The base is so called because it is powered by draining energy from a sun. The Starkiller Base was named after George Lucas's original last name for Luke Skywalker (who was called Luke Starkiller in early drafts of the original Star Wars). It is therefore much larger and far more deadly than even the Death Star was. The First Order's Starkiller Base is a planet that has been modified to house a huge lightspeed superweapon capable of destroying not just one planet (like the Death Star was) but multiple planets in a single strike from an entirely different system, targeting entire systems as opposed to one planet within its orbit. Joined by the legendary space pirates Han Solo ( Harrison Ford) and Chewbacca ( Peter Mayhew), Rey and Finn set out to get BB-8 to the Resistance base and they aid the Resistance in infiltrating the First Order's Starkiller Base on a snowy planet, destroy a powerful superweapon extending beneath the planet's surface, and stop the First Order from using the weapon to destroy the Resistance base. On the desert planet Jakku, Rey ( Daisy Ridley), a desert scavenger with a mysterious past, crosses paths with the droid BB-8 and Finn ( John Boyega), a former First Order stormtrooper, and Rey learns that the First Order is after BB-8 because BB-8 is carrying secret information on the whereabouts of the legendary Jedi knight Luke Skywalker ( Mark Hamill), who has disappeared, and that they must stop BB-8 from falling into the hands of the First Order and Kylo Ren ( Adam Driver), a member of a Sith-like order called the Knights of Ren. A tyrannical regime called the First Order led by Supreme Leader Snoke ( Andy Serkis) is bent on dominating the galaxy, and the Resistance, a guerrilla force under the command of General Leia Organa ( Carrie Fisher), and backed by the reinstated Galactic Republic, fights to save the galaxy from the First Order. It's been thirty years since the Rebel Alliance defeated the Galactic Empire in the Battle of Endor and destroyed the second Death Star, and the galaxy is again in darkness.
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