

Using the Falcon, Han, Chewbacca, and Finn infiltrate the base. Leia urges Han to bring their son back alive. As Starkiller Base prepares to fire on D'Qar, the Resistance devises a plan to lower the planetary shield so their fighters can attack. Han, Chewbacca, Finn, and BB-8 arrive at the Resistance base on D'Qar, where they meet Leia and the droids C-3PO and R2-D2, the latter of which has been inactive since Luke's disappearance. Discovering she too can use the Force, she escapes her cell with a Jedi mind trick. Ren interrogates Rey, but she resists his mind-reading.

Han, Chewbacca, and Finn, who uses the lightsaber in the fight, are saved by Resistance X-wing fighters led by Poe, but Rey is captured and taken to Starkiller Base. Snoke tells Ren that to overcome the call of the Light Side of the Force, Ren must kill his father, Han Solo. It destroys the Republic capital and its fleet and Hux declares it the end of the Republic. Maz gives Finn the lightsaber for safekeeping.Īt the First Order's Starkiller Base, a planet converted to a superweapon capable of destroying star systems, Supreme Leader Snoke orders General Hux to use it for the first time. She experiences disturbing visions and flees into the woods. Rey is drawn to a vault and finds the lightsaber that belonged to Luke and his father, Anakin Skywalker, before him. The Falcon crew arrive at the planet Takodana and meet in a cantina belonging to Maz Kanata, who can help BB-8 reach the Resistance, but Finn wants to flee on his own. The criminals inform the First Order of Han's involvement. Gangs seeking to settle debts with Solo attack, but the five escape in the Falcon. Han explains that Luke tried to rebuild the Jedi Order, but after a student turned to the dark side and destroyed all he had built, Luke went into exile, feeling responsible. The Falcon breaks down, and is soon captured by a much larger ship, piloted by Han Solo and Chewbacca, who reclaim their former ship. The three flee the planet in a stolen, rundown ship, the Millennium Falcon. He encounters Rey and BB-8, but the First Order tracks them and launches an airstrike. They crash on Jakku, and Finn appears to be the only survivor. Stormtrooper FN-2187, unable to kill for the First Order, frees Poe and they escape in a stolen TIE fighter Poe dubs FN-2187 "Finn". Poe's droid BB-8 escapes with the map, and comes across a scavenger, Rey, at a junkyard settlement. Stormtroopers under the command of Kylo Ren destroy the village and capture Poe. Resistance pilot Poe Dameron meets village elder Lor San Tekka on the planet Jakku to obtain a map to Luke's location. The Resistance, backed by the Republic and led by Luke's sister, Leia Organa, opposes them while searching for Luke to enlist his aid. The First Order has risen from the remains of the fallen Galactic Empire and seeks to eliminate Luke and the Republic. Approximately 30 years after the destruction of the second Death Star, Luke Skywalker, the last Jedi, has disappeared.
