One of the great, overarching themes of the promo work for The Force Awakens has been the very carefully arranged illusion that the fandom is being given new information about the film, when in actual fact we're being given very, very little at all. It's a great strategy, obviously - it stokes up debate as to what everything means and gets people doing frame-by-frame breakdowns looking for clues - but it isn't half aggravating for more casual fans. The point of a trailer is, of course, to elicit more questions from the viewer than it answers. There'd be no point in going to the trouble of making the whole movie if you were going to set up and then answer every point of interest over the course of a two-minute ad slot (although Hollywood does sometimes need reminding of that). However, there are some pretty whopping big holes in the sparsely-woven tapestry we've been given so far. In fact, it's more like a load of reference points (Here's Han! Here's a lightsaber! Here's Han and Leia's musical theme!) with completely ambiguous reaction shots (Leia's sad! Finn's scared! Chewie's Chewie!) in between them than a proper set-up for The Force Awakens. Anyway, these are the really big questions that the full trailer leaves frustratingly unaddressed, along with the best educated guesses as to the answers based on what we've learned so far.
