Aeron Azzameen

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Aeron Azzameen (pronounced /Ă'-zämēn/)^[2] was one of four children born into the Azzameen family. The lone daughter and next-to-last child of Tomaas Azzameen, Aeron learned of the family trade and was later employed as a freighter pilot by Twin Suns Transport Services, a shipping company owned by her father and his brother Antan. During this time she met Olin Garn, a bounty hunter and pilot often contracted by the shipping company; the two bonded, and due to their closeness, Garn eventually became considered as an extension of the Azzameen family. When Aeron's brother, Ace, came of age, Tomaas requested that Aeron teach the youngest Azzameen how to become a freighter pilot, so that he too could serve in the family business. Through the course of several of these training sessions, Aeron and Ace came upon a plot lead by the rival shipping company Viraxo Industries to encroach upon Azzameen holdings by involving the Galactic Empire. Faced with these circumstances, Antan had Aeron formulate a set of plans for retribution against the Viraxo; the plan fell through, however, due to a timing failure, and the Azzameens were forced to abort, risking life and limb and losing the family's YT-1300 light freighter Selu.

Shortly thereafter, the Azzameens were forced to evacuate their home and holdings because of a botched bacta run to a Rebel Alliance outpost that left Aeron's father and oldest brother dead and the family marked as traitors by the Galactic Empire. Aeron suggested that the surviving Azzameen children try to take refuge among the Alliance's ranks, using Garn, who had previously enlisted, as a contact. The Alliance, though wary of the suspicions aroused because of the loss of their outpost, accepted their plea for refuge and sheltered the Azzameens. Ace became a pilot in the Alliance's ranks, while Aeron and older brother Emon began an investigation into their former life and the Viraxo's involvement in the Azzameen's downfall. Aeron later came under fire several times while attempting to assist the Rebellion, including one occasion when she was trapped aboard the doomed Bajic Shipyards asteroid base in the Vergesso Asteroids after a successful supply mission. Ace, taking a brief leave of action from the Rebellion, rescued her before the shipyard's destruction at the hands of Darth Vader's Death Squadron. Later, she, along with Ace and Emon, were lured into an Imperial trap created by uncle Antan; though the situation looked grim for the Azzameen children, they managed to escape the close call.

Aeron was a skilled pilot and could proficiently fly both YT-1300 and YT-2000 light freighters. She was also an expert at slicing into computer systems, an ability she used on several times to gather information on the Galactic Empire. Fully dedicated to those whose missions to which she allied herself, Aeron was insistent on her beliefs; though open to new ideas, she was considered steadfast on her ideals once her mind was decided. The lone female Azzameen child was also kind; however, she reserved this quality only for family members and Olin Garn, who had become so close to the family that he was considered to be a part of it.

Contents 1 Biography 1.1 Training an Azzameen 1.2 Dealing with the Viraxo 1.3 The Viraxo strike back 1.4 Family matters 1.5 Dealing with the Rebellion 1.6 The coming storm 1.7 Homecoming 1.8 Family reunion 2 Personality and traits 3 Relationships 3.1 Olin Garn 4 Behind the scenes 5 Appearances 6 Sources 7 Notes and references 8 External links

[edit] Biography

Aeron Azzameen was the lone daughter of Tomaas Azzameen and the third of the four Azzameen children. She, along with the rest of the Azzameen household, lived in Azzameen Home Base, a space station. When she came of age, she began working for the family business, Twin Suns Transport Services. There, she typically flew a YT-1300 light freighter even though she was also able to pilot her father's YT-2000 light freighter. While working for her father and uncle, she met a freelance freighter pilot who was under contract by Twin Suns Transport Services named Olin Garn. The two began to bond to the point that Garn was soon considered a member of the Azzameen household. Even though Olin Garn eventually left the employment of Twin Suns Transport Services to join the Alliance to Restore the Republic, he maintained contact with the Azzameen family throughout his tenure.^[1]

