But love was not lost when we saw the new Star Wars movie, The Force Awakens (Because we were originally going to clean the windows but Pops surprised us by going to see the new Star Wars movie), set 3 decades after Return Of The Jedi because 30 years after the defeat of the Galactic Empire, the galaxy faces a new threat from the evil Kylo Ren and the First Order. When a defector named Finn crash-lands on a desert planet, he meets Rey, a tough scavenger whose droid contains a top-secret map. Together, the young duo joins forces with Han Solo to make sure the Resistance receives the intelligence concerning the whereabouts of Luke Skywalker, the last of the Jedi Knights.
Attack on Tuanul
Approximately 30 years after the destruction of the 2nd Death Star, Luke Skywalker, the last known surviving Jedi, has disappeared. Both the First Order, a successor to the fallen Galactic Empire, and the Resistance, a military force backed by the New Republic and led by Luke's twin sister, General Leia Organa, scour the galaxy in an attempt to find him.
Leia sends Resistance pilot Poe Dameron on a secret mission to the village of Tuanul on the desert planet Jakku, to meet with village elder Lor San Tekka, who has obtained a star-chart to Luke Skywalker's location. During the meeting, First Order stormtroopers under the command of Kylo Ren and Captain Phasma attack the village. Poe and his astromech droid BB-8 attempt to flee in their X-wing starfighter, but a pair of stormtroopers disable the engines. With no alternative, Poe gives the star-chart to BB-8 and orders the astromech to flee. Poe remains behind to cover BB-8's escape.
After stormtrooper FN-2187 is deployed, his friend FN-2003 is hit with blaster fire by Poe. FN-2187 goes to help his squadmate, but FN-2003's wound proves fatal, smearing his blood on FN-2187's helmet before dying, deeply affecting him. After securing the area, the remaining villagers are herded into the town square. Tekka is captured and brought before Kylo Ren, who demands to know where the star-chart leading to Luke is. Tekka firmly responds that he doesn't know and wouldn't tell him if he did. Tekka says he knows who he used to be before he started calling himself "Kylo Ren", and chides that he cannot escape his real identity. Kylo Ren glibly responds "You're so right," and cuts Tekka down with his lightsaber.
Angered, Poe takes a shot at Ren from cover, but he casually catches the blaster bolt in mid-air with the Force. Poe is captured as well, and Ren decides to interrogate him further back on their ship. Before leaving, Phasma asks what to do with the crowd of captive villagers, and Ren orders them all slaughtered. Stormtrooper FN-2187 is horrified as the massacre plays out in front of him, remaining motionless and not firing his weapon.
Return to the Finalizer
Returning to the Finalizer, FN-2187 feels significantly distressed from the mission, and ducks aside into a shuttle to take his helmet off, panting heavily and still rattled by the massacre of the villagers. Phasma notices him, and tells the trooper to submit his blaster to be checked, making sure he fired a shot. Knowing he would be re-evaluated and discovered for not firing on the villagers, and with his faith in the First Order severely shaken, he decides to desert. Meanwhile, after failed attempts of torturing Poe for vital information about the star-chart of Luke Skywalker's location, Ren uses his mind probe Force power to pry the information from Poe's mind. Ren learns that the star-charts are located within a BB series droid that fled the village, and informs General Hux of the revelation, who sends out search teams in response.
Encounter with the scavenger
Elsewhere on Jakku, a scavenger named Rey traverses the corridors of a downed Star Destroyer at the Graveyard of Giants. Scavenging through the Star Destroyer, she finds a valuable piece of salvage and drops it in her satchel. Rey heads to Niima Outpost, and hauls the sack of salvage throughout the town. She then goes to Unkar Plutt to exchange her scraps for foodstuff, who offers her a quarter portion for her scraps. After taking the foodstuff, Rey heads to her home, a downed AT-AT, and prepares a meal for herself. After finishing her meal, she watches a starship depart from the planet and then notices a distant sound. She immediately runs off with her quarterstaff to investigate.
