The darkness which sat uninterpreted for so long was only broken by the door being pulled off, the force from entry sent the door flying in to the wind, leaving the perpetrator looking in.

Standing in Star Destroyer officer quarters, they moved around and sideways room as they looked for anything of value inside. Rummaging around they pulled out a few items, a data pad, comm's and a few tattered pieces of tech Placing them in pouch bag hung around their waist. Finding nothing else of value they made their departure, as stepped out and came to face a rope hanging in the hall way.

Zipping down the rope they soon came to the hanger, landing on sand that now covered much of the ship. As they looked around at the few times at what left scattered around. They moved over to a waiting speeder bike, that had a small side pod, for a second rider, chucking their bag in they went back to the rope and gave a massive tug. The rope came loose and began to fall rapidly before the sound of clanging metal could be herd getting louder, soon enough landing on the rope came a long poll. Ounce a hunk of metal now a useful tool, picking it all up they chucked it in to the pod, before climbing in to the drivers seat.

Before setting of, they performed a ritual of sorts to get it started up, which included smashing it with a hammer on chain that sat on the side and revving it up before hand. But ounce it has started up they made their exit, sending sand up as they shot out of the ships hull and out in to the hot sun and sandy desert. Heading off over the dunes, they moved past more crashed imperial space debris, as it rotted away.


The out post sat in the middle of dune sea that covered the area on all sides, landing platforms were scarce but where dotted around, tents where set up along with a few buildings amidst a large parking station where all manor of transports sat. Arriving on the speeder bike the figure parked it and removed their head scarf and took a breath as she looked out at the rising sun.

"A bit early, aren't you Rey?" asked one of the patrons of a near by tent.

Rey looked over "Go put your head in the sand." she replied "I've got some stuff to sell." she said picking up her bag.

"The water cleaning station isn't open yet."

"They don't need cleaning."

The on looker sniggered, leaving Rey to move over to the largest of the buildings, as she started taking a rest under the over hang that blocked out the sun. She slammed a service hatch repeatedly waiting for reply, after she got no response she started up again only to have the hatch open up.

"What do you want." grunted the voice.

"Hay Plutt, I've got stuff to sell."

"It's Unkar, girl" he replied slurring the word.

Rey became miffed as she emptied the backs contents of the to the counter. Unkar scratched himself before pouring over what she had brought, picking up each item making noises before taking it and throwing it over his shoulder.

"Anything else?" he asked.

"No." replied Rey confused.

Unkar tried to close the shop, but Rey interjected.

"Hay, isn't that worth anything?" she snapped.

"A bunch of old empire relics, that's not worth my time."

"Don't I even get anything?" she asked.

Unkar looked down at her, seeing she was not going to leave him alone he sighed and spun around grabbing something and slapping it down on the counter.

"Half a portion are you kidding me?"

Unkar went to take it back but Rey just scoped it up looking defenceless. Unkar closed up shop as Ray turned away.

"Crummy first order, first they take away paying us for scarp, know they pay is in dwindling food rations." Rey cursed.


Speeding over the dune Rey had her head gear back on as the sand was kicked up and blown in to the air. In the distance was a small stand stone hill, that had the silhouette of the small village atop it.

Arriving ray pulled her bike up a ramp and brought it to the top to find the settlement was empty and the bodies of the dead where scattered all over. Dropping everything, she raced over and started looking thought he deceased, her heart racing. Unable to find what was looking for she looked around and spotted him, Lor.

"NO!" she screamed racing over to hold his dead body in her arms, the tears rolling down her face.

As she pulled her self out of her funk she looked to see a strange burn mark on his body, looking deeper at it the sound of metal falling caught her of guard. Getting up she looked over to her speeder bike, the poll was left in the side pod. The sound happened again and Rey made a slow move over to the pod looking out for were the sound was coming from. It came again and she reached for the poll and griped it tight, holding it like a weapon she moved towards the sound as it came again.

Just out side the town hidden behind some buildings was a downed fighter and caught underneath was a small BB unit. Becoming relaxed the she bent down and looked at the droid, taking note of her it tired to move it, it pushed against some metal holding it back, bit stopped which caused it clang.

"Here let me help you out." she said, putting her poll in.

She put in far enough to used it as levy, and put her weight body weight on causing enough lift to left BB8 out. He rolled out and beeps his gratitude towards Rey.

"Where did you come from?" she asked "Do you know what happened here?"

BB8 tried to tell her what happened, but as he beeped Rey just tilted her head.

"Look, I'm going stop you right there." she interjected "I can't understand a word your saying, now if you don't mined, I need to take care of a few things."

BB8 watched on as Rey took last burial rights.


Waking up in the desert FN 2187 woke up finding himself laying among the debris of the shuttle, looking around he scanned the area and spotted Poe. Racing over to him he found he was laying half buried in sand and ship, pulling him free he found blood was seeping from his side where a metal sharp was poking in.

