"So, my question is - how did Finn go from that position to field combat in a major operation to retrieve vital information, without seemingly doing anything in between? It seems too convenient for me, just a way to make sure he was involved in two key points of the story:"
Detta är täckt (och delvis underförstått) i en prequelbok "Före uppvakningen".
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Som i berättelsen var Finn i grunden en exemplarisk kadett om du bedömer sin kampbekämpning. Han var stor i vapen och melee-strid.
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Att vara i en sanitetsdetalj var troligen inte en återspegling av honom som en soldat, men att han var en värdelös cay-det när han var på Starkiller. Någon måste gräva latriner, och gröna trainees är bara rätt uppsättning övrigt värdelös muskel för det.
För att vara tydlig, är på sanitet INTE täckt av boken själv (eller någon annan kanon utom den ena linjen i filmen).
Men vi kan se att det hände väl innan hans träning slutade från bokens exakta plot, som jag betonade i det här svaret
(kortversion: boken täcker de sista stadierna av hans träning, hans första riktiga lödtillverkning på gruvläger, och i slutet av den här uppgiften är han rakt i flyg till Jakku. Det betyder att hans Starkiller-tjänst var väl förhastad i slutet av hans träning).
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Finn hade markeringar av en awsome soldat, och var på "watch for promotion" -listan av Captain Phasma , även i träning. Återigen var det efter "sanitet" -plikten (eller i värsta fall under det).
Han var även hans 4-maniga gruppledare:
“Let me guess,” the trooper said. “FN-2187 is in charge, right?”
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Han slog upp det genom att visa empati, först mot en kadett, då mot slående gruvledare på hans första "riktiga" uppgift.
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Som nämnts i sista punkten, strax efter avslutad träning skickades de till sin första post: pacification.
They moved from the base to a transport and from the transport to orbit, traveling with another half dozen of the trainee squads, all of them in their armor and with their rifles. The rifles were new, no longer the training version but the real thing, F-11D blaster rifles, loaded with live ammunition and fully charged for battle. Their first look at the Star Destroyer, majestic and ominous at once, was through the hull windows as it came into view—almost impossibly small at first, then growing to become almost impossibly large as their shuttle sped toward it.
“This is for real,” Nines said, and FN-2187 thought there was awe in his voice, as if he’d never expected them to make it that far....
FN-2187 found that he and the rest of the team had been assigned to barracks almost identical to those they’d left behind on the surface. The difference was that the ones aboard the ship were occupied by “real” stormtroopers, men who ignored them entirely as they located their bunks and stowed their gear. They’d hardly had a moment to remove their helmets and settle themselves when they heard the order coming over the ship’s PA system: all hands prepare for hyperspace.
... “Fresh meat,” one of the stormtroopers said. “Who’s who?”...
The deployment was to a mining colony established in an artificial asteroid field collectively known as Pressy’s Tumble. Once there’d been an ore-rich moon, but the ore itself had been buried deep, and instead of setting up operations on the surface and sinking mines, some engineer with a facility for explosives had decided the best solution was just to blow the whole thing to smithereens. Those smithereens now floated in the Outer Rim system of Pressylla, along with three inhospitable planets and a red dwarf sun that made the fragments of the lost moon glow with a hellish light.
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What FN-2187 did know was that they were there to “restore order,” according to the briefing given by Captain Phasma herself. Republic agents, she told them, had infiltrated the mining operations and were both sabotaging equipment and creating dissent among the miners. The First Order’s presence was required to put a stop to it, to get the miners back on schedule, and to prevent any further delays.
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Fortfarande var han bra, så Phasma bestämde sig för att låta honom växa till att bli en "riktig" stormtrooper, och hans chans att göra det var att bli inklded i Kylo Rens uppdrag tillsammans med sin grupp.
Captain Phasma watched FN-2187 on the monitor in her quarters. He’d stopped firing, stopped even moving, and was just standing amid the ever-changing field of moving figures.
She sighed. She’d had such hope for FN-2187. He had shown