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Xarcce Huwla was a Tunroth who volunteered to join the Alliance of Free Planets' Rogue Squadron following the Battle of Endor. Around nine months after the battle, Huwla was recruited into the unit, by then under the New Republic, but requested to be transferred out due to the squadron's high number of casualties. Unable to be moved immediately, her first deployment was the Battle of Brentaal IV, where she and the squadron engaged in combat with the 181st Imperial Fighter Wing at a base on one of the planet's moons.
As part of the Brentaal IV campaign, Huwla also participated in battles on Vuultin and Oradin, cities on the planet. At Vuultin, the squadron supported Aggressor Wing and encountered the 181st once more, successfully forcing more 181st fighters at Oradin to leave and allowing the New Republic to capture it in the process. At Oradin, Huwla and the squadron shot down additional Imperial fighters, including those from the 181st. By the time the campaign had ended, Huwla managed to score impressive kills against the famous Imperial unit and found friends within Rogue Squadron, never speaking of transfers again.
Huwla and Rogue Squadron were later deployed to the planet Axxila on an undercover mission, where she engaged pirates in flight as well as in unarmed combat at an establishment alongside fellow Rogues Nrin Vakil and Ibtisam. Around 5 ABY, the squadron was called up for a mission to rescue Grand Vizier Sate Pestage from the world Ciutric IV. During the mission, Rogue Squadron and Aggressor Wing supported Commando Team One's extraction of Pestage but were forced to retreat to the world's surface due to the arrival of two Star Destroyers in orbit. Despite failing to rescue Pestage, they successfully defeated the Imperial forces and forced the Star Destroyers to flee. (Read more…)
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