Nash Windrider

Nash Windrider was a human male from Alderaan who served as a commander and lieutenant in the naval forces of the Galactic Empire. He attended the Royal Imperial Academy on Coruscant, and was roommates with the Jelucani cadet Thane Kyrell and Coruscanti Ved Foslo. He also had feelings for Ciena Ree, who was in love with Kyrell. After graduation, he was assigned to the Devastator. While aboard the Death Star, he witnessed the destruction of his homeworld, which wiped out his entire family and profoundly affected Windrider. However, he ultimately chose to remain in the Empire, justifying Alderaan's destruction by claiming it was necessary in order for the Empire to bring order to the galaxy.

As a member of the Imperial Navy, Windrider fought against the Alliance to Restore the Republic on several occasions including the Battle of Hoth. He later fought against his former friend Kyrell in a dogfight; he was shocked to find Kyrell alive, having believed Ree's fabrication that Kyrell had committed suicide. Ree thwarted Windrider's attempt to kill Kyrell, and Windrider comforted her after the battle, enraged by his belief that Kyrell had faked his death and tormented them all those years.

Windrider survived the cataclysmic defeat at the Battle of Endor, where he was devastated when Ree ordered him to abandon the Inflictor. The Empire soon descended into a state of chaos and the Rebellion had established a new government called the New Republic. Windrider was then posted on the Subjugator but was promoted to the rank of flight commander and assigned to the Inflictor a year after Endor.

Following the events at Jakku, Windrider fled the New Republic and was made a commander aboard an attack cruiser as part of an Imperial fleet that had retreated to the Queluhan Nebula and was privy to a planned offensive against the Republic. Believing that Ree had perished at Jakku, he nominated her for the Distinguished Medal of Imperial Honor posthumously.

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