Jyn Erso

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**Jyn Erso** was a female member of the Rebel Alliance near the time of the Battle of Yavin. She was part of a venture to steal the Death Star plans. Putting behind her a checkered past by lending her skills to a greater cause, Jyn Erso was impetuous, defiant, and eager to bring a war to the Empire. More used to operating on her own, she found a higher purpose by taking on a desperate mission for the rebellion. Jyn Erso along with the rest of Rogue One succeeded in sending the Death Star plans to the rebel fleet, but the Death Star soon opened fire on the Scarif in an attempt to eliminate the rebel threat. Erso was one of the last members of the squad to survive, and she died shortly after sending the plans when the Death Star blast reached the complex, but her sacrifice would not be in vain.

## Biography

### Early Life

**Jyn Erso** was born on the Outer Rim Territories world of Vallt during the Clone Wars to Galen Erso, a scientist who worked at Zerpen Industries, and Lyra Erso, Galen's wife and a fellow colleague in the company. Born within a Separatist prison due to her father's refusal to use his intel and knowledge of kyber crystals to help the Separatist Alliance in their conflict against the Galactic Republic, Jyn spent approximately six months in the care of her mother and the caretakers of the complex. At that point, Jyn and her parents were unexpectedly ordered onto a carriage and sent to a spaceport where, to the surprise of her parents, the Lieutenant Commander Orson Krennic of the Galactic Republic Navy, who Galen knew from the Futures Program, was waiting to extract and bring them to Coruscant.

#### Living on Coruscant

For the next several months, Jyn lived in an apartment in Coruscant's Galactic City while her father looked for work. As the Clone Wars approached its end, Galen was notified by Orson that he was offered a position in Helical HyperCom on the planet Lokori. Accepting the offer, the Erso family moved to the world and settled there while Jyn's father worked on the company's renewable energy project. In the last year of the war, after several Confederacy attacks on the planet, the Separatists launched a large assault on the Helical HyperCom facility and the surrounding area. With a large force of B1 battle droids advancing, Jyn's parents fled the facility with her in a carrier into the surrounding settlement. With battles raging on multiple sides, the Ersos were rerouted by a group of clone troopers but were eventually surrounded. Climbing up a mound of rubble in front of a building, Lyra and Galen attempted to get atop the structure but found it was too tall. With the battle droidsapproaching and killing the remaining Lokori in the vicinity, Galen placed himself in front of Jyn and Lyra. To their surprise and relief, the droids suddenly shut down. Unknown to them, the Clone Wars had just ended.

With the war over, the Republic was reorganized into the Galactic Empire by the Supreme Chancellor Sheev Palpatine. Krennic, having convinced Galen to work for the Empire in a supposed kyber crystal sustainable energy project which was in fact a superweapon development program designated Project Celestial Power, relocated the Erso family to the project's complex, built upon the former B'ankor Refuge. As Galen's work went on he became more distant from Jyn, who spent a lot of her time in the care of an MV nanny droid nicknamed "Mac-Vee." During this time, Jyn would watch bedtime holodramas, such as *The Octave Stairway*. When she was three, Jyn, along with Lyra Erso, Has Obitt and Nari Sable, traveled to the Outer Rim planet of Alpine at the request of Krennic to help with the archeological project being conducted there. While there, Jyn would go exploring with the three of them and would revel in being at the center of attention back at the archeological camp. After returning to Coruscant, Galen was more distant than ever. Unknown to Jyn, her parents indifference was a product of views on the Project Celestial Power, with each parent keeping secrets.

Sometime later, Galen approached Jyn and asked her about a picture she was drawing, to which she told him it was a character from *The Octave Stairway* named Brin. Galen noticed the figure looked similar to him, and Jyn Erso told him he could be Brin if he wanted. A sudden flush of regret and love washed over Galen as he expressed his regrets in not being around her more. Later, Galen and Lyra shared their doubts about Krennic and realized Galen's research was in fact being used for nefarious purposes. Knowing they could not merely resign, the pair decided to attempt an escape. Arranging an extraction point and time with Has Obitt, Galen and Lyra Erso, with a four year-old Jyn in her arms, left the complex and struggled through the parading crowds. However, with Obitt caught by Imperial Director Orson Krennic, a colleague of the smuggler, former Onderonian freedom fighter Saw Gerrera, met with the Erso family and led them to his own starship. Leaving Coruscant, Jyn and Gerrera surveyed the stars from the front window of the ship. Confirming a suitable planet, Jyn and Gerrera told Galen and Lyra about a world they could go into hiding from the Empire: Lah'mu.

#### Hiding from the Empire

Before departing into hyperspace, Gerrera handed Jyn's parents a com card that they could use to contact him if they ever felt the need. Though she was sad that she had to leave her toys and Mac-Vee behind, Jyn found comfort in the company of her parents and the fact she had found a new friend in Saw Gerrera. For the next four years, Jyn lived with her parents in a homestead on the remote world of Lah'mu in order to avoid the Empire. In the event of compromise, the Ersos established a plan which involved a hatched room hidden underneath a rock that Jyn would escape to. This plan was put into effect thirteen years before the Galactic Civil War, when Krennic, accompanied by a contingent of Death Troopers, arrived. After contacting Gerrera, Galen said a solemn goodbye to Jyn before facing Krennic, while Lyra led Jyn around the back. Handing Jyn a kyber crystal necklace, Lyra told her to hide before leaving to confront Krennic.

