Returning to the Finalizer, FN-2187 felt significant stress from the mission, and Captain Phasma noticed his distress. She told him 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 severely shaken in the First Order, he decided to desert. After failed attempts of torturing Poe to vital information out of him about the star-chart of Luke Skywalker's location, Ren uses his mind probe Force power to get the truth from Poe. Ren learns that the star-charts are located within BB-8, and informs General Hux.
Finn frees the captured Poe Dameron from his cell, and the two stole a Special Forces TIE Fighter. FN-2187 manned the guns, killing several of his former comrades in the hanger, and then disabling the Finalizer's turbolasers. During the escape, Dameron asked the stormtrooper his name, to which he replied with his number. Not content with calling a man a number, Dameron named the trooper Finn, from the FN in his number. Finn liked the name, and went on to use it. Dameron also told him that the map vital to the Resistance was located in his white and orange BB-unit, BB-8 The TIE was hit by a missile, sending it spiraling towards the planet below.

The BB-unit astromech droid named BB-8 encounters Rey, and is struggling against being captured by a Jakku scavenger named Teedo. She freed the droid and set it on its way, but BB-8 was insistent on remaining with Rey. When returning to a settlement to collect payment on scrap, two thugs attempted to steal the droid, but Rey fended them off with her staff. Finn and Dameron ejected from the TIE shortly before it crashed, each landing separately some distance from the wreck. Making his way to the crash, he found Poe's jacket, but no other sign of the man, and the fighter sunk into the sand. Believing Dameron to be dead, he discarded his armor and eventually arrived at the nearest settlement, looking for BB-8 to carry on Poe's mission.

BB-8, with Rey, then saw Finn and identified the jacket Finn was wearing as that of its owner, so Rey attacked Finn, believing him to be a thief. After Finn explained his intentions, the First Order tracks Finn to the settlement, and launches an airstrike in attempt to search for BB-8 and the star-chart. Rey, Finn, and BB-8 managed to escape in the Millennium Falcon, destroying two TIE fighters that had been pursuing them and managed to escape Jakku.
The Falcon breaks down and leaves them stranded. The ship was in major need of repairs, so Finn, Rey and the BB-8 began working to fix it. While they were working on repairs, the ship was caught in a tractor beam. Initially believing themselves to be captured by the First Order, they met their real captors: Han Solo and Chewbacca, the former owners of the ship. After a scuffle with enemy gangs of Solo's, in which Rey accidentally released three rathtars. Han explains that Luke disappeared after 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 at the ancient First Jedi Temple.

Solo took Rey, Finn, and BB-8 to the planet Takodana to meet with Maz Kanata. There, Rey was called by the Force to a lightsaber that had previously belonged to Anakin Skywalker and his son Luke (which the latter had lost during a duel with the former in Cloud City three decades prior). Upon touching the lightsaber, she received a series of visions, in which she saw Luke with R2-D2, herself as a child watching the departure of her parents, and the Knights of Ren surrounded by slaughtered victims. After the vision, Maz Kanata explained to her the lightsaber's history and that it was now calling to her. Frightened by her vision, Rey refused to keep the lightsaber, running off into the woods with BB-8. and they are soon found by Han Solo and Chewbacca. Finn takes the lightsaber for safekeeping.
At Starkiller Base, a planet converted into a superweapon, powered by draining a star, and capable of destroying star systems, Ren learns from Supreme Leader Snoke that to overcome the call of the light side, Ren must kill his father, Han Solo. 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. It’s been carefully enshrined in a place of honor. Kylo senses a disturbance in the Force, and reveals that the light is pulling him in again. He then asks his grandfather to show him the darkness, and to pull him back to the dark side of the Force. Having lost the pilot Poe and failing to recover the item he is after, he expresses his regrets as if speaking to the ghost of Vader.

