Marten Rawlkins

Marten "Marty" Rawlkins is one of two Imperial TIE Fighter Pilots who crashed in the desert of the Southwestern United States following an encounter with Jets from the United States Marine Corps near the City of  in the days following the September 11th Attacks on New York City and Washington D.C.

Rawlkins joined fellow pilot Typher Marlion when Marlion followed the F/A-18 of USMC Captain Steven Laramie away from the city and into the desert. During the chase, Laramie deployed his fighter's emergency chute over Rawlkins' cockpit before ejecting causing Rawlkins to crash his fighter into the flaming wreckage of Laramie's fighter which also took out Marlion's fighter causing the two TIEs to lose their wings and the cockpits to land in the desert. Shaken by the crash and shocked by Laramie's piloting skills, Rawlkins gave little objection to Laramie taking both pilots as prisoners as Marlion was certain that the Galactic Empire would not be sending a search party to look for the missing TIEs and their pilots. Indeed a Probe Droid was sent out to look for the fighters, but its findings of the wreckage of the two TIEs and Laramie's plane were never acted upon.

The three pilots eventually made their way to and then to the  where they were taken to Area 51 for further evaluation and eventually a debriefing by Laramie's fellow Marine and Jedi Knight Bryan Khayman. Khayman asked Rawlkins very little in terms of questions as most of what needed to be said had already been told to Laramie and Khayman had gotten most of the answers he needed from Marlion. Khayman also informed Rawlkins of his rights under the. Rawlkins spent the next year and a half at the base receiving bits of news through Laramie or the base's staff. Like Marlion, he was released following the Battle of Gratha and establishment of the Remnant.

Under the Remnant, Rawlkins moved from assignment to assignment before settling on an assignment where he found himself working at. Like Marlion, he also started a family once he found himself a permanent assignment. He also kept in touch with Marlion and Laramie over the years and often visited Marlion who was assigned to and living in the City of Philadelphia with Laramie and his family joining them at least once a year. Rawlkins joined Laramie and Marlion in flying an X-Wing Starfighter as part of Operation Lothal Freedom in 2018 under the callsign of "Halo Leader" where his squadron was among the first wave of fighters to engage the ships of the First Order above the planet Lothal. Among Rawlkins' squadron were the cousins of Spectres Member Landon McKnight.

In 2019, details of their story began to emerge after a recording of a discussion between Khayman and his fellow Power Rangers regarding the LA Skirmish was discovered in the memory banks of the Astro Megaship by Khayman's nephew Troy Khayman as well as Spectres members Lucy Felth, Darius Carpenter, and Lucy's astromech R9-D2. Rawlkins was interviewed by Troy about the skirmish and what happened after since Troy's father Andros Khayman worked for NCIS in Washington. As more details emerged, Troy sent the details he had gotten from Rawlkins to Felth and Carpenter who had interviewed Marlion and had access to other materials regarding this skirmish.

In 2022, a movie was produced by Carpenter and Felth with Rawlkins and his fellow pilots credited as Creative Consultants. He was joined sometime after the defeat of the First Order at The Pentagon by Laramie and the two frequently held conference calls with Marlion much to the annoyance of Remnant Security Bureau Major Hochster who launched into a screaming fit at the sight of Laramie in Rawlkins' office and disconnected the calls on whichever end he happened to be on. By 2030, Rawlkins like Laramie and Marlion is a General and is still assigned to the Pentagon with the three pilots having begun amusing themselves at Hochster's expense. Rawlkins and Laramie later joined Lucy (who had married Darius, given birth to the couple's son Caleb, and joined the Remnant Military herself where she was assigned to Marlion's command in Philadelphia and held the rank of Lieutenant Colonel) at the site of a crashed American Spaceways flight from to  where the three and Marlion via a transmission from R9-D2 gave the  the same level of cooperation that they give to Hochster causing the Secret Service agent to leave in annoyance after deciding that the crash presented no danger to the. Rawlkins later took possession of all investigative materials related to the crash and presumably was informed by Lucy of what she had been told by Cikatro Vizago about a possible connection between the crash and The Hutts while she was working an anti-smuggling mission on Ord Mantell.