

His daughter Jyn meanwhile fled and was taken in by Saw Gerrera. Galen was a recipient of the Kuat Systems Engineering Medal, the Ashgad Prize and the Roche Foundation Prize.Īfter leaving the Galactic Empire's ambitious Death Star project and hiding out on the planet Lah'mu, he was eventually discovered and forcibly brought back into the fold by his old friend and colleague Orson Krennic, whose death troopers killed Erso's wife Lyra. One of the most renowned polymaths in the galaxy, Galen was a gifted theoretician, mathematician, and experimental physicist. Born on the planet Grange, an agricultural backwater world, Erso was drafted into the Republic Futures Program, where his skill and intelligence ultimately led him to becoming a critical component, though reluctant, in the development of the DS-1 Death Star Mobile Battle Station. Galen Walton Erso was a human male scientist and leading galactic authority on crystallography and energy enrichment. Poetry that bridges and magnifies the mysteries of the galaxy." ―Galen Erso, speaking to Helical HyperCom employees " Mathematics isn't just science, it is poetry-our efforts to crystallize the unglimpsed connections between things.
