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"Such a clever little droid."

―Agent Terex ^[eleven]

BB-eight, sometimes spelled and pronounced Beebee-Ate and nicknamed BB, was a BB-series astromech droid who operated approximately thirty years after the Battle of Endor. He had a dome caput, like to that of R2 serial astromech droids, with the bulk of his torso made up of a ball on which the droid's head rolled. BB-8 was by and large white, with some silver and orangish on his body, besides as a black photoreceptor. The droid belonged to Resistance airplane pilot Poe Dameron, whom he accompanied during his flights on his T-70 X-wing starfighter.

i Biography
- ane.i New Republic service
  - i.1.1 The Suraz engagement
  - i.1.2 OR-Kappa-2722
  - one.i.3 Sabre Strike
- 1.two Piece of work in the Resistance
  - ane.2.1 Mission to Ovanis
  - one.ii.ii Mission to Megalox Beta
  - 1.2.iii Bringing lovers together
  - ane.2.4 Mission to Kaddak
- one.three Adventures with Kazuda
  - 1.three.1 Meeting Kazuda
  - 1.3.2 The "triple night" tempest
  - 1.3.three Rucklin's web
  - 1.3.4 Kaz's fill-in
  - ane.iii.five Orphans of Tehar
  - 1.3.6 Danger in Sector Six
  - 1.3.7 A "goose chase"
  - ane.iii.8 The 2nd pirate raid
  - one.3.9 Spying on the High Tower
  - 1.3.10 Mission to Station Theta Blackness
  - 1.3.xi Casual adventures
  - 1.3.12 The stolen phase connector
  - i.3.13 The Kidnapping of Torra Doza
  - one.3.14 The First Order occupation
  - 1.3.15 Mission to the Dassal system
- i.4 Common cold war
  - ane.4.one Mission to Jakku
  - one.4.2 On the run
  - one.4.3 Meeting Rey
  - 1.4.four The nightwatcher worm
  - 1.iv.5 Bandits
  - ane.4.half dozen Niima Outpost
  - 1.four.7 Journeying to the base
  - 1.4.eight Aboard the Eravana
- ane.5 First Order–Resistance war
  - 1.5.1 Takodana
  - 1.5.ii Battle of Starkiller Base
  - 1.v.3 Evacuation of D'Qar
  - 1.5.4 Mission to Canto Bight
  - 1.5.five Infiltrating the Supremacy
  - 1.5.half dozen Crait and beyond
  - 1.five.7 Evacuating to Pacara
  - 1.5.8 Ending the war
2 Characteristics
three Relationships
- 3.1 Poe Dameron
- 3.2 Kazuda Xiono
- 3.3 CB-23
- iii.4 Ivee
- three.5 Rey
- 3.6 D-O
iv Equipment
5 Behind the scenes
6 Appearances
- half-dozen.1 Non-canon appearances
vii Sources
viii Notes and references
9 External links

Biography

New Democracy service

The Suraz appointment

A BB-series astromech droid^[3] who was built in 29 ABY,^[two] BB-8 became the companion of the New Democracy Commander and flight leader of Rapier Squadron, Poe Dameron. During one of Rapier Squadron'south routine patrols in the Mirrin sector, BB-eight and Poe's squadron responded to a distress message from the freighter Yissira Zyde, which had been boarded and hijacked by the Beginning Order, a remnant of the Quondam Empire. Rapier Squadron failed to stop the First Society from escaping with the Yissira Zyde and its cargo of loftier-chapters charging areas. One of the Rapier pilots Muran was killed when the hyperspace wave generated by the Yissira Zyde slammed into his T-85 X-wing.^[8]

OR-Kappa-2722

Despite receiving orders from Major Lonno Deso not to intervene, Poe Dameron decided to rails downwardly the Yissira Zyde. BB-eight accompanied Poe on an errant mission to pursue the First Order. Prior to departing on the mission, Poe got his boyfriend pilots Karé Kun and Iolo Arana to comlink their astromech droids to his starfighter and upload all telemetry from the Suraz appointment into BB-8. Using the combined data stored in BB-8, Poe decided to randomly visit the five places that the Yissira Zyde had traveled to. At the tertiary finish, BB-eight picked the OR-Kappa-2722 star arrangement. BB-8 squealed in fright when their ship exited hyperspace near a fleet of Start Order Navy warships.^[8]

BB-eight managed to rail the stolen freighter to ane of the Star Destroyers. Following a pursuit, Poe managed to escape into hyperspace and return to Mirrin Prime. Upon returning to the Mirrin Prime Republic base of operations, BB-eight and Poe were detained by Shore police, who brought Poe earlier Full general Leia Organa, the leader of splinter faction of the New Republic Defense force Force that monitored the activities of the First Guild. BB-viii followed Dameron when he left the New Republic fleet and joined the Resistance. Poe was joined by Karé and Iolo.^[viii]

Sabre Strike

"I'thousand 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 backside and more about making certain the concussion missiles are fitted with the proper warheads, okay, buddy?"

―Poe Dameron, to BB-8 ^[8]

Poe and his fellow pilots after undertook a secret mission to hijack Senator Erudo Ro-Kiintor'south yacht Hevurion Grace in society to obtain data that he was planning to transmit to the First Order. BB-8 did not accept part in the mission considering Poe had to fly a vintage Z-95 Headhunter which lacked an astromech socket. Every bit a result of the mission, the Resistance discovered that Ro-Kiintor was colluding with the First Society and the existence of the explorer Lor San Tekka, who Leia believed could help them observe her brother, Luke Skywalker.^[8]

Work in the Resistance

Mission to Ovanis

Post-obit the events of Operation: Sabre Strike, General Organa assigned Poe Dameron on a secret functioning to search for Lor San Tekka. BB-eight accompanied his master on this operation. They were joined by the Galactic Civil War veterans Temmin Wexley and Fifty'ulo 50'ampar, Karé Kun, and Jess Pava, whom Poe formed into a squadron called Blackness Squadron. For their first mission, Black Squadron traveled to the rocky world of Ovanis, where Lor San Tekka had visited the Crèche long ago. While Poe talked with the Crèche elderberry, BB-viii discovered a tracker on Poe's T-lxx X-wing starfighter. Poe realized that the Get-go Order had learned of their mission, and he convinced the Crèche cultists to hide him and BB-viii.^[9]

While the Crèche elder tried to distract Agent Terex and his stormtroopers, Poe and BB-8 hid with their starfighter in ane of the smaller caves inside the Cavern of the Crèche. When Terex torched the Crèche egg, Poe surrendered himself and confronted Terex.^[12] Afterward the Crèche egg hatched and released a large bluish winged creature that attacked everyone, BB-8 stole Terex's blaster when Poe attacked him. Poe tried to force Terex to call off his forces from Ovanis, but Terex fought back. The blue winged creature was then attacked and killed by a black winged creature. BB-8 managed to stun Terex with his electro-pod.^[13]

