A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...
Star Wars
The Force Ascends
Starkiller Base obliterated! After a successful takedown of the First Order's planetary weapon, the Resistance celebrates a seemingly grand victory in their first step to take down the sinister First Order. However, the victory came at the cost of Han Solo's life, who was brutally killed by his own son, Ben Solo, who is widely known to the galaxy as Kylo Ren.
Having sustained several bodily injuries from both Finn, a stormtrooper who renounced the First Order and Rey, a young woman that had awakened the Force within her, Kylo Ren gets escorted by General Hux back to Snoke to heal from his wounds and complete his Dark Side training.
Back on D'Qar, the Resistance, lead by General Leia Organa, begins to organize and strategize several plans to rebuild the New Republic once more, after its recent obliteration by the now destroyed Starkiller Base. At the Resistance headquarters, Finn lies in a deep coma, after sustaining a deep cut into his back by the blade of Kylo Ren's lightsaber. He is unaware of what has happened to Starkiller Base, to the Resistance, and to Rey.
Rey, after telling a comatose Finn that they will meet again, follows the map that had been pieced together by both R2-D2 and BB-8. With Chewbacca as her co-pilot and R2-D2 as a passenger, Rey flies the Millennium Falcon to the coordinates and lands on an island, eventually finding Luke Skywalker. She shows Luke his old lightsaber, severely hoping that Luke Skywalker will accept and train her in the ways of the Force.
While Rey follows the path she chose, an undercover spy for the Resistance has recently contacted General Leia Organa, informing her that several squads of First Order stormtroopers have appeared on Tatooine and that they are searching for anything relating to Luke Skywalker and his past. Fearing that the First Order might find something of importance and believing that something is there that could alter the fate of the galaxy, General Leia once again sends Poe Dameron, the Resistance's best pilot to Tatooine, alone to keep the First Order unaware of a Resistance mission to Tatooine. His orders are to follow the coordinate's to Luke Skywalker's old farm home before the First Order finds it, salvage anything that he might find of use to both Luke Skywalker or the Resistance, and destroy everything else so that it does not fall into the First Order's hands.
However Poe is unaware that this mission will be the start of a new journey, not only for him and the Resistance, but also for one that can alter the fate of the galaxy...