RUMOR: Star Wars: The Force Awakens Story Summary

Below is a rough summary of the storyline for Star Wars: The Force Awakens. There are likely parts missing, but the source claims this is just the best, and quickest summation they could manage based on memory. They say the book is just under 300 pages or so.

If this summary is out there on other sites or has been reported previously, please remember that I do not see everything on the internet. I found it interesting and wanted to share.

Act 1
Poe Dameron is sent to the planet Jakku, his mission is to incite the settlers into a rebellion against the First Order, who recently took over the system. Poe meets with the village leader, and the leader discusses the growing fear regarding the FO. He also gives Poe something and it seems that Poe is there on official business, but also to retireve this item as well. It is placed in his droid BB8. A gang member/settler sells Poe out by alerting the First Order. The FO landing crafts arrive quickly and stormtroopers are met by hostile villagers who engage them in a firefight. The villagers are rounded up like animals and trooper burn mostly everything, including Poe's ship. When one stormtrooper - Finn - doesn't partake in the violence against the innocent people, Kylo Ren, who is parading around saying he's Luke Skywalker, butchers his close friend and has Finn detained. Poe is captured but not before he sends his droid off into the night.

Meanwhile, we are introduced to Rey, who is trying desperately to leave Jakku. She's scavenging wrecks trying to find parts to restore a ship (*the Millennium Falcon). She is a loner and lives in an ATAT that is left over from the battle of Jakku.

Back on the FO star destroyer above Jakku, Finn is in deep trouble with his superiors, General Hux and Phasma. He makes a decision - to escape and go into hiding. He does this by helping Poe escape. Poe has been interrogated by Kylo Ren and now KR knows that the driod contains the item he is secretly seeking for himself. Finn leads Poe through the ship posing as his captor. They steal a TIE fighter, but it's shot down over Jakku. Poe ejects before the crash, Finn is stuck in the TIE. Poe is left unconscious and Finn heads for help, not knowing where to go.

Rey finds BB8 outside her ATAT hut and decides to take him and sell him. She speeds toward a spaceport on her speeder and Finn, wandering still, sees her in the distance and follows. He catches up to her. Finn tells Rey he will pay her to take him off Jakku. Phasma wants to hunt Finn but Hux tells her the droid is their priority now.

Poe is injured from the crash and he comes to. He locates his xwing from earlier and it is scorched and burned but is still able to fly barely. he heads off Jakku and does not know where Finn is or what has happened to his droid.

Captain Phasma leads a group of TIE fighters to apprehend the droid. They approach the spaceport and open fire on Rey and Finn and BB8; the trio escape by flying the Falcon. The tie fighters give chase to the Falcon through a wasteland of crashed ships. The falcon, piloted by Rey evades all enemy ships.

The General tells Kylo Ren they can't wait any longer and that "He" wants them to fire "the weapon". The weapon is fully charged and is fired into the atmosphere.

Jakku's star is destroyed as the Falcon jumps to lightspeed from previous coordinates.


Act 2
The Falcon comes out of hyperspace at Yavin. Fighters escort the Falcon down where Han and Chewie board anxiously as both thought the Falcon lost forever. Rey is searched and a lightsaber is found in her possession. Rey and Finn are taken to Maz, a local Jedi, to be determined as either light or darkside.

Maz senses the darkside in them, and ignites the lightsaber before saying in horror "it was his..." She uses the force to see how Rey found the lightsaber and determines it found her "for a terrible reason" and explains that only one person ever wielded it and didn't use it to commit atrocities.

This prompts Finn to speak up about who he thinks is Luke Skywalker leading the First Order and Maz decides to take them to Leia. The First Order is alerted that the First lightsaber of Darth Vader has been ignited after years of inactivity. Kylo retreats to a private area to speak with his master and tells him he believes they are after two force sensitives with Vader's first lightsaber. His master tells him to be mindful, that the Force is unbalanced and that something larger may be at play. Kylo orders an attack on Yavin to retrieve Finn and Rey. Maz presents Leia with the lightsaber, and Poe steps forward and defends Finn when Finn reveals his past as a stormtrooper. Finn is questioned about the First Order. He describes their secret weapon and a secret base which is not yet complete and may be vulnerable to attack. Han tells Leia he still does not trust them because they had his ship and Chewie echoes this sentiment.

Alarms go off and Threepio alerts everyone that a Star Destroyer has just come out of hyperspace above Yavin. Poe leads an X Wing squadron against the TIE's and Han asks Chewie if he's up for another run. He then tells Rey and Finn they might as well make themselves useful so they come along too.

They fight off the squadron and the First Order appears to retreat. They return at night and launch a much more potent attack and the temple/base is destroyed. Stormtroopers and resistance troopers engage in a massive ground battle in the smoking remains of the temple/base. Rey is captured during the battle and taken away by Kylo.

Han, Poe, Finn, Leia, Chewie, and Artoo all agree to rescue Rey and destroy the base, and hope to confront Luke and try to talk some sense into him (remember, we know it's Kylo Ren, the characters do not)


Act 3
Kylo Ren questions Rey about who she is, who her parents are, etc...

Rey doesn't know. She even tells him she doesn't have a last name.

He tells her he can feel the force is strong with her, and that she need not fear it.

He's interrupted and told that Resistance fighters are approaching.

There is a massive battle, but the base is more operational than originally believed. Han finds Kylo (who he believes to be Luke) and tries to talk to him. Kylo ends the conversation pretty quickly and has Han detained.

Republic Forces show up led by Ackbar, officially making this skirmish the First battle of a new Civil War. As the battle turns in the Resistance's favor, now aided by the Republic, General Hux activates an EMP like weapon that knocks every ship out of the sky and makes an escape. Rey notices an X Wing still in the air with colors and markings she'd never seen. Poe is flying a newer version of his burned ship, this one is capable of cloaking itself.

As she and Finn make a run for it, Kylo stops them. Finn tries to fight him and loses an arm. Rey holds her own, but Kylo uses the force to seize her throat and lift her in the air. Rey sees his thoughts in this moment. When he was young, his village was attacked, and his baby sister taken from him by a man with a robotic arm.

Kylo is aware Rey can see his thoughts and says "Kira..." Kylo is knocked to his feet by a hooded man with a green lightsaber. He engages him in a duel but is outmatched and flees.

Han is freed but badly injured.

Rey takes the Falcon away again to an isolated moon where Luke tries to talk to her, but she wants to be left alone. She insists.

Finn gets a robotic arm and Luke tells him he will train him.

The Republic is aware of the power of the First Order and will no longer take them lightly.

Word that the real Luke Skywalker has returned is spreading throughout systems threatened by the First Order. Rey builds a lightsaber.

Kylo Ren visits his master to face discipline for failing. Luke, a banged up Han, and Leia, look out of a bay at the Stars.

The reunion is sweet, and victory is theirs this day, but war has returned to the galaxy far far away...."

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