Rey Solo

This woman is a hero in her galaxy –and maybe another incarnation of some great force (pun not intended) or world over there.

 

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Table of Contents:

1. Spec’s
2. Details/History
3. Rey & Auz
4. Did You Know?
5. Images
6. 2400s Update
7. How She Dresses for Me; Auz

 

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Spec’s:

• 5’6″
• 118 lbs.
• brunette
• hazel eyes
• Caucasian skin
• slim feminine figure
• perky B-cup breasts
• somewhat British-sounding accent
• wears whatever she can make fit
• joined Inisfree’s Universal Congress in the 2410s, and has been bringing a slowly-growing number of her fellows from her galaxy ever since

 

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Details:

Rey is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise portrayed by English actress Daisy Ridley. First appearing as the main character in Star Wars: The Force Awakens,^[1][7][8][9] Rey is a scavenger who was left behind on the planet Jakku when she was a child, and later becomes involved with the Resistance’s conflict with the First Order when her solitary life is interrupted by BB-8, the droid of ace Resistance pilot Poe Dameron, and a runaway Stormtrooper named Finn.

The Force Awakens (2015)

Rey lives alone on the planet Jakku, scraping a living through scavenging parts from ships while awaiting the return of the family that she was separated from as a child. She rescues the astromech droid BB-8 and encounters the runaway stormtrooper Finn. Attacked by First Order troops, Rey steals and pilots the Millennium Falcon to evade them and escape Jakku. The smuggler Han Solo and his partner Chewbacca capture the Falcon in their freighter ship. When dangerous gangs confront Han on the freighter, Rey mistakenly unleashes Han’s vicious cargo. She saves Finn and they escape the freighter in the Falcon. Impressed with Rey, Han offers her a job on the Falcon; however, Rey declines his offer, feeling that she has to return to Jakku.

After they convene at Maz Kanata‘s castle on the planet Takodana to return BB-8 to the Resistance, the First Order is alerted to their presence. Rey is drawn to the castle’s basement vault in which Maz has stored a lightsaber that belonged to Luke Skywalker and his father before him. Upon touching it, she experiences a terrifying vision: she sees a battle led by Kylo Ren, a flashback of her younger self being left behind on Jakku, and a vision of Luke, the last Jedi Master in the galaxy, who has been missing for several years. Maz argues that whoever abandoned her will never return to Jakku, and her only option is to seek out strength in the Force. Feeling overwhelmed, Rey rejects the lightsaber and flees into the forest.

The First Order attacks Maz’s castle, and Ren captures Rey when the Resistance arrives. Ren takes her to Starkiller Base, where he probes her mind for the map piece that BB-8 showed her. Ren uses the Force to read Rey’s mind, revealing Rey feels that Han is like the father she never had. Rey then resists him and reads Ren’s emotions, exposing his fear that he will never be as powerful as Darth Vader. Ren reports to his master, Supreme Leader Snoke, who commands that Rey be brought before him. Left alone with a stormtrooper guarding her, Rey uses a Jedi mind trick to get him to help free her. After sneaking around inside the base looking for a way to escape, she is elated to find Finn, Han, and Chewbacca have come for her. They watch in horror as Ren kills his own father, Han.

As they try to escape the base through the forest, Ren challenges Rey and Finn, using his lightsaber. After Ren seriously injures Finn and disarms him of Luke’s lightsaber, Rey uses the Force to retrieve the weapon and battles the already wounded Ren. Initially overpowered, Rey rejects Ren’s offer to train her and uses the Force with the lightsaber to defeat him. After escaping the destroyed planet in the Millennium Falcon with Chewbacca and the wounded Finn, she returns to the Resistance base. While the Resistance celebrates the victory, Rey mourns Han’s death with Leia Organa and visits Finn, who is still unconscious. She decides to seek out Luke’s location, using information provided by BB-8 and the re-activated R2-D2. Rey, Chewbacca, and R2 travel in the Falcon to the oceanic planet of Ahch-To; upon finding Luke, Rey presents him with his lost lightsaber.

Related works and merchandising

Rey is featured in Star Wars: Before the Awakening (2015) by Greg Rucka, an anthology book for young readers that focuses on the lives of Poe, Rey and Finn before the events of The Force Awakens.^[29] Rey’s Survival Guide (2015) by Jason Fry is a first-person account from Rey’s perspective about herself and her home planet of Jakku.^[30] Rey is also a point of view character in the 2015 novelization of The Force Awakens by Alan Dean Foster.^[31]

Fans noticed a lack of tie-in toys featuring Rey.^[32] Hasbro released a version of Monopoly based on The Force Awakens that excluded the Rey character. After receiving criticism, Hasbro stated that they did not include Rey to avoid revealing spoilers, and would be including Rey in future toy releases.^[33] Paul Southern, the head of Lucasfilm licensing, said that they wanted to protect the secrets that “the Force awakens in Rey” and that her character carries a lightsaber.^[34] He said that demand for Rey products was underestimated.^[35][36] Abrams said, “I will say that it seems preposterous and wrong that the main character of the movie is not well represented in what is clearly a huge piece of the Star Wars world in terms of merchandising.”^[8] Regarding Rey’s relative absence in Star Wars merchandising, CBBC presenter and voice actor Christopher Johnson stated: “It still baffles me to this day that some toy manufacturers don’t think that girls want to play with ‘superhero’ toys and that boys aren’t interested in female characters.”^[37]

The Last Jedi (2017)

Rey is one of the central characters of The Last Jedi. Picking up directly where The Force Awakens left off, Rey presents Luke with his lightsaber, but Luke dismissively throws it aside and ignores Rey. She tells him that she has come on behalf of Leia and the Resistance to bring him home and end the fight against the First Order. Luke rejects this, and asks Rey why she personally came to Ahch-To. She confides in him her experiences with the Force, and tells him that she is afraid of her own abilities and potential. Luke eventually agrees to give Rey three lessons of the ways of the Force. Through these lessons, Rey demonstrates immense raw strength and a clear temptation toward the dark side of the Force that reminds Luke of Kylo Ren, who was once his nephew and student, Ben Solo. All the while, Rey feels a sudden connection through the Force with Ren, who tells her that Luke tried to kill him while he was the Jedi master’s student (Luke later tells her that he was tempted to kill Ben after seeing a vision of the pain and suffering he would cause, but relented). In one of their conversations, Rey and Ren touch hands, and through this Rey swears that she is able to feel conflict within Ren, and becomes determined to turn him back to the light side. Rey asks Luke once more to come with her and rejoin the Resistance, but when he refuses, Rey, Chewbacca, and R2-D2 leave without him.

Ren takes Rey prisoner and brings her before Snoke. Snoke tells her that he created the Force connection between her and Ren as a trap to reach Luke. Snoke tortures and taunts Rey, showing her the attack on the Resistance transports, and eventually orders Ren to kill her. Ren instead kills Snoke, and he and Rey fight Snoke’s guards side by side. The duel won, Ren asks Rey to join him and create a new order separate from the legacies of Snoke and Luke, but Rey refuses. In an attempt to get her to turn, Ren gets Rey to admit what she had always known all along and had hidden it away for years: Rey’s parents were “nobody”, and, in Ren’s words, were two-bit junk dealers who sold her off for drinking money, and are long dead. Despite the revelation, Rey refuses to join him and uses the Force to summon Luke’s lightsaber, but Ren does so, too, resulting in a standoff that ultimately tears the lightsaber in two. Shortly afterwards, Resistance leader Vice Admiral Holdo rams her cruiser into Snoke’s flagship, separating Rey from Ren. Rey subsequently uses Snoke’s escape craft to flee the dreadnought as later stated by General Hux.

Rey is later revealed to have made her way back to the Millennium Falcon, manning the guns as Chewbacca pilots, aiding the Resistance in fighting the First Order’s troops. Despite their best efforts, the battle turns out to be a loss for the Resistance, and Rey focuses her efforts on finding the surviving Resistance fighters to help evacuate them. Eventually, she finds the Resistance fighters behind a dead end, and uses the Force to move the rocky barrier aside, clearing the path for them to board the Falcon. Rey reunites with Finn and Leia, and meets Poe Dameron for the first time aboard the Falcon. Rey feels Luke’s death through the Force, and reassures Leia that he met his end with “peace and purpose”. As she holds the remains of Luke’s lightsaber, Rey asks Leia how they can rebuild the Resistance from what remains, and Leia, gesturing towards Rey, says that they now have all they need. Unknown to Leia, that includes the fact that Rey stole the sacred Jedi texts from Luke before Yoda‘s ghost burned the tree cave they were in.^[38]

The Rise of Skywalker (2019)

Ridley will reprise her role as Rey in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. Having nearly completed her training as a Jedi by studying the sacred texts, she will help bring an end to the millennia-long conflict between the Jedi and the Sith.^[39] According to Ridley, her character will spend more time with Finn than in the previous installment.^[40]

 

Details here.

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Spec’s Again:

Rey

Biographical information

Homeworld

Jakku^[1]

Born

15 ABY^[2]

Physical description

Species

Human^[3]

Gender

Female^[3]

Height

1.7 meters^[3]

Mass

54 kilograms^[4]

Hair color

Brown^[5]

Eye color

Hazel^[5]

Skin color

Light^[5]

Chronological and political information

Affiliation(s)

• Resistance^[5]
• Jedi Order^[6]

Masters

Luke Skywalker^[6]

 

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Rey, a Force-sensitive human female, was a scavenger from the forlorn frontier world of Jakku. Toughened by the harsh environment of her homeworld, Rey lived in solitude until events drew her into the galaxy-wide conflict between the First Order and the Resistance. After discovering her connection to the Force, she sought out the legendary Jedi Master Luke Skywalker in hopes of saving the Resistance and learning to control her new powers. Her unconventional training as Skywalker’s apprentice would set Rey on the path to becoming a Jedi in a time when the Jedi Order was virtually extinct.

Born in 15 ABY during the New Republic Era, Rey grew up alone on Jakku, working as a scavenger in order to survive on a barren desert world. As a child, she was abandoned by her junk trader parents; but, having suppressed the memory of her abandonment, she spent years waiting in vain to be reunited with her family. Nevertheless, life on Jakku shaped her into a survivor, allowing Rey to develop various skills as a gifted mechanic, pilot and warrior. During the waning days of the cold war, a fateful encounter with the astromech droid BB-8brought Rey into contact with the Resistance in 34 ABY. Along the way, she encountered the Rebel war hero Captain Han Solo, who confirmed that the legends of the Force and the Jedi Order were true. Shortly after the destruction of the New Republic, Rey was captured by the First Order warlord Kylo Ren, Han Solo’s estranged son who turned to the dark side of the Force after destroying the new generation of Jedi Knights. By then, Rey’s strength in the Force became more pronounced as a side effect of the mysterious connection between her and Ren, granting her access to certain abilities such as mind trick and telekinesis.

