Jessika Pava Jessika Pava , also known as Jess or Testor , was a human female who flew as a X - wing fighter pilot for the Resistance under the callsign of Blue Three . She served in a Resistance base and was an admirer of Luke Skywalker , the famed Jedi Knight . Biography . Growing up . Jessika Pava was a human female from Dandoran . At one point , she and her family were captured by pirate s and imprisoned . This led her to want to be in control and her hatred of being chained up later in life . Cold war . Serving the Resistance . Pava became a member of the Resistance during its conflict with the First Order , approximately thirty years after the Battle of Endor . She flew as a T - 70 X - wing fighter pilot in Blue Squadron , operating under the callsign of Blue Three . She was an admirer of Luke Skywalker , the famed Jedi Knight who served in the Alliance to Restore the Republic during the Galactic Civil War , and had heard stories of his time in the Rebellion , such as when he destroyed the Death Star during the Battle of Yavin . While performing a maintenance assignment while serving at a Resistance base , Pava met C - 3PO , a protocol droid who had been in the service of Skywalker and the Rebellion during the Galactic Civil War . Upon realizing that Threepio knew Skywalker , she asked him to tell her a story about Skywalker ' s adventures during the war . Threepio regaled her with a story of Skywalker ' s time on Devaron after the Battle of Yavin , where he trained in the Jedi Temple of Eedit . Her time talking to Threepio was cut short , once Pava was called to a meeting in the Resistance command center . Mission to Ovanis . As a friend of Captain Poe Dameron and a member of Black Squadron , Pava was handpicked by Dameron for a secret quest to find the explorer Lor San Tekka . General Leia Organa had tasked Dameron with finding Lor San Tekka in the hope of finding her lost brother Luke . Pava was also accompanied by the Galactic Civil War veterans L ' ulo L ' ampar and Temmin Wexley ( " Snap " ) , and the pilot Karé Kun . Prior to departing , Pava told Dameron that she had to delay her repairs to her T - 70 X - wing fighter and asked about the details of their mission . Dameron apologized that their mission was classified for now . For their first mission , Pava and her team traveled to the mountain ous world of Ovanis . Ovanis was home to a cult called the Crèche , who were believed to have encountered San Tekka . While Dameron and BB - 8 flew their X - wing into the Cave of the Crèche to question the Crèche cultists , Pava and her fellow pilots circled the skies . After initiating contact with the Crèche , Dameron contacted L ' ulo to warn them that he had found a tracker on his starfighter . Kun then reported the presence of a First Order platform and other forces hovering above the Cave of the Crèche . Following the arrival of First Order forces , Pava asked her fellow pilots what Dameron had meant by his order " get me some leverage . " At L ' ulo and Kun ' s recommendation , the pilots decided to figure it out for themselves . Wexley advocated seizing the First Order platform so that they could land and refuel their starfighters . Pava then proposed getting rid of the TIE / fo space superiority fighter s so that they could land . She believed that the ground forces on the platform would surrender right away . L ' ulo then used his A - wing to strafe the TIE fighters but was unable to destroy them all . The surviving TIE fighters engaged Black Squadron in a dogfight . However , the First Order commander Agent Terex had kept back the Maxima - A class heavy cruiser " Ravenous " and its TIE fighter complement in reserve . Black Squadron soon found itself pursued by several TIE fighters . Outnumbered and outgunned , Pava remarked that they had to get out of the line of fire . When L ' ulo recommended buying them time for Dameron , Wexley ordered his pilots to split up and head into the canyons in an attempt to disperse their pursuers . Pava found herself pursued by three TIE fighters but managed to lose them by collapsing a ridge on top of them . However , her astromech droid was hit by two other TIE fighters . At Wexley ' s recommendation , Pava and her fellow pilots launched a head - on attack on the TIE fighters . During the dogfight , Pava and her fellow pilots witnessed two large winged creatures fighting above the Cave of the Crèche . The dark winged creature ultimately triumphed over the blue winged creature . When Dameron turned the tables on Terex and his ground forces , he managed to force the First Order Security Bureau Agent to withdraw his TIE fighters . This enabled Black