Sabine Wren

"Sabine is the weapons expert of the team. [&hellip;] She's an artist, and that's someone you don't meet every day on Lothal. She's really talented, too. It's like the Empire wants to paint over everything with its boring shades of gray, black, and white. Sabine puts the color back. I think TIE fighters look a lot better after one of her paint bombs has gone off."

- Ezra Bridger

Sabine Wren was a Mandalorian Human female weapons expert who was active during the reign of Galactic Emperor Sheev Palpatine around five years before the Battle of Yavin. She was also a graffiti artist who customized her armor and tagged a new symbol every time the crew of the Ghost struck Imperial targets.

Biography
At the age of 16, Sabine had joined the Lothal rebels after her family became negatively affected by the Empire. While on the planet Lothal, Sabine was part of a mission conducted by Hera Syndulla in the Ghost. Her job was to create a diversion, which she did by sneaking into a TIE fighter landing platform and painting graffiti of a violet phoenix onto a TIE wing, her personal brand and the symbol of the rebel group. She was noticed and hunted down by Stormtrooper TK-626, his captain, and four others. She eventually detonated a paint bomb, creating a colorful explosion that left the Stormtroopers stunned and splattered in blue paint, but alive, and strode off into the city, amid grateful locals.

Incident in Capital City
Sabine was involved in a hijack of Imperial crates along with Kanan and Zeb. For this, they went to the main square of Capital City, near which at that time some stormtroopers to had gathered the head of the Imperial Academy, Cumberlayne Aresko, guarding three arms and three filled with food boxes which should be brought to the Imperial portal. On a show of hands of Kanan towards Sabine left their cover and threw a hand grenade on one of the speeders as she walked by, causing the Imperials to flee with their load, but they shocked against Kanan with a landspeeder and then he and Zeb took control of two of the vehicles. The third, which was loaded with two boxes full of weapons, was stolen by Ezra Bridger, after which they recorded with the other two speeder pursuit. When Sabine saw him approaching on a speeder and jumped on, commenting his "gutsy moves". After detaching one of the crates, she warned him Zeb would finish him and disappeared down an alley with the crate. She rejoined with the crew aboard the Ghost and made a run for it to space. Sabine manned the forward cannons so Hera could have an opening for the jump to lightspeed. Ezra took a liking towards Sabine the moment she revealed her beauty and tried to charm her but never returned the affection. After returning to Lothal, Sabine along with Zeb and Ezra delivered three of their stolen crates full of food to Tarkintown to feed the local farmers who lost their farmlands to the Empire. The Rebels later had a new mission to rescue Wookiee prisoners, and Sabine was given the task to sabotage the Imperial Transport ship with Chopper's help. When they realised it was a set up, Sabine and Chopper disabled the ship's artificial gravity for two minutes, allowing everyone time to escape, and after departing from the ship, she detonated her planted explosives aboard the transport.

When the Rebels realised Zeb left Ezra behind, Hera insisted they rescue him. Zeb refused and so did Sabine, as she knew the Imperials would be waiting for them. However, when Kanan made the deciding vote to rescue the young con artist, Sabine, Kanan and Zeb found Ezra and escaped aboard the Ghost again, leaving behind another explosive work of art.

After being told what Ezra had learnt from the Imperials, Sabine and the Rebels journeyed to Kessel to Rescue the Wookiee prisoners. It was at this point that they were outgunned, and so Kanan revealed himself as a survivor of Order 66. The rescue mission was successful, and after sending the Wookiees on their way, Sabine and her fellow Rebels returned Ezra to Lothal until he later decided to join them and become Kanan's Padawan.

