View source for Floran Welby

Floran Welby is an original ReExpanded character created by [[HandofThrawn45]] (Gregory O. Scott).<ref name=":0">''[[The New Jedi Order: The Last Admiral]]''</ref>

== Biography ==
As a young lieutenant, Welby was stationed at [[Bothawui]] with the [[New Republic Fifth Fleet]] for the first two years of the [[Yuuzhan Vong War]]. She served as the first officer of the [[Endurance-class fleet carrier|''Endurance''-class fleet carrier]] ''[[Intrepid]]'', under the command of Captain [[Pollum Morano]].

In 27 ABY, ''Intrepid'' was sent to [[Charros system|Charros]] as part of [[Task Force Cloverleaf]] to intercept a Rimward offensive by the [[Yuuzhan Vong]]. During the [[battle of Charros]], which the task force won despite heavy losses, Welby admitted to Morano that she had been glad to be away from the front lines. She witnessed the destruction of the New Republic Star Destroyer ''[[Thunderhead]]'' when it was rammed by a Yuuzhan Vong vessel, and when a transmission came in informing them of a full-scale Yuuzhan Vong invasion of nearby [[Rathalay]], Welby was among the first to realize that the attack on Charros had been a diversion.

At the [[battle of Rathalay]], where the ships of Task Force Cloverleaf were caught in a Yuuzhan Vong interdiction field, Welby reluctantly initiated a slow retreat from Rathalay, where ''Intrepid'' had taken on refugees from planetside. When ''Intrepid'' was breached by [[grutchin]]<nowiki/>s, Welby was shocked by Morano's order to open the affected sections of the ship to vacuum. Soon after, Morano personally went to help repair ''Intrepid''<nowiki/>'s starboard engine, leaving Welby in command of ''Intrepid''. When the retired [[Grand Admiral]] [[Octavian Grant|Grant]] landed aboard ''Intrepid'' together with the Jedi apprentices [[Eryl Besa]], [[Anakin Solo]] and [[Tahiri Veila]], Welby pushed back against Grant's attempts to take over command of the ship and the task force, but was ultimately unsuccessful in keeping her from subverting the New Republic's chain of command. Grant's strategy succeeded in holding the Yuuzhan Vong advance and destroying the interdictor, and the remnants of Task Force Cloverleaf were able to flee the system with the help of a [[Dornean Navy|Dornean]] relief force led by [[Etahn A'baht]], whom Morano had called for help before his death.

After the battle, A'baht expressed his sympathies to Welby and encouraged her to embrace her grief, lest she end up as twisted as the Yuuzhan Vong. A'baht also expressed his opinion that Welby deserved to keep the rank of Captain she had held as a brevet rank during the battle of Rathalay.<ref name=":0" />

== Sources ==