- "She's the best pilot in Jedha."
- ―Baze Malbus, referring to Denic
Denic was a female human pilot and mechanic who worked in a personally-owned garage at Jedha City a few months before the Battle of Yavin. It was rumored she used to be a smuggler in the Corporate Sector. Denic had arrived in the city shortly before the Galactic Empire and during her time on Jedha, she gave intelligence to the Guardians of the Whills Chirrut Îmwe and Baze Malbus about Imperial supply runs in exchange for a cut of the supplies. Later, the two Guardians were able to convince her to pilot a stolen Sentinel-class landing craft to evacuate the Gimm sisters' orphanage from the moon.[1]
Personality and traits
Denic had tan skin and dark eyes. She wore white[2] Torjeka scanner goggles with macro and micro visual settings and thermal, light enhancing and electromagnetic views. Because of the goggles advanced age, Denic blackened the skin around her eyes to block out light coming in through the weakened seals. She wore a thick spacer's jacket, pants and boots[1] and a cap over her hair[2] and carried a blaster in a holster strapped to her thigh.[1]
Behind the scenes
Denic first appeared in the 2017 canon young readers novel Guardians of the Whills by Greg Rucka.[1] She was later first pictured in the novel's 2021 manga adaption drawn by Subaru.[2] While the novel describes her as having strikingly red hair,[1] the manga instead depicts her with black dreadlocks.[2]
Appearances
- Guardians of the Whills (First appearance)
- Guardians of the Whills: The Manga (First pictured)