Comic book
X-Wing Rogue Squadron ½
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X-Wing Rogue Squadron ½ is a promotional one-shot issue of the Star Wars Legends comic book series Star Wars: X-Wing Rogue Squadron. It was written by Michael A. Stackpole and Mike W. Barr, with art by Gary Erskine, and it features a story set in 0 BBY, immediately before the Battle of Yavin.
The issue was first published in February 1997 by Dark Horse Comics, and it was distributed through Wizard Entertainment. It was reprinted in Star Wars: X-Wing Rogue Squadron: Requiem for a Rogue trade paperback (1999) and Star Wars Omnibus: The Other Sons of Tatooine (2012). A digital edition was published by Marvel Comics in 2015.
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Facts
- Title
- X-Wing Rogue Squadron ½
- Writers
- Michael A. Stackpole (Plot)
- Mike W. Barr (Script)
- Penciller
- Gary Erskine
- Inker
- Gary Erskine
- Letterer
- Annie Parkhouse
- Colorist
- David Nestelle
- Cover artist
- Christopher Moeller
- Editor
- Bob Cooper
- Publisher
- Dark Horse Comics
- Wizard Entertainment
- Released
- February 1997
- Pages
- 17
- Timeline
- 0 BBY
- Series
- Star Wars: X-Wing Rogue Squadron
- Issue
- ½
Who turns up here
Characters: 12
- Wedge Antilles
- Nera Dantels (first appearance)
- Biggs Darklighter
- Garven Dreis
- Cesi Eirriss (first appearance)
- Leia Organa (as a hologram)
- Jek Tono Porkins
- R2-D2
- Luke Skywalker
- Antilles family
- House of Organa (as a hologram)
- Skywalker family
Species: 12
Planets: 8
- Alderaan (mentioned only)
- Bestine IV (indirect mention)
- Commenor (first appearance)
- Folor (first pictured)
- Averam (mentioned only)
- Yavin 4
- Yavin Prime
- Tatooine (mentioned only)
Places: 3
- Hangar Bay 31 (first appearance)
- Unidentified cantina (first appearance)
- Great Temple
Galaxy: 7
Starships: 13
- Alliance Fleet
- Death Star (mentioned only)
- DS-1 Orbital Battle Station (mentioned only)
- Imperial-class Star Destroyer
- YT-series
- YT-1300 light freighter
- Starduster (first appearance)
- EF76 Nebulon-B escort frigate
- GR-75 medium transport
- Lambda-class T-4a shuttle
- TIE/ln space superiority starfighter
- X-wing starfighter
- T-65 X-wing starfighter
Vehicles: 1
Organizations: 16
- Alliance to Restore the Republic
- Alliance Intelligence (mentioned only)
- Alliance Military
- Alliance Starfighter Corps
- Rebel pilot
- Red Squadron
- Rogue Squadron
- Galactic Empire
- Imperial Military
- Imperial Army
- Stormtrooper Corps
- Stormtrooper
- Imperial Intelligence (mentioned only)
- Imperial Senate (mentioned only)
- Jedi (mentioned only)
- Corellian
Events: 5
- Galactic Civil War
- Battle of Yavin (mentioned only)
- Dissolution of the Imperial Senate (mentioned only)
- Mission to Commenor (first appearance)
- Starfighter combat
Technology: 15
Media: 1
Everything else: 91
- Astromech droid
- R-series
- Dealer droid (first pictured)
- Interrogation droid (mentioned only)
- Folor Base (first mentioned)
- Army
- Corps
- Starfighter Corps
- Darklighter family
- Fleet
- Journalist (mentioned only)
- King (mentioned only)
- Navy
- Officer
- Captain
- Commanding officer
- Pilot
- Princess (as a hologram)
- Queen (mentioned only)
- Smuggler
- Soldier
- Squadron
- Trooper
- Repulsorcraft
- Speeder
- Landspeeder
- Starship
- Capital ship
- Star Destroyer
- Freighter
- Light freighter
- Frigate
- Shuttle
- Starfighter
- TIE series
- Transport
- Armor
- Helmet
- Flight helmet
- Comlink
- Headset comlink
- Droid
- Engine
- Sublight engine
- Ion engine
- Twin ion engine
- Repulsorlift
- Restraining bolt (mentioned only)
- S-foils
- Solar collector
- Weapon
- Cannon
- Laser cannon
- Blood
- Cantina
- Chaos (mentioned only)
- Belt
- Body glove
- Boot
- Rebel flight suit
- Goggles
- Holster
- Shirt
- Cockpit
- Currency
- Death
- Ear
- Egg (mentioned only)
- Eye
- Gravity (mentioned only)
- Hair
- Hangar
- Hyperspace
- Language
- Laser
- Lekku
- Lightspeed
- Limb
- Moon
- Mouth
- Nose
- Null-gravity caroms (first mentioned)
- Planet
- Politics (mentioned only)
- Realspace
- Time
- Local day (mentioned only)
- Standard minute
- Tooth
- Unarmed combat
- Youngling
Not in the archive: 8
- Unidentified off-worlder (first appearance)
- Bay 17 (first appearance)
- Averam rebel cell (mentioned only)
- Commenor Patrol (first appearance)
- Fusial thrust engine
- Flux field (first mentioned)
- Kill marker
- Political science (first mentioned)
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