Lyra Erso is a character who appears in the Star Wars moive, Rogue One. She was the wife of Galen Erso and the mother of Jyn Erso. During the Clone Wars, Lyra and her family were abducted by agents of the Confederacy of Independent Systems and were later rescued by lieutenant-commander Orson Krennic, an old friend of her husband's and a member of Supreme Chancellor Palpatine's top secret Death Star project.