There, she encounters BB-8 struggling against being captured by a green-skinned humanoid scavenger named Teedo. She frees the droid and gives him directions to Niima Outpost and sends it on its way, but BB-8 insists on traveling with her. Rey goes to Unkar Plutt to again exchange her salvage for foodstuff, and the Crolute offers to buy BB-8 for sixty food portions; while tempted, Rey declines the offer. Plutt then hires two thugs to steal BB-8.
Escape from the Finalizer
Needing a pilot to escape, FN-2187 frees the captured Poe Dameron from his cell, and the two steal a Special Forces TIE fighter. FN-2187 mans the guns, killing several of his former comrades in the hanger, and then disables the Finalizer's turbolasers on the outside of the vessel. During the escape, Dameron asks the stormtrooper his name, to which he explains that he has been raised from birth to be a stormtrooper, and the serial number "FN-2187" is the only designation he has ever had. Not content with calling a man a number, Dameron names the trooper "Finn," from the FN in his name. Finn likes the name, and goes on to use it. Dameron also tells him that the map vital to the Resistance was located within his astromech droid. Before they can continue however, the TIE is hit by a missile fired from the Finalizer, sending it spiraling towards the planet below.
Escape from Jakku
Finn and Dameron eject from the TIE shortly before it crashes, each landing separately some distance from the wreck. Making his way to the crash, Finn finds Poe's jacket, but no other sign of the man, and the fighter sinks into the sand. Believing Dameron to be dead, he discards his armor and eventually arrives at the nearest settlement for water.
The thugs hired by Unkar Plutt attempt to steal BB-8, but Rey fends off the thugs with her staff. BB-8 notices a man, Finn, wearing his master, Poe Dameron's jacket, prompting Rey to chase after him. Rey attacks Finn, believing him to be a thief. Finn explains that he had met and helped Poe escape the Finalizer, but that Dameron had apparently perished during their crash. The First Order tracks Finn to the settlement, and launches an airstrike in attempt to search for BB-8 and the map. Rey, Finn, and BB-8 manage to escape the outpost in the Millennium Falcon (after intially dismissing it as garbage) by flying it through the Graveyard of Giants, while Finn fires on and destroys the pursuing TIE fighters. With the TIE fighters destroyed, they escape into space.
Back aboard the Finalizer, a nervous junior officer informs Kylo Ren that the droid escaped. Ren activates his lightsaber, but instead of simply executing the officer for failure, he lashes out in a rage-fueled tantrum, slashing at an instrument panel uncontrollably. When he calms down enough to ask how it escaped, the officer explains it was on a stolen freighter. Ren sarcastically asks if he means the droid stole a freighter by itself, but his quivering subordinate explains that it was aided by the deserter and a local girl. Seeming to recognize something from this, Kylo grows even more livid, using the Force to pull the officer by his throat across the room in order to choke him with his bare hand, then asks him what girl it was.
Reunited with the Falcon
The Falcon breaks down and leaved them stranded. The ship is in major need of repairs, so Finn, Rey and the BB-8 begin working to fix it. While they are working on repairs, the ship is caught in a tractor beam by a freighter. Although they initially believe themselves to be captured by the First Order, they soon meet their real captors: Han Solo and Chewbacca, the former owners of the ship. Upon boarding their old vessel, Han and Chewie go about inspecting their ship and find the two stowaways, Rey and Finn, who he assumes were the thieves that had stolen the Falcon. When Rey and Finn explain that they were going to take a droid named BB-8 to the Resistance as he had a map that would reveal Luke's location, Han and Chewie agree to help them.
Skirmish aboard the Eravana
Unfortunately, Han's freighter, the Eravana had been boarded by two notorious criminal factions, the Guavian Death Gang and Kanjiklub, whom Solo is indebted to. Not wanting Rey and Finn to be involved, Han places both of them in the lower corridors of the freighter while he and Chewie go meet with the criminals, with BB-8 accompanying them. Han tries but fails to convince both parties that he would fix things eventually, with the Guavian Death Gang negotiator, Bala-Tik recognizing the BB-8 astromech droid from a First Order bounty placed on it. They demand that Han hand over the droid and any stowaways he might have on board. As the scuffle continues, Rey accidentally releases three rathtars. They successfully escape the gangs and jump into hyperspace in the Falcon. Bala-tik then orders his men to inform the First Order that Han Solo and the droid unit are aboard the ship.
