Lina Horada Wessiri

Lina Horada Wessiri was a female Human pilot raised aboard the freighter Diving Kestrel who earned her place in galactic history as one of the fastest pilots in the Rebel Alliance. Born to merchants from Alderaan and Corellia, she was introduced to piloting at a very young age and proved to have a strong talent for the skill. After apprenticing with a Wessiri Shipping pilot, a Besalisk named Picaran, she struck out on her own and found employment with a Xexto captain named Olto. From the Corellian Corvette Sidewinder, Lina worked as a shuttle pilot whenever the work was available. After the Corvette was grounded on Saulapran for nearly four months, Lina and several others in Olto’s employ were put together as a team for any job that required them, which Olto had commissioned as the “Field Group”.

After the Field Group became established, Lina took on the role of pilot for the group, manning whichever ship or vehicle necessary for them. It was not long, however, before Olto admitted to the Group that he was part of an insurgency against the Galactic Empire. When the insurgencies banded together to form the Rebel Alliance, Olto looked to Lina and the Field Group as part of his “Small Teams Operations” unit. While Lina was uncomfortable with becoming a Rebel, by proxy no less, she considered herself loyal Olto and trusted his judgment. She was sent on several missions against Rosk 12, a Khommite Renegade General who was attempting to restart the Clone Wars. During those missions, Lina learned of the existence of the Infected, a fungal infection that reanimated corpses, within the confines of Mos Umbra on Tatooine. In escaping the Infected, she and the Field Group took an abandoned freighter that would become the Lady Sandhawk, a competitor with the Millennium Falcon for the title of “fastest ship in the galaxy”.