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Hera Syndulla Biography Gallery
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Hera first met Kanan Jarrus during a brawl on Gorse, where the fugitive Jedi was working as a mining-transport pilot. Kanan intervened when a gang Hera had hired turned against her, though the Twi’lek proved more than capable of defending herself. Kanan aided Hera’s investigation of the Imperial efficiency expert Count Vidian, and worked with her to thwart Vidian’s schemes. Hera then offered him a place aboard her starship, the Ghost. It was the beginning of a warm partnership.
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Some of Hera’s rebels initially dismissed Ezra Bridger as little more than an urchin given to thievery. But Hera saw more in the orphaned boy. She was impressed with Ezra’s nerve, but also with the decency and concern for others lurking beneath his brash exterior. The boy could help her rebel band against the Empire – and being part of a larger cause would help him think of others instead of just himself.
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Still, Ezra was undeniably rough around the edges, and Hera soon tired of the ceaseless bickering between him and his bunkmate Zeb Orrelios. After one particularly intense quarrel, she sent both of them to Capital City’s market on errands, including the difficult task of finding a meiloorun fruit. She hoped the mission would teach them to overcome their differences and work together – and if that didn’t happen, at least it would stop them from damaging her starship.
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When evidence indicated the Jedi Master Luminara Unduli might be alive, Hera supported Kanan’s plan to rescue her from the prison known as the Spire on Stygeon Prime. The mission quickly became a debacle, however: Luminara was dead, an Imperial lure to deliver fugitive Jedi to the fearsome Imperial agent known as the Inquisitor. Things would have gone much worse without Hera’s expert piloting, however: She rescued the rest of her crew from the prison with the unwitting help of a flock of tibidees drawn to the Phantom.
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Hera’s relationship with Sabine Wren wasn’t always easy – the Mandalorian girl was angry that Hera wasn’t more forthcoming about information given to her by the mysterious agent known as Fulcrum. Sabine rejected Hera’s explanation that the secrecy was designed to protect her and the other members of the Ghost crew.
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While on a mission to the lonely asteroid Fort Anaxes, Hera and Sabine ran afoul of ferocious creatures called fyrnocks. Working together, they blasted the beasts and retreated into the sunlight, which the fyrnocks couldn’t tolerate. But the sunlight was ebbing quickly, allowing the fyrnocks to creep ever closer.
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Putting aside their quarrel, Hera and Sabine worked together until their friends arrived to rescue them in the Ghost. Once safely back aboard the ship, Hera assured Sabine that she trusted her with her life -- and asked the girl to try and trust her in turn.
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After Zeb gambled away Chopper in a sabacc match with a smooth-talking smuggler named Lando Calrissian, Hera reluctantly agreed to help Lando run cargo past Lothal’s Imperial blockade in exchange for payment and the return of the droid. But she felt double-crossed when Lando then traded her to the crime lord Azmorigan for a puffer pig. Lando pointed out that Hera could easily flee Azmorigan’s ship in an escape pod, which she promptly did. But when she returned to the Ghost, she made her feelings about Calrissian’s caper plain with a punch to the gut.
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The rebels’ meeting with Senator-in-exile Gall Trayvis turned out to be another trap: In the sewers below Capital City, Trayvis turned the blaster Hera had given him on the rebels, revealing himself as a double agent working for the Empire. But the gun wasn’t charged – a suspicious Hera had known better than to give Trayvis a live weapon. With one punch, she left the traitor sprawled unconscious in the muck.
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During their confrontation, Trayvis dismissed Ezra’s parents as having been brave but misguided people who’d thrown their lives away. Trayvis’s words and the revelation about his true nature deeply disturbed the boy, leaving him doubtful of his developing Force abilities. But Hera promised him that his parents lived on through the rebels’ faith in their cause, and in their hope that better days lay ahead for the people of Lothal and the galaxy.
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To counter propaganda from Trayvis, Hera and the rebels gained access to Lothal’s Imperial communications tower and broadcast a heartfelt plea from Ezra to his fellow Lothalites to resist the Empire. But their victory came at a terrible price, as the Empire captured Kanan. Hera assured her crew that Ezra’s message had been heard and she had no intention of abandoning Kanan to his fate.
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But when recon missions to gather information about Kanan proved fruitless, Hera obeyed Fulcrum’s orders to halt such operations for fear that she might lose more members of her cell. She told Ezra that Kanan wouldn’t want the crew to jeopardize their larger mission for one person – and said as his friends they should honor that.
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Hera was infuriated when the other rebels disobeyed her order. But the loss of Kanan had hurt her deeply. So she reluctantly agreed to their plan to find Kanan by having Chopper pose as an Imperial courier droid.
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Chopper discovered Kanan was being held on a Star Destroyer above the planet Mustafar, and Hera led the mission to infiltrate the warship and free him. The mission succeeded, reuniting Hera and Kanan, and the victorious rebels finally met Fulcrum, Hera’s contact with the larger rebel movement. The next phase of their struggle against the Empire was about to begin.
Hera Syndulla Biography Gallery
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