He originally trained with Batch Eight before joining the FN Corps, a sub-branch of the Stormtrooper Corps, and although his potential was recognized by his commanding officers, FN-2187 lacked the ruthlessness that had become common in the ranks under the influence of Captain Phasma. As the galaxy became consumed by war, the renegade trooper was ultimately forced to decide where his true loyalties lay.īorn in 11 ABY during the New Republic Era, FN-2187 was part of a new generation of stormtroopers-human children conscripted into the military forces of the First Order-modeled on the Republic clone troopers and Imperial stormtroopers of the past. For a time he was unwilling to support the Resistance, hoping to escape the galactic conflict instead of fighting for a cause he believed was doomed to fail. Though trained since birth to be a loyal and obedient soldier, FN-2187's conscience conflicted with the methods of the First Order. I'm never going back.' ―Finn, to Rey įinn, formerly designated FN-2187 (' Eight-Seven'), was a Force-sensitive human male stormtrooper who served the First Order until his desertion and subsequent defection to the Resistance during the First Order-Resistance War. And you looked at me like no one ever had. Like all of them, I was taken from a family I'll never know.
