

In many ways, Cassian illustrates the darker side of the Rebel Alliance, evidenced by a scene in which he kills an informant rather than let him be taken by Imperial forces. While not much is known about Cassian's past, he tells Jyn that she is not the only person who lost someone, and that he started fighting for the Rebellion at the tender age of six. Jyn realized the danger of the Death Star and worked with Captain Cassian Andor to ensure that the Death Star plans were retrieved from Scarif - a mission that came with a high price.Ĭaptain Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) is an officer in the Rebel Alliance specializing in covert operations.

She had no intention of joining forces with the Rebels until she saw a holo-message from her father, where he explained that he had purposefully put a weakness into the Death Star so that it could be destroyed by the Rebels. Jyn Erso is a self-reliant and aggressive fighter whose major objective for most of her life was mere survival. The Rebel Alliance hoped that by using Jyn, they could get to Saw and retrieve the information that Bodhi Rook (a defected Imperial pilot) had regarding an Imperial superweapon. She was rescued by the Rebel Alliance so that she could help them make contact with Saw Gerrera, whose militant nature had caused him to fracture from the Rebellion.

Jyn was imprisoned by the Empire under a false name. Jyn was raised by Rebel radical Saw Gerrera until she was sixteen, at which time he cut ties with the teen over a growing concern that some of his fellow Rebels would try to hurt or ransom her due to her Imperial connections. Her mother, Lyra Erso (Valene Kane), was shot and killed in front of her by Director Orson Krennic's troops, and her father was imprisoned and forced to work on the Death Star project. The daughter of Galen Erso, who helped to design the Death Star, Jyn's family was torn apart by the violence of the Empire. Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones) is the reluctant hero at the center of Rogue One.
