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552 entries across 218 allegiances and 140 species, in three tiers of depth — and every one of them says which tier it is.
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Admiral Ackbar
The Alliance’s fleet commander, and the only major film character who debuted in a newspaper comic strip.
Ahsoka Tano
The apprentice who quit — the only major Jedi who leaves the Order and is proved right.
Alexsandr Kallus
The Imperial Security Bureau agent who changed his mind — slowly, on screen, over four seasons, which is not a thing Star Wars usually has the patience for.
Arihnda Pryce
A local girl who lost her family’s mine to the Empire and spent the rest of her life climbing the thing that took it.
Armitage Hux
A boy raised inside a defeated army, given a bigger gun than the Empire ever built and no idea what to do after firing it.
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Created for a comic, drafted into the films because George Lucas liked the cover.
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Not a Sith, not a Jedi, and considerably older than either — the thing the Maw was built to hold.
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The Council’s line into Republic intelligence, killed twice in two continuities.
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The Alliance’s fleet commander, and the only major film character who debuted in a newspaper comic strip.
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Held a sector command against six people in a freighter and lost, then resented the man sent to fix it.
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Told Darth Vader that his religion was a superstition, and got roughly the response you would expect.
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Came out of lightspeed too close to the system, and became the object lesson that made Piett an admiral.
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Promoted twice by surviving the man in front of him, and killed by an A-wing.
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Lost an eye in the Clone Wars, won a battle they teach at the Academies, and was killed by pirates.
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A veteran officer whose job in the film is to explain why Starkiller Base can be destroyed at all.
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Burned his own homeworld on a dead man’s orders, and hunted his daughter for refusing to help.
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Spent his last years hunting a fraudulent prophet, and shot a space station to pieces to get him.
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One of the four Masters who walked into Palpatine’s office, and the first of them to fall.
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The apprentice who quit — the only major Jedi who leaves the Order and is proved right.
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The Rebellion’s spymaster, who reached print in a tabletop sourcebook rather than a novel.
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The first Dark Lord of the Sith, and the only one the setting lets take it back.
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A bored aristocrat who found a Sith book and started a cult with it.
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The Imperial Security Bureau agent who changed his mind — slowly, on screen, over four seasons, which is not a thing…
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A Sith Lord's daughter, hidden in plain sight as Han and Leia's granddaughter.
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An old Imperial who never stopped taking orders from Palpatine, across thirty-five years and one death.
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Refused to explain herself to a subordinate, was right, and paid for it at lightspeed.
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Named after his grandfather, killed off at the exact moment readers decided he was the best of the three.
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An Imperial Knight who served the Emperor rather than the Force, and was not remotely conflicted about it.
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A cargo-inventory droid with a beautiful voice and a very low opinion of his own life.
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The admiral in the white uniform — the officer who gave up her family name to command.
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Trained half the Jedi in the story, and his death started the war that killed the rest.
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Decided the Empire was not worth fighting for and built a smaller, tidier one in the Outer Rim instead.
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A local girl who lost her family’s mine to the Empire and spent the rest of her life climbing the thing that took it.
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Ran the Republic’s intelligence service into the Empire — and in Legends, was executed on his daughter’s word.
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A boy raised inside a defeated army, given a bigger gun than the Empire ever built and no idea what to do after firing…
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One of the robes behind the throne, in wide hats, closing shipping lanes to Ghorman.
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Count Dooku’s assassin in two incompatible versions — the clearest case of the reboot rewriting someone entirely.
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Killed his mother for the job, expanded the Nihil enormously, and was killed in turn.
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A Bothan Rogue whose relationship with a human pilot made the squadron argue about species in public.
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A Jedi historian who collected Sith holocrons to understand the enemy, and listened to them for years.
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A background extra at a podrace who became one of the animated era’s most reliable killers.
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The Jedi who hears the Force as music, and conducts other Jedi like an orchestra.
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Fought for Mandalore, then sold the same skills to whoever was buying.
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A humble frontier Jedi in Phase II who becomes a broken oracle 150 years later.
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A gangster who runs his operation out of a ship, and once lost a puffer pig to Lando Calrissian.
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She keeps the forge, the creed and the history, and she is the reason the helmet stays on.
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The other candidate — a name in one line of dialogue, and a fossil of a script revision.
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Raised the galaxy’s most dangerous adopted daughter and died before she needed him to explain why.
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Negotiates for the Guavians, backed by soldiers who do not have faces.
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Obi-Wan’s oldest friend at the Temple, and one of the few Jedi Apprentice names canon kept.
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The Jedi the Barash Vow is named after — and the sister Porter Engle chose.
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The Nihil’s scientist: a cult child who grew up to vivisect the Force.
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The padawan who bombed the Jedi Temple, framed her friend, and made the best argument against the Order anyone in the…
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The Republic’s single most valuable weapon, and a twenty-something who has been told so since childhood.
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A survivor of the purge working as a mercenary, and looking for something older than either order.
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Lost his faith and kept the man who still had it, which is its own kind of belief.
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The plot device that rolls, and the best practical-effects gamble the sequel trilogy took.
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A bipedal exploration droid who spends two games clinging to a fugitive Jedi’s shoulder.
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Marvel’s first original Star Wars villain: a cyborg who hates droids because he has become one.
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Fed a rebellion intelligence to discredit his boss, and got blackmailed into an assassination attempt on the Emperor.
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The apprentice the era keeps taking things from — and the reader’s way into it.
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Luke and Mara’s son, born mid-invasion, and the Legends shelf’s answer to what the next Skywalker looks like.
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The Skywalker heir who wanted to be Vader, and could not even manage that properly.
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Luke's mother in every sense the films have room to show.
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Forty years at the Hutt’s ear, one year on the Hutt’s throne, and about four seconds after that.
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Luke’s best friend, cut from the film, partly restored in 1997, and dead in ninety seconds either way.
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A black-furred Wookiee bounty hunter created to prove that Chewbacca was not the template.
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A terrorist, then a regent, then a claimant — the longest political arc anyone in Star Wars has been given.
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Four lines of dialogue and a helmet, and somehow the most merchandised man in the galaxy.
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The defector who started the whole thing, and the only one of the six whose courage is visibly difficult for him.
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Waxer’s partner, and the one who argues that they cannot afford to care.