[edit] Training an Azzameen

Around 3 ABY, Tomaas decided that the youngest Azzameen child, Ace, was to learn the nuances of the family trade. The task of training Ace fell upon Aeron. For her first training session, Aeron told Ace that that they were to make a round trip to Harlequin Station to drop off and pick up supplies. Both Azzameens flew YT-1300 freighters: Ace flew the Sabra along with the family MK-series maintenance droid MK-09 while Aeron piloted the Selu alone. On the way to pick up their cargo, however, the two YT-1300s were intercepted when a quick attack was launched on Harlequin Station by the Enkidu, a Pursuer-class enforcement ship. The Enkidu was accompanied by several ships flying under the Viraxo, a rival shipping company to the Azzameen-owned Twin Suns Transport Services. Though reluctant at first, Aeron agreed to assist the station once the hostile ships attacked and, with the aid of MK-09 and Ace, chased the offending units out of the system.^[1]

Once the delivery was finished, Aeron shifted her attention to creating a new security system for the family's database. While her efforts proved fruitful, she accidentally deleted the entire database in the process. This deletion forced Aeron to perform a manual inspection of the individual containers in the family cargo fields, a section of Azzameen space that held trading goods. Knowing it would take half the time with help, she enlisted the assistance of Ace, and the two departed for the cargo fields in the twin YT-1300 freighters. The inspections went smoothly at the beginning; however, upon inspection of the second collection of containers, it was shown that there were was a ship, the cargo ferry Raider attempting to steal a container of liquid oxygen. A brief scuffle chased off the offensive craft. In another cargo area, Aeron and Ace came upon the Enkidu in what appeared to be another raid. Ace chased off the Pursuer-class, which dropped its carried goods. Aeron flew to inspect the container; discovering it was illegal spice, Aeron determined that the Enkidu was not attempting to steal a container but rather plant one to incriminate the Azzameens.^[1]

[edit] Dealing with the Viraxo

Once the Azzameen children returned home and reported their discovery, uncle Antan Azzameen hatched a plan of retribution against the Viraxo. Aeron was tasked with changing the ID codes for the Selu for a covert mission, involving a setup using the Viraxo spice and an Imperial presence. Aeron altered the transponder codes and flew the YT-1300, now designated the Venix, carrying the crate to Viraxo 54 under the guise of normal spaceport traffic. A group comprised of Ace and her older brother Emon were expected to show up shortly thereafter to conduct a hit-and-run attack on the station, drawing the attention of the Empire's forces and forcing the Viraxo to explain the existence of the illegal spice.^[1]

The mission did not go as planned, however. Aeron's brothers entered the system too early and tipped off the station's personnel. Though she attempted to repair the situation, Aeron was forced to abort her mission, dump the cargo, and attempt to escape detection. Unfortunately for the plan, though Ace and Emon were able to destroy most of the attacking craft, the "Venix" was disabled and had to be abandoned and destroyed. Aeron left the ship in a zero-G uniform and was picked up by Emon, who piloted out of Viraxo space and returned home. Though the mission was not executed as planned, the result had nevertheless achieved Antan's intended goal, and he congratulated the Azzameen children on their work. Tomaas, however, was less than enthusiastic about his brother's decision to send his children into such dangerous circumstances.^[1]

Soon after the Viraxo 54 debacle, though, Tomaas enlisted the assistance of his children to fly cover for the GR-75 medium transport Vasudra as it was to make a cargo transfer of bacta with a group of smugglers. In this mission, Aeron was to fly the YT-2000 light freighter Otana, her father's favored ship. Initially, the transfer went as planned; however, the Azzameens' suspicions were aroused when the smugglers' ship End Run claimed that they had a problem with their pumps and sent three workers to fix them. A few seconds into this supposed repair, Aeron noticed that the workers were headed for the Vasudra's engines and, because of her observation, correctly called out the resulting double-cross. Each of the Azzameen children intercepted the saboteurs and incoming CloakShape fighters. After the Azzameens' display of power, the End Run completed the transfer and exited the system. Aeron was then left at home as Tomaas, Galin, Emon, Ace, and Emkay made their way to deliver the bacta to a clandestine hospital set up for those wounded at the Battle of Hoth.^[1]

