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ENFY NEST AND THE CLOUD-RIDERS

01 have to go through Nest’s true
her electroripper staff
motivations
first. The weapon was

strong enough
to destroy metal, and her
and more than a struggle
match for the most
deadly opponent. against
impossible
Beyond the
Last Edge: odds were
Nest’s Hidden
History things Han
Before the events
of Solo, Nest built would long
a reputation as a remember.
fearsome raider
who only attacked
powerful, guilty targets. One of her earliest
02
missions was a raid against an Imperial cache,
where she stole medical-grade spice, destined for
use in emergency kits and doctors’ packs. The
cache also included raw spice that could have
been sold for a high price on the black market.
The Cloud-Riders didn’t touch this raw spice,
leaving an Imperial agent who investigated the
incident to wonder whether the attack was meant
to support a military group with ideological
stances against selling raw spice on the black
market, such as the nascent Rebellion.
Nest and her crew lived in the shadows for
03 years, sometimes getting other people to do their
dirty work. In Solo, Tobias Beckett recognized
Enfys because of a previous confrontation. Posing
as Beckett’s employer Dryden Vos, Nest once
tricked Beckett into stealing blank identichips
from an underworld slicer for her. Once he
completed the mission, Nest took him prisoner
and demanded the identichips. This time, Nest
failed, and Beckett destroyed the contraband in
his successful escape.
While the story never told us what Nest
wanted to do with those blank chips, it’s possible
they were connected to her work for the Rebellion.
Forging Imperial identities would help rebels get
into secure facilities or learn secret information.
01 Nest wields printed across her helmet. Reading “Until we The most obvious connection between the
her deadly reach the last edge, the last opening, the last Cloud-Riders and the early Rebellion came when
electroripper staff
during the Vandor star, and can go no higher,” it illustrated her Nest met Saw Gerrera. As revealed in the Solo
conveyex heist. determination. It’s unknown whether these were novelization, Nest’s plan all along was to sell the
verses precious to her mother, or were chosen by coaxium to the rebel extremist. Gerrera’s violent
02 The Cloud-Riders
and Tobias Enfys for their meaning or their context. Ether methods didn’t line up with the wider Rebellion,
Beckett’s gang vie way, they were part of a fearsome ensemble. but he shared Nest’s goal to bring down the greedy
for posession of the
stolen coaxium. Behind the poetry her armor extended out into and cruel organizations of the galaxy.
rigid spikes. These, like the extendable fins on her Years later, Jyn Erso would be the leader of the

03 The threatening gauntlets, were made of beskar: an alloy forged team that brought the Death Star plans to the
masked visage
of Enfys Nest. by the Mandalorian people that was capable of Rebel Alliance. Erso was Saw’s ward when she and
withstanding a glancing blow from a lightsaber. Nest first met, thrown into war at an even earlier

But anything trying to get to Enfys’ armor would age than the Cloud-Rider. For her part, Enfys saw

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