Squadron to land at the Cave of the Crèche and refuel their starfighters . After the Crèche cultists had departed on the black winged creature , Black Squadron departed . Dameron then radioed for Terex ' s cruiser " Ravenous " to pick up the stranded First Order forces . Dameron had decided not to take Terex into custody to avoid provoking war between the First Order and the New Republic . Mission to Megalox Beta . Following the mission to Ovanis , Pava and her fellow pilots returned to the base on D ' Qar where they celebrated with drinks . Pava took the opportunity to chat with the mechanic Oddy Muva . She thanked him for installing the new boosters on her X - wing fighter . When Muva wished that he could have seen action , Pava reassured him that he would get his turn once the Resistance obtained more starfighters from the New Republic . Muva thanked her . Pava then told Muva that Dameron was planning to take the squadron on another mission . When Muva asked about the mission , Pava admitted that she did not know but recalled that Dameron had mentioned a prison . The two then shared drinks . For their next mission , Black Squadron traveled to Megalox prison on the planet Megalox Beta . Dameron wanted to question Grakkus the Hutt , who was an inmate at the prison . Megalox was considered to be one of the roughest prisons for the worst criminals . The prison was surrounded by a gravity field that was projected by an orbit ing space station . Upon arriving , Black Squadron was greeted by Warden Luta , who had been bribed by Organa into letting her pilots visit the prison . Luta ' s prison guards transported Pava and her comrades on a shuttle into the prison . However , the guards then abandoned them at the landing port . Pava and her fellow pilots were forced to fight their way through the crowd to Grakkus ' fortress . After arriving , they were accosted by Grakkus and his Hutt posse , who allowed Dameron to enter Grakkus ' quarters . While Dameron met with Grakkus , Pava and the others waited in the courtyard . Since Terex had already arrived , Grakkus offered to reveal the information to whoever could free him from the prison . Pava and her fellow pilots were shocked to see Terex but allowed him to leave the fortress . Shortly later , Dameron exited Grakkus ' quarters and briefed the squadron about their change in plans . In order to extract leverage , Dameron ordered BB - 8 and the other astromech droid s to disable Megalox ' s gravity shield . Pava ' s astromech droid O - R10N took part in the operation but was destroyed by a security droid . While waiting , Pava expressed frustration that she did not have a ship or weapons . Dameron expressed empathy for her predicament but promised that they would get back in action soon . At that point , Terex returned with an army of gangster s that he had recruited to storm the fortress and kill Grakkus ' guards and Black Squadron . When the mob breached the gates , Pava and her fellow pilots joined the Hutts in fighting off the gangsters . As the crowd surged , Dameron told his Squadron to fall back but Pava countered that Grakkus had sealed his gates . Black Squadron gathered outside the door to Grakkus ' house . Shortly later , BB - 8 contacted Dameron to inform them that the gravity shield had been deactivated . Under Dameron ' s orders , Pava and the others donned their gravity belt s . With the gangsters incapacitated by Megalox Beta ' s gravity , Black Squadron rescued Grakkus . After Dameron contacted Luta and secured a deal to leave the prison with Grakkus , Pava and her fellow pilots returned to the space station ' s hangar . Pava soon learned that O - R10N had not survived the mission . After BB - 8 transmitted back the control codes for the prison to Luta , Pava and her fellow pilots and Grakkus prepared to jump into hyperspace . However , Terex had escaped Megalox in his starship " Carrion Spike " and launched an attack on the station . At Temmin ' s urging , Black Squadron turned back and bombarded the " Carrion Spike " , stopping Terex from destroying the station ' s shuttles and allowing Lula to attend to the prisoner s . The squadron returned to D ' Qar where Organa instructed Dameron to delay their search for San Tekka in order to investigate whether the First Order had a spy within the Resistance . Comrades in arms . Due to the presence of a spy , Poe found himself unable to trust his fellow Black Squadron pilots including Jess Pava . He did not bring them along during his solo missions to Pheryon and Kaddak . During the Kaddak mission to recover a Resistance droid spy who had purportedly obtained valuable intelligence on the First Order , Poe brought BB - 8 , C - 3PO , and the technician Oddy Muva along instead , choosing to leave Jess and the other pilots at the Resistance base on D ' Qar . Unknown to them , Oddy Muva had been blackmailed by Terex into becoming a First Order spy . Terex had taken his wife Sowa Chuan hostage to ensure his compliance . Later , Jessika and her fellow Black Squadron pilots flew to a desert planet to rescue Poe and the droids , who had been pursued there by Terex and the Ranc gang . Upon arriving , Jess remarked there were too many " Uglies " which would make it hard for them to rescue Poe . Temmin reassured her that they could do it since their opponents were leftovers made from discarded Rebel and Imperial technology . During the dogfight , Jess expressed surprise when Terex ' s flagship " Carrion Spike " suddenly opened fire on the Ranc gang ' s " Uglies . " After learning that Oddy had evacuated the slaves and sabotaged the " Carrion Spike " computers , Jess and the rest of Black Squadron escorted the escape pods . Despite their best efforts , one of the escape pods was destroyed and L ' ulo was killed in combat . After the escape pods had entered the desert planet ' s atmosphere , Jess and her fellow pilots regrouped for an attack on the " Carrion Spike " and the remaining " Uglies " . Shortly later , a First Order Maxima - A class heavy cruiser exited hyperspace and began destroying Terex ' s fleet . Jess and her comrades expressed surprise , not knowing that Terex had embarked on an unsanctioned mission against the First Order ' s directives . Jess and her fellow pilots flew over Poe and a First Order landing party led by Commander Malarus to ensure that hostilities did not take place . Fortunately for the Resistance , Malarus was only interested in apprehending Terex . Low on supplies . Pava and the rest of Black Squadron then went on a mission to obtain critically needed fuel supplies by meeting with the freighter " Romary " . War stories . The Squadron ' s next mission had them split up , with Kun flying escort for Pava and the journalist / agent Suralinda Javos to Spalex aboard a BTL - S3 . Once there , they witnessed First Order troops harassing the natives . Kun and Pava intervened , but were captured . Javos managed to free them , and they reunited with Dameron and Wexley , who had escaped the First Order with the help of Oddy Muva . Battle of Starkiller Base . When the First Order targeted the Resistance base with the Starkiller , a planet - destroying superweapon , Pava , along with numerous Resistance pilots , engaged the First Order ' s forces in an attempt to destroy the weapon . After Dameron successfully crippled the weapon ' s thermal oscillator , destroying the Starkiller , Pava and the other surviving pilots returned to their base and celebrated . Following the battle , Organa sent Pava and several other pilots , including Wexley , to gather the New Republic ' s surviving commander s , after the Hosnian Cataclysm had wiped out most of the New Republic ' s fleet . Personality and traits . Jessika Pava was a human female with black hair and light skin . She was a dedicated member of the Resistance and an admirer of Luke Skywalker , having heard that he was the best star pilot in the galaxy . Jessika was a trusted and loyal friend of Poe Dameron , earning her a place in his Black Squadron . She was a skilled and competent starfighter pilot . Jess also knew how to wield a blaster . Pava was not used to fighting without any weapons or a starship . She also did not like being unable to control her fate and surroundings , given her history of being captured by pirates . Still , Pava held herself well against a mob of criminals hired by Terex on Megalox Beta . Pava ' s loyalty to Poe led her and her fellow Black Squadron pilots to travel to a desert planet to rescue him . She was initially daunted by Terex ' s swarm of " Uglies " until Temmin reassured her the could beat the " junk " fighters . Jess was affected by L ' ulo ' s death and vowed revenge against Terex ' s Ranc gang . She took L ' ulo ' s death hard , and it was Dameron ' s inspired speech about how they were luminous beings that helped her deal with it . By the time of the mission to Spalex , she had developed a reputation among the base ' s astromech droid pool , causing them to avoid flying with her and flee at the mere sight of her . Behind the scenes . Jessika Pava is a character who first appeared in the 2015 novel " " , written by Jason Fry . In , she was portrayed by Jessica Henwick . She has also appeared as a secondary character in the Marvel Comics series " " written by Charles Soule and illustrated by Phil Noto .