Penn Zowlie

Penn Zowlie joined the Rebellion from an asteroid cluster on the edge of Wild Space. He spent time jumping hover-sleds and vac-skims as a child and wanted to become a pilot. He served as a medical droid assistant at Echo Base on Hoth. While on Hoth, Zowlie often pestered rebel pilot Lieutenant Wes Janson about flying despite never even trying out a flight simulator. After the evacuation of Hoth, Janson recruited him into Commander Wedge Antilles' reformed Red Squadron after the Battle of Hoth. He was killed in an attack on a nearby pirate base, that threatened the safety of the Alliance's rendezvous point, where he was assigned the callsign Red Nine and flew a T-65B X-wing starfighter as Bela Elar's wingman.

Zowlie was somewhat inexperienced when he was recruited into the squadron. He got along well with Janson, although the veteran pilot was not overly fond of Zowlie's tendency to use a lot of pilot slang.