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Died rather than open a holocron listing every Force-sensitive child in the galaxy.
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The only private citizen in the galaxy who owns an Imperial Star Destroyer, and he runs it as a shopping centre.
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Twenty years as the Expanded Universe’s designated political villain, and then the best death in the New Jedi Order.
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The head of state who has to be asked twice, and then commits an entire army.
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One of the six hunters on the Executor’s bridge, and the only one with a grudge that predates the war.
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Head of state, minister of education, and the parent who actually taught Leia how to rule.
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Invented the idea of raising stormtroopers from infancy, and was poisoned by two of his own protégés.
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A Thyferran from a bacta dynasty, and the best pilot in the squadron according to the only person asked.
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The Temple bully who grew into a traitor, and died at thirteen for a man who never valued him.
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An astromech chassis packed with every weapon that would fit, and no protocol restraints at all.
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The muscle, and a demonstration that muscle is not enough.
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A Wookiee Jedi whose defining trait is that he feels other people’s pain before they do.
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Built by a nine-year-old slave on Tatooine and present, terrified, at every turning point for the next seventy years.
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A spaghetti-western gunslinger dropped into a war cartoon, and the one hunter the Jedi never beat cleanly.
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A Skywalker who is a bounty hunter, a spice addict, and absolutely not interested in the family business.
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Found the list of every Force-sensitive child in the galaxy — and decided nobody should have it.
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The last Chief of State of the New Republic and the first of the government that replaced it.
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A defeated warrior working as muscle for a crime lord, who ends up rebuilding his people.
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An old Imperial who saw the bombers coming, said so, and went down with the dreadnought anyway.
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A clone commando with amnesia, working as a dishwasher on Abafar.
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Apologised to Darth Vader in person. It went as well as apologising to Darth Vader in person ever goes.
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Ran the security detail that kept a fourteen-year-old queen alive, and spent the film being told his job was not…
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An Imperial veteran who thought General Hux was a nepotism appointment, and was correct.
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Chrome armour, two films, almost no screen time, and a novel that quietly makes her the most self-interested person in…
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The clone the war was told through — and one of the very few who got to choose what came after.
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Lost an eye protecting the Queen and was promptly told to stop worrying so much.
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An Alderaanian shock trooper with no planet to go home to and no war left to fight.
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The band’s armourer, and the only one of them who would rather shoot than swing.
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A Royal Guardsman with dark side training who murdered the Emperor by letting his clones rot.
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A pilot with a dead wife, a missing son and a trust problem, travelling with the man responsible.
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The Rebellion as a job with a body count, done by a man who keeps the receipts.
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The squadron’s slicer, recruited for what he could do to a computer rather than what he could do to a TIE.
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Kept believing in his brother long past the point of evidence, and was killed for it.
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Broke under torture, gave up her own padawan, and cut herself off from the Force rather than risk it again.
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A B-wing pilot who has watched her entire squadron die twice, and flies with the music turned up.
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A child navigator whose Force sensitivity is the Ascendancy’s hyperdrive, and expires with puberty.
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Fifty years of screen time without a single line of translated dialogue, and nobody has ever misread him.
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Not a Jedi. Believes anyway, out loud, in the middle of a firefight.
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A malicious, half-repaired astromech who is in this for himself and saves the galaxy anyway.
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A Jedi informant who became a fence, because the Jedi stopped paying.
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She swore an oath and kept it, long after the Empire had stopped deserving one.
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The Ghost crew’s arms dealer, who later changed his ways — mostly.
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A diplomat who turned out to be the first true Jedi healer the new Order had.
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The Jedi who taught the Order to fight, killed on the Temple steps by his best student’s student.
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Bought a woman out of slavery, married her, and lost a leg trying to get her back.
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A sheriff in borrowed Mandalorian armour, holding one town together on a planet with no government.
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Scholar, mystic, and the Jedi the era uses to ask whether the Order deserves its own members.
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A Council seat that spent years being called the wrong name.
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Took the Council seat left empty by Yarael Poof, and lasted one scene.
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Executed Order 66 on his own general, served the Empire anyway, and eventually walked out of it in the night.
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Ground forces commander for a movement that keeps running out of ground.
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The clone who policed Coruscant, and shot Fives before he could finish the sentence.
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Plo Koon’s commander, one eye short after Ventress, and an old man on Seelos twenty years later.
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The decoy who dies in the first ninety seconds of Attack of the Clones.
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A detective who became a fighter pilot who became a Jedi, in roughly that order and reluctantly each time.
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The Jedi who resigned on principle and was recruited by the very thing he claimed to be fighting.
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The marksman whose inhibitor chip worked, and who then had to find out what he believed without it.
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The clone who walked away, took a name and a farm, and asks Rex the question the war cannot answer.
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Preached Human High Culture to cover the fact that he did not qualify for it.
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The scientist who was watching for extragalactic life when it arrived and killed most of her colleagues.
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One of the four padawans of Jedi Quest, and the one the series was willing to kill.
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The Sith Lord who destroyed the Sith in order to save them — author of the Rule of Two.
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An assassin hired to hunt Darth Bane who decided she would rather inherit from him.
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A Jedi raised by Tusken Raiders who ended as the emperor of a Sith order a thousand strong.
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The apprentice who took the throne by shooting his master in the back, and never grew into it.
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The Sith Lord who sacked Coruscant, and then decided the Empire was the thing holding him back.
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Killed off in his first film, and rebuilt by twenty-five years of books and television into something better.
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A Sith who treated atrocity as a medium, and survived four hundred years inside his own mask.
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The Lord of Hunger — a wound in the Force wearing a mask, and not much else.
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A Nagai warlord recruited into the One Sith and kept there as its blunt instrument.
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A banker who tried to defeat death, and taught the apprentice who killed him.
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Chased immortality through Sith alchemy and produced a zombie outbreak in his own school.
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The Lord of Pain — a corpse that refuses to finish dying, out of spite.
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Raised from birth inside the Sith order, with no self to fall away from.
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A Sith engineer who treated the Rule of Two as a redundancy problem, and kept a spare apprentice.
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Two characters in one suit, and the publishing programme has spent fifty years arguing about the seam.
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The spare apprentice, kept alive in a coma for years as laboratory stock.
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Krayt’s lore master and closest ally, which in a Sith order is a job with a fixed term.