[edit] The Viraxo strike back

Unfortunately for the Azzameens, circumstances worked against them. Imperial entanglements intervened in the bacta transfer, forcing the hospital's residents to evacuate and the transfer to fail. Even more devastating for the Azzameen family was the loss of the Vasudra and its crew of Tomaas and Galin. With the Azzameen family declared traitors to the Empire, Antan correctly anticipated that Imperial forces were soon to arrive and seize the family's assets. He sent out two taskgroups to recover as many of the family's holdings as possible: The first of these groups contained Antan piloting his Action IV transport Big Score and Emon piloting his Firespray-31-class patrol and attack craft Andrasta; the second group was comprised of Aeron flying the Sabra and Ace flying the Otana. The second group was tasked with retrieving warheads and the contents of Antan's safe aboard Twin Sun Station. Aeron and Ace Azzameen arrived at the station and began gathering the target supplies, with Ace collecting the warheads and Aeron retrieving the safe's contents; however, halfway through Aeron's collection efforts, a flight group composed of Imperial and Viraxo forces entered the system and began assaulting the station and its fleeing employees. Ace managed to hold the intruders long enough to allow Aeron and himself to exit the area, forfeiting Twin Suns Station to the Empire.^[1]

The two made their way to the rendezvous point, back at Azzameen Station, expecting to meet the Big Score and Andrasta. Upon their arrival, however, they were forced to wait as neither ship had made it back. Aeron and MK-09 began to discuss the options they had if something had happened to Antan; but, after only a few moments of discussion, four Razor Fighters entered the system and engaged the freighters. The Aeron and Ace Azzameen destroyed the offending starfighters, once again leaving the two Corellian freighters alone as they awaited word from the other taskgroup. This news came shortly thereafter when the Andrasta reentered Azzameen space; Antan had been captured, and their uncle did not have the opportunity to divulge his planned location for the family to ride out the Imperial storm. After determining that the Viraxo were behind the Imperial entanglements, the family remnant discussed their options. The conversation was soon interrupted by the entrance of the Imperial II class Star Destroyer Corrupter.^[1]

With the Star Destroyer and its TIE Fighter compliment approaching, Aeron suggested joining the Rebel Alliance by relying on Olin Garn's status and word to counter any suspicions concerning the botched bacta run. She provided her brothers with the coordinates Garn had given her in case of trouble, and the remaining Azzameens left their home. Once among the Rebels, Aeron hailed the fleet and explained their situation. The Mon Calamarian commander she spoke with expressed sympathy towards the loss of Tomaas and welcomed them aboard, but also showed surprise at the discovery of the fleet. Aeron told him about her friend Olin Garn, who had become a fairly prominent starfighter pilot. Acknowledging her reasons, the commander arranged a meeting between the rebels and Azzameens to further discuss the matters at hand. The Azzameens were directed to the Mon Calamari Star Cruiser Defiance, where they resided until the meeting.^[1]

Ace and Emkay ended up staying aboard the cruiser as Ace was to join Red Squadron as a new starfighter pilot, while Aeron and Emon left to investigate what happened to their uncle. Once Ace had been accepted into the Rebellion as one of their pilots, Aeron sent him a congratulatory e-mail. She warned him to be careful, but also praised him for his decision.^[1]

[edit] Family matters

While Ace moved through his career in the Alliance, Aeron continued sending e-mails, encouraging and reaffirming the burgeoning pilot. Aeron also told him, via e-mail, that she was going to keep a low profile in order to focus on slicing systems to track down Antan, who was still missing. Aeron eventually caught a break in her investigation. She discovered increased activity surrounding a Viraxo facility, Viraxo Industries, and concluded that their uncle was held there. Acting on her findings, Emon contacted Ace and the two brothers rescued their uncle.^[1]