In the aftermath of the Starkiller disaster, Rey journeyed to the lost world of Ahch-To, the ancient birthplace of the Jedi Order, where she located Luke Skywalker. However, instead of rediscovering a legend, she found an embittered hermit, disillusioned by failure and intent on dying in exile as the last of the Jedi. Although Rey remained at the Jedi Master’s side, hoping to change his mind about training her, she found herself increasingly drawn to Skywalker’s nephew, Ren, with whom she could communicate across the stars through the Force. The bond between them allowed Rey to glimpse the light within Ren, leading her to believe that he would renounce the dark side if she came to him in person. As a result, they joined forces to overthrow Supreme Leader Snoke, only for Ren to usurp his fallen master’s throne as the new ruler of the First Order. Disappointed by Ren’s choice, Rey rejected his entreaty to rule together as leaders of a new galactic order, and managed to save the Resistance from the armies of the First Order during the Battle of Crait.

Biography

Early life

In 1 BBY, during the early rebellion against the Galactic Empire and more than a decade before Rey’s birth, her voice was heard by Padawan Ezra Bridger during his brief visit to the world between worlds—a place that existed beyond time and space.^[7] Rey was born in 15 ABY, eleven years after the Battle of Endor.^[2] At a young age, her family left her on Jakku, a desert planet in the Western Reaches, for reasons unknown to her. She believed it was a mistake and that they would one day return to bring her home^[5] as she recalled a male voice calling her sweetheart and promising to return for her.^[8] She later admitted to herself that her parents had sold her to Jakku’s economy for drinking money.^[6]

Throughout her life on Jakku, she would sometimes see off-worlders in Niima Outpost, the chief trade outpost on the planet, who she thought might have arrived on Jakku accidentally, unaware of the harsh realities of the desert world. Rey wondered if she was left behind under similar circumstances, if her family had come to Jakku by accident and she was left behind as a result of their misfortune.^[9] Whatever the reasons were, she held out hope that her family would return for her one day, though she began to realize that they would never come back. She proved unwilling to admit this even to herself for a long time.^[5]

The scavenger

In order to survive on Jakku, Rey became a scavenger in the employ of Unkar Plutt, trawling through the junk fields of the Starship Graveyard which was littered with the remains of starships and other military technology^[5] from the Battle of Jakku. At first, she worked for other scavengers, bringing them the loot she found in crashed New Republic and Galactic Empire vessels that were downed during the battle. She heard local stories about what happened during the battle: that it was the last stand of the once-powerful Empire during the Galactic Civil War, that the Empire locked onto Republic ships during the fighting and dragged them down to the surface together, and more. The battle had left the ships trapped in the sand in varying conditions, and finding working parts became essential in order to earn food portions, the only thing that was up for trade in Niima Outpost. The trades were made by Plutt, who traded leftover Republic and Imperial rations in exchange for whatever Rey and other scavengers were able to recover. Rey learned that parts that could be repurposed were the most important; anything that could not be put into another ship was worthless to Plutt.^[9]

Some of the scavengers that Rey worked for were kind to her, such as Ivano Troade and Mashra. Others, whose names she refused to speak, were not kind, and even viewed her as their property. As Rey’s skills as a scavenger grew, she came to realize that while other scavengers needed her, she did not need them. She struck out on her own, utilizing the skills she had to scavenge and survive, but no one took her seriously at first. She was aided by Plutt himself, who told other scavengers to leave Rey alone and would send his thugs after those who did not. Rey did not want his help, and the help was not out of generosity. Rather, Rey was the best scavenger Plutt had and he wanted to continue utilizing her as a source of acquisitions. Rey gained a reputation in Niima Outpost for using her quarterstaff to defend herself, which also kept most people from bothering her—save for the occasional new scavenger who did not know about her, or were so desperate for supplies that they did not care.^[9]

Life on a backwater world

At some point in her youth, Rey made her home in a downed Imperial All Terrain Armored Transport, Hellhound Two, left over from the Battle of Jakku. When she first found it, Rey did not believe that she could live there, as the Goazon Badlands where the AT-AT was located was a barren wasteland in which nothing seemed to grow. When she inspected the walker, though, she found a small green-spine-barrel flower growing out of a few millimeters of sand that had poured into the walker. Rey realized that if such a tiny flower could survive there, so could she, and that life always found a way to survive on Jakku. Rey would go on to collect flowers like that, as a reminder that beauty could be found anywhere, even on Jakku.^[9]

Once she settled into the walker, Rey salvaged working parts of the AT-AT for trade. She mostly just used one room in the walker, for a variety of reasons. She would often bring her salvages to the walker before bringing them to Plutt, as Plutt deducted portions one could receive from a salvage if they used his washing and repair stations. The walker also contained scratches she made to mark the passage of time, to remind her how far she had come and to count down the days until her family returned for her. Outside of the walker was where she would go on to keep the speeder she built for herself, which gave her a degree of independence as she made her way back and forth from the Starship Graveyard.^[9]

By the time Rey was ten years old,^[2] she had acquired a Rebel Alliance flight helmet that once belonged to Captain Dosmit Ræh of the starfighter squadron Tierfon Yellow Aces, which she found while scavenging in the Starship Graveyard. She enjoyed making up stories about Ræh’s adventures during the war, which was why Rey made a doll out of a flight uniform she found in a cargo container. She often enjoyed wearing the helmet and playing with the doll, pretending she was helping Ræh explore the AT-AT and the sands outside. Together, their pretend adventures saw them find lost Rebels and return them to their ships. When Rey was older, she no longer played with the doll but kept it and the helmet, which she sometimes wore anyway, to remind her how far she had come on Jakku.^[9]

Inside the walker, Rey also had a computer display from an old BTL-A4 Y-wing assault starfighter/bomber that she used to learn alien languages, study the schematics of Republic and Imperial starships, and run flight simulations in order to hone her skills as a pilot. Her ability to understand alien languages, including the binary language of droids, helped her when off-worlders came to Niima Outpost. Two such off-worlders were Wookiees, who regaled her with the stories of the famed Wookiee smuggler-turned-Rebel fighter Chewbacca. She learned of Chewbacca’s exploits, as well as those of his friend and fellow smuggler Han Solo. Studying schematics to learn how ships worked was also an important part of her survival on Jakku. She recognized almost all of the Republic and Imperial vessels that could be found in the Graveyard, including what roles they played in combat, the types of weapons they were armed with, their models and classes, and how many crew members each one had. She learned this not just through studying schematics on her computer, but also by climbing through and exploring the ships and tinkering with their systems. This let her know what each part was, what it could do, whether it worked, and, most importantly, whether it would carry any value in Niima Outpost.^[9]

Growing up on Jakku meant Rey not only learned how the ships that littered its wastelands worked, but also about the dangers that lurked on Jakku itself. Rey saw firsthand the hardship it could inflict. Rumors of an Imperial base on Carbon Ridge once compelled Plutt to mount an expedition there. Knowing her skills as a mechanic, Plutt brought Rey a flyer to fix. She did so by unclogging one of its turbojets and rebuilding the other out of scrap from the front of an air-speeder. Plutt and six of his thugs used it to try to find the rumored base, but he only returned with a collection of stormtrooper armor—and two of his men were killed. That led other scavengers to avoid Carbon Ridge. The creatures of Jakku were also dangerous. A fellow scavenger named Teng Malar once accidentally broke open a hatch on a ship beneath a colony of steel-peckers, ferocious avian creatures with razor-sharp beaks and strong talons. Within ten minutes, Teng was ripped to shreds and Rey watched helplessly as she was unable to do anything to stop the creatures. The Graveyard itself was also a reminder of the realities of war, with bodies and skeletons littering the sands. Rey once discovered a deceased TIE fighter pilot still in the cockpit of his TIE fighter ejector seat. Rey scavenged his helmet, sidearm, and com-link before giving the pilot a proper burial.^[9]

The happabore hazard

Rey traveled to Niima Outpost, where she took the job of hauling a pile of scrap heap to Plutt, who offered her ten portions. Plutt reluctantly gave her the coordinates but placed a collateral on Rey’s speeder if were to fail the errand. Rey responded by placing a bet of twenty portions since she was risking her speeder.^[10]

Rey traveled on her speeder to the site, which turned out to be a wrecked quad-jumper. She found a happabore lying beside the space-tug. Realizing that Plutt had set her up to fail, Rey tried to get the creature to move. After trying to push it, Rey realized that the happabore was having trouble breathing because something was blocking its nose. Steeling herself, Rey dug into the creature’s nose and retrieved a piece of machinery that was obstructing its nasal passage.^[10]

After shaking off the happabore’s goo, Rey tried to tow the space-tug back to Niima Outpost with her speeder but the machine was too heavy. Fortunately for Rey, the grateful happabore helped her push it back to Niima Outpost where Unkar Plutt angrily gave Rey the 20 portions.^[10]

Repairing the Ghtroc 690

At some point, Rey was salvaging a battle cruiser when a sandstorm forced her to retreat to the Hellhound Two, where she decided to wait out the storm by practicing on her flight simulator. The next day, after trading with Plutt for rations at the Concession Stand, she took her speeder out to the Starship Graveyard, where she decided to climb the Spike, the keel of an Imperial ship that had crashed into what would become the Crackle. From her perch, she spotted a ship that, upon closer inspection, she realized to be a reasonably intact Ghtroc 690 light freighter.^[11]

Deciding to look inside the ship for salvage, she discovered food, and more importantly, that the reactor core was still functioning. Realizing that the whole repaired ship was worth more to Plutt than its salvageable parts, she decided to work on it so she could sell it, discovering panels inside that she could use to hide her ship from other scavengers. As it had become dark outside, Rey opted to spend the night in the ship.^[11]

Repairing the ship proved difficult, as it meant using parts she could have traded for food to repair the ship instead, making her go hungry more often than usual. Her decision to not give some parts to Plutt eventually attracted the attention of the scavengers Devi and Strunk, who asked her about it. She refused to tell them anything, and they told her that they might not have been the only ones to notice Rey’s unusual behavior.^[11]

Ten days later, the duo trailed Rey and discovered what she was working on, and offered to help her repair it in exchange for passage off of Jakku with her once it was finished. After Rey explained that she was going to sell the freighter to Plutt once it was complete, Devi and Strunk brokered a deal with her: they would help her repair the ship, and they would split whatever Plutt gave them.^[11]

While Rey was wary of the others at first, she came to think of them as friends as they proved their trustworthiness by keeping watch over the ship at night, and helping to protect it from a group of Teedos. Together the three scavengers restored the ship to working order, and Rey was able to pilot the craft over the desert with the skills she had learned from her flight simulator program. Once the ship was complete, Rey flew it to Niima Outpost with the others. However, as soon as she stepped out of it to barter with Plutt, Devi and Strunk stole the ship and fled the planet, leaving Rey with nothing to show for her work. Later that night, Rey punched the lenses out of a battered stormtrooper helmet before turning back to testing her skills on her flight simulator.^[11]

