Hera Syndulla is a Twi'lek revolutionary from the planet Ryloth who became one of the most important leaders in the early rebellion against the Galactic Empire and, later, the Alliance to Restore the Republic. The daughter of the Twi'lek freedom fighter Cham Syndulla, she left her homeworld to build her own resistance movement across the galaxy, becoming a gifted pilot in the process.
Aboard her freighter, the Ghost, Hera assembled the crew known as the Spectres, whose members included the Jedi survivor Kanan Jarrus, the Mandalorian Sabine Wren, the Lasat Garazeb Orrelios, the astromech droid Chopper, and the Padawan Ezra Bridger. Under her leadership the crew grew from a local insurgency on Lothal into part of the wider Phoenix Cell and, ultimately, the formal Rebel Alliance, where she rose to the rank of general.
Hera took part in many of the defining engagements of the Galactic Civil War, including actions at Scarif, Hoth, and Endor, and she remained a senior military leader into the era of the New Republic. She is also the mother of Jacen Syndulla, her son with Kanan Jarrus.
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