Ched Varga

Ched Varga was a starfighter pilot who joined the Rebel Alliance at some point during the Galactic Civil War and became noted as a Y-wing pilot. Rebel pilots at that time frequently tested their skills in the unofficial "pilot proving grounds," competing to set the best time on a series of courses through a Rebel salvage yard hidden in an asteroid field. At some point prior to 3.5 ABY, Varga was killed in a crash while flying a course that saw pilots negotiate a figure-eight comprising a series of rings and tunnels that intersected above a frozen nitrogen lake in a cavern at the center of a large asteroid.

The wreckage of Varga's Y-wing was still in the cavern when pilot Ace Azzameen undertook the same challenge in 3 ABY. Azzameen's MK-series maintenance droid, MK-09, cited his death as an example of the dangers of the pilot proving grounds.

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