thirty years later, however, the empire rises again in the form of the first order. however, the new republic does not believe that it is a threat. those who do believe form the resistance, led by leia. luke has vanished, and leia has married han solo. they had a child, named ben, but ben was corrupted by the first order and a dark-side force user named snoke and is now called kylo ren. rey, a desert scavenger, fights with han against the first order, but kylo ren kills his father. however, rey still manages to gain a large defeat against the first order with the help of the resistance. rey then finds luke, who was searching for the first jedi temple and for more knowledge about the jedi, however rey is then disappointed to see that luke has given up on the jedi. meanwhile, the resistance is slowly being wiped out ship-by-ship as they are chased by snoke's "supremacy", and on the verge of the faction's death, vice-admiral holdo rams the resistance's flagship into the first order fleet to save the resistance. the remnants are later forced to an old rebel base in the planet crait, where they put up a valiant fight but are slowly wiped out until luke, the spark of the resistance, shows up in a vision to grant time for the others to escape, becoming one with the force in the process.