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The first apprentice of the Rule of Two, and the proof that it works.
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A mercenary with a fast freighter and a droid co-pilot, built to be Han Solo while Han Solo was in a slab.
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The analyst who was right about the rebellion before anyone else, and destroyed a great many people proving it.
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An Imperial engineer who met Luke Skywalker once and never entirely got over it.
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Chief mechanic of the Mynock, reputedly able to fix anything with a hydrospanner.
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Designed the Empire’s best starfighters, then tried to use them on the Emperor.
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Firepower over finesse, a head full of bandages, and the longest continuous career of anyone in the line-up.
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A silent Council seat in 1999; two decades later, the master who dies so Kanan Jarrus can live.
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Crash-prone, relentlessly pessimistic, and still flying decades after everyone expected him to stop.
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A four-armed short-order cook who identified the murder weapon the entire Jedi Archive could not.
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A former slave in a squadron of last chances, carrying a grudge the New Republic could not process.
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A bounty hunter who breaks the one rule of his profession in his first episode and spends three seasons paying for it.
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A rogue archaeologist with two homicidal droids and no functioning survival instinct.
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A promising surgeon who became a butcher, and announced his own rap sheet to a farm boy in a bar.
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Ran the Empire’s cloning programme out of Mount Tantiss, and drew a straight line from the clone army to Palpatine’s…
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The handmaiden who stays on Coruscant while Padmé is sent into hiding — played by Rose Byrne.
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The eighty-first identical copy of a man, and the first one to want something different.
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A gangster of wealth and taste, fronting a syndicate for someone he does not name.
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Presumed dead, wired into a Separatist computer, and recovered as something between a man and a machine.
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A Zabrak Master out of the Nar Shaddaa slums, and the Jedi Grievous kept alive on camera.
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A tracker with a temper, killed by his own malfunctioning lightsaber during an escape.
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The blonde handmaiden — she goes to Coruscant, and she fights at the Battle of Naboo.
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Assigned as a translator because of an accent, and ended up as the Empire’s only man inside the Chiss Ascendancy.
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A brilliant improviser who keeps reaching past the edge of what the Order permits.
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A hunter of very few words, a bowcaster, and a hat that is also a shield and also a weapon.
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A thousand years of Sith planning, executed by a man whose main weapon was committee procedure.
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A deposed emperor running a government from Bastion, and the least villainous Imperial in the setting.
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The film’s designated marauder, who turns out to be the only person in it with a cause.
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Planned to blow up Coruscant and frame the last Royal Guard for it.
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An archaeologist Jedi who hid the Order’s future inside a puzzle only his own padawan could open.
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The Rogue who was working for the other side the whole time, with a bacta cartel behind her.
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The droid overseer in Jabba’s basement, running a torture chamber for machines.
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A metre tall, one eye short, and the most openly aggressive Master in the chamber.
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A Jedi who read too much, and the first Dark Lord the Expanded Universe built from scratch.
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Taught the Force by a man who never finished learning it — and the only Jedi who ever removed himself from the board…
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Talented, competitive, and on her last chance before the New Republic discharged her.
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A Clone Wars flight instructor running a neutral airspace, until the Empire demonstrates what neutrality is worth.
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Left for dead in the Dune Sea, rebuilt with cybernetics, and promoted to the second most dangerous person on Tatooine.
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The brother who was spared the transformation, and killed by the brother who was not.
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The padawan who was better than Anakin Skywalker at everything, and left the Order anyway.
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The heavy of the Inquisitorius — no subtlety, considerable telekinesis, two lost hands.
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A decent chancellor removed by the crisis his successor manufactured.
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The only stormtrooper the saga ever let take the helmet off and keep talking.
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The clone who worked out what the inhibitor chips were for, and was shot for it.
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Dead for four hundred years and still running Onderon through the people who dug him up.
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Built the Death Star, and built the flaw that destroys it, over fifteen years of pretending to be broken.
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A boy from Jakku who grew up to destroy the Empire on the Emperor’s own instructions.
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Spent his career as the Jedi who believed his own publicity, and then earned every word of it in one doorway.
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The first student Luke Skywalker lost, and the warning the academy did not heed.
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A Mandalorian who governs Mandalore for the Empire, in red and white armour with an Imperial cog on the shoulder.
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An Imperial intelligence agent who infiltrated the Wraiths and then could not decide which identity to keep.
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The last Lasat anyone had counted, which turned out to be wrong in the best way the show ever managed.
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Owned Shmi and Anakin Skywalker, and lost them on a bet.
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One of the Temple friends, and a reminder that most Jedi were never main characters.
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A child star of Imperial propaganda films who grew up into the New Republic’s best undercover officer.
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A founder of the Rebellion who spent years running his own private war rather than serve under Mon Mothma.
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Ran the best cantina in Mos Espa, paid her tribute, and was killed anyway.
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Red Leader at Yavin, and the pilot who took the first shot at the exhaust port.
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The youngest Rogue in the room, carrying a surname that had already died once at Yavin.
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Told Tarkin the Death Star had a weakness, and was told to be quiet.
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He read the stolen plans, found the exhaust port, and gave the briefing every Star Wars mission scene has copied since.
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A Kaleesh warlord rebuilt as a machine so he could collect the lightsabers of people who were better than him.
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The man who built the Empire’s commandos, then planned the raid that finished it.
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The officer who called the evacuation of Hoth, and the reason anyone got off it.
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Survived the Death Star and Endor, and the histories recorded him dead at Yavin anyway.
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The only officer in the room who was right about the Rebellion, and the comics gave him forty years of credit for it.
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The one Imperial officer in the trilogy who is simply good at his job.
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A Republic senator who played both sides, and helped bring down Starlight Beacon.
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The member of Inferno Squad who did not defect, and spent thirty years making that everyone else’s problem.
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The Imperial officer who finally signed the peace — and the rare Star Wars character both continuities decided to keep.
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Runs an underground fighting pit, gambles on it, and tries to sell a Mandalorian’s armour.
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The Empire’s only alien Grand Admiral, and the one commander it could never quite trust.
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The man who wrote the doctrine — rule through the fear of force, rather than force itself.
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Two minutes of screen time and thirty years of argument about who shot first.
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The middleman: he does not hunt anyone, he just decides who gets to.
