During the Cold war, the Resistance operatives Poe Dameron, C-3PO, BB-8, and the technician Oddy Muva undertook a mission to Kaddak to obtain secret information that would lead to the First Order's Supreme Leader Snoke. They managed to rescue the BX-series droid commando N1-ZX from the Ranc gang. The group was then pursued by the First Order Security Bureau Agent Terex, who had retaken control of the Ranc gang. In an attempt to prevent Terex and the Ranc gang from finding the Resistance base on D'Qar, Dameron and the droids fled to a desert planet, leading to a skirmish between the Resistance and the Ranc gang.