Broken Wing

The Broken Wing was a starship piloted by the bounty hunter Beilert Valance during the reign of the Galactic Empire. Valance utilized the Broken Wing when he was hired by the Hidden Hand criminal syndicate to lead a team on a hunt for the Imperial enforcer Darth Vader. The vessel was shot down during a skirmish with Vader, but was retrieved and repaired by the Empire, who ordered Valance to work for them. After leading Imperial forces to the base of the Hidden Hand, Valance escaped in the Broken Wing, returning to work as a bounty hunter.

At the request of his old associate and Rebel Alliance member Han Solo, Valance used the Broken Wing to transport the engineer Vharn, whose intent to betray the Rebellion led Valance into an Imperial blockade. Valance killed Vharn, delivering the schematics the engineer had devised to the rebel rendezvous point. At some point, Valance was joined aboard the Broken Wing by the droid Nine-Four-El, who assisted him in his missions. Valance used the Broken Wing to travel to various destinations while searching for his former mentor Nakano Lash, who became a target of numerous hunters after she emerged from hiding.

After Valance found Lash, she tasked him with the protection of the young Cadeliah, the daughter of two heirs of rival criminal syndicates. Aboard the Broken Wing, Valance and Cadeliah were pursued by other hunters sent after them by the Unbroken Clan. Valance left his ward in the care of his former lover, travelling alone on the Broken Wing to draw away their pursuers. In a skirmish with pirates of the Ohnaka Gang while attempting to rescue the rebel transport Spirit of Jedha at the Terminus hyperlane intersection, the Broken Wing came under heavy fire, and Valance was forced to eject its central module in order to escape.

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