Marque Coretree

Dear reader,

I'm going to tell how I joined the Rebel Squadrons. My name is Marque Coretree, but my call sign is Fearpiak. It's just a name that came up into me, like it was foretold that I was going to use this name, kinda a strange, but it was catchy and I used it on my errands for my parents. My parents were smugglers and that's horrible for a child. They were always gone, on their "special" work. I was born on the planet of Corellia, completely in the middle of the universe. My childhood was mainly based on playing simulator games, I have waited since I was three years old to finally fly a real starship. And the most beautiful thing that I have ever experienced was the first time I saw and heard the YT-1300 of my parents, the "Darkwood". The blistering sound of my fathers YT-1300 is simply entertaining. I could work on the YT-1300 all day long, and it was my home if my parents weren't on an "errand".

I also had some friends in Corellia, one of them was Craig Madine. He was a rebel's son, his uncle was a huge officer in the Rebel Alliance, I've heard he was after the battle of Hoth even General. When I was nine, he took me to a hidden hanger of the Rebellion. There were X-wings and Y-wings and even the newer A-wing and B-wing. He told me he gained an old Z-95 so, that was my first experience in a starfighter. When I was eleven, he left. His family wasn't save anymore, and left. When the battle of Endor was over I knew that the Imperials still wanted to regain control of the Republic. I always hated those filthy ISD's and now the Rebellion was flying them. After all, the Mon Calamari's ships are the greatest! They stood up against an SSD and an entire ISD fleet! five days after the New Republic was formed, my parents went of to Kessel. Why would they go on errands again? The rebels had control the only work was from them besides the Hutts. But they were foolisher then I thought. The made a contract with the Black Sun Pirates, and needed to work for them. After a while, the Black Sun went into trouble with the Imperials. So I saw trouble coming to us as well. Now that I was 15, I needed to search a job. Would I step in the smuggling world or cargo? Or just go to the academy? The rebels have great opportunities to work, especially now that they are hunting on the outer rim territories. I didn't know what to do.

But it was going to change fast after a mistake was made by the Black Sun. They were on a Kessel errand in a small fleet, my parents were in there to. I was flying my Z-95 to Tattooine were my Uncle was setting up a space craft shop. He bought an huge hanger and placed YT-1300's, YT-2000's and Y-wing's and small cargo ships and fighters in it. The Black Sun wanted to buy it as a cover for there operations, but I wouldn't let that happen. They took my parents, but they wouldn't get my Uncle! I jumped into a Y-wing and intercepted the raid ships. There were 3 Supafighters and 2 YT-1300's that approached Tattooine. I never had fought in real life, so now the hours of playing those simulation games were needed. A first fighter went over me, and the other two were splitting up in different directions. the two YT-1300's were still going into orbit. I locked on, didn't have any missiles on me, so I set my power to shields and put them in my front deflector. I know the weaknesses of the YT-1300, I had spend hours on working on one, even modified it with better guns and even a Ion cannon was fixed on top. I saw the rear vents in my screen, there was the hyperdrive fixed and the main engine, if I cut those they wouldn't be able to land on there destination, and they needed to make an emergency landing. I was contacted by one of the ships. "Y-wing "Freedom" report your status over". I activated my laser systems. Lock, tone was beeping. The light of the lasers were small victory dances in my eyes. A huge explosion was happening in front of me. Apparently the Supafighters were attacking me. Rear deflector full power R2-D9! My Deenine as I call him, was making repairs. I was shot in the middle vent of the Y-wing. The other to Supa's hit the YT-1300 instead of me. One down, but I wasn't there yet. The other craft could still hold an attack force in there cargo. I made an U-turn, and saw that the Supa's were attacking each other. The other two weren't real Black Sun Pirates, they were my parents. I felt relieved that there was still a family in my life."Bring her home son, you've made us proud!" I knew my parents still were fighting for the family, or else they were really drugged by money.

After that day, I knew the Rebel Squadrons was my destiny. But it wasn't over just yet. I landed my Y-wing at my Uncle's shop. "Thanks Marque, you showed that we Coretree's have a real fighting spirit." My parents were punished by the Black Sun and surprisingly they made a deal. They would mine Broadband Spice from Kessel themselves, and smuggle it to some buyers in Nal Hutta, the biggest Hutt gang now Jabba died. This was almost a suicide mission. But they did it anyway. The only thing I heard from them was that a small Imperial strike force was intercepting them. I felt a sting in my heart. I knew that they were into danger. how would I know this? I ain't a Jedi, I can't control the Force. They were shot in there hearts, for standing up against the Imperial law. They were outnumbered 1 to 100. It was the "Darkwood" against the Imperial StrikeCruiser"Plague" that contained 4 Stormtrooper battalion's and 2 TIE-fighter squads. The "Darkwood" was found in total wreckage. It was crashed into the mining facility. The remains of it were picked up by my Uncle and me. Now he's trying to fix the thing, and I'm ready for some vengeance. If I ever see that StrikeCruiser. It will feel my wrath! But know, I need to learn more and experience how the pilot life is. I'm now convinced that I will spend the rest of my life as a starfighter pilot.