Niima Outpost

Niima Outpost is a fictional business featured in the Star Wars multimedia franchise. It was one of the principal settings of the 2015 feature film Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens.

Description
Niima Outpost was a business center on Jakku run by a portly alien named Unkar Plutt. It was located on the planet Jakku near the region where the Battle of Jakku took place at the close of the Galactic Civil War.

Unkar distributed rations as payment for viable salvage, but was known to offer disappointing portions for common items. He saw operable droids as great value and even offered the generous amount of sixty-four portions for a BB series astromech droid. Thieves and scavengers would often try to take advantage of those they felt were easy prey.

History
More than a decade after the Battle of Endor, a young girl named Rey was brought to Jakku where she came under the care of the Crolute junkboss, Unkar Plutt. She remained in the Niima Outpost region for most of her life, and lived inside the ruins of a fall AT-AT. As a young woman, Rey would work as a scavenger, often spelunking through the innards of a downed Imperial Star Destroyer to find items of value. When she tried to sell them to Unkar, he only offered up a fraction of a survival ration for her troubles.

Returning to her abode inside a fallen AT-AT, Rey came upon an astromech droid named BB-8. The droid was briefly apprehended by a Teedo scavenger, but Rey freed him, and agreed to let the robot remain with her. When she next went to the outpost, Unkar offered her sixty-four portions in exchange for BB-8, but she told him that he was not for sale.

Characters associated with

 * BB-8
 * Finn
 * Needo
 * Rey
 * Unkar Plutt
 * Unkar's thugs