Poe managed to force Terex to phone call off his forces from Ovanis. BB-8 was present with Poe and the other Black Squadron pilots when Poe made the decision to release Terex and his surviving stormtroopers in lodge to avoid state of war between the New Republic and First Lodge. After the Crèche cultists departed for their new home on the back of the black winged Crèche animal, Black Squadron refueled their starfighters and departed into space. In one case in infinite, Poe reassured BB-8 that the Crèche elder had told him where Lor San Tekka had gone when he had left Ovanis.^[13]

Mission to Megalox Beta

Subsequently returning to the Resistance base of operations on D'Qar, Poe chatted with BB-8 about the First Guild tracker on his ship. Poe reassured BB-8 that he believed that none of his fellow Blackness Squadron pilots were traitors. He also told BB-8 that Full general Organa had assigned C-3PO and his droid spy network to ferret out the spy. Poe told BB-eight to focus on flying straight and not to get "all droid detective." For their adjacent mission, BB-8 accompanied Blackness Squadron to Megalox prison on the planet Megalox Beta. Poe planned to question the prisoner Grakkus near Lor San Tekka's whereabouts.^[xiv]

While Poe and the other pilots ventured into the prison,^[14] BB-8 and the other astromech droids O-R10N, R2-HA, and R4 stayed with their starfighters aboard the space station. Subsequently the mission was complicated past the presence of Terex, Poe instructed BB-8 and the droids to implement Operation Upside. To gain leverage over both Grakkus and Terex, Poe planned to utilise the droids to deactivate the space station's gravity field, which protected the prison from Megalox Beta'due south heavy gravity. Poe wanted to rescue Terex in guild to obtain the information about Lor San Tekka.^[15]

Proceeding with their mission, the droids began accessing a control console. When several prison house guards arrived, they activated their rocket boosters. When R4's rocket boosters malfunctioned and crashed into a guard, the other droids were forced to knock out the guards. The four droids soon made their way to Deck Twelve, but a security droid noticed their presence. The security droid crushed O-R10N and threw him down the bridge.^[15] BB-8 fought the security droid and used his electrical cable to electrify the droid, short-circuiting information technology.^[16]

The three surviving droids then deactivated the deflector shield, foiling Terex's plan to storm Grakkus' fortress with hired criminals. Black Squadron, who donned gravity belts, rescued Grakkus and convinced Warden Luta to let them leave with the Hutt. BB-viii and the other droids and so reunited with their pilots. BB-viii personally informed Jessika Pava about the loss of O-R10N. After leaving on their starships, BB-8 remotely reactivated the station's gravity field. When Terex attacked the space station and blasted several shuttles, Blackness Squadron turned effectually and attacked his ship Carrion Spike, forcing Terex to retreat. They so returned to the Resistance base.^[sixteen]

Bringing lovers together

"I'thousand sorry, Theo. This droid is beingness difficult."
"Yep. I've been having some issues with him besides. […] I keep losing parts on my ship. I retrieve the droid may be the culprit."

―Peet Deretalia and Theo Meltsa ^[17]

Afterward, at the Resistance base of operations, BB-8 noticed that Resistance pilot Theo Meltsa had a shell on the technician Peet Deretalia. To bring the two together, BB-viii sabotaged Theo's T-70 X-wing by removing a wire, hatch, and the ship's motivator. BB-8 then sought Peet'southward help in fixing Theo's fighter. Every bit a result, Peet repaired Theo's fighter'south motivator and got to spend time with Theo. The two then went to the mess hall for a repast. Before leaving, Peet pursed her lips for BB-eight.^[17]

Mission to Kaddak

Post-obit the events on Megalox Beta, Poe suspected that he had a spy amongst their ranks and distrusted his fellow Black Squadron pilots.^[xviii] BB-8 stayed behind at the Resistance base on D'Qar while Poe undertook a solo mission to run into with the announcer Suralinda Javos, who had incriminating data on the Showtime Order.^[nineteen] While Poe was working out in the gym, he confided his suspicion that Terex had a spy among Black Squadron. Poe admitted he was sad and angry at Terex for sowing discord amongst his friends.^[18]

After General Organa assigned Poe to escort her spymaster C-3PO on a mission to recover a droid spy on the planet Kaddak, BB-8 accompanied Poe, C-3PO and the Resistance technician Oddy Muva, the only one whom Poe trusted. They traveled to Kaddak in a freighter to avoid drawing attending.^[18] Unknown to everyone else, Oddy Muva had been blackmailed by Agent Terex into spying on Black Squadron. Terex had taken Oddy's wife, Sowa Chuan, hostage.^[11]

On Kaddak, BB-viii and the others headed to a cantina on the Sliver's Level 45. When the group encountered a mouse droid, BB-eight allowed the droid to access his terminal while C-3PO explained that the mouse droid had found that their spy droid had been captured past the Ranc gang. The grouping traveled to the Ranc gang's headquarters, where the gangsters stunned Poe and surrounded the residual of the party.^[20] However, C-3PO turned the tables on the gangsters by activating his hidden spy droids. As a result, they were able to rescue the spy droid N1-ZX, a BX-series droid commando. N1-ZX refused to divulge the information until he had safely been delivered dorsum to the Resistance base of operations.^[21]

Heading dorsum to the freighter, the group was pursued by locals who wanted to collect Terex's bounty on Poe. They were separated from Oddy Muva but managed to return to the freighter. The droids and Poe traveled in Poe's T-70 10-wing Black One with BB-viii sitting in his astromech socket and the other droids residing in storage compartments congenital into the ship's S-foils. Oddy Muva meanwhile stowed aboard Terex's transport Feces Fasten,^[21] intent on rescuing his wife, Sowa Chuan, and breaking Terex's grip on his life.^[eleven]

During the journey, BB-eight and C-3PO listened every bit Poe voiced his suspicion that Oddy Muva was Terex'south spy and that the data that N1-ZX was carrying was a ploy by Terex to discover the Resistance base of operations. Poe dropped out of hyperspace to a higher place a desert planet to test the latter theory. Every bit expected, Terex's transport Feces Spike and a fleet of Ranc gang "Uglies" appeared. Poe'southward Ten-wing was shot downwards and crashed on the desert planet.^[22]

BB-8 and his comrades evaded Terex's Uglies by fleeing into a cavern. One time inside, BB-viii sought to delay Terex and his landing party by attaching himself to a stalactite. When Terex and his gang arrived, BB-8 collapsed a stalactite on tiptop of the group. BB-8 used his cable to dodge the gangsters' blasters. Terex, however, recognized BB-8 from their come across on Ovanis and shot down the cable belongings the droid. BB-eight vicious, much to the distress of Poe and C-3PO.^[11]

Afterward, BB-8 resurfaced and electrically shocked Terex earlier he could kill Poe during in a confrontation in the cave. Poe thanked BB-8 for saving his life and patted him. Meanwhile, Oddy Muva managed to free his wife, Sowa, and the slaves aboard the Carrion Spike. Poe's Blackness Squadron comrades arrived and fought with the Ranc gang fleet. Despite the decease of L'ulo, the squadron provided covering fire for Oddy's escape pods to country on the desert planet. Terex's criminal armada was wiped out past a First Club fleet led by Commander Malarus. Malarus had been dispatched to apprehend Terex for insubordination. BB-8 was present when Poe handed Terex to Commander Malarus.^[23]

Adventures with Kazuda

Meeting Kazuda

" I know, BB-eight. I can't believe the child's still in one piece. This TIE'due south a real ace, but I'll accept care of him."

