Tekba

Captain Tekba was a Mon Calamari male who commanded the New Republic troopship Pelagia during the Galactic Civil War. In 10 ABY, while the Pelagia was en route to reinforce a New Republic siege of an Imperial shipyard on the Galactic Rim, it stopped to pick up an X-wing fighter flight group in the Ottega system. At that moment, a particle disintegrator warhead was fired at Tekba's starship from the Galaxy Gun, Emperor Palpatine's newest superweapon.

Although General Lando Calrissian warned Tekba of the missile, which was approaching the Pelagia through hyperspace, Tekba did not have enough time to retreat and instead attempted to intercept and destroy the warhead. However, the effort failed, and the missile destroyed the Pelagia, killing Tekba and a hundred thousand of the New Republic's best troops that it had been carrying aboard.

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