While Poe talked with the Crèche elder, BB-8 discovered a tracker on Poe's T-70 X-wing starfighter. For their first mission, Black Squadron traveled to the rocky world of Ovanis, where Lor San Tekka had visited the Crèche long ago. They were joined by the Galactic Civil War veterans Temmin Wexley and L'ulo L'ampar, Karé Kun, and Jess Pava, whom Poe formed into a squadron called Black Squadron. BB-8 accompanied his master on this operation.
Work in the Resistance Mission to Ovanisįollowing the events of Operation: Sabre Strike, General Organa assigned Poe Dameron on a secret operation to search for Lor San Tekka. As a result of the mission, the Resistance discovered that Ro-Kiintor was colluding with the First Order and the existence of the explorer Lor San Tekka, who Leia believed could help them find her brother, Luke Skywalker. BB-8 did not take part in the mission because Poe had to fly a vintage Z-95 Headhunter which lacked an astromech socket. Poe and his fellow pilots later undertook a secret mission to hijack Senator Erudo Ro-Kiintor's yacht Hevurion Grace in order to obtain data that he was planning to transmit to the First Order. " I'm going to be sitting in a Z-95 cockpit wearing an EVA suit, and you want to sit on my lap? Worry less about being left behind and more about making certain the concussion missiles are fitted with the proper warheads, okay, buddy?" ―Poe Dameron, to BB-8 BB-8 followed Dameron when he left the New Republic fleet and joined the Resistance. Upon returning to the Mirrin Prime Republic base, BB-8 and Poe were detained by Shore police, who brought Poe before General Leia Organa, the leader of splinter faction of the New Republic Defense Force that monitored the activities of the First Order. Following a pursuit, Poe managed to escape into hyperspace and return to Mirrin Prime. īB-8 managed to track the stolen freighter to one of the Star Destroyers. BB-8 squealed in fright when their ship exited hyperspace near a fleet of First Order Navy warships. At the third stop, BB-8 picked the OR-Kappa-2722 star system. Using the combined data stored in BB-8, Poe decided to randomly visit the five places that the Yissira Zyde had traveled to. Prior to departing on the mission, Poe got his fellow pilots Karé Kun and Iolo Arana to comlink their astromech droids to his starfighter and upload all telemetry from the Suraz engagement into BB-8. BB-8 accompanied Poe on an errant mission to pursue the First Order. OR-Kappa-2722īB-8 during the skirmish in OR-Kappa-2722ĭespite receiving orders from Major Lonno Deso not to intervene, Poe Dameron decided to track down the Yissira Zyde. One of the Rapier pilots Muran was killed when the hyperspace wave generated by the Yissira Zyde slammed into his T-85 X-wing. Rapier Squadron failed to stop the First Order from escaping with the Yissira Zyde and its cargo of high-capacity charging areas. During one of Rapier Squadron's routine patrols in the Mirrin sector, BB-8 and Poe's squadron responded to a distress message from the freighter Yissira Zyde, which had been boarded and hijacked by the First Order, a remnant of the Old Empire. Biography New Republic service The Suraz engagementĪ BB-series astromech droid who was built in 29 ABY, BB-8 became the companion of the New Republic Commander and flight leader of Rapier Squadron, Poe Dameron.