Vulptices are foxlike creatures with coats made up of crystalline bristles. They are gregarious and curious, with keen eyesight and the ability to squeeze their bodies through narrow gaps. A skulk of vulptices has taken up residence in the abandoned rebel base on Crait.

Reminiscent in design of the Empire's TIE interceptor and Darth Vader's TIE advanced, Kylo Ren's TIE silencer is an angular fighter equipped with laser cannons and missile launchers. Ren is an expert pilot -- thanks to skills passed down from his father -- which he puts to use in exploiting his ship's speed and ferocity. There is no other First Order craft like the TIE silencer, and it is an effective tool in Ren's mission to destroy the Resistance.

A capital ship built on a nearly unimaginable scale, the Supremacy is a vast flying wing more than 60 kilometers wide. In addition to being a warship with enormous firepower, it serves Supreme Leader Snoke as throne room and the First Order as mobile capital. Its vast interior houses army training grounds, shipyards, production lines and R&D labs.

A small, secretive private military force, the Resistance was founded by rebel hero Leia Organa to monitor the actions of the First Order. Most New Republic power brokers tolerate the Resistance while regarding Organa and her fighters as dead-enders with an unfortunate fixation on the past. Organa’s cash-strapped movement relies on credits, ships and equipment quietly funneled to it from the few senators who share her concerns.

A sleek and stylish star yacht whose powerful engines give it impressive speed, the Libertine is the property of an arms dealer visiting Canto Bight for a little restorative downtime. Or at least it is until DJ gets to work on the yacht’s anti-theft defenses.

A massive Mandator IV-class Siege Dreadnought, the Fulminatrix is armed with deadly orbital bombardment cannons that can penetrate planetary shields. The First Order assigns this huge warship the task of destroying D’Qar’s Resistance base.

The New Republic’s rise reduced the once-mighty Empire to a rump state hemmed in by strict disarmament treaties and punishing reparations. But in the galaxy’s Unknown Regions, former Imperial officers, nobles and technologists plotted a return to power, building fleets and armies in secret. This movement became the First Order, ruled by Supreme Leader Snoke, and is now ready to reclaim the Imperial legacy.

Ahch-To’s thala-sirens are docile marine mammals that like to sun themselves on rocks fringing the coasts of the planet’s islands. Sea sows produce a nutritious green milk, which is harvested by the native Lanai and adventurous visitors.

Temiri Blagg leads a forlorn existence in the shadows of Canto Bight’s wealth, caring for fathiers in stables ruled by the iron-fisted groom Bargwill Tomder. Temiri dreams of a better life somewhere among the stars. When two desperate Resistance fighters cross his path, he must make a crucial choice.

Hailing from Pippip 3, young Lieutenant Tallissan Lintra is one of the Resistance’s best pilots, impressing even Poe Dameron with her flying skills. Tallie leads a hastily assembled squadron of A-wings and X-wings above D’Qar, protecting the Resistance’s vulnerable bombers on their attack run against a First Order Siege Dreadnought.

The Supreme Leader of the First Order, the mysterious Snoke has no permanent base of operations, preferring to contact his underlings from a mobile command post. Snoke is powerful with the dark side of the Force, and seduced Ben Solo into abandoning the Jedi path to become his apprentice. But Snoke also commands General Hux and the technological war machine the First Order has engineered to destroy the New Republic and Leia Organa’s Resistance.

At the heart of the massive Supremacy is a throne room where Supreme Leader Snoke presides over his regime, attended by mute alien navigators and his Elite Praetorian Guard. Both Kylo Ren and General Hux are summoned to “Snoke’s boudoir” to answer to the master of the First Order.