Aeron's continued slicing efforts again proved fruitful for the Azzameen family with her discovery of a scavenging operation in the Saila Na system. This expedition traveled among the debris left in the wake of the Battle of Hoth and recovered salvageable technology; Aeron's discovery of the group gave her an idea to recover valuable devices from a stranded Viper probe droid. She instructed Ace to take Emkay and the Otana to recover the droid, still in its capsule. Ace complied, and he left the Rebel fleet and picked up the probe capsule, even though minor complications arose with a scavenger team who also interested in the probe. While Ace made his way with the probe, Aeron took the Sabra and traveled to the rendezvous point in the Zephry Asteroid field. The Otana made its way to the customs checkpoint at Tinoon before arriving in the asteroid field where the Sabra was idling. Grateful to her brother, Aeron took the capsule and the encased droid and studied its communication listening devices. She also made a small probe droid toy that played music and danced from the spare pieces of the droid and gave it to Ace as a gift for his efforts.^[1]

Still working off the grid, Aeron's lack of communication caused Olin Garn's suspicions to rise; he later contacted Ace about his worries concerning Aeron.^[1]

[edit] Dealing with the Rebellion

After coming across talks of a shipment of warheads from the XQ3 Viraxo facility 1 during her slicing efforts, Aeron Azzameen hatched a plan which simultaneously aided the Rebel Alliance and harmed Viraxo's standing with the Empire. She consulted uncle Antan in an effort to gain his permission and support; while wary, Antan agreed to the plan. The Rebellion had been facing a shortage of weapon payloads for some time and were willing to accept a new supply from anywhere. Aeron, and later Antan, saw the opportunity for profit from this maneuver, a point she used in convincing the family.^[1]

Aeron approached Ace, now aboard the MC80 Liberty type Star Cruiser Liberty, and told him her plan. Ace agreed to pliot the Sabra, Aeron in tow, to eliminate the defenses around 1 in order to provide safe passage to the incoming Azzameen freighters. After dispatching with the modest complement of fighters and static gun defenses, the Sabra flew among the containers, inspecting each; once inspected, Aeron planned on relaying the location of the vital supply containers to the incoming freighters. The Sabra's progress was interrupted by the entrance of a bulk cruiser. The cruiser launched several squads of Supa Fighters—fighters Aeron correctly identified as being affiliated with Black Sun. Dealing with this added threat, Ace flew cover for the incoming Azzameen vessels, who collected the containers and entered hyperspace to the transfer point with the Rebel Alliance. With the entire Azzameen flight group at this rendezvous point, the Rebel fleet soon after arrived and made the cargo transfer. For her part in tracking down the warheads and assisting Ace, Aeron was awarded the Alliance Civilian Battle Award along with her brother. She left Ace after congratulating him and informed Antan about the news of Viraxo's affiliation with Black Sun.^[1]

After an attack on an Imperial listening post by Ace's squadron, opportunistic Antan saw an opening to plant a listening device in one of the satellites surrounding the post in order to keep tabs on the Viraxo. Working off this reconnaissance, Antan told his niece his plan; she in turn asked Ace's assistance again. The pair of siblings departed, again, on the Sabra and headed for the coordinates of Ace's recent attack. Once there, Ace defeated the small protection force and began inspecting satellites suitable for modification in order for Aeron to apply a listening device. Once a satellite was found, Aeron left the craft in a zero-G worker suit. While working on wiring the new device, a patrol force composed of an assault transport and a complement of zero-G assault stormtroopers entered the system. Upon the discovery of the Azzameen operation, the Imperial forces moved to engage. Ace was forced into action to both protect Aeron and the satellite from attack. Eventually Aeron finished her work, commenting on how much easier it was than she expected, and the three left the system and returned to the Liberty.^[1]

[edit] The coming storm

Shortly thereafter, Aeron contacted Ace, worried about their brother Emon's disappearance. Though Emon claimed it was caused by a so-called "secret" mission, Aeron hypothesized that his mission was in some way connected to getting back at the Viraxo, and she told her younger sibling her suspicions. Emon kept in touch with both both siblings by way of e-mail; each successive message showed increased frustration about the tendency for the Viraxo and Imperials to always seem to know when the Azzameen family was to participate in any mission.^[1]

