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The novelization was just released and I got it on audiobook and I have been listening to it on the commute to work. So far there have been a few interesting details:
If I find anything else of interest I'll post it here.
- There was a brief funeral for Han during the evacuation.
- Snaps Wexley and Jess Pava survived the events of the movie. Leia had sent them and other pilots to gather more Resistance ships to help with the evacuation but they hadn't made it back to D'Qar by the time the First Order began its attack. So they're still out there.
- Nobody in the First Order has any respect for General Hux whatsoever. Some of the former Imperials in the ranks think that he is incompetent as a military leader and that he cares more about grand theatrical gestures than tactically sound decisions.
- Case in point, Hux had given explicit orders that no fighters be launched during the attack on D'Qar because he wanted to make a point of smashing the Resistance with the capital ships alone. The captain of the dreadnought thought this was idiotic and had the TIEs prepped for launch just in case.
- The book explains how the hyperspace tracking system works. They took all data accumulated throughout galactic history by the Old Republic and the Empire on navigation, hyperspace routes, astrography, every after action report and every report from every commerce guild or shipping company, etc.; basically all data ever recorded on travelling through hyperspace and then they input that and the sensor readings on the last known trajectory of the ship into a massive supercomputer and run simulations until they narrow it down to one destination. As Snoke points out when Hux explains this, the system involves no new technological discovery or stroke of genius, it just applies sheer brute force to the problem until it cracks it.
- Leia had recieved some training in accessing the Force consciously from Luke.
If I find anything else of interest I'll post it here.