Yes, apparently she’s from Canto Bight.
Ubisoft released a story trailer for their upcoming Star Wars Outlaws, an open-world AAA video game set in the Star Wars universe. After some speculation about the game’s release date, this trailer confirms that Outlaws is set to release on August 30 of this year.
Kay Vess, the game’s original lead character, is voiced by Humberly González, a Venezuelan-born Canadian actor who also voiced a significant character in Ubisoft’s Far Cry 6. From the tone of the trailers, Outlaws seems strongly set on exploring Star Wars’ scoundrel-and-bounty-hunter-laden underworld, as opposed to the lightsaber-centered stories of Respawn’s recent Jedi: Fallen Order and Jedi: Survivor. According to Wookiepedia. Vess comes from the Worker’s District of Canto Bight, the casino city on Cantonica first featured in Star Wars Episode XIII: The Last Jedi.
(And, okay, I won’t reiterate the whole deal with Star Wars and linguistically Chinese-inspired naming conventions, ahem Han Solo Kylo Ren Boba Yoda Lando, but somehow I missed until today that the Canto Bight planet is named Cantonica. Does that mean that Kay Vess is technically… Cantonese? Because I’m technically Cantonese, and a Star Wars fan, so I’d like to know these things.)
Back to the recent content drop, here’s also this video with developer insights on the story trailer:
Previously, we were introduced to Star Wars Outlaws via this extended gameplay walkthrough, which first appeared in June 2023.
I’ve played a fair number of Ubisoft games, there are a lot of them; my personal favorite is Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, which is relevant here because as far as sheer open-world scope, Odyssey was huuuuuuge, and in that sense we trust Ubisoft with the capacity for, well, massiveness. I see Kay Vess snarking off to Jabba the Hutt in this trailer, recalling Han Solo’s snide repartee with the crime boss in Episodes IV and VI and, what’s the phrase? I have a good feeling about this.