A conscription trooper pilot served the Galactic Empire as a pilot around 18 BBY, early in the Imperial Era. The pilot's Nu-class attack/transport shuttle, Shuttle 135, crashed on the outskirts of Mount Tantiss on the planet Wayland after sustaining damage from a storm. Despite requesting backup, the pilot and the troopers he was transporting were left to die in the jungles surrounding the Tantiss Base after Doctor Royce Hemlock deemed recovering the troopers to be a lost cause.[3]
Biography[]
The conscription trooper pilot served the Galactic Empire around the year 18 BBY, more than a year after the Empire's birth. While transporting a squad of other stormtroopers in a Nu-class attack/transport shuttle to the Tantiss Base at Mount Tantiss, the pilot's shuttle was struck by lightning during a storm while on final approach to Mount Tantiss, which left its systems unresponsive. The pilot informed his passengers to brace for impact and managed to crash-land the shuttle in the jungle surround the Imperial base. Surviving the crash, the pilot lowered the shuttles ramp to release his passengers before stumbling out of the cockpit in a daze.[3]
As the stormtroopers pondered their situation, trooper TK-343 requested for a recovery team over his comlink, but the Imperials were subsequently attacked by a dryax, a large predatory creature. Overhearing the panicked screams of the troopers on the comms, Doctor Royce Hemlock ordered for no help to be sent for the troopers, as he believed that they were beyond saving. Abandoned and helpless against the creatures of the jungle, the pilot was killed along with with his passengers.[3]
Equipment[]
The trooper wore white TK stormtrooper armor, and as a pilot, was equipped with life-support gear.[3]
Appearances[]
Star Wars: The Bad Batch — "Confined" (First appearance)
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Notes and references[]
- ↑ Per the reasoning here, the seventh and eighth episodes of The Bad Batch Season 2, "The Clone Conspiracy" and "Truth and Consequences," can be placed in 18 BBY. Therefore, all Season 2 episodes proceeding "The Clone Conspiracy" occur between 19 BBY, which features the end of The Bad Batch Season 1 according to Star Wars: Timelines, and 18 BBY. The Galactic Empire, the formation of which Star Wars: Timelines dates to 19 BBY, sent Mayday's squad to Barton IV over a year prior to the events of the twelfth episode, "The Outpost." As it occurs over a year into the Imperial Era and is set shortly after the events of "Truth and Consequences," the events of "The Outpost" occur around 18 BBY. Following that logic, the ninth through eleventh episodes ("The Crossing" through "Metamorphosis") are also set around 18 BBY because they occur between the events of "Truth and Consequences" and "The Outpost." Finally, all season 2 episodes set after "The Outpost" occur shortly after its events, thereby placing those episodes around 18 BBY as well. The tally marks made by Omega in The Bad Batch Season 3's first episode, "Confined," indicate the events of the episode, including the Stormtrooper pilot's death on Wayland, must take place at least 21 standard days following her capture, as depicted in the Season 2 episode "Plan 99." As such, the events of Season 3 must also take place around 18 BBY.
- ↑ Star Wars Character Encyclopedia: Updated and Expanded establishes that the stormtroopers of the Galactic Empire were all humans.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Star Wars: The Bad Batch — "Confined"