Resistance

The Resistance is a fictional military organization depicted in the Star Wars universe, first depicted onscreen in the 2015 film, Star Wars: The Force Awakens. Approximately thirty years after the Battle of Endor depicted in Return of the Jedi, the Resistance, a private army aligned with the New Republic, is at war with the First Order, a military junta built on the legacy of the evil Galactic Empire.

As depicted in The Force Awakens, the Resistance shares many similarities with the Rebel Alliance that fought the Galactic Empire three decades earlier. The Resistance adopted the Rebel Alliance starbird as its insignia, utilizes the Incom T-70 X-wing fighter (a descendant of the Rebellion's T-65 X-wing fighter), and has former Rebellion fighters among its ranks, such as Leia Organa, Chewbacca, Han Solo, C-3PO, R2-D2, Gial Ackbar, and Nien Nunb. Its best pilot is said to be Poe Dameron, and it later finds allies in Finn, a defected First Order stormtrooper, and Rey, a Force-sensitive.