Kate Aronoff

Before touching downΒ on the planet of Canto Bight, Rose looks down forebodingly to tell us that it’s full of the β€œworst people in the galaxy”. Cut to champagne glasses clinking and a casino full of galactic 1-percenters.

β€œOnly one business in the galaxy can get you this rich,” RoseΒ β€” a new character in Star Wars:Β The Last Jedi, a mechanic on the Rebel flagship β€”Β explains to returning hero Finn as they look around the beachfront resort planet, β€œselling weapons to the First Order.” She goes on to tell her family’s history: forced to work on a First Order mining colony before it was bled out and blitzed for weapons testing.