Bansu Ro

Bansu Ro was a human male born on the planet Lothal who became an Imperial cadet at the Galactic Empire's naval academy on the planet Carida. Training as a pilot, he and fellow cadet Rac Syrmo competed for the top spot on their class's leaderboard until the Empire's navy commandeered their class around 4 ABY. The Empire's 204th Imperial Fighter Wing requested Ro and Syrmo to make up for losses in the fighter wing's Squadron Five.

Ro and Syrmo joined the 204th's Squadron Five, which was preparing for an attack on a mobile Rebel Alliance recruitment base. When Squadron Five and a complement of TIE bombers were subsequently deployed to destroy the recruitment base, Ro engaged the defending T-65B X-wing starfighters, saving Syrmo from one in the process. Squadron Five and the bombers ultimately destroyed the recruitment base and its escorts. After the battle, the pilots received news of the death of the Galactic Emperor. Squadron Five returned to the rest of the 204th, which continued to clash with the forces of the Alliance and its successor, the New Republic, through many battles. The fighter wing was later stationed with the Empire's loyalist forces at the planet Jakku.

During a social gathering with other 204th personnel, Ro fell under the influence of narcotics and grieved the victims of the 204th's genocides before he was taken to his bunk. The New Republic later defeated the Empire at Jakku, and Ro fled the world, soon finding himself on the planet Freerock as an ex-Imperial. At the Rim's Edge cantina on Freerock, Ro was approached by the ex–New Republic pilot Nath Tensent, who revealed what he knew of the former Imperial pilot. While prepared to draw a weapon as he did not trust his visitor, Ro listened as Tensent offered an invitation to join his crew of freelancers, which already had taken in two other ex-204th pilots. Tensent left a bewildered Ro with an offer to speak again at the establishment Roderick's.

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