The Emperor is dead, but the Empire remains. Wedge reforms Rogue Squadron, and Tycho Celchu and Corran Horn join. This is also our introduction to the evil Director Ysanne Isard and her underling, the calculating Kirtan Loor.
I remember really liking the training sequences here, and because the cast is made of non-essential characters (by which I mean, not Luke, Leia, or Han), I genuinely worried about their fates.