Jacen and Syndulla and Poe Dameron grew up together. Their parents were Rebel leaders, and all they ever wanted to do was be just like them. As it turned out, they both grew up to be exactly the reckless flyboys they’d hoped.

 Jacen taught Poe about the force and the Jedi, telling him amazing stories about his father and his adventures, and Poe had an absurd amount of smuggler stories to share with Jacen. They were both born to fly. “I’m gonna be the best pilot in the galaxy one day,” Jacen would say. “Better than Han Solo?”, Poe would tease. “Better than my mom”, Jacen would reply with conviction. Then Poe would smile, “We’ll be better than all of them.”

They decided that they would start fighting for the rebellion together as soon as they could and that Poe could join the crew of the Ghost as Spectre 8. Luckily or unluckily for them, the war ended before they were even old enough to fly. They joined the New Republic Fighter Academy instead, and became part of the Navy but then Poe went on a different path for a while…

When Poe joined The Resistance, Jacen was the first person he called. He told Jacen to join them as well and he obliged. They fought together on the ghost and i their X-wings. Sabine, Ezra and Chopper were still part of the crew and they sort of adopted Poe. But as time went by Poe was needed on more and more for spy and stealth missions, which he went on alone, and Jacen and the Ghost crew spent more and more time in the outer rim protecting the planets with no military from the rising First Order. General Organa had wanted them to regroup with The Resistance fleet at their new base in the Illenium system but the Ghost crew refused to leave the outer rim undefended.

When they saw the strike from Starkiller base they were devastated, but still they did not regroup. When they received the distress call from Crait they were in the middle of a battle on Lothal, the one place they wouldn’t leave for anything. Poe thought that even if only one person heard that call and came to help it would be Jacen, and when he didn’t show it broke his heart. Poe knew that wherever Jacen was he was saving lives, but it still hurt.

Finally, at the battle of Exegol, they were reunited. When Poe saw the Falcon emerge from hyperspace with the Ghost right behind, he was so overjoyed he nearly got shot out of the sky. “Hey! Spectre 8!” Jacen said, “You miss me?”. Poe just laughed, “Let’s show these guys how real rebels fly.”

Photo Credits: Artwork by me.