

After fending off an attack from the Imperial forces, Jyn and the group get captured by Saw Gerrara’s goons and are thrown into their barracks. The Empire has been mining these crystals from Jedha to power the Death Star space station. While fighting for their lives, Jyn and Cassian encounter Chirrut Î mwe (Donnie Yen) and Baze Malbus (Wen Jiang) a couple of clerics from a destroyed temple protecting Kaiburr crystals, a valuable source of energy. Soon after Cassian, Jyn and K-2SO land on Jedha in their hunt for Gerrera, they get involved in an ambush of Imperial Forces by Saw’s extremist group. While leaving for Saw Gerrera’s hideout, Cassian receives a Rebel order to assassinate Galen Erso on sight. Jyn discovers that her father has sent a message to Saw Gerrera through the defected imperial pilot and she needs to intercept it as Saw had a fallout with the rebellion and wouldn’t hand over the message to them easily. While getting rescued by the rebel force, Jyn tries to escape only to be stopped by a reprogrammed Imperial droid K-2SO (Alan Tudyk), who takes her to the rebellion headquarters. Rook surrenders himself to one of Saw Gerrara’s goons, who takes him to Saw's hideout where he relays the message.


A Rebel operative Cassian Andor (Diego Luna) finds out that an imperial pilot Bodhi Rook (Riz Ahmed) has defected to the Rebel Alliance with important information.

20 years later, Jyn is seen locked up in an Imperial jail. Jyn manages to escape into hiding only to be found by extremist anti-Empire warrior, Saw Gerrara (Forest Whitaker). Plot Summary The film starts with a young Jyn Erso (Felicity Jones) witnessing the murder of her mother and abduction of her father Galen Erso (Mads Mikkelsen), the brilliant scientist and engineer behind the plans for the Empire’s powerful new weapon, called a 'Death Star' by the hands of Director Orson Krennic (Ben Mendelsohn).
