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Rey Just a Ballast?

Discussion in 'Star Wars: The Force Awakens' started by Ludo Kressh, Apr 14, 2016.

  1. Ludo Kressh

    Ludo Kressh Clone Trooper

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    http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Corwin_Ballast

    Corwin Ballast was a human male who left his homeworld of Mordaland moved to Jakku after his wife Lynnta and his daughter were killed during a blaster fight between Imperial and Rebel forces.

    Maybe he left after the battle of Jakku believing his daughter to be dead? If she really is "no-one" then this could be a simple piece of info to throw in for exposition. If not, then I think this barely mentioned secret Imperial research facility on Jakku has relevance.

    All my digging and theorizing keeps bringing me back to Jakku, it's where it all starts after all.
     
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    The Battle of Jakku took place a year after ROTJ.

    The Imperial Research Station was destroyed before the Empire left for the Unknown Regions, where they became the First Order.



    Rey was born 10 years after the Battle of Jakku. She's 19 in the TFA.

    Rey writes that she has three different conspiracies she's heard about the Battle of Jakku in Rey's Survival Guide.
    1) It was to protect that secret Imperial base she writes about under Carbon Ridge.
    2) Different than #1. The Imperial Base was beneath the Sinking Fields instead - more of a storehouse filled with treasure from ancient civilizations and hidden on Jakku by the Emperor.
    3) #2 is close. The Emperor had a throne room on the base/storehouse and planned to conquer the rest of the galaxy from there.
     
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    Interesting.
     

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