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A champion racing pilot who took a desk job rather than tell anyone she was ill.
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A fifty-year-old infant of a species Lucasfilm still refuses to name, and the most consequential new character in…
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A machine built to be indistinguishable from a woman, who spends a sequel trying to find out if she is one.
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A Jedi Temple Guard who kept the Temple job description and changed the employer.
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A well-known Alderaanian attorney, prosecuting an Alderaanian pilot for betraying the people who destroyed their world.
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The genre’s most durable scoundrel, and a surprisingly hard character to write well in prose.
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Shared a prophetic vision with a man the Council exiled, and said nothing for years.
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Owned the ship, recruited the crew, and was quietly running a cell of the Rebellion before anyone on board realised…
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An assassin droid who prefaces every sentence with its own emotional label and calls you a meatbag.
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A pirate with no allegiance, no shame, and an unnervingly consistent code.
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The bomber commander who thought Rogue Squadron was overrated, and judged one of its pilots for treason.
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Squad sergeant, enhanced senses, and the reluctant guardian at the centre of The Bad Batch.
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The droid who has taught every Jedi in twenty-five thousand years how to build a lightsaber.
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Raised to be the perfect Imperial, and given a front-row seat when the Empire decided to murder its own worlds.
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A police detective who became a spy, in a series that never once put her in a cockpit.
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An assassin droid reprogrammed as a nurse, which turns out to be the same protocol pointed the other way.
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A chrome assassin droid in the bounty hunter line-up, with about four seconds of film and forty years of backstory.
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An empath apprenticed to a Knight barely older than he is.
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Inherited a grieving Padawan who did not believe his master was dead — and was right.
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Promoted for his speeches rather than his seamanship, and killed 37,000 people proving he knew it.
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Arrived to buy Leia Organa with sixty-three worlds, and left having lost the argument to a smuggler.
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The debt at the centre of the original trilogy, sitting in a palace on a desert world.
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The Solo son who reasoned his way, step by defensible step, into becoming a Sith Lord.
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Raised by the Chiss, married a Solo, and ended up running the Empire his grandfather never got to.
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Pilot, mechanic, Sword of the Jedi — and the person the story eventually points at her own brother.
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The best bounty hunter in the galaxy, hired to be the template for the army that ends the Republic.
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Led an entire stormtrooper company in laying down its weapons, which is the mutiny Finn thought he was alone in.
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The most disliked character in the franchise, and the one who hands Palpatine emergency powers.
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A slave who became a slaver to survive, and spent the rest of the series undoing it.
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Cade Skywalker’s partner in the bounty trade, and no friend at all of the Jedi.
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A Lasat Jedi General who died in a corridor so his padawan could reach an escape pod.
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A bounty hunter who keeps taking jobs from the winning side and insisting it is a coincidence.
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Red Six, four lines of dialogue, and one of the most stubbornly beloved bit parts in the franchise.
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A blind Jedi archaeologist who became the Empire’s High Inquisitor and went looking for a battery of souls.
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A Resistance X-wing pilot from Dandoran who got considerably more life in the comics than on screen.
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Six lines of dialogue that diagnose the entire Order: if it is not in the Archives, it does not exist.
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A bounty hunter who wore Mandalorian armour and let people assume, which turned out to be a fatal business model.
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A Jedi who walked out of the Order decades ago and would rather you did not ask about it.
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The only member of the crew with an actual commission, and the least comfortable with the rest of them.
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Gold Leader, flying the slowest craft in the attack down the longest corridor in the galaxy.
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A young New Republic pilot who has never fought a war and cannot quite believe the last one was real.
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A mad clone of a dead Jedi Master, grown too fast in a cylinder and left alone on Wayland for a decade.
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Declared himself Emperor, then rammed his flagship into a rival Grand Admiral and killed them both.
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Took a boy out into the Carrion Plateau and taught him everything he later did to the galaxy.
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A refugee sold into slavery, freed by Revan, and later hunting him without knowing it.
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A stolen childhood, a forged identity and one sentence that redefined what the Rebellion was for.
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Built by the Empire to kill rebels, reprogrammed by one, and constitutionally incapable of tact.
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Survived the Clone Wars, the Purge, and roughly 150 years of Legends history in a very large hat.
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A silent U-wing pilot in black, behind a mask that hides every expression — including, for a long time, her species.
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A Jedi who went dark under the Empire, came back, and spent the rest of his life running the training floor.
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A padawan who never finished his training, teaching a student he is not qualified to teach.
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Left behind a talisman that turns people into a plague, and the plague outlived him by millennia.
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The other Tonnika sister — which is to say, not a Tonnika sister at all.
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Thrawn’s second aboard the Chimaera, promoted out of the job just before it stopped existing.
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Loyal to Marchion Ro right up to the moment Ro spent him.
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Junior controller at D’Qar in one film, running the room by the third.
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The Marvel run’s lead: a Knight who is measurably good and cannot be told so.
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A demolitions specialist in a fighter squadron, which is exactly the sort of hire the Wraiths were invented to make.
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The host of a children’s game show who turned out, three years later, to be the Jedi who saved Grogu.
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Fought on the ground at Endor, then chose a farm on Yavin 4 over the rest of the war.
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Sabine Wren’s Academy classmate, who took the other road out and made a career of it.
Dossier
The Jedi who fell in love with a cultist, and whose death built the Nihil.
Catalogue entry
The one Council member who reached the screen from a comic — and the one the films never bothered to explain.
Full dossier
The last Royal Guard, keeping a blood oath to an Emperor who never deserved one.
Dossier
A Dathomiri witch of the Singing Mountain Clan who joined the Jedi and kept the rancor.
Catalogue entry
The only Jedi in the prequels who looks like he is enjoying himself.
Dossier
The 501st’s field medic, with "a good droid is a dead one" stencilled on his helmet.
Catalogue entry
Killed in the first issue so that the series could be about what his son did next.
Dossier
One of Bo-Katan’s Nite Owls, hijacking Imperial freighters to fund a claim to a dead planet.
Catalogue entry
The Lord of Betrayal — a teacher whose whole curriculum is that you should stop needing teachers.
Full dossier
Marchion Ro’s protégé, recruited out of a childhood friendship that broke in one afternoon.
Catalogue entry
Worked off three lifetimes of indenture, then spent his freedom helping a stranger for nothing. I have spoken.
