, Wren identified herself as the agent. The trio was then separated, as Kallus escorted Antilles and Klivian to their holding cell. Inside, the two pilots argued about the merits of escaping without a plan, when they were freed by Wren after she had escaped from Pryce. Being pursued by stormtroopers, the trio fled down a corridor only to run into Agent Kallus, who due to his encounter with Wren's comrade Garazeb Orrelios, helped them to escape by telling them to head to Hangar 24. Once there, the fugitives commandeered a TIE/sa bomber. Antilles piloted the slow-moving craft which was pursued by Skerris' TIE Interceptor. Despite taking several hits, the trio managed to escape when Wren's rebel comrades arrived in their CR90 corvette, they made the jump into hyperspace together. Upon their arrival at Chopper Base on Atollon, they were greeted by Commander Jun Sato, who welcomed Antilles and Klivian into the rebellion.
He came to be a top ranking Rebel Alliance pilot and the commander of Rogue Squadron, Wedge Antilles fought in all three of the major battles of the Galactic Civil War. Originally from Corellia, Wedge flew under the callsign of Red Two as Luke Skywalker's wngman during the Battle of Yavin despite his open criticism of General Dodonna's plan to destroy the Death Star by targeting its thermal exhaust port.
Wedge survived the battle when his X-Wing starfighter sustained a hit from Darth Vader himself, forcing him to pull out of the battle. Approximately three years later, Wedge again defended the Rebellion against the evil Empire in the Battle of Hoth. Piloting a snowspeeder with Wes Janson as his gunner, Wedge was part of Rogue Group, which met Blizzard Force head-on. Wedge and Janson used their snowspeeder's tow-cable to trip up the AT-AT Walker Blizzard 2.
During the Battle of Endor, Wedge, once more piloting an X-Wing, flew under the callsign Red Leader and spearheaded the attack on the unfinished second Death Star. Along with several other Rebel pilots he flew into the battle station's superstructure for the purposes of targeting the main reactor. Although Wedge managed to get a hit in on the reactor, it was Lando Calrissian in the Millennium Falcon who got the killing shot.
Overview
Personality and attributes
Whilst a cadet in the Empire, he was given the designation of TIE SS-2-5 at Skystrike Academy.
Powers and abilities
Notes
- Wedge Antilles was created by George Lucas and portrayed by actor Denis Lawson where he appeared in the Star Wars universe.
Alternate Versions
- In Star War Legends, Wedge Antilles appeared in a number of settings in the former Star Wars Expanded Universe. He was the son of Jagged Antilles and Zena Antilles born in 21 BBY where he had a sister ten years older than him named Syal Antilles. Wedge later came to marry former CorSec agent Iella Wessiri after the two fell in love with one another where they had two daughters name Syal Antilles and Myri Antilles.
In other media
Video games
- In Star Wars: Squadrons, Wedge Antilles appeared as an NPC in the setting of the flight simulator video game where he was voiced by actor Denis Lawson. During the rise of the New Republic, he was shown to had been attached to the Starhawk Project where he coordinated in the acquisition of a damaged Imperial Star Destroyer in the Yavin system. This saw him involved in a briefing with Javes's Vanguard Squadron who were sent to help secure the vessel.
Appearances
- Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope:
- Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi:
- Star Wars: Rebels:
- Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker:
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