"Are you okay?" asked FN, as he tried waking Poe.

Coming back around Poe seethed in pain, as he was covered in brushes and cuts from the crash.

"Can you walk?"

"Let me try?"

FN helped him up but when Poe tired to stand by himself he was unable to and FN was forced to catch him, and hold him up.

"We need to move, before the First Order arrive."

"Agreed, but we need to find my droid."

"Your droid?"

"Yes."

"Do you have a concussion, as you may need to get your priorities straight."

"I am, my droid is carrying something very important."

"Well good luck finding him." said FN dropping Poe.

"What are you doing?" he asked, as he fell to the floor.

"I'm not, going to help you find a droid. Not when the first order is going to be hunting us."

"Well good luck finding a pilot, or anyone else that's willing to help you?"

"Fine." said FN reaching out a hand. "We can look for your droid." and he pulled up Poe.

"Good, he's an orange and white BB unit, if you do see him."

"And you already know what the first order looks like."

As Poe rested on FN to walk to the two stopped just short of departure.

"Do you know where we are?" asked Poe.

"No, why would I."

"We aren't going to get far, are we?"


Sitting in meditation Kylo Ren sat in his quarters with the holocron sitting in front of him. His mind was focussing on the holocron as he looked at it though the force, blurry images flashed in his mind. One of the holocron being take out by a Jedi, then another one of a young girl looking on in aww as it was activated, then the crystal in the hands hands of a droid before it faded out.

On the bridge Hux was over looking the other flight officers when Phasma walked in, and Hux took note calling her over.

"Captain, I have a report from the reconnaissance probes you sent out to the village. Their scans showed signs of survivors."

"I'm sorry general, I'll make sure it won't happen again."

"They also showed signs, that the resistance fighter that pilot was using. Came with built in astromech series compartment."

"We found no droid in the wreckage."

"That may be Captain, but this droid port was altered to fit a new BB unit. But no sigh of the droid was found."

"Perhaps, there was no droid on board."

"The resistance, would not likely alterer their ships to hold a BB unit if they did not have one, I want a ground crew down there looking for any signs of a droid."

"Yes General."


The sun was setting over the village as Rey threw on the last of the flammable objects she could find to start the funereal pier, before sitting down in the sands.

"Lor always told me he wanted a cremation." recalled Rey, as he held his lightsaber in her hands.

BB8 just looked at her.

"I saw him do some amazing things, but he never wanted me to know he could."

BB8 gave his thoughts but Rey just looked at him and and went back to looking at the fire.

"I used to sneak up on his tent when I was little to catch a peek at what he could do." she remembered "I even could do stuff like that when I was little, ounce. Before I was left in Lor's care." her tone became sombre. "I'll report this tomorrow to Unkar, I don't think anyone had any family here, so I guess it's first come first serve. But I'll take Lor's stuff, seems only fair. And hay maybe it might be worth something."

Getting up she went over to the downed fighter and BB8 watched, unsure on where to go, then he noticed Rey was taking apart the ship. Racing over and gave off angry beeping sounds, as he taped her leg.

"Hay, no ones coming back here, and I need all I can get if I'm going leave." she looked sombrely out over the sand dunes. "There's nothing left for me here, and I'm sure my family is out there, it's about time I found them."


FN and Poe where walking though the dunes, Poe was rubbing him self for warmth as the night became cold.

"Aren't you cold in that thing?" he asked Poe

"No, the amour is insulated to keep me comfortable in all weather." FN replied.

"What about out here."

"In extreme heat and cold it's not so good, but I feel better inside then out."

"Okay, any chance me getting in on that.

"Not really."

"Well you might want to ditch, the uniform."

"Why?"

"Not many people are going to want to see you in that."

"This planet, is under First Order control. I think this way I might be able to blend in more."

"Okay, far enough." agreed Poe.

They carried on as they made their way over another dune.

"Hay I don't want to seem forward, but I don't know how long we are going to be together, and I don't want to have to shout out, hay guy when I need to talk to you. Any chance you can give me a name to call you."

"If you must my designation is FN 2187."

"No name."

"I was never give one, all trooper's and lower ranking officers are given a number."

"What about your parents didn't they give you one."

"As a First Order trooper, my name and any previous affiliations are removed from memory during our conditioning."

"Conditioning? What's that."

"It's what we go though after we're taken from our families to serve the First Order."

Poe fell silent.


Rey had returned to her speeder throwing all she had taken in to the side pod, with the lightsaber know on her belt. BB8 had followed her over and was rocking back and fourth as he gave long sad beep.

"What, I'm not taking you with me."

BB8 beeped some more.

"Fine what ever, I'll take you back home, then I'll drop you off in town, do what you want from there." sighed Ray.