The First Order, tipped off to BB-8's presence, attacks Maz Kanata's castle. Meanwhile, the First order use Starkiller Base to destroy the Republic-controlled Hosnian system and its main planet, Hosnian Prime, declaring it the end of the Republic. Han, Chewbacca, and Finn battle the First Order with help from a squadron of Resistance X-wing fighters led by Poe, who survived the crash on Jakku. Rey encountered Kylo Ren at the woods, and shot at him with her blaster pistol, but Kylo restrained her using the Force, and captured her.
She was brought to the Starkiller Base and interrogated by Kylo Ren, wanting information on the map to Luke Skywalker. However, the darksider had a difficult time probing her mind, and Rey was able to reach into Ren's mind, sensing his fear at being weaker than his maternal grandfather Darth Vader. Upon realizing that she was Force-sensitive, she used a mind trick on her stormtrooper guard, allowing her to escape. Rey then made her way through the Starkiller Base, honing her Force abilities while using stealth. She eventually encountered Finn, Han Solo, and Chewbacca again, who had come to sabotage Starkiller's shield generator, as well as rescue Rey. Rey, however, is captured by Ren and taken to Starkiller Base. Ren attempts to force the map from Rey's mind, but she resists him, and later escapes her cell with a Jedi mind trick.

Han is reunited with Leia when he, Chewbacca, and Finn are brought to the Resistance base on D'Qar. BB-8 encounters the 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 prepared to wipe out the world of D'Qar, the site of the Resistance's headquarters, but the Resistance planned an attack of their own. Finn, a defecting Stormtrooper, had given them the Base's blueprints, which revealed a critical weak point that, if destroyed, would eliminate the Base. However, they would need to do it before the base fully charged its weapon.
Han Solo piloted the Millenium Falcon to Starkiller Base accompanied by Chewbacca and Finn. Their objective was to disable the shields and allow the X-Wing squadron to strike, although Finn's main objective was to rescue Rey. Flying through the shields at lightspeed, the Falcon landed roughly on the edge of a cliff. Han, Chewbacca, and Finn snuck into the main base and captured Captain Phasma, who they forced to disable the shields before disposing her in a garbage chute. They reunited with Rey, who had already escaped on her own. With the shields down, Blue Squadron and Red Squadron led by Poe Dameron commenced their assault. They fired on the base's weakpoint, but failed to destroy it as the First Order sent TIE Fighters to stage a counterattack and throw the Resistance into chaos.

Seeing this, Han, Chewbacca, Finn, and Rey tried creating an opening by planting thermal detonators inside the base. Han then confronted Kylo Ren on a bridge over a large pit, pleading with his son to reject Snoke and return to the light side of the Force. However, Ren refused and impaled his father with his lightsaber, sending Han plummeting to his death as Finn, Rey, and Chewbacca looked on. Enraged, Chewbacca, Rey and Finn start firing at Ren and the Stormtroopers. Chewbacca injured Ren with his bowcaster, but Ren chased them out of the base. Ren caught up to Finn and Rey in the forest, and knocked Rey out by Force pushing her into a tree. An angered Finn pulled out Luke Skywalker's old lightsaber and attacked Ren in a rage. However, Ren easily overpowered the former Stormtrooper and dealt him a grievous injury. Suddenly, Rey arrived and used the Force to pull Luke's lightsaber into her hand. She then attacked Ren.
During this time, the thermal detonators went off in the base, allowing Poe to fly in and destroy the base's weak point thirty seconds before it drained the sun to charge the superweapon. This caused a chain reaction to go off, which destroyed the base and leveled the entire planet's terrain. Rey and Ren continued fighting, and Ren initially held the advantage. However, by calling on the Force, Rey was able to overpower Ren and deal him a severe wound while breaking his lightsaber. They were separated, however, due to a trench forming between them. Rey returned to Finn and began to despair as Finn would not wake up and they were trapped on the rupturing planet. However, Chewbacca arrived with the Millenium Falcon to rescue them. Inside the main base, chaos abounded as General Hux had departed and there was no way for anyone to escape. Hux, meanwhile, reported to Snoke, who ordered him to rescue Ren and flee the Base. The Millenium Falcon and the remainder of Black Squadron managed to escape Starkiller Base as it erupted into a ball of fire, and entered hyperspace to return to D'Qar.

The Resistance celebrates their victory while Leia, Chewbacca, and Rey mourn Han's death. R2-D2 suddenly awakens 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 the planet on which Luke Skywalker is hiding. Finn is recovering in the hospital, and Rey kisses him on the head and thanking him for everything as he sleeps. With R2-D2 and Chewbacca in tow, Rey follows the map to the distant planet, and journeyed across the island of the planet, which she had previously seen in her visions. She comes across Luke and presents him with his old lightsaber.

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