Cassia Waycoit

A pretty, petite young woman with fair colouring and soft features, Cass looks mostly harmless. However, looks are deceiving, and many men have suffered the consequences of underestimating her. Cass is a skilled gunner and markswoman, and a decent pilot. Her low tolerance for nonsense and her "the mission comes first" attitude make her a valuable soldier, although it doesn't always leave room in her life for friendship.

Bio:
Cassia Waycoit was born on Chandrila to farmers Lexx and Hestir Waycoit. Cass was mostly raised by her brother Kierson Waycoit as her parents were too busy farming to pay much attention to their rough and tumble daughter. Through their adventures together, Kier taught Cass how to fly and how to shoot.

The siblings were often shadowed by Toby Cetus, a soft-spoken older boy from the farm next door. Toby proved to be skilled with the art of medicine, which proved to be useful as Cass was often reckless and frequently ended up requiring medical aid. At the age of 12, Cass had been in a particularly nasty accident when the speeder bike she was riding flipped and crashed into an old barn. Cass was knocked unconscious and severely burned the left side of her body. Kier had carried her two miles to Toby’s house in a panic, terrified that his father would find out. Toby had bandaged her up as best as he could, but her left side remained badly scarred.

When she was 15, Toby declared his intent to court Cass, and the two announced their engagement on Cass’s 16th birthday. Together with Kier, they secretly made plans to leave home together when Cass turned 18 so that the three friends could join the Rebellion together as pilot, gunner, and medic.

However, the plan was upset when Kier unexpectedly left home ahead of schedule, and over the next few months things changed for the worse. Toby, emboldened by Lexx Waycoit’s promise of his farm as a dowry, informed Cass that their Rebellion plans were nothing more but childish fantasies, and that upon their marriage she was expected to behave as was appropriate for a farmer’s wife. Heartbroken and humiliated, Cass fled her home in the middle of the night the day before her 17th birthday, the day that was also intended to be her wedding day.

As soon as she was off planet, Cass began searching for her brother. Before long she fell in with a group of Rebels, and began rising through the ranks as she battled against the Empire. She was eventually paired up with Y-Wing Commander Mira Dajus and the two fought together for several years.