Rose Tico

Before helping them sneak aboard the First Order flagship, DJ required a down payment for his efforts – and Rose’s Otomok medallion would do. With no choice, Rose coldly handed over this last link to her homeworld.

Rose, Finn, DJ and BB-8 sneaked aboard the Supremacy disguised in First Order uniforms, but Captain Phasma and her stormtroopers intercepted them before they could shut down the hyperspace tracker. Worse, DJ had overheard that the Resistance planned to evacuate its cruiser aboard transports outfitted with Rose’s bafflers, and revealed the plan to the First Order.

Hux ordered that Rose and Finn be executed. But before Phasma’s troops could carry out the sentence, the Supremacy was torn in two by Vice Admiral Holdo’s attack. BB-8 took control of a First Order AT-ST and rescued Rose. The two then offered Finn a much-needed ride.

To Rose’s joy, Finn was determined to head for Crait and help the Resistance – the former stormtrooper had embraced the cause that meant so much to Rose. The two flew ski speeders in a desperate defense of the Resistance’s hideout, only to have Poe Dameron call off the attack run as a suicide mission.

To Rose’s horror, Finn refused to retreat, determined to sacrifice himself and take out the First Order’s battering-ram cannon. Rose crashed her ski speeder into his, knocking him off-course and saving his life. Finn found her in the wreckage, badly injured. She managed to kiss him and tell him the Resistance would win not by destroying what they hated but by saving what they loved.

Rose lapsed into unconsciousness, but Finn carried her back to the Resistance base and aboard the Millennium Falcon. He tended to her injuries as the old freighter streaked away from Crait with the small band of surviving Resistance fighters.

Recovered from her injuries, Rose helped Leia Organa rebuild the Resistance, with her knowledge of starships and talent for tinkering proving invaluable. Like the rest of the freedom fighters, she was shocked to learn that Emperor Palpatine had returned from death to threaten the galaxy once again.

Finn offered Rose a place aboard the Millennium Falcon for his mission to Pasaana to track down a Sith wayfinder. But Rose decided to remain on Ajan Kloss. Aware of Rose’s technological talents, Leia had asked her to study the warships of Palpatine’s Sith fleet in hopes of finding a weakness the Resistance might exploit.

The resulting vigil was an uneasy one for both Rose and the Resistance leader. Every hour brought Palpatine’s Sith armada closer to beginning its campaign against the galaxy, and intensified Rose’s worries about what had happened to Finn and the rest of their friends.

Finn returned, and Rey sent the Resistance course information allowing it to reach Exegol and confront the First Order and its Sith allies. Meanwhile, Rose’s analysis of the Sith fleet had suggested a weakness – a ground assault that took out its navigational beacon would leave the armada stranded in Exegol’s turbulent atmosphere, without shields.

When the First Order transferred the navigational signal from a ground-based beacon to one of its Star Destroyers, the Resistance forces had to improvise by landing on the top deck of the Star Destroyer. Rose was in the thick of the fight, along with Finn and Jannah.

The assault succeeded, and the Resistance won the day at Exegol. Rose returned to Ajan Kloss having helped strike a critical blow for galactic freedom and the cause for which she and her family had given so much.