Rigard Matl served as a pilot of TIE fighters throughout essentially every significant battle from the Galactic Civil War all the way up to the Yuuzhan Vong War, participating for opposing factions—or sometimes even both.
In the time of the Yuuzhan Vong War, he was in service to the Jedi at Eclipse Station, where he was in command of Shocker Squadron. When the Jedi launched an assault and eliminated the Vong blockade positioned at Talfaglio, Rigard's starfighter was hit, compelling him to eject, which in turn threw off the rest of his squadron.
Matl was a man bearing numerous scars; because he had participated in so many battles across the years, he had accumulated a large collection of battle wounds.