Rey was a Force-sensitive human female who, after years of living as a scavenger along side her twin sister Kira, became a Jedi shortly after the war between the Galactic Empire and the Rebellion.
Unaware of her lineage as the daughter of Emperor Sheev Palpatine, Rey was the only name she went by prior to assuming the Naberrie surname when she discovered who her mother was. Rey ultimately chose the Jedi path, despite inheriting much of her strength in the Force from a Dark Lord of the Sith. She also has a unique force bond with her Twin sister Kira even. with their adversarial relationship Rey was born 7 BBY At a young age, the Sisters were left by their mother on Jakku a desert planet in the Western Reaches, for reasons unknown to them. She believed it was a mistake and that she would one day return to bring her and her sister home as she recalled a male voice calling her sweetheart and promising to return for her. She later learned that she was the daughter of Emperor Sheev Palpatine and Padme Naberrie, and that her mother had left them on Jakku to protect them from her father. Later, her Mother were killed by father once he found Padme had escaped her prison with their children.
Early Life[]
Throughout her life on Jakku, she would sometimes see off-worlders in Niima Outpost, a chief trade outpost on the planet, who she thought might have arrived on Jakku accidentally, unaware of the harsh realities of the desert world. Rey wondered if she was left behind under similar circumstances, if her family had come to Jakku by accident and she was left behind as a result of their misfortune. Whatever the reasons were, she held out hope that her family would return for her one day, though she began to realize that they would never come back. She proved unwilling to admit this even to herself for a long time
Scavenger Life[]
In order to survive on Jakku, Rey became a scavenger in the employ of Unkar Plutt, Her Sister Kira while not skilled as a Scavenger did have a Knack for understanding and Manipulating people and used this skill as a Trader and Barterer at the Outpost for Plutt. Rey worked the junk fields of the Starship Graveyard which was littered with the remains of starships and other military technology from the Battle of Jakku. At first, she worked for other scavengers, bringing them the loot she found in crashed New Republic and Galactic Empire vessels that were downed during the battle. She heard local stories about what happened during the battle: that it was the last stand of the once-powerful Empire during the Galactic Civil War, that the Empire locked onto Republic ships during the fighting and dragged them down to the surface together, and more. The battle had left the ships trapped in the sand in varying conditions, and finding working parts became essential in order to earn food portions, the only thing that was up for trade in Niima Outpost. The trades were made by Plutt, who traded leftover Republic and Imperial rations in exchange for whatever Rey and other scavengers were able to recover. Rey learned that parts that could be repurposed were the most important; anything that could not be put into another ship was worthless to Plutt.
Some of the scavengers that Rey worked for were kind to her, such as Ivano Troade and Mashra. Others, whose names she refused to speak, were not kind, and even viewed her and her Sister as their property. As Rey's skills as a scavenger grew, she came to realize that while other scavengers needed her, she did not need them. She struck out on her own, utilizing the skills she had to scavenge and survive, but no one took her seriously at first. She was aided by Plutt himself, who told other scavengers to leave Rey and Kira alone and would send his thugs after those who did not. Rey did not want his help, and the help was not out of generosity. Rather, Rey was the best scavenger Plutt had and he wanted to continue utilizing her as a source of acquisitions. Rey gained a reputation in Niima Outpost for using her quarterstaff to defend herself, which also kept most people from bothering her—save for the occasional new scavenger who did not know about her, or were so desperate for supplies that they did not care
Life goes on[]
Two years after being abandoned there, Rey and Kira made their home in a downed Imperial All Terrain Armored Transport, Hellhound Two, left over from the Battle of Jakku. When she first found it, Rey did not believe that they could live there, as the Goazon Badlands where the AT-AT was located was a barren wasteland in which nothing seemed to grow. When she inspected the walker, though, she found a small green spinebarrel flower growing out of a few millimeters of sand that had poured into the walker. Rey realized that if such a tiny flower could survive there, so could they, and that life always found a way to survive on Jakku. Rey would go on to collect flowers like that, as a reminder that beauty could be found anywhere, even on Jakku.
Once they settled into the walker, Rey salvaged working parts of the AT-AT for trade. She would often bring her salvages to the walker before bringing them to Plutt, as Plutt deducted portions one could receive from a salvage if they used his washing and repair stations. The walker also contained scratches she made to mark the passage of time, to remind her how far she had come and to count down the days until her family returned for her. Outside of the walker was where she would keep the speeders she built for herself and Kira, which gave them a degree of independence as Rey could made her way back and forth from the Starship Graveyard and Kira could go into the Outpost to work.