―Poe Dameron, to BB-8 ^[24]

After accompanying Dameron on many missions for the Resistance,^[4] 6 months prior to the conflict with the Showtime Order, Poe and BB-8 found Kazuda Xiono, a young New Commonwealth X-wing pilot, squaring off against the Offset Order TIE pilot Major Elrik Vonreg, who had ambushed him and his companions while they were transferring critical data from the New Commonwealth to the Resistance. Struck by Kazuda's bravery and skill, Poe instructed Kazuda to piece of work every bit a spy on the Colossus refueling station on the planet Castilon, and also loaned BB-8 to him.^[24]

After arriving on Castilon, Kazuda and BB-8 met some of the Colossus ' residents, including mechanics Jarek Yeager and Tamara Ryvora, the Nikto Neeku Vozo, the airplane pilot Torra Doza, and the shop owners Flix and Orka. BB-8 assisted Kazuda in repairing the cleaved ship the Fireball, which Kazuda planned to use for racing.^[24] He besides assisted Kazuda in getting accustomed to life in this unfamiliar area.^[25]

The "triple dark" tempest

"Go along an eye on this kid, BB-8. I think he's capable of large things."

―Poe Dameron, to BB-8 on Kazuda Xiono ^[24]

On one occasion, BB-eight saved Kaz from being accosted past the Aleena criminal Grevel and ii Snivvians. After escaping these thugs, the two visited Flix and Orka's Office of Acquisitions, where Kaz obtained a ZX-19 compressor. When the pirate Kragan Gorr'due south Warbird gang raided the Colossus during a triple dark storm, BB-8 used his grappling line to pull Kaz and Grevel to rubber. Later, the droid helped retrieve the pirate agent Hallion Nark'south comlink, which Kaz used to jam the pirates' transmissions.^[25]

Rucklin's web

BB-viii remained by Kaz'south side during his cursory friendship with the racer Jace Rucklin. While Kaz was won over by the easy-going Rucklin, BB-8 was suspicious of Rucklin. His suspicions were proven when Rucklin took reward of Yeager'southward friendship to steal a container of hyperfuel from Yeager. BB-8 later used his grappling line to pull Xiono and Rucklin to safety after Rucklin'southward racer exploded and crashed into the bounding main.^[26]

Kaz'southward backup

BB-eight later accompanied Xiono and his colleague Ryvora into Doza Tower, the residence of the Doza family and the elite Ace Squadron. Their visit coincided with the arrival of a First Gild delegation headed by Major Vonreg seeking to convince Captain Imanuel Doza to accept a Start Order presence on the Colossus. Kaz managed to constitute a comlink inside Doza's office but was spotted by Starting time Order stormtroopers. Kaz fled onto the roof while being pursued past stormtroopers. BB-8 helped the spy to escape by opening a nail door.^[27]

Orphans of Tehar

BB-eight likewise accompanied Kaz and Neeku during their search for Kel and Eila, two orphans from Tehar who had a bounty placed on their heads by the Showtime Order. With the help of the Chelidae engineers and mechanics who lived in the engineering deck, Kaz and his friends located the children. They learned that the children were orphans who had survived a Kickoff Order massacre on Tehar. Kaz helped the children hide from Beginning Order forces led by Commander Pyre, who had come to capture or kill the children. The children establish refuge among the Chelidae.^[28]

Danger in Sector 6

BB-viii accompanied Kaz on a "salve run," which turned out to exist training exercise with Poe Dameron. For that exercise, BB-eight flew in Dameron's X-wing while a second BB-8 unit of measurement, CB-23, flew in Kaz's X-wing. While doing starfighter exercises, they responded to a distress phone call from a Darius G-course freighter in Sector six. While exploring the send, BB-eight had friction with CB-23, who was jealous of BB-eight. However, the ii became friends afterward BB-8 drove a Kowakian monkey-lizard from CB-23.^[29]

After fighting off Kowakian monkey-lizards and a Kowakian ape-lizard, they managed to rescue a crew member named Synara San. Following a brief dogfight with pirate ships, they returned to Castilon safely, where they were picked up past Yeager's Star Driver 2000 shuttle. BB-8 accompanied Kaz dorsum to Castilon and waved bye to CB-23. Unknown to anybody, Synara San was a member of Kragan Gorr's Warbird gang and became their spy on the Colossus.^[29]

A "goose hunt"

Post-obit BB-8 and Xiono's adventures in Sector 6, Yeager sent BB-8 to observe Xiono considering he wanted to testify him how to operate a targeting calculator. BB-8 searched the Colossus marketplace before visiting Aunt Z's Tavern but found no sign of Xiono. The droid returned to Yeager's repair shop just to find Xiono working on the targeting computer. Xiono asked BB-viii to detect Yeager, causing the droid to bow his head in exasperation.^[30]

The second pirate raid

Later, BB-viii helped Xiono, Vozo, and Ryvora repair a tracking calculator for the Colossus ' anti-air defense system as part of a job from Captain Doza. Since the Ace Squadron was escorting a supply convoy, Yeager's team had a few hours to repair the tracking figurer. Since they lacked a CoMar Tri-Tracker chip, Yeager sent Xiono, Ryvora, and BB-8 to obtain i.^[31]

The trio showtime visited the Function of Acquisitions, but the store lacked the supplies they needed. They then visited Synara San, who managed to salve one from a sunken cruiser. Despite their efforts to maintain secrecy, Synara learned that the Colossus ' air defence system was down and alerted Kragan Gorr. Before they could repair the tracking calculator, Warbird speeders and starfighters began attacking the Colossus.^[31]

Since Xiono and Ryvora had befriended Synara, Ryvora was worried nearly her friend's condom. Xiono sent BB-eight to accompany Ryvora to the loading docks while he helped Yeager to install the tracking computer in the anti-air defense system. Arriving at the docks, Ryvora fought off several pirates and managed to find Synara, who was belongings herself well. Synara expressed gratitude that her friend had come up to aid her. Meanwhile, Xiono and Yeager managed to reactive the air defense arrangement, forcing the pirates to retreat. While Ryvora trusted Synara, BB-eight had his doubts about her.^[31]

Spying on the High Tower

BB-8 later accompanied Xiono on a second espionage mission at Doza Belfry to spy on a coming together betwixt Captain Doza and Commander Pyre. Kaz managed to befriend Captain Doza's teenage girl Torra Doza, who allowed Xiono and BB-8 to visit the Tower. Afterward visiting the Aces' Lounge, Torra invited Kaz and BB-8 to her chamber for a game of Flight Simulator Squadron.^[32]

Torra'due south pet voorpak Buggles took an interest in BB-8 and chased the droid. The Doza's security droid 4D-M1N soon entered the room and identified BB-8 as a threat. While Torra reprogrammed the security droid, Xiono took the opportunity to sneak out for his hush-hush mission. Later on rejoining Xiono, BB-8 guarded Doza's office while Xiono downloaded information about Captain Doza's meeting with Commander Pyre from his datapad into a memory stick.^[32]

