Rey

Born in 15 ABY, Rey spent much of her time in solitude eking out a life as a scavenger and mechanic in the Jakku desert. Abandoned by her parents at an early age, she learned to survive without a family by scavenging various materials from the battlefield of the last conflict in the Galactic Civil War, all the while honing her skills as a warrior and pilot.

In her youth, Rey made her 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 she 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 she, 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.

However in 30 ABY an Imperium Class Star Destroyer arrived in orbit above the planet. 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 690 light freighter.

However as she climbed inside, deciding the scavenge the vessel for food and supplies, a tractorbeam tore it from the ground. Rey found herself thrown far back towards the twin storage rooms of the vessel after coming in contact with many of the maze of sloped walls and offline terminals.

Trapped in the back of the Freighter, she was able to open one of the escape pods, but quickly noticed it wasn't worthy of flight. It was likely it'd combust as soon as it hit the ground due to lack of essential parts. Sealing the door, she soon found herself crashing to the floor of the freighter as it leveled out on the main deck of an Imperium Star Destroyer's hangar.