10 Star Wars Moments Explained In Video Games
4. The Battle Of Jakku - Star Wars Battlefront II
The Force Awakens first introduced audiences to Rey's (Daisy Ridley) home planet of Jakku, a harsh desert landscape littered with the immediately iconic remnants of a Star Destroyer.
And while the film itself didn't lend any further context to how such a grand vessel wound up on Jakku of all places, the wider Star Wars lore took a deep dive into the conflict which brought it there.
The Battle of Jakku, the war over the planet between Empire and Rebel forces which took place almost 30 years before the events of The Force Awakens, was first depicted in the novel Star Wars: Lost Stars, released a few months prior to The Force Awakens.
But the larger scale of the battle was more evocatively portrayed in Battlefront II's eleventh mission, "The Battle of Jakku," where as protagonist Iden Versio, we get a boots-on-the-ground perspective of the fight.