This is a story, based on a character sketch for a Star Wars tabletop RPG. The scenario is "what if Luke and Leia did not happen to be the main characters?". The time frame is BBY -4. FANFICTION on a character sketch, gotta love it! Enjoy or do not Enjoy, but do not Try to enjoy.

Yavin 4

BBY VDS Day

Jahn sat munching on his nut bars sipping an energy tea like the rest of his wing before command got online and aboard. The had agreed they would command from the air in Puffy and were ready to mobilize the Rebellion by having all the fleet up providing some survival in the event of failure.

Jahn had a different plan, failure was not an option. That weapon had to be ended for it was just far too easy for someone having a bad day to use and destroy a planet. As bad as he felt about Alderaan, through Jahn's time idling in his bird, he felt relief. He gave the Force his memory of the grief and it instead of inspiring bloodlust, seemed to cleanse him with cold water, which of itself brought back many memories to hold to.

He was the only one of Intruder flight running single seat although he did strap a special duelist elite in the pivoting copilot seat with himself in pilot one, so he could have some sort of gunner back shooting aft or to the side. He also had installed some special built bomb racks under the wings in the back and placed lightsabers in them. On top, in the last hook went a turbolaser buster lightstaff on a cable, just in case.

The battle plan was simple, get to the Death Star with 90 stunt fighters and six other newer bombers besides the ancient BB-2s making the first runs. The plan was to have three peal off at a time to run down the trench bombing with photon torpedoes to hit a two meter by two meter shaft. Luke was given the lucky number 7, his rebuilt Z-95s his second was Wedge Antilles and third was Biggs Darklighter a trusted rebel pilot that grew up with Luke as they split the bomb runs up by 3s. Those not roaring down the trench were to draw off any enemy fighters and neutralize the turrets on the surface. Jahn had another idea though and had loaded his flight just for it… hoping to give them maybe another half hour of fight time by hitting them just right.

"Intruder 3 to gold 5."

"Go ahead intruder 3."

"Luke, you all right, you've been through a meat grinder today."

"I'm all right, its just Han. I really thought he would come."

"He has to follow his own path Luke." Jahn began, his adolescent voice cracking "I always as a rule whether it is a friend, foe, girl, organization, give them choices. When someone chooses, the power of that choice is carried with it. That is another mistake the Empire makes and simply the base reason we do this. Not to kill, not to fight, but to defend choice. The weapon we face robs us of choice." Jahn finished, and noticed that Ash had broadcast his little speech to the entire organization because on the deck right after he finished there was a whoop and a cheer from everyone. He felt better as all spirits lifted and his own squadron frequency went crazy with rebel yells.

His flight control gave him the go ahead for liftoff then space. He switched to command frequency as all flights checked in and then back to his own.

"Sketchy?" he called.

"Yes sir." the droid responded.

"I want you to hang with me back there and be ready with countermeasures and flight control should I ask so fully patch in." four ears Jahn did not expect heard that and tuned to a separate channel.

"You owe me 50 credits, now lets make our man proud when he goes off the deep end."

They passed through the deflector shield and Jahn just kept meditating. When the command was to prepare for battle and accelerate to attack speed Jahn's flight lit out like a solar flare full throttle as did the six Z-95s. Jahn amused himself on point taking out turret after turret when he reached the "main gun" and fired a salvo of ion missiles which his wing mates did as well.

"Sketchy orbit this at flank" and the some lightsabers went away as his mind went full concentration as they skipped and slagged as much of the outer ring as he could get on one pass before he pushed them toward the middle still on, came out of meditation and rolled right.

"Intruder leader this is base ….. what did you just do?"

"Base this is Tude Lead, uhhh looks like our boy done had an epiphany I know they had a herd of astromechs out to fix damage on the main gun asap!" the laughing voice called.

"Intruder leader this is base stick with the battle plan." The controller called. And someone on channel blew a raspberry at him.

"Are they a bunch of drunks or what?" and they looked at Leia.

First bomb run by red group was a failure as they got chopped up from behind by TIE fighters. Green group who was flight attack flights leader formed up and took his run followed by the ties again and this time they got one shot off before TIEs from behind slagged them. After flying around the attack run start point waiting for the TIEs to flash by Jahn had another epiphany.

"Gold leader this is Tude 3"

"Tude 3 go ahead."

"Yeah lets form up nine of us in a train, Wide open throttle and hit it while the TIEs are in front. You other X-wings, keep the Imps busy will ya."

"Might as well." the commander called and suddenly all nine went toward the rift.

"Command this is con"

"Go ahead Jannma."

"We have a storm of TIEs ahead, please put all tray tables and seat backs to the full upright position. Gunners, wake up nap time is over." And she turned to Ash "Plow the road dude. We have to hold off the liftoffs."

"Ecmo to Con."

"Go ahead Linna."

"Voorcat flight has emerged from hyperspace with the birds that did not make it and some untested rogues."

"Awesome news lets teach them what we call flying artillery!"

Back at the trench, "Okay folks, wide open throttle and lets hit the trench! Simply put lets fly like our families depended on it if the TIEs find a way to come back to us we have it." Jahn answered as they hit the trench. When he noted the lead was not flying wide open. "Lead crack it that last inch, she will take it and you will make it."

