He graduated, and became a pilot onboard the CRV Tiger. Life on board the Tiger was rough. He hated it. He flew mission after mission in one of the most deadly craft to fly, the unshielded Tie Fighter.

One day, his squad was to go on a patrol. They came upon some unarmed transport ships with refugees from a dying planet on board. The commander of the patrol ordered them to destroy the transports. Tzadkiel questioned the order, asking why they should destroy the ships. The commander told him that the order came directly from the Emperor. That was when he figured out that the Empire was evil.

He quickly resigned his commission, and got a job as the captain of a nobleman’s yacht. The nobleman was actually an Imperial agent. One night, the nobleman and Tzadkiel were engaged in a conversation on the bridge. The nobleman was quite drunk, and began to tell him about a family the Empire had ordered him to kill. It was Tzadkiel’s family that he had killed. The nobleman was soon found floating in space, and the yacht was nowhere to be found.

After a week, Tzadkiel stumbled onto a Rebel training ground. The yacht was captured, and along with it, Tzadkiel. The ship he was taken to was the Joan d’Arc, the ship of White Squadron. He told them about what had happened to him, and he soon enlisted with them. During his time as captain of the yacht , he had lost most of his piloting skills. That is when he was approached by Commander Krenzel of White Squad. She told him about the new training squad, and that she could help him reacquire his skills. Tzadkiel accepted, until he moved on to Wolfshead Squadron.