8) Artifacts Of The Star Wars
The trailer opens with what may end up being one of the most iconic images in the entire Star Wars saga: a downed X-Wing fighter and Star Destroyer on the desert of Jakku, a new planet that Daisy Ridley’s character, Rey, calls home. The image is both beautiful and haunting, and a sign that The Force Awakens – and presumably the Star Wars films that proceed it – will deal heavily with the aftermath of what happened in Return of the Jedi.Â
We’ve seen what the saga’s various space battles look like, but have yet to see what happens once they’ve been completed. When Star Destroyers and rebel ships are defeated in the air, gravity of course takes control and decides their fate, falling to the planets below.
The shot is both a reminder of what’s come before and proof that we’re now heading into new territory within the Star Wars universe. And, the fact that several of our characters meet here shows that this is an appropriate way to open the new trailer.
This also appears to be the site where the Millennium Falcon enters the bowels of a downed ship while under pursuit from a TIE Fighter (piloted, it looks like, by the Chrometrooper that we’ll talk about in a bit).