"We have lost six here already." Gold leader replied.

"Those were not my birds, trust the Force and let go." Then gold leader opened up as Jahn switched to private frequency. "Girls, he bought those TIEs time from vaping the previous run in front of us to make it around back to us after they are done. Flying Stepped V, gunners give em our hell pattern Charlie. Make em earn their wings."

The Intruder flight manned up and Jahn took the deep rear. Jannma could feel it he was in full defense mode while talking his flight through the "golden pellet" scenario.

All Force sensitive saw the line. They knew this was the battle test.

"Luke you turned off your targeting computer what's wrong."

"I'm ok." As Luke listened to Obi-Wan's advice.

The Death Star cleared the planet, yet no shot came.

Jahn's bird held the line in back as he had predicted and painted, three tie aces came for his flight. The lead TIE and his wingmen started firing through the flack Intruder three shot back and all his ordinance he was dumping. The rear shields on the craft took a pounding then suddenly the lead TIE holding Darth Vader saw the incomprehensible. The aft dinosaur bomber who, like all of the last three, had dropped ordnance to make it dangerous back there loosed an ignited lightstaff and blocked three direct hits into space.

Suddenly bolts came in from above him hitting a wingman and the other wingman hit his craft knocking it out of the trench with a Rebel Yell from Han calling them all to finish & come home.

Gold leads proton torpedo had negative impact, 2 and three also. However Luke's gold Five hit the target with four and six missing with Intruder 1 but Intruder 2 hit the target as the only one of her flight.

Lord Vader thought about what he'd seen and would tell his master. The secret of the Kratovas Wildman was plain to see now. He did not merely load for a mission, he took all he could carry and let the Force walk him through it, nearly trying to do too much. He also noted as well as that there were new enemies, young untrained, someone they were congratulating called Luke, and the one who was in the Death Star itself who flew the Rebel Command, protecting them.

Jahn pulled the secured saber back in its hook and locking it then fired the ship for home with a quick light speed jump after clearing the tower just in time.

He reverted half the system away as the Death Star blew and he turned around looking for his TIE adversary. He believed it was Vader himself from the intel.

Jannma sensed this before keying her mike on the squadron channel. "Intruder 3 let it go if he made it from the blast he made a choice to live."

"RTB then, be a while shot blocker out." Was the response she got and Jahn told Sketchy to take them home.

Jahn still felt bad for all who died, 90 pilots on his side there was only 26 making it home after mopping up the TIEs Puffy and the Voorcat squadron did not splat on the back side of Yavin. The death toll was not counting the over 6000 on the space station. But 10,000 on Yavin 4 lived, although 6 billion on Alderaan died. He released this line of thinking into the realization…. He had Stopped what Jasrol Mintran feared, the Death Star would not destroy Yanibar or anything in the Kalat Arm. Then he closed his eyes to rest for a while.

"Jannma you made this bird of prey truly fly today, it is an honor to have watched it." Ashla swatted her on the back "I knew I made the right choice. I am glad I can make more choices thanks to you and our men."

"Was it really that number?" she said as she looked at the stat in front of her 44 main gun kills and over a hundred a side on the turret cannons.

"In a bird this big, I can say that is truly incredible."

When Jahn's craft landed the exhausted lad was pulled with honor by his crew and taken to his bunk on Puffy before they closed the door to the celebration after the Command gear was removed.

Only three of Ranger Squadron attended the Yavin 4 Party, James, Shay Lin and Ashla Ti.

Notes, I do not own Lucas or Disney property, or even any Fanfic Property like that I borrowed Thieves World Style from Mechalich and have just injected the bare minimum so far. It is lazy yes, but the characters fit. I do not own them and receive no compensation for them, nor will accept any unless I become a screenwriter for them LOL.

I also took and basically modified some Tagalog terms to fit an isolated founders language. Gender terms are not differentiated too much. Asawa = spouse, ko= my, Kuya= brother, Ate =sister but drawing it out in a kooyaah or ahhtay is a greeting, like hey bro! in mixed company kuya seems to work and sometimes I screwed with spelling etc. Just adding a bit of texture. Mgabata = mga bata= children.

I have asked permission to use the "landscape" and some Characters from Mechalich, I have received approval. Mechalich owns them, not I. I broke his timeline for my own use in Xulin-Etch origins because it made better use here. I hope I can make these additions at least as good as a Thieves world Borrow. I used few Canon personalities so far, basically just two Maz Kanata and Zuvio. Check out the Tales from the Kalat Arm and The People's Armor here by Mechalich, they are quite awesome.

And lastly, since I did think Jedi were a bit stuck up, I believe the term is hidebound, rigid, unable to understand their own prophesy (This is what I am driving the story at, those that bring balance to the Force). I chose this Kalat Arm and Zeison Sha backstory for the character. It appealed to me, added conflict. I hope to make it a long long way bringing balance and up to date all the way to Rey-Finn and Kylo Ren. (except in my vision, those will be from different origins, hey, if Disney can scrap canon…which oddly is the metaphor of Jakku.)