Dossier
The mercenary who stole the Death Star plans — in the version of the story we had before Rogue One.
Full dossier
Destroyed a star system with millions of people on it, was forgiven, and became a Jedi Master. Legends never fully…
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L
Assembled herself out of astromech and protocol parts, started a droid revolt, and ended up inside the Falcon.
Dossier
The aristocrat who leaked Leia’s parentage and helped hand the galaxy to the First Order.
Catalogue entry
A gang boss who runs child labour out of a sewer and cannot go outside.
Dossier
A Sith who does the paperwork, checks the intelligence, and is right about almost everything.
Dossier
A con man who became an administrator, betrayed his friends, and then spent the rest of his life paying it back.
Dossier
Charges exorbitant rates, delivers, and fights with a scaled boa she also wears.
Catalogue entry
A politician first, a fighter by necessity, and the character the novels have served best.
Full dossier
Top of his class at the Academy, and best remembered for being lifted off the deck by the throat.
Catalogue entry
A Chancellor with a slogan — "We are all the Republic" — and a decade to find out what it is worth.
Dossier
Chairs the meeting where the Empire decides who disappears, and runs it like a faculty seminar.
Dossier
Considered one of the Order’s finest teachers, and used to demonstrate what the Nihil do to Jedi.
Catalogue entry
Royalty, slave, Republic cadet, deserter, Tempest Runner — and the only Nihil the era let change.
Full dossier
Chewbacca’s nephew, a Wookiee Jedi, and the best slicer in his year.
Dossier
The Sith Lord who argued for hiding, and was right.
Catalogue entry
The farm boy the whole shelf is built around — and the character the two continuities disagree about most.
Full dossier
The Padawan who keeps the other two out of trouble, and who fell for a girl the Order could not place.
Catalogue entry
Thought to have died in Order 66; actually kept alive in a cell and used as bait.
Dossier
An Imperial agent who infiltrated Rogue Squadron, was shot down by Luke Skywalker, and came back twenty-five years…
Dossier
Saw what Krennic was doing years before her husband would admit it, and died on the doorstep saying so.
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M
The Order’s champion, right about Palpatine and wrong about how to handle him, in that order.
Full dossier
Set out to kill four Jedi in revenge, and found the man who wanted her to do it.
Dossier
The Imperial officer assigned to catch Doctor Aphra, with the predictable complication.
Catalogue entry
Led the six-woman Mistryl team hired to guard a piece of the second Death Star.
Catalogue entry
Lost a duel to a Jedi and swore his people to him on the spot.
Catalogue entry
Took the mask off a dead warlord and turned a defeated people into the Mandalorian Wars.
Dossier
The Emperor’s assassin who became Luke Skywalker’s wife — and the best case for reading Legends.
Full dossier
The princess the Sith keep trying to assassinate, and the heir who outlasts them.
Catalogue entry
A marauder king who inherited a secret, and built a war out of it.
Full dossier
A true believer who became the origin of the Nihil, one reasonable step at a time.
Full dossier
The reason the Nihil can go anywhere: a century-old woman kept alive in a medical pod.
Catalogue entry
A century on the throne, and the succession crisis that ended his empire began at his funeral.
Dossier
Con man, black marketeer, and the only person on Taris pleased to see a fugitive Jedi.
Catalogue entry
A silent ex-Inquisitor selling his services after the Empire stopped paying.
Catalogue entry
The "invisible admiral", who chased a working cloaking device and was murdered by his own crew.
Catalogue entry
Stood beside Palpatine for fifty years, signed the surrender, and kept his office.
Dossier
Signed his band to Jabba the Hutt for unlimited food and no money, which he considered a good deal.
Catalogue entry
A thousand years of watching galactic powers rise and fall, from behind a bar.
Dossier
Cut herself off from the Force at Malachor V, and spent a whole game finding out what that means.
Dossier
The last of her coven, taught for years that the Jedi were the ones who killed it.
Dossier
An ex-Imperial sharpshooter with a mouth on him, and the only person in the show who says what the Empire actually did.
Dossier
A true believer who tried to defect, and whose murder the Empire successfully blamed on the rebels.
Dossier
A smuggler’s daughter who married the son of the officer who put her father in prison.
Dossier
Fourteen years old, abandoned by her brother, and the best slicer on a planet that is about to be destroyed.
Dossier
A Separatist battle droid rebuilt by a teenager into something considerably worse.
Catalogue entry
Tried to restart the war with a con man in a Grand Admiral’s uniform.
Catalogue entry
An ex-ISB officer holding the Darksaber and a plan the New Republic has not noticed yet.
Catalogue entry
An architect running the largest construction project in history, behind schedule, with Darth Vader in the doorway.
Dossier
Grieving, spiced, and negligent — until somebody made the mistake of assuming she was finished.
Dossier
The elected mayor, working for the spice cartel the whole time.
Catalogue entry
The one founder of the Rebellion who had to build it inside the building she was trying to destroy.
Full dossier
Not a Sith, and that is exactly the point — a dark side tradition the Sith never controlled.
Full dossier
The sole survivor of Talon Squadron, and the Wraith the series uses to write about grief.
Dossier
A fraud running a real religion, with a monster in the basement.
Dossier
The first bounty the series shows being collected, and the only one who gets to complain about it.
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N
The Sith Lord who found the Republic by accident and lost an empire trying to conquer it.
Dossier
Kit Fisto’s former padawan, promoted by a war and killed by it in the same episode.
Catalogue entry
The Empire’s only female admiral, hidden in a black-hole cluster for a decade, and later head of state of the…
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A roguish pilot who outlasted his own squadron and has been charging the galaxy for it ever since.
Dossier
A trial lawyer who flies an X-wing, and the only reason Tycho Celchu got a defence at all.
Dossier
A biotechnologist who commits heresy because the sacred protocols have stopped working.
Catalogue entry
A Force-sensitive Grand Admiral who ran battle meditation for an entire fleet at Endor, and died with the station.
Catalogue entry
He flew the Falcon into the second Death Star and laughed, and nobody has ever needed the subtitles.
Dossier
A Jedi Knight broken into an Inquisitor, and undone years later by being reminded of her own name.
Catalogue entry
The advance agent who spent years destabilising the New Republic before anyone knew his species existed.