Meeting with the Surpreme Leader
At Starkiller Base, a planet converted into a superweapon, powered by draining a star, and capable of destroying star systems, Kylo Ren and General Hux are summoned by Supreme Leader Snoke, who appears as a gigantic remote hologram projection. Hux suggests to use the Starkiller Base superweapon to destroy the government of the New Republic and the Resistance. Snoke grants Hux the permission to do so. Snoke reveals to Ren that the astromech droid containing the star-chart now resides in the Millennium Falcon - along with his father, Han Solo. Ren insists that his father means nothing to him, and with Snoke's training, he would not be seduced to the light side of the Force.
Journey to Takodana
During the travel in hyperspace, the Falcon experiences many problems and Rey works frantically to fix it, while Finn attempts to bandage Chewie's wounds. Rey fixes the ship's damaged hyperdrive by bypassing the compressor. After fixing the ship, Han questions why Finn and Rey are fugitives. Rey explains that the First Order is after the map located within BB-8 and that Finn is with the Resistance.
After BB-8 projects the map, Han explains that after Luke disappeared, there were many parties that went searching for him. He explains that Luke tried to rebuild the Jedi Order, but an apprentice of his turned to the dark side and became Kylo Ren, destroying all that Luke had built, including the other Padawans that Luke had trained. Feeling responsible and blaming himself for the failure, Luke went into exile. Han also explains that he heard rumors about how Luke went searching for the first Jedi temple.
Solo takes Rey, Finn, and BB-8 to the planet Takodana to meet with Maz Kanata at her castle. Han says that she has maintained her castle for over a thousand years. Unbeknownst to all, spies from different sides take notice of the group. GA-97 alerts the Resistance, while Bazine Netal informs the First Order.
The conflict within
Attempting to seek guidance from his grandfather, Darth Vader, Kylo Ren sits quietly in his meditation chamber. In front of him is the burned helmet of Vader, recovered from the funeral pyre on Endor. With the re-emergence of his father and his failed attempts to recover the map of Luke, Kylo senses a disturbance in the Force. He reveals to Vader's burned helmet that the light is pulling him in again, and that even Snoke could sense the conflict brewing within him. He then asks his grandfather to show him the darkness again, and to pull him back to the dark side of the Force.
A call from the Force
While Han and Chewie speak with Maz, Finn heads out to make a deal of his own. Finn hires Sidon Ithano and his first mate Quiggold to take him away to the Outer Rim for work. Rey implores Finn not to leave, but to help the Resistance instead. Finn, however, insists on leaving, to disappear from all his troubles. After Finn leaves, Rey hears the screaming of a young girl and finds herself wandering deeper into the Castle to find the source. She descends to a sub-chamber that is filled with relics of the past. There she was called by the Force to Maz's curio box, an ancient Wroshyr wood chest. Inside, she finds the lightsaber that had previously belonged to Anakin Skywalker and his son Luke.
Upon touching the lightsaber, she receives a series of visions. Rey glimpses moments in time from the saber, in which she finds herself in Cloud City where Luke battled Darth Vader, she then sees Luke placing his metallic hand on top of R2-D2 near a fire watching the burning of his Jedi Temple, and then she finds herself lying in the rain at night to see the Knights of Ren surrounded by slaughtered victims. She then notices herself as a child on Jakku watching the departure of her parents, yelling out to them to come back, and being told to quiet herself. Rey then finds herself being chased by Kylo Ren in a snowy forest. Rey pulls herself out of the vision in terror. After the vision, she finds Kanata standing outside the room. Kanata explains to her the lightsaber's history and that it was now calling to her. Kanata reveals that she herself is Force-sensitive; although she was never a Jedi, she can simply close her eyes and concentrate and feel the light of the Force within herself, and recognizes that Rey can too. Frightened by her vision, Rey refuses to keep the lightsaber, running off into the woods with BB-8
Destruction of the Hosnian system
After gaining Supreme Leader Snoke's permission to fire the Starkiller Base's superweapon, Hux chooses the Hosnian system, which hosts the capital of the New Republic, Hosnian Prime, as well as the New Republic Starfleet, in order to demonstrate the power of the First Order in an attempt to wipe out the "illegitimate" government of the New Republic in one fell swoop. The test is a success and Hosnian Prime, home of the Galactic Senate, all other astronomical bodies in the system, and an unknown percentage of the New Republic fleet are annihilated by the First Order's superweapon. The destruction of the Hosnian system is visible from the surface of Takodana. This prompts Finn to re-evaluate his choice to leave.