While her brother continued his work against the Empire, Aeron noted another opportunity to assist Rebels in need at the expense of the Viraxo. This time, however, she held back from informing her uncle, knowing that he disapproved of the children's tendencies to constantly come to the aid of the Alliance to Restore the Republic. Aeron collected a group of former Twin Suns Transport Services employees and several Planetary Fighters still loyal to the disbanded company and told them of the plan: heist cargo containers from a relatively unguarded Viraxo facility and deliver them to a Rebel outpost in the Vergesso Asteroids. Soon after collecting her forces and forging flight plans, she contacted Ace for assistance. This time taking the family YT-2000 freighter, the two made contact with the family's freighters stationed at the Bilbringi Shipyards and entered Viraxo space. Aeron again noticed the persistent presence of Black Sun vessels, which Ace and the fighters held at bay while the allied freighters and cargo carriers entered and began docking with the storeholds located there.^[1]

Unfortunately for the plan, a convoy of ships, complete with an escort, entered the system; though Aeron had anticipated this convoy, it came earlier than she had expected. Even under this new barrage of attacks, the Azzameen-friendly freighters completed their mission and headed for the asteroid field. Once there, Ace flew to the station to deliver Aeron and some of the newly-liberated supplies. Aeron decided to stay aboard the asteroid-bound shipyard, hoping to learn all that she could about the ties between the Viraxo and the criminal syndicate Black Sun. She told Ace that she hoped the success of this mission would bring their uncle around to seeing the benefit of assisting the Rebel Alliance.^[1]

That same shipyard was soon to be targeted by a portion of Darth Vader's own Death Squadron, working off of intelligence gathered by Prince Xizor, head of Black Sun. When the Imperial fleet, consisting of the Imperial Star Destroyer Accuser, several Victory II-class Star Destroyers, and Vader's command ship, the Executor-class Star Dreadnought Executor, arrived in the system, Aeron sent an alert to Ace, who scrambled to the Otana and rushed back to the Vergesso Asteroids to rescue his sister. The coordinates for the exit from hyperspace placed him right behind the advancing Star Destroyer fleet—which protected Ace from immediate attack, as it appeared that they had not noticed his entrance—and Ace made his way through the fleet to Vergesso Base. Once the Otana was in range of Aeron's communicator, she sent off a panicked message urging Ace to hurry.^[1]

Ace complied as well as he could, ducking into and out of the marauding crafts' attack vectors, before docking with the north tower of the asteroid. Emkay retrieved Aeron from within the facility, and the Otana, now with Aeron aboard, blasted toward the same hyperspace coordinates that had placed Ace and MK-09 in the asteroid field. Avoiding the Executor-class Super Star Destroyer Executor, Ace, Aeron, and MK-09 escaped the doomed system and returned to the Liberty. Once safely aboard the Mon Calamari cruiser, Aeron shared her findings concerning the new alliance between the Viraxo and Black Sun forces. The young slicer determined that this alliance between the two powers would prove to make reestablishing the Azzameen family business even harder than initially expected.^[1]

While slicing through Imperial records, Aeron discovered that Emon, whose e-mails had ceased coming, had been captured by the Empire during his clandestine missions. She contacted Dunari, an old friend of Tomaas's and the family, who in turn hired a team of highly skilled slicers. Once the slicers determined the station where Emon was held, Dunari contacted Ace for assistance. The three recovered Emon successfully and hid the young Azzameen in Dunari's casino, Dunari's Rest. Not long after, Emon was fully recuperated and equally determined to find the leak of information. He had Aeron find the family's stolen datacore; once located, her brothers flew out to retrieve it. With it safely in the possession of the Azzameens again, Emon thanked Ace and took the datacore to Aeron, hopeful that she could find something useful to stop the leak of information.^[1]

