Inner Circle
this was the term used by General Wedge Antilles to describe the innermost group of individuals he implicitly trusted, during the period of time following the Battle of Coruscant and the death of Borsk Fey'lya. Wedge and his forces retook Borleias from the Yuuzhan Vong invaders, then made a break with the surviving members of the New Republic Advisory Council. In order to ensure that the forces on Borleias were not corrupted by political or alien elements, Wedge only admitted his most trusted allies to the Inner Circle. Among the original members were his wife, Iella, Luke Skywalker and Mara Jade Skywalker, Tycho Celchu, Lando Calrisian, Booster Terrik, Danni Quee, Gavin Darklighter, and Corran Horn. In one of their earliest meetings, General Antilles called the New Republic "a dead, oversizing hulk with a decentralized nervous system, whose extremities don't realize that its heart isn't beating anymore."