As Adumari culture venerated fighter pilots, it was considered essential to send the most renowned pilots in the New Republic Defense Force, despite their lack of any diplomatic training. The mission did not go as planned, but ultimately Red Flight succeeded through the rather undiplomatic means of overthrowing Perator Pekaelic ke Teldan of Cartann, Adumar's largest and most powerful nation, in collaboration with many of its smaller rival nations. Cartann was supported by General Turr Phennir, the Imperial delegate to Adumar, who led a flight from the 181st Imperial Fighter Group that was eventually defeated by Red Flight; out of the four TIE/IN interceptors in the flight, only Phennir's survived.