[edit] Homecoming

While fighting for the Alliance, Ace received a message from his uncle requesting to be kept up to date on the Rebellion's actions and whereabouts. Not immediately responding, he contacted his older sister, who, wary of Antan's intentions, suggested not to answer at all. Ace took her advice and sent nothing to their uncle. Later, a mercenary captured by Ace's flight group during a mission revealed a plot to frame the Sullustans in attacks on a Bothan delegation. The pilot told the Alliance that, though he didn't know the location of the mercenary base, he did know the location of the bulk cruiser Redhawk en route to the base.^[1]

The Rebel Alliance, wanting to keep the controversy from the public eye, called upon civilian Aeron and her slicing skills to determine the location of the mercenary base. In turn, Aeron enlisted Ace to fly her to the necessary destinations. Setting off again in the Otana, Ace was to dock with the Redhawk, itself docked with a local supply station, in order for Aeron to be able to slice the flight logs of the ship and pinpoint the location of the base. Once they arrived in the appropriate system and docked with the bulk cruiser, Aeron began her slicing efforts with assistance from MK-09. One past the security measures—considered an easy task by Aeron—she began downloading the coordinates. In the middle of the download, Preybird-class starfighters, the Redhawk's escort, entered the system, forcing Ace to hold them off. Soon after the transfer was complete and the Otana left the system and headed for the base.^[1]

Unfortunately for the Azzameens, the flight plan was not all it seemed. Instead of leading to the mercenary base, the coordinates dropped the Otana into the path of the Imperial II-class Star Destroyer Chimaera as it traversed through the Carida system's weaponry testing facilities. The Star Destroyer was blocking the Otana's exit vector, forcing MK-09 to quickly calculate a new set of directions. As the droid was doing so, the crew of the Otana continued to ignore the Chimaera's instructions to power down and prepare to be boarded. This forced the Star Destroyer to open fire upon the YT-2000 freighter. Ace deftly avoided the blasts and advancing TIE fighters and, as soon as new hyperspace coordinates were plotted, returned to the cargo station.^[1]

After their escape from Carida, Aeron was determined to retrieve the true coordinates of the mercenary base. Back in the cargo facility's sector, she noted the absence of the Redhawk and instructed Ace to dock with the cargo facility in order to slice the flight logs of the station to find the Redhawk's exit vector. Ace complied and docked the Otana; displeased with the Otana's efforts to slice the station's systems, the station's security team launched a retaliatory attack consisting of a handful of IRD Fighters against the Azzameen ship. Ace was able to protect the ship long enough for Aeron to gather the necessary flight information; and, with these new, accurate coordinates entered into the Otana's navigation computer, the Otana left the station and made the jump to hyperspace.

Arriving at the coordinates, the three aboard the Otana were shocked to find that their old home was now called Falcon's Nest and was under the possession of the mercenary group responsible for the attacks on the Bothans. Stunned into disbelief, Aeron double-checked the coordinates provided by the station's logs, only to find that they were indeed correct; MK-09 confirmed her findings. Ace, enraged, wanted to engage the Preybird-class fighters around the base, but Aeron restrained him, fearful of the consequences of the mercenaries identifying the Otana. The freighter returned to the Liberty and this information was relayed to the Alliance.^[1]

With the information provided by the Azzameen children, the Rebellion decided to attack the mercenary base, as it was closer to their rally point than they preferred. Enlisting the help of each affiliated Azzameen—Emon, Aeron, Ace, and even MK-09—the Alliance made a set of plans to strike back at the mercenary group and recapture the base. Flying in the Otana with Emkay, Aeron set off with the rest of the Alliance ships. Once in system, she began engaging fighters in order to provide cover for Ace and the rest of the B-wing starfighters in Gold Group.^[1]

In the midst of the battle, two ships attempted to flee the system; one of the two was Antan Azzameen's Action IV–transport. Noting this odd circumstance, Aeron hailed Emon and asked if what she saw was true. Emon had also taken note of the Big Score, but her attempts to contact the fleeing ship, in order to keep Antan from getting lost in all of the confusion, went unheeded. After the mainstay of the fighting was over, Emon left the battle group, intent on tracking their wayward uncle.^[1]

