Hera Syndulla

Hera Syndulla was a female Twi'lek pilot who became a central figure in the early rebellion against the Galactic Empire and the formation of the Alliance to Restore the Republic. Born to Twi'lek revolutionary Cham Syndulla and his wife Eleni on the Outer Rim planet of Ryloth during the twilight of the Galactic Republic, she witnessed firsthand the devastation of the Clone Wars and the reign of the Empire on her homeworld. Becoming an expert pilot, Syndulla left her homeworld and her father's resistance movement behind, setting off across the galaxy alongside her astromech droid Chopper to establish her own resistance movement against the Empire aboard her ship, the Ghost. Meeting Jedi survivor Kanan Jarrus during a scouting mission to Gorse in 9 BBY, Jarrus' assistance in obstructing the machinations of Imperial Count Vidian led Syndulla to invite Jarrus as part of her crew, which eventually included ex-Imperial cadet and Mandalorian weapons expert Sabine Wren, Lasat survivor Garazeb Orrelios, and the Force-sensitive Lothalite orphan Ezra Bridger by 5 BBY.
The various resistance missions conducted by Syndulla's crew — by then known as the Spectres — on Lothal soon gained the attention of Senator Bail Organa of Alderaan, Jedi Master Jarik Shan, and former Jedi Padawan Ahsoka Tano in their efforts to coordinate between various rebel cells scattered across the galaxy. Following the Action at Mustafar in 4 BBY, which saw the rescue of Jarrus from Imperial custody by an increasingly unified rebellion, Syndulla and the Spectres entered one of such cells known as Phoenix Cell. Rising to the rank of Phoenix Leader, Syndulla helped expand their forces, gain new allies, and establish a base of operations on the remote world Atollon, though they were unable to assist Lothal as the Empire consolidated its authority over the planet.
As the Rebellion expanded and gradually presented a greater threat, the Empire assigned Grand Admiral Thrawn with the eradication of the Rebellion. Locating the rebel base on Atollon, Thrawn and the Sith Lord Darth Vader launched a siege against the nascent Rebel Alliance in 2 BBY. Despite significant casualties, including Phoenix Commander Jun Sato, Syndulla managed to coordinate a successful rebel retreat from Atollon.
With the loss of their base, Syndulla and Phoenix Cell were absorbed into the Massassi Group rebel cell on Yavin 4, where Syndulla continued to lead the Alliance as a member of Alliance High Command, during which she returned to Lothal alongside the Spectres not long after, seeking to finally liberate the planet from the Empire. Despite initial setbacks in gaining support from the Alliance, Syndulla — having been promoted to General — led a squadron of fighters to destroy the Imperial Armory Complex on Lothal, though Thrawn's Seventh Fleet managed to decimate her forces and imprison her. Without Alliance support, the Spectres attempted a rescue mission, and though it entailed Jarrus sacrificing himself to save Syndulla and the others from the explosion of the Imperial fuel depot, it nevertheless completed their original objective of halting the Imperial war machine on the planet. Gaining newfound determination following Jarrus' death, Syndulla, the Spectres, and various allies they gathered managed to defeat Thrawn and liberate Lothal from the Empire in 1 BBY. Sometime after the Liberation, Syndulla gave birth to Jarrus' son, Caleb Syndulla, and remained in the Alliance through the subsequent Galactic Civil War, from its outbreak in the Battle of Scarif to its penultimate end at the Battle of Endor.
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