The Osarian Guard was founded as the Firewings shortly after the end of the Yuuzhan Vong War by Aron Kellemann and Ashlee Powell. At this point the group was little more than a squadron of pilots, though they began recruiting more as they gained the funds to maintain a larger group. By the time the Firewings settled on Osarian, they were a full wing of X-wings; by the time they faced their first battles in defense of Osarian, they had changed their name to the Osarian Guard and had gained not only a group of small capital ships, but a ground component as well. In time, the Guard grew to control a fleet of six cruisers, along with a number of smaller ships, and over six thousand ground troops, most of them elite or commando-grade forces. At that point, the unit was restructured; Kellemann a