Once Storm Unit, a team of commandos charged with securing Azzameen Home Base, had landed and neutralized the station, Aeron and MK-09 were called in to assist in combing the main computer core. Unfortunately for the team already working on the core, a fail-safe added by the mercenaries was triggered. Because of the triggering, the entire station was set to be destroyed in just over three standard minutes. Aeron, now racing against the clock, made her way to the assembled team and utilized both her skills at slicing and her knowledge of the systems to safely disable the explosive measures and save the station from destruction. After the success of the mission, Azzameen Home Base was returned to the Azzameen family.^[1]

[edit] Family reunion

Some time after the recapture of Azzameen Home Base, Antan contacted the Azzameen children and requested that they all meet at Azzameen Home Base, where he attempted to clear the circumstances following his appearance at the recapturing of Falcon's Nest. Ace, on leave from the Rebellion, met up with his brother and sister at Azzameen Home Base, where the Big Score was waiting. An irate Aeron demanded answers; Antan explained that his actions, though contrary to the well-being of the Rebellion, were intended solely to reestablish the family trading business. To that end, Antan explained that he set up the Sullustans at the request of the Empire in order to recover both Galin and Tomaas. The two, according to Antan, were not killed as it had been believed but instead were captured and kept in a prison facility above the Imperial-held mining world Kessel.^[1]

Excited at the prospect of the survival of Galin and Tomaas, Aeron convinced a skeptical Emon to follow through with the plan, and the Azzameens made haste to the Kessel system. Once arrived, Antan instructed Ace, flying the Otana, to dock with Kessel Station so Aeron could board and search the database for the missing Azzameens. She was unable to find them listed in the registry on the first run, but Antan insisted that she keep looking. His request was followed, allowing the Star Destroyer Devastator time to enter the system. Once present, the Devastator commanded the Azzameens to turn over their craft and prepare to be boarded. Antan, with his end of the bargain to remove the meddlesome Azzameen children complete, left the system, leaving a bewildered and angered Aeron in his wake.^[1]

She urged Ace to abort the docking procedure and leave the system; however, Emkay was unable to calculate a proper set of hyperspace coordinates due to the heavy concentration of black holes in the system. With the star destroyer and its fighter complement bearing down on the Andrasta and Otana, the Azzameens feared the worst. It wasn't until the surprise arrival of the allied Dunari that the Azzameens considered the situation anything less than hopeless. The newcomer transmitted a set of viable coordinates and the Azzameens left Kessel Station.^[1]

The hyperspace jump landed them just outside a nearby asteroid field. Dunari instructed the two Azzameen ships to navigate through it in order to reach a suitable entry point for their return to the Liberty stationed over Sullust. Ace, with Aeron and MK-09 aboard, and Emon made it through the field, which was littered with asteroid-mounted laser batteries, and past Imperial Outpost AS-27 before successfully escaping their uncle's trap.^[1] Once back, Ace went on to attack the second Death Star under construction over the Forest Moon of Endor. Aeron did not take part in the Battle of Endor like her younger brother.^[3]

[edit] Personality and traits

Aeron Azzameen was a human female with brown hair. Born into the Azzameen family sometime before the Galactic Civil War, Aeron became a skilled pilot while working for her father and uncle. She was most accustomed to flying the family's YT-1300 freighters—typically using the Selu, until its destruction—but was also capable of piloting her father's YT-2000, the Otana.^[1] In her spare time, Aeron grew skilled with computers and was eventually considered a skillful hacker and slicer^[4]—knowledge she was able to use to keep Azzameen Home Base from destruction. She was also capable of altering a starship's unique identification codes in order to mask a particular ship's true nature.^[1] Aside from family friend Olin Garn, Aeron kept her sweet and caring nature reserved for the family and was reluctant to express it outside of the bloodline.^[4]

When her brother Ace came of age to start working for the family, Tomaas Azzameen told Aeron to teach the burgeoning pilot. Once his initial training assignment was complete, Aeron continued to mentor her sibling throughout his service to Twin Suns Transport Services and, once the company was forced into closing by Imperial nationalization, and throughout his service with the Alliance to Restore the Republic. She was fiercely devoted to her family, placing the success of the family and the company above her own safety and well-being. When Twin Suns Transport Services was threatened by the intrusive Viraxo, she came up with a plan to covertly exact revenge upon the rival company. Once the Azzameen children were forced to evacuate their holdings and join the Rebellion, Aeron pointed her loyalties toward the family's new allies. In this capacity, Aeron formulated several missions to acquire supplies for the Rebel Alliance; these missions also served to cripple the Viraxo, in both their holdings and their relationship with the Empire.^[1] Similarly, though open to differing opinions and viewpoints, Aeron was insistent on measures and ideals that she had decided.^[4]

Aeron's dedication to her allies often cost her, however, even to the point of near death. Her loyalty to family was inadvertently one of the reasons the family business was forced to fold; a mission to strike back at the rival Viraxo, in which Aeron risked her life in several ways, did not go as she had planned. This botched mission caused the Viraxo to retaliate by calling in the Galactic Empire to seize the Azzameen family's assets. Her sense of dedication to the Rebel Alliance did not go over well with uncle Antan, as Antan, a staunch supporter of staying neutral through the Galactic Civil War, feared the sympathetic Azzameens, including Aeron, would risk the family's trade. This progressively caused tension between the two.^[1]

[edit] Relationships

[edit] Olin Garn

Employed by Twin Suns Transport Services during the years of the Galactic Civil War, Olin Garn met Aeron Azzameen while working for the family. While under contract for the Azzameen's business, Garn grew close to the female Azzameen as time progressed, even though Aeron typically withheld her kind nature from those outside the family. The two were so close, in fact, that Garn was considered a member of the Azzameen family.^[4] Around the time of the Battle of Hoth in 3 ABY, Garn left the employment of Twin Sun Transport Services to enlist in the Alliance to Restore the Republic as a fighter pilot; while stationed aboard the Defiance, visits to the family and Aeron were limited. He was nevertheless able to keep in touch with Aeron, as well as other members of the Azzameen household, by means of e-mail. He encouraged Ace to keep an eye on his older sister for him to make sure she stayed out of trouble. Olin also supplied the family with the coordinates to the Alliance Fleet; Aeron used these, as well as her relationship to the Rebel pilot, as a means to request sanctuary by the Alliance. The two maintained contact throughout their different campaigns.^[1]

Both Aeron and Garn were cryptic concerning their relationship beyond friendship. In an e-mail to Ace, Aeron displayed her frustration towards the Rebellion because of their infrequent leave periods, as it caused difficulties in fostering relationships; she quickly recanted the latter portion of her statement. Garn was slightly more open in revealing his caring feelings toward the female Azzameen.^[1]

[edit] Behind the scenes

Aeron Azzameen was first featured in the PC game Star Wars: X-wing Alliance, where she acts as a major non-player character. At the beginning of the game's storyline, she guides the player through a series of instructional "missions" to help acquaint a player with the game's controls. Further into the story, she supplements the experience with family-oriented missions to either aid the recovery of the family business or assist the Alliance to Restore the Republic—and occasionally, both at the same time.^[1] She would go unmentioned in any other official products until a passing reference was made in Olin Garn's entry in The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia.^[5]

Aeron's character was voiced by Julianne Buescher.^[1] Buescher has also voiced characters in other Star Wars titles, including the main character, Rianna Saren, in Star Wars: Lethal Alliance^[6] and smaller roles in Star Wars Episode I: The Gungan Frontier^[7] and the Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace video game.^[8]

[edit] Appearances

• Star Wars: X-wing Alliance (First appearance)

[edit] Sources

•  Star Wars: X-wing Alliance - Characters on LucasArts.com (archived at Internet Archive)
• Star Wars: X-wing Alliance: Prima's Official Strategy Guide
• The Complete Star Wars Encyclopedia

[edit] Notes and references

[edit] External links

•  Azzameen, Aeron in the Completely Unofficial Star Wars Encyclopedia