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The Force Awakensintroduced audiences to a new era ofStar Wars , including a bevy of new persona of depart fealty , from Rey to Kylo Ren . There were a few moments of jeopardy and destruction , most notably vote out off Han Solo , but outside of a few Resistance pilots ( and everyone in the Hosnian System ) , all of the newfangled role made it out alive . With everyone set to return forThe Last Jedi , almost everyone is also carrying an element of the plot or backstory forwards , except for one : Gwendoline Christie ’s Captain Phasma .
Despite her awesome chrome stormtrooper armour and intimidating demeanor , almost nothing is know about Phasma , partially because she has very little screen clock time to establish any kind of backstory . That all deepen withPhasmaby Delilah Dawson , a new novel in theJourney to The Last Jediseries of tie - in stories that tells most of the First Republic Captain ’s liveliness story lead up to within a few year ofThe Force Awakens .
WhilePhasmais pretty thorough , it ’s important to point out that the story is being told by a questionable narrator - a captured Resistance undercover agent name Vi Moradi who got all of her information from an old ally of Phasma ’s , Siv . Per Vi ’s internal monologue , the account is alone precise , away from some slight ornamentation , but all her information is second hired hand from Siv . So , while this moment of Star Wars canon is fairly well document , there ’s always a ripe fortune that things did n’t play out exactly as described . Even so , it was plausibly pretty close .
Early Life
The planet Parnassos was once lush and green , teeming with all mode of wild species and right for land - until the arrival of Con Star Mining . Arriving as many as several hundred years before the event of the Star Warsmovies , Con Star ’s Parnassos endeavors were intended to better the life of their employees and those that lived on the major planet , but some combining of shoddy work and slack regulation ensue in a nuclear blowup at one of their cities , put down all life within the blow r and leave a atomic radioactive dust that would slowly expand across more of the planet , poisoning the air and killing animal and plant life-time .
Con Star abandoned Parnassos as all the resource were useless . Some of their employees ended their own lives , allow behind team of droids to senselessly remain running any functional station . Other inhabitants , whether native , Con Star employees , or some combination of the two populate on , form tribes and subsist in archaic isolation until the retention and understanding of innovative technology was little more than caption and the day-to-day struggle for survival occupy most of their wake up life . This is the Parnassos into which Phasma was born .
Phasma ’s parents and her pal Keldo lived with a small tribe in a cave they called the Nautilus . When she was a untested girl , the already scarce sources of food easy dried up , wounds - even pocket-size ones - would maturate and lead to life history - threatening infection , and the great unwashed ’s haircloth start to return out . Since the Nautilus was one of the few secure havens in the area , other tribes , the Claw and the Scyre , wanted it for themselves . Phasma ’s kin group would routinely have to fight off flack from both the Claw and the Scyre , sustain control condition of the Nautilus , but slowly minify their already lowly turn .
Phasma urged her family to unify with the Scyre to form a larger group that could keep to fight off the Claw , but they reject . finally , behind their back , Phasma made a secret agreement with the Scyre . One Nox , she attack her brother Keldo , stabbing him in the pegleg and force him into the Nautilus , and when he woke up , he and Phasma were the only survivors , and the Scyre had taken over . His leg had to be amputate to avoid transmission , but the Scyre had a peculiar oracle unction - harvested from the body of their go down in a sort of pseudo - religious ceremonial using devices anticipate " detraxors " - that could be applied to fresh combat injury to countenance it to heal properly . Keldo and Phasma only involve to pledge their loyalty to the Scyre , which they did .
As a member of the Scyre , Phasma grew into a mighty warrior , both in sizing - she was one of the marvellous mass in the Scyre - and skill , regularly leading her own elite warriors in combat against the Claw or on scavenging missions . Keldo , too , became a significant part of the Scyre . While he was omit his leg and not as useful for combat or manual labor , he was one of the few - if not the only - member of the Scyre that could read , and finally found himself sharing Scyre leadership with Phasma .
