Hera Syndulla

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**Hera Syndulla** was an Twi'lek female Rebel revolutionary that became a central figure of a early rebellion movement against the Galactic Empire then formation in the Rebel Alliance. Hera was the captain and heart of the *Ghost* crew, she was a gifted pilot and leader. While she was a strong Commander and was especially adept at combating against TIE fighters she was an warm and a nurturing person. Hera could bring out the best in their rebels, which consisted of different personalities, making them believe in themselves, each other, and the great struggle against the Empire. Alongside the Spectres Hera would play a key role in the early rebellion against the Emperor's new order by aiding the Lothal Resistance overthrow the galactic Empire and would eventually become a General of the Rebel Alliance.

## Biography

### Early Life

Born on a world Ryloth to Cham Syndulla and a mother, **Hera Syndulla** was a little girl during the Clone Wars era. Her father Cham was an prominent Twi'lek Revolutionary that had fought against an Confederacy during the clone war and later against Galactic Empire. Hera and her mother hid while a Confederate invasion force occupied her planet. When the Republic arrived Syndulla looked up at the ships and chose to become an Pilot which then prompted a young Hera Syndulla to leave both her family and her home planet to pursue what she'd loved. In her youth Hera had heard tales of how a Purrgil inspired people to develop Hyperdrive tech. As Hera grew older, she regarded an purrgil as a menace because they endangered space travel by crashing into Starships. While working as an pilot she had lost more than one friends to collisions with the whale-like Purrgils.

During the Battle of Ryloth, a Y-Wing starfighter crashed in front of her home. Though the pilot died, Hera managed to pull an old astromech droid named Chopper from the wreckage. Following the defeat of the Separatists, the Galactic Republic became the Galactic Empire which refused to leave Ryloth. As a result, the Twi'lek Resistance led by her father Cham launched a resistance struggle against the Empire. During this resistance struggle, Hera's mother was killed and Cham came to prioritize Ryloth's freedom over his own family. As a result, strains developed in the relationship between Hera and her father. Hera was angry at Cham for neglecting her while Cham was upset with his daughter for devoting more attention to Chopper, whom he labeled a "second-rate junk pile". Hera's relationship with Cham was further strained when she joined the wider rebellion against the Empire rather than taking part in the Twi'lek resistance struggle.

### Start of a Rebellion

Following the conflict on Gorse, Hera, Kanan, and Chopper formed a rebel cell known as the Spectres that was based on the *Ghost*. They were eventually joined by the Lasat warrior Garazeb Orrelios and the former Mandalorian Imperial cadet Sabine Wren. After raiding an Imperial supply convoy on Kanan's suggestion, Hera, Kanan, and Chopper found themselves under attack by Imperial TIE fighters. When the attack disabled both the *Ghost*'s shields and internal communications system, Hera and Kanan began giving Chopper conflicting orders over what to fix first. A comment from Kanan passed on to Hera by Chopper aggravated her enough to go on the offensive and destroy a TIE fighter herself. Chopper wound up destroying the final starfighter, and his efforts were praised by Hera before she took the *Ghost* into hyperspace. Another mission required Sabine to create a diversion so the *Ghost* could take off. After Hera signaled Sabine that they were in position, the Mandalorian detonated an explosive in a TIE fighter landing platform, drawing attention from the departing *Ghost*.

## Abilities

* **Expert Pilot:** Besides being an able and effective leader, Hera was also a skilled pilot. She was able to fly various ships including the *Ghost*, *Phantom*, and a prototype B-Wing starfighter. Hera was also familiar with physical combat and once assaulted the gangster Azmorigan and one of his men. Later, she knocked out the Imperial agent Gall Trayvis in physical combat after tricking him into holding an unloaded blaster. As a seasoned rebel operative, Hera could tell when a blaster was unloaded. Hera was also tech-savvy enough to close the *Ghost*'s cargo hatch manually. She also used Chopper as a conduit to send reverse data feed to destroy an Imperial surveillance vessel.

* **Expert Tactician:** As a seasoned rebel commander, Hera was familiar with various Imperial strategies and traps. As a military commander, Hera knew how to study battle maps in order to devise strategies. Her skills as a pilot also allowed her to lead from the front in space battles. 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 apprentice Maul. Despite her strong will-power, Hera could not stop Maul from retrieving information on the location of Kanan Jarrus' holocron from her mind.

## Equipment

### Vehicles

* ***Ghost*:** The *Ghost* was a modified VCX-100 light freighteroriginally made by the Corellian Engineering Corporation. It was named by Hera for her ability to evade Imperial sensors. Although an old vessel with a few dogfight battle scars from the Empire, it still performed reliably. The ship had a nose turret gunner station underneath the cockpitsection, with a dedicated gunner seat, and a 360-degree dorsal laser cannon turret midships. The vessel had a crew section at the front half, with two of the four main cargo holds making up the forward corners of the ship. On the roof of the ship, in the back, rested a VCX-series auxiliary starfighter called the *Phantom*. This versatile craft performed double-duty doubled as both a starfighter and shuttle, and triple-duty as the *Ghost*'s aft gun armament when docked tail-forward.