Rescuing a Teedo

Sometime later, Rey had fashioned the lenses from the stormtrooper helmet into a pair of goggles. She used it when she entered a Star Destroyer which was notably in danger of falling apart. After finding a room with some scattered components she was sure would be useful, she noticed a component still attached to the ship. Upon attempting to detach it however, the room and the whole ship began to show signs of stress. She then opted to leave it but was cornered by Teedo who held Rey at gunpoint. He ordered her to turn over her stash, before noticing the valuable component attached to the ship. Rey attempted to warn him off but Teedo was not to be dissuaded. After successfully prying the component from the ship, the room began to destabilize, knocking out Teedo in the process. Rey picked up all of her belongings including the detached component and began to run out. Pulled back by Teedo’s sounds of distress however, she quickly ran back, picked him up and proceeded to sprint towards the outside. She made use of a torn piece of the ship to slide her and Teedo away to safety from the collapsing Star Destroyer. Teedo then woke up and gleefully claimed Rey’s stash as his own. But Rey demanded it back, pointing out that she had just saved his life and thus was initiating a fair trade. Teedo begrudgingly gave it back, and thus Rey sped away on her speeder.^[12]

Rescuing Unkar Plutt

Rey was searching for scrap in an old ship but she only found a couple of com-links. She then heard a sound and realized she wasn’t alone in this ship. Two persons surrounded her and demanded that she give them her com-links. Rey declined and instead attacked the two persons. Rey by mistake then set off a chain reaction and the ship started to blow up. Just as everyone managed to escape, the ship exploded together with the mysterious person’s speeder bike. Rey took her speeder away from the ship, leaving the two persons stranded. When she came back to Niima Outpost she realized that something was wrong. She asked Crusher and he revealed that an off-worlder called Zool Zendiat and his gang had taken Plutt. Rey asked Constable Zuvio why and he answered that the rumor was that Zendiat was looking for an old J9 droid that Rey had sold to Plutt, two weeks prior. The Gabdorin Krynodd then appeared, stating that he was the new junk-boss in Nimma Outpost and that his boys were the law now, instead of Zuvio. When Bobbajo walked past Krynodd, the Gabdorin hit him and said that he needed to show some respect. Rey helped the old man capture his creatures who were running away. As thanks she received a few corn-clusters. Realizing, that Krynodd would be even worse than Plutt, she decided that she had to rescue him. She returned to her home and took a look at the head of the J9 droid which she had kept so that she could clean it and sell it later for more portions. She then headed out into the night to find Plutt. When out, she heard Ripper Raptors in the Kelvim Ravine and decided to go there to see if that was the location of Plutt.^[13]

Rey found Plutt strapped to the ground, surrounded by Zendiat’s gang. She then used one of the com-links she had brought with her to make the sound of a bloggin. Rey attacked and managed to beat all except Zendiat. She then attempted to remove the restraints holding Plutt. Instead she got an electric shock. Surrounded by Zendiat’s gang, Rey pulled out the head of the J9 droid, which had been the very droid that had gotten Plutt captured in the first place. Rey proposed that they let her and Plutt go and she would give them the head. Zendiat then asked why he shouldn’t just kill them and take the droid but Rey then threw the droid’s head up in the sky to show him why. In the meantime she freed Plutt but he pushed her away and grabbed the droid’s head. He then took Rey’s corn-clusters and threw them on Zendiat’s gang so that the Ripper Raptors would attack them. They did, and Rey and Plutt escaped but Rey threw the head of the droid to Zendiat’s gang.^[14]

Plutt angrily asked why as he had heard that it contained a treasure map but Rey told him that she had already checked its memory and that it was wiped clean. They drove back to Niima Outpost on Rey’s speeder and she told Plutt that Krynodd had taken over his business. When arriving, Plutt stormed away without thanking Rey. The following day when Rey woke up, she found a crate with at least 30 portions outside of her home, leading Rey to consider that Plutt was not as rude as she thought.^[14]

Awakening the Force

Escape from Jakku

One of the vessels that Rey scavenged from was the Inflictor, an Imperial-class Star Destroyer^[5] that crashed after its commanding officer, Captain Ciena Ree, scuttled the ship to prevent it from falling into the hands of the New Republic.^[15] Rey climbed throughout the massive vessel and brought parts back to Niima Outpost, where she cleaned them up and brought them to Plutt. The materials she brought him on this particular day earned her one quarter portion of food, which she brought back to her home. After eating, she heard the noises of an astro-mech droid and rushed to find that the source of the noise, BB-8, had been captured by a Teedo scavenger, also named Teedo. Rey rescued the tiny droid and learned that it was on a classified mission^[5]—it managed to escape the clutches of the First Order during an attack on the spiritual village of Tuanul, an attack that Rey had heard rumors of.^[9] Rey repaired BB-8’s antenna, and pointed the droids towards Niima Outpost. After some convincing by BB-8, Rey allowed the droid to return home with her for one night, before it went on its way the next morning.^[5] On their way to Rey’s home that evening, Rey and BB-8 were attacked by a night-watcher worm, which was hungry and wanted to eat BB-8. Rey saved BB-8 from the worm, made it safely to Rey’s, and fed the worm a hunk of scrap.^[16]

The next morning, Rey and BB-8 set up for Niima Outpost. On their way, they were attacked by three bandits who were attempted to steal BB-8. Rey was able to force two of the bandits to crash into each other on their speeder bikes, and tricked Teedo into having his bike eaten by a night-watcher worm.^[17] Rey and BB-8 continued to Niima Outpost, where she handed more salvage material over to Plutt. He offered her one half portion for everything, a collection that Rey reminded him was worth one half portion for each item only a week before. Though Plutt was unmoved, he did offer to give her sixty portions for BB-8. Rey was almost quick to take the offer, but she soon told Plutt that BB-8 was not for sale. Undeterred, Plutt sent his thugs after Rey to try to take the droid by force—this proved to be useless, however, as Rey made short work of her would be attackers. During the fight, BB-8 caught a glimpse of Finn, a stormtrooper who defected from the First Order, wearing the jacket that belonged to BB-8’s master, Poe Dameron. BB-8 alerted Rey and a brief chase ensued. Rey managed to catch the young man, and accused him of thievery. Finn explained that the jacket belonged to Poe Dameron and that he was the one who helped the Resistance fighter escape from the Finalizer, an escape that cost Poe his life. He also explained that he too was a Resistance fighter, sent to help Poe retrieve a map that would lead to Luke Skywalker, a legendary Jedi Knight who Rey assumed was only a myth. Rey accepted Finn’s story that he was actually a member of the Resistance, while BB-8 lamented Finn’s news of Dameron.^[5]

The trio was spotted by a small group of stormtroopers who were sent to to recover the droid from Jakku. Rey and Finn attempted to flee their attackers after being fired upon by TIE fighters. Rey led Finn and BB-8 towards a shipyard attempting to commandeer a quad-jumper moments before it was destroyed. With no other option, Rey led the two towards an old freighter (which she described as “garbage”) that had not flown for years, which happened to be the Millennium Falcon, which had fallen into Unkar Plutt’s ownership after being stolen from a number of other owners. Rey took the pilot’s seat while Finn manned one of the quad laser cannons. Despite a shaky start, Rey piloted the ship out of the outpost and, on Finn’s suggestion, remained at a low altitude in order to confuse the scanners on the TIE fighters. She led the fighters on a chase into the Starship Graveyard, where she was able to use the downed war vessels to her advantage. One TIE fighter crashed after Finn scored a direct hit, while the other followed Rey into the bowels of a Super Star Destroyer. The Falcon suffered damage and the turret was locked into one position, so, after flying out of the Super Star Destroyer, Rey moved the freighter into position where Finn could fire a direct shot. With the last TIE fighter destroyed, Rey flew the ship off of Jakku and into open space.^[5]

Enlisting Han Solo’s help

With the ship in the clear, Rey and Finn left their posts and congratulated one another on their hard-fought escape. They finally introduced themselves to one another, having not learned each other’s name in the commotion of escaping the desert world, but their joy soon turned to more urgent matters as the propulsion system began to leak^[5] when an energy flux in the hyperdrive motivator caused a fuel backup.^[9] Rey started working to fix the problem, which risked flooding the ship with poisonous gas and killing them. While working on the propulsion system, Rey asked Finn for the location of the Resistance base. Unknown to her was that he and BB-8, as she worked, argued about revealing the location; Finn did not actually know its location and had to convince BB-8 to share it with Rey. BB-8 ultimately revealed that the base was in the Ileenium system, so Rey told them she would drop them off before returning to Jakku, much to Finn’s annoyance.^[5]

Suddenly, the ship began to lose power and the two realized that they were caught in a tractor beam. The Falcon was pulled into the cargo bay of a large freighter^[5] called the Eravana,^[18] which Finn mistook as a First Order ship. The trio hid in a compartment beneath the floor and Rey planned to release the poisonous gas into the ship to kill what she assumed would be stormtroopers, but in reality it was two smugglers, and the original owners of the Falcon: the famed Han Solo]and his first mate, Chewbacca. Solo found the three fugitives in the compartment and Rey revealed they were the only ones aboard, and that she was the pilot. Solo asked where they got the ship, and Rey told him that it belonged to Unkar Plutt, who stole it from the Irving Boys, who stole it from Gannis Ducain—who, as Solo revealed, stole it from him. It was then that he revealed himself as Han Solo. Rey and Finn realized that meant the ship was the Millennium Falcon, the ship that Rey believed had made the Kessel Run in fourteen parsecs, to which Solo corrected her saying it was only twelve. The two correctly deduced that Solo was indeed the famous smuggler who became a General for the Rebel Alliance during the Galactic Civil War. Solo inspected the ship and talked to Rey about the modifications that Plutt had made on it, including a compressor on the ignition line, which they both knew put too much stress on the hyperdrive. Rey also told him about their mission to bring BB-8 to the Resistance, a mission that caught Solo’s attention once he realized that the droid carried a map to his old friend and brother-in-law Luke Skywalker.^[5]

The Eravana was soon boarded by the both Guavian Death Gang and Kanjiklub, two criminal organizations that Solo had swindled into loaning him money so he could smuggle rathtars to King Prana. Rey and Finn hid in the corridors beneath the floors as Solo unsuccessfully tried to talk his way out of the situation, and his predicament gave Rey the idea to shut all of the doors between the Corellian smuggler and the two gangs. She accessed the wrong door controls, however, and accidentally unleashed the monstrous rathtars, which ran loose across the ship. As Rey and Finn ran from the beasts, one of them grabbed Finn and carried him away. Rey found a control panel that allowed her to close a door onto the tentacles of the monster, severing the limbs and allowing Finn to escape. They reunited with Solo at the Millennium Falcon and escaped onto the ship. With Chewbacca injured in the fight against the gangs, Rey took the co-pilot’s chair as Solo prepared the ship for launch. Though Rey questioned him on his ensuing plan, Solo jumped the ship into hyperspace from inside the Eravana, and they successfully escaped. Bala-Tik of the Guavian Death Gang, who had seen BB-8 and realized Rey and Finn were aboard, then had his men contact the First Order to let them know that the fugitives were aboard the Millennium Falcon.^[5]

