He finds Palpatine, who reveals that he created Snoke as a puppet to control the First Order and lure Kylo to the dark side.

At the start of the film, which is set one year after the Battle of Crait and Luke's death, Rey is continuing her Jedi training on the main Resistance base under the tutelage of Leia, who is revealed to herself have been trained as a Jedi decades earlier.

Kylo informs Rey that she is Palpatine's granddaughter; the Sith Lord had ordered Ochi to recover her as a child, but her parents hid her on Jakku to protect her.

General Hux saves Poe, Finn, and Chewbacca from execution, revealing himself as the spy. He permits the group to escape on the Falcon but is discovered and executed.

At the end of the film, Rey returns to Luke's home on Tatooine, where she buries Luke and Leia's lightsabers, then reveals her own--decked out with a golden-yellow blade and a hilt that looks like it might have been crafted from her staff.

When Rey visits Luke's abandoned childhood home on Tatooine, a passerby asks her name. As the spirits of Luke and Leia watch, she replies, "Rey Skywalker."

In 2005 the American Film Institute selected John Williams' score to 1977's Star Wars as the greatest American film score of all time.

They deployed a fleet of horses rather than speeders, preventing their opponents from using technology to disable the vehicles.

Despite holding a grudge against Poe for abandoning the group, Zorii helps him, Rey, Finn, C-3PO, BB-8, and D-O hide from the First Order when they come to Kijimi to decrypt a message inside C-3PO's memory, and later takes part in the final Battle of Exegol.

As Lieutenant Connix, Billie Lourd wears the very same outfit that her mother wore in Star Wars: Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1983) and the hair style was done to match as well.