As the war had recently started, the First Order began to focus its attention in destroying the New Jedi Order and the One Sith. Somewhere in the Western Reaches, two Resurgent-class Star Destroyers had just emerged out of hyperspace. Both of these star destroyers were called Finalizer and Palpatine. The Finalizer and Palpatine were very larger than the ordinary Star Destroyers that had served the Galactic Empire and Imperial Remnant. These ships were not designed by the KDY on Kurt. Instead, they were designed by the Kuat-Entralla Engineering, a manufacturing Chiss company that did its business on Bogo Rai.
Bogo Rai had been colonized nearly thousands of years ago and was populated by over 8 billion Chiss while Csilla was populated by over 12 billion. However, Bogo Rai and Csilla were not the only planets that the Chiss lived. More than trillions had settled on Sarvchi, Crustai, Tenupe, Thrago, Rata Nebula, Rhigar, Mobs, Niruan, Taat, Thule, and Yashuvhu. While many Chiss from every colonized world had affiliated with either the New Jedi Order, the One Sith, the Confederation, the Fel Empire, or the Galactic Alliance, all the Chiss of Bogo Rai pledged their service to the First Order. Snoke favored the Chiss of Bogo Rai and recruited many to serve in the First Order's military ranks as FO Stormtroopers.
As the Finalizer and Palpatine were eclipsing one of the moons in the system, four transport ships fly from the hangar of the Finalizer and fly off towards Jakku. Similar to Tatooine, a world where the Skywalkers had originated, Jakku was a desert world that was located in the Western Reaches, and was known by many individuals to be relatively worthless ever since it was colonized by the Huts since the end of the New Sith Wars. For almost a thousand years, the Huts had hosted the Wheel Races in the north and the mining operations that dotted in a number of spots. Although Jakku was known to be highly civilized since many colonists had built a number of settlements on the planet, but what they did not know is that the planet was recently occupied by the Galactic Empire.
At some point during the First Galactic Civil War, the Galactic Empire established a number of weapon facilities on the planet. The Hutts were forced to do business with the Empire since they feared on what their Imperial employers would do. However, in the year 5 ABY, the newly formed New Galactic Republic, before it was renamed the Galactic Alliance during the Yuuzhan Vong War, launched their invasion on the planet and battled the Imperial forces. Dozens of Star Destroyers, hundreds of Imperial walkers, and thousands of TIE fighters were destroyed, and as fifty years had passed, the wreckage from the battle would be known as the "Starship Graveyard".
As for the First Order, each of the four transport vehicles carried about four battalions of FO Stormtroopers that were ready to be deployed under the command of Captain Phasma. A growing roar of mean engines gnarled like radio calls in one of the transports that Phasma was on. Under Phasma's orders, each stormtrooper locked and loaded their heavy blaster rifles.
Just as the First Order Military force was on their way, a Confederation pilot, known as Poe Dameron, had just recently landed on Tuanul, a peaceful village located in Kelvin Ravine. The villagers of Tuanul were all affiliated with the Church of the Force, a known organization that worship and hold their friendly ties with the Jedi. Founded by a famous explorer named Lor San Tekka during the time of the First Galactic Civil War, some of the members were Force-sensitive and always remained with the light side.
Lor San Tekka was a very kind individual. As a young boy, he always held a high regard to the Jedi of the Old Order. Following their law and nature, Lor knew that he was too old to be brought to the Jedi Temple ever since the Clone Wars began. While remaining out of harm's reach, Tekka was quite shocked on what had happened to the Jedi that were betrayed by the Republic and Emperor Palpatine branding the Jedi as traitors. Following the Galactic Empire's establishment, Lor refused to believe that the Jedi betrayed the Republic since he already saw how evil the Empire was from within and considered Palpatine's words to be a sinister lie. Sometime after the Rebel Alliance was established after the death of Galen Marek, Lor traveled to the planet Tython, the ancient birth world of the Old Jedi Order which was never found or occupied by the Empire. There, he uncovered much of the Jedi's history on that planet and had spoke to several spirits such as Praven, Revan, Bastila Shan, and Syo Bakarn. With all the knowledge he carried and keeping it all hidden to prevent the Empire from finding out, Lor formed the Church of the Force, in which he recruited many individuals from various systems that wanted to seek him out for his knowledge in Jedi lore.