By the time Rey was ten years old, she had acquired a Rebel Alliance flight helmet that once belonged to Captain Dosmit Ræh of the starfighter squadron Tierfon Yellow Aces, which she found while scavenging in the Starship Graveyard. She enjoyed making up stories about Ræh's adventures during the war, Kira found a flight uniform and Officers uniform in a cargo container. Kira would often wear the helmet and uniform and Kira would pretend to be an officer and they, pretend to help Ræh explore the AT-AT and the sands outside. Together, their pretend adventures saw them find lost Rebels and return them to their ships. When Rey and Kira was older, they no longer played pretend but kept the helmet, which she sometimes wore anyway, to remind her how far she had come on Jakku.
Inside the walker, Rey also had a computer display from an old BTL-A4 Y-wing assault starfighter/bomber that she used to learn alien languages, study the schematics of Republic and Imperial starships, and run flight simulations in order to hone her skills as a pilot. Her ability to understand alien languages, including the binary language of droids, helped her when off-worlders came to Niima Outpost. Two such off-worlders were Wookiees, who regaled her with the stories of the famed Wookiee smuggler-turned-Rebel fighter Chewbacca. She learned of Chewbacca's exploits, as well as those of his friend and fellow smuggler Han Solo. Studying schematics to learn how ships worked was also an important part of her survival on Jakku. She recognized almost all of the Republic and Imperial vessels that could be found in the Graveyard, including what roles they played in combat, the types of weapons they were armed with, their models and classes, and how many crew members each one had. She learned this not just through studying schematics on her computer, but also by climbing through and exploring the ships and tinkering with their systems. This let her know what each part was, what it could do, whether it worked, and, most importantly, whether it would carry any value in Niima Outpost.
Growing up on Jakku meant Rey not only learned how the ships that littered its wastelands worked, but also about the dangers that lurked on Jakku itself. Rey saw firsthand the hardship it could inflict. Rumors of an Imperial base on Carbon Ridge once compelled Plutt to mount an expedition there. Knowing her skills as a mechanic, Plutt brought Rey a flyer to fix. She did so by unclogging one of its turbojets and rebuilding the other out of scrap from the front of an airspeeder. Plutt and six of his thugs used it to try to find the rumored base, but he only returned with a collection of stormtrooper armor—and two of his men were killed. That led other scavengers to avoid Carbon Ridge. The creatures of Jakku were also dangerous. A fellow scavenger named Teng Malar once accidentally broke open a hatch on a ship beneath a colony of steelpeckers, ferocious avian creatures with razor-sharp beaks and strong talons. Within ten minutes, Teng was ripped to shreds and Rey watched helplessly as she was unable to do anything to stop the creatures. The Graveyard itself was also a reminder of the realities of war, with bodies and skeletons littering the sands. Rey once discovered a deceased TIE fighter pilot still in the cockpit of his TIE fighter ejector seat. Rey scavenged his helmet, sidearm, and comlink before giving the pilot a proper burial.
Rescuing of the Girls[]
At some point, Rey was salvaging a battle cruiser when a sandstorm forced her to retreat to the Hellhound Two, where she decided to wait out the storm by practicing on her flight simulator. The next day, after trading with Plutt for rations at the Concession Stand, she took her speeder out to the Starship Graveyard, where she decided to climb the Spike, the keel of an Imperial ship that had crashed into what would become the Crackle. From her perch, she spotted a ship that, upon closer inspection, she realized to be a reasonably intact Ghtroc 720 light freighter.
Deciding to look inside the ship for salvage, she discovered food, and more importantly, that the reactor core was still functioning. Realizing that the whole repaired ship was worth more to Plutt than its salvageable parts,She went home that night and told Kira what she discovered and the two of them decided to work on it so they could sell it.
Repairing the ship proved difficult, as it meant using parts they could have traded for food to repair the ship instead, making them go hungry more often than usual. their decision to not give some parts to Plutt eventually attracted the attention of the scavengers Devi and Strunk, who asked Rey about it. She refused to tell them anything, and they told her that they might not have been the only ones to notice Rey's unusual behavior.
Ten days later, the duo trailed Rey and discovered what she was working on, and offered to help her repair it in exchange for passage off of Jakku with her once it was finished. After Kira explained that they were going to sell the freighter to Plutt once it was complete, Devi and Strunk brokered a deal with them: they would help them repair the ship, and they would split whatever Plutt gave them.
While Kira was wary of the others at first, the Girls came to think of them as friends as they proved their trustworthiness by keeping watch over the ship at night, and helping to protect it from a group of Teedos. Together the three scavengers along side Kira restored the ship to working order, and Rey was able to pilot the craft over the desert with the skills she had learned from her flight simulator program. Once the ship was complete and just as the four of them were about to fly the ship to Plutt, Devi and Strunk pulled Blaster's out and planned on killing the two girls before they could follow up with their plans Luke Skywalker appeared, having been searching for the girls saved the two of them from them after explaining why he was there and telling the girls he would protect them and teach them the ways of the force the two girls along with Luke Took the Ship and left the Jakku to never return.