Kylo Ren coordinates where Luke Skywalker is to be found, Ren kills an old vicar known as Lor San Tekka, and captures Resistance pilot Poe Dameron, who has also been sent to recover the map by General Leia Organa. Ren soon learns that the pilot had entrusted his astromech droid, BB-8, with the map. Poe flees with the help of rogue stormtrooper Finn, who later finds BB-8, and the scavenger Rey. Finn, Rey, and BB-8 escape Jakku in the "Millennium Falcon", and are soon intercepted by the ship's former owner, Han Solo, and his co-pilot Chewbacca. It is revealed that Ren is
First Order (Star Wars) were filmed but deleted for time and pacing reasons. Through as-yet-unexplained circumstances, the new "First Order" came to be ruled by the mysterious Force-wielder known as Supreme Leader Snoke. At some point Snoke seduced Leia's own son Ben Solo to the Dark Side of the Force, who renamed himself "Kylo Ren". On his turn to the Dark Side, Ben/Kylo slaughtered most of his uncle Luke Skywalker's other Jedi apprentices (with the rest joining him) and destroyed his new academy. Blaming himself, Luke fled into self-imposed exile to search for the ancient first Jedi Temple. Kylo Ren, meanwhile, took on a