The mission was complicated when Xiono's sometime enemy Jace Rucklin spotted Xiono and alerted Captain Doza. BB-viii warned Xiono, who hid in a cupboard until Captain Doza and Rucklin left. While inside the closet, Xiono discovered an Royal uniform indicating that Captain Doza had once served the "Quondam Empire." After reuniting with BB-8, Xiono shared Doza'due south Purple service with BB-8.^[32]

Torra helped Kaz and BB-viii to sneak out of Doza Tower through the trash incinerator. However, the incinerator had been preprogrammed to deport out its incineration cycle that twenty-four hours. BB-viii managed to dodge lasers and machinery to attain the door console and open the door long enough for the iii of them to escape.^[32]

Mission to Station Theta Blackness

BB-8 accompanied Xiono aboard the Fireball to rendezvous with Poe Dameron. However, Tamara Ryvora had "forgotten" to install a new stabilizer, causing the ship to malfunction. Fortunately, they were picked up by a Resistance CR90 corvette. In one case aboard, they met upwards with Poe, Full general Organa, and CB-23. Full general Organa assigned Poe and Xiono on a mission to investigate a possible First Lodge flight path into the Unknown Regions. BB-8 and CB-23 accompanied the humans for that mission.^[33]

Taking these coordinates, the Resistance operatives discovered an empty Beginning Gild dedlanite mine and processing asteroid station called Station Theta Black. BB-8 remained with Poe and Kaz while CB-23 hid their T-lxx X-wings in the asteroid field. While exploring the station, BB-8 accessed a network final and discovered that the Commencement Club had scheduled the asteroid station for sabotage. Shortly, the three were attacked past a Showtime Order sentry droid. Poe managed to destroy the droid but not earlier it transmitted a distress point to Starkiller Base.^[33]

BB-viii supported Kaz, who argued they should leave the station. However, Poe insisted on finding out what the First Order was using the station for. BB-viii was the offset to receive news from CB-23 that First Order forces nether Helm Phasma and Major Elrik Vonreg had arrived. Despite the First Order threat, BB-8 and his human being comrades proceeded with their intelligence-gathering mission. BB-8 accessed a figurer and discovered that Station Theta Black was a dedlanite mining and processing station.^[33]

The Resistance operatives were soon cornered by Start Order stormtroopers but managed to flee following a cursory skirmish. After a prolonged chase, they rendezvoused with CB-23 and the 10-wing fighters. The droids and humans then engaged in a brief dogfight with Major Vonreg's squadron.^[33]

Seeking to destroy the mining station and Resistance intruders, Captain Phasma detonated the explosives, causing a massive explosive wave. The Resistance pilots and their droids survived the explosion. BB-8 brought back data to General Organa that the First Society was building many weapons. Post-obit the mission, he accompanied Xiono back to the Colossus platform.^[33]

Casual adventures

BB-8, Xiono and the rest of Team Fireball and Torra Doza attended a holodarts game at the Aunt Z'due south Tavern. Xiono failed to striking the target three times during his circular. Bucket hit the target twice, but the third dart struck Xiono in the backside.^[34]

BB-8 was also present at the Colossus market when Yeager treated Neeku to a lunch for his difficult work. Neeku bought a gorg, but the creature escaped, leading Neeku on a wild chase through the marketplace. After recapturing the gorg, Neeku decided to accept bantha milk instead. Yeager then told BB-8 that Neeku could have easily gotten a droid instead.^[35]

Later, BB-viii borrowed Saucepan'due south hard cap. He worked with Tam in the garage, and she remarked that the cap looked adept on him. Still, Bucket presently returned and was incensed to discover BB-8 sporting his favorite helmet. Saucepan slammed into BB-8, causing Bucket's helmet to wing off. Xiono picked upwards Bucket's helmet, only to be kicked in the shin.^[36]

BB-8 was present in Yeager'due south garage when Xiono did a test flight on the Fireball starfighter. While circling the Colossus, the Fireball 'due south throttle broke, causing the send to lose command. Xiono managed to regain command at the final infinitesimal and state the transport safely. All the same, the racer soon cruel apart.^[37]

During the "Bibo incident," BB-eight was present in Yeager's garage when a distraught Neeku threatened to resigned after Yeager objected to his new pet rokkna Bibo. When Bibo's mother attacked the Colossus, BB-8 flew with Xiono inside the Fireball. Neeku managed to placate Bibo's mother past returning the baby rokkna to his mother.^[38]

The stolen phase connector

Afterwards, BB-8 accompanied Xiono when he looked after Flix and Orka's shop, the Role of Acquisitions, while the two were away on holiday. BB-8 helped Kaz, who had never worked in a shop before, to find the parts that he needed. The store was somewhen visited by a chocolate-brown hulking conflicting named Teroj Kee who wanted to buy a phase connector. Since Flix and Orka had given Kaz instructions not to sell the stage connector, Kaz managed to satisfy Teroj by selling him 3 tool kits, ten lenses, and a crate of those connector rods.^[39]

Withal, Teroj was secretly working for the Get-go Order and lured Kaz into a cargo container in the loading dock, which he dropped into the sea. Teroj so entered the Role of Acquisitions where he attempted to steal the phase connector. BB-8 put upwards a fight but the alien amanuensis manged to trap him nether a cupboard. BB-8 managed to contact Kaz and informed him about the theft of the phase connector.^[39]

Kaz followed Teroj and the phase connector aboard a freighter. With the assistance of Flix and Orka'southward gorg Bitey who had also stowed aboard the transport, Kaz managed to sink the freighter, denying the phase connector to the First Order. Later returning to the Office of Acquisitions, Kaz freed BB-viii from the cupboard and informed Flix and Orka almost the loss of the phase connector. Flix and Orka were familiar with Terroj, whom they regarded as a thief. Later on, Kaz confided with BB-viii that the Outset Order was interested in mining for dedlanite and that they needed to contact Full general Organa and the Resistance.^[39]

The Kidnapping of Torra Doza

BB-viii was present at Aunt Z's Tavern when Kaz bought drinks while Tam and Torra played a game of holodarts. Afterward, BB-viii accompanied Kaz to Torra's room when she invited him to play a game of Drone-Equalizer. While Kaz and Neeku were fixing a speeder bicycle, BB-8 played a prank on Saucepan, who pursued him. Kaz had to tell them to go along it down.^[40]

BB-eight later accompanied when he was tailing his pirate friend Synara San, who was meeting in the loading docks with her pirate associates Drell and Valik. After Drell and Valik kidnapped Torra Doza, BB-8 accompanied his chief in the Fireball when they went to rescue Torra. Nevertheless, the Outset Guild rescued Torra from the pirates and used it as a pretext to convince Helm Doza to have First Order armed services occupation.^[twoscore]

The First Order occupation

During the First Order'south occupation of the Colossus, BB-8 and Kaz did their best to keep a low profile, BB-viii assisted Kaz and Neeku in helping Kaz's pirate friend Synara San to escape the Colossus by fleeing through the underlevels, which led to an escape pod.^[41]