While living on Jakku since the end of the Second Galactic Civil War, Lor went into retirement, but had discovered two partial maps that revealed the location of two Jedi Temples; one on Ahch-To and the other on Shedu Maad, the world which was currently occupied by the New Jedi Order ever since they left Coruscant eleven years ago. The Jedi Temple on Ahch-To was one of the first temples that were built by the Old Jedi Order during its establishment and had never been discovered by the Empire ever since the Great Jedi Purge. As a loyal ally to Luke Skywalker, he received word from one of his members that the Grand Master had recently traveled to Ahch-To to uncover knowledge from that old ruined temple.
The First Order was on the verge in hunting Luke first and all the Jedi of the new formed Order he established long ago. Lor was willing to protect the Jedi at all cost and prevent the First Order from finding these maps.
Outside the village, a orange and white-colored, round and skittery droid focuses on something. His name was BB-8. Noticing the First Order approaching Tuanul, he made a loud beeping sound which was fast, morse, and sounded like a code sound. He continued to beep more in worry and quickly rolls towards a large hut.
Inside the hut, Lor San Tekka had a pleasant conversation. The elderly man took out a small sack which carried two sections of the navigational chart. He hands the sack over to Poe, who was wearing a pilot's jacket.
"This is all that you need," Lor said to him. "The Galactic Alliance may not approve this."
"But the Jedi will, and so will the Confederation," Poe said.
"I'm glad you chose a good side for this, Poe Dameron," Lor acknowledged. "But, the Jedi are in grave peril… again."
"What do you mean?" Poe asked, looking quite concerned of what he said.
"What I mean is, the First Order seeks to eradicate all of the Jedi and Sith," Lor began his explanation. "Removing all knowledge and existence of them. The Supreme Leader is a being of the dark side, but he does not carry any knowledge or sympathy with the Sith. The Sith still exist, but keep themselves hidden… not wanting to be found. I suspect that they might have even bigger plans."
Poe takes a moment to look at the sack with a natural spark of charisma.
"This will begin to make things right, Poe," Lor continued. "For many years, I have traveled far across, seeking all the knowledge I found on Tython, and seen too much despair. This cannot be ignored. Like the Empire, the First Order will eradicate all the Jedi, and without them, there can be no balance in the Force."
"Well, because of you now we have a chance," Poe replied. "General Organa will be pleased to hear of this."
"The General," Lor smiled. "To me, she's royalty."
"Well, she certainly is that," Poe smiled back.
"Tell her I send my regards," Lor instructed him. "And tell her everything on what the First Order plans to do."
"I will," Poe promised. "I won't let you down for this."
BB-8 enters frantically between them with a loud beep. Poe was concerned, but since he can speak droid, he understood what his droid was meaning.
Poe turns to Lor and said. "We've got company."
Just as two quickly exit the hut, Poe raises his quadnoculars and spots four enemy ships approaching towards the village. Seeing that it was the First Order, he lowers his quadnocs and his grew unnerved.
"You have to hide," Poe told him.
"No," Lor shook his head as he he stared at the upcoming enemy. "You need to leave."
Poe turns to look at him and was quite conflicted. "What about you?"
"There's no point in this," Lor responded quickly. "Take the maps. Keep them safe. Go!"
Poe didn't want to leave him or the villagers behind to suffer the wrath of the First Order, but he was forced to comply comply by giving Lor a nods and hurries off with BB-8 following him from behind. While Poe and his friend hurry through the village, dozens of well-armed villagers take position, load their weapons to fire, and prepare to defend their village at all cost.
Once the transports had landed at a roar of wind, every FO Stormtroopers comes out, and the villagers open fire at the enemy. Several Stormtroopers were already shot down, but the rest fired back at the armed villagers. Half of the village's defenders were hit by enemy fire while the rest continue to fight, and try to buy enough time for Poe and BB-8 to escape.
As the fighting continued to press on, Poe runs towards his X-Wing fighter which was parked behind a rock outcropping about a short distance away from the village.
"Come on, BB-8! Hurry!" Poe shouted.
BB-8 speeds quickly as possible. Approaching the X-Wing fighter, Poe sends his droid in the droid socket, known to be the co-pilot seat. Once his droid was locked on, Poe quickly moves to the cockpit and shoots a quick look when the enemy was nearly close in overwhelming the villagers. Poe urgently works the controls while BB-8 was beeping in a panic until the landing lights come on immediately. The engines whirl to life, but his chance to escape with the maps were halted when two stormtroopers spotted the ship.
"Over there!" A stormtrooper yelled.
The stormtroopers aim their guns from behind Poe's fighter, causing heavy damage to prevent Poe and BB-8 from escaping. Poe turns to look and sees that the two stormtroopers that fired his ship were charging his way while firing. BB-8 continued to beep nervously in a panic.