Full dossier
Widowed into the Jedi Order, and the first great woman the Expanded Universe wrote.
Full dossier
Flew at Endor, came home to a son who had stopped waiting — the New Republic’s most human recruit.
Full dossier
A shipping executive who invaded a planet over a tax dispute and never once stopped being frightened.
Full dossier
Director of Imperial Intelligence, and — under another name entirely — Cade Skywalker’s mother.
Dossier
O
The Order’s most dutiful son, which is exactly the problem the books keep poking at.
Full dossier
A contract killer on Palpatine’s payroll for fifty years, remembered mostly as a skeleton in a desert.
Dossier
Trained by the Solusars rather than by Luke Skywalker — the Order’s second generation, doing the fighting.
Catalogue entry
Outlived every other Grand Admiral by refusing to fight any of them.
Catalogue entry
Built the Great Jedi Library on Ossus, and lived long enough to watch it burn.
Catalogue entry
The oldest Nightsister alive, and the one who could call the dead ones back.
Catalogue entry
An unaltered clone the Kaminoans never meant to let leave, and the reason The Bad Batch is about something.
Full dossier
The court jester who was running the invasion, and the reason it happened at all.
Catalogue entry
A Gand who refers to himself in the third person until his deeds entitle him to stop.
Dossier
The serpentine Master in the corner — royalty, in the Legends telling, who gave it up for the Order.
Catalogue entry
A Wayseeker: a Jedi who has formally told the Council she will decide her own missions.
Dossier
The senator the prequels use to show what a legislature looks like when it has stopped working.
Dossier
The man who built the Death Star and could never get anyone to say so out loud.
Dossier
The twin who went with the Jedi, washed out of the Order, and ended the series holding a red blade.
Dossier
Thon’s apprentice, and one of the Jedi Exar Kun took alive.
Catalogue entry
Three-quarters cybernetic, the last Grand Admiral still shooting at Endor, and executed for it.
Dossier
The man who kept Luke on the farm, and was right to try.
Dossier
P
Elected at fourteen, obsolete by thirty — the Republic’s conscience, and its most cutting critic.
Full dossier
The opening sequence of The Last Jedi belongs to her, and she does not survive it.
Catalogue entry
The Nihil’s professional: the one Tempest Runner who runs his Tempest like a business.
Catalogue entry
Sent into the Imperial Academy by his own father, he graduated and defected with an entire wing behind him.
Dossier
One of the four corporate signatures on the document that starts the Clone Wars.
Catalogue entry
The biggest man in the covert, carrying a name with a much longer history than he has.
Dossier
Raised a pacifist, promoted for tactics, and killed at Kashyyyk chasing a religion.
Catalogue entry
Runs Docking Bay 3-5 and asks no questions she is not paid to ask.
Catalogue entry
A background mask in the films; in the Clone Wars, the Jedi the clones actually liked.
Dossier
The best pilot in the Resistance, promoted and demoted roughly in proportion to how much he was listening.
Full dossier
The hive lord whose foundries built the droid army — and, quietly, the first Death Star.
Dossier
Picked a fight in the Mos Eisley cantina and lost an arm inside four seconds.
Catalogue entry
A Jedi General who spent clone lives deliberately, hoping the waste would get him noticed by Dooku.
Dossier
The Blade of Bardotta: three centuries old, cooks for the outpost, and is the deadliest person in it.
Dossier
A governor by day and a terrorist by night, holding the Darksaber and losing it in a fair fight.
Dossier
The third most powerful being in the Empire, and the only one of the three who is not a Sith.
Full dossier
Q
A mercenary pilot droid voiced by Richard Ayoade, shot in the head mid-sentence.
Catalogue entry
Han Solo’s first love, and the only person from his old life who out-climbed him.
Full dossier
A Sith who does not want an empire — only the freedom to use his power without being told not to.
Dossier
The extraction target, who ends the episode back in a cell he never left.
Catalogue entry
Left on Maz Kanata’s doorstep, raised into the Order, and almost never speaks.
Catalogue entry
The Jedi who kept being right in ways the Council found inconvenient.
Full dossier
A Jedi tracker who reads objects for memories, sent undercover into the dark side and left there too long.
Full dossier
R
The most consequential character in Star Wars, and the only one who never explains himself.
Full dossier
The droid Luke almost bought. Its motivator blows, and the galaxy changes.
Catalogue entry
Wardrobe mistress to the Queen, and the only handmaiden to speak as herself in The Phantom Menace.
Catalogue entry
A true believer in an Empire that never deserved her — and an architect of what replaced it.
Full dossier
A Centrist senator who collects Imperial memorabilia and turns out to be the most decent person in the chamber.
Dossier
Assembles crews for jobs he has no intention of paying out on.
Catalogue entry
A rich boy in bright robes who became something the Order had no word for.
Catalogue entry
The Padawan who would rather be in the Archives, sent to the frontier against his will.
Dossier
The original Ren — the name is the weapon, and it is inherited by whoever takes it.
Catalogue entry
Joined the people who killed her friends in order to get close enough to kill the man who did it.
Dossier
The Old Republic’s defining figure — a hero, a conqueror, and an amnesiac, in an order you get to choose.
Full dossier
A scavenger who chose her own surname — and the newest character with the whole saga resting on her.
Full dossier
The journalist who broadcast the Valo attack, and was then made to broadcast for the Nihil.
Catalogue entry
Rogue Seven, from Bespin — one of the twelve pilots the first X-Wing novel had to characterise at once.
Catalogue entry
A pilot who treats every job as material for the story he will tell about it afterwards.
Catalogue entry
The Questioner: a Mandalorian who kept deserting in order to find out what the war was for.
Catalogue entry
The Resistance seen from the engine room, by someone who joined because the First Order strip-mined her home.
Dossier
Befriended Thrawn, betrayed Thrawn, and was disposed of by the man who taught him how.
Catalogue entry
Thrawn’s bodyguard in both continuities, and his killer in one of them.
Catalogue entry
Nute Gunray’s deputy, and the second man in the room to realise the deal has gone wrong.
Catalogue entry
The quietest Master in the Jedi Quest books, and the one the padawans watched most closely.
Catalogue entry
S
A reptilian hunter who laughs by hissing, and the first non-human to lead the Jedi.
