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Yes, Baron Soontir Fel. He's an Imperial _so capable_ that he was not only the second-best pilot in the entirety of the Empire, behind only Vader, but he _also_ produced the only being in the Galaxy that Jaina Solo would willingly bear the children of: Jagged Fel.

The Skywalker-Organa-Solo-Antilles-Fel-Hapan royal family is so absurdly amusing to map out. The somewhere in the ballpark of half the important human characters in the Expanded Universe ended up either directly hooking up with the family or a member b/c someone else in their family joined it. One of the few notable exceptions I think was the Horns, I don't recall any of Corrans kids marrying into the dynasty. Also the hereditary royal line to Corellia, Alderaan (even if only by adoption), the entire Hapes Consortium as well as the one of the most prominent noble families in Naboos electoral monarchy. Oh, yeah and the entire Empire for remainder of the EU timeline after the NJO novels. Obviously you could roll your eyes at the coincidences in the Star Wars universe, like Soontir Fel just happened to be a classmate of Han Solo and just happened to marry Wedges sister, but this is Star Wars we're talking about! The Force works in mysterious ways, it was all the will of the Force. Anyway, with all these Corellians, you really shouldn't be talking about the odds anyway, they don't want to hear em.

Baron Fel. I know of him, but very little. What I do know is he is a Tie Intercepter pilot, which says a lot about his abilities as a pilot considering the credentials and experience needed to be one, that he is the leader of a famous Squadren of Intercepter pilots, and that he is a badass pilot with an amazing track record. So it's nice learning more about this Gigachad of Tie pilots. Thanks Eck, thanks a lot for this amazing video.

I’ve always found Fel to be so cool that I’ve put together a 181st Tie Pilot costume specifically because he was so cool.

funny timing, I am currently rereading Visions of the Future. Fel's a pretty interesting case. Very talented pilot, but unless you actually read those comics, his skill as being one of the greatest pilots in the galaxy can only be taken seriously when you consider who it is that are collectively calling him one of the best: the old veterans of Rogue Squadron. And the true greatest pilot in the galaxy, Wedge Antilles.

Y-wings and interceptors always make me think of Kasan Moor and her capture in the Rogue Squadron game. "Ha! Like shooting Y-Wings, do ya? Here's a message from Gold Squadron!"

"He could still win the battle" "Not with Two Death Stars and a legion of Dark Jedi" XD fucking savage

My favorite pilot in the x-wing minis game...his 1e build was fun to run since you basically got a nimble fighter. Countess Ryad was another because she had a fun flip when doing straight movements.

Yes, Soontir Fel is truly one of the most distinguished characters of Star Wars. Not evil, like the Empire, just a man doing his duty for what he believed in. Fun fact: He is actually inspired by the Red Baron of World War I, a fighter ace respected by both sides.

I remember hearing at one point in the 90s, I think from Aaron Allston at a convention, that Fel was created because they wanted to tie in the Tie Fighter flight simulator video game stuff, but were unsure of the canonicity of the stories that accompanied those games in the players guides. Of if those characters, such as Keyan Farlander and more directly Marek Stele, were available. With videogame tie-ins, comics, novels, junior and young adult books, essential guides with new information, a couple of different magazines, RPG stuff from West End, and occasional early articles on the burgeoning internet, the Late Bantam era was a mess of chronology to keep track of. It was easier for the authors to just create a new character than try to figure out where or how Stele would fit into things. This works out better because Stele was retconned to be force sensitive.

I knew of Fel vaguely, I knew his TIE interceptor paintjob, at least. I started reading the Legacy comics, and was very confused, wondering where I had heard the name Fel before. Shocking how huge an impact he had.

Wow! I’m glad that I have your confirmation on whether I’m a real fan or not!

Those comic panels? They were, indeed, part of the first Rogue Squadron game's manual. Good callback, by the way.

Baron Fel was one of the most re-occuring charachters in Legends novels, probably only Pelleaon appeared more on the Imperial side and of course his son Jagged Fel was then a regular in the New Jedi Order books.

As a 181st pilot in the 501st I know all about the baron. Glory to the Empire.

DAMN that's a spicy title. Especially since this is non-canon B-roll. Hope we see this guy show up in glorious fashion in one of the new shows.

Ah yes. The footnote in the history of the Great Jagged Fel

Wedge Antilles' brother in law Baron Soontir Fel. If I remember correctly in one novel he was cloned and his clones were sleeper agents farming on some planet.

I had to rewind a couple times at that “least horny Isard moment” for the gravity of it to fully sink in.

The children of Jaina Solo and Jagged Fel held the blood of the 4 greatest piloting families in the Star Wars Universe: Solo, Skywalker, Fel and Antilles. Between those 4 families, within 2 generations, we know they produced the following aces: - Jaina Solo - Jacen Solo - I think Anakin Solo - Luke Skywalker - Soontir Fel - Jagged Fel - Wedge Antilles - Syal Antilles (the younger) And Han Solo isn't counted because he wasn't in a starfighter cockpit for any of his kills but he's easily in the same category. And Myri Antilles had the talent to be one but went into Intelligence instead so didn't get a lot of combat time from the cockpit. And Jagged had a boatload of siblings who we don't know the exploits of. In fact, pretty much the only people we know from these families who weren't highly decorated pilots were Myri, Leia, Ben Skywalker, and the elder Syal Antilles. And, of course, from the previous generation we find Anakin Skywalker but since we know nothing about the piloting prowess of the elder Solos or Fels and the only thing we know about the elder Antilles is how they died so I'm not counting that generation

Fel has a long career with plenty of impressive accomplishments.

