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Amilyn Holdo's Timeline
Key Events in Amilyn Holdo's Star Wars Story
Amilyn Holdo died in 34 ABY.
Amilyn Holdo is remembered for the Holdo maneuver, the lightspeed ramming attack that tore through the First Order fleet above Crait and let the last of the Resistance escape. She started out as a flamboyant, astrology-loving teenage delegate to the Imperial Apprentice Legislature. There she spoke out against Imperial policy and became Leia Organa's closest friend. She helped Leia warn Bail Organa of the Imperial strike on the rebel fleet at Paucris, and she was with Leia when Kier Domadi died. Once the Galactic Civil War broke out in earnest, Holdo joined the Rebel Alliance as a civil minister. She proved herself a commander when she took over the stricken blockade runner Candor and broke it free of a Star Destroyer's tractor beam, which earned her a captain's commission. After that she secured fuel and supplies through underworld contacts, including Crimson Dawn. Decades later Leia recruited her into the Resistance as a vice admiral. She commanded the cruiser Ninka on covert missions and bomber campaigns during the cold war with the First Order. After the Resistance leadership was wiped out in 34 ABY, she took command of the fleet as it fled. Her secretive escape plan clashed with Poe Dameron, and when it was betrayed she stayed aboard the Raddus and jumped it into the Supremacy. She gave her life to save the Resistance.
~19 BBY - Birth on Gatalenta
Born on Gatalenta around the start of the Empire's reign. As a child she took to spelunking, tobogganing, skyfaring, astrology and philosophy, and she pushed back against her homeworld's traditions of quiet simplicity.
3 BBY - Pathfinding on Alderaan
Takes part in Queen Breha Organa's pathfinding class in the Istabith range. She turns her emergency tent into a toboggan so her group can bring an injured Harp Allor back before nightfall, and meets Leia Organa and Kier Domadi.
3 BBY - Apprentice Legislator
Represents Gatalenta in the Apprentice Legislature on Coruscant. She is horrified when the Arreyel vote leads to its people being displaced, and she argues against sanctions on Lolet, which wins her Leia's trust.
3 BBY - Stowaways to Ocahont
On Pamarthe, she and Leia overhear Senator Winmey Lenz's secret quadanium deal and stow away on a freighter to Ocahont. Leia tells her about the rebellion, and they meet Mon Mothma at a rebel outpost.
3 BBY - Warning at Paucris
Gives up her chartered ship so she and Leia can warn Bail Organa about an Imperial attack on the rebel fleet at Paucris. She watches Kier Domadi die, flies her grieving friend home to Alderaan, and bluffs past Imperial patrols with her astrology knowledge.
~3 BBY - Leia's Investiture and the Lost Museum
Attends Leia's investiture as crown princess and begins working for the rebellion in secret. Later, she and Leia go deep into Coruscant's underworld to find a lost museum on Level 4.
1 BBY - Rebel Minister
Leaves Imperial politics when open war breaks out and becomes a minister in the Alliance Civil Government, known for her anti-Imperial speeches.
~1 BBY–3 ABY - Commanding the Candor
After a Star Destroyer attack kills the Candor's captain, she takes command and fires through the enemy hangar to break free of its tractor beam. The feat earns her a captain's commission in the Alliance Fleet.
3 ABY - Crimson Dawn Intelligence
While working the underworld for supplies, she learns that Crimson Dawn has returned and is auctioning Han Solo on Jekara. She sends Leia the information through a dead drop, then coordinates supply lines with Qi'ra during the Syndicate War.
~3–4 ABY - Auction on Spira
Brings Leia, Luke, Chewbacca and Lando to Spira to bid on a Nihil strikeship whose Path engine could lead to the lost Kezarat convoy's fuel. After losing the bid, the group steals the engine and flees in her ship Skyfarer, which is pulled into No-Space.
5 ABY - Galactic Concordance
The Alliance wins the Galactic Civil War, and the New Republic is founded.
~28 ABY - Joining the Resistance
Leia recruits her into the Resistance. She becomes a vice admiral of the fleet and takes command of the cruiser Ninka.
Before 31 ABY - Brooksdion Station
Leads a covert team that steals Admiral Mathieson's protocol droid head as evidence of New Republic inaction. She guides her pursuer, Poe Dameron, through the Lost Souls asteroid field without revealing who she is.
34 ABY - Battle of Sheh Soahi
Leads Cobalt and Crimson bomber squadrons against pirates acting as a First Order proxy in the Cassander sector, confirming that the First Order was arming them.
34 ABY - Atterra Campaign
Helps plan the covert relief bombing runs to Atterra Bravo with Leia and Casca Panzoro, and recruits Rose Tico to teach the Ninka's crew her baffler technology.
34 ABY - Evacuation of D'Qar
After the Hosnian Cataclysm, she brings the Ninka and the bomber force to cover the evacuation of D'Qar and escapes with the fleet after the Fulminatrix is destroyed.
34 ABY - Acting Commander of the Resistance
With Leia badly injured and Admiral Ackbar killed, she takes command of the fleet as it is tracked through hyperspace and runs low on fuel. She clashes with Poe Dameron over her secret plan to evacuate to Crait on cloaked transports.
34 ABY - The Holdo Maneuver and Death
After Poe's mutiny fails and her plan is betrayed to the First Order, she stays alone on the Raddus. She jumps it to lightspeed into the Supremacy, splitting the flagship and wrecking much of the fleet. She dies in the collision, and the survivors escape to Crait.
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