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[Star Wars] In Legends, they name a ship after the A-Wing pilot who brought down the Super Star Destroyer in the Battle of Endor. How did they know who he was?
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Prior to the Battle of Yavin, the Rebel Alliance was a collection of scattered rebel cells that acted primarily independently. Thus, there wasn't much of an organized central command. The destruction of the first Death Star changed things - the Rebel Alliance was now seen as an actual movement that might actually take down the Empire. More and more people flooded to the fight against the Empire and the Alliance solidified into an actual fighting force and by the time of Endor it had a central command and a degree of centralized organization. With that came record-keeping and personnel files and all that.

Games like *TIE Fighter* suggest that Star Destroyers had some kind of tactical oversight ability over the fighters that sortied from their bays. It wouldn't be too much of a stretch to learn that the Rebels had the same - they could simply look through their logs and see which A-wing crashed into the SSD. After-action reports from the wingmates of the A-wing pilot who didn't return would report the same and corroborate the records of the capital ships' computers.