Red Squadron (Star Tours)

For other uses, see Red Squadron.

Red Squadron was a New Republic X-wing starfighter squadron operating in the months after the Battle of Endor.^[3]

History

In 4.3 ABY,^[4] the squadron's X-wing pilots engaged^[1] the forces of Imperial Warlord Ennix Devian, which had launched a feint at the Alliance of Free Planets capital of Endor, deploying what seemed to be a third Death Star—in reality an unfinished worldcraft habitation sphere^[5]—and a force of Imperial Star Destroyers and TIE fighters.^[1]

During the battle,^[1] the pilot designated "Red Leader"^[2] discovered, to his surprise, that a Star Tours travel agency StarSpeeder 3000 had been caught in a Star Destroyer's tractor beam. Freeing the civilian vessel and attempting to protect it from a wave of TIE fighters, the pilots made for the Death Star's surface. Calling on squadronmates designated "Red Twenty-Four" and "Red Thirty" to provide cover for an attack run^[1] on the battle station's vulnerable thermal exhaust port, a Red squadron X-wing^[3]—with Star Tours Flight 45 close behind—scored a direct hit, destroying the station as the group jumped to hyperspace.^[1]