Sabine Wren

Sabine Wren was a Force-sensitive human female Mandalorian warrior and revolutionary leader during the Galactic Civil War against the Galactic Empire, and later a Jedi during the early years of the New Republic. Her artistry during the early rebellion inspired the symbol of the Alliance to Restore the Republic, and her claim over the ancient Mandalorian weapon known as the Darksaber made her a primary symbol to Clan Wren and the hopes of freeing her people's homeworld of Mandalore from the rule of the Empire.

Prior to becoming a rebel, Wren was a cadet at the Imperial Academy of Mandalore. She built weapons she believed would be used for peace but were instead used against her family and her people. Wracked with guilt, Wren left Mandalore and was branded a traitor by the Empire and her mother, Ursa Wren, leader of the clan. Wren worked as a bounty hunter alongside her friend Ketsu Onyo before being recruited by Captain Hera Syndulla and the Jedi Kanan Jarrus to join their rebel crew aboard the starship Ghost. Together, the crew fought against the Empire and used Wren's art as a symbol of hope. They became part of a larger rebel movement, with Wren's work continuing to inspire the fledgling rebellion.

In 2 BBY, while hunting down the former Sith Lord and deposed ruler of Mandalore Maul, Wren discovered the Darksaber on Dathomir. She initially wanted nothing to do with it, but Jarrus and Fenn Rau, a Mandalorian Protector of Concord Dawn who joined the rebellion, convinced her to wield it so she could unite the Mandalorian people and bring them into the rebellion. Wren returned to her family and convinced them of the Empire's treachery, helping to kill Gar Saxon, the Imperial Viceroy of Mandalore, in the process. After aiding her family in the Mandalorian Civil War, Sabine returned to aid the Rebel Alliance's struggle against the Empire. Wren and the Ghost Crew eventually returned to Lothal. During this time, Jarrus was killed, but she and the other members of the Lothal resistance group went onto fight to liberate the planet. While they succeeded, it was only after her friend Ezra Bridger disappeared into hyperspace with the Star Destroyer Chimaera.

At some point after the liberation of Lothal, Wren became the apprentice of former Jedi Ahsoka Tano despite not being any more Force-sensitive than the average person. Near the end of the Galactic Civil War however, the two had parted ways as Ahsoka feared that Sabine was training for the wrong reasons after the Empire destroyed Mandalore during the Night of a Thousand Tears, with her family among the casualties. Sabine took residence in the LothalNet comm tower E-272, Bridger's former hideout, where she lived for a number of years following the fall of the Empire. Tano returned to Wren around 9 ABY with a potential clue for the search for their missing friend Ezra, leading Sabine to come across Baylan Skoll and Shin Hati. After Sabine gave up a star map that the enemy was looking for, Skoll took her with his employer Morgan Elsbeth's forces to the other galaxy shown in the map, where she found Bridger on the unknown world of Peridea. Their reunion, however, came at the cost of allowing Elsbeth to find her master, the lost Grand Admiral Thrawn, and return him and his forces to their galaxy. Wren and Tano were left stranded on Peridea when Thrawn and his forces used the Eye of Sion to escape, with only Bridger making it on board the Chimaera, but the incident had given Wren a chance to unlock the Force inside of her. Wren's legacy left a lasting impact on the galaxy.

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