There, she runs into Finn, who escaped the wreckage of the TIE fighter and now believes that Poe is dead. Meanwhile, resident self-sufficient scrapper Rey (Daisy Ridley) rescues BB-8 from a local scumbag and takes him to the local watering hole the next day. The Star Destroyer has the last laugh, however, winging them and sending them crashing down to Jakku. He frees Poe Dameron, and the two escape from Kylo Ren's Star Destroyer in a hijacked TIE fighter. Before being captured, however, Poe gives the map to his droid BB-8, who promptly heads for the hills.ĭuring the attack, one stormtrooper, later named Finn (John Boyega), decides that massacring innocent people isn't his bag (good man) and plots an exit strategy. His meeting is interrupted by an attack from the First Order, which takes him prisoner for some fun Q&A games with resident Sith Lord Kylo Ren. That's when Poe Dameron (Oscar Isaac), hotshot pilot for the Resistance, picks up an electronic map to Skywalker's location on the junkyard planet of Jakku. Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), the last remaining Jedi, has gone into hiding, and both the good guys and the bad are looking for him, hoping he'll turn the tide in the war.

The First Order picked up where the old Empire left off, and while they're opposed by the Galactic Republic and a growing Resistance movement, they're clearly still doing what the Empire did best: oppressing innocents and wiping out entire planets. Thirty years after the Ewoks did their triumphant yub-yub dance, the galaxy is once more in peril.

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