Kylo Ren
Kylo Ren is a male film character that features in Star Wars.
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Biography
Ben Solo was the Force-sensitive son of Leia Organa and Han Solo with him being born to them following the Battle of Endor.
Due to this Force potential, he was taken in by his uncle Luke Skywalker to be trained in the ways of the Jedi. Skywalker had gathered a dozen such individuals that could use the Force and sought to re-establish the Jedi Order.
At some point, a young Ben came to encounter Snoke who gradually seduced the boy to the Dark Side of the Force.
This led to him joining the ranks of the First Order that consisted of the united remnants of the old Galactic Empire. He came to lead the group of warriors known as the Knights of Ren with him taking the name of Kylo Ren.
Afterwards, he was part of the efforts by the First Order to find Luke Skywalker. For this, they looked to retrieve a map containing the Jedi Master's coordinates with this being in the care of an old priest named Lor San Tekka who was on the planet Jakku. A Resistance pilot named Poe Dameron was similarly trying to get the map on behalf of General Princess Leia Organa but was unable to escape before the First Order arrived at the scene. Heading the troop detail, Kylo Ren had the Stormtroopers massacre the civilians and take Dameron hostage but was not aware that the Resistance fighter had given the map to his astromech droid BB-8 for safekeeping. The droid managed to flee the scene with the First Order making efforts to find it. At the same time, a rogue Stormtrooper designated FN-2187 came to free Poe Dameron where the two of them came to crash back onto Jakku. An active effort was made to recover the droids whilst Kylo Ren was warned by Snoke that there had been an awakening in the Force. This centred a young scavenger from Jakku named Rey who Kylo Ren came to take back to Starkiller Base. By this point, s the First Order launched its attack against the New Republic by destroying its capital of Hosnian Prime using the superweapon that was Starkiller Base. The Resistance though came to launch an attack on the giant planetoid space station where Kylo Ren faced a test to his commitment to the Dark Side by being confronted by his father. Han Solo looked to return his son back to the light but instead Ben killed his father where he continue his pursuit of Rey. She though demonstrated her talent in the Force and fought him off whilst Starkiller Base faced catastrophic destruction separating the pair. Thwarted, Kylo Ren returned to the First Order where he swore his loyalty only to Snoke as he continued his path down the Dark Side.
In the aftermath, the First Order began its invasion of the galaxy despite the loss of Starkiller Base. This saw their fleet headed by the Star Dreadnought Supremacy arriving at the planet D'Qar where the Resistance was evacuating their forces. Kylo Ren came to be summoned before Supreme Leader Snoke who became disappointed in his apprentice as he also sensed the emotional turmoil within him following his murder of his father. This combined with his recent defeat at the hands of Rey meant that Snoke had lost faith in him. He came to be struck by Force lightning when he seemed ready to turn against the Supreme Leader where after this humiliation he readied himself to hunt down and destroy the Resistance.
With the First Order ruling the galaxy, Supreme Leader Ren's reign seemed unchallenged but during this time a mysterious transmission was broadcast into the galaxy that was seemingly from the deceased Emperor Palpatine. This served as a threat to Kylo Ren who sought to hunt down this phantom and eliminate them. Ultimately, he tracking a clue to the world of Mustafar where he massacred cultists that resided on there before finding a tomb that contained a Sith Wayfinder. He plugged into the navigation feed from the relic that took him into the Unknown Regions to the hidden world of Exegol. Deep within that world, he sought to murder the person that would challenge his rule of the galaxy. It was then that he discovered that Palpatine was indeed alive on the planet and had amassed a mighty armada in secret with this being known as the Final Order. He offered this army to Kylo Ren and to even make the young man the new emperor of the galaxy where Palpatine tasked the Supreme Leader with hunting down Rey.
Overview
Personality and attributes
In appearance, Ben Solo was a male human who was very tall where he had a slender and muscular form that had pale skin. He had dark curly long black hair and brown eyes. After falling to the Dark Side, he came to take a new identity where he went by Kylo Ren.
