Kasan Moor: Daughter of Alderaan

Born on the peaceful core world of Alderaan, Kasan Moor began her piloting career in service to the Galactic Empire, whose skill eventually allowed her to rise to the rank of Lieutenant and be given command of the esteemed 128th Tie Interceptor Squadron. The skills and discipline she and the squadron displayed were such that the official Imperial handbook cited them as a shining example of what the best pilots can do. In her time in the Empire’s service, Kasan had accumulated a vast knowledge of Imperial installations and bases.

Kasan Moor had diligently served in the Empire for a long time. However, she came to understand the true nature of the authoritarian dictatorship when Alderaan and all of its inhabitants were wiped from the face of the galaxy. The Empire’s ultimate battle station and superweapon, the Death Star, had blown her homeworld to smithereens in a petty act of vengeance against a political prisoner. Kasan was faced with the harsh reality that she had been lied to and used for evil the whole time. She realized that the government whose orders she followed for a long time was not a force for peace or order but for suffering and oppression.

While Kasan Moor was no longer truly loyal to the Empire, she had no choice but to continue following their orders until an opportunity to switch allegiances arose. Over six months after the galaxy-defining Batte of Yavin, Kasan’s chance to shift sides finally came. The core world of Gerrard V was home to rebel supporters who were endeavoring to gain independence, to which the local Imperial governor responded by looting the major city. Kasan Moor and the 128th were assigned to put down the insurrection, and the Alliance pilots aiding them, but the Rebels successfully defeated the interceptor squadron and foiled the Empire, with Kasan’s ship having been disabled by a Y-wing’s ion cannons. She promptly used the opportunity to propose an offer to lend her skills and knowledge to the Alliance. They accepted, and Moor had finally turned her back on the Empire she had grown to hate.

The Rebellion immediately put Kasan Moor’s knowledge of Imperial installations to use in the planning and orchestration of devastating raids. Additionally, to make use of her piloting skills, Kasan Moor was brought into the famous Rogue Squadron under the command of Luke Skywalker and became a peer to other esteemed Rogues like Wedge Antilles, Wes Janson, Derek “Hobbie” Klivian, Zev Sensca, and Dak Ralter. Some were initially distrusting of her, and Kasan herself had to adjust to being on the other side. Regardless, she would prove her loyalty in the first target she provided and helped raid: an imperial storage facility on the Jade Moon of Loronar. She would continue proving herself by providing intel for two more targets immediately after: the Imperial construction yards on Balmorra and the Imperial spaceport and enclave on Kile II, as well as directly participating in the hit-and-run operations on both targets. When Wedge Antilles was shot down and captured during the Kile II mission, Kasan helped coordinate a rescue operation on the prison planet of Kessel, springing Wedge free and proceeding to help free other prisoners before heading back to base.

One of Kasan Moor’s most notable campaigns was the one involving the Rebels’ battles against the Imperial Moff Kohl Seerdon, who was consolidating his forces for a planned attack on the Rebel bacta supply on Thyferra. She and the Rogues stoked Seerdon’s Ire when they raided and crippled two of his operations to interfere with the Moff’s plans. The first was in the skies of the gas giant Taloraan, where they destroyed the Imperial Tibanna gas containers on the floating gas platforms. The second was on the frigid mountainous planet Fest, where they destroyed his research facility after stealing some of his property. These attacks provoked him to blockade Chandrila, the homeworld of rebel leader Mon Mothma, in retaliation. The Rogues were forced to engage the Empire in a heated battle to keep Chandrila from crumbling, with Kasan personally encountering Seerdon and nearly being goaded into pursuing him into a possible trap, only ceasing thanks to Luke Skywlaker’s prompting. Kasan lent her knowledge on a hidden Imperial base on the volcanic world of Sullust to facilitate a rebel raid there. They successfully destroyed the base and geothermal capacitor there, but it turned out that Moff Seerdon was counting on the Rogues attacking Sullust, and timed his invasion of Thyferra to take place at the same time. Kasan Moor and Rogue Squadron quickly scrambled to Thyferra to defend the Rebel’s bacta supplies from Moff Seerdon’s takeover. The battle was hard-fought, with Kasan’s fighter getting shot down in the battle, but she survived and Rogue Squaron ultimately prevailed, destroying the Imperial forces, reclaiming the raided bacta, and killing Seerdon once and for all.

After the battle of Thyferra, Kasan Moor had retired from being a pilot for Rogue Squadron to serve as an advisor to Mon Mothma of Alliance high command. She continued to aid the war efforts, however, by lending more of her knowledge on Imperial targets to them, helping the Rebellion through brains rather than brawn. She would continue to serve in this capacity even after the Rebellion reformed into the New Republic a month following the battle of Endor. Six years after the battle of Endor, she would take up piloting for Rogue Squadron one last time as a personal favor to Wedge Antilles for an important battle. Taking place on the Mon Calamari homeworld of Dac was an invasion by the newly-formed faction of the fractured imperial remnant: the Dark Empire. The Dark Empire was attempting to destroy Dac using the World Devestators: titanic superweapons that absorbed a planet’s surface and converted its raw materials into armies of droids. Kasan aided Wedge and the rogues in the takedown of many of the smaller sized world devestators and taking out the tie fighters attempting to destroy the city. The New Republic was ultimately victorious in this battle, thanks in no small part due to Rogue Squadron and by extension, Kasan Moor.