After Kaz's friends Kel and Eila knocked out a Offset Order stormtrooper known as CS-515, Kaz infiltrated the First Order base in social club to check that CS-515 had not reported Kel and Eila's presence. Afterward Kaz stole a data rod, BB-8 played a recording of the data rod'southward contents which contained a galactic map marked with ruby-red spots believed to signify the Kickoff Order'south fleet. This led Yeager to speculate that the First Order was planning to use the Colossus as a supply line for their invasion of the milky way.^[42]

Mission to the Dassal system

Afterward Commander Dameron snuck aboard the Colossus, BB-8 accompanied Kaz and fellow astromech droid CB-23 on a mission to the Dassal organization, where the First Social club had been active on. During the mission, they discovered that the system'due south sun had disappeared and that all of the system's planets had been drilled through. They also discovered testify of a massacre on Najra-Va's moon. Despite existence pursued past Get-go Order forces under Major Elrik Vonreg, the Resistance pilots managed to escape. Post-obit their mission, BB-viii departed with Dameron for a new mission while CB-23 took his place as Kaz's minder.^[43]

Cold state of war

Mission to Jakku

"You take this. It's safer with y'all than it is with me. You lot become as far away from here every bit y'all can. Exercise you hear me? I'll come up dorsum for you lot! It volition exist all right."

―Poe Dameron, to BB-viii ^[iii]

Poe then traveled to Jakku afterward collecting BB-8 from Kazuda Xiono in the aftermath of the Resistance pilots' joint mission together in the Dassal System for Poe's upcoming mission the following day as Poe and BB-8 then jumped off into lightspeed together after saying cheerio to Kaz and CB-23.^[43] He went with his master to Tuanul on Jakku to run across with Lor San Tekka. While Dameron spoke to Tekka in his hut, BB-8 waited outside and saw four Showtime Guild Atmospheric Assault Landers approach. He then alerted his chief of the Order's arrival, so Tekka handed Dameron a memory drive containing a map to Jedi Master Luke Skywalker's location. BB-8 and Dameron and so fled to their T-70 Ten-wing starfighter, but before they could escape, stormtroopers disabled its engines. Unable to escape, Dameron gave BB-8 the map and an order to go equally far away equally possible, which BB-8 did. At one betoken during the droid'due south escape, a nightwatcher worm rose its optics in a higher place the sand, and watching BB-eight, expressed its curiosity.^[3]

On the run

"It'southward easy, buddy. You lot benefit things, and good things will come back to yous."

―Poe Dameron to BB-8 ^[44]

With BB-8's tracking style disabled prior to landing on Jakku,^[7] the droid had no choice simply to find his own way through the desert alone, presuming his chief dead and the success of the mission resting solely on him. Resting in a wreck for the night, BB-8 recalled how Poe Dameron had told him that good things happened to those who did practiced things for others.^[44]

Setting off beyond the desert the side by side morning, BB-viii encountered a Teedo begging for help in freeing his luggabeast from a sandpit. Remembering Poe's words and feeling lamentable for the two, BB-8 went to help. Unfortunately it was a ruse. Falling though a trap door hidden in the sand, BB-eight found himself trapped in an underground cell, where Teedo planned to keep him to disassemble him for his parts.^[44]

Inside the cell, BB-8 befriended Teedo'due south other prisoner, a large loading droid named F3-ZK. F3-ZK belonged to a droid ship on a scouting mission before he was captured. The transport would be leaving that afternoon. Using a loose panel in the cell'southward floor, BB-viii and F3-ZK tricked Teedo into falling into a hole, assuasive them to escape. However, that didn't concur Teedo for long, as he was able to pursue the two droids every bit they raced for the send.^[44]

However, the droids had bigger problems when they encountered a flock of steelpeckers. Knowing BB-8 had an important mission, F3-ZK made the birds follow him, leaving BB-eight to go on to the send alone. Along the manner, he encountered an Aleena scavenger family. The female parent begged BB-8 for help finding food for her two children. Remembering that at that place had been ration packets in the wreck he'd spent the night in, BB-8 took them back to that wreck. Despite it being in the opposite direction of the droid ship, BB-8 hoped he could brand information technology if he hurried.^[44]

Leaving the Aleenas with the rations, BB-8 went on his way again. En route, he found a happabore who'd injured its leg. He remembered that he had passed a wrecked medical ship with kickoff-assist supplies. Going back for them would probably filibuster him plenty that he would miss the droid ship's takeoff, just the happabore's hurting from its injuries made BB-eight make up one's mind to help anyhow. Retrieving a medical kit, BB-8 bandaged the happabore'due south leg, receiving a lick and osculation from the grateful creature.^[44]

Despite all the delays, BB-8 fabricated information technology to the droid ship just as it was ready to accept off, equally had F3-ZK, who had escaped the steelpeckers. Unfortunately, Teedo had as well caught upwardly with them and blocked the style. Remembering how F3-ZK had saved him from the steelpeckers, BB-8 ordered F3-ZK to go out on the send while he ran out into the desert, leading Teedo with him. As the droid ship left Jakku, Teedo caught up with BB-eight, capturing the little droid in a net. Dragged abroad by Teedo's luggabeast, BB-viii wondered why things had gone so wrong, despite him following Poe Dameron's advice.^[44]

Meeting Rey

"Yeah, there's a lot of sand here. Beebee-Ate? Okay. How-do-you-do, Beebee-Ate. My name is Rey. No, only Rey. Wait, you lot're non going to talk all night, are you? Because that won't piece of work. You know how humans recharge. We don't plug in: We slumber. Adept. Proceed that in heed and nosotros'll become along 'til morning time."

―Rey to BB-eight ^[45]

BB-8 struggled to escape from Teedo's net. The commotion attracted the attention of a scavenger, who intervened and convinced the Teedo to leave BB-8 alone. Straightening his bent antenna, although she wasn't able to completely gear up it,^[46] the scavenger casually asked where he had come from. When he claimed that that was classified, she didn't probe whatever further, then gave him directions to Niima Outpost.^[three]

All the same, BB-8 insisted on traveling with the scavenger. Later protesting, she reluctantly agreed to let him stay for the evening before sending him on his way the adjacent morning. Led to the walker she used as a home, BB-eight introduced himself to the scavenger by name, who identified herself every bit Rey.^[3] Unbeknownst to them, BB-viii had become the target of a determined search by the Resistance, the First Order and the galactic underworld.^[4]

The nightwatcher worm

"How did I find you lot? I'm merely lucky, I guess. Unlike you, my little friend."

―Rey to BB-8 ^[47]

Presently into their journey, BB-8 and Rey were followed past a nightwatcher worm seeking its next repast. The pair were pursued, with BB-eight being briefly swallowed by the worm then spit out. Rey and BB-8 then made information technology to Rey's walker. Seeing that the worm was only a creature trying to survive in the desert, just like them, Rey kindly gave it some spare flake to eat instead. The worm took the scrap and peacefully left.^[47] BB-8 and Rey and then went inside the walker to clean off the slime they had gotten on themselves.^[48] BB-eight spent the night in the walker quietly, salve for being briefly "awakened" by Rey going out for some air afterward a nightmare.^[49]

Bandits

"Turns out you're quite a popular droid."

