Barion Raner

Barion Raner was a human from the planet Ord Mantell who joined the Alliance to Restore the Republic as a pilot. Flying as Blue Four in the Alliance's Blue Squadron, Raner was second-in-command to General Antoc Merrick. He wrote the X-wing Flight Manual, which was used by many rebel pilots and purposefully leaked on to the Imperial HoloNet by Alliance Intelligence.

Raner was scrambled with the rest of Blue Squadron in 1 BBY in order to support rebel forces on the planet Scarif; however, once in the Scarif system, he did not make it through the Empire's Shield Gate before it closed, narrowly avoiding crashing into it like his squadmate Vangos Grek. Separated from Merrick, Raner instead joined the fight against the Imperial forces above Scarif.

Making a lone run at the Imperial I-class Star Destroyer Persecutor, Raner managed to destroy one of its deflector shield generators. This proved an important moment of the battle, as it allowed the rebel Gold Squadron to then disable the Star Destroyer so that it could be pushed into the Shield Gate. With the gate and the planetary shield around Scarif gone, the rebels on the ground transmitted the plans to the Death Star superweapon to the Rebel fleet. Raner was then among those that escaped the star system and survived to fight another day.

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