A 10-page preview of the Rogue One: A Star Wars Story: The Official Visual Story Guide was released in the Edelweiss catalog as part of a Macmillan Winter 2016 preview (discovered via: jedi-bibliothek.de thanks to /film reader Mike J). While the book doesn’t list an author, I’m hoping that Lucasfilm story group member Pablo Hidalgo is behind this as his work on the Force Awakens visual guide was fantastic. The 164 page book features 130 Full-Color Photos. Here is the official book description:

The official companion book to fall’s most anticipated release of Star Wars Rogue One. Never-before-seen interviews, images and teasers from this major motion picture. Detailed, in-depth character profiles, iconic vehicles, weaponry and droids. Lucas Films proudly presents the official companion book to this fall’s most anticipated release of Star Wars Rogue One. Featuring never-before-seen interviews, images and teasers from this major motion picture. Experience all the thrills with detailed, in-depth character profiles, iconic vehicles, weaponry and droids you’ve been looking for. Featuring 160 pages of action-packed photos and content, this official Lucasfilm collector’s book is a must-have for every Star Wars fan.

The book will be released on January 24th 2017 with a $24.99 msrp — you can pre-order now on Amazon. Now lets get to the new information.

Star Wars: Rogue One Character Names

The book gives us the names and some brief information about the rogue band of resistance fighters who unite to steal the Death Star plans. Note that most of the text on these pages is placeholder text and the page previews note that the layouts are not final. That said, it seems like most of the names at very least are correct as some of the new names line up with previous rumors.

Felicity Jones plays Jyn Erso , a highly skilled soldier and warrior.
Diego Luna plays Captain Cassian Andor , an officer in the Rebel Alliance.
Jiang Wen plays Baze , a freelance assassin
Riz Ahmed plays Bodhi, a rebel soldier.
??? plays Pao , an alien who is described as a “fierce warrior”. Looks like another computer generated character.
Donnie Yen plays Chirrut, who is described as “a spiritual warrior.”
???? plays Bistan, another CG-looking alien who is also described as “fierce warrior”.

I was surprised to learn about the alien members of this rebel group. You can see a glimpse of them in the pages spread above. While some of the first names have made appearances previously in obscure RPGs and books, none of the full character names have appeared before in Star Wars lore, canon or Legends.

Most interesting is we now know what computer generated character Alan Tudyk plays in the film, an imperial model K-250 enforcer droid. While most of the text on this page is filler, it does appear that the droid character was a former Empire security droid who somehow joins the film’s group of rebel fighters on this daring heist.

Another page reveals information on one of the Imperial villains: Ben Mendelsohn plays Director Krennic, a military director for the Empire. Yeah, not very much there but it appears that his job is to prevent the rebellion from getting the Death Star plans which should make him the main villain of the film even though a couple of these pages confirms that Darth Vader will make some kind of appearance.