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The young Jakku scavenger Rey didn’t know how she wound up on the bleak planet Jakku – only that she had to survive. For years, she did so by exploring the wreckage of Imperial and New Republic warships that crashed in the desert sands in a long-ago battle, salvaging components that could be refurbished.

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Rey Biography Gallery

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    • The young Jakku scavenger Rey didn’t know how she wound up on the bleak planet Jakku – only that she had to survive. For years, she did so by exploring the wreckage of Imperial and New Republic warships that crashed in the desert sands in a long-ago battle, salvaging components that could be refurbished.
    • Rey traveled the Jakku wastes on a speeder she built out of scrap – a remarkable feat that reflected her genius for improvisation and survival. Though stranded on a forlorn frontier world, Rey made herself into a highly skilled mechanic, pilot, and warrior.
    • Despite her skills, Rey lived a dull, numbing life. She traded salvage to Unkar Plutt, the junk boss of Niima Outpost, in return for food. Rey dreamed of escaping Jakku for some lush green world, but remained on the dismal planet, certain that whoever had left her there would one day return.
    • In the evenings, she returned to her makeshift home in a toppled Imperial walker, where she’d eat and repair machinery – and sometimes allow herself to dream of deliverance. At the end of each day, she scratched a mark on the wall of her home – proof that she’d survived yet again.
    • Rey’s life changed course when she rescued an astromech named BB-8 from the net of a Teedo scavenger. Rey at first sent the little droid to Niima Outpost to seek passage off Jakku, but relented and let the frightened mechanical spend the night in her home.
    • Rey then took BB-8 to Niima, where Unkar offered to trade an enormous number of food portions for the droid. When Rey refused, Unkar sent his thugs to take the droid by force. It was a mistake – Rey gave the bullies a sound thrashing with her staff.
    • Witnessing the confrontation was Finn, a young man in a jacket BB-8 identified as belonging to Poe Dameron. Finn indicated he was a member of the Resistance, giving Rey hope that he could get BB-8 off-world. But First Order TIE fighters and stormtroopers attacked Niima Outpost, forcing the three to run for their lives.
    • Rey, Finn and BB-8 fled Jakku aboard a battered freighter of Unkar’s. To Rey’s surprise, the junker handled like a fighter. With Finn manning the guns, Rey sought refuge in the Graveyard of Ships, outmaneuvering the TIE fighters and racing for space.
    • No sooner had they escaped then the old crate began to break down, with her balky propulsion system threatening to flood the interior with poisonous gas. Rey hurried to fix the problem, intending to drop off Finn and BB-8 at Ponemah Terminal and then head back to Jakku.
    • But another ship arrived and grabbed the freighter with a tractor beam. The new arrivals were Han Solo and Chewbacca, a pair of smugglers so famous that even Rey had heard of them. And the junker that had sat idle on Jakku was the Millennium Falcon – their former home.
    • Rey’s mechanical acumen impressed Han – but there was little time for conversation, as enforcers from two criminal gangs boarded Han’s bulk freighter and confronted the smuggler. In an effort to help Han and Chewie, Rey tried to override the ship’s blast doors, trapping the gang members. But she accidentally opened everything aboard the ship, releasing vicious predators known as rathtars.
    • After a hair-raising three-way fight, Rey, Finn and BB-8 fled the chaos with Han and Chewie aboard the Falcon. On the way to the planet Takodana, Han told Rey that the legends of the Force were true. He explained how Luke Skywalker’s plan to rebuild the Jedi order had ended in tragedy, with Luke vanishing into exile.
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