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"You gotta treat your starship like you would your mate: get in her five times a day and take her to heaven and back!"

- Captain Pavan describes his piloting style

Jax Pavan served as a naval officer and starship captain in the New Republic Defense Forces during the latter years of the Galactic Civil War, then the Yuuzhan Vong War. He was famous for his actions during that conflict, and for commanding the U.S.S. Enterprise on its historic five-year mission. During the Galactic Alliance's final offensive against the Yuuzhan Vong, he commanded a small flotilla of warships, which participated in the last battle of that conflict. Pavan met his end when, after the Enterprise had suffered critical damage, he ordered the crew to abandon ship so that he could then ram an opposing Vong dreadnought that threatened to turn the flank of the Alliance fleet.

Early career
A native of Coruscant along with Jax Pavan (disambiguation)582,797,754 others, he joined the Fleet Command Academy not long after the New Republic had liberated his homeworld from the Galactic Empire. Graduating with top grades both in academics and practical jokes, he was posted to Home One, the flagship of Admiral Ackbar, just after Grand Admiral Thrawn began his campaign to crush the former Rebel Alliance. A year into the conflict, he was promoted to lieutenant and assigned as the ship's chief helmsman, just in time to participate in the Battle of Bilbringi. While Home One was on its way back to Mon Calamari, the vessel encountered an unexpected gravitic phenomenon that dragged her out of hyperspace and threatened to destroy her. Lieutenant Pavan managed to slingshot the massive warship around the anomaly&mdash;and right into an asteroid field.

Fortunately, the field was fairly sparse, and the flagship suffered only minor damage and few casualties. Due to his skill and bravery, Pavan was rewarded&mdash;and punished&mdash;with a promotion to captain and command of the Corellian Corvette Stargazer. Tasked with patrolling the other side of the New Republic along the Unknown Regions, Captain Pavan and his crew spent three long years going from remote outpost to remote outpost, charting "gaseous and gravitic anomalies" (interstellar farts and fat deposits) and keeping an eye out for new worlds and new civilizations. Eventually, after the reborn Palpatine had wreaked havoc amongst the rest of the Navy, the Stargazer was called back to front-line service. In Captain Pavan's first action as a commanding officer, he proved that even vessals such as his could prove crucial. In a daring act, he took personal control of the ship, maneuvering it through the turbolaser blasts of a frantically-maneuvering Imperial Victory-class Star Destroyer, and burned its bridge tower with the corvette's ion engine exhaust. Stunned by this tactic, the enemy ship promptly surrendered.