 Name: Ryle Torsyn
Died: 0 BBY, Yavin system
Species: Human
Gender: Male
Hair color: Brown
Eye color: Blue
Skin color: Light
DEXTERITY 2D
Blaster 4D+2
Brawling Parry 4D+1
Dodge 5D+1
Vehicle Blasters: 5D
KNOWLEDGE 2D
Bureaucracy 4D+2
Languages 4D
Planetary Systems 4D+1
Tactics 5D+1
PERCEPTION 3D
Bargain 4D
Command 5D+2
Persuasion: 5D+1
Search: 6D
STRENGTH 3D
Brawling: 4D+2
Climbing/Jumping: 4D+1
MECHANICAL 3D
Astrogation 5D+1
Communications 4D+2
Repulsorlift Operation 4D+1
Sensors: 5D+1
Starfighter Piloting 6D
Starship Gunnery 6D+1
Starship Shields 4D+2
TECHNICAL 2D
Droid Programming/Repair 4D
Starfighter Repair 4D+2
Force Points: 3
Dark Side Points: 0
Character Points 6
Move: 10
Equipment: Blaster pistol (4D), Rebel Flight Suit, Comlink, Y-Wing Starfighter
Description: Ryle Torsyn was a human male who served as a pilot in the Alliance to Restore the Republic. While in the rebel base on the planet Dantooine, he discovered an Imperial tracking device in a delivery of equipment, which led to the base being evacuated.
In 0 BBY, Torsyn was stationed in the Alliance's new base in the Great Temple on the moon Yavin 4. When the Empire's Death Star superweapon entered the Yavin system to destroy the base, Torsyn piloted a BTL-A4 Y-wing assault starfighter/bomber as part of Gold Squadron in the Battle of Yavin. Torsyn was killed along with all but one member of his squadron, but the Alliance managed to destroy the Death Star.
Biography
Evacuating Dantooine
The human male Ryle Torsyn joined the Starfighter Corps of the Alliance to Restore the Republic as a volunteer pilot while the Alliance was based in its first headquarters on the planet Dantooine. during the Imperial Era. He spent time at the Dantooine base, which was intended to be temporary, but its use continued and security grew lax until Torsyn eventually discovered an Imperial tracking device hidden in a delivery of equipment. The device was destroyed and the base was immediately evacuated, although unbeknownst to the rebels, the device had actually failed and the Empire remained unaware of the Dantooine base.
The Alliance soon created a new headquarters in the Great Temple on the moon Yavin 4 where Torsyn and his colleagues were transferred. In 0 BBY, the Empire learned of the new base's location and the Death Star superweapon was sent to the Yavin system to destroy it. Having learned of a vulnerability in the weapon's design, the Alliance mounted an attack on it.
Battle of Yavin
Torsyn was selected to fly one of the eight BTL-A4 Y-wing assault starfighter/bombers that made up Gold Squadron under the command of Gold Leader Jon Vander. The pilot climbed into his vehicle in the hangar of the Great Temple before being handed his K-22995 light flight helmet by a member of the ground crew. After the initial attack on the Death Star began, Vander broke the squadron, taking Dex Tiree and Davish Krail to make a trench run while Torsin and the other four pilots in the squadron split off and held back.
After Gazdo Woolcob became the first member of the squadron to be shot down, Vander ordered Torsyn and the three other survivors to engage the Imperial TIE fighters and hold them off while he, Tiree, and Krail entered the trench; however, Gold Leader and his wingmen were then all killed during the run. Torsyn was then shot down by enemy fire, perishing along with two of the other Gold Squadron pilots before Red Leader Garven Dreis began a second run down the trench. The second trench run also failed, but the third succeeded when Red Squadron Luke Skywalker destroyed the Death Star. This left Lieutenant Evaan Verlaine as the only surviving member of Gold Squadron.
Personality and traits
Torsyn had brown hair, blue eyes, and light skin.
Equipment
Ryle Torsyn wore an orange flight suit with a white flak vest and a K-22995 light flight helmet marked with two blue Rebel Alliance starbirds. He had two data cylinders on his left sleeve and wore a pair of black flight gauntlets while piloting a BTL-A4 Y-wing assault starfighter/bomber during the Battle of Yavin.
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