A new line of imperials.....that's awesome. I love how legends loops around to the Imperials eventually regaining control of the galaxy

I'm just remembering the Y Wing pilot taking his revenge on an Imperial TIE Interceptor in the N64 Rogue Squadron game. "So you LIKE shooting Y Wings huh?!"- Rebel pilot in Y Wing as he continually fires Ion Cannons into the last TIE Interceptor.

Yay! I'm not a fake fan any more! Thanks Eckhart's Ladder!

You should definitely do more videos over him and the Fel Dynasty

Empire: *kills and abuses there soldiers* Empire: why do we always lose?

The fact his children would become the new Emperors of the Imperials is amazing.

Even fictional, the man was an ace pilot. Always loved his part in the stories

He was a very cool character in the books. glad you are covering him.

Maarek Stele is another legends pilot that is cool, though less prominent in lore since he's in a game not comics etc. He's the guy you are meant to play as during the campaign of Tie Fighter, the game makes a story for a similarly talented pilot, starting off as a regular pilot, gets recruited into the secret order, and ends up being picked by Vader and then assigned to Thrawn (at Thrawn's request) to fly the very limited numbers of tie defenders against the forces of the traitor GA Zaarin. The story of Tie fighter is quite good I think. I feel like I always mention that game somehow in the comments, it just gives that empire perspective that I like but we don't see, where its not just the rebels doing everything, there are pirates, civil wars and imperial officers turning warlord.

The rogue squadron books and comics are Star Wars at its absolute best, this comic arc in particular effected my brother and Me greatly in our standards for what great stories are.

I learned of him through SWCCG. He and his ship in the card game were ridiculously strong.

Also Chak Fel. Although he wasn't an amazing character, compared to others, but was a pretty cool member of the fel family. He was pretty cool in Zhan's book "Survivors Quest".

I never got a chance to read the comics with Baron Fel, but I do recall in the X-Wing series Wedge was searching for him, and his wife who was Wedge's sister. Hopefully I get a chance to read the comics for more backstory and lore. Very interesting character.

Fel is in my mind, the ace of aces of the Imperial Navy in the Star Wars universe.

Baron Soontir Fel, the man who married the sister of the most famous rebel pilot. Whose son rose to become leader of the Imperial state, marry the daughter of a Jedi Princess and then fade into legends(literally so far anyway) I love how the clones of Fel thought that Thrawn had miscalculated when he "failed" to notice that Fel loved the soil over anything else being a farmer at heart. Nope, even that was part of the grand plan to save the entire galaxy from the Vong...

These lore videos are really nice, would love to see more.

I like how the picture of Biggs you used at 4:25 was a cosplay of Star Wars Explained.

Awesome video! absolutely love the legends material. thank you 🙏

Greatest non-force sensitive human pilot.

Ironically, my favorite Soontir Fel-related moment in Legends didn't actually involve the real Soontir Fel. In one of the Rogue/Wraith Squadron books Wedge finds himself "cosplaying" an Ewok pirate TIE pilot (long story) thanks to a prank by his squad mates during a long-term operation by Wraith Squadron, and he ends up flying with what seems to be Soontir Fel (who by that point is his friend and in-law) who has apparently joined Warlord Zsinj. Wedge mournfully regrets how Fel seems to be his enemy then and has apparently lost all respect for him. Of course, it later turns out that "Soontir Fel" was a charlatan, but getting these nice character moments balanced out with funny lines and situations was one of the best things about those books.

Many don't realize that jagged and Jaina are the ancestors of the imperial royalty in the cade Skywalker era.

Been here for years, finding the recent click-baity titles absolutely hilarious. Keep up the great work!

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Had his action figure as a kid. One of my favorite figures.

Hell yes! The one and only Baron Soontir Fel of the Imperial 181st, who turned them into the best fighter squadron, married Wedge's sister, and I also cosplayed as him at NYCC last year with the 501st!

Ive loved baron fel since i read my older brothers guide to characters book many many many years ago, and his family becoming a powerful dynasty is amazingly cool

I saw the title for this video and though, If that isn't baron Fel i'm not going to be happy. but i am, in fact happy

First because I'm not a fake fan

Me: Sees title. Is angry. Me: Sees picture. Is acceptable.

I know about Soontir Fel, his son Jagged Fel married Jaina Solo and became the new Emperor of the Imperial Remnant, making the Skywalker bloodline Imperial Royalty.

Fel……. Now there’s a name I have not heard in a very long time.

Ah so that's why you tweeted that. Glad I found the manual scan!

