Leia Organa

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“*Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope.*”
— Leia Organa in the Official Gameplay Trailer

Princess **Leia Organa** is one of the main and playable characters in LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga. She is the daughter of the famed and fallen Jedi Knight Anakin Skywalker, who had become the Sith lord Darth Vader, and former Queen of Naboo turned senator, Padmé Amidala. Leia is also the twin sister of Luke Skywalker, wife of Han Solo, and mother to Ben Solo. She's the deuteragonist of the Original Trilogy, and the inspiration that leads the Alliance to Restore the Republic, and later the Resistance in their endeavors.

## Saga History

Princess Leia Organa was born shortly after the Clone Wars came to and end. Given to Bail Organa after the death of her mother Padmé, she was raised as a true Organa and groomed to become the new ruler of Alderaan. In her early years she developed a strong distaste for the Galactic Empire, and after discovering her father's hand in the organization that sought to bring it down, she became a supporting member of the Rebel Alliance.

After being captured aboard her own ship, the Tantive IV, she deposited top secret plans for the Empire's greatest weapon into her droid R2-D2 in an attempt to keep them from falling back into the hands of the Empire. The droid escaped her doomed ship, and she was taken captive by (unbeknownst to her) her father, the dark lord of the Sith, Darth Vader.
Aboard the superweapon known as The Death Star, Leia was forced to watch the destruction of her home planet Alderaan by Grand Moff Tarkin , which inspired her to openly rebel against the vicious Empire for the rest of her days. Shortly after, she is rescued by her brother Luke Skywalker and a few others. They flee to the Rebellion's headquarter's on Yavin 4 where she delivers the plans from her returned droid R2-D2 to Mon Mothma and General Jan Dodanna. From there they develop a plan to destroy the superweapon of the Empire. From her command station on Yavin 4 she helps direct the Starfighter assault on the Death Star, in which, the Rebels are victorious. They succeed in exploding the superweapon from the inside-out, courtesy of rookie pilot Luke Skywalker.

After this momentous victory over the Empire, Leia begins to become somewhat of an inspiration for her cause, along with her brother. 5 years after the destruction of the Death Star, Leia and the Rebellion are have relocated to a cold and icy planet named Hoth. Eventually the Empire discovers their location after sending a probe droid to scout the planet. Leia gives a speech to heighten moral before sending out a squadron of T-47 airspeeders to intercept the invasion force of AT-ATs. Echo Base is ultimately conquered by the Empire, but Leia, Han, Chewbacca and C-3PO escape.

Captain Solo outmaneuvers a few Star Destroyers in-atmosphere before setting course for Cloud City on Bespin. However things don't quite go as planned, much to Leia's aggravation. Han's old friend Lando Calrissian betrays the group to Darth Vader and Boba Fett. Leia exchanges heartfelt words wth Solo as he is frozen in carbonite by Vader to test the machine for his son. As Leia is marched to Vader's Star Destroyer, Lando pulls a double cross and turns on the Imperials, rescuing Leia and Chewbacca in the process. Leia and the others make it to the idle Millenium Falcon and escape Cloud City. However Leia glimpses Luke through the force and realizes that he needs help, so they turn around and save him after his duel with Vader.

A year after these events, Leia banded together with Luke and Lando to devise a strategy for rescuing the frozen Han Solo. To this end, Leia steals the armor of the bounty hunter Boussh and uses it to infiltrate Jabba's Palace. She uses a chained Chewy as a bounty to throw the Hutt away from her true intentions. However, she is caught by Jabba after she thaws Solo out from the Carbonite. As punishment for her deceit, Jabba subjects her to slavery at his side. Her brother Luke also tries his own rescue attempt, but fails as well, leading Jabba to decide to grandly execute them all through the Sarlacc. But this proves to be his undoing. As a commotion is caused on the prisoner skiff by Luke, Leia chokes the grotesque Hutt to death and destroys his sail barge with its own cannons.
After this, she, Han, Chewy and Lando board the Falcon and rejoin the Rebel Fleet, which is amassing in preparation for an attack. As fate would have it, the Rebels had discovered the Empire's work on a second and improved Death Star. The plan dictated that Leia would use a stolen Imperial Shuttle to sneak past the Imperial fleet down to the Forest Moon of Endor where she would destroy the shield generator protecting the orbiting station. Unfortunately she was spotted, and had to pursue a pair of Scout Troopers through the woods, where she crashed and was found by Wicket, who took her to the Ewok Village.

