Lieutenant Pello Scrambas was aboard the Tantive IV when Darth Vader took it hostage. This 20-year veteran of service to the Royal House of Alderaan's homeguard was one of the first troopers killed when stormtroopers from the Devastator invaded the Tantive IV.

Pello's father, Tash, had been the captain of the frigate Qel-Droma, serving a vital role during the Alderaanian Ascendancy Contention. When the tensions between the House of Organa and the House of Antilles had boiled over, Captain Scambras refused to take sides, assisting the Jedi Watchman Jorus C'Baoth in resolving the crisis. At C'baoth's behest, the two families joined in marriage, ending the dispute. On that historic day of Alderaanian history, 15-year old Pello joined the Alderaanian armed forces.

With the start of the Clone Wars, Scrambas, now a sergeant, had been told to expect limited action. His superior officers dismissed the war against the Separatists as a mere "brush fire" that the clones alone would easily handle. Those in the Core were expected to be insulated from the worst of the fighting. Scrambas knew better.

The wars engulfed the entire galaxy, and even the greatest worlds of the Republic were not safe. Alderaan was even threatened by droid forces multiple times, especially after the fall of Duro, and Scrambas found himself fighting on the front lines. After multiple tours, Scrambas was reassigned to the personal guard of Bail Organa, yet Scrambas still found himself in the midst of things -- the Senator was taking an unusual level of interest in the war, visiting fronts as diverse as Boz Pity, Qalydon and Metalorn.

Scrambas forged a close, personal friendship with Organa during the wars and would later come to regard Bail's daughter Leia as he would any child of his own flesh. Appropriately, it was Leia that Scrambas died defending, the blaster wound that killed him becoming the final scar earned in the protection of his homeworld and its royal family.

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