The Only Man To Survive Both Death Star Runs?

 The conventional wisdom in the EU is that Wedge Antilles is the only pilot to survive both Death Star runs.

Luke is ON the DS2, and Han and Chewie are on the moon.

In ANH, we see 4 ships leave. Luke and Wedge's X-Wings, the Falcon, and one Y-Wing. The consensus appears to be that Keyan Farlander (ironically from the X-Wing game) is the Y-Wing pilot.

I thought that the "only man to survive both runs" line was from the first X-Wing book (which I read most of on a plane tonight) but the closest I can find is, "Commander Antilles might have gotten them all himself, but then he’s got two Death Stars painted on the side of his X-wing."

More to come, I guess?

There's also some guy in a prototype A-Wing who sometimes gets listed. This feels kind of bullshit to me.

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