The rest of her friends (Luke, Han, Chewbacca, R2-D2 and C-3PO) were caught and nearly eaten alive by the Ewoks, but the teddy bears were convinced to help the rebels rather than eat them by C-3PO. The attack on the Imperial Shield Generator was launched the next day, with Leia and Han being the ones to demolish the generator with thermal detonators. The two shared a kiss and embrace as the Death Star II exploded into fiery bits in the sky.

After the Empire's final defeat following the Battle of Endor, Leia turned to her former profession; a senator. For nearly 30 years she served in the new Galactic Senate under the New Republic. However, she became disillusioned with the senate's quick and eager judgement and blame, and fell out of the career. She also married Han Solo, and had a son she named Ben in honor of Obi-Wan Kenobi. For a very brief time she also trained as Jedi with her brother Luke, but put the training aside on account of her new duties as a mother. But when a new threat emerged from the secretive Unknown regions, she formed a rag tag band of heroes, the Resistance, to counter it.

The looming defiance and aggressive nature of the First Order slowly became more and more realized when the successor state to the Empire created its own superweapon: Starkiller Base, capable of wiping out an entire star system in one fell swoop. When an attack from the weapon devastated the New Republic, Leia gathered her troops, including hot shot pilot Poe Dameron, and led a counterattack to ward the First Order off of Takodana. Here she met ex-stormtrooper Finn, who explained to her that his friend Rey had been captured by Kylo Ren during the skirmish. Knowing full well that her son had truly fallen to the dark side, Leia pleaded with a newly-reunited-with Han to save their boy and bring him home.

After briefing the pilots of the Resistance on the weaknesses of Starkiller Base, she stationed herself in the command room of the base on D'qar, guiding the attack force just as she had at the Battle of Yavin years prior. The base is imploded by a perfectly executed trench run performed by Dameron and his X-wing. Leia is severely saddened to discover that her husband Han had been impaled when he tried to reason with their son, Kylo, and it nearly made her lose hope in him. Leia did meet the scavenger Rey, whom she sensed was powerful in the force, and ignited a bond with. Poe Dameron then rushes to Leia to inform her that his droid BB-8 has something of high importance for her. They gather inside the Resistance base as BB-8 and R2-D2 unite holograms to form the completed map leading to Leia's lost brother Luke Skywalker. With this wonderful news, Leia sends Rey and Chewbacca to Anch-To for the purpose of recruiting her brother.

Her unrivaled happiness doesn't last very long though, as an entire fleet of the First Order navy arrives in orbit of D'qar. As it turned out, they had tracked the squadron of X-wings to the planet and learned of its use as a Resistance hideout. Leia masterminded the evacuation of the base and the Resistance fled into space aboard their small fleet. In order to buy time, Leia gave Poe Dameron permission to wipe out the surface cannons of the First Order's Dreadnought, which had fired on the empty surface base, obliterating it with ease. Dameron then went against her orders and dispatched a squad of MG-100 Starfortress bombers, which were all subsequently wiped out save for one that struck the killing blow to the Dreadnought.
Angered, Leia quickly demoted Dameron. After the fleet escaped through hyperspace, the First Order found them again, this time with Snoke's flagship tagging along. Her son lead a squadron of TIE Fighters toward the star cruiser Leia was on, and the command deck of the ship was destroyed, with Leia barely managing to stay alive. She was left in a comatose state afterward for some time. When she did wake, she found that her ship was being mutinied by Poe, who wrongly believed her second-in-command Admiral Holdo was a traitor. She incapacitated Dameron and fled the star ship in an escape pod with most of the Resistance to the nearby planet Crait. Here there was an old Rebel era base they could reinforce to use as a holdout. But when the First Order attacked once more, this time lead by Kylo Ren, Luke Skywalker appeared to buy time for the Resistance to escape.

In the following year, Leia moved the Resistance to Ajan Kloss, and helped the irritable Rey with her training in the force, after her brother's demise. But the frustrated Rey proved difficult to teach, and cut her time with Leia short when it was revealed that Emperor of the former Empire had seemingly come back from the dead. Leia sanctioned a mission to discover his wherebouts, lead by Rey. But when Rey was confronted by Supreme Leader Kylo Ren on the ruins of the Death Star II Leia used the rest of her remaining life force to reach out to her son one last time. This act proved fatal for the ailing Leia, and she passed away, becoming one with the force.

