Wraith Squadron

TitleWraith Squadron (Star Wars: X-Wing Series, Book 5)
AuthorAaron Allston
PublishedBantam Spectra, Feb 1998
ISBN0553578944
Length403 pages
Timeline4 A.E.*
Summary
CharactersWraith 1: Cmdr Wedge Antilles, Wraith 2: Jesmin Ackbar, Wraith 3: Falynn Sandskimmer, Wraith 4: Eurrsk "Grinder" Thri'ag, Wraith 5: Kell Tainer, Wraith 6: Hohass "Runt" Ekwesh, Wraith 7: Ton Phanan, Wraith 8: Garik "Face" Loran, Wraith 9: Lt Myn Donos, Wraith 10: Tyria Sarkin, Wraith 11: Lt Wes Janson, Wraith 12: Voort "Piggy" saBinring. Cubber Daine, Chunky, Gadget, Gate, Shiner, Squeaky, Thirteen, Vape, Gen Edor Crespin, Cpt Choday Hrakness, Lt Atril Tabanne, Dorset Konnair, Tetengo Noor, Warlord Zsinj, Admiral Apwar Trigit, Cpt Zurel Darillian, Lt Gara Petothel.
Favorite Quotes

1: Wedge: "Rogue Thre, tighten up. We're putting on a show here."
Three: "Yes, sir."
Wedge: "That's 'Yes, Wedge until we're formally returned to duty. Or perhaps, 'Yes, Exalted One.' Or 'Yes, O envy of all Corellia.' Or--"

6: Hobbie: "Corsair was our first squadron, Gauntlet our second, and our third, Talon, was just commissioned."
Wedge: "Who's commanding?"
Hobbie: "Lieutenant Myn Donos. A good pilot, smart--"
Wes: "Smart, egotistical, self-centered, arrogant, insufferable--you know, a typical Corellian."
Wedge. "As a fair, broad-minded officer, I should ignore that. But as a Corellian, of course, I'll manage some sort of revenge."

14: Ackbar: "I see no signs of hangover on you, Commander. Must I conclude that you did not celebrate adequately?"

25: Wedge: "We have pilots today?"
Janson: "We have pilots, possibly the last group, if some late arrivals make it in."
Wedge: "Let's get started. Who's first?"
Janson: "His name is Kettch, and he's an Ewok."
Wedge: "No."
Janson: "Oh, yes. Determined to fight. You should hear him say 'Yub, yub.' He makes it a battle cry."
Wedge: "Wes, assuming he could be educated up to Alliance fighter-pilot standards, an Ewok couldn't even reach an X-wing's controls."
Janson: "He wears arm and leg extensions, prosthetics built for him by a sympathetic medical droid. And he's anxious to go, Commander."
Wedge: "Please tell me you're kidding."
Janson: "Of course I'm kidding. Pilot-candidate number one is a human female, from Tatooine, Falynn Sandskimmer."
Wedge: "I'm going to get you, Janson."
Janson: "Yub, yub, Commander."

32: Janson: "Next is Voort saBinring, a Gamorrean."
Wedge: "Very funny. You had me going the first time, Wes, but that joke won't work twice."
Janson: "He's a Gamorrean."
Wedge: "It's impossible to train Gamorrean males to something as complicated as fighter piloting. They have glandular balances that make them very violent and impatient."
Janson: "He's a Gamorrean."
Wedge: "Just keep up your little joke, then, and show him in."
*Voort saBinring, a Gamorrean in orange flightsuit, walks in.*
Janson: "Yub, yub, Commander."

58: Face: "You know, if I had even the tiniest control over the Force, what I'd do with it? On those long missions, I'd scratch that little spot in the center of my back I can never reach..."

68: Wedge: "Ton Phanan, Seven. Face, Eight. I want the majority of the squadron's sarcasm concentrated in one wing pair so we can dispose of it more conveniently."

72: Cubber: "You play sabacc, son?"
Kell: "A little. But I'm not very good at it."
Cubber: "Do I look stupid? 'I'm not very good at it,' indeed. My six-year-old daughter is a better liar."
Kell: "Well, I lie a little, but I'm not very good at it."

82: Face: "So here I am stark naked, locked out of my quarters, running around the corridors looking for a towel, a rag, anything, and I turn a corner and bump right into the executive officer. He has about the same sense of humor as a Wookiee with a rash. So I throw my best salute and say, 'Major, I regret to report only partial success with the Personal Cloaking Device.'"

85: Phanan: "What a terrible line. I wish I'd thought of it."

95: Squeaky: "Let me begin by saying that I am delighted to bring my years of experience to this novice squadron. I expect that my skill will keep some of you alive."
Phanan: "Inevitably, some of us will preer to die."

137: Wedge: "They're doing it to me again."
Wes: "That's right."
Wedge: "I haven't reached my thirtieth birthday, Wes. And once again I feel like the conservative old man in charge of a new generation of insane young pilots."
Wes: "That about sums it up."
Wedge: "Thanks for the moral support, Wes."

156: Face: "That's our former ceiling decoration, Captain Zurel Darillian. He apparently kept the ship's log in full holo."
Kell: "What an ego. That must take up massive storage."
Face: "The ego or the graphics?"

172: Ackbar: "Am I mistaken, or are your methods becoming even more unorthodox?"
Wedge: "I think you're mistaken. It may just look that way because the new unorthodox methods are stacking on top of the old ones."

175: Face-Darillian: "Who in the hells of the Sith are you?"
Ackbar: "I am Admiral Ackbar of the New Republic. Identify yourself."
Face-Darillian: "I am Captain Darillian, master of the private yacht Night Caller. I demand to know why you have interrupted me."
Ackbar, to Wedge: "I thought you said he was dead."
Face-Darillian: "Dead! I'll show you dead! Ensign Antilles, kill this intruder!"
Wedge: "Ensign Antilles, now? I'm all over the rank chart today. That'll be enough, Face."
Face: "Yub, yub, Commander."

267: Wedge: "Something wrong, Wes?"
Janson: "It's here somewhere."
Falynn: "Check your boot."
Phanan: "Check under your seat cushion."
Wedge: "Check your other boot, too. Falynn really meant both boots, but she doesn't realize you wouldn't necessarily understand that."
Janson: "Why isn't Hobbie here to take this abuse?...It was in my other boot."
Wedge: "Yub, yub, Lieutenant."

282: Kell: "I don't have to blow up everything I see. I just like to."

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