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MIRAX TERR1K (human female from CoreIlia)
LIAT TSAYV (Sullustan male from SullusO

IMPERIAl. FORCES

YSANNE ISARD, DIRECTOR OF IMPERIAl. INTELLIGENCE
(human female from Coruscant)
KInTAN LOOR, INTELLIGENCE AGENT (human male from
Churba)
GENERAL Evm DERRICOTE (human male from Kalla)

Commander Wedge Antilles would have preferred the cere-
mony to be private. Rogue Squadron had come to mourn the
passing of one of its own on the week anniversary of his
death. Wedge wanted the gathering to be small and intimate,
with Corran Horn's friends all being able to share remem-
brances of him, but that was not possible. Corran's death
had come during the liberation of Coruscant. That made him
a hero from a company of heroes, and while a small memo-
rial might have been what Corran himself would have
wanted, it was not heroic enough for a figure of his posthu-
mous stature.
Even though Wedge had known things would not go
quite the way he wanted, he had not anticipated how out of
control they would get when he requested permission to hold
the ceremony. He had expected a number of dignitaries
would come to the pseudogranite barrow that marked where
Corran had died when a building collapsed on top of him.
He even anticipated people lining the balconies and walk-
ways of nearby towers. At the very Worst he imagined people
might gawk from the beds of hovertrucks.
His imagination paled beside that exercised by the bu-
reaucrats who organized the memorial service. They took a




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ceremony based on heartfelt grief and made it into the focal
point of mourning for the entire New Republic. Corran
Horn was a hero--this they proclaimed loudly--but he was
also a victim. As such he represented all the victims of the
Empire. It didn't matter to them that Corran would have
rejected being labeled a victim. He had been transformed
into a symbol--a symbol the New Republic needed badly.
Rogue Squadron likewise underwent iconization. The
unit's pilots had always worn orange flightsuits in the past,
or, as supplies became harder and harder to find, whatever