Rey and Solo contended with even more damage to the ship once they were in hyperspace. There was an electrical overload and a coolant leak, so Rey suggested transferring auxiliary power to the secondary tank, which Solo had also come to the conclusion to do. Finally, Rey bypassed the compressor that Plutt had installed, solving the problem and ending their imminent danger as well as impressing Solo. The group gathered in the ship’s common area and BB-8 showed Solo the holographic map fragment that was in the droid’s databanks. Solo, who pointed out that the map was not complete, explained the story of why Skywalker had disappeared in the first place. An apprentice—Kylo Ren—turned against the Jedi Master and destroyed Skywalker’s attempt to rebuild the Jedi Order. Afterward, Skywalker vanished from the galaxy without a trace. Rumors floated around about where he had gone,^[5] but those closest to him correctly^[19] guessed that he went off in search of the first Jedi Temple. Rey was surprised to hear that the Jedi were real, but Solo, who had once been skeptical of the existence of the Jedi himself, told her that the stories about the Jedi and the existence of the Force were all true.^[5]

The Force within

Solo, the estranged husband of Resistance General Leia Organa, did not plan to bring BB-8 to the Resistance base himself, so he set course for the planet Takodana, where he intended to enlist the help of Maz Kanata, a pirate and collector who had operated a pirate castle on the planet for a thousand years. As the ship approached the castle, Rey was taken aback by the lush green world^[5] that reminded her of the planets she saw in her dreams as a child,^[9] having never known that there was so much green in the entire galaxy. When they landed, the group exited the ship, where Rey looked out at the stunning vista that stood before her. Solo handed her an NN-14 blaster pistol, knowing she would be able to defend herself with it, and asked her what her name was. With the two formally introduced, Solo said he was considering bringing on a new crew member. Impressed with Rey’s piloting and repair abilities, he said he would consider offering her a job as a second mate aboard the Falcon. Rey was flattered by the offer, and briefly excited by the prospect, but she turned it down because she had to return to Jakku to wait for her family, claiming that she’d already been away for too long already.^[5]

Solo led Rey, Finn, and BB-8 to the castle while Chewbacca stayed behind to watch over the ship. Solo explained that Kanata had the ability and the connections to get BB-8 to the Resistance. Once inside, their arrival prompted the attention of informants for both the First Order and the Resistance, alerting the respective groups that the fugitives were on Takodana. Rey and the others met with the diminutive pirate and told her about the map to Luke Skywalker. Kanata said she would not bring the droid to the Resistance because she believed Solo should, as he had been running from the fight for too long. Rey asked what fight she was referring to, and Kanata told her it was the fight against the dark side of the Force, one that had given rise to the Sith, the Galactic Empire, and ultimately the First Order. To Rey’s surprise, Finn told Kanata that they could not win the fight against the First Order. Kanata sensed his fear, and Finn finally said that he could not bring the droid to the Resistance. He left to speak to two pirates,^[5] Sidon Ithano and Quiggold,^[2] about exchanging work for passage to the Outer Rim Territories and, when Rey confronted him, he admitted that he was a former stormtrooper and not a member of the Resistance. She pleaded with him not to go, but he chose to leave the castle and head to the Outer Rim.^[5]

As Finn departed, Rey felt something drawing her towards the lower levels of the castle. She made her way down the steps with BB-8 and found a collection of ancient artifacts. One box in particular called to her, and she opened it to find a lightsaber. Upon touching it, she was immediately confronted with a vision of events both past and present she did not understand. Rey first found herself in the halls of Cloud City, where Skywalker had once fought Darth Vader before learning Vader was his father. She heard Skywalker screaming in disbelief at the revelation, as well as the words of the late Jedi Master Yoda speaking about the energies of the Force. Rey then saw Skywalker himself kneeling before a burning temple alongside his astro-mech droid, R2-D2, before the vision shifted to one of death: Kylo Ren and the Knights of Ren killing many people. The vision then transported her to Jakku, where Rey saw herself as a young girl screaming for her family to return as they departed in a starship. Finally, she found herself in the middle of a snowy forest, where Ren ignited his lightsaber and stalked towards her. The vision came to an end, she fell to the floor, and she heard the voice of the long-deceased Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi telling her that these were her first steps.^[5]

Rey was left shaken by the vision. Kanata found her scrambling away from the collection room, and Rey asked her what happened. She told the young woman that the lightsaber once belonged to Luke and Anakin Skywalker, and that it was calling out to her. Rey, overwhelmed, told Kanata that she had to return to Jakku, but the old pirate helped Rey finally admit what she knew all along: whoever left her on Jakku was never coming back. There was, however, someone who still could: Luke. Kanata, who was Force-sensitive in her own right despite not being a proper Jedi, tried to guide Rey towards embracing the Force and letting the light guide her, as well as to take the lightsaber. Rey rejected it, however, and said she wanted no part in this cosmic destiny. She instead fled the castle, in tears, running into the heavy woods that stood just outside of it to be alone. BB-8 followed her and Rey told the droid to go back so Solo could help, but it was too late. Rey looked up and saw First Order transports and TIE fighters soaring through the sky.^[5]

Capture and escape

Rey and BB-8 returned to the castle, where they saw it under heavy bombardment from the First Order. She noticed stormtroopers approaching her position and fired on them, hitting two stormtroopers before running back into the forest. Rey told BB-8 to go on without her so she could fight them off, and she told the droid that she hoped to see it again. Rey continued through the woods until she heard the sound of a lightsaber coming to life. She was soon confronted by Kylo Ren, who used his lightsaber to deflect every shot that she fired at him. After several shots from the blaster, Ren used the Force to freeze Rey in place, threatening her with his lightsaber while demanding to know where the droid was. He probed her mind with the Force and realized that she had seen the map, and that he would not need the droid—he could instead just interrogate her to find out what she had seen. Ren used the Force to render Rey unconscious and carried her to his command shuttle, which he used to escape as Resistance X-wing fighters—which had arrived to find BB-8—fended off the TIE fighters.^[5]

Rey was taken to Starkiller Base, a First Order stronghold and a superweapon, built into the icy planet, that was capable of destroying entire star systems—a power it unleashed when Rey was on Takodana, using it to destroy the Hosnian system and deliver a crippling blow to the New Republic’s government and starfleet. Rey woke up in a holding cell and found Ren inside of it. She asked him what happened to Solo and Finn, though Ren did not know—which he suggested was a sign of relief for her, as he had not heard if they perished. Rey treated the dark warrior with scorn, calling him a “creature in a mask“, and he removed his mask to reveal that he was a young human man with no disfigurements. He asked about the droid once again and Rey responded only with its technical specifications. Because she refused to reply, Ren used the Force to access her mind and her memories. He saw that she was lonely but also afraid to leave Jakku, and that she saw an island on an ocean in her dreams. He also saw that she was fond of Solo and that she felt like he was the father she never had, though Ren said that he would only leave her disappointed—what Rey did not know was that Ren’s true name was Ben Solo, and that he was the son of Solo and General Organa. After more probing, Rey began to use the Force to push back and resist, keeping Ren from seeing anymore of her memories. She turned the attack around on him and saw into his mind, finding that he was afraid that he would never be as powerful as his grandfather, Darth Vader. Ren withdrew, rattled by the experience, and left the holding cell.^[5]

Only one stormtrooper was left to guard Rey’s cell. Testing out her newfound Force abilities, Rey attempted to use a mind trick on the trooper in order to influence him to remove the restraints and leave the cell with the door open. The trooper was confused at first and, after her second attempt, said he would instead tighten the restraints. The third time she tried, however, Rey was successful. The trooper removed the restraints and began to leave the cell. He also dropped his weapon after Rey told him to, allowing her to leave the cell while armed with a blaster rifle. Rey made her way through the base, while Ren discovered that she was missing and ordered the First Order troops to be on high alert—the longer Rey went undiscovered while testing her abilities, the more powerful and more dangerous she would become to the First Order. Her intention, ultimately, was to commandeer a ship and escape from Starkiller Base, so she made her way towards a hangar where she found TIE fighters that she could steal. She was approached by several stormtroopers before she could get to the fighters, so she climbed down a chasm in the hangar to hide. Careful not to fall to her death, Rey opened a service hatch, climbed inside, and closed it behind her so she could make her way back through the base.^[5]

Deeper into the base, Rey found Solo, Chewbacca, and Finn—who did not flee to the Outer Rim after all—after they had arrived on Starkiller Base in order to rescue her and to disable its shields so Resistance starfighters could destroy it. Rey embraced Finn when Chewbacca said the rescue was his idea, and she thanked him for coming back for her. With the shields already disabled as a result of Finn and Solo’s actions, the group left the base to return to the Millennium Falcon, but they saw that the Resistance fighters were being cut to shreds and had been unable to destroy the thermal oscillator, which stored the energy that the weapon drained from stars. The group decided to stay behind to help destroy the oscillator. Rey accessed a terminal that allowed her to open a door, giving Solo and Chewbacca the opportunity to enter the oscillator and plant charges. Rey and Finn made their way towards their companions and found themselves overlooking a bridge, where Solo—who, along with Chewbacca, had already planted charges—found and confronted his son. Though Solo pleaded with Ren to turn back to the light, the dark warrior stabbed his father through the torso. Rey let out a horrified scream upon witnessing this, but could only watch as the famed smuggled fell to his death in the chasm below. Chewbacca, enraged over the loss of his friend, opened fire on Ren, managing to hit him in the leg, and set off the charges, damaging the oscillator and giving the Resistance the opening it needed to destroy the base.^[5]

Rey and Finn ran through the snowy forests towards the Millennium Falcon, but they were confronted by Ren who told them that they had unfinished business that Solo couldn’t save them from, with Rey denouncing the dark warrior as a monster for his act of patricide. Rey attempted to fire at Ren with her blaster, but the dark warrior used the Force to toss her against a tree, temporarily knocking her out. Finn, who was given Skywalker’s lightsaber by Maz Kanata on Takodana, engaged Ren in a lightsaber duel, but he was bested by the Knight of Ren and left critically injured. Ren, who sought the lightsaber for himself, attempted to call the saber into his hands through the Force, but Rey called it into hers and ignited it. She engaged Ren in combat and spent part of the duel in retreat, defending herself against Ren’s advances. The two locked sabers and Ren told her he could train her in the ways of the Force. Rey, knowing what Kanata told her, drew upon the powers of the Force and moved onto the offensive, delivering several blows against Ren until she finally disarmed him and slashed him across the face, ultimately defeating him. A deep chasm formed between them, born out of the imminent destruction of the planet after the Resistance destroyed the oscillator, so Rey left Ren behind and returned to the injured Finn. Chewbacca soon arrived aboard the Falcon and carried Finn aboard, as Rey followed behind. The ship took off as the ground crumbled beneath it, and the Falcon and the Resistance fighters retreated from Starkiller Base as the planet imploded and became a star from all of the thermal energy the weapon had collected.^[5]

Finding the Last Jedi

Discovery of Skywalker

The Millennium Falcon returned to the Resistance base on the planet D’Qar, where Finn was treated for his wounds. The Resistance forces celebrated their victory over the First Order, though Rey was left with a feeling of sadness. She was greeted at the base by General Organa, and the two embraced in a long hug. The events that had unfolded awakened R2-D2, who had been in low power mode ever since Skywalker disappeared, and the droid combined the information contained within his databanks with the map that BB-8 carried to show a completed map to where Skywalker had gone.^[5]

