Western Regions

The Western Regions is a fictional region featured in the Star Wars multimedia franchise. It was first seen in the 2015 feature film Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens.

The Western Regions comprises a section of the Inner Rim Territories in the outer reaches of the known galaxy between the Core Worlds and the Outer Rim. The planet Jakku is located within the Western Regions of the Inner Rim Territories.

Republic Resistance pilot Poe Dameron traveled through this area en route to Jakku to meet with a sympathetic spiritualist named Lor San Tekka. Former First Order Stormtrooper, FN-2187 and the Jakku scavenger Rey escaped from First Order TIE fighters by stealing the Millennium Falcon and traveling through the Western Regions.

The Falcon was overtaken by a Baleen-class heavy freighter called the Eravana, which was piloted by the Falcon' s original owner, Han Solo. During this encounter, the Eravana was boarded by two rival pirate gangs, the Guavian Death Gang and Kanjiklub. With some assistance from some escaped Rathtars, the Solo, his wookiee companion, Chewbacca, FN-2187, and Rey succeeded in vanquishing the criminals and continued on in the Falcon to the planet Takodana.