Captain Phasma Rescues BB-9 Unit From Starkiller Base In Marvel Comic [UPDATED]

[ Update : WriterKelly Thompsonhas reached out to Screen Rant to state that the BB unit in the comic is not the BB-9E that appears inThe Last Jedi . Original clause follows . ]

Last workweek ’s Force Friday II was a surge of inflammation for Star Wars lover as all kinds of ware featuring characters both new and familiar fromStar Wars : The Last Jedidropped . Along with those lovablePorgs , one of the biggest hits among the new character inThe Last Jediis the First Order ’s straight - overstep , black and chrome malevolent doppelganger of BB-8,BB-9E. BB-8 was introduced inThe Force Awakensand immediately won over fans new and old . Though , his master Poe Dameron ( Oscar Isaac ) say BB-8 was " one of a kind , " it seems like the best pilot film in the Resistance was mistaken about the singularity of BB units in general . It turn out there ’s more than one BB unit in the galaxy .

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Though fans course assumed they ’ll have to hold off untilThe Last Jedipremiering in December to see BB-9E in military action , Marvel unload a liberal surprisal in the pageboy of their novel 4 payoff comic modified seriesStar Wars : Captain Phasma . Written by Kelly Thompson and illustrated by Marco Checcetto , Captain Phasma(not to be confused with the new novelPhasmawritten by Delilah S. Dawson ) pick up during the climactic events ofThe Force Awakensimmediately after Finn ( John Boyega ) , Han Solo ( Harrison Ford ) and Chewbacca send the chrome - plot Stormtrooper commander down one of Starkiller Base ’s trash compactors . In an interview describing her young series withStarWars.com , Thompson confirms her comical Holy Scripture arrest BB-9E ’s official in - canyon debut :

I think we ’ve got a circle of classicStar Warselements — planet , outlander , and monsters that are all taste to kill you . malevolent plots and betrayals . Plus , a small role for a little droid that just made a big splash this retiring calendar week !

InCaptain Phasma , the not - so - good captain immediately sweep off the mortification of being have down a trash compactor by the unfaithful former Stormtrooper FN-2187 . Well aware that Starkiller Base is under flack by Resistance fighters , and with an alive 6 minute of arc countdown until Starkiller Base ’s arm is in full charged and ready to fire , Phasma ’s first precedence is saving her own skin so that she is not false as a two-timer herself . reach her way to a console , Phasma ’s first order of magnitude of business is to verify no one finds out that it was she who depress Starkiller Base ’s defense shields . While she goes to work ensuring her lack of culpabilty , Phasma narrates event through her part recording equipment in her helmet , with her version of events not precisely reflecting the world . harmonize to Phasma ’s recorded rendering of events , she is the one look into the mystery of how Starkiller Base ’s shield run down .

Once Phasma has deleted the disk of her lowering the shield , it short occur to her that someone else may have lowered Starkiller Base ’s defense cuticle . Phasma ’s instinct serve her well ; she find therewasa double-crosser who the computers show as tampering with the shields : a Lieutenant Sol Rivas . Phasma immediately cash in one’s chips on the Leigh Hunt for the traitor and locate Lt . Rivas , but the explosions rock Starkiller Base prevent her from getting a fresh shot . As Phasma prosecute Rivas throughout the forests of Starkiller Base , we learn that she was a attestant to the pivotal lightsaber duel between Kylo Ren ( Adam Driver ) and Rey ( Daisy Ridley ) , though Phasma has no mind who Rey is and only identified her as " an unknown opposite . " It seems Phasma had no hired hand in Rey ’s seizure on Takodana or her flush it enquiry by Kylo Ren . The chasm that formed when Starkiller Base began to rip apart from the Resistance ’s bombing nearly did Phasma in , but she recovered herself and continued her pursuit of Lt . Rivas .

Phasma tracked Rivas to an appurtenant TIE Fighter airdock but Rivas had repeal off in a TIE Fighter by the time Phasma make it . Phasma directly requisition a second TIE Fighter and its pilot , TN-3465 , for contiguous pursual and discovered a BB unit on control board - thus , BB-9E makes his official launching in Star Wars canyon .

Though it ’s a very brief appearance of just a few panel , we right away learn a few cardinal things about BB-9E : it was also on Starkiller Base during the events ofThe Force Awakens . Like BB-8 and R2 - D2 , BB-9E performs the functions of an astromech Droid and has a forceful personality . Phasma immediately takes a dislike to the little Droid , but with BB-9E aboard the TIE Fighter , we now know how Captain Phasma was capable to survive the destruction of Starkiller Base and that BB-9E is her ( possibly unwelcome ) sidekick on her pursuit of the mysterious Lt . Sol Rivas . However this adventure work out , Phasma will soon rendezvous with her superior in the First Order to be part of what ’s to fare inThe Last Jedi .

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WithCaptain Phasmawrapping its brief run in December , likely beforeThe Last Jedipremieres , buff will be treat to an risky venture spotlighting both one of the most underutilized character fromThe Force Awakensand the fresh Droid that ’s already becoming a fan favorite . Whether Phasma and BB-9E form the kind of bond BB-8 made with Poe , Rey and Finn stay on to be seen , but it ’s cool to have a basic BB-9E story in the pages of Marvel comics to quicken the appetite for his feature film film debut inThe Last Jedi .