―Rey to BB-8 ^[50]

The side by side morning, Rey prepared to have BB-8 to Niima Outpost on her speeder; the settlement was the most likely place that anyone looking for BB-8 would go. Nevertheless, before they could offset out, a glint of metal caught Rey'due south attention; Teedo had come up back for BB-viii, and he had brought two bandits with him as backup.^[50]

Fleeing on the bike with BB-8 in tow and Teedo's bandits in pursuit, Rey was able to force two of the bandits to crash into each other's speeder bikes in the Graveyard. Teedo wasn't so piece of cake to shake, though. At BB-8'due south suggestion, Rey piloted them to the nightwatcher worm's den in the bowels of a wrecked Star Destroyer. Parking the speeder, Rey and BB-8 waited as Teedo followed them in. Before the bandit could shoot them with a equalizer, the worm surfaced, eating the cycle. Thrown clear, Teedo fled. Thanking the worm, BB-8 and Rey continued to the outpost.^[50]

Niima Outpost

"Plutt wants droid. We take droid. Female don't interfere."
"The droid is mine. I didn't sell him. Plutt knows that."
"Yous right. Plutt knows that. You lot didn't sell. So he take."

―Unkar Plutt's thugs and Rey ^[45]

Reaching Niima, Rey bodacious BB-8 that he couldn't give up despite his master non being found right away, drawing a parallel to her own personal wait for her family to come back to Jakku. In the meantime, she had the little droid follow her while she went to sell relieve to Unkar Plutt.^[3] On the way, BB-8 defenseless Rey crying (thinking about her missing family), which the scavenger denied.^[45] BB-eight gently teased her about it all the fashion to Plutt's stand, by which indicate Rey was able to express joy at it, too.^[6]

When their turn at Plutt's stand arrived, the Crolute became interested and offered to buy BB-eight; while tempted, Rey declined the offer, to Plutt'south acrimony.^[3]

Immediately leaving Plutt's stand, Rey took BB-8 on a meandering class until they had put enough distance between them. Profusely thanking Rey for not selling him, BB-8's steady stream of chatter was interrupted by the young scavenger; she couldn't help him further if she didn't know what exactly he was waiting for. Thinking for a moment, BB-viii asked if he could trust her, earning an aroused response from Rey at existence asked that after all she had washed for him since they met. Apologetic, BB-8 told her everything, about Poe, the Resistance, the Showtime Order, and the destruction of the Sacred Hamlet. His story was interrupted by a pair of thugs who had come to steal BB-8 for Unkar Plutt, who put him in a sack. Despite the thugs warning her not to interfere, Rey fought dorsum.^[45]

BB-8, Finn, and Rey notice stormtroopers looking for the droid.

Defeating the thugs, Rey helped BB-8 out of the sack. He immediately noticed a man nearby wearing Poe's jacket, prompting Rey to hunt after the man, Finn. Knocking him over with a staff, Rey questioned Finn while BB-8 shocked him with i of his tools. Finn was finally explained that he had met and helped Dameron escape the Finalizer, simply that Dameron had apparently perished during their crash, to BB-8's distress. Finn also claimed to be with the Resistance.^[3]

Merely then, two stormtroopers noticed BB-8 and called in an airstrike. Equally 2 TIE fighters began firing at them, the iii fugitives managed to board the Millennium Falcon. BB-8 hung on for the bumpy ride as Rey piloted the ship through the Graveyard until Finn could shoot the Necktie fighters chasing them. Home gratis, the Falcon flew into space, leaving Jakku behind.^[3]

Journeying to the base

"You're okay. He'south with the Resistance. He's going to get y'all home. We both will."

―Rey to BB-8 ^[three]

Finn asks BB-8 for the Resistance base location.

While in the Jakku system, Rey had to repair the Falcon, and asked Finn where the Resistance base of operations was. Not knowing the answer, Finn admitted to BB-8 (but not to Rey) that he wasn't part of the Resistance and asked the droid where the base was. Later some consideration, BB-8 revealed the base'due south location in the Ileenium arrangement. Only then, the Falcon was caught in a tractor beam and captured by a larger ship.^[3]

Aboard the Eravana

"Get beneath deck and stay there until I say and so -- don't even think about taking the Falcon."
"What virtually BB-8?"
"He stays with me -- until I get rid of the gang, then you can have him back and exist on your manner."

―Han Solo and Rey ^[3]

Believing themselves to have been captured by the Showtime Order, the three hid in a compartment, preparing to release gas to neutralize any boarding stormtroopers. Instead, they encountered Han Solo and Chewbacca, the Falcon 'south former owners. Rey and Finn recognized Solo and Finn told him about BB-eight's map, with the droid displaying the fragmented map in a hologram.^[3] BB-8 was initially afraid of Solo and Chewbacca, but the smugglers were friendly to BB-8.^[51]

However, Solo and Chewbacca'south electric current freighter, the Eravana, was boarded by members of the Guavian Expiry Gang and Kanjiklub. While Rey and Finn hid, BB-8 remained with the famed smugglers every bit insurance, but this resulted in Guavian fellow member Bala-Tik recognizing BB-8 and demanding Solo hand the droid over. But equally Rey accidentally released the Eravana 'southward cargo (iii rathtars) and a firefight began, BB-eight fled with Solo and Chewbacca to the Millennium Falcon, where they met with Finn and Rey and escaped.^[3]

First Order–Resistance war

Takodana

"No, you can't. Y'all take to go back. You're important. Much more so than I am. They'll aid you lot to fulfill your mission, more than I ever could. I'm sorry."

―Rey to BB-eight ^[45]

Solo took Finn, Rey, and BB-8 to meet his one-time friend Maz Kanata at her castle on the planet Takodana.^[3] BB-8 had never seen and so many aliens in 1 place before his visit to Maz'south castle.^[51] In that location, spies for both the Resistance and the Offset Order recognized the droid and alerted their organizations. BB-8 followed Rey into a basement room, where she establish the lightsaber that had belonged to Luke Skywalker and his begetter Anakin before him. Upon touching it, she received a vision, which frightened her and acquired her to run off into the woods.^[3]

BB-viii followed Rey until she stopped.^[3] He and then asked her where they would go next. BB-8 had decided to stay with Rey permanently, despite her insistence that he couldn't, being too of import and being able to get help from the others in completing his mission.^[49] When they saw Showtime Order ships streaking through the heaven, they returned to find the castle under attack. Spotted by stormtroopers, Rey told BB-viii to go further into the woods, while she drew them away. When the boxing was over, Rey had been captured by Kylo Ren. A Resistance counterattack forced the Outset Club to retreat, just with Rey having seen the map, Ren decided that they could become it out of her and would no longer need BB-8.^[3]

Solo, Chewbacca, Finn, and BB-eight were brought to the Resistance base on D'Qar by General Leia Organa. In that location, BB-viii eagerly was reunited with Poe, who had survived the crash on Jakku. BB-8 besides removed the cover from R2-D2, hoping to get a response, just C-3PO explained that Artoo had been in depression-power mode since Master Luke had gone into exile. BB-viii wondered if Artoo had the residual of the map in his fill-in retention, to which Threepio replied that it was unlikely.^[3]

Battle of Starkiller Base

BB-8 accompanied Poe Dameron during the Boxing of Starkiller Base, in which Dameron destroyed the planet-weapon.