"I see 'em!" Poe responded loudly and grabs hold of his controls. Without hesitating, he fires back at the enemy, using the X-Wing's drop down antipersonnel blaster. He tris to start the ship now, but the whole engines were sputtered from all the heavy fire they received. Poe was concerned and opens the canopy to check the back of his ship.
During the attack, Lor San Tekka moves sadly through the village several FO Stormtroopers were wielding flame throwers and used them to destroy every structure in the village. All the surrendering villagers were been rounded up while the penned animals were crying in a terrible panic.
Back at the X-Wing, Poe kneels beneath his ship and pulls the leather sack which held the two maps that Lor gave to him. He quickly inserts them into BB-8's multi-reader which envelops them.
"You take these," Poe instructed his friend. "They're safer with you than it is with me. You get as far away from here as you can. Do you hear me? I'll come back for you! It will be alright."
BB-8 watches his master run off. He deeply whines nervously, then turns and heads off to move as far away from the burning village. Poe then rolls away to avoid blaster fire and uses his blaster fire to shoot down incoming troopers from cover. Then, he takes aim and shoots at one trooper, who seemed to have been helping one the villagers rather than rounding them up. Another trooper saw what happened to his partner and kneels down to help him.
The trooper's name was FN-2003, but he usually called himself Slip. Slip was known in the military to be one of the most weakest stormtroopers, and Captain Phasma found him hardly worthy in the First Order. He tried as much to impress his superiors but every time he fails. This would make him to think that serving in the military was one of his biggest mistakes, and that one day, he would choose to leave and start a life where he would not be enslaved to a local government that sought to conquer the whole universe. However, his chance to do so would never come true since his wound that he received from Poe was fatal.
The other trooper that was doing his part in helping him was his friend FN-2187. FN-2187 tried to find someone who could help him and Slip, but it was no use. He turns back to his squad mate, who raises his torn bloody glove and marks FN-2187's front helmet with blood just before he succumbs to his wound. This incident started to effect FN-2187, but when he stood up, he began to react when he was surrounded by the horror that was happening.
While the villagers were been rounded up, an imposing shuttle craft approaches near the end of the fight. This vertical wingspan was described to be much larger than a Lambda-class T-4a shuttle. The shuttle landed near the transport vehicles and seconds later, the craft door opens throughout the wind and smoke, and coming out first was a tall dark figure who wore a mask that resembled the one that was related to Revan during the Old Republic.
Just as the dark figure strides through the chaos and walks over to San Tekka, a senior FO Stormtrooper officer moves to FN-2187.
"Stay here," The Senior trooper ordered.
FN-2187 was forced to comply to his officer's command and remained in line with the other stormtroopers that surrounded the unarmed villagers.
The dark figure stops before the outraged Lor San Tekka, dwarfing him. Only now does it become apparent that the dark knight wears a dark mask which was marked by battle.
"Look how old you've become," The dark figure responded his first words towards Lor San Tekka through the mask.
"Something far worse has happened to you," Lor replied back to him.
"You know what I've come for," The dark figure indicated.
"And I know where you come from," Lor brought up. "Before you called yourself Kylo Ren."
"The maps to Skywalker and the Jedi," Kylo said. "We know you've found them, and now you're going to give them to the First Order."
"Do you honestly think I would be a fool to ever give the two sections of the navigational chart to you?" Lor asked, refusing to obey since he had already gave them to Poe. "You are nothing but a slave to your master's will. The First Order rose from the dark side, Kylo. Did you not know that?"
"I'll show you the dark side, old man," Kylo threatened him.
"You may try, but you cannot deny the truth that is your family," Lor concluded.
"You're so right," Kylo replied, and at a split second, he ignites his lightsaber and rips it down across Lor San Tekka.
At the sight of shock, Poe let out an angry yell to avenge Lor San Tekka and aims his blaster at Kylo Ren. Once he pulled the trigger and fired directly at Kylo, the dark knight raises his hand to freeze the bolt of energy which was straining and vibrating in mid air. Not only did Kylo prevented the bolt from moving towards him, but he saw Poe immediately and had used the Force to strain him also.
Poe couldn't move with his weapon locked in his hand. He tried as much to get away, but it was too late since two stormtroopers rush over to restrain him and drag the pilot to Kylo Ren. Kylo moves to closer to meet his gaze while Poe just glared at him when he received a brutal pat down from a stormtrooper. The stormtrooper kicks out Poe's legs, causing him to land hard on his knees. Kylo kneels to stare at Poe.
"So who talks first? You talk first? I talk first?" Poe pretended to ask in a certain pace.
"The old man gave them to you," Kylo said.
