A distraught Chewbacca shoots Kylo, and sets the explosives off, giving Poe an opening to take out the base once and for all.

The fight continues, but no loss is greater than that of Han Solo at the hands of his son, Kylo Ren. While she wanders searching for a way off, Finn, Han, and Chewbacca are aboard the Starkiller Base in search of her, and a way to help the Resistance pilots in their quest to destroy the entire base (by setting up explosives). Rey is now confirmed as Force sensitive, perhaps even Force powerful, as she fights off Kylo Ren and tricks her way out of her confines in ways we’ve seen used by Obi-Wan Kenobi and Luke Skywalker, and she’s off to try and escape. Han and Leia aka General Organa reunite, and the Resistance regroups in preparation to destroy this new super-weapon starship. Back on Takodana, Rey is inexplicably drawn to an underground vault, and led to a box containing the lightsaber of Anakin and Luke Skywalker, before the First Order rains down upon the unsuspecting planet in search of BB8 and his hidden prize.Ī shoot out begins, the Resistance arrives, Poe is alive, but Rey is taken by Kylo Ren after he learns she has seen the map, and he is confident in his ability to pull it from her mind. After a hard fought battle with some gangs looking settle a few debts, Han and his newly found crew make their way to Takodana to meet with Maz Kanata, who can help them get the droid and the map back to Leia and the Resistance.īack aboard the Starkiller Base, Kylo meets with Supreme Leader Snoke, who doubts Kylo’s ability to fight his emotions, and we learn just how deadly this new weapon of the First Order is (it steals suns and blows up planets, in short) and they destroy the New Republic capitol and senate. They’ve returned to smuggling in the aftermath of losing Han and Leia’s son, Ben aka Kylo Ren, to the hands of the dark side, while Leia found solace in the one thing she does best as well - leading a Resistance. We then reunite with our beloved Chewbacca and Han Solo. Our two new unlikely allies steal a ship, the iconic Millennium Falcon, and escape the planet and the First Order on their tails. Poe is nowhere to be found, so Finn heads off searching for any help he can find, which turns out to be Rey, and BB8 (who recognizes Finn’s jacket as Poe’s). FN-2187 fully defects, saves Poe from the hands of the First Order (and gets his new name), and the two steal a TIE fighter to escape, but are quickly shot down back onto the planet Jakku. Poe sends BB8 off into the desert with the map piece as the attack ensues (and before his eventual capture), hoping that it will stay out of the hands of the First Order.īB8 runs into a young scavenger, our future Jedi hero Rey, while his master is being tortured for information at the hands of Kylo Ren aboard his massive Starkiller Base. The village on Jakku is quickly overrun by First Order stormtroopers, led by our tumultuous Sith villain Kylo Ren, and it’s here that stormtrooper FN-2187, soon to be dubbed Finn by Poe, begins to discover perhaps he isn’t where he belongs. We open to our favorite Resistance pilot, Poe Dameron, and his faithful droid BB8 retrieving what we’ll later learn is the last missing piece to the long and mysterious map to Luke Skywalker. Star Wars: The Force Awakens takes place 30 years after the events of Star Wars: Return of the Jedi.

While you swim in your nostalgia, wondering just how this epic space drama is going to finally end, we figured you might need a brief rundown of where our most recent heroes left off, and how they got there. The conclusion to the nine film saga has finally arrived, wrapped in bittersweet packaging as we prepare to bid goodbye to this story that has been around before some of us were even born. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is set to release tonight here in the US.

Which year aby will star wars episode 9