Theft of the T-7 Ion Disruptors
As the crew of the Ghost almost ran out of supplies and money, they decided to accept another order from Vizago to steal a weapons shipment from the spaceport on Garel. To prevent being recognized by Imperials, they went to a spaceport on Lothal, where they boarded civilian commuter shuttle Star ST-45. While Kanan, Ezra and Chopper sat in the left side of the passenger area, Sabine sat with Zeb behind the seats of Lothal prime minister Maketh Tua and the Aqualish arms dealer Amda Wabo on the right side of the ship. After they had entered into hyperspace, Chopper and Ezra staged an argument. Kanan mentioned the rule against droids in the passenger area to the pilot droid, who ordered Chopper, as well as Tua’s droids, R2-D2 and C-3PO, to go to the back of the craft. As Tua and Wabo were no longer able to communicate, Sabine offered her help, posing as a level 5 student at the Imperial Academy. Unbeknownst to the two Imperials, the argument was done on purpose so that Sabine was the only option on the ship to serve as a translator. She asked Wabo what bay the weapons shipment was being held in. He told her the weapons were in bay 7, and so she deliberately mistranslated this as "bay 17," prompting Tua to go there for the weapons. This gave Ezra the time he needed to get to bay 7 and meet up with the others. While Hera landed the ghost in a nearby docking bay, Zeb realized that the weapons were T-7 Ion Disruptors, which the Senate had banned due to the weapons being able to instantly kill a living being. On Kanan's instructions, the rebels stole the illegal weapons in an attempt to get them out of Imperial hands. After being caught by a squad of stormtroopers, the rebels fled the planet, unknowingly bringing the two droids with them.

Destroying the disruptors
On their way to Lothal, Sabine informed the others that she had learned while translating for Tua and Wabo that the disruptors were only prototypes to be mass-produced on Lothal. When they arrived on Lothal, R2-D2 explained them that his real mission was to prevent the weapons from getting into Imperial hands. When the crew landed, C-3PO, mistaking the rebels as criminals, made an emergency call to Kallus' Star Destroyer, revealing the rebels' whereabouts. Therefore, their negotiations with Vizago were soon disturbed by the arrival of an Imperial transport ship with two All-Terrain Defense Pods. Vizago fled with half the shipment without paying. Although Sabine suggested also to take flight, Kanan wanted the weapons to not end up in imperial hands and ordered the Mandalorian to destroy them. She wanted to get her explosives, but R2-D2 convinced Sabine to overload the disruptors to disable the stormtroopers instead. Meanwhile, Zeb engaged in a one-on-one duel with Kallus. During the battle, R2-D2 and Sabine overloaded the weapons and shoved them into the squad of stormtroopers, killing all of the troops. The resulting explosion knocked Zeb off balance, causing him to be stabbed by Kallus. Before he could kill Zeb, Ezra inadverdently Force pushed Kallus, saving the Lasat's life. They hurried back to the Ghost, where Chopper launched the ship and they were able to escape Kallus. The rebels then brought the two droids and the disruptors back to their owner, Bail Organa, who paid the rebels the credits they desperately needed.

Personality and traits
"That was some diversion, Sabine. Did the job so well, can see the explosion from here." "Forget the explosion. Look at the color."

- Hera Syndulla and Sabine Wren

Sabine was an artist, and appreciated color. After Hera Syndulla commended Sabine's blowing up of a TIE landing platform, Sabine dismissed her praise of the explosion with an awestruck recognition of the color. Sabine also developed sympathy towards Ezra Bridger, while also ignoring his attempts to woo her.

Behind the scenes
Sabine Wren is a character in the animated television series Star Wars Rebels. Her name was revealed via tie-in material. She is voiced by actress Tiya Sircar. Her surname was first revealed in the 148th issue of the Star Wars Insider magazine.

Appearances

 * Star Wars Rebels: Ghost Raid
 * Rise of the Rebels
 * Sabine's Art Attack
 * Zeb to the Rescue
 * Ezra and the Pilot
 * Star Wars Rebels: Spark of Rebellion
 * Rebel Strike
 * A New Hero
 * A New Hero
 * A New Hero
 * A New Hero