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BLACK LEADER’S RIDE


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                       Poe Dameron flies a T-70 X-wing. An upgrade from

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           25 ke Skywalker’s T-65, it is not quite as state-
           of-the-art as other X-wings in the Resistance’s fleet.
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           BB-8 loads into Poe’s X-wing via an arm that
           attaches to the droid’s head and sucks him
           into the socket. This is the same way
           astromechs such as R2-D2
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           were pulled into the Royal

           Naboo starfighters in


           The Phantom Menace.
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                                                                                                      A LIGHTSABER’S

                                                                                         28JOURNEY


                                                                                         According to a display at Disneyland’s Star Wars
                                                                                         Launch Bay, Luke Skywalker’s lightsaber, along with
                                                                                         his severed hand, were salvaged from the depths
                                                                                         of Cloud City following his confrontation with Darth
                                                                                         Vader. How Maz Kanata obtained the famous Jedi’s
                        REY’S VISION                                                     weapon is still unknown.


                        The beginning of Rey’s Force vision brings her to a hallway
           26that bears a resemblance to two different hallways that
           were important in the life of Darth Vader. The first was a hallway he

           fought Obi-Wan Kenobi in on Mustafar in Revenge of the Sith, the other
           was the hallway in The Empire Strikes Back that led to the catwalk where
           he battled his son, Luke Skywalker.



                        GALACTIC

           27PEACE


           With the Empire defeated, Chancellor
           Mon Mothma restored the Galactic Senate                                                    SNOKE’S SHOW
           and decided all member worlds would
           have an opportunity to host the delegates,                                    29OF POWER
           bringing a more inclusive spirit to the
           government that was absent during                                             In a show of power, General Hux destroys Hosnian

           Emperor Palpatine’s reign. The first such                                      Prime with Supreme Leader Snoke’s approval. The
           captial was Mon Mothma’s homeworld of                                         casualties are staggering as Chancellor Villecham;
           Chandrila, as revealed in Chuck Wendig’s                                      Kor Sella (General Leia’s envoy); senatorial
           novel Aftermath. The cosmopolitan world                                       representatives from planets such as Naboo, Taris,
           of Hosnian Prime is the site of the capital                                   and Commenor; as well as inhabitants of the planet
           in The Force Awakens.                                                         are obliterated.


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