Battle on Takodana
The First Order, tipped off to BB-8's presence, arrives and attacks Maz Kanata's castle. Flying in with TIE fighters and Atmospheric Assault Landers, the First Order swiftly assaults the castle and levels it, killing many of its inhabitants. BB-8 follows Rey into the forests surrounding the castle, and the First Order is unable to locate the droid until a stormtrooper officer reports to Kylo Ren that the astromech had been sighted in the company of a girl.
During the fighting at the castle, Finn wields Luke's old lightsaber to kill one stormtrooper before his life is saved by Han. Han and Chewbacca also kill multiple stormtroopers, but are captured along with Finn by the First Order. However, Resistance T-70 X-wing fighters led by Poe Dameron, who is now revealed to still be alive, arrive to fight the First Order. A fierce dogfight ensues and results in the destruction of many First Order TIEs and the deaths of many stormtroopers from X-wing strafing runs.
Rey encounters Kylo Ren at the woods, and fires at him with her blaster pistol, but Kylo restrains her using the Force, and captures her. Ren orders the First Order to pull out, saying they had what they came for. As the battle rages on above the castle, the remaining First Order troops board their ships and retreat, and Han witnesses his son carrying an unconscious Rey away. After the battle, Han and Leia are reunited, and Han reveals to Leia that he saw their son.
Reunited at the Resistance Base
Han, Chewbacca, and Finn are brought to the Resistance base on D'Qar. BB-8 encounters the astromech droid R2-D2, who, as C-3PO explains, has been dormant since Luke's disappearance. It is revealed that Han and Leia are aware that their son is Kylo Ren, and that their son's fall to the Dark Side caused them to separate, with Han returning to his smuggling business, and Leia spearheading the activities of the New Republic and the Resistance.
As Starkiller Base prepares to wipe out the world of D'Qar, the site of the Resistance's headquarters, the Resistance plans an attack of their own. Finn gives them the Base's blueprints, which reveal that the base drains the energy of a star in order to charge its superweapon, and that it requires a thermal oscillator, which sustains the energy on the planet, that, if destroyed, would de-stabilize the planet's core and implode the Base. However, they would need to do it before the Base fully charges its weapon. Finn, Han, and Chewie volunteer to disable the Base's defensive shield from the inside. Before departing to the Starkiller Base, Han and Leia embrace, and Leia pleads Han to bring their son home.
Rey's capture
Rey is brought to the Starkiller Base and interrogated by Kylo Ren, wanting information on the map to Luke Skywalker. Scoffing that he is a creature that wears a mask, Kylo takes it off - revealing that he actually has a normal appearance, and seems to just wear the mask to emulate Darth Vader. The darksider has a difficult time probing her mind, however, and Rey is even able to push back into Ren's mind. After a mental struggle, with an intense look Rey announces that she can sense fear in him - fear that he will never be as powerful as Darth Vader. Humiliated, Kylo storms out of the room to seek audience with Snoke.
Left alone, the incident makes Rey realize that she is Force-sensitive, so she attempts to use a Jedi mind trick on her stormtrooper guard, to make him release her and leave the door open. It doesn't work, but Rey concentrates and tries again: this time the mind trick works, and he releases her. She quickly also remembers to have him drop his blaster as he leaves so she can arm herself. Rey then makes her way through the Starkiller Base, honing her Force abilities while using stealth. She also draws on her experience climbing through wrecked Imperial starships to make her way through the bowels of the installation's machinery. Kylo reveals to Snoke that Rey has the ability to use the Force, and Snoke commands Kylo to bring Rey to him. When Kylo discovers that Rey escaped, he throws another fit of rage, slashing at her empty restraint chair.