Introduction to The First Order
Crashed ship were not uncommon on Parnassos . Some had been abandoned long ago , but other new ones could also be found thanks to some old DoD installments in orbit , still protect Star Con ’s former interest on the planet , despite the fact that the potbelly has n’t been alive there for potentially century of years . One Clarence Day , Phasma witness a glittering ship falling from compass and leave out an escape pod somewhere beyond Claw territory .
Against Keldo ’s order , Phasma races to the location of the collapse with some of her soldiers in Leslie Townes Hope of salvaging something utile , only to encounter Brendol Hux , the man in charge of the First Order ’s stormtrooper recruitment and education programs . The Claw arrive first , and Brendol declares that he is seek the fine warriors in the beetleweed and will inscribe anyone uncoerced to help him get to his ship , which just so happened to be one of Emperor Palpatine ’s personal chrome Nabooian yachts .
Phasma pretends to make a truce with Balder so they can both aid Brendol , but stabs the Claw leader rather , then her and her soldiers agitate off the remaining Claw , telling Brendol he could n’t trust them anyway , and she and her Scyre soldier gear up off to help them across the desert to find his ship .
When they in conclusion get to the ship , it ’s in no term to pilot , but they ’re able to hail the First Order to send a shuttle for cartridge . Keldo and the rest of the Scyre intercept them and attack , angry at their betrayal , but Phama , her soldier , and the First Order pass over out the Scyre , and Phasma even kills her brother herself . Only one of Phasma ’s original Scyre fellowship , Siv , is still awake at this point . Turning on Siv , Phasma abandons her on Parnassos , provide to bulge out her lifespan with the First Order , shredding the last vestige Parnassos to lead off a new life where nobody but Brendol and a unseasoned Scyre girl , Frey , who they will raise as a stormtrooper , knows who she is .
Phasma - First Order Captain
Already a spry assimilator , Phasma has mastered many of the BASIC of stormtrooper training - merely by observation - prior to leaving Parnassos behind with Brendol Hux to connect the first order of magnitude . Once officially joining the ranks , her ascension is even faster . Due to a lifespan that call for her to be on constant guard , Phasma only sleep four hours a night , so she spends the relaxation of her night clock time hours learning about thing she could n’t on Parnassos , like galactic chronicle , military tactics , and technology , including a trivial " fade " ( hacking ) .
She gain the title of Captain in less than a year and Brendol Hux allow her half of his stormtrooper preparation plan , a theatrical role she now shares with Captain Cardinal , a stormtrooper who get into ruby-red red stormtrooper armor and designs and transmit the education regiment for the young children being raised to be stormtroopers . Phasma ’s responsibility is for the older troopers , check them in the actual elbow room of war and leading them on mission .
After reaching the social station of Captain , Phasma returns to Parnassos and call up the atomic number 24 plating from the ship Brendol Hux crash in . take it to a former Con Star quickness , she has it copy a full Seth of stormtrooper armour , including a rejected paradigm helmet , giving her iconic chrome armor . While on Parnassos , she also retrieves a native beetle who ’s bite is extremely lethal , but largely unknown of exterior of Parnassos .
Scheming with Brendols ’s boy , Armitage Hux , Phasma has the mallet bite Brendol , countenance her and Armitage to fill his shoes . Since Frey had also mysteriously break in a training accident , Phasma believes she has removed the last living person who knows anything about her life before the First Order . Cardinal would finally unveil part of this plot of land and attack Phasma , but she shoot down him as well , taking full dominance of the First Order ’s scout group breeding program .
With anew comic particularisation more of Phasma ’s storyafterThe Force Awakens(including how she escaped from the codswallop compactor ) , and a more action grueling persona inThe Last Jedi , Phasma is go to continue to be a major presence inEpisode VIIIat least - we ’ll see if she hold up untilEpisode IX . Using the First gild but as a means to promote own top executive , without any regard to any of her friend , she could have an interesting role you play yet .
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