Hav Antiel

Lieutenant Commander Hav Antiel is a TIE pilot assigned to Epsilon Squadron as Flight III Leader as part of Wing I aboard Imperial-II Class Star Destroyer Hammer.

Biography

Early Life

Hav Antiel was born on Gus Talon, a moon of Corellia. His father worked as a fabricator for the Corellian Engineering Corporation building YT- and YU-series freighters, and his mother worked in the cantina of the nearby Gus Talon Station. Both of his parents were immigrants to the system with little tying them to Corellian culture. Antiel considered the moon a flat, boring place, and he dreamed of becoming a smashball player for the Corellia Dreadnaughts.

The Antiel family escaped Gus Talon aboard the Nomad.

When Antiel was just nine years old, rebel terrorists destroyed Gus Talon Station. The attack was a disaster for the local population, and it was hours before Antiel learned that his mother was safe. Hundreds were dead, including women and children, but the rebels twisted the account of the attack to blame the Empire for the station's destruction. Amid claims that the Empire had targeted Gus Talon Station for being a rebel stronghold, the small, lunar society found itself in shambles. In the ensuing turmoil, the Antiel family steadfastly supported the Empire. Their loyalty led to their ostracization on Gus Talon.

After the attack on Gus Talon Station, Antiel's father wanted to ship out to another Core world, but his meager earnings didn't allow for much freedom. With the little savings he could spare, the elder Antiel began putting credits away for a personal ship; an ancient YG-4210 freighter named the Nomad.

As Antiel grew older, his former friends took up arms against the Empire in the name of the "rebel cause." Meanwhile, the Antiel family suffered as pariahs on the fringe of society while they saved credits for a new life.

For the young Antiel, it was a cruel existence living amidst the shifting alliances of the Corellian System. Corellia enforced martial law on Gus Talon with a brutal paramilitary, the Corellian Security Force. CorSec monitored the Antiels' every move. Years of political patronage and shadow dealings had turned Corellia into a crucible for sedition and anti-Imperial sentiments. Despite the protests of the dwindling loyalist population, the powerful Corellian Merchants' Guild prevented Imperial intervention and made life on Gus Talon unbearable for Imperial loyalists.

When the rebels began building a base on Corellia in 1 ABY, the CEC terminated the elder Antiel's contract. The family decided to run. Although the Nomad wasn’t fully paid off, Antiel's father stole the ship and ferried his family deep into the Outer Rim. Young Hav had never been so far from home. He tried to keep the hardships from frosting his perspective, and he hardened his resolve to someday join the effort to quash the rebel uprising.

The Antiel family lived aboard the Nomad for the next three years. The rebels continued to strike at the Empire, but good information was hard to find in the Outer Rim. To make ends meet, Antiel's father started smuggling for loyalist partners within the Outer Rim. He refused most of the work he was offered; trust was a rare commodity outside of the Core Worlds. For Hav, life was drastically different onboard the starship, and he spent most of those adolescent years in isolation.

Smuggling Years

After the death of the Emperor in 4 ABY, smuggling for the Empire became very dangerous, especially in the Outer Rim. The Antiel family wanted nothing more than to see the Empire flourish as it had before, but they held little faith in the warlords and despots who grasped for control in the power vacuum left in the Emperor’s wake. Antiel had become comfortable piloting the Nomad, although his endeavors rarely required any sort of skillful flying. Nonetheless, he developed a love of flying. The cockpit became a fulfilling escape from the drudgery of life aboard a ship.

When Hav turned 16, his mother began allowing her son to visit spaceports with his father. Antiel found opportunities to slip away from his father and discover what spaceports had to offer. Outer Rim stations were lousy with gambling, spice, and other vices, and there was so much to see at a spaceport; smugglers, pirates, thieves, gangsters, gamblers, slaves, droids, musicians, dancers, dirt, neon, holograms, booze, spice, and every sentient species in the galaxy.

The modified YT-2000 freighter Sithspit.

For young Hav, the next few years were thrilling, but the thrills came at a great cost. He gambled and partied, earned credits and then lost them, spent more time with strangers in cantinas than with his family on the Nomad. As he started to negotiate smuggling deals with his father, Hav began to lose his sense of principles. When his father declined an offer to move some droids for a Sullustan smuggler, Hav took the job in secret. The mission was trouble-free, and the young pilot pocketed a cool thousand credits.

As he took on more side jobs, it became harder for Hav to hide them from his family. When he turned 18, he was confronted by his father, who reminded his son of his duty to the Empire and of the cause of protecting the galaxy. Hav decided that he wanted to strike out on his own. His father wanted to stay and support him, but his mother had too much pride to suffer a disrespectful son. His father gave him all of the credits he had on hand and made Hav promise to stay in touch.

