ELITE
In the Rebellion a lot of our warrior elite were from the lower ranks of society. Sure Princess Leia grew up in the upper crust, but she and Luke were orphans from the ranks of fugitive Jedi, definitely low on the social ladder at the time.
Solo, like many others whom I will not name, was an orphan from the streets, which is considered undesirable even now.
Others were deserters or drop-outs from the Academy, like most of the pilots, which put us on Imperial Wanted lists. Others had been court-martialed. Most were fugitives, some, like Chewbacca, were freed slaves. Others still were hiding from pasts as dark as Vader's.
Then there were the Force sensitives. Some of our absolute best ground troops and pilots we had. They were hidden in our ranks and their seemingly hypersensitive abilities saved quite a few of us at one time or another, though they didn't really know how they were doing it. Luke was probably the only one who knew about Force abilities at the time anyway.
~Hobbie Kilvian
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