Reddit reviews Before the Awakening (Star Wars)

There were 5 books released yesterday.

Books Released 12/18:

1. Before the Awakening - Amazon, Google Play
   
2. The Force Awakens Novelization - Amazon, Google Play
   
3. Force Awakens, The: Incredible Cross-Sections - Amazon
   
4. Force Awakens, The: Visual Dictionary - Amazon
   
5. Art of Star Wars: The Force Awakens - Amazon
   
   If you want to catch up on the new Star Wars Canon check out my video explaining the new canon.
   

If you want more information on the apparent relationships between Finn, [](/s "the storm trooper that died in his arms, and the storm trooper with the stun baton"), read this. I haven't had the chance to pick it up yet but it apparently tells the tale of Finn's training and the group of guys he was close with. Some people speculate the two troopers I mentioned above could be any of the multiple guys from his training squadron (whom he was apparently really close to).

I was in Barnes & Noble today and saw this book.

http://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-Force-Awakens-Awakening/dp/148472822X

Skimmed it quickly, and it seemed to be about their day-to-day lives.

Here are some other reasons which explain more about Rey's talents and abilities:


From "Star Wars: The Force Awakens, "Star Wars The Force Awakens: Before the Awakening" and "Star Wars: Force Awakens Incredible Cross Sections"

• (Summary of Rey's chapter in "Before the Force"): Rey has friends on Jakku. She fixed a downed freighter and made it flyable. She even repaired/replaced it's hyperdrive and it worked. Her friends decide to steal it from her and use it to escape Jakku when they find out that Rey didn't want to leave because of her hopes of her family returning. Instead she wanted to sell it to Unkar for a lot of portions (she imagines hundreds of portions or more). Her friends end up taking the ship and leaving without her.
  
  
• Her speeder is capable of low-altitude flight and can even do barrel-rolls. So Rey does have some real flight experience from this. However, she has never flown "off-planet". As posted in a different thread by /u/twinspiritradio:
  
  
  • In the cross-section of her speeder, it says that when it's not carrying salvage, it can gain incredible speeds and perform such moves like barrel rolls.
    http://i.imgur.com/14XAgCt.jpg
    
    
• She also finds data chips which contain a flight simulator. She is so driven to master flight that she pushes herself and pushes herself. Starting out, she couldn't even take off without crashing. Through crazy determination and time there's nothing the flight simulator can't throw at her that she cannot do.
  
  
  • Source (from "Before the Awakening"): http://i.imgur.com/TmuySPQ.png
    
    
• She has been on-board the Millennium Falcon before. She used to sneak onto not only the Millennium Falcon, but all of Unkar's other ships he had docked and did this frequently. Who knows what she did on it, but it explains how she is so familiar with the Millennium Falcon and knows how to repair it.
  
  
  • Source (from "Star Wars: The Force Awakens"): http://i.imgur.com/LmqarJF.png
    
    
    Other observations
    
    
• Rey has been stranded on Jakku for quite some time and has to scavenge as a means to eat. She scavenges for parts from downed Imperial wreckage. In doing so, she develops her technological know-how. To be able to know what will get her more "portions" she needed to know what was valuable. In order to learn how to get these parts, she had to learn how to properly remove them and where they were and possibly what they were used for. This is how she is so mechanically inclined, especially with Imperial/First Order technology.
  
  
• Rey knows how to defend herself because she's had to to survive on her own for so long. It's even demonstrated in the film and even blows Finn's mind when he sees it. So her skills with a lightsaber can easily be taken from this.
  
  
  What does all of this tell you?
  
  
  
• Just because she knows how to fly something doesn't make her the child of Han or Luke.
  
  
• Just because she is familiar with the Millennium Falcon doesn't mean she is Han's daughter.
  
  
• Just because she knows how to fix things and understands technology, doesn't make her a clone/descendant of Anakin.
  
  
• Just because she knows how to defend herself, doesn't mean she was ever trained as a Jedi/Padawan.
  
  
  What does it not tell you?
  
  
  
• Where her Force abilities come from or how she is able to understand and use it.
  
  
  Personal observations
  
  
  
• To me, all of this is more evidence that she is more likely a descendant of Obi-Wan than of a Skywalker/Solo. Why? Well, it shows that she is highly intelligent, focused, determined and patient. This doesn't describe a Skywalker or a Solo in the slightest. We know all too well how impatient and unfocused Anakin and Luke were. None of those things describe Han Solo at all either. Who does it describe? Obi-Wan Kenobi.
  
  
• You might say, well, Obi-Wan didn't like to fly. My response? Who cares what Obi-Wan did/didn't like? Vader chose the Dark Side, Luke didn't. Right there is a simple example of how a person can differ from their ancestors.
  
  
  Additional details
  
  
• Also from /u/kremshawthethird, which is from "Rey's Survival Guide": https://i.imgur.com/UN7c2gw.jpg It shows how the rebel helmet she has and the rebel forces "doll" have nothing to do with Luke Skywalker. It could however, show why she calls herself "Rey".
  
  
• And from /u/jlsm511's post on /r/starwarsleaks: http://imgur.com/a/1BVvH
  This sample from "Star Wars: The Force Awakens Visual Dictionary": discusses the helmet and doll briefly as well.
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  Edit: Added links to sources.*

the Before the Awakening book? It's already out. Just finished it last night. Loved Finn's and Poe's stories. People who think Finn was a crappy stormtrooper and that's why he was in sanitation are dead wrong.
http://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-The-Force-Awakens/dp/148472822X

After reading Shattered Empire you want to read Before the Awakening http://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-The-Force-Awakens/dp/148472822X it's not a comic but one story is about Poe.

I've been reading it. It's got three stories. One about Finn, one about Rey, and one about Poe Dameron.
Before the Awakening

It's in Before the Awakening

It's "ep7: the book" which includes a bit more backstory and more details about the movie

Like the name of the new Star Destroyer, some more details about Rey on Jakku and life there, it's pretty interesting

If you want more back story about Poe, Finn and Rey you should read "Before the Awakening" http://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-The-Force-Awakens/dp/148472822X

Most book sellers have it, I got mine at Walmart. Here's the link for Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-The-Force-Awakens/dp/148472822X

Alright, I was waiting for someone to post this. Here's the deal regarding the EU.

Before Disney brought out Lucasfilm, the cannon included the expanded universe. There were a ton of books that told stories that tied into the into the prequel and the OT. Now however, anything that was created before the buyout is part of the Legends, which means that most of the stuff that was written before Disney brought them didn't happen.

Disney is working on a lot of new cannon stuff to make sense of everything. They have a few books (like this one: http://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-Force-Awakens-Awakening/dp/148472822X/ref=sr_1_6?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1450842708&sr=1-6&keywords=star+wars) and the comics, but that's about for now.

[Before the Awakening](Star Wars The Force Awakens: Before the Awakening https://www.amazon.com/dp/148472822X/ref=cm_sw_r_other_awd_P-8Nwb6XA26TD)

There's some more background on Finn's stormtrooper training available in this short story.

there's a book

I have not read it, but I believe it is this one. http://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-The-Force-Awakens/dp/148472822X/ref=pd_bxgy_14_2?ie=UTF8&refRID=0JW0DGNCKWK5JZPX7Y9R

http://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-The-Force-Awakens/dp/148472822X

Fair enough but unlike Luke it wasn't her first time in the Millenium Falcon. She was involved in modifying its controls so surely that makes the comparison more apt.

Besides that, according to [this] (http://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-The-Force-Awakens/dp/148472822X), she learnt it all in a flight simulator she found while scavenging. You won't be able to read the link unfortunately but I don't have a link that would let you read it.