Kona

Kona
Descriptive information
Species	Human
Pronouns	She/her
Hair color	Black
Eye color	Brown
Skin color	Tan
Chronological & political information
Affiliation(s)	Silvo's pirates

"I failed you. I'm sorry, Kona. You should have a command of your own. And not just one ship. An entire fleet."
"I'll bite, Silvo. What's the trick?"
"No trick. No trick. Just a virgin gleam… of brand-new Old Republic credits."

―Silvo and Kona

Kona was a human pirate in the crew of Captain Silvo and took part in boarding a merchant freighter during the reign of the New Republic around 9 ABY. After the freighter's crew had been overwhelmed, Kona and the other pirates joined Silvo at a vault that was supposed to be full of credits, but when it turned out to only contain a single credit, she and the other pirates mutinied against the captain and took him prisoner, making First Mate Brutus the new captain.

Silvo escaped but was then recaptured and brought for judgement on board Brutus's frigate where Kona and others gathered to watch. Although Brutus initially sentenced him to death, Silvo delivered a speech defending himself and promising riches, telling Kona that she deserved an entire fleet to command. The former captain revealed that he knew the location of the treasure planet At Attin, and when he sang a song about the legendary pirate Tak Rennod, it was Kona who provided the final line. Silvo was then spared and the pirates traveled to At Attin.

After finding At Attin surrounded by an orbital defense field known as the Barrier, the pirates captured the Onyx Cinder, a vessel capable of passing through the Barrier crewed by four children acquainted with Silvo. During the boarding of the vessel, Silvo killed Brutus and took command of the pirates again, ordering Kona and the Gran Pax to capture the children. On board the Onyx Cinder, Kona and Pax stood guard over the children while they heard a message from the children's parents. When the children then claimed ownership of the Onyx Cinder, the droid SM-33 aided them by subduing Silvo, Kona, and Pax and dumping them onto the deck of the pirate frigate.

After Silvo forced the residents of At Attin to allow the frigate through the Barrier, Kona led a drop-team on a dropship onto the planet's surface to round up the citizens. She reported their success to Silvo, who warned her not to harm too many of the prisoners, as they would need them to work in the Old Republic Mint located on At Attin. However, after the children and their parents deactivated the Barrier, New Republic forces that they had called for aid arrived and attacked the pirates. Kona tried to retreat to the frigate on a dropship, but the frigate was shot down and the pirates defeated.

Biography

So, mutiny?

"I know these cycles have been lean. That some of you have all but given up on me, your good old captain. It's all forgotten now. Because at long last, I've brought you to the only thing that matters. Cold, hard credits."

―Silvo speaks to Kona and the other pirates

Kona (center) took part in a raid on a merchant freighter.

Kona was a human pirate who served in the crew of Captain Silvo, who also went by the name Jod Na Nawood. During the reign of the New Republic around 9 ABY, she took part in a boarding action against a merchant freighter, crossing over into the vessel via a drill-tipped boarding tube with the rest of the crew. The merchant crew were quickly overwhelmed, and as the Shistavanen First Mate Brutus boarded and picked off several stragglers, Kona and another pirate began rounding up surviving merchants at blaster-point as prisoners.

With the freighter captured, Silvo then arrived and joined a group including Kona at the merchant vessel's magnetically sealed vault. The captain then questioned the freighter's captain and demanded the vault be opened, but when the prisoner refused, Silvo ordered he be thrown out the airlock. While pirates used arc welders to cut through the vault's door, Silvo spoke to Kona and the others, acknowledging that the crew's last few cycles had been lean but promising the vault would contain the credits they sought. However, when the door opened, the vault was revealed to contain only a single credit. Having lost comrades in the attack all for nothing, Kona and the other pirates then drew their weapons and mutinied against Silvo. Brutus was then named the new captain.

Promises of fortune

Silvo: "Tak Rennod soared away, away aboard the Onyx Cinder and never was he seen again… What's the last line?"

Kona: "For At Attin, he did plunder."

Many pirates: "For At Attin, he did plunder."

―Silvo sings to Kona and the other pirates — ▶️ (file info)

Silvo promised Kona command of her own fleet.

Silvo was taken prisoner, but escaped from his former crew until he was re-captured on the planet Lanupa. The former captain was then brought to Brutus's frigate to be judged, and Kona was among those who gathered to watch as Brutus declared Silvo guilty and sentenced him to death. After the pirate Chaelt reminded Brutus that the Pirate's Code gave Silvo the Right of Last Appeal, the former captain began a speech to defend himself. He reminded those gathered of how hungry they all were for wealth given the scraps they existed on, promising that he could provide the means to generate their own wealth.

