A pair of TIE fighters roar towards a large fleet that guarded a magnificent planet that was known to be frozen white. This planet was called Starkiller Base, a mobile, forested ice planet that was located in the Unknown Regions and served as a stronghold for the First Order. Ever since the First Order was established after the end of the First Galactic Civil War, converted the planet into a base of operations and owing to its unique energy-transmitting crystalline deposits. Unlike the Galactic Empire, the First Order designed a powerful superweapon that was capable of destroying entire solar systems. The First Order believed to be very superior than the ideals of the Galactic Empire and had the unlimited power source that the organization has to destroy its enemies.
Using the sun as a power source, the First Order had gathered numerous collectors on one side of the planet which would gather a lot of energy and redirect it to the planetary core, which was held in place by the natural magnetic field of the planet, as well as an artificial containment field maintained by the machinery the First Order had installed within the crust. Since the planetary magnetic field would not be enough to contain the amount of energy that the weapon had gathered, many technicians constructed a thermal oscillator into the planet. The oscillator had the ability to generate a containment field which would allow the installation to expend considerably less energy at containing the stronger energy than would be required using a steady containment field. A colossal hollow cylinder, which was very large to dominate the view of the planet from orbit in order to direct the blast towards a system, and also to absorb its energy.
With the First Order in control of that weapon, Starkiller Base had numerous facilities which included ship hangars, sanitation infrastructure, and amenities for the hundreds of FO stormtrooper garrisons.
Inside a large assembly room, Maber Yeff, Kylo Ren, and Armitage Hux gather in front and look upwards at someone sitting on top of the thrown. Hundreds of desks in a stadium arc focused on a platform where the three stand before Supreme Leader Snoke. Not entirely human, the being was nearly twenty-five feet tall where he sat at his thrown room. His entire outfit was stony grey, and he was described to be old, wounded, and fragile. Although been the ruler of the First Order, Snoke was known to be very strong in the dark side.
"The droid will soon be in the hands of the Confederation." Snoke addressed them in a deep, soothing voice. "Giving the enemy the means to protect the Jedi and locate Skywalker. The Jedi may have been brought into their cause, but with their most powerful ally. If the maps remain under the hands of the Confederation, then we will never find on where the Jedi's main base is, but for Skywalker, I know he lingers on a planet... waiting to be found."
General Hux began to speak towards him. "Supreme Leader, I take full responsibility for the..."
"GENERAL!" Snoke yelled in fury, rising from his throne. "Your apologies are not a strategy. We are here, now. It is what happens next that matters. Our strategy must now change."
"Forgive me, Supreme Leader." Hux expressed his deep apologies, but remained strong and brave.
"What is the status of the weapon?" Snoke demanded to know calmly as he sat himself down.
"The weapon is fully charged and ready to be used, Supreme Leader." Maber informed the status. "General Hux and I believe that it is time to use it."
"Against?" Snoke demanded the answer.
"The Galactic Alliance." Maber answered and went on. "Their capital world is located in the Hosnian System. Not Coruscant."
"It seems many have not recovered from the devastation on Coruscant." Snoke stated. "So the new Chief of State decided to move the Alliance's main capital to Hosnian Prime. That planet does not share any resemblance to Coruscant."
"No Supreme Leader." Hux shook his head. "For what its fractious proponents choose to call the Alliance. The center of government. Its entire system... in the chaos that will follow. The Confederation will have no choice but to investigate an attack of such devastating scale. They will throw all their resources into trying to discover its source. So they have no choice but to investigate fully and in so doing..."
"Reveal themselves." Snoke responded in a grin.
"And if they don't, we've destroyed them." Hux said.
"Yes, extreme artists." Snoke nodded. "I agree that the time for such measures has come."
"And without their friends to protect them, the Confederation will be vulnerable, and we will stop them before they reach Skywalker." Maber said.
"Go. You and general Hux can oversee the preparations." Snoke commanded them and sat himself down.
"As you wish, Supreme Leader." Maber complied to his master's command and left with Hux. Kylo Ren, however, stayed behind and watched his master and general Hux leave the throne room.
"My apprentice has never had a student with such promise before you." Snoke spoke in a new intimacy of his voice towards Kylo.
"It was yours and my master's teachings that made me strong Supreme Leader." Kylo said.
"It is far more than that." Snoke continued. "It is where you are from. What you are made of. The dark side—and the light. The finest sculptor cannot fashion a masterpiece from poor materials." He stares at him for a couple of seconds and went on. "You must have something pure, something strong, something unbreakable, with which to work."
"Darth Sidious." Kylo answered.
"And Lord Vader." Snoke added and went on. "We have you, Kylo Ren. I watched the Galactic Empire rise and then fall. The gullible prattle on about the triumph of truth and justice, of individualism and free will. As if such things were solid and real instead of simple subjective judgement. The historians had it all wrong. It was neither poor strategy nor arrogance that brought down the Empire. You know too well what did."
Kylo nodded once. "Sentiment."
"Yes. Such a simple thing. Such a foolish error of judgment. A momentary lapse in an otherwise exemplary life." Snoke went on. "Had Lord Vader not succumbed to emotion at the crucial moment—had the father killed the son—the Empire would have prevailed, and there would've been no threat of Skywalker's return today."
"I am immune to the light." Kylo steely resolved. "By the grace of your training, I will not be seduced."
"Your self belief is commendable Kylo Ren." Snoke acknowledged. "But do not let it blind you. No one knows the limits of his own power until it has been tested to the utmost as yours has not been. That day may yet come. There has been an awakening in the floors. Have you ever felt it?"
"Yes." Kylo answered.
"The elements are alive Kylo Ren." Snoke revealed. "You alone are caught in the winds of the storm. Your bond is not just greater, but to Skywalker himself."
"There is no need for concern." Kylo Ren reacted with subtle, but felt real and surprised. "Together we will destroy the Confederation, the Jedi, the Sith, and every government that dares to oppose us."
"Perhaps... it has come to our notice that the droid we seek is aboard the Millennium Falcon." Snoke brought up. "Once again in the hands of your grandfather, Han Solo. Even you, master of the Knights of Ren, have never faced such a test."
"It does not matter." Kylo argued. "He means nothing to me. My allegiance is with you. No one will stand in our way."
"We shall see." Snoke responded in a gentle nod and begins to disintegrate. "We shall see."
It turns out that Snoke wasn't a giant alien after all. It was just a hologram.