Rey kept Skywalker’s lightsaber with her and prepared to depart from D’Qar for Skywalker’s world with Chewbacca and “Artoo” (R2-D2). She said goodbye to the unconscious Finn, kissing him on the forehead and stating that “they would see each other again some day”.^[5] Outside of the Falcon, General Organa told her that she was proud of what Rey was about to do. Rey felt her fear, however, as Rey knew that Organa blamed herself for sending her son away to be with her brother only for Ben Solo to turn to the dark side. Organa was confident, however, that Rey would not share the same fate as her son, giving her a beacon to find her way back.^[20] Rey boarded the Millennium Falcon, took the pilot’s seat, and set a course for Ahch-To, the world where Skywalker made his exile. After landing on one of the planet’s small islands, Rey ventured throughout the island’s ancient ruins and found the old Jedi Master in seclusion.^[5] Skywalker, clearly haunted by the past, said nothing as Rey handed him his father’s lightsaber, a symbol of the only hope the galaxy had left^[20]—the return of the Jedi.^[5]

Upon offering Skywalker his old lightsaber, Rey was shocked to see him discard the weapon after briefly examining it and immediately leaving the plateau. The entire way down, Rey desperately tried to recruit Skywalker to help the remaining members of the Resistance, but he blatantly refused. After recovering the lightsaber from some porgs, she discovered the wreckage of Skywalker’s X-wing star-fighter and learned that he had stranded himself on the planet. She continued to follow him across the island, despite being ordered to leave. Eventually, she stumbled upon an old tree containing some of the last recorded Jedi texts from the very beginning of the Jedi Order, claiming the location was familiar to her. An intrigued Skywalker asked Rey to elaborate, but she continued to press him to come out of hiding and help fight the First Order. Skywalker once more refused, explaining that he did not come to the planet to hide, but to die where the Jedi Order first started. Later, when Skywalker arrived at the Millennium Falcon, Rey and Chewbacca informed him that Han Solo had been murdered, shocking Skywalker. Afterward, the old Jedi Master pressed Rey for her true motives for coming to Ahch-To. Rey explained that she had a power inside of her that she did not understand and was frightened of; she also sought a mentor to help her discover her place in the galaxy. That night, Rey woke to see Skywalker staring at her; he agreed to give Rey no more than three lessons of the Jedi Order and that they would start at dawn.^[6]

Training and revelations

On the first day of her training with Skywalker, Rey awoke to find Kylo Ren sitting across from her.^[6] She instinctively aimed her blaster at him and fired, only to blow a hole through her stone hut. She could not harm him, yet nor could Ren use his powers to reach into her mind due to the actual distance between them. Rey was both terrified and infuriated to see the dark warlord, but decided to keep this new development between them from Skywalker, fearing that she would lose the Jedi Master’s trust if he mistook her and Ren’s newfound connection as a betrayal.^[21] She followed him to the first Jedi Temple where he described the Force as an energy that bound everything together, including the light and the darkness. After some miscommunication, Rey reached out into the Force with her senses and felt drawn to a cavern immersed in dark side energy.^[6] Having been effortlessly drawn to the darkness despite Skywalker’s warnings, Skywalker backed away in fear as Rey’s raw strength in the Force reminded him of another gifted prodigy—his nephew and fallen apprentice, Ben Solo.^[21] At the same time, Rey sensed nothing from the Jedi exile and came to realize that Skywalker had blocked himself off from the Force.^[6]

For her next lesson, Rey was made to listen to Skywalker’s interpretation of the history of the Jedi Order, which he saw as an example of hubris and failure. He further credited his former mentor, Obi-Wan Kenobi, as the Jedi Master responsible for the training of Darth Vader and also blamed the Jedi for failing to stop Darth Sidious’ rise to power. In spite of his arguments, Rey was adamant that the return of the Jedi Order was the galaxy’s last hope against the rising power of the First Order. She also countered Skywalker’s views by exclaiming how it was Skywalker himself who saw the light in Vader and fought to redeem him. Yet despite her assertions to the contrary, Skywalker felt responsible for his nephew’s fall to the dark side, lamenting how he had once hoped to pass on his lessons to Solo and a new generation of Jedi. It was then that Rey learned about the night of Solo’s betrayal as explained from Skywalker’s point of view.^[6]

As her training with Skywalker continued,^[6] her connection with Ren became stronger^[22] and resulted in more frequent interactions between them.^[6] At first, Rey was inconvenienced by the fact that she was bonded with a man whom she regarded as a murderer and a monster.^[21] To her surprise, however, Ren no longer tried to hide his feelings of pain^[22] and misery^[21] from Rey.^[22] At one point she inquired—while distracted by the site of Ren stripped to the waist—as to how he could kill his own father, to which Ren replied by comparing Rey’s experience with abandonment to his own. His knowledge of Rey’s parents confounded her, as well as reminded her that the first contact between their minds had allowed them to access each other’s memories. Ren then took the opportunity to share his recollection of the night he destroyed his uncle’s temple, revealing to Rey that Skywalker had made an attempt on Ben Solo’s life while he slept. She wanted to believe that Ren was lying, but her feelings told her that he was telling the truth.^[21]

Determined to see her parents once again after so many years, Rey followed the pull to the dark side which led her to a cave filled with numerous mirror versions of herself. Staring into a clouded mirror of polished stone, she beseeched the Force to reveal her parents but was only met by her own reflection. Having failed to find the answers she sought, either with her parents or Skywalker, Rey began to despair as years of isolation began to weigh upon her. As a result, she turned to the one person whom she felt could relate to her sense of solitude and loss: Kylo Ren. The dark warrior listened intently as Rey recalled her experience in the cave and insisted she was not alone despite her sense of loneliness. Rey returned his gesture, in kind, and came to hope that it was not too late for him to return to the light.^[21]

By then, their bond had reached an unprecedented level in strength and raw power^[23] to the extent that Rey compared it to touching a live wire. She tentatively raised her hand to touch him, although she expected their hands to simply pass through each other. When their fingers actually touched, Rey grasped Ren’s hand. At that moment, however, Skywalker—now reconnected with the Force—witnessed their bond with his own eyes and proceeded to interrupt the connection. Confronting the Jedi Master, Rey demanded to know if he tried to murder Ren. The two fought until Skywalker admitted that he had contemplated killing his nephew after sensing the darkness within him. Unlike Skywalker, Rey did not believe that Ren was fully committed to the dark side as there was still much conflict within him. She therefore set out to confront him, in spite of Skywalker’s warnings, under the belief that Ben Solo’s redemption was the key to saving the galaxy.^[21] Unknown to Skywalker, Rey took the sacred Jedi texts with her aboard the Falcon before leaving Ahch-To. Upon returning to the beleaguered Resistance fleet, Rey ordered Chewbacca to launch her from an escape pod toward Snoke’s flagship, the Supremacy, where Ren awaited her arrival.^[6]

Showdown on the Supremacy

As they approached Snoke’s throne room, Rey reminded Ren that he still had a chance to redeem himself. Snoke welcomed Rey and removed her handcuffs. He then Force-pulled her lightsaber to him and set it on the arm of his chair. Snoke gleefully remarked on the former scavenger and used the Force to pull her towards him, claiming he had created the Force link between Rey and Ren in order to find Luke Skywalker. When Snoke directly pried her for Skywalker’s location, Rey boldly refused and tried to summon her lightsaber; Instead, Snoke merely redirected the weapon, hitting her in the back of the head.^[6]

Amused with her spunk, Snoke brought her before a holo-projector showing the remaining members of the Resistance being destroyed, and vowed she would join them. Rather than lose hope, however, the sight drove Rey to summon Ren’s lightsaber and defiantly igniting it to challenge Snoke once more, promptly earning the Supreme Leader’s respect as he compliments her for her courage, while finally acknowledging her as a genuine threat to his reign. Restraining Rey once more, Snoke returned Ren’s lightsaber to him and ordered him to execute her, confident his apprentice would do so. Instead, Ren subtly used the Force to turn Rey’s lightsaber and activated it, carving Snoke in two. Freed from the Supreme Leader’s control and her saber back in hand, Rey suddenly found herself in a temporary truce with Ren as they engaged and killed all the guards in the throne room.^[6]

With Snoke’s personal guards dead, Ren offered Rey the chance to join him and “let old things die” and bring a new order to the galaxy, but when she pleaded with him to join the Resistance, Ren revealed the truth about her parents: they were both junk dealers who traded her away for money and died on Jakku, buried in an unmarked grave. Ren once more offered her a place by his side to reshape the galaxy in their image. As on Starkiller Base, Rey once again refused and attempted to pull her lightsaber back to her. The pressure of the Force from both users proved to be too much and split the weapon in two, knocking them unconscious. Coming to first, Rey recovered both halves of the lightsaber.^[6] Before she left the bridge, she looked over at the unconscious form of Ren and briefly considered killing him with his own lightsaber. Ultimately, Rey decided that it was not her place to take Ren’s life and that the Force would ultimately decide his fate. She then proceeded to fly away on Snoke’s escape shuttle, using the craft’s low profile and countermeasures to avoid detection.^[21]

Almost immediately after setting the shuttle’s autopilot, Rey blacked out. Some time later, a voice from her past made its presence felt in a dream, reiterating its plea for her to stay and its promise of how they would one day come back to return for her. Upon hearing those words, Rey awoke, finding her shuttle drifting among the ruins of the First Order fleet. Within minutes she was in contact with the Millennium Falcon, who soon docked with her ship, allowing Rey to escape and reunite with Chewbacca and R2-D2 aboard the Millennium Falcon, whilst leaving Snoke’s escape shuttle adrift.^[24]

Rescue on Crait

From there, she regrouped with the Resistance fighters on the nearby planet Crait, who were holding out in an old Rebel Alliance base. They arrived right as the Resistance was taking heavy losses from the First Order’s assault; with Rey manning the Falcon’s turrets, Chewbacca was able to lure the attacking TIE Fighters away from the battle through the planet’s crystallized caverns. ^[6]

Despite Rey’s successful diversion of the First Order’s air support, the Resistance was still ultimately pushed back by the Order’s sheer firepower. As Skywalker delayed the First Order’s final assault via a Force projection, the Resistance sought to escape through a network of tunnels behind their base.^[6]

Following Organa’s two-way beacon, Rey and Chewbacca landed near a back entrance to the old Rebel base covered with boulders. Trusting in the Force, she accepted her destiny as a Jedi and proceeded to clear away the boulders from the exit, allowing the surviving Resistance members to escape; here she reunited with Finn, and embraced him. As she was about to close the Falcon’s doors once the Resistance was all aboard, she shared one more interaction through the Force with Ren,^[6] but she closed the connection^[21] and left on the Falcon. Safely in hyperspace, Rey reunited with BB-8 and took notice of the droid’s new antenna. Upon reuniting with most members of the Resistance, Rey met Dameron and was warmly reunited with Organa. Both of them were able to sense that Luke had become one with the Force, but that he had finally found peace, and assured her that the rebellion, and hope, would survive.^[6]

Aboard the Falcon

After barely escaping the First Order aboard the Falcon, Rey accompanied by Finn, BB-8, and Poe commented about their past experiences, leading Rey to tell him that she had learned they can’t dwell on changing the past, rather to concentrate on the present. After Finn brought up Poe’s questionable survival during the their TIE fighter escape both Rey and Finn listened to his story and explanation to what lead to his survival.^[25]