#AskEck How do you think the EU would be different if they had advanced knowledge of the prequels? For example, featuring more of the Nabirree family in the New Republic, Luke and Leia being heir to the Chosen One etc

Loving the Eck Unhinged Era

Its so weird hearing Eck talk about Star Wars because I learned of him through the hockey channel.

When I got my first Star Wars Armada set, I obviously had to paint some red stripes on a couple of TIEs.

Hearing that " Home One " is what makes ecks videos great

As soon as I saw the thumbnail I know it was Soontir Fel... So I'm a true fan 🙂

I think that comic (or something like a snippet of it) was included with N64 Rogue Squadron. I've never read much of Star Wars comics but I do remember that scenario of an Interceptor being disabled by a Y-wing. Also, if we're talking about legendary Imperial pilots, how about a video on Maarek Stele (of the TIE fighter DOS game fame)? There were all his exploits with testing (and using in actual battle) the Legends TIE Avenger and Defender, and the Missile Boat. Not to mention becoming one of the Emperor's Hands (or Reach specifically) if you did the secret objectives in TIE Fighter. And further in Legends writing, I think he followed a similar path to Soontir after the Emperor died. In fact, iirc, I think Soontir invited him to a faction, and he readily accepted.

Well I’ve never heard of him so time to do my fanboyism and found out about baron.

as a fake fan, i can verify i did not know this

This guy’s family would become the rulers of a new Empire.

As soon as I saw the thumbnail I was like "I need to watch this or else Imma be pissed when I find it a year later."

I remember that comic in the rogue squadron instructions booklet, 1999, amazing memories, didn’t know at that time that there were comics about rogue squadron

Thank you for educating me of this great man

It always tickles me to hear all the different pronunciations of characters names (90% seems to be in SW) I've always mentally heard jagged as just that, and isards first name as Yvonne. (Yep, I realize nothing in the spelling should indicate it. But for some reason that was what my brain assigned)

I genuinely love the fact that a noodle company has seemingly adopted a star wars lore channel and acts as a basically unlimited sponsor, and the only sponsor on this channel, as well as sponsoring no one else.

Getting him back into canon offically would be awesome !!!

Duuude!!! I’ve got the exact Comic you showed in the intro. These different comics came with varying action figures back in the day.

I's never forget about Glup Shitto, because I'm a true fan!

Baron Fel is Luke's father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate. Small world.

Soontir Fel is also in the game Star Wars: Armada

I, like many others, first encountered Fel via the X-Wing Miniatures Game as a Named Pilot for the Tie Interceptor (I should say THE pilot, most others were mediocre), so it's nice to finally hear a little bit about his backstory!

"I can talk about whatever I want because they love me and I love them" is how all advertising should work. Unfortunately, I live in Canada and can't try Vite Ramen.

Never heard of him... And I TOTALLY don't have a full squadron of 181st squadron squints on my shelf. And there definitely isn't a little Lego Soontir on the base of the squadron leader.

The lack of Fel in canon is criminal…. They should just retcon the whole Rogue squadron series back in lol. Seriously though, the Rogues have always been the backbone of my love of Star Wars, almost more so then the movies. Given the choice to have either a lightsaber or an X-wing, I’d take the X-wing. Great video! Thanks

Well, with a title like that I can't refuse, can I?

I wasn't really planning on watching this video right now, but right before I clicked off I heard your opening and it hoocked me like a fish lol. Really nice writing!

Screw Fel, imagine not knowing what chad the Horton Salm was.

I have a toy version of him and his TIE interceptor, red stripes and all. Never knew it was him.

Seeing references to Fel and his team in Squadrons was a real treat. Put a big ole stupid smile on my face. One of the first images of the EU I saw as a kid browsing the internet was him shaking hands with Luke (image by Darren Tan at 1:47). Started me down the rabbit hole!

Patriarch of an Empire and certified Gigachad

181st says hi! Seriously, though, Tycho says it best: "Fel is the best Imperial pilot alive."

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The dude was basically the Empire’s Manfred Von Richthofen, aka, The Red Baron.

0:19 Is that The Punisher in the Star Wars universe? More than a passing resemblance...

I have to confess - as much I love Fel and Legends - after a certain point it becomes ridculous how 'small' the universe is

As soon as I saw the thumbnail, I knew immediately it was the Baron

I swear sometimes the star wars universe becomes really small for certain people's lol

**Fozies voice** Heeeeeey! **normal** I’m no fake fan dude

Baron soontir fel! I knew who he was as soon as I saw the red stripes on the tie fighter in the thumbnail! I love the Michael a Stackpole rouge squadron novels!

So wait I just now leaning about this man, do I'm I a fake fan or not ???

That "Biggs" character at 4:25 looks very familiar!

"Star wars red Baron doesn't exist, Star Wars red Baron can't hurt you" Star wars red Baron:

Scrolling through KZfaq and literally only watched this video bc of the title (no offense eck, you’ve been making awesome content lately)

Only needed the thumbnail to recognize Baron Soontir Fel

Baron Fel and the boys of the 181st, the Rogues of the Empire, glad to see some classics getting some love

Where do I find these star wars comic? I really want to read more comics and books of Star wars but have no clue where to look, this one about Soontir fel looks cool