Supreme Leader Snoke came to see much potential in Ben Solo with his raw untapped power and bloodline that meant he could become a new Darth Vader.
Though turning to the Dark Side, he was noted to still experience a pull towards the Light. This saw him often consulting the ruined mask of his grandfather Darth Vader for guidance. Kylo Ren often asked to be shown the power of the Dark Side so that he could commit himself back to that path and to finish what his grandfather had started in his life.
The betrayal and pain he had experience led to him being driven to destroy his past. He believed that the past needed to die as that was the only way one could become what they were meant to be in life. It was this that led to him murdering his own father though he came to be haunted by the deed.
Upon becoming Ben Solo again, his personality experienced a drastic change where he became more relaxed and showed his emotions more openly.
His father's golden dice was a favourite toy of Ben when he was a child.
Ben Solo was the son of noted smuggler and Rebel hero Han Solo whilst his mother was Leia Organa-Solo who had been the Princess of Alderaan. He had an uncle in Luke Skywalker who became the last Jedi Master that was set to rebuild the Jedi Order. Ben was also the grandson of Darth Vader through his mothers side.
Powers and abilities
Though a human, he was a Force-sensitive allowing him to manipulate that energy field to achieve various feats. Part of his power was said to stem from his powerful bloodline which made him something truly special. He was said to have had a amazingly strong connection to the Force and was gifted with raw strength where he was described as a prodigy while training under his uncle. Initially, Ben Solo underwent training to be a Jedi until he came to abandon the nascent order. As Kylo Ren, he was neither Jedi nor Sith but rather a product of both sides’ teachings. Despite his strength, he was untrained where he had raw and untamed power.
Using the Dark Side, he could use telekinesis that he often wielded to hold his foes in place or even choke them to death. A unique aspect of Force manipulation he was capable of accomplishing was freezing time in certain locations. When a blaster was fired at him, Kylo managed to freeze the bolt in mid air leaving suspended in its tracks. After he departed the area, the bolt resumed its course and struck rocks instead of him.
Ben came to have a mysterious connection with Rey and shared a Force link with one another. This stemmed from them being a Force dyad which was a unique and very rare kind of bond in which the Force-users remained connected regardless of distance through the Force.
He had crafted his own unique lightsaber that generated a red blade with smaller energy protrusions emerging from the hilt. The crossguard lightsaber was an ancient design that had been used millennia ago during the Great Scourge of Malachor. These blades generated were also known as quillons and emerged from focusing crystal activators that split the ligtsaber plasma stream into three channels with the sabres appearing after the main blade was ignited. The crossguard blades allowed Ren to operate the saber safely even though his weapon was constructed around a dangerously flawed kyber crystal that could be overloaded if not for the lateral plasma vents that created the quillons. Kylo Ren was shown to be skilled in its use as he was able to battle the ranks of the Praetorian Guard.
A skilled pilot, he was shown to be capable of expertly flying a number of craft. Initially, he came to fly a TIE vendetta space superiority fighter that he wielded excellently in battle. He was later shown to had flown a TIE whisper that was part of the First Order TIE line interceptor.
In addition, he was the Master of the Knights of Ren that consisted of skilled warriors. Initially, he came to serve as a high ranking commander and personal enforcer in the First Order. After killing Snoke, he took over as the Supreme Leader of the First Order.
Notes
- Kylo Ren was created by Lawrence Kasdan, J. J. Abrams and Michael Arndt with him being portrayed by actor Adam Driver.
- In an interview on Empire, Abrams said, "Kylo Ren is not a Sith. He works under Supreme Leader Snoke, who is a powerful figure on the Dark Side of the Force."
In other media
Video games
- In Star Wars: Battlefront 2, Kylo Ren appeared in the setting of the 2017 video game where he was voiced by actor Matthew Russell Wood.
Appearances
- Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens: (2015)
- Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi: (2017)
- Star Wars: Episode IX - The Rise of Skywalker: (2019)
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