Approaching Kona, Silvo admitted that he had failed her and that she deserved not only her own ship, but an entire fleet to command. Nodding, she admitted she was interested but asked what the catch was. Turning back to the entire crew, he claimed that there was no trick and revealed an Old Republic credit, which Kona and the others leaned in to see. The pirate Vane—who had seen similar credits being carried by a group of children that Silvo had briefly allied with—announced that he had told the others that the credits he had seen were real, tapping Kona's chestplate as he did so. Silvo then revealed that he had learned the location of the legendary treasure planet At Attin, where such credits could still be made, but when he mentioned that he had heard the information from the pirate Tak Rennod, Brutus interrupted and pointed out that Rennod was dead.

Kona joined Silvo in singing a shanty about Tak Rennod.

Silvo ignored Brutus and began singing a chant about Rennod, asking the crew for the last line of the song before singing it. It was Kona that then provided the line, singing it along with Silvo and several other pirates. The pirates then cheered as their former captain promised the galaxy, but when his time to deliver his defense ran out, the pirate Gunter punched him in the gut and he and Kona took Silvo by the arms and marched him to Brutus. The former First Mate then declared that they would travel to At Attin, but that Silvo would still be executed if it proved a disappointment.

At At Attin

"Kona, Pax. Seize the vessel. You'll find four scared children on board. Hold them hostage."

―Silvo

Upon arriving at At Attin, the pirates found the world surrounded by an orbital defense field known as the Barrier that killed the pirate Glerb when he tried to pass through it in a starfighter. The children that Silvo had previously traveled with then arrived alongside the frigate in the Onyx Cinder, a starship previously flown by Rennod that Silvo knew could pass through the Barrier unharmed. The former captain had the pirate crew pull the Onyx Cinder into the pirate frigate's hangar and Kona joined a group of armed pirates who followed Silvo and Brutus to board the ship as it landed.

Kona initially leveled a weapon at Silvo for killing Brutus, but soon followed his orders.

Kona kept her weapon raised as Brutus ascended the ship's ramp first, demanding those inside surrender. A mechanical arm then descended from the ship and grabbed Brutus, leaving the Shistavanen helpless. Kona and the others remained at the foot of the ramp and lowered their weapons as Silvo approached Brutus, who the children on the ship were threatening to harm if the pirates did not let them leave. Taking the mutineer's weapon, Silvo then shot and killed the Shistavanen.

In response to the captain's death, Kona and some other pirates aimed their weapons at Silvo, while others simply stood shocked. However, when Silvo asked if anyone wanted to continue to follow the traitorous Brutus, Kona and the others lowered their weapons. Silvo then ordered Kona and the Gran pirate Pax to board the ship and capture the scared children they would find on board, ordering the other pirates to prepare the frigate to attack At Attin.

Bested by children (and a large droid)

"Always best to have a hostage. Chain 'em up."
"Aye, Captain Silvo."

―Silvo and Kona

Kona and Pax stood guard over the captured children from At Attin.

Kona and Pax successfully took control of the Onyx Cinder and sat the children around a table as hostages while the pair stood guard. In the nearby cockpit, Silvo had the droid SM-33 begin searching for what allowed the Onyx Cinder to pass through the Barrier before noticing an incoming transmission. Playing the message, a hologram of the childrens' parents was projected into the cockpit. Kona moved through to watch it, while Pax prevented the children from following.

When the message ended, the child Wim charged into the cockpit to attack Silvo, but Kona grabbed him, and Pax held the other children back with a knife. Silvo ordered Kona to chain Wim up as a hostage for when they landed and, as Kona hauled him away, Wim cried out that the Onyx Cinder belonged to the children, not Silvo. The captain dismissed this, but SM-33—whose loyalty lay with whoever was captain of the starship—pointed out that since Silvo was now captain of the pirate frigate, he could not also be captain of the Onyx Cinder according to the Pirate's Code. Wim tried to claim the vessel, but Silvo grabbed him from Kona and covered his mouth, claiming the vessel for himself again. The child Fern then rushed into the cockpit and called "unclaimsies" before claiming the ship, which Silvo disputed as not being how the system worked.

Kona and Pax were knocked out by SM-33.

However, calling it "close enough," SM-33 knocked out Silvo and charged Kona and Pax, deflecting their blaster fire with shielded wrists. The droid knocked out the two pirates and dumped their unconscious forms on the floor of the frigate's hangar alongside Silvo. Silvo then awoke quickly enough to re-board the Onyx Cinder before it took off from the hangar and passed through the Barrier around At Attin.