Dossier
The woman in the throne-room gown for most of The Phantom Menace, played by Keira Knightley.
Full dossier
A weapons engineer who defected from her own Academy and signed the Rebellion’s logo without meaning to.
Full dossier
The Council’s pilot, from a moon whose people see the future and rarely mention it.
Catalogue entry
The laugh in Jabba’s throne room, tolerated because the boss finds him funny.
Catalogue entry
The first officer who resents his captain, and slowly works out that the captain is right.
Catalogue entry
The banker who financed both sides of a civil war and expected to be thanked for it.
Catalogue entry
Introduced as Han Solo’s wife, which was a lie, and then given a life of her own.
Dossier
Heir to a throne he took early, using a stolen book he barely understood.
Catalogue entry
One of the robed men behind the throne — and in Legends, the man who briefly inherited it.
Dossier
Grand Master of the Jedi Order, descended from Revan and Bastila Shan, and the face of a losing war.
Full dossier
A pacifist ruling a warrior culture, and the argument the whole Mandalorian canon is still having.
Dossier
Twin purple lightsabers, a Kyuzo war shield, and a Padawan spell running with Maz Kanata’s pirates.
Catalogue entry
A Nightbrother rebuilt into a weapon by his own mother, and aimed at the people who took her son.
Dossier
The insurgent the Rebel Alliance trained, then disowned for doing what they trained him to do.
Full dossier
The best podracer on Tatooine, entirely because he cheats and no one has managed to prove it.
Dossier
A mercenary promoted to Executor of the resurrected Emperor, and disposed of like one.
Catalogue entry
The Empire’s answer to a Rebel special-forces problem: stormtroopers with names.
Catalogue entry
The one who enjoys the hunt more than the kill, which makes her the more dangerous half of the pair.
Catalogue entry
Twenty-nine languages, an eidetic memory, and one moment of mercy that killed her.
Catalogue entry
The Jedi assigned to Kamino — which is to say, the Jedi who watched the trap being manufactured.
Dossier
One of the two women in the Mos Eisley cantina, retconned into a bodyguard from a murdered world.
Dossier
The Je’daii who found the Force Hound in the wreckage and argued for keeping him.
Catalogue entry
A commando first and a pilot second, which is the whole point of the unit.
Catalogue entry
Flew at Endor, flew one more mission for Leia after it, and raised the best pilot in the Resistance.
Dossier
The Supreme Overlord of an invading species, and a puppet who does not know it.
Dossier
Trained to surpass the Jedi by a master who then walked off and left her on another planet.
Catalogue entry
The saga begins with a woman letting her son go, and the whole tragedy runs off that one decision.
Dossier
Head of the Commerce Guild, and the only woman in the room where the war is signed.
Catalogue entry
A name dropped once in 2002 that turned out to be the load-bearing beam of the whole prequel plot.
Catalogue entry
Trained to find disloyalty in other Imperials, and quit the moment he found it in himself.
Dossier
The civil servant who tells the Queen, correctly and repeatedly, that the plan will not work.
Catalogue entry
A Legends love interest for Obi-Wan Kenobi in 2000, quietly restored to canon in 2022.
Dossier
The first clone to say out loud that the Republic owns him — and the first to sell it out.
Catalogue entry
Stood at Palpatine’s shoulder through the fall of the Republic and was never once asked to explain herself.
Dossier
A Jedi Master losing the Force and hiding it, in the best sustained tragedy the era wrote.
Dossier
Adi Gallia’s kinswoman, a Council healer, and one of the Order 66 deaths the film actually shows.
Catalogue entry
The face of the Order at its most confident — and the cost of being the person everyone trusts.
Full dossier
A gas prospector who could hear everyone’s thoughts at once, and moved to a cloud to make it stop.
Catalogue entry
A crew boss who takes the jobs she believes in, which is not how the profession is supposed to work.
Catalogue entry
Grown in a vat on Exegol to be a puppet, and given the best villain dialogue in the sequel trilogy anyway.
Full dossier
Lead vocalist in Jabba’s house band, and in The Clone Wars a rather more dangerous proposition.
Catalogue entry
A Jedi whose entire arc is about a temper she cannot train out of herself.
Catalogue entry
A middle manager who wanted the Empire to notice him, and got exactly that.
Dossier
The dark side as a family member — an abstraction with a sister, a father and a temper.
Dossier
T
A barefoot Tatooine orphan the Yuuzhan Vong tried to overwrite with someone else, and half succeeded.
Dossier
Blinded on Melida/Daan, and the reason Qui-Gon Jinn is the way he is.
Dossier
Information broker, smuggler chief, and the galaxy’s most careful neutral party.
Full dossier
Crashed on Dathomir escaping Order 66, and spent the years since lying to the only survivor.
Catalogue entry
A baron’s daughter who preferred the Force to a weapon, and did not survive the war.
Catalogue entry
Refuses to speak Basic on principle, and lets the rifle do the talking.
Catalogue entry
The squad’s engineer, whose enhancement is cognition and whose blind spot is everyone else’s feelings.
Dossier
A teenage scrapyard trader in a 2015 novel, and a Resistance wing commander in a 2015 film.
Dossier
Ate a planet to stop aging, then ran an empire from behind a curtain for thirteen centuries.
Dossier
Raised by a Dathomiri witch and a Hapan prince, and made to choose between a throne and a lightsaber roughly once a…
Dossier
A Dathomiri witch who captured Luke Skywalker, married a prince, and ended up ruling sixty-three worlds.
Dossier
An elderly Jedi who solves a crime by walking slowly and listening to people.
Catalogue entry
Bond-twins sharing one mind across any distance, and the first openly trans non-binary Jedi in canon.
Catalogue entry
A retired sky-walker who came back to look after the child doing her old job.
Catalogue entry
Defected on principle, and spent the rest of the war discovering that principle is not the same as peace.
Full dossier
A spy with the most famous Jedi surname in the galaxy and no connection to the Force whatsoever.
Dossier
A four-legged, armour-plated Jedi Master who trained a woman who would not carry a lightsaber.
Catalogue entry
Thrawn’s brother, and the politician who has to keep explaining him to the Ruling Families.
Dossier
The weakest Force talent at the academy, and the one who rebuilt the Order’s entire memory.
Dossier
The man who teaches Han Solo the trade, and then demonstrates the final lesson personally.
