Poe Dameron

## **Appearance**

Poe is a male human of average height and, thanks to life as a soldier, a fit build. He has brown eyes and dark brown hair that has been voted best hair in the galaxy twice (You’re hilarious, Pava).

Poe tends to wear Resistance colors out of habit, and a gold ring (his mother’s wedding band) hangs from a chain around his neck. He always has a blaster at his hip and his best friend, an orange and white, BB-unit astromech droid named BB-8 by his side.

## **Talents**

Piloting, hand-to-hand combat, getting his hair to have that 'just rolled out of bed' look without even trying

## **History**

Poe is the son of Lieutenant Shara Bey and Sergeant Kes Dameron, who both served the Alliance to Restore the Republic in the fight against the Galactic Empire during the Galactic Civil War. As a baby, Poe was left with his maternal grandfather while his mother, a pilot for Green Squadron, and his father, a Pathfinder, were off fighting for the Rebellion.

Six months after the Battle of Endor, and after the Imperial remnant put forward Operation: Cinder, Poe’s parents retired from the Rebellion to settle on Yavin 4 and build a house in a colony—close to which they planted a Force-sensitive tree, a gift from Jedi Knight Luke Skywalker. It was there Poe grew up.

At age 6, Poe began to learn how to fly in his mother's old RZ-1 A-wing interceptor. She would take him up in it, and he would sit in her lap, learning how to control the ship from her. These trips are what made Poe fall in love with flying. He also grew up hearing stories about his parents' time in the war. While his father was open with him about his war stories, his mother never liked to speak about her time in the Alliance. All she would tell him was that her own actions were not important, and what mattered is that they and other Rebels stood up to the Empire and answered the call to help free the galaxy.

Two years later, when Poe was only 8, his mother unexpectedly died. L'ulo L'ampar, his mother’s fellow Rebel pilot and friend, stepped in and became like an uncle to Poe, helping raise him and taking over teaching him how to fly.

When he came of age, Poe joined the New Republic Defense Fleet as a pilot. He was trained under Rebel veteran, Wedge Antilles and was considered to be one of Antilles' best students. He quickly rose up through the ranks, becoming a commander for the New Republic. He was given command of Rapier Squadron, a group of T-85 X-wings, and assigned the astromech droid BB-8, who became a steadfast friend from then on. While there, he also learned the true scope of his mother's heroism with the Rebel Alliance.

Soon, like his parents, Poe came to fear that what the Alliance fought for would be for nothing; the First Order, which had risen from the ashes of the Galactic Empire, was becoming a threat to the Republic, but the Galactic Senate turned a blind eye because they did not believe that the First Order was powerful enough to threaten the peace that was achieved at the end of the Galactic Civil War. Wanting to save the galaxy from the resurgent Imperial threat, Poe defected to the Resistance, which was founded by General Leia Organa to combat the First Order.

Eventually, Poe’s exploits lead to him being tasked with a mission to find Luke Skywalker, who vanished into exile after his attempt to restore the Jedi Order was destroyed. In the events that followed, Poe found himself captured by the First Order. He was taken onto the Resurgent-class Star Destroyer, Finalizer, and tortured for information. Kylo Ren eventually resorted to using the Force which made Poe break and give up the information the First Order was looking for.

Left alone by Ren, Poe was rescued by a renegade stormtrooper named FN-2187. Together, they stole a TIE/sf space superiority fighter from a hangar bay, with FN-2187 (dubbed Finn by Poe) manning the guns while Poe piloted the fighter. They managed to escape, but, upon attempting to return to Jakku to retrieve BB-8, they crash landed, and were separated. What followed were the remaining events of *Episode VII: The Force Awakens*, *Episode VIII: The Last Jedi*, and *Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker*.

After the First Order was defeated at Exegol, the work of the Alliance was not yet finished. Pockets of First Order leaders and soldiers were scattered throughout the galaxy, on the run or in hiding, some even taking out Resistance outposts that didn’t have the means to defend themselves. Poe, wanting to make sure there would be no chance of them rising up again as they’d done in the past, decided to help find them. Unfortunately, not all of them were willing to come peacefully.

Poe was on one such mission before being brought to Wall. It had gone South, and he was on the run with a damaged, nonfunctional BB-8 when he suddenly found himself standing on a dirt road.