Hera Syndulla

*This article is about Hera Syndulla from the* Star Wars *franchise.*

### Friends

Chopper, Kanan Jarrus, Zeb Orrelios, Sabine Wren, Ezra Bridger, Ahsoka Tano, Alexsandr Kallus, Cikatro Vizago, Jai Kell, R2-D2, C-3PO, Tseebo, Lando Calrissian, Bail Organa, Jun Sato, Captain Rex, Commander Wolffe, Commando Gregor, Leia Organa, Ryder Azadi, Ketsu Onyo, Hondo Ohnaka, Melch, Quarrie, Cham Syndulla, Numa, Gobi Glie, Gron, Chava, AP-5, Fenn Rau, Wedge Antilles, Mart Mattin, Gooti Terez, Jonner Jin, R3-A3, Azmorigan (sometimes), Saw Gerrera, Mon Mothma, Klik-Klak, Ursa Wren, Chewbacca, Han Solo, Jan Dodonna, Loth-Wolves

### Enemies

Stormtroopers, Alexsandr Kallus (formerly), Darth Sidious, Maketh Tua (formerly), The Grand Inquisitor, Kassius Konstantine, Gall Trayvis, Darth Vader, Azmorigan (formerly), Hondo Ohnaka (formerly), Fenn Rau (formerly), Grand Admiral Thrawn, Arihnda Pryce, Wilhuff Tarkin, Maul, Vult Skerris, Death Troopers, TIE Pilots, Rukh

### Affiliations

Syndulla Clan
Alliance to Restore the Republic* Ghost Crew

New Republic

* Barma Battle Group

### Power/Skills

Skilled Pilot
Expert Markswoman

### Voiced By

Vanessa Marshall
Nicole Oliver (*LEGO* media)

**Hera Syndulla** is one of the deuteragonists of the television series, *Star Wars Rebels*. She is the daughter of the rebellion leader, Cham Syndulla, the pilot and captain of the Ghost crew, which she is the mother figure of, especially towards the main Protagonists, Sabine Wren and Ezra Bridger.By season 4, Hera was the lover of the late Kanan Jarrus and the mother of their son, Jacen Syndulla. After Kanan's sacrifice, Hera refused to lose anyone else.

At the time of *Rogue One*, Hera became a general in the Alliance to Restore the Republic.

## Background

Hera is the daughter of the Clone War hero and revolutionist, General Cham Syndulla. When she was young, her mother was killed during the earlier days of the Galactic Empire, and she did have a younger brother who died when he was very young. She grew up in the Ten Provinces at Ryloth, where she had a strained relationship with her father when he fought for their homeworld. During her childhood, Hera grew up on tales of how the purrgil, large space-dwelling creatures, had inspired people to develop the hyperdrive. As she grew older however, Syndulla came to regard the purrgil as a menace because they endangered hyperspace travel by crashing into ships. While working as a pilot, she lost more than one friend to collisions with purrgil. As a girl, Hera found an old C1 droid, C1-10P, from the wreck of a Y-wing during the final days of the Clone Wars.

Following the formation of the Galactic Empire, Hera decide to leave Ryloth to fight for others, acquiring the *Ghost*, a modified VCX-100 light freighter.

### Personality

Among the members of the Ghost Crew, Hera Syndulla is considered the mother figure of the bunch. Bringing together six rebels, her fellow crewmembers treat Hera with the utmost respect and authority. She is the only one who can keep Chopper in line and reprimand Zeb whenever his actions are questionable. Like all the other members of the *Ghost*, she was sympathetic toward those who fell victim to the Empire and helped bring about inspiration to her followers. Whenever she was infuriated with Zeb or Chopper, she would occasionally call Zeb by his full name, Garazeb Orrelios and Chopper, his real name C1-10P. When she first meets Ezra Bridger, she was mildly impressed with the boy's resourcefulness and how his personality reminds her of Kanan when he was younger. She was the first to warmly welcome him on the Ghost when he got into conflict with Kanan, Zeb and Sabine.  After learning he was an orphan and had no parents, she felt sympathy for him.