Much to Poe's surprise, he had no idea how Kylo knew that Lor gave them the two sections of the navigational chart to him. Then, he continued to try and play along since he was willing to hide everything and pretend that he didn't know anything, but Kylo was not fooled.
Poe began to indicate Kylo's mask as he continued to speak. "I'm sorry, but its just very hard for me to understand you with all the…"
Kylo turns to his fellow stormtroopers that held Poe and commanded. "Search him."
"Apparatus," Poe finished just as the two stormtroopers roughly pull Poe away and search him. He continues to glare at him even more since he did not appreciate his certain capture.
"There's nothing sir," The stormtrooper said.
"Put him on board," Kylo ordered him and other trooper to escort Poe to his shuttle.
"Yes, sir," The stormtrooper complied.
As Kylo regards the stormtroopers with the rounded up villagers, Captain Phasma approaches him.
"Sir, the villagers?" Phasma asked.
"Kill them all," Kylo commanded her.
At Kylo's command, all the Stormtroopers, which included FN-2187, were forced to aim at the innocent villagers who were quite terrified.
"On my command!" Phasma commanded loudly. "Fire!"
Poe turns his head and looks on in horror on what the enemy was doing to the innocent and helpless villagers.
"No! NO!" Poe cried in horror as he is roughly pulled into the transport shuttle and the ramp lifts.
All around, FN-2187 was the only one in Phasma's battalion who did not follow his captain's command in executing innocent villagers who were afraid and defensive. When the slaughtering was over, all the FO Stormtroopers spread out to search while Kylo Ren heads back toward his ship to have his prisoner interrogated on the whereabouts of the two maps that Lor San Tekka gave to him. The dark warrior makes a complete stop, feeling a disturbance in the Force. He turns and stares suspiciously at FN-2187. FN-2187 can barely meet his gaze, but he knows that he's doomed. Rather than wanting to question him, Kylo Ren turns away from the stormtrooper heads off, and allowing the blast that he froze to go free and slams into a nearby structure, scaring the hell out of FN-2187.
After the destruction of Tuanal, the four troop transports and Kylo Ren's Shuttle approach the Finalizer. The Finalizer was commanded by Admiral Themion, a lieutenant who served within in the Eriaduan judicial forces during the Yuuzhan Vong War. However, he had worked with the Peace Brigade, an allied government of the Yuuzhan Vong. He became a marked fugitive for his betrayal, but had traveled far into the Unknown Region where he joined the First Order.
Inside the hangar of the Finalizer, Poe was shackled and ushered from the transport through the hangar. He was awed by the imposing space that he had never seen before in his life.
"All right. All right!" Poe exclaimed as a stormtrooper was pulling him to his cell.
While many FO Stormtroopers pass by, FN-2187 watches Poe been taken and enters the troop transport vehicle. Checking that no one was here, he removes his helmet. FN-2187 was highly terrified of what had just happened on Jakku. After a beat behind him, Captain Phasma enters the transport to check on him.
"FN-2187. Submit your blaster for inspection," Phasma ordered.
"Yes, Captain," FN-2187 complied while breathing in stress.
"And who gave you permission to remove that helmet?" Phasma asked.
"I'm sorry, Captain," FN-2187 apologized.
"Stormtroopers do not apologize during battle," Phasma added. "But in the meantime, you are to report to my division at once."
Just as Phasma heads off immediately, FN-2187 was shattered by all the terrible that inflicted upon him, as he began to think on what he should do. Before that can wait, he puts his helmet back on.
Elsewhere in the Finalizer, Kylo Ren walks inside the bridge of the star destroyer where he meets with his master Maber Yeff, Admiral Themion, and General Hux.
"The situation is not going well as planned," Hux argued between Themion and Maber.
"My apprentice has completed his task just as I anticipated," Maber said.
"Anticipated?!" Hux snapped. "Our job was to claim the maps that were placed in the hands of a spacer, and now word has been reached that they are lost."
"I've already found a way to find them," Kylo spoke to them in the meeting.
"And what is that exactly?" Hux asked harshly.
"My apprentice has just informed me of capturing a Confederation pilot who knows where he hid the maps that would lead us to the Jedi," Maber informed the news.
"Why was I not informed of this after the village was ransacked?" Hux demanded to know the reason.
Maber sighed and said his response. "You just were."
"Very well," Hux responded hastily in soft tone. "I'll have Admiral Themion to inform Snoke of this. But in the meantime, interrogate this pilot so we can get what we need."
"As you wish, general," Maber complied and left the bridge. "Do what must be done, Kylo."
"Yes, my master," Kylo complied.