

The Resistance still opposes him, but thanks to his disciples, the Knights of Ren, even the new breed of Jedi hasn't been enough to turn the tide against him. In our version, Supreme Leader Kylo Ren has successfully maintained the First Order's grip over the galaxy. The Resistance Jedi are teaching themselves different tricks, creating a new Jedi martial art that's more kung fu than kendo. Lightsabers are a rarity - Rey has been able to cobble one together out of her old staff and a salvaged yellow kyber crystal (as she does at the end of "The Rise of Skywalker"), but most of her students don't have one, which has changed how they train. Resistance cells are still small, hit-and-run type operations made up of ordinary people and ex-Republic military, but each cell now has one or two Jedi adepts among their ranks. Her days as a scavenger on Jakku were hard and lonely, but at least she had a home. While this has contributed to her celebrity among the Resistance and allowed her to share her skills with some young Jedi trainees, it is also profoundly exhausting. Time to train is also very precious, as she's now one of the Resistance's foremost field commanders (along with Finn) and is always being reassigned to wherever in the galaxy the next and/or most important mission happens to be. Rey is now the senior-most Jedi of a new generation, but (much like Luke in "Return of the Jedi") she doesn't have a lot of formal training and has had to develop her own training philosophy.