Hera is an outspoken young woman who is not afraid to call people out on their actions, such as pressing Kanan on to train Ezra and later, reprimanding Ezra when he disobeyed her orders. Like Ezra, Hera tries to see the best in everyone and attempt to bring it out. According to Kanan, some of Hera's traits were picked up on by Ezra. Hera is also an ace pilot, being able to outmaneuver even Darth Vader, despite him being one of the better pilots. Because of her talented skills, Hera stayed on the Ghost most of their missions because she could fly away faster. When she does go on missions, Hera proves to be capable of looking after herself on the battle, being an excellent fighter and markswoman. Apart from her idealistic nature, Hera was the first Rebel to see that Senator Gall Trayvis was a traitor and a spy for the Empire.

As the series goes on, Hera becomes more involved and loyal to the Rebellion, acting less flirtatious with Kanan and more in command of the Ghost crew, but still remaining the fiesty, motherly figure of the bunch. She becomes invested in the rebellion so much, that she does not even consider what life she wanted to live once it was over, letting her personal needs not get in the way of things. However, after their losses on Atallon, Hera realizes that she could not let the Rebellion control her life. At the end, she wanted to continue her life with Kananand decided that is what she wanted when the war was over. Even being a mother to her toddler son, Jacen, Hera still participated in the battle of Scarif in *Rogue One*.

After losing Kanan, Hera feared lthat she would lose someone else she cared for, as she protested to Ezra not to surrender to Thrawn, insisting there was another way.

### Appearance

At the time of *Star Wars Rebels*, Hera was twenty four years old in season 1 and 2 (possibly twenty-five in season 2), 26 in season 3 and 28 in season 4. and was a beautiful Twi'lek woman who stood 1.76 meters, had apple green skin, emerald green eyes and red lips. Hera's eyes, despite being green, would sometimes look blue-green in the light.

Her Lekku had a pattern that was a lighter shade of green and hung from her headgear. Hera wore a pair of goggles, but she only wore them whenever she was out in the open air or for protection when it best suited her.

Instead of having a Ryloth accent, Hera instead had a human accent and would only ship into her accent whenever she was stressed out with her father or angered. Most of the time, Hera wore a white, orange and brown flight suit and boots. She went through with a minor redesign in season 3, where she was given a patch to signify her role as the Phoenix Leader in the Phoenix Squadron.

### Powers and Abilities

* **Leadership:** Hera is a capable leader, being able to take command of Phoenix Squadron, being a notable leader in the rebellion, a trait she shares with Ezra Bridger and Sabine Wren.
* **Piloting:** Hera is one of the most famous pilots, being able to out-fly Darth Vader, but probably because of his TIE being caught in a star destroyer's tractor beam She honored her skills during a relief mission to Ryloth following her father's failed assassination attempt on Emperor Palpatine and Darth Vader. She flew the Ghost, the Phantom, a protoype B-wing starfighter and a T-b X-wing starfighter. On another occasion, she was able to escape Thrawn's forces by jumping into hyperspace while flying through an Imperial construction module
* **Skilled mechanic**: Hera is a bit of a skilled mechanic, being able to help Sabine with her inventions.
* **Teaching:** Hera was also able to pass on her teachings to young [./https://lab-rats-into-the-multiverse.fandom.com/wiki/Ezra\_Bridger Ezra Bridger], who became a skilled pilot thanks to her. She also acted as a mentor to Ezra and Sabine.
* **Better Strength:** Despite her small stature, Hera is actually strong, possibly stronger than a normal human. She was able to punch the Imperial agent, Gall Trayvis in the face with little to no effort, effectively knocking him out with one punch to the face.
* **Strong Will/Stubbornness:** Hera was one to never give up. She fought effortlessly for the freedom of everyone in the galaxy. While Hera was a capable fighter who could come up with ingenious escape plans, she was no match for the Force powers of the former Sith Lord Maul. Despite her strong will-power, Hera could not stop Maul from retrieving information on the location of Kanan Jarrus' holocron from her mind.
* **Bravery:** Hera was considered one of the bravest pilots in her generation, having fought up against Thrawn, even if she was facing the wraths of Arihnda Pryce and Slavin and refusing to surrender to him.
* **Expert Markswoman:** She is shown to handle a blaster well.

### Possessions

Hera mainly used a **Blurrg-1120 holdout blaster** when fighting the Empire, which she kept in a holster strapped to her right boot.

She mainly wore a tight orange jumpsuit and a pair of flight goggles on the top of her head as she was the Rebels' pilot.