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Why does Wdge Antillies have two havle death stars painted on his X-Wing?
I can understand him having half the death star II kill but Why the orginal?
I mean i suppose he got off a few laser hits during the battle but so did the surving Y-Wing and he can't have part of the kill to.

Surely Luke sould be the only person with any right to the first death star's kill siloutte? Shouldn't he have the full kill?

Could mean simply that he was involved with both battles on the death stars?

Any survivor probably gets one as without them more then likely it wouldn't have been won. What if Wedge just wasn't there? Would Luke have managed it? It is a collaborated victory I'd say. Just because Luke was the one to pull the final trigger doesn't make him the sole winner.

Battle of Yavin campaign medal?

Wedge covered and delayed the enemy fighters from getting to Luke quicker and he deserves it just right. ~Jason

Yavin was a total team effort. As such it should be expected that all who participated in the battle are credited with the destruction of the Death Star. This means that Wedge, Han, Luke, and the surviving Y-Wing pilot all earned the distinction to claim the kill. Those who died in the battle also likely get the distinction.

In the first Stackpole X-Wing novel, it explains that the Death Star silhouette is for the Battle of Yavin, and that there's some kind of dot or other signifying mark on the silhouette which indicates that he participated in the trench run.

Sorta correct. There is a Battle of Endor patch for the fighter pilots and there is also a patch with a black dot that signifies the Death Star run pilots who flew through the super structure. Only Wedge and Lando survived the actual assault while Tycho and the other A-Wing pilot survived the distraction chase through the super structure. A Y-Wing had followed Tycho and the other A-Wing but it seems sources indicate none of the Y-Wing survived Endor.

Alyeska wrote:Sorta correct. There is a Battle of Endor patch for the fighter pilots and there is also a patch with a black dot that signifies the Death Star run pilots who flew through the super structure. Only Wedge and Lando survived the actual assault while Tycho and the other A-Wing pilot survived the distraction chase through the super structure. A Y-Wing had followed Tycho and the other A-Wing but it seems sources indicate none of the Y-Wing survived Endor.

Well, there it is.

Was the Y-Wing pilot that survived Yavin ever identified?

Yes. IIRC he was in the Christmas Special and he was also named in the Star Wars Rebellion game.

Alyeska wrote:Yes. IIRC he was in the Christmas Special and he was also named in the Star Wars Rebellion game.

And his name is...? Don't make me drag out Rebellion, I'll end up playing it for an entire day then hate it all over again.

Alyeska wrote:but it seems sources indicate none of the Y-Wing survived Endor.

Colonel Salm survived Endor, he was in the X-Wing Dark Horse comics commanding a squadron of Y-Wings during the Battle of Brental*sp* IV IIRC.~Jason

Narra, IIRC. I think later he was doing some espionage somewhere and got killed.

Course the X-wing game says it was Farlander. So we are waiting for a continuity fix from LFL for that one.