Dossier
Cad Bane’s toolkit with opinions, and emphatically not a butler droid.
Catalogue entry
The Wraith who is held together by prosthetics and gallows humour, in roughly equal measure.
Dossier
Took a Guild-entry bounty far above his level and briefly, disastrously, succeeded.
Catalogue entry
Enslaved as a child, freed by a Jedi, and drawn with the first curved lightsaber hilt in Star Wars.
Catalogue entry
A Padawan whose master gave her up under torture, and who was never told it happened that way.
Dossier
Served in Saxon’s Imperial Super Commandos so his family would not have to.
Catalogue entry
The biggest of the Knights, carrying a vibrocleaver and a helmet taken off someone else.
Catalogue entry
The Warmaster who told the galaxy it could buy peace by handing over its Jedi.
Dossier
Called the greatest lightsaber duellist the Sith ever produced, and killed by his own apprentice anyway.
Catalogue entry
A former Padawan who quit and went freelance killing things the Jedi would rather not discuss.
Dossier
Put on trial for treason and murder by the government he had already given everything to.
Full dossier
The worst pilot in the squadron on paper, kept on because flying was never the only thing being measured.
Catalogue entry
U
The droid on the other end of a Resistance spy’s scouting mission, and the reason anyone hears about it.
Catalogue entry
Volunteered to infiltrate the dark side, and the plan worked exactly as badly as you would expect.
Full dossier
Sets the exchange rate between salvage and food on a planet where both are scarce.
Catalogue entry
Disowned her daughter to protect the clan, and killed a viceroy to get her back.
Catalogue entry
V
The most level-headed member of a crew of scoundrels, and the first of them to die.
Catalogue entry
Promoted himself, abandoned his troops, and lunged at Rae Sloane in a moving shuttle.
Catalogue entry
Corran Horn’s son, and the Jedi whose breakdown starts the last Legends series.
Catalogue entry
The most argued-about character in Legends: teacher, torturer, Sith, or none of the above.
Dossier
Knighted at fifteen, and the only High Republic Jedi the screen has met so far.
Full dossier
The handmaiden who was a slicer, killed in the landing-platform bombing.
Catalogue entry
The Sith girl Luke Skywalker’s son fell in love with, which was exactly what her Tribe had planned.
Dossier
A spy whose interrogation is the frame story of an entire novel, and who later gets a theme park.
Dossier
Made the clones obsolete, sank Kamino to cover it, and was thrown to the Senate as the man who did it alone.
Dossier
Believed his scythe collected souls, and that each one made him stronger.
Catalogue entry
Learned the Force from the man who destroyed her mother’s Order.
Catalogue entry
The only living thing left on Katarr after Nihilus ate it, and then his instrument.
Catalogue entry
Trained Exar Kun, saw exactly what was coming, and was killed by it anyway.
Catalogue entry
A Gamorrean mathematician — which reads as a joke until you learn what was done to him to make it true.
Dossier
The Empire’s best TIE pilot, killed disobeying an order from the one commander who could have saved him.
Catalogue entry
W
A pressure-suited industrialist who treats an occupied planet as an inventory problem.
Dossier
Owned a nine-year-old boy and his mother, and is remembered mainly for being immune to a hand gesture.
Dossier
The trooper who found a Twi’lek orphan in a ruined city and could not leave her there.
Catalogue entry
The only pilot to survive both Death Star runs, and the man an entire book series was built around.
Full dossier
Ten seconds of screen time in 1980, and a decade of novels that made him the squadron’s standing hazard.
Full dossier
Found Leia in the forest and, by doing so, delivered the ground army that wins the war.
Dossier
A perfect memory, weaponised — the least conspicuous intelligence asset the Rebellion ever fielded.
Full dossier
Enhanced for strength, terrified of heights, and the first of the squad to nearly kill the others.
Catalogue entry
A background extra in 1977 who was retroactively given twenty years of history, and became the face of the Imperial…
Full dossier
A veteran in an A-wing cockpit who mostly just wants to go home.
Dossier
X
Qui-Gon Jinn’s first apprentice, and the reason he did not want a second.
Dossier
A Rakatan slave-weapon dropped into the middle of a Force order that has never met the dark side.
Dossier
Knife-thrower, ex-partner, and the only person who knows what Din Djarin looks like from the neck up.
Catalogue entry
One of the original exiles, and the one who worked out how to heal with the dark side.
Catalogue entry
Y
A background puppet in 1999 who has since been given four centuries of life and a murder.
Dossier
Marda Ro’s cousin, and the one who saw the cult for what it was.
Catalogue entry
The long-necked Master of Council chamber legend, gone between films without a scene.
Catalogue entry
Nine hundred years of institutional memory, and the man who presided over the collapse.
Full dossier
Arrested as the rebel mole he had been framed as, by the actual rebel mole.
Catalogue entry
An Imperial TIE pilot who flew in Operation: Cinder, defected, and spent three novels failing to explain herself.
Full dossier
She executed her own father for treason, then ran what was left of the Empire as a spymaster rather than a general.
Full dossier
The Emperor’s dark-side antiquarian, thrown down a hole by the man he was helping.
Catalogue entry
Z
Ran the Port Haileap outpost, and walked her Padawan into the first Nameless.
Catalogue entry
A shapeshifter hired to kill a senator, and silenced by her own employer mid-sentence.
Dossier
The worst Padawan on Taris, framed for the murder of his entire class.
Dossier
Raised to believe her own abilities were a sin, and outed by a falling building.
Catalogue entry
The street kid the Shadow Academy got to first, and one of the few Star Wars characters allowed to come back from it…
Dossier
The pilot who found Luke and Han alive on the Hoth ice, and was dead by the end of the same battle.
Catalogue entry
Jabba’s uncle, who tried a coup, failed, and could not outrun the Council he betrayed.
Dossier
Ran the spice crew Poe Dameron abandoned, and made him say the word "spice runner" out loud in front of his friends.
Dossier
A findsman who tracks quarry by religious ritual, which is not a metaphor and does not always work.
Dossier
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A protocol droid specialising in etiquette, translation and torture, in that order.
Dossier
The surgical droid who puts Luke back together twice, on Hoth and after Bespin.
Catalogue entry
A protocol droid whose logic glitched its way out of its own programming and into the bounty trade.
Dossier
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