After the final death of Darth Sidious at the battle of Exegol by Rey, Leia's spirit appeared before her with the apparition of her brother right beside her. They smiled at the last of the Jedi before disappearing into the force.

## In-Game Information

In the game, Leia Organa plays very similarly to most characters of any of her classes, Hero, Jedi, or Bounty Hunter.

Abilities:

* **Grapple** - When approaching orange handles on walls and ledges, Leia can use her grapple to latch onto them and pull herself up.
* **Disguise** - After defeating 3 or more enemies, (Stormtroopers, Clonetroopers) pieces of their armor will litter the ground and can be picked up to use as a costume by Leia to sneak past other enemies.
* **Hero Terminal** **Access**- Leia can access orange computer-like devices in levels or in free roam to open doors and walls, gaining access to collectibles.
* **Grenade (disguise)** - Allows Leia to chuck a bomb that will explode directly in enemies faces, defeating or severely weakening them. Can also be used to destroy standard LEGO objects.
* **Destroy Silver LEGO Objects (disguise)** - When completely disguised as a Villain character, Leia can use grenades to destroy certain objects.
* **Villain Terminal Access (disguise)** -Leia can access red computer-like devices (once disguised) in levels or in free roam to open doors and walls, gaining access to collectibles.
* **Telekinesis** - When near certain LEGO objects, Leia will receive a prompt of a blue highlight around the object. Leia can then pick the object up with the force and throw it at enemies or the environment.
* **Mind Tricks** - When standing in proximity of particular characters (enemies or NPCs) Leia can reach into their mind and use the force to compel them.
* **Influence** - Leia can influence said character, and take direct control over their mind.
* **Panic** - Leia can make the character go into an uncontrollable screaming frenzy, and attack their allies.
* **Distract** - Leia can distract the character which causes them to break out into a dance, along with other nearby characters.
* **Blocking** - When engaged in a lightsaber duel with a boss or a standard enemy, Leia can stop damage from being dealt to her with her lightsaber.
* **Dodge** - While blocking, the Leia can use her above average dexterity to fly past lightsaber and blaster attacks.
* **Bolt Deflection** - When enemies fire their weapons upon Leia, she can use her saber to block and redirect the shots back at her foes.
* **Wall Cut** - When Leia encounters a solid LEGO brick wall, she can slice through it and cut out a shape, which causes the wall to crumble.
* **Saber Throw** - During the heat of battle, Leia can aim her lightsaber and force throw it at an oncoming enemy. The blade will then return to her.
* **Wall Run** - When prompted, Leia can take hold of a wall and dash across to the other side of a ravine or obstacle. Nifty during obstacle courses.
* **Twirl Poles** - An ability reserved for the more athletic classes, Leia can use twirl poles to swing to higher areas for certain prizes
* **Rapid Fire** - Leia's weapon fires at an extremely fast rate, making it useful for taking out large groups of enemies quickly.
* **Destroy Gold LEGO Objects** - Leia can use her rapid fire on gold LEGO objects to destroy them, whereas normal blasters cannot.
* **Enemy Detection** - An upgrade for the entire class, this allows Leia to see through walls and sneak up on enemies.
* **Scattershot** - This upgrade will cause the bolts fired from Leia's blaster to be spread out in order to hit more targets in the area.
* **Shock Grenade** - Allows Leia to chuck a bomb that stuns enemies in an area and disables their shields.

## Trivia

* In the films, Leia is portrayed by Carrie Fisher, who sadly passed away in December of 2016.
* Originally, Leia was intended to be stereotypical "girl" of the protagonist group and the love interest of the main Protagonist Luke Skywalker, but upon further revising, George Lucas decided that Leia was to be his sister, but the decision was made too late to remove a kiss scene from The Empire Strikes Back, leading to a fandom in-joke of the pair being an incest couple.
* Most of Leia's appearance exist as an actual physical minifigure, with many of the exceptions being her more elderly skins.
* In LEGO Star Wars the Skywalker Saga, Leia was portrayed by both Shelby Young (Young Leia) and Carolyn Hennesy (Old Leia).

## Gallery

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