Battle of Starkiller Base
Han Solo pilots the Millennium Falcon to Starkiller Base accompanied by Chewbacca and Finn. Finn's main objective is to rescue Rey from captivity. Since the Base's shields has a fractional refresh rate, Han pilots through the shields at lightspeed, and the Falcon lands roughly on the edge of a cliff. Han, Chewbacca, and Finn sneak into the main base and capture Captain Phasma, who they force to disable the shields before disposing her in a garbage chute. They reunite with Rey, who had already escaped on her own. With the shields down, Blue Squadron and Red Squadron led by Poe Dameron commence their assault. They fire on the base's hexagonal oscillator structure, but fail to destroy it as the First Order sends TIE Fighters to stage a counterattack and throw the Resistance into chaos.
Seeing this, Han, Chewbacca, Finn, and Rey try to create an opening by planting thermal detonators inside the base. Han then confronts his son, Kylo Ren, calling to him by his birth name, "Ben". They approach each other on a bridge over a large pit, and Han pleads with his son to reject Snoke and return to the light side of the Force. Ben, removing his mask and seeming almost regretful, hands his lightsaber to Solo, and asks for his father's help, in which Solo replies that he would do anything for him. Ben then thrusts his weapon through Han's chest. Witnessed by Rey, Finn, and Chewbacca, Han strokes his son's face for the last time, before falling to his death. Enraged, Chewbacca, Rey, and Finn start firing at Ren and the stormtroopers. Chewbacca injures Ren with his bowcaster, but Ren chases them out of the base and catches up to Finn and Rey in the forest.
Rey accuses Ren of being a monster for murdering his own father. She then proceeds to shoot him with her blaster, but Ren knocks Rey out by Force pushing her into a tree. A desperate and terrified Finn comes to her aid immediately. Ren then angrily accuses Finn of being a traitor, and Finn pulls out Luke's old lightsaber and attacks him in a rage. Ren is already badly injured so he is somewhat impaired, and Finn even manages to deal him a glancing wound, but nonetheless Ren quickly overpowers the former stormtrooper and deals him a grievous injury. Awakening, Rey uses telekinesis to pull Skywalker's lightsaber into her hand and proceeds to attack the Knight.
During this time, the thermal detonators go off in the base, allowing Poe to fly in and destroy the base's thermal oscillator thirty seconds before it drains the sun to charge the superweapon. This causes a chain reaction to go off, which destroys the base and levels the entire planet's terrain - without the weapon to dissipate it, the stored solar energy is tearing the planet apart from the inside.
Rey and Ren continue fighting: Ren has taken even more wounds, from Chewbacca, Finn, and Rey, but even so initially holds the advantage, drawing on his rage to ignore the pain. Ren becomes so impressed with Rey that he tries to tempt her, complimenting her strength in the Force and offering to complete her training if she joins him. This backfires, however, as it only serves to reassure Rey of her own power: recalling Kanata's words on reaching the light within, she begins to draw on the Force to hone her attacks, and the tide of the duel shifts. Ultimately Rey is able to overpower Ren and deal him a severe wound while breaking his lightsaber. By this point Kylo has taken too many wounds to continue standing, but he still struggles in vain to rise again. Before Rey can move in to finish him off, a large trench forms between them as the base begins to fall apart.
Rey returns to Finn and begins to despair that Finn would not wake up and they are trapped on the rupturing planet. However, Chewbacca arrived with the Millennium Falcon to rescue them. Inside the main base, chaos abounds as General Hux has already fled, and the other officers rush to abandon the installation as well. Hux, meanwhile, reports to Snoke, who orders him to rescue Ren in order to complete his training and to flee the Base. The Millennium Falcon and the remainder of the Resistance fleet manage to escape Starkiller Base as it erupts into a ball of fire. They then enter hyperspace to return to D'Qar.