On Batuu

Some time after leaving Crait, Rey made her way to the Outer Rim world of Batuu. There she led a recruitment effort based out of a Resistance encampment near the ancient ruins outside of Black Spire Outpost, alongside Chewbacca and other Resistance members.^[26] Before a Resistance Intersystem Transport Ship took off from the encampment on a mission, Rey communicated with those on board through a holographic message delivered by BB-8.^[27]

A lightsaber re-forged

Some time following the battle on Crait, Rey was able to repair her lightsaber.^[28]

Personality and traits

Rey was a human female who stood at 1.7 meters^[3] and weighed 54 kilograms.^[4] She had brown hair, hazel eyes, and light skin^[3] that adapted to the extreme ultraviolet radiation emanated by the sun that shone down on the desert world of Jakku. The harsh realities of such a world could have easily made a person cynical or guarded against sympathy and weaknesses, but not Rey. Despite eking out a meager existence in the scorching heat of the Western Reaches planet, Rey possessed a heart full of generosity and a willingness to help other people in need.^[2] It was this willingness that led her to not only help BB-8 be free of Teedo’s interference and Plutt’s attempts to acquire the droid, but also led her to help BB-8 in its mission to return the star map it carried to the Resistance. Though she never wanted to leave Jakku for fear that she would not be there when her family returned for her,^[5]she believed in the importance of the Resistance and its fight against the First Order enough that it gave her strength to continue on BB-8’s mission to find Luke Skywalker and defeat the First Order.^[2] She also believed in the importance of the Jedi Order; in spite of Skywalker’s jaded views and rejection of his Jedi heritage, Rey remained steadfast in her belief that the return of the Jedi was paramount to defeating the First Order.^[21] Notably, her courage and utter refusal to concede to despair made her the only Jedi to earn Snoke’s respect as a worthy adversary.^[6]

For years, Rey’s imagination took her mind to other worlds, including those with lush green forests^[2] and beauty that she could never even dream of. The adventure she found while helping BB-8 and Finn brought her to one such world in the form of Takodana,^[5] where she began to realize that her destiny was not in the junk-fields of a remote desert planet. Her encounter with Maz Kanata profoundly impacted how she saw herself and what she was capable of, and Rey began to see that she was part of a larger galactic fight—and that the power of the Force was with her. Her recognition of these abilities and her destiny coincided with turbulence in the Cosmic Force, which for years had remained dormant,^[2] and ultimately led her to find Skywalker.^[5] The years that she spent on Jakku also proved useful when faced with Skywalker’s obstinacy; having learned the value of patience, Rey remained on Ahch-To despite the old Jedi Master’s refusal of her entreaty, determined to wear him down.^[22]

Though optimistic and hopeful, Rey spent years living in denial about her parents until Kylo Ren forced her to confront the truth.^[21]Rey tearfully admitted that her parents were no one special,^[6]merely junk traders who sold their daughter in order to satisfy their alcoholism. She had hoped to learn more about her parents during her visit to Ahch-To, but was left with feelings of disappointment and even greater loneliness than before. She also felt abandoned by Skywalker, and therefore confided in Ren, whom she assured was not alone. Her feelings toward Ren gradually changed due to the bond they shared in the Force. At first, Ren’s presence incited anger within Rey,^[22] who mourned Han Solo as the father she never had.^[21]

As their connection grew stronger, Rey was surprised by how open Ren was with his emotions and became driven to learn the truth about his fall from grace.^[22] Whereas she initially dismissed Ren as a failed student, Rey came to see Skywalker as a failure for losing faith in his nephew.^[6] Trusting in the Force,^[21] Rey firmly believed that Ren would turn from the dark side with her help,^[6] having perceived a glimmer of good within the conflicted Knight of Ren.^[29] After Ren declared himself the new Supreme Leader, Rey felt neither hatred or compassion for him yet also grew to believe that Kylo Ren was nothing more than a shell and Ben Solo was the true persona.^[21]

Rey, who learned from Han Solo that the legends of the Force were true,^[22] was deeply spiritual. She believed in the existence of the Force, but her knowledge of it was lacking due to her limited exposure to its powers. As her training progressed under Skywalker, Rey began to see the Force as something more than the abilities it granted to Force-sensitive individuals. She agreed with Skywalker that the Force was the balance between opposite concepts—such as life and death, creation and destruction, or light and darkness—though she continued to disagree with her master’s intention to end the Jedi Order. It was her faith in the Force that led Rey to confront Ren in person. She initially felt vindicated by Ren’s betrayal of Snoke, exulting at the way he saved her by striking down his own master, yet was shocked by his resolve to continue down the dark path, having felt certain that Ren’s redemption was the will of the Force. Nevertheless, she refrained from killing him while he was unconscious, in spite of her own inclination to take his life while he was defenseless. To Rey, it was the Force’s will that Ren continued to live, though for what purpose she did not know. As such, Rey adopted a “wait and see” approach regarding the Force’s plans for Ren.^[21]

During Rey’s time on Ahch-To, Skywalker felt that she reminded him too much of himself:^[30] full of hope,^[21]impatient^[31] and reckless.^[32] Snoke preyed on those attributes, knowing that Rey could not “resist the bait” he had laid before her.^[6]

Powers and abilities

Rey honed her skills as a scavenger in the junk-fields of Jakku, a planet on which every day was a struggle to survive against harsh sunlight, searing hot deserts, and cutthroat scavengers and thieves who would steal from anyone. This bleak reality, in which she nonetheless remained ever-hopeful, saw Rey develop a tenacity and instinct for survival. Her skills as a scavenger saw her earn the respect of junk traders like Plutt, who ensured that his thugs did not steal from her—unless her skills got in the way of his business. The need to survive against such beings, and the ability to traverse downed star cruisers and other war technology, necessitated that she remain in peak physical condition. She developed skills as a warrior,^[2] with the ability to expertly wield a quarterstaff against those who would threaten her.^[5] Her interactions with off-worlders also allowed her to learn languages from other worlds, such as the Wookiee language of Shyriiwook and the binary language of droids.^[2] She also had a certain talent for drawing, which she put to good use in her journal.^[9]

In her time on Jakku, Rey learned the ins-and-outs of being a mechanic, and she was gifted with a seemingly innate understanding of how machinery worked. This left her comfortable around vehicles and weapons, including the AT-AT she called home; she kept the weatherproofing of the downed transport intact to protect against the climate, and she set traps around it so scavengers could not steal from her. She built her own speeder and became a skilled pilot, despite never wanting to leave Jakku.^[2] These skills proved ever-useful when she piloted the Millennium Falcon away from Jakku, and she displayed an understanding of its systems and functions with a familiarity that rivaled even that of Han Solo.^[5] Chewbacca also recognized these abilities, giving her the pilot’s seat in the Millennium Falcon after Solo died and the two set off to find Skywalker.^[20]

All of these skills and more were put to the test when she left Jakku with BB-8 and Finn.^[2] Rey was forced to pilot the Millennium Falcon through the Starship Graveyard, in which she formed a working partnership with Finn when the former stormtrooper manned the gun turrets of the old Corellian vessel, and further helped Solo repair the Falcon when it was damaged. Her ability to understand languages not commonly found on Jakku came in handy when helping BB-8 with its mission, as well as through interactions with Chewbacca.^[5]

The adventure that followed her leaving Jakku led Rey to discover that she was gifted with the powers of the Force. Though she initially rejected these powers and the destiny that came with them, Rey’s encounter with Skywalker’s lightsaber began awakening the power of the Force inside of her. She resisted Kylo Ren’s attempt to probe her mind for the map to Skywalker and even turned his attack back on him to discover his own fears of inadequacy in the shadow of Darth Vader. Because of this, Ren concluded that Rey was strong with the Force; untaught, but stronger than she realized.^[5]

As a side effect of that mind probe, Rey inadvertently unlocked some of her dormant Force abilities by accessing memories of Ren’s training which, in turn, served as her own training in the ways of the Force.^[21] She was, therefore, able to employ the mind trick, albeit only after three attempts, against a stormtrooper in order to escape from captivity, and her skills grew throughout her escape from the Starkiller. On one occasion, she was able to summon Skywalker’s lightsaber to her hand and make it fling itself past Kylo. This culminated in her lightsaber duel with the injured Ren, as she was able to repel his attacks and best him in their fierce encounter, destroying his lightsaber;^[5] however, she had been only able to achieve this due to Ren’s imbalance.^[6]

Thereafter, Rey embraced these events and the abilities she was just beginning to learn when she sought out the exiled Skywalker, rekindling a spark of hope for a galaxy on the road to war.^[5] After her training on Ahch-To, Rey proved capable of lifting and moving several boulders simultaneously with a mere amount of concentration to open a passageway for the Resistance on Crait, and could also access the Force-bond forged by Snoke to communicate with Ben Solo seemingly at will. According to Snoke, she grew more powerful in the light side of the Force as Ben grew stronger in the dark side.^[6] According to Luke Skywalker, Ren was far more powerful than Rey,^[32] but Rey’s powers were quickly growing. In the few days since the Battle of Starkiller Base, she progressed from needing to attempt the mind trick several times before succeeding, to moving dozens of heavy rocks at once and she was able to match Ren in a force-wrestle for a lightsaber. Despite her growing powers, she was unable to fight Snoke’s mind probe,^[6] though she previously resisted his apprentice Ren’s.^[5]

Despite her lack of proper training, Rey proved a natural in lightsaber combat, albeit neither as seasoned nor as versatile as Kylo Ren. She had much difficulty in fighting Snoke’s Praetorian Guard, one of whom managed to wound her in the right shoulder, but she still managed to hold off all eight of them at once with Ren’s aid.^[6]

Equipment

Hellhound Two and the speeder

Rey made her home in the downed remains of an All Terrain Armored Transport called Hellhound Two, a leftover from the Battle of Jakku. After claiming it as her own, Rey made a number of modifications to the AT-AT. She disabled the fuel tank, as it was too dangerous to keep online, and welded the main hatch shut. As an entrance and exit, she used a side hatch that Imperial stormtroopers only would have used in emergencies. In order to operate the solar panels that Rey used to power her home, she salvaged two self-charging fuel cells from the wreckage of speeder bikes in the vehicle bay. Many of the materials also proved useful for salvage; E-11 blaster rifles, DLT-20A laser rifles, terrain scanners, atmosphere intakes, and more were all materials she was able to trade to Unkar Plutt.^[9]

While in the walker, Rey generally stayed inside the lower troop deck, though there was a speeder bike garage and upper troop deck in the walker. Despite Hellhound Two laying on its side, Rey came to think of it as right side up after getting so used to it. Inside she had a workbench for working on salvage material, her computer terminal, and a hammock that she made herself when she was a girl.^[9] Being inside the walker gave her a degree of protection as well. Not only did Rey maintain the vehicle’s weatherproofing, thereby keeping the daytime heat and frigid nights out of the craft, but she also set up traps around the walker in order to keep scavengers out of her home.^[2]