BB8 beeped for joy as Rey picked him and struggled to put him down safely in the pod. Hopping on they set off brining up sand as they left, and as they did a set of gunships broke though that atmosphere on their way to the planet.


Hux was walking the bridge, when a officer reported in.

"Were receiving an incoming transmission, from the ground forces sir."

"Bring them up." said Hux.

The top of a trooper appeared as a hologram on the bridge, three times the size of a person.

"General, we've found the shuttle."

"And?


On the planet below the trooper had stepped away from the main wreckage, as other troopers combed the area. They where holding a small hologram comm device out in front of them, that displayed Hux standing before them.

"We've found, no signs that they died in the crash, much of the site has been buried in sand since the impact"

"That it worthless to me."

"Yes sir, but we have found remnants of tracks leaving the crash site. We have reason to believe they are wandering the desert."

"They are not getting of this planet, fall back to the ship."

"Yes General."

The line of communication was cut off and the Trooper called for the troop's to head back to the ship.


Back on the bridge Hux having ended the call, turned to a flight officer.

"Bring up a map of all major populated area's." demanded Hux.

A new hologram of the plant was brought up with a single red dot in place.

"Is this it?" Hux grunted.

"Yes general."

"Add all know populated area's."

As he walked around the hologram a few more dots popped up.

"Okay know show me the crash site."

A third dot appeared.

"Have the ground forces at the crash site head to the junker out post, and recall Captain Phasma and her forces when they finish up, there's only one way of that planet." smiled Hux and he walked away.

The red dot on the map was still there, flashing away.


The red mark on the side of the downed fighter was similar to that one carried by the rebellion and know the new republic. It was shot by a trooper before they disrespected it some more. Phasma was standing in the winds of the night as the other troopers used light attachments to their head gear to see in the dark.

"Captain." called a trooper.

Phasma harked too, pulling her self away and over towards the trooper.

"Report?" she asked.

"There was someone in the ship, the tracks went of this this direction." they shined a light on single tread in the sand.

"Have these tacks marked against a navigation computer." said Phasma.

More troopers where signalled over and began to follow the tracks in the sand.

"Look sir droid's." said a Trooper coming up with a spare droid component.


It was day brake by the time Rey and BB8 arrived in the junker outpost, First Order forces where already on patrol in and around the area. BB8 noticed as them as they where coming in to park the speeder bike, and beeped a few times at Rey.

"What, there's nothing to worry you here, I'll let you out in moment." she said.

Dismounting she took BB8 out and began to unpack all she had in the pod and carry it over to Unkar's service window.

As she arrived someone was finishing up their business, arguing over what they had brought before, giving up and taking away their rations.

Unkar watched them leave before seeing Rey had arrived "Back again I see."

Rey only dumped the stuff own on the counter, forcing Unkar to dig though it all.

"Having a clear out? He asked as he sifted though he items."

"Sort off, the settlement on the north ridge was torched."

"Really?"

"Yes, this is Lor's belongings."

"All of them?"

"The ones I'm selling, along with some of my old stuff."

"So you won't be after rations then?"

"No, I'm looking for passage of this planet."

"Well, that changes the value of everything here then."

Rey just pulled face, as he carried on to sifting though everything.

"I'll give you at least fifty credits for it all."

"What! That's not even enough for a ticket aboard a First Order transport."

"I'll be willing to pay you in rations, and it will more then double in price."

Rey weighed up her options, when BB8 chimed in, and Rey kicked him to be quite.

"You have a droid?"

"Yeah so what, it's not even mine."

"I'll pay for him."

"How much?" asked Rey, mulling over the deal.

"Enough for to get that ticket your after and more."

Rey looked to BB8 and in heart beat, agreed. "Deal." she bent down to pick him up.

Unkar came out from his screen to a side door to pick up the droid, BB8 tried to escape but was unable to get free of Ray's grasp. As the door swung up with twang Unkar came over and tried to grab BB8, but he shot out all of his different compartments. Each one trying to brake free as the take over was going down, punching both Rey and Unkar. In the process the crystal was spat out and fell to the floor, before Unkar was put off enough by the droid. He let go and the force fell on ray who dropped the droid, as she fell backwards in to the sand.

"If you can't get that thing under control, it's no deal." cursed Unkar as he went back inside.

As Rey got up she noticed the crystal on the floor, which BB8 was looking for. As she reach out and touched it her mind was taken back.


She was only five looking up as the crystal was used with the holocron and a map came up with red dost scattered all around as it engulfed the room. Her gaze was one of amazement as she looked on all around her.

"This is going to help me reinstate the Jedi." came a voice.

As little Rey looked over towards the speaker.


She was cat back to holding the crystal, but BB8 had snatched it back up with a claw extension, before he moved his head around to pocket back it it's compartment again. Getting up Rey recomposed her self. "Sorry, I'm. Where did you get that crystal?."