Invasion of At Attin

"These cowards are giving us no trouble, Captain. Few of them who were armed we made examples of."
"Hey, hey! Don't injure too many of them. I need them as workers."

―Kona and Silvo

On At Attin's surface, Silvo forced Fern's mother, Fara, to allow the pirate frigate through the Barrier and then contacted the pirate vessel via hologram, ordering Gunter to bring the ship to the planet's surface. Kona was among the crew members on the bridge who heard Silvo's announcement and cheered. Once in the world's atmosphere, the frigate begin firing on the city where the children lived. Kona led one of several pirate drop-teams that launched from the frigate in open-topped dropships and descended into the streets of the city. Upon landing on a suburban street, Kona ordered her team, which included Pax, to begin rounding up citizens, who they planned to have work for them in At Attin's Old Republic Mint. The pirates faced little resistance, making an example of the few armed residents who did fight back.

Kona and the pirates rounded up the residents of At Attin as prisoners.

Kona reported their success to Silvo via hologram, but the captain warned her not to injure too many of the prisoners or damage the mint. After the children and their parents managed to get a message to the New Republic and deactivate the Barrier, a squadron of New Republic starfighters arrived at At Attin and attacked the pirates. Seeing the fighters, Kona and her allies abandoned their prisoners and retreated aboard their dropships to try and reach the frigate; however, the New Republic forces shot down the frigate and defeated the pirates.

Personality and traits

"Brutus… was a stinking, backstabbing mutineer. Any of you wanna follow him?"
[Kona lowers her rifle]
"Good."

―Silvo talks Kona and the other pirates into accepting him as captain again

Kona joined the rest of Silvo's crew in mutinying against him after several lean cycles and a failed raid, but he caught her attention again with promises of untold wealth and a fleet of ships to command. She was convinced by the rousing speech and When Silvo then killed Brutus, Kona initially aimed a weapon at him but soon switched loyalties and fell in line under his command to capture children. She had tan skin, black hair, and brown eyes.

Equipment

Kona wore a weathered trooper armor chestplate and shoulderpads, similar to those worn by Imperial patrol troopers. Her outfit also included gray coveralls, white gloves, a brown belt with a holstered blaster pistol, and gray boots. She had a coil of rope hung from her left shoulder and used an E-22 reciprocating double-barreled blaster rifle in combat. She wore her hair in a ponytail held in place with white ties.

Behind the scenes

"So, for example, the character of Kona and Kona's uniform, you're like, 'Oh my god, old-school Clone Wars. What is her story?!' You're able to enjoy it that much more. That's the richness of the Star Wars universe and Star Wars lore, in my perspective, that's what's really exciting. So, for a scene like that, there are so many characters who have so many backstories, and you want to be able to feel their humanity, even if they're aliens. Their soul, their spirit, their story."

―Bryce Dallas Howard

Kona was portrayed by Sisa Grey.

Kona was portrayed by Sisa Grey in the live-action Disney+ series Star Wars: Skeleton Crew, first appearing in "This Could Be a Real Adventure," the show's first episode, which aired on December 2, 2024. Although the character's name is not spoken in the episode, it was revealed in the credits. Bryce Dallas Howard directed Grey as Kona in the show's sixth episode, "Zero Friends Again," which aired on December 31, 2024, and described Kona's armor as an "old-school Clone Wars" design, suggesting that such details made viewers curious about Kona and the other pirates' backstories and helped flesh them out as characters. In the same interview, Howard revealed that the chant that Silvo and Kona take part in was originally just a poem spoken by Silvo's actor Jude Law, but Law suggested that it be changed into a pirate shanty.

Grey has commented on particularly enjoying the character's appearance as a hologram in the final episode, comparing it to Princess Leia Organa's holographic appearance, also wearing white, in the 1977 original trilogy film Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope.

Appearances

• Star Wars: Skeleton Crew — "This Could Be a Real Adventure" (First appearance)
• Star Wars: Skeleton Crew — "Zero Friends Again"
• Star Wars: Skeleton Crew — "We're Gonna Be In So Much Trouble"
• Star Wars: Skeleton Crew — "The Real Good Guys"

Sources

• Skeleton Crew | Official Clip | Episode 7 Now Streaming on Disney+ on the official Star Wars YouTube channel (backup link)
• "Marti Matulis: Der Mann hinter der Maske" — Star Wars - Das offizielle Magazin 117
• "A Pirate's Life for Me" — Star Wars Insider 233
• 2025 Topps Chrome Star Wars Card: #129 - Kona (backup link)
• Star Wars Encyclopedia of Starfighters and Other Vehicles, second edition (Indirect mention only)

Notes and references

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