However, Jyn decided to follow and hide in the long grass, watching as Lyra pulled a blaster pistol on Orson Krennic. As he ordered his troopers to fire, Lyra managed to fire off one shot into Krennic's shoulder before being killed. Realizing it was time to get away, Jyn ran to the hideout as Krennic took Galen and ordered his troopers to search for her. After she spent some time in the underground room, Jyn heard footsteps approaching above. When the hatch opened, she saw Gerrera standing there, who urged her to come out. Gerrera raised the young girl as his own daughter. For the next eight years, Jyn found a connection with the hardened warriors, becoming a soldier working for Gerrera's insurgents, whose actions were considered to be immoral, though Saw tried to shield her from some of the worst atrocities he committed. At twelve, Jyn met Arhul Nemo of the Commenor Underground, who considered her his favorite of Saw's rebel militia.

### Service to the Rebellion

When Jyn was sixteen years of age Saw abandoned her during a dangerous setback. She had issues with trust from that day, and spent the next five years focusing on survival, becoming a street figure, smuggler, and criminal. Erso then wandered through the galaxy, using and discarding aliases such as **Liana Hallik**, **Tanith Ponta** , **Lyra Rallik**, and **Nari McVee** to hide her true identity. Jyn's luck ran out. She was arrested on a ship in the Five Points System while using her Liana Hallik alias. She was eventually transferred to a labor camp on the planet Wobani, sentenced to twenty years of labor in the planets farms, sharing a cell with a non-human known as "Kennel". Jyn's only luck was that the Imperials thought she really was Liana Hallik, not realizing her true identity and that they let her keep her necklace, mistaking it for a piece of glass. However, Jyn estimated that she would be dead long before her sentence was up; five years was the max life expectancy of a Wobani inmate, she had no one to rescue her, no guards to bribe, and Kennel had promised to kill her the next time they were assigned to the same shift. Jyn hadn't even been able to smuggle a knife to protect her.

#### Joining the Rebel Alliance

In the sixth month of Jyn Erso's incarceration, while being transported to her work station one day, the vehicle Jyn was on was attacked by the Extraction Team Bravo of the Rebel Alliance. After identifying Jyn, Ruescott Melshi released her from her restraints but was distracted by a prisoner seated opposite her, giving Jyn Erso a chance to kick the rebel over. Heading for the door, Jyn punched a second rebel trooper to the ground before grabbing a shovel from the side wall of the transport, using it to strike the sergeant and the third Bravo Team soldier. Running outside to escape, Jyn Erso was forcefully seized by the former Imperial KX-Series security droid K-2SO who threw her to the ground and told her not to resist, informing her that she was being rescued. Having been brought to the Alliance to Restore the Republic's secret base on the moon of Yavin 4, Jyn was handed over to General Davits Draven and a founder of the Rebel Alliance, Mon Mothma. After reading her criminal record, Draven introduced Jyn to the Alliance Intelligence officer, Captain Cassian Andor, who asked her when she was last in contact with her father Galen Erso and the rebel extremist Saw Gerrera.

Confused, irritated and only willing to give vague answers, Jyn demanded explanation. The trio told her that an Imperial defector claimed to have been tasked by her father to pass intel to the Rebel Alliance pertaining to a planet-destroying superweapon. Because of her history with Gerrera, Draven and Mon asked her to meet with him on the moon Jedha, an Imperial occupied world held sacred by followers of the mystical energy field known as the Force, to acquire the intel in the hopes of locating and extracting Galen Erso to testify to the Imperial Senate. Given a choice between assisting the rebels and being given her freedom or refusing and being returned to the prison, Jyn chose the former. What Jyn was not aware of, however, was that Andor had instead been tasked with assassinating Galen. Jyn was sent to the U-Wing craft that she, Andor and K-2SO would be using for the mission. While waiting, Jyn acquired a pistol and when Andor arrived, K-2SO brought to his attention attention that Jyn was armed. Not willing to take the risk, Andor ordered her to hand the blaster over. Refusing, Jyn told him trust goes both ways, convincing Cassian Andor to allow her to keep it.

#### Shifting the Scales of War

After a brief conversation with her old friend Saw Gerrera, Jyn Erso looked at her father's holographic message, which explained that there was a flaw in the powerful weapon known as the Death Star. When the message was completed, a laser from the Death Star reached the city and caused terrible destruction all around. Jyn then fled with the others while Saw stood his ground, preferring to face his death. Jyn and her companions then went to the planet Eadu to find Galen. Erso leaves the ship and heads for the Imperial station where her father was located. After climbing a staircase Jyn then knocked down a Stormtrooper and stole his weapon as the rebel-allied ships arrived and began to bombard the station. Galen Erso was caught in the explosion, severely wounding him. Jyn took her father in her arms until his last breath. At the briefing at the rebel base, Jyn attempted to convince the rebels to help her steal the Death Star's plans to destroy it, but unfortunately the decision was not made. Once out, Jyn was glad to see that Cassian trusted her and had gathered several people to steal the plans. Once on Scarif, Jyn and Cassian stole armor and entered the complex, with K-2SO.

While the others created a diversion outside, the trio arrived at the archives. K-2SO guarded the entrance while Jyn and Cassian entered the command room of the archives. After having locked the door to prevent the Imperial reinforcements from reaching Jyn and Cassian, K-2SO was killed by their blaster bolts. After the duo entered the other side of the room to physically retrieve the Death Star plans, Orson Krennic arrived with two Death Troopers and attempted to fire at them. Cassian was knocked unconscious in an attempt to distract them as Jyn reached the top of the tower. Once outside the tower, she used the computer to transmit the plans to the rebel ship which had arrived, but Jyn was confronted by the Director Krennic. She told him that the rebels had already won, but Krennic replied that she was mistaken and aimed his blaster at Jyn, but before he could pull the trigger, Cassian fired at Krennic, having regained consciousness. Jyn finally transmitted the plans to the rebels and made their way to the shore as the Death Star, directed by Grand Moff Wilhuff Tarkin, fired at Scarif. Jyn Erso embraced her friend Cassian and was killed by the explosion that engulfed them both.