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The stormtrooper FN-2187 grew up with no friends other than his squadmates and no life outside of First Order training designed to create super-soldiers of unquestioned loyalty. He performed well in combat simulations, and was part of the First Order’s assault on a village on Jakku.

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    • The stormtrooper FN-2187 grew up with no friends other than his squadmates and no life outside of First Order training designed to create super-soldiers of unquestioned loyalty. He performed well in combat simulations, and was part of the First Order’s assault on a village on Jakku.
    • The Jakku raid taught FN-2187 that real-life combat was nothing like the sims: he saw squadmates die, and found himself appalled by the First Order’s brutal massacre of civilians.
    • His conscience awakened, FN-2187 decided to escape from the First Order’s service. Lacking pilot training, he freed the Resistance pilot Poe Dameron – who’d been captured during the Jakku raid -- from his cell aboard the Star Destroyer Finalizer.
    • Poe dubbed his unlikely savior Finn, and the two stole a Special Forces TIE from its hangar, with Finn serving as Poe’s gunner. Finn assumed they would flee into hyperspace, but Poe ignored Finn’s protests and headed for Jakku, where he had unfinished business. First Order gunners shot down the fighter, which crash-landed on the desert planet.
    • Finn ejected from the doomed fighter and woke up in the desert. At the crash site he found no sign of Poe – just the Resistance pilot’s jacket. He took the jacket and shed his armor, then began the long walk to Niima Outpost.
    • A parched Finn reached Niima, but was almost immediately set on by a young woman and an angry astromech, who accused him of stealing Poe’s jacket. Finn explained that he’d helped Poe escape but he’d died in the crash. The young woman, Rey, assumed Finn was with the Resistance … which he let her believe.
    • Stormtroopers backed by TIEs attacked Niima, forcing the three to flee. They made their getaway by stealing a battered old freighter, the Millennium Falcon. Finn once again handled gunner duties, and the Falcon eluded her pursuers.
    • While Rey worked to fix a problem with the Falcon, Finn confessed to BB-8 that he was a First Order deserter, and persuaded the droid to tell him the location of the Resistance base in exchange for promising to get the droid there. But a massive bulk freighter intercepted the Falcon and swallowed her up. The new ship’s owners were Han Solo and Chewbacca, who’d once called the Falcon home.
    • Han and Chewie had their own problems, though – two criminal gangs intercepted their ship, leading to a free-for-all involving vicious predators called rathtars and far too many blasters. A rathtar seized Finn, but Rey’s quick thinking saved him.
    • Han and Chewie escaped the fight in the Falcon, along with Finn, Rey and BB-8. They decided to head for Takodana, where the ancient smuggler Maz Kanata maintained a castle frequented by underworld figures. Han thanked Finn for tending to Chewie’s wounds, but sensed Finn was lying about his Resistance ties, and warned him that women always figure out the truth.
    • At Maz’s castle, Finn faced a choice: leave Rey and find his own path, or join the fight against the tyrannical designs of the First Order he’d once served. He decided to sign on with a pirate band in exchange for passage to an Outer Rim world, leaving Rey feeling betrayed and abandoned.
    • But perilous events were in motion. The First Order used a terrible superweapon to destroy the New Republic capital of Hosnian Prime, then attacked Takodana. Maz gave Finn Luke Skywalker’s lightsaber, which he used in battle against his former stormtrooper comrades. The arrival of Resistance starfighters prevented a First Order victory, but the warlord Kylo Ren captured Rey.
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