A maintenance tech with a talent for tinkering, Rose Tico joined the Resistance with her sister Paige after the First Order devastated her home system. A chance encounter with Finn pushed her onto the front lines of the new galactic civil war – and her sister’s death caused her to redouble her efforts for the Resistance cause.
Rose Tico grew up in the Otomok system, fleeing with her older sisterPaige after theFirst Order mined her homeworld for ore and used its cities to test weapons. The Tico sisters joined theResistance, with Paige serving as abomber gunner and Rose accompanying her as a flight engineer. After Paige’s death, Rose was relegated to maintenance work aboard the Raddus – where a chance encounter withFinn would change her destiny.
Finn recruited Rose to join him on a dangerous mission to infiltrate theFirst Order’s flagship and shut down its hyperspace tracker. But to penetrate the warship’s security, they had to find theMaster Codebreaker inCanto Bight, a gambling resort catering to jaded arms dealers. When that mission went awry, Rose and Finn found themselves fleeing thepolice onfathiers.
Rose andFinn escaped execution aboard theFirst Order flagship, fleeing to join theResistance onCrait. They flewski speeders in a last-ditch defense, with Rose risking her life to stop Finn from making a suicidal attack on abattering-ram cannon. Badly injured, she managed to express her love for Finn before losing consciousness. Finn carried her to safety, then tended to her aboard theMillennium Falcon.
Rose recovered and helpedLeia Organaasthe Resistance rebuilt. WhenEmperor Palpatine returned to menace the galaxy once again, she studied the ships of his Sith armada and helped formulate a daring plan to destroy his fleet.
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