BB-8 accompanied Poe Dameron during the Battle of Starkiller Base of operations, navigating for Poe in his custom X-wing Blackness Ane. The Ten-wings would attack the base'due south thermal oscillator after the shields had been disabled by Han Solo, Chewbacca, and Finn, which could cause the charged weapon to become unstable and self-destruct. BB-8 flew with Dameron as he led the Ten-wings on an initial attack on the oscillator, but it failed to practice significant impairment. Subsequently the first attack run, General Armitage Hux of the Showtime Society ordered all TIE squadrons to assault. During the battle, over half of the Resistance's assault force was destroyed, and the X-wings failed to exercise any meaning damage to the thermal oscillator. Nonetheless, Chewbacca detonated several explosives along the oscillator, providing Dameron with an opening. With less than a infinitesimal to spare, Poe and BB-8 flew downwardly a trench to the regulator, squeezing through a very narrow opening into the regulator itself, where Poe fired several proton torpedoes into the infrastructure. The damage was enough to destroy the regulator, destabilizing the planet-weapon's core, ripping apart the surface and destroying the planet.^[three]

Later the battle, the X-wings returned to D'Qar, along with the Millennium Falcon conveying Chewbacca, Finn, and Rey, with Han Solo having been killed during the mission. Upon Rey's arrival, R2-D2 woke up from his low-power country. He revealed the map to Luke'southward location, with simply one piece missing. BB-8 then projected his piece, fitting it into the hole in Artoo'south map and revealing Luke'south location: Ahch-To.^[3] Soon earlier Rey'due south departure from D'Qar, BB-8 recorded Rey saying goodbye to Finn, who was in a coma, and that she would run into him over again before kissing him on the forehead.^[52] With the location discovered at last, BB-eight and the others bid farewell to Rey, Chewbacca, and Artoo as they set off to find the fabulous Jedi.^[3]

Evacuation of D'Qar

"«I've got a bad feeling about this!»"
"Happy beeps here, Buddy! Come on!"

―BB-8 and Poe ^[53]

Shortly later returning from Starkiller Base, BB-8 was called into service with Dameron once again when the Showtime Order launched an attack against the Resistance Base on D'Qar. Facing down three Resurgent-class Star Destroyers and one Mandator Four-class Siege Dreadnought in the astromech slot of Blackness One,^[53] BB-8 remarked that he had a bad feeling about it,^[54] while Poe urged him to remain positive.^[53]

BB-8 lowered himself into the engine compartment of *Black One*.

In order to stall for time, BB-8 patched Poe through to Hux on board the Finalizer, and activated the X-fly'southward sublight boosters, blasting the send towards the dreadnought at high speed. When Black One 'south weapons systems went offline, preventing Poe from clearing out the dreadnought's surface cannons, BB-8 repaired the weapons systems by ramming his head into the faulty wiring, causing the droid to be briefly shocked.^[53]

After the assail on the Fulminatrix succeeded, Poe and BB-8 returned to the Resistance flagship Raddus, and BB-8 informed Poe that Finn was awake and wandering the halls of the Raddus. BB-viii was present on the Raddus ' bridge when the Outset Order fleet, led past the Supremacy, caught up with the Resistance fleet subsequently tracking them through hyperspace.^[53]

BB-8 went ahead of Poe to fix Black One to engage the fleet once more, simply Kylo Ren launched a pair of magazine-pulse warheads from his TIE Silencer that destroyed Black One and the entire hangar bay. The blast knocked BB-viii's head off his body, simply the droid put himself back together.^[53]

Mission to Canto Bight

"A drunkard alien in a tuxedo thought yous were a slot machine? Fair enough."

―DJ learns near BB-viii'southward encounter with Dobbu Scay ^[55]

BB-8 accompanied Finn and Resistance maintenance worker Rose Tico in their mission to disable the Starting time Order's hyperspace tracker. To do this, Finn and Rose planned to enlist the help of a Principal Codebreaker on Cantonica who could get them onto the Supremacy.^[53]

Dobbu Scay mistook BB-8 for a lugjack machine.

At the Canto Bight Casino, the drunkard Dobbu Scay mistook BB-viii for a lugjack slot machine, and put several cantocoins into the droid's ports. When Finn and Rose were arrested for parking their shuttle illegally, Canto Bight police officers threw BB-8 out of the casino. BB-eight fabricated his way to the Canto Bight police headquarters and located Finn and Rose'southward cell.^[53]

When the thief "DJ" opened every cell door in the facility, BB-eight managed to bind and gag several Canto Bight police officers in the ensuing chaos. BB-eight soon met upwards with DJ. The 2 were confronted past prison guards, merely BB-8 took 1 down by launching the cantocoins Scay had put inside him at the guard. When DJ attempted to collect the coins, BB-8 stopped him, and the two obtained the yacht Libertine, and used it to pick up Finn and Rose. BB-8 would claim that DJ stole the vessel, just DJ insisted that both of them were responsible for it.^[53]

Infiltrating the Supremacy

BB-viii takes control of a damaged First Order walker

BB-eight joined Finn, Rose, and DJ aboard the Supremacy in the final stages of their mission. To disguise the droid, Finn placed a garbage receptacle on top of him. Though BB-8 attempted to blend in by imitating the noises made by MSE-vi serial repair droids, the Offset Order BB-unit BB-9E saw through the rebels' subterfuge, and alerted the Commencement Order to their presence. Finn, Rose, and DJ were apprehended, but BB-8 avoided capture.^[53]

When Vice Admiral Amilyn Holdo sacrificed herself to salve the Resistance, using the Raddus to ram the Supremacy at lite speed, BB-8 took advantage of the confusion in the Supremacy hangar bay past hijacking an AT-ST walker and shooting many stormtroopers. BB-8 and then used the walker to carry Finn and Rose to a 11-form lite shuttle that they used to join the remnant of the Resistance on the surface of Crait.^[53]

Crait and beyond

Subsequently their shuttle crashed in the decommissioned Rebel outpost on Crait, BB-8 shared a loving reunion with Poe. BB-8 performed an assay of the outpost and learned that, save minor natural openings, the only way in and out of the outpost was through the massive bunker door: an entrance at present cut off by the advancing First Guild.^[53]

However, BB-8, forth with the rest of the Resistance, followed Poe when he realized that the vulptices must take found an alternate way out of the base. They came to a wall of boulders as well heavy to move by hand. BB-eight then witnessed as Rey, on the other side of the wall, used the Strength to lift the boulders out of the way, assuasive the Resistance to escape on the Falcon and survive another day.^[53]

On board the Falcon, BB-8 reunited with Rey, who told him that his antenna looked proficient.^[53]

Evacuating to Pacara

When the First Guild arrived at Batuu, BB-8 assisted in evacuating resistance recruits to Pacara.When the recruits arrived at the outpost, BB-8 greeted them and played a message from his friend Rey. BB-8 was in Poe's X-wing when they escorted the recruit's shuttle to Pacara. When the Finalizer captured the shuttle, BB-8 along with Poe, escaped and gathered reinforcements to rescue it.^[56]

Ending the state of war

"Never underestimate a droid."

