During the First Order’s raid on Jakku, Captain Phasma accompanied Kylo Ren to confront Lor San Tekka, and oversaw her legions’ destruction of the village of Tuanul.

Phasma’s stormtroopers quickly overwhelmed the villagers, killing San Tekka and capturing the Resistance pilot Poe Dameron. But the operation didn’t go perfectly: stormtroopers were killed, and one – FN-2187 – seemed unsettled by the orders he’d been given.

After FN-2187 broke Dameron out of prison and fled with him to Jakku, Phasma studied the rogue trooper’s records. They revealed no prior signs of nonconformity. Something had gone wrong, despite Hux’s behavior conditioning and her ceaseless combat instruction and drills.

At the First Order’s secret Starkiller Base, Phasma and her legions listened as General Hux heralded the end of the corrupt New Republic and fired the base’s superweapon, destroying the distant New Republic capital of Hosnian Prime. The Empire was dead, but a better, stronger version stood ready to take its place.

The First Order’s forces returned to Starkiller Base and prepared to fire on D’Qar, site of the principal Resistance base. But the Resistance launched a mission to destroy Starkiller Base, with the renegade FN-2187 guiding Han Solo and Chewbacca through the facility. Finn seized Phasma, forcing the First Order commander to lead the infiltrators to the base’s shield control room. Phasma then suffered the indignity of being dropped into a trash compactor.

Phasma was stationed aboard the First Order flagship Supremacy when Snoke’s forces drove the Resistance from its base on D’Qar. While First Order Star Destroyers pursued Leia Organa’s fleet across space, Phasma prepared the regime’s ground forces for action.

Alerted to an intrusion aboard the Supremacy, Phasma and her troops intercepted Finn, Rose Tico and DJ before they could shut down the First Order flagship’s hyperspace tracker. Staring down the former FN-2187, Phasma purred that it was so good to have him back.

DJ quickly cut a deal, revealing that the Resistance planned to evacuate its flagship by boarding small, hard-to-detect transports. As the First Order began targeting these ships, Phasma ordered her soldiers to execute Finn and Rose with laser axes.

The killing blows never fell: the Supremacy was torn in two when Vice Admiral Holdo sent the Raddus into hyperspace through the First Order fleet. With the hangar in flames, Phasma rallied her troops and faced off against Finn in a furious hand-to-hand fight.

Finn got the better of his former commander, cleaving a rent in Phasma’s chromium mask. The deck beneath the First Order warrior collapsed and Phasma vanished into the fiery ruin below.