Although the AT-AT was her home, Rey’s speeder was more important for her survival.^[9] Rey took great pride and joy from her speeder, a custom-built repulsor-lift vehicle. It stood at 3.73 meters in length and carried no weapons, but its hauling capability, and the net used as a cargo bag on the side of the craft, allowed her to ferry items she salvaged from the Starship Graveyard to her AT-AT and Niima Outpost.^[18] Despite its ability to haul cargo, its space was limited; the craft valued speed over cargo capacity, so Rey often had to make return trips to carry her salvage into Niima Outpost.^[2] The craft was top heavy, making it difficult for other pilots to control it, but Rey was a skilled enough pilot to manage it.^[18] Its top heavy nature made her more confident that other scavengers would not steal it, as did her safety precautions: a fingerprint scanner that meant only she could power the speeder’s engines, and a loose wire that she used to electrify the craft when she was not using it in the event that someone tried to hotwire the speeder.^[9]

The speeder itself was built from supplies that Rey scavenged from the deserts. It was powered by twin turbojet engines she claimed from a downed cargo-hauler, which she mounted stacked rather than placing them side-by-side. She bolted them to powered amplifiers that she scavenged from an Imperial vessel. It was further customized with racing-swoop afterburners, a customized combustion chamber, and repulsor-lifts she scavenged from crashed X-wing starfighters, amongst many other modifications she made. When carrying a limited load, the speeder was even powerful enough to accelerate to the point that it could fly like an air-speeder. Rey enjoyed using the craft to hone her piloting abilities, sometimes taking it out for flights and performing maneuvers like barrel rolls.^[18] The speeder’s capabilities, as well as its necessity for survival, gave Rey a sense of independence. Although no one could be truly free and independent on Jakku, due to scavengers being dependent on Unkar Plutt for food, the speeder at least meant that Rey could go wherever she wanted whenever she wanted.^[9]

Tools and weapons

Being a scavenger required many types of tools and gear necessary to survive. Rey’s scavenger clothing was ideal for protecting herself from the heat and carrying the tools she needed to do her job.^[9] She wore tight-bindings to keep out the sun and sand as well as salvaged gauze wrappings. She even wore her hair in a simple style designed specifically for survival in the desert. Her boots were made for travelers and were created out of Govath-wool. Part of her gear included goggles from stormtrooper helmet lenses^[2] that Rey salvaged from a ship. Water was an essential part of a scavenger’s life, and many scavengers forgot that the heat was their worst enemy. Rey always carried more water with her than she needed to and carried replacement parts for all of the critical components on her speeder.

To be as successful a scavenger as Rey meant acquiring the best tools she could, learning how to use them, and always maintaining them.^[9]She carried her tools in a mesh-windowed salvage satchel that contained her salvages and survival equipment.^[2] Tools she kept in the satchel included a set of Pilex bit drivers with Wessex and Blissex heads; modulators that included Mon Calamari hex-clamps and cruciform Verpine ratchets; all eight standard configurations of hydro-spanners, including spare power cells; magnetizers and demagnetizers; a carbon chisel for removing scorching on her salvages; a chisel head hammer; harris wrenches, including two that were powered and one that came in the standard model; bonding tape; a power tester; micro-lenses for inspecting parts to see if there were breaks or cracks too small for the eye to see; a sensor jammer to ensure that memory units and computers were properly decoupled, lest their data be purged after being unhooked with authorization; and a data-pad that contained schematics of ships from the Starship Graveyard.^[9] Rey also carried a salvage kit, made from happabore leather, with brushes for cleaning the parts she acquired.^[2]

One of the most important items Rey carried was her quarterstaff, which she salvaged herself and wrapped with scraps of uniform. She kept the staff strapped to her person with a strap made from wool and bloggin-leather.^[2]The staff was an important tool for traversing downed ships. Because it was so dark inside the unpowered vessels, it was not unheard of to be injured by jagged metal or falling through brittle hull plating. Rey used her staff to check that every step she took was stable, particularly in a ship she had never been in before.^[9] She also used the quarterstaff in combat if necessary, which required her to keep a firm back arm grip in order to power any sudden swings. While using it she remained standing in a lower defensive position, and she was practiced with skilled and agile footwork. Rey also had a small knife created out of a droid arm.^[2]

After Rey left Jakku and arrived on Takodana, she was given an NN-14 blaster pistol from Han Solo. The pistol was small, befitting her own size. It had an armored body shell, flash-suppressing and stabilizing muzzle, and a compact grip that was suited for her small hands. Though it was small, its enlarged power core and reinforced frame meant that it was a sturdy weapon that delivered a powerful blast onto any enemies.^[2] In Maz Kanata’s castle, Rey also learned that Skywalker’s lightsaber was destined for her, as the Force beckoned her to claim it.^[5]The lightsaber was built by Anakin Skywalker during the Clone Wars and, after it was lost to Luke Skywalker during a duel with his father, it was salvaged from the depths of Cloud City.^[2] Rey finally claimed the lightsaber during her duel with Kylo Ren, and she carried it with her to Ahch-To so she could present it to Luke Skywalker himself.^[5]

 

Details here.

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Rey & Auz:

Left by her parents* on a virtually barren desert planet in ‘the Star Wars galaxy’ (as of yet unnamed by the modern humans of Earth), Rey, as a toddler, grew up in some of the most challenging conditions around. Learning to work long hours just for bad food and the most basic of shelter, she became a natural at adventuring, pushing her limits, and self control. This childhood also kept her humble, balanced, and clever.

When she, now a teenager, unexpectedly got involved in activity between the Empire and the Rebellion (sometimes called the Galactic Republic) fighting each other for domination across her galaxy, it was not that much of a culture shock for her; she had spent more than a decade fending for herself, getting used to standing up for herself and others, and living with the reality that sometimes, for a long time, things just don’t go well. Rey began to discover she was even more capable than all that; she had dormant Jedi powers no one on the desert world had noticed, known about, or been able to teach. She was destined to play a larger part in the galaxy-wide conflict than just happening briefly upon it.

After experiencing life as a prisoner of war and interrogation victim, as well as a pawn in one of the Empire’s uppermost leader’s schemes, she had become much further conditioned for the daring life and missions she was now bound to. She even found herself a natural at resisting telepathic intrusion by those who had been trained to use many of the Jedi powers. Light saber callings and wielding came next.

The years began to go by, and different factions of the Empire and Rebellion attacked each other, wiped each other out, rose and fell. People, ships, bases, worlds, and even star systems were invaded, struck, and destroyed. Rey witnessed it all. This was her new normal.

Having much better food than during her youth, far more friends and teammates, and even ships and access to planets full of healthy green plant life… somehow kept the edge off of that never-ending conflict. The battles, wars, and occasional betrayals all remained pretty manageable with so many more previously-unknown resources and options to fall back on. Every encounter she had with the Empire, she only grew stronger, more graceful, more composed, ever confident.

Decades, too, passed… and then centuries. Rey had grown into a figure as revered as Luke Skywalker, Yoda, and other hero Jedi. She had lived through so much, rediscovered so much about her galaxy’s past, and managed to help many people and systems find balance amidst it all. Some saw her as a prophesied savior or destined leader. She still saw herself as a once-abandoned little girl still coming to grips with how things were; her powers and improving skills never seemed quite enough to her –not to fully stand up to the shadow that always loomed over them.

The two extremes (the ruling bodies of the Star Wars galaxy) had both failed so consistently over those many years of hers; the Empire, with its dictatorial and militaristic iron grip on its patrolled regions of their galaxy had become deeply despised and avoided by most, and the Republic had always led to far too much chaos, politicking, and the like. A meritocracy had been considered; rule by people with the greatest abilities, as well as a technocracy; rule by those with technical expertise. Something with all the considerations for a new form of government just wasn’t quite right. Perhaps letting go and just letting each system, world, nation, and town decided things for themselves was in order.

“Sociocracy, also known as dynamic governance, is a system of governance which seeks to achieve solutions that create harmonious social environments as well as productive organizations and businesses.” This is the form of government, more or less, utilized by the wise Inisfreeans. It is what they brought with them when their Universe-charting ships arrived.

How many generations and eras had made their way by… by the time Rey met Auz? It is a little difficult to say; who can keep track of all that time, all those events, all those thoughts and evolutions? What is known is that Rey had lived so long at that point, she was practically an immortal; the Force was so strong with her, and she had never let herself be fully caught up in polarizing to either of its perceived ‘sides’. This allowed her to live as what some called ‘a shadow Jedi’; not ‘light’ or ‘dark’, as they defined those terms, but ‘gray’, fluidly in between.

When her eyes met those of the man confidently walking down the vast ramp of the landed, egg-shaped, palatial Dropship, there were sparks and other sensations like you wouldn’t believe. For a Force-sensitive person such as her, the connection was instant and ‘magnetic’, and she didn’t mind feeling the steady want for more. Auz greeted her warmly, then walked with her wherever the subtle signs guided them, telling the tale of his fleet and people, all the way back to when it was just him trying to build their first city. Rey found herself spellbound by it and his very words; he was so much like her in how he’d grown up, overcome, and chosen to be.

Rey began showing Auz all around her favorite places in that galaxy (including the insides of many of the fallen Star Destroyers), and they left blissful memories at them all. As the majority of his ships continued along their planned trajectories far beyond her galaxy’s edge, he lingered in just the right way, letting her know she took priority, even during such an unprecedented and literally-universal campaign. Not even her new family in the Rebellion had reacted to and treated her that way. She finally felt fully loved.

Sometime between 2240 and 2280 on the modern humans’ Earth (Gregorian) calendar, Rey linked back up with Auz on his way home to Inisfree, and Inisfree became her latest treasured home. Rey makes regular visits there from her galaxy, and is often present when Auz accesses the Jedi meeting room via his Magics Chambers facility portal kept dialed-in right to it. She teaches in Inisfree what she has mastered of the Force, and those in Inisfree teach her the other things they know, bringing new balance to both their vast realms.

 

*Rey’s parents chose to live as junkers to keep a low profile which helped to hide and protect their beloved daughter from whom her father was cloned based on; she is technically the granddaughter of Senator Palpatine (since her father is a clone of that man), which is where she got her Force-sensitivity/power/s from.

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Did You Know?

The Star Wars movies, like all things in the modern Earth media and countries, are a mix of realistic events and gibberish; there is always a ‘spin’ put on the tales that reach us, with the hope that such a spin result in more sales and profits, appealing to the ‘lowest common denominator’. Star Wars is not an account of what happened in our galaxy, though similar events did occur here.

To be sure, there are crashed and derelict Spaceships out there, some the size of moons, not unlike the Death Star. There are and were great wars between nations, worlds, and solar systems. There are people who have more abilities and better senses than the polluted, dumbed-down, untrained and vestigial, cattle-like norm on Earth.

Rey Solo and her people, however, are from a long time ago, and a galaxy far, far away.

If you look at the major events of the Star Wars saga, you notice that the conflict was more polarized and two-sided than it is today, and entire worlds got destroyed. Today, at least leading up to 2012, there was an increasing division (or fragmentation) which led to chaos; there were too many viewpoints, sides, and fights to keep track of, even with the huge technological spying effort put forth by Earth superpowers. It is not a two-sided debate or war on Earth at all. We also are not seeing entire planets and moons being blown up, and the majority of our Spacecraft are not the size of cities or small moons. Our times are clearly different from those of Star Wars.

