There is no doubting just how fun the latest video game from the Star Wars franchise is, with Star Wars: Squadrons having such an incredible depth and brilliance in the niche and limited content it has in multiplayer and through the customization. However, while it is multiplayer-focused, it does have a campaign that is well made, a bit hollow, poorly presented, but with some great characters.
Going back and forth between the Empire and the New Republic pilots of Titan Squadron and Vanguard Squadron led to a few fascinating characters in the contained story, but there are also characters who have little easter eggs and pieces of information about them hidden in the story.
10 Willard Waylin Arkanis Academy
Throughout the campaign, both Vanguard Squadron and Titan Squadron have their ships fixed, prepared, and tended too by a mechanic, with the Titan Squadron having Willard Waylin as theirs.
Wailin is an interesting enough character but does not have any sort of significant role other than a couple of optional conversations and fixing up the ships. What fans may have missed about Waylin is that he attended Arkanis Academy, which is seen in Rebels getting infiltrated by Ezra, with other characters like Leonis a part of it.
9 Zerelda Sage's Mando Similarity
For Vanguard Squadron, the chief mechanic who attends to their flying needs is Zerelda Sage, a character who is perhaps slightly more involved than Waylin, but not by a lot.
Zerelda does have an interesting similarity with the beloved Din Djarin, a.k.a the Mandalorian, that being their shared hatred of droids. It goes even further than that, though, both of their hatred and mistrust of droids are due to the Separatists, with Zerelda's home planet having been occupied by the organization when she was young.
8 The Lonely Protagonist Support Ship
The character players play as in the game has no official canon name, known merely as Vanguard Five/Titan Three throughout the game by the other characters. But, in the scope of the game, he/she/they are still the main character.
One thing not loads of players know they can do is free look, with double-tapping R3 allowing players to look about the brilliantly made cockpits of the iconic ships. In the support ships, the UT-60D U-wing and the TIE/Rp Reaper are made for two pilots in the cockpit, but the protagonist of the story sits in them alone, with an empty seat there if you look round to it.
7 Feresk Tssat's Thrawn Run-In
Feresk Tssat, more commonly known as Frisk, is one of the most interesting characters in Vanguard Squadron, and he is also the most unique Trandoshan in the whole Star Wars canon.
If you choose to speak to Frisk, he talks all about his journey to the New Republic, as well as trying to lure Vanguard Five into some gambling. He talks about his time as a talented smuggler, and how he got caught procuring a counterfeit art piece for a Governor, unfortunately having the art found out by genius and art connoisseur, Grand Admiral Thrawn.
6 The Vonreg-Vonreg Connection
Havina Vonreg is a pretty terrifying and fiercely loyal pilot for the Empire who has immense anger and disgust towards rebels, and seemingly everyone who gets in the way of she and the Empire's goals and ideas.
The name Vonreg will be familiar to some fans, namely those of Star Wars: Resistance, as Major Elrik Vonreg is a big part of the show. Elrik was also a skilled pilot for the First Order, and it seems that there is some familial connection between the two, with Havina perhaps being Elrik's mother.
5 Frisk & Grace's Escape From Their Families
The aforementioned Frisk has a close relationship with another pilot of Vanguard Squadron, Grace Sienar, whose second name is a significant one for the Empire, famously being a major manufacturer of TIE series fighters.
Both Grace and Frisk talk about their pasts if you choose to speak to them, and separately they talk about how their ideas were not aligned with their families. Grace seemingly hates her family for their role in the Empire, while Frisk was an outsider of the hunting species of Trandoshans, the two found each other and found the New Republic and Vanguard Squadron.
4 Shen's Story
His racing ahead to meet Anvil Squadron in the Empire mission where players are faced against the New Republic Squadron is indicative of the nature of Shen, with his hatred of Anvil Squadron being a plot point brought up a couple of times if you choose to speak to him.
Shen is perhaps the best-done character in the game, being an almost Darth Vader-esque figure who is more machine than man after accidents, crashes, and broken bones left him for dead, something he somehow defied. Shen is a model Imperial, and both his hatred for Anvil Squadron and his painful story is hidden in conversations with the pilot.
3 Hera's Jacket
Fans who do not know about Hera Syndulla are missing out. Not just because they clearly have not watched the excellent Star Wars: Rebels, but because in the Star Wars canon, she is a terrific original character and crucial to the rebellion.
She has a big role in this game, and there is a lot familiar about her, such as Vanessa Marshall's voice talents, the passion and kindness of Hera, and her general look. However, her jacket seems new compared to her Rebels look; in reality, she has worn this jacket before in the not really canon but arguably semi-canon Lego Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures.
2 Rogue Squadrons Secret Missions Under Hera
Rogue Squadron is an iconic team of elite pilots in the Rebel Alliance and the New Republic, having such an awesome history in the Legends timeline, and thankfully getting retained - beyond their Empire Strikes Back appearance - in canon.
They get a mention here if you choose to talk to Wedge Antilles, a constant member of the group. Wedge says that Hera is leading the group on some secret missions, and hopefully, the inevitability of these getting explored in the future of canon comes soon.
1 Lindon Javes' Dossier
The prologue of the story sees Lindon Javes lead a team of pilots to take out Alderaanian refugees following the planet's destruction, only for him to save the refugees and defect to the Rebel Alliance.
Later, fans get a glimpse of a dossier in Aurabesh detailing Javes' crimes and the punishment to fit - execution. There is also a little profile on Javes, which reveals he actually had a sister who never gets mentioned, with the dossier saying she has passed away after hazardous maneuvers.
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October 10, 2020 at 05:30AM
