Kitrin Braves

Kitrin Braves was a journalist and biographer who worked on a biography of the Skywalker family titled Skywalker: A Family At War following the Battle of Exegol in 35 ABY. She shared her research with the historian Beaumont Kin, who used information she provided on figures such as the Jedi Anakin Skywalker while writing his own book The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire in which he thanked Braves. Braves' biography was then published after Kin's work.
==Biography==
===Research===
Kitrin Braves was a noted journalist and biographer who, following the Battle of Exegol in 35 ABY,Star Wars: Timelines worked on creating Skywalker: A Family At War, an exhaustive biography of the Skywalker family who were a Force-sensitive lineage that had played a significant role in shaping galactic history over the course of the previous few decades. She shared information on the entire lineage with the historian Beaumont Kin for hisStar Wars: The Rise of Skywalker: The Visual Dictionary book The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire, which proved greatly useful in his research.
Kin combined her work with documents recovered in the Exegol Excavation Project to provide additional insights into how the Jedi Anakin Skywalker became the Sith Lord Darth Vader. Braves also informed Kin that any traces of information relating to when Vader became aware of the identity of his son, Luke Skywalker, had been erased from all Imperial archives and databases.
===Publishing===
When Kin published his book in 35 ABY, Braves was still exploring Ben Solo's fascination with his grandfather Darth Vader, which was a complicated part of the Skywalker legacy. In The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire, Kin stated he was happy to leave the topic to her and, although Kin's work covered the portion of Anakin Skywalker's life where he served as an Imperial enforcer in detail, he recommended Braves' upcoming work for a more in-depth examination of Skywalker's time as a Jedi. Kin also credited Braves' contributions, which he considered kind, and claimed that he could think of no one better then Braves to undertake chronicling the Skywalkers.
Skywalker: A Family at War was published at some point after The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire and began with a brief summary of the life Anakin Skywalker's mother, Shmi Skywalker, prior to Anakin's birth. It then covered the life of Anakin and Luke Skywalker, Luke's twin sister, Princess Leia Organa, and Leia's son, Ben Solo. The book's final chapter ended with the death of Ben Solo during the Battle of Exegol, which marked the end of the Skywalker bloodline.
In an epilogue, Braves discussed how Rey, Luke's student and Ben's partner in a Force dyad, took on the name of Rey Skywalker to carry on what the biographer considered to be the finest aspects of the lineage, including maintaining balance between the light and dark sides of the Force.
==Behind the scenes==
Kitrin Braves was mentioned in the 2024 reference book Star Wars: The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire, which was written by Dr. Chris Kempshall. "Kitrin Braves" is an anagram of Star Wars author Kristin Baver, who wrote a Skywalker-focused biography in the form of the 2021 book Skywalker: A Family at War.Skywalker: A Family at War While Kempshall did not outright confirm if Braves was indeed based on Baver, he heavily implied as such, and Baver herself thanked Kempshall for creating the character. Kempshall also noted that without A Family at War he would never have been able to write The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire. A post on the StarWars.com blog on October 17, 2024, confirmed Braves' book to be the in-universe version of Skywalker: A Family at War.
==Sources==
*Star Wars: The Rise and Fall of the Galactic Empire 
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