Amilyn Holdo

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**Amilyn Holdo** was a Human female from the world Gatalenta. A unconventional officer of the Resistance,Holdo was an old friend of the General Leia Organa. She held command of fleet forces after Leia is indisposed. As a First Order threat against the Resistance grows, Holdo’s insistence on secrecy and her brusque manner leads Amilyn into conflict with Poe Dameron. Amilyn Holdo and Leia Organa met as teenagers when they'd served in Imperial Apprentice Legislature, with the outspoken, unconventional Gatalentan and the tart-tongued, driven royal Princess of Alderaan becoming unlikely friends. Holdo joined the Resistance and attained the rank of vice admiral, holding command of the *Ninka*. After Leia was injured during a attack, Amilyn Holdo had transferred her flag to the *Raddus* and then assumed the command of their remaining Resistance vessels.

## Biography

### Early Life

A Human female, **Amilyn Holdo** was born on Gatalenta in the early Imperial Era. Three years prior to the Battle of Yavin, she joined the Apprentice Legislature, an Imperial organization on Coruscant that was for youth in politics. While in a Apprentice Legislature, Amilyn met the Princess Leia Organa of Alderaan, daughter of Senator Bail Organa. Holdo and Princess Organa spent much time together during senatorial sessions and their routine pathfinding training on many worlds such as Alderaan, Eriadu, and Felucia. While pathfinding on the world Pamarthe, Holdo learned of Leia Organa's involvement with the rebellion against the Galactic Empire. Soon after, Holdo helped Organa find passage to the Paucris System in order to warn the rebel fleet of an impending attack from the Galactic Empire's forces.

### Service to the Resistance

Two years before the Battle of Yavin, the rebel movement became known as the Alliance to Restore the Republic, and in the subsequent Galactic Civil War, the Galactic Empire was defeated and had been replaced with the New Republic. But the remnants of the Empire reorganized into the First Order, so decades after the fall of the Empire, Leia Organa created the Resistance to oppose them. By three decades after the Battle of Endor, during a war between the Resistance forces against the First Order, Amilyn Holdo had joined the military forces of the Resistance and would serve as a Vice Admiral and commanding officer of the cruiser *Ninka*. After the attack on Starkiller Base, she was then posted on the Resistance ship *Ninka*. During an attack on the *Raddus*, the ship's commander General Organa was ejected from the bridge and left unconscious and Vice Admiral Holdo took temporary command of the ship. Poe Dameron and Amilyn were not on good terms. Her insistence on secrecy and her abrupt way of dealing with officers led to friction between Holdo and Poe, with the starfighter ace pilot plotting to undermine Vice Admiral Amilyn Holdo's authority of leadership should the need arise.

#### Ensuring a Rebellion Survives

When Amilyn Holdo ordered the crew of the *Raddus* to evacuate to the planet Crait via rescue transports, Dameron and some of crew members held Holdo hostage and took control of the ship. Holdo escaped the mutiny. Later, Leia woke up and eventually learned about Poe's mutiny. Leia stunned Poe, and sent him to Crait with the rest of the crew. Holdo told Leia Organa that someone had to stay behind on the *Raddus*for the transports to take off and then said Amilyn said she would be honoured to do it. Admiral Holdo was horrified when the First Order detected and fired on the fleeing transport ships, destroying many of them. After personally witnessing the demise of one of the transports whilst conferring with a frantic pilot, Holdo resolved to prevent any more deaths and fired up the hyperdrive on the *Raddus*. By the time General Armitage Hux realized what she was planning, it was too late. Activating the hyperdrive, Vice Admiral Holdo had jumped through Supreme Leader Snoke's *Supremacy* at lightspeed, sacrificing herself and taking a huge portion of the ship and First Order forces with her. Though Holdo was killed, her death allowed a escape of the remaining Resistance personnel.