Jyn Erso

Jyn Erso, known by the aliases Kestrel Dawn, Jyn Dawn, Tanith Ponta, Liana Hallik, Lyra Rallik, and Nari McVee, was a human female soldier and former criminal who became a Sergeant and pivotal member of the Alliance to Restore the Republic when she led Rogue One in stealing the Death Star plans during the Battle of Scarif. She was the daughter of Lyra Erso, a devout member of the Church of the Force, and scientist Doctor Galen Erso, who was forced to help the Galactic Empire build the Death Star. Lyra was killed when Director Orson Krennic, the commander of Project Stardust, kidnapped her father—who affectionately referred to his daughter as "Stardust." She was raised by her family’s friend resistance fighter Commander Saw Gerrera and became a child soldier in his rebel cell, where she was called Jyn Gerrera by Maia.
After being abandoned by Gerrera, Erso spent several years on her own, committing a number of crimes in order to survive in a dangerous galaxy. In 0 BBY, she was recruited by the Rebel Alliance to find Gerrera on Jedha, where he had information about her father and Project Stardust, to locate him so he can testify before the Imperial Senate. She found a holographic recording of her father who confirmed the existence of the Death Star and the plans kept on Scarif would reveal a fatal weakness he planted in its design. She attempted to save her father on Eadu, but he was killed. With support from the Rebel Alliance, Jyn and Captain Cassian Andor led a squad, Rogue One, to Scarif where they stole the plans from the Imperial Security Complex. She transmitted the plans to the Admiral Raddus’ command ship that arrived in orbit with the Rebel Fleet, but Krennic’s rival and the Death Star’s new commander Governor Wilhuff Tarkin had it fire on Scarif in an attempt to eliminate the Rebel threat. Erso and Andor were the last surviving members of their squad and died when the blast reached the complex’s island while hugging each other.
Erso was fondly remembered by one of the Rebel Alliance’s leaders, Chancellor Mon Mothma, who believed she would have become an even more extraordinary person had she survived. Her sacrifice was not in vain, however, since the Rebel Alliance used the plans to discover the flaw her father built into the battle station, and the superweapon was destroyed and Governor Tarkin was slain along with the Imperial Joint Chiefs at the hand of Jedi Padawan and Lieutenant Luke Skywalker during the Battle of Yavin, starting a chain reaction which would see the end of the Empire.
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