Locating Luke Skywalker
The Resistance celebrate their victory while Leia, Chewbacca, and Rey mourn Han's death. R2-D2 suddenly awakes and reveals that he holds the map to Luke's location, with the only piece of the map missing being the one BB-8 was given by Poe. Together they complete the map and reveal the location of Ahch-To, the planet on which Luke Skywalker sought out the 1st Jedi Temple. As the unconscious Finn recovers in the medical unit, Rey kisses him on the head and thanks him for everything.
With R2-D2 and Chewbacca in tow, Rey leaves on the Millenium Falcon and follows the map to the distant planet, a water world dotted with islands, which she had previously seen in her visions. Rey pilots the starship to a particular island with a large, ancient stone temple on it. She climbs the rock-carved steps to the top of the temple, where she finds Luke Skywalker. Without exchanging any words, Rey presents him with his father's lightsaber.
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Rey accuses Ren of being a monster for murdering his own father. She then proceeds to shoot him with her blaster, but Ren knocks Rey out by Force pushing her into a tree. A desperate and terrified Finn comes to her aid immediately. Ren then angrily accuses Finn of being a traitor, and Finn pulls out Luke's old lightsaber and attacks him in a rage. Ren is already badly injured so he is somewhat impaired, and Finn even manages to deal him a glancing wound, but nonetheless Ren quickly overpowers the former stormtrooper and deals him a grievous injury. Awakening, Rey uses telekinesis to pull Skywalker's lightsaber into her hand and proceeds to attack the Knight.
During this time, the thermal detonators go off in the base, allowing Poe to fly in and destroy the base's thermal oscillator thirty seconds before it drains the sun to charge the superweapon. This causes a chain reaction to go off, which destroys the base and levels the entire planet's terrain - without the weapon to dissipate it, the stored solar energy is tearing the planet apart from the inside.
Rey and Ren continue fighting: Ren has taken even more wounds, from Chewbacca, Finn, and Rey, but even so initially holds the advantage, drawing on his rage to ignore the pain. Ren becomes so impressed with Rey that he tries to tempt her, complimenting her strength in the Force and offering to complete her training if she joins him. This backfires, however, as it only serves to reassure Rey of her own power: recalling Kanata's words on reaching the light within, she begins to draw on the Force to hone her attacks, and the tide of the duel shifts. Ultimately Rey is able to overpower Ren and deal him a severe wound while breaking his lightsaber. By this point Kylo has taken too many wounds to continue standing, but he still struggles in vain to rise again. Before Rey can move in to finish him off, a large trench forms between them as the base begins to fall apart.
Rey returns to Finn and begins to despair that Finn would not wake up and they are trapped on the rupturing planet. However, Chewbacca arrived with the Millennium Falcon to rescue them. Inside the main base, chaos abounds as General Hux has already fled, and the other officers rush to abandon the installation as well. Hux, meanwhile, reports to Snoke, who orders him to rescue Ren in order to complete his training and to flee the Base. The Millennium Falcon and the remainder of the Resistance fleet manage to escape Starkiller Base as it erupts into a ball of fire. They then enter hyperspace to return to D'Qar.
Locating Luke Skywalker
The Resistance celebrate their victory while Leia, Chewbacca, and Rey mourn Han's death. R2-D2 suddenly awakes and reveals that he holds the map to Luke's location, with the only piece of the map missing being the one BB-8 was given by Poe. Together they complete the map and reveal the location of Ahch-To, the planet on which Luke Skywalker sought out the 1st Jedi Temple. As the unconscious Finn recovers in the medical unit, Rey kisses him on the head and thanks him for everything.
With R2-D2 and Chewbacca in tow, Rey leaves on the Millenium Falcon and follows the map to the distant planet, a water world dotted with islands, which she had previously seen in her visions. Rey pilots the starship to a particular island with a large, ancient stone temple on it. She climbs the rock-carved steps to the top of the temple, where she finds Luke Skywalker. Without exchanging any words, Rey presents him with his father's lightsaber.
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