Poe flew as Black Leader, with BB-8 in his X-wing’s astromech socket. With the help of Han, Chewie and Finn – who’d infiltrated Starkiller Base – the attack destroyed the First Order superweapon and saved Rey. But many Resistance heroes died that day.

Following the battle, the Resistance’s leaders struggled for a way to complete the map BB-8 carried. Monitoring the discussion, R2-D2 awoke and called up charts he’d downloaded from the Death Star decades earlier. When R2-D2 and BB-8 put their maps together, the Resistance finally knew where to find Luke Skywalker.

As the Resistance evacuated D’Qar, BB-8 joined Poe for a dangerous assault on a First Order Dreadnought. When the weapons systems of Poe’s X-wing were knocked offline, BB-8 had to improvise to put things right.

The Resistance escaped the initial attack, but the First Order had found a way to track its ships through hyperspace. When First Order starfighters attacked the fleet, BB-8 and Poe raced for the starfighter hangar – and narrowly escaped destruction when a torpedo attack destroyed it.

Poe conspired with Finn and Rose Tico, helping them slip away on a dangerous mission to slip through the First Order’s defenses and turn off the hyperspace tracker. With Poe grounded, BB-8 stowed away on Rose and Finn’s shuttle, accompanying them to the gambling resort Canto Bight to search for the Master Codebreaker.

After Finn and Rose were arrested, BB-8 tried to break them out of jail. His attempt came too late, so he joined forces with the thief DJ to steal a ship. The two unlikely partners swooped down to rescue Finn and Rose from being caught yet again by the Canto Bight police.

DJ agreed to help Finn and Rose infiltrate the First Order flagship Supremacy, with BB-8 using an overturned waste bin as an improvised disguise. When the First Order captured his friends, BB-8 scrambled for a way to save them yet again.

The plucky astromech took control of an AT-ST, blasting away at Captain Phasma and her stormtroopers. BB-8’s intervention turned the tide, allowing Rose and Finn to flee the crippled Supremacy and head for Crait.

BB-8 reunited with Poe at the old rebel base on Crait, and was one of the few Resistance members to escape the First Order aboard the Millennium Falcon. The Resistance’s ranks had been thinned to almost nothing, but the fight for galactic freedom would continue.

BB-8 continued serving the Resistance as Poe helped General Organa rebuild the organization after Crait. He also kept Rey company during her Jedi training on Ajan Kloss. Such companionship wasn’t without its hazards, though – such as the day Rey managed to drop a tree on her friend.

BB-8 accompanied Rey, Poe and Finn on a mission to Pasaana to track down Ochi of Bestoon. When First Order stormtroopers pursued him and his friends, the astromech improvised an effective defense using smoke canisters intended for the Festival of the Ancestors.

Ochi of Bestoon turned out to be long dead, but BB-8 and his friends did locate Ochi’s ship. Aboard it, BB-8 discovered a powered-down little droid, D-O. Remembering how Rey had helped a wounded vexis on Pasaana, BB-8 used his own power to recharge the droid. A grateful D-O became fixated on BB-8, following his new friend around.

BB-8 accompanied Finn, Jannah and Rose Tico on a dangerous ground assault when the Resistance raided Exegol, a Sith redoubt deep in the Unknown Regions. After the First Order changed its tactics, BB-8 found himself rolling across the deck of a First Order Star Destroyer – an experience he’d never thought he’d record in his memory banks.

With BB-8’s help, the Resistance won a critical victory over the First Order and its Sith allies at Exegol. After celebrating on Ajan Kloss, BB-8 accompanied Rey on a more personal mission: She visited the Tatooine moisture farm where Luke Skywalker had grown up, burying his lightsaber alongside that of Leia in tribute to her departed mentors.