Kes Dameron

Dameron attended a higher learning university, where he took two architecture courses, though he only managed to pass one with difficulty.

During the Galactic Civil War, Kes Dameron served as a soldier within the ranks of the Alliance to Restore the Republic, fighting against the forces of the Galactic Empire. He was married to Shara Bey, a Rebel pilot with whom he shared service in the Rebellion, and together they had a son named Poe. Due to their commitment to the Rebellion, Dameron and Bey could only spend brief moments together, often limited to hour-long intervals after being separated for several weeks. Despite these challenges, they eventually started their family with the birth of their son, Poe, in 2 ABY. Poe resided with Bey's father while his parents continued their service, making it difficult for Dameron and Bey to visit him frequently.

While stationed at Hoth, Dameron played a role in the design of Echo Base. He and Bey utilized an A-wing cannon to excavate tunnels for the base. During their work, a tunnel collapsed, trapping them. Dameron offered Bey his equipment to increase her chances of survival until rescue arrived. However, she refused to let him die, and both were eventually rescued by Commander Luke Skywalker and Chewbacca. Subsequently, Dameron and Bey were transported aboard an EF76 Nebulon-B escort frigate to receive medical attention.

Following the Battle of Hoth, Dameron found himself aboard a CR90 corvette alongside the other members of the Pathfinders. From there, he witnessed his wife's Green Squadron engaging TIEs during a battle at Rendezvous Point Delta-Three.

Dameron eventually achieved the rank of sergeant, and during the Battle of Endor, he served as a member of the Pathfinders, an elite special forces unit led by General Han Solo. The Pathfinders' mission was to destroy the generator that powered the shield protecting the orbiting DS-2 Death Star II Mobile Battle Station, thereby enabling the Alliance Fleet to destroy the battle station. The operation was a success; the Death Star was destroyed, the Emperor, Darth Sidious, was killed, and the Empire suffered a significant setback before withdrawing from Endor. Dameron and the surviving Pathfinders returned to Bright Tree Village, the home of the native Ewoks who had aided them in their victory, where they and other members of the Rebellion celebrated their triumph over the Empire. Many Alliance pilots and personnel also arrived at the village, including Bey, who had flown with Green Squadron during the battle to destroy the Death Star. They were relieved to find each other safe and sound, and they took a walk through the village to discuss their future and their plans now that the war was coming to an end. They then spent the night together.

The following morning, Solo gathered the Pathfinders and informed them that a group of Imperials remained in an outpost on the far side of Endor. Solo intended to attack the base, not wanting to leave a group of Imperials on Endor after the Ewoks helped the Alliance in the battle. Dameron and the rest of the Pathfinders would assault the outpost, while Bey volunteered to pilot the gunship that would transport the soldiers to the base. The gunship soon arrived and assaulted the outpost, and the Pathfinders deployed into the area. As he disembarked from the gunship, Dameron told Bey that he was ready to settle down on another planet and build a house. Dameron and the Pathfinders fought their way into the base, where they found Imperial intelligence suggesting that the Empire still had plans for the galaxy, before returning to the ship. Dameron and Bey were soon sent on separate assignments, with Dameron continuing to serve alongside General Solo. His duties necessitated a communications blackout, so he was unable to speak with Bey for several weeks.

Twenty days after the Battle of Endor, Dameron participated with the Pathfinders in a raid on the Wretch of Tayron, which served as an Imperial Security Bureau black site in the Outer Rim Territories. He and Sakas, another Pathfinder, conducted reconnaissance before the raid, while other members of the strike team prepared charges to infiltrate the secret base. Dameron and other Pathfinders fired several shots at the base, taking out All Terrain Scout Transports and other heavy equipment. The Pathfinders moved in, with Dameron having cleared a hole, and began fighting the stormtroopers stationed outside the base. Dameron was nearly shot by a scout trooper, but he was saved by Chewbacca, General Solo's Wookiee companion, who attacked the trooper before he could kill Dameron. Solo soon arrived and reviewed the plan of attack, at which point they entered the base.

The Pathfinders fought their way through the base and captured its commander before he could purge the data from the ISB computer banks. The commander surrendered, and the Rebels, using the protocol droid C-3PO, hacked into the computers. Once inside the computers, Threepio discovered that an Imperial operation known as Operation: Cinder was underway, including on Naboo—where Bey was located, as she was serving as the personal pilot of Princess Leia Organa. With Naboo under heavy, world-ending siege to enact the Emperor's final wrath, a Rebel fleet under the command of General Lando Calrissian made their way to Naboo. They were able to rescue Bey and Organa, who, along with Queen Sosha Soruna, flew a mission to destroy the Imperial satellites being used in an attempt to destroy Naboo. The Rebels stopped the Empire from destroying Naboo, and Dameron reunited with Bey on the Rebel fleet. For his actions during the raid at the Wretch of Tayron, as well as the assault on the Imperial base on Endor, General Solo remarked in a letter to General Madine that Dameron had performed several acts of valor. He also emphasized that Dameron deserved anything he wanted, whether it was R&R or retirement. Solo went so far as to suggest using part of his own compensation package for Dameron.

Three months later, Dameron requested to end his service to the Rebel Alliance. After the paperwork was approved, Madine wrote back to General Solo, informing him that Dameron had been honorably discharged and given a separate compensation package that would leave Solo's own package untouched. Bey also faced a decision of whether she wanted to leave the Rebellion. Bey eventually chose to follow in her husband's footsteps. After a final mission with Skywalker, in which Bey helped save and was given ownership of a fragment of a Force-sensitive tree that once dwelled in the Jedi Temple on Coruscant, she too ended her service to the Rebel Alliance. Dameron and Bey settled on Yavin 4, where they planted the tree from the Jedi Temple.

After the war, Dameron and his family continued their life on Yavin 4. Dameron enjoyed telling his son war stories in contrast to his wife. However, when Poe was just eight, Bey unexpectedly died. Dameron was grief-stricken and became overprotective of his son, who wanted to become a pilot just like his mother. Dameron leaned heavily on his wife's friend L'ulo L'ampar for support, and the Duros played a key role in his son's upbringing. As Poe grew up, Dameron's attitude clashed with his son, who wanted to be more free and experience the galaxy in contrast to Dameron's intent to protect his son. In Poe's teenage years, he began to get in trouble for various things, including flying starships without permission. Dameron used his status to bail his son out, but despite this, the rift between them grew. When Poe joined the Spice Runners of Kijimi, Kes pursued him with aid from L'ulo.

At some point prior to or during the Battle of Starkiller Base, while awaiting for an opportunity to attack Starkiller Base, Poe Dameron requested for BB-8 to transmit the updated flight log of Black One to Yavin 4, believing that his father should be aware of Poe's circumstances in case something went wrong during the mission.

Kes Dameron was a human male characterized by his black hair, brown eyes, and tan skin. He deeply loved his wife, Shara Bey, and looked forward to building a new life with her following the Empire's defeat at the Battle of Endor, including constructing a home on a new world. Before the Battle of Endor, the hardships of the Galactic Civil War had prevented him from entertaining such dreams for the future. However, three months after the battle, they both retired from Rebel service and began their new life together.

The character of Kes Dameron was introduced in the 2015 comic book Shattered Empire 1, created by Greg Rucka with artwork by Marco Checchetto. The comic identified him as the Rebel soldier briefly seen in a scene from Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi throwing a shaped charge to Han Solo.