What followed was more of the same; continued debauchery and more careless smuggling. Hav teamed up with a crew of smugglers aboard the modified YT-2000 freighter Sithspit. They were neutral freelancers from all parts of the galaxy; Koota Jood, a female Duros; Lula Seca, a female Twi’lek; and the captain, a male Zabrak named Krun Rosk. A cadre of droids, including a gray amalgamation of protocol parts named “Threep,” completed the crew. For several years, Hav and the crew of the Sithspit continued an illegal smuggling campaign in the Outer Rim. Hav's relationship with Krun Rosk, testy from the beginning, began to sour when Rosk insisted on an increasing number of missions on the behalf of the rebels. After a mission that saw the Sithspit ambush and slaughter an Imperial convoy for a supply of E-11 blasters, Hav decided to hatch a mutiny against Rosk. Partnered by Lula Seca and Koota Jood, Hav planned to trap Rosk in the airlock at an Empire-friendly platform in the Imperial Outlands and deliver him into Imperial custory. However, the mutiny was a trap; Lula had informed Rosk, who pushed Hav into the airlock before the Sithspit had fully docked. Lula fought to keep Rosk from releasing the hatch, but the Zabrak was too powerful, and Hav was sent spinning into space.

To Hav's great fortune, a highly-attentive sentry on the platform witnessed the event unfold and was able to secure Hav by opening the platform's airlock in time. While Antiel recovered in the medical lab, he was visited by Imperial officers seeking details about the E-11 ambush. Antiel divulged information about the Sithspit and its crew in exchange for immunity from prosecution. Despite assurances from the officers, Antiel was leery and worried about his safety and security. Still reeling from the betrayal aboard the Sithspit and anxious to distance himself from the investigation, Antiel sought to enlist with the Imperial Navy.

Imperial Pilot

Initially, Imperial recruiters aimed to push Antiel (now in his mid 20s and with no reputable flight experience of record) into Stormtrooper service. Antiel was not eager to reveal his years of experience flying for smugglers, but he definitely did not want to be pressed into service as a Stormtrooper. Thinking quickly, Antiel challenged the recruiters to a bet: he would pose a riddle. If the recruiters could solve it, Antiel would report to Stormtrooper training. If they couldn't solve it, Antiel would get a shot in the TIE simulator. The two recruiters, perhaps bored with their presumptive recruit, took the bet. Antiel posed the riddle:

In a cabin on the Forest Moon of Endor, two men lie dead. The cabin itself is not burned, but the forest all around is burned to cinders. How did the men die?

The recruiters were unable to solve the riddle: the "cabin" was in fact the cabin of a transport that had crashed. The officers begrudgingly allowed Antiel to prove himself fully capable in the TIE simulator, and within a few hours Antiel was onboard an actual transport to begin his pilot training.

Antiel was initially stationed aboard the QX platform Daedalus for basic flight training. With his experience piloting the Nomad and Sithspit, Antiel was able to climb to the head of his class. He made easy work of the training courses and quickly acclimated himself to the various TIE craft of the Imperial Navy. Antiel earned his commission to Lieutenant and was assigned to Flight III of Epsilon Squadron aboard the Imperial-II Class Star Destroyer Hammer. Antiel quickly proved himself as a capable pilot in service to the Empire. In his first two month aboard the Hammer, Antiel had flown over 30 missions to earn a Commendation of Bravery. He earned a Palpatine Crescent after flying his 75th mission. Within a year, he was promoted to Lieutenant Commander and assigned to lead Flight III. Antiel was awarded the Order of the Vanguard to celebrate one year of service.

TIE Corps Career

TIE Corps Positions Held

• Epsilon Squadron Flight Member – 22 ABY (7 July 2014 - 3 March 2014)
• Epsilon Squadron Flight Leader – 22 ABY (3 March 2014 onwards)

TIE Corps Career Standings

Date	Position	Time Spent
07/20/2014	TRN/CT Hav Antiel/M/PLT Daedalus	1 day
07/20/2014	FM/SL Hav Antiel/Epsilon 3-2/Wing I/ISDII Hammer	4 days
07/24/2014	FM/LT Hav Antiel/Epsilon 3-2/Wing I/ISDII Hammer	3m, 24d
11/16/2014	FM/LT Hav Antiel/Epsilon 3-2/Wing I/ISDII Hammer	3m, 17d
03/04/2014	FL/LCM Hav Antiel/Epsilon 3-1/Wing I/ISDII Hammer	current

TIE Corps Medals and Awards Earned

• Palpatine Crescent
• Imperial Security Medal x 3
• Iron Star with Bronze Wings x 4
• Iron Star with Gold Ribbon
• Iron Star with Silver Ribbon x 6
• Iron Star with Bronza Ribbon x 10
• Medal of Communication - Platinum Oak Cluster
• Medal of Communication - Gold Oak Cluster
• Medal of Communication - Silver Oak Cluster
• Medal of Communication - Bronze Oak Cluster x 6
• Commendation of Bravery
• Order of the Vanguard