―Leia Organa, to Rey ^[53]

Upon the request of Poe, BB-eight stayed with Rey on Ajan Kloss while she continued her Jedi grooming. Afterward learning of the Final Club and wayfinders BB-8 accompanied Rey, Finn, Poe, Chewbacca, and C-3PO to Pasaana to find a Sith wayfinder where they encountered Lando Calrissian. During his time on Pasaana the group recovered a Sith dagger. On the Bestoon Legacy, BB-8 establish a footling droid named D-O and recharged his batteries. The group headed to Kijimi to have the Sith text extracted from C-3PO's memory. The process wiped the droid'south memory, merely revealed coordinates to a way-finder on an ocean moon in the Endor arrangement. The Steadfast afterwards arrives at Kijimi, and Rey sensed that Chewbacca was alive and the grouping mounted a rescue mission. The group traveled to Kef Bir where BB-eight and D-O interacted with some orbaks. Later, BB-8 joined the Resistance ground forces during the Boxing of Exegol. After the battle, BB-8 accompanied Rey to Tatooine and visited Luke's old abandoned home and buried Anakin's and Leia'due south lightsabers in that location, having congenital her own.

Characteristics

"You're a true friend."

―Rey ^[48]

A BB-series droid, BB-8 had a dome caput, similar to that of R2 series astromech droids, with the majority of his body fabricated up of a dense, well-sealed ball on which the droid's head rolled. BB-viii was by and large white, with some orange and silver on his trunk, also as a blackness photoreceptor.

Though BB-8's cocky-preservation protocols meant the droid was skittish and hands frightened, his experiences formed a strong loyalty subprogram. BB-8's manifest personality was, to his master and friend Poe Dameron, somewhat of an unpredictable one: while nearly droids were predictable to certain stereotypes (snobby, sullen, grumpy) inside their respective programming, BB-viii was his own case, sometimes childlike, sometimes precocious. In fact, Dameron sometimes wondered if the droid daydreamed, fifty-fifty though that unsaid the absurd—that BB-8 had an active imagination. When communicating, BB-eight spoke in 27th generation droidspeak code, a compressed version of binary.

BB-8 was mettlesome and daring enough to put his beingness on the line to assist his Resistance comrades. On i occasion, he used a cable to hang on to the tiptop of a cave while he collapsed a stalactite on tiptop of Agent Terex's Ranc gang. While BB-8 was shot down, he survived the fall and zapped Terex, saving Poe's life a 3rd fourth dimension.

Relationships

Poe Dameron

BB-8 was loyal to his chief Poe, who regarded him every bit a confidant. When Poe could not trust the rest of his squadron, he turned to BB-8 as a "sounding board." BB-8 knew how to operate a T-70 Ten-wing and was familiar with the model's design and accessories. BB-8 also knew how to fight. On ii occasions, he helped Poe outsmart and disarm the Starting time Guild Agent Terex. BB-8 besides played a supporting role in Poe's operations. On one occasion, he led the other astromech droids on a successful operation to disable Megalox Beta's gravity shields. BB-8 also outwitted and defeated a security droid during the course of the Megalox mission. Poe'south Blackness One was BB-8's favorite starship.

Kazuda Xiono

Poe placed BB-viii in charge of looking after the novice Resistance spy Kazuda Xiono during his mission aboard the Colossus platform. BB-8 looked afterward Xiono, saving him from danger on several occasions including falling overboard twice and escaping Start Club stormtroopers.

CB-23

BB-8 and CB-23 initially had an antagonistic relationship. BB-8 feared that CB-23 was going to replace him equally Poe Dameron's best friend, while CB-23 had a "stuck-up" attitude towards BB-eight. The 2 put aside their differences after BB-8 saved CB-23 from a Kowakian monkey-lizard. Every bit a result of their adventures aboard a derelict Darius G-form freighter, BB-8 and CB-23 came to capeesh each other ameliorate and became friends.

Ivee

Ivee and BB-8 became friends sometime earlier the Mission to Cato Neimoidia. She helped prepare Black I while Poe and BB-viii were on patrol missions. They became very close throughout their many missions together and liked to gossip, even during dogfights with the Kickoff Order. During a mission to rescue Lor San Tekka, Ivee choose to sacrifice herself in order to save Jessika Pava by using her rocket boosters to fly direct into an incoming missile, destroying her. BB-8, who witnessed her death firsthand, lowered his head and gave a lamentable beep.^[source?]

Rey

Subsequently Rey saved him on Jakku, BB-8 took a liking to her and decided to stay with her until he reunited with Poe. During their time together, BB-viii and Rey developed a friendly bond with each other.

D-O

During the mission to Pasaana, BB-8 discovered D-O aboard Ochi's transport and brought him to Rey to be fixed. In plough, the roller droid took a strong involvement in BB-8.^[57]

Equipment

"He'due south a BB unit with a selenium drive and a thermal hyperscan vindicator..."

―Rey, to Kylo Ren ^[3]

BB-8 doing a thumbs-upwards with his lighter.

All of BB-eight's equipment was stored within 6 swappable, circular tool-bay disks embedded in the brawl, that could be replaced or upgraded with minimal reprogramming.^[vii] Being an astromech droid, BB-8 had several features such as an arc welder,^[three] a welding torch.^[45] and a holoprojector.^[iii] Like all BB units, he had a selenium drive and a thermal hyperscan vindicator. His white-and-orangish paint scheme was described past his master as being a "one-of-a-kind" design for his model.^[3]

BB-8 was too equipped with a grappling line, which he used to rescue Xiono on a few occasions.^[25] ^[26]

Backside the scenes

"They never cease to astonish me with what they're able to come up with, you know? I said, 'How are you ever gonna top R2-D2, the virtually adorable droid in movie history?'"

―Mark Hamill on BB-8 ^[58]

BB-8 was start revealed in the offset teaser trailer for Star Wars: Episode VII The Forcefulness Awakens on Nov 28, 2014.^[59] His name was revealed by Entertainment Weekly in an exclusive trading card.^[60] The graphic symbol was realized past the Pinewood Studios creature shop equally a applied, functioning robot.^[58]

BB-eight's proper noun was called by Episode 7 director J.J. Abrams considering of the droid's circular and boisterous wait. Abrams also said, "I named him BB-8 because information technology was almost onomatopoeia. It was sort of how he looked to me, with the 8, obviously, and then the two B'southward." The proper noun was conceived early in Episode VII's product and was ane of the few that was never changed.^[61]

BB-eight is performed by Dave Chapman and Brian Herring. BB-8's voice includes digitally altered sounds created by actors Bill Hader and Ben Schwartz, who are credited as "BB-eight Vocal Consultants."^[62] The vocalizations were produced in postal service-production, with the crew deciding between beeps and voice.

Seven unlike BB-viii units were used in the making of Episode VII. Each was given its own nickname, such as "Bowling Ball" and "the Puppet."^[64] Some other nickname for the droid was "Surly."^[65]