Also, some of the people in Star Wars had telekinetic powers (a significant percentage, in fact, even from birth, and without any training at all), and many people in the mainstream knew of that and them first-hand. That is not the case today; today, virtually everyone assumes those things to be mythological, entirely made up and impossible. This places the timeline of Star Wars within a specific range of dates on the prehistoric time-stream; Star Wars occurred long ago when those things were possible and occurring, but not so long ago that there were only few people in existence, and not so long ago that the majority or all of those in existence had those and other powers. There were still many people on many worlds featured in Star Wars, so it was a long time after the start of the Universe.

In short? Those events could only have happened a long time ago; many millennia ago, but maybe not hundreds of millions or billions of years ago, explained by the schedule relayed to us via the Mayan triple-calendar (which you should research on your own, starting with the lectures of Ian Xel Lungold). We can estimate more accurately how many millennia or millions of years ago Star Wars likely occurred by taking all that into consideration, then factoring in the distance to the nearest galaxies; the closest spiral galaxies are a few million light-years away.

What does this mean? It may mean that the vision the Star Wars creators got for their saga came from one of those nearby galaxies, and it, traveling at the speed of light, may have taken a few million years to reach them/us/Earth. In other words, those events may have happened a few million years ago; they started in one of those nearby galaxies, immediately got transmitted out across the inter-galactic medium by the minds of the people there experiencing them, and just started reaching us here on Earth back in the 1970s when Star Wars was envisioned and turned into movies.

It will be a long time before ships will be as big again as they were in Star Wars, and when that time comes… they will do good, not harm; it will be a reversal of what happened all those generations ago, for we are living in the times after The Shift. It will be the Inisfreeans who make the world-sized ships next, and there will be a new and better balance between those left around (all across our own galaxy, as well as across many others), not a polarization or endless galaxy-wide tug-of-war; not Star Wars, but Star Peaces. Again, take a look at the Mayan triple-calendar, and see what it forecasts when reversed, like a mirror image, around the point in time near the end of 2011.

Lastly, something to consider is how most visions or messages from other realms reach us; if they travel across Space at the speed of light, and we go out across Space, bypassing the speed of light by using warp-drive technology and worm-holes, we may find that the visions we get change based on how far out we travel. If, for example, we are in Earth orbit, we may sense what is happening in real-time, and when we warp a few light-decades out… we may start sensing what happened a few decades in Earth’s past. Imagine the sensations of traveling through Space like that; you pick up on the memories and hopes of people on all the worlds around you, and can see what happened farther back in their histories the farther away you are from them.

You could, effectively, rewind or fast-forward as much as you wanted through any or all of their histories, all by traveling through warps in Space. You could also record multiple worlds’ histories simultaneously that way, picking up on everything around you, with things becoming more recent and with less gibberish/attenuation the closer you warp toward their sources. You could even see how the Jedi developed their powers in the very beginning… if you traveled out by warp a few more light-millennia from their galaxy, out past the edge of our own in that direction. Maybe that is one of the ways we’ll rediscover what they knew so instinctively way out there and way back then.

 

May the Force be with you.

 

(*While some people can telepathically connect and remote-view across any distance or time instantaneously, most humans, due to their brainwashing/assumptions, are limited to what they believe about themselves and their technology, thus, while some can instantly ‘pick up’ on events in the Star Wars galaxy or anywhere, past or present, or even future, most humans can’t pick up anything, and those who can… are usually limited to waiting on linear signals crossing the vast intergalactic distances.)

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2400s Update:

During this century, King Auz had returned from his time spent posing/operating as a Colonial (Space) Marine; he was back in Inisfree much of the time, enjoying this century-long interval before deploying again (the next time via the new type of Spacecraft his people were about to build).  Working with the SSPs (back in the ’90s and 2000s) to project his mind/consciousness/ideas through Space and time had been interesting, and it had prepared (and motivated) him for these now-waking/physical excursions even farther out into that ocean of black and stars.  His deployments there would now be self-initiated and Inisfreean-managed/ensured, and they would take decades (and later longer), significantly different from his (what he jokingly called) one-night stands as a voluntary consultant/expert of/for at least one SSP (while some of the others assumed they were victims of abductions forcing them into decades of taxing service before cleverly returning them to within minutes of when they’d been taken).

So what does an SSP veteran do while he is comfortably between having successfully explored all of Space even better than Starfleet could… and ramping up for a focus in the newly human-colonized solar-system called 34 Tauri?  Auz is the kind of SSP veteran who soaks up all the/his achieved/unlocked/restored godhood –via basking in the sexy and sexually-compatible presences of all the goddesses he was able to liberate, heal, and unify into the greatest alliance and family of all time.  Rey was now one of those women, and she’d started meeting him more often via that Magics Chambers portal mentioned above.

She, he, and her hottest female friends from her galaxy, were now having chill threesome- and orgy-based hangouts on all the worlds they were familiar with out there.  Every time they fucked like that, it unlocked visions of the hidden histories and ancestral wisdom of those planets, peoples, and lands, having activated and relaxed their bodies fully and in all the right and best ways.  On one such fuck, in between their hands-holding strolls through the latest region-sized section of Coruscant’s mega-city ruins, one of those visions was about how the nine post-Shift Mayan-schedule consciousness-focuses were going to be for him/them.

1. Universe/al consciousness:  (command of himself, causing his “hero aura” effect, with the whole timeline and destiny of the Universe now in/from him, from 2012)  He’d used the high-technology and other means made available to him, sifting through all the data it was connected with back then, sensing who he was meant to select and liberate via the first (data/energy-based) modern exodus; little spheres called electrons had been darting around to make that happen.
2. Galactic consciousness:  (command of vehicles and small areas around him, with the remote Force-like help of those he’d called out to and connected with across his galaxy, from 2012 – 2025)  He’d wielded large vehicles with ease, and had been upgrading to aircraft and sizable ships.
3. Planet/ary consciousness:  (command of cities and big groups of compatible people, launching from his single/home-world, from 2012 – 2281)  He’d been wielding spherical A.I. beings the size of his city, the Moon, the Earth, and the Sun (as they explored all of Space for him).
4. Nation/al consciousness:  (command of his recalled/regrouped city-nation/fleet/collective, while he moved it from the heart of each compatible (and hidden) nation to the next, thereby completing/perfecting/unifying/allying each of those nations with itself… and then with his nation, from 2012 – 7292)  He’d be wielding his city in a new way now, not just printing and deploying other spherical creations from it, but moving it itself to new destined spots in other holy/timeless/immortal lands.
5. Cultural consciousness:  (command of how all cultures (group natures/mindsets/habits/customs) throughout all those restabilized/completed/perfected nations would finish developing, directly contributing to their growing/restored/unlocked abilities which they’d share/combine on the Yggdrasil project in the millennia ahead, from 2012 – 105,006)  He’d be wielding entire bodies of water, willing them (via his loving interaction with his allied mermaid teammates and their Queens/Tritons) back up into their ancient Firmament positions in the skies.
6. Tribal consciousness:  (command of how all tribes (groups of multiple families compatible with the Inisfreeans) now positioned themselves and used their perfect cultures, becoming living collective relay devices, from 2012 – 2,010,426)  He’d be wielding town- and state-sized chunks/nodes/buttes of the lands of all the worlds with people compatible with him on/from them (those lands/worlds), their love/Vril-activated synergy traveling into those landforms, causing them to un-petrify and sprout new and lasting growth as the (start of the) resurrected World Trees.
7. Familial consciousness:  (command of all the families of all the tribes of all the cultures of all the nations of all the planets of all the galaxies in the whole Universe, who are compatible with the Inisfreeans, thus how they desire to maintain or grow and raise their families, from 2012 – 39,166,111)  He’d be wielding the worlds whose humanoid incarnations had told him their worlds/peoples wanted those worlds and solar-systems back close together again like they had been back in the first Golden Age, the growing love (via loving interactions, Inisfreeans-style) with those representatives/incarnations causing those changes in gravity/orbit/s.
8. Mammalian consciousness:  (command of all beings on all worlds, via the most-perfect voluntary unity with them, from 2012 – 763,701,962)  He’d be wielding the World Trees on all worlds in all galaxies with humanoids compatible with Inisfreeans… who also want these trees out there.
9. Cellular/Elemental consciousness:  (command of cellular, atomic, and elemental forces throughout everywhere, from 2012 – 14,892,151,066)  He’d be wielding/managing the whole of Creation (including its once-separated dimensions known as Waking, Imagining, and Dreaming)… and with ease.  This includes the Sphere Beings (and they include the living star-gates; the stars themselves).

He and Rey fucked once again, this time to celebrate that vision, he having shared it with her immediately… and in love.  This solidified it in both their whole beings, and radiated its glory and permanence out into the ruins and land/continent they were on, thereby transmitting it out into the rest of that amazing post-colonization world.  This is how it is done (pun not intended).

They then went back to the Jedi’s Council room high in that Coruscant skyscraper, it having long-since been abandoned and left to fall into a state of enchanting overgrowth and discoloration (since the events of the Star Wars films, those films being about events which occurred generations and even eons ago), and christened every one of its council-member chairs –and then the open circular floor-space in between.  The rest of the wisdom from all the Jedi who had ever been in that room then, because of that shared whole love between the powerful Rey and Auz, became theirs.  Next, they invited all their (both his and her) favorite fuckbuddies to join them there, repeated the whole process, and made it a regularly-recurring thing, thereby sharing that unlocked/restored wisdom with them all.

Now the most powerful, good, compatible beings from both their galaxies shared King Auz’s vision, calling, urge, and plan.  The love they went on from that room to share with their other/remaining circles/friends (lovers) would begin to exponential spread/share all those things.  This is how it (the rest of the post-Shift timeline of All-that-is) began.

Now all he was wondering about… was why each one of the consciousness-focus segments/levels… was ~19.5 times longer than its predecessor, post-Shift (just as they had been 19.5 times longer than their successors, pre-Shift).  What was it about that number?  He’d have/get to find out… later; when the time was right –and when the Force returned (that) to him.  Amen.

More ideal fucking with his favorite goddesses would reveal…

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In the days and years and Ages ahead, Rey, having now been fully bonded with him for more than that full first century of theirs, would sense when he was available and near that portal to her lofty room out there, step through the portal he’d made to keep their special chambers forever connected, hornily take his hand, and lead him right back through.  “I need to re-christen these chairs with you,” she’d say, almost in a pre-sex pant.  “May the Force be with us.”

So much tantric and love was shared this way, so many visions and genetic wisdom revealed.  The aura of those places became incredible; divine.  And, speaking of, Auz one day then took Rey by the hand, leading her out of her side of that portal of his, back into his Magics Chambers, around through that facility’s central “bulb” (room) to one of the other portals, and fucked her right on the throne in the center of Heaven.

Imagine what that unlocked for them –and how many powerful beings then shared their love, unity/reunion urge/calling, and vision/plan/command.

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As of the early 2400s, Rey has been a guest of Inisfree for more than a century and a half, and a happy wife of High King Auz for one century or so.

 

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How She Dresses for Me; Auz:

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