A new Star Wars novel traces the mysterious origins of Captain Phasma

In the lead-up to The Force Awakens, one particular character caught the eyes of fans: a

tall, chrome-clad stormtrooper played by Game of Thrones’ Gwendoline Christie. Captain Phasma was hyped as a silent but menacing Boba Fett-style character, but when the film came out, she only had a couple of minutes of screen time. Fortunately, Phasma, a new tie-in novel by Delilah S. Dawson, provides a much-needed origin story for one of the new Star Wars saga’s most mysterious characters. While Phasma fills out its title character’s background a great deal, it doesn’t actually take us inside her head. Instead, Phasma’s story is told by a captured Resistance fighter named Vi Moradi, who is being interrogated by a crimson-armored stormtrooper named Cardinal a few years before the events of The Force Awakens. From Moradi, we learn that Phasma grew up on the distant planet of Parnassos, where environmental catastrophes have sentenced its inhabitants to short, bitter lives. Then, an escape pod of stormtroopers drops out of the sky — including Brendol Hux, father of The Force Awakens antagonist General Armitage Hux. Hux is impressed by Phasma’s fighting abilities, and makes her a promise: help him back to his ship, and he’ll take her and her people off world to join the First Order.                                                                                            https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/1/16232694/star-wars-novel-captain-phasma-delilah-dawson-book-review