The first mission to Halmad was undertaken by Wraith Squadron in an attempt to begin their work as a group of pirates. The goal of this was to become a legitimate looking group, in the hope that they would be hired by Warlord Zsinj as well as procuring some TIE fighters.

The mission began with disguised pilots Ton Phanan and Kell Tainer starting a fight in a bar on Halmad, in a similar manner to a previous attack on Coruscant against the squadron members. A group of six Imperial pilots became involved, and within two minutes, all of the Imperial pilots were unconscious. By then, the bartender had called the military police, and the rest of the Wraiths arrived dressed in military police stormtrooper gear. The Wraiths took the malefactors captive and led them out of the bar. Once outside, the Wraiths stunned the Imperial pilots and waited. Another Wraith, Castin Donn, had laid down money at other bars in the capitol city, Hullis, and as a result, the military police had been called multiple times that night. The Wraiths approached a military police skiff that was returning to Victory Base and reported that their own skiff had broken. They were allowed to board and rode into the base.

Once inside, all the Wraiths disembarked except Shalla Nelprin, who hid inside. After reporting to an officer, the Wraiths dumped the Imperial pilots in an alley and began moving towards their objective, the starfighter hangar. Nelprin stayed in the skiff until it arrived at the vehicle hangar. She waited until the pilots disembarked, and then attempted to stun them. However, her blaster was not set to stun, and both troopers died. The other Wraiths had arrived at the hangar by now and stunned both of the guards. Phanan and Face Loran took their places. After five minutes, Donn cracked the hangar entry code, and the Wraiths entered. To their surprise, they found TIE Interceptors instead of fighters. They quickly set to work disabling the TIEs' security systems as well as painting graffiti glorifying the Hawk-bats pirate group on the hangar walls.

Outside, Phanan and Loran got into a firefight with a group of stormtroopers who were supposed to relieve them. The other Wraiths joined in, but some of the troopers escaped and reported the Wraiths. Wedge Antilles, the mission commander, ordered Donn to use one of the planned distractions. A moment later, the base's antiquated air raid sirens went off and the turbolasers began firing at the sky. This was Donn's distraction. He had, in fact, sliced in to Victory Base's archives and found an old simulation of an Imperial raid on the base. He patched it in to the sensor net, and the base's computer flagged them as unfriendlies. The Wraiths with TIE Interceptor training took five of the Interceptors and took off. The rest of the Wraiths were picked up by Nelprin in the skimmer she had hijacked. On the way out, the Wraiths in the Interceptors blasted Victory Base's command center and then headed for space. The other Wraiths jumped the skimmer once outside the base and waited until the pursuit had passed before stripping off their stormtrooper armor and leisurely heading back to town.

AppearancesEdit

• X-wing: Iron Fist (First appearance)
• X-wing: Solo Command (Indirect mention only)