The first thing I feel is pain in my head and my hand as I start to become aware of my surroundings, the next is the heat. In my throat it feels as though there is a lump and my mouth is parched. I cough as I open my eyes, inhaling my lungs full of smoke.
/I look up waving my hands to disperse the smogand notice the bloody bandage, I must have split the stitching in the crash, then I notice the nose of my fighter is ploughed into the sand up to the cockpit glass. I press a button to open the cockpit
/but it doesn't work, still coughing from the smoke I try again with the same result so I un-clip my harness and start to climb out of the cockpit, pushing on the glass with my entire arm and my shoulder.

I would have burned had I not been wearing my jacket. Once my feet are firmly on the ground, as firm as you can get with soft sand underfoot, I take my helmet off and dump it on the floor, there's a slight dent in my helmet and my head is throbbing, must
/have hit my head in the crash. I focus on breathing the smoke out of my lungs as I look around to see any signs of life in what looks like a barren desert. Where am I? How did I end up here? I wonder as I try to think about what happened finding
I'm

/unable to remember. But then on the horizon, not too far away, a large outcropping of rocks with what looks like structures atop them and... Smoke?

I make my way over to the structures and to my relief it is a settlement, but there are no people, I see a tap that's dripping water and move over to it turning it on and automatically drinking from it and splashing some over my face to cool down.

After refreshing myself I move further into the settlement. It looks as though whatever they were doing they just stopped. I can smell a horrible stench of something burning and as I get closer I see why.

There are bodies... Blackened... Burning... Then I see more dead bodies, women, elderly, even children, though some villagers had weapons others were unarmed. All are dead. Who could have done this? I pick up a blaster just in case any hostiles are
/still in the area.

As I move closer to the centre of the settlement I notice bodies with the unmistakeable black and white armour of a stormtroopers. The defenders of this place put up a good fight. But then as I get to the centre I see what looks like all the rest of the
/villagers, it looks as though they were surrounded and then butchered. I hang my head regretting that there was nothing I could do. The First Order must be stopped before any more innocents are murdered.

I look around to see if there is anything I can use to get out of this place, if not a ship a vehicle of some sort so I can go and find a ship in another settlement, assuming there is another settlement on this planet. As I'm walking around the settlement
/checking every piece of technology I see wondering if it works I come across an advanced blaster, more advanced than anything else in this place I pick it up and look at it looks like it'll still works. I put down the blaster I picked up earlier
and

/sling this one over my back with the strap that is attached to it before looking around for a vehicle again.

I notice what looks like an X-Wing on the outskirts of the settlement and I jog over to it slowing down as I noticed it's badly damaged and still smoking. I then realise that this ship and the blaster must be Poe's. That's what I was doing, I was looking
/for him, I was shot down by the first order. I check the cockpit, no one, thankfully, so I turn around and start calling for him hoping he can hear me if he's nearby. I go back to where I found the blaster and look around there, when that failed
I

/check in every building and every body, I pause on one body, an elder who looks familiar, he wasn't killed by blaster or fire like other villagers, but... blade... The wound looks like it instantly cauterised. I reluctantly stand up from the face
/I recognise but can not place and I start to look for Poe again, or at least his body.

Thankfully I don't find him among the dead. I can only hope he and BB8 got away safely. However, I did find a modified speeder. I check that it works and I'm eternally thankful when it does. I grab a bag and some water canisters that I have found, filling
/them up from the tap I used when I first arrived and putting them in the bag with some food. I don't know how long it'll take to find another village after-all. I look out at the empty desert wondering which way to go. I look up to see which direction
/the sun is moving, it's not even mid day yet, I decide to head the same way as the sun. With one last look back at the village the elder still on my mind, I set off with the hot sun at my back. Who was he? Why do I feel I know him? And... what sort
/of weapon could do that? There's nothing but sand and salt flats for miles with the occasional marker, which I hope means I am heading the right way.

I stop to get a drink while still sitting on the speeder. The sun is now high in the sky and the heat is intense, causing me to stop to drink every so often. If I don't find a settlement soon I may end up dying out here. I put the canister of water away
/and set off again in the same direction as before, it would be silly to change course now.

I stop and look with disbelieving eyes at an arch in the distance with what looks like ships and speeders parked around the gate. I can slightly make out the shape of tents and movement, so without further hesitation I put my foot down and head straight
/for it. To my relief it's not a mirage.

I park the speeder near the gates and dismount, keeping my bag slung over my right shoulder crossing my body. And blaster on my left shoulder slung over to my right, keeping it ready just in case these people are hostile, but as I walk around looking
/for someone to ask about a ship, all I see are scavengers, this is a scavenger town? Either way someone will be in charge. I wander around until I hear something out of place here, beeping, like a droid. I look around curiously as I hear commotion
mand spot a spherical orange and

/white droid speeding after a running woman who is chasing a man.

"BB8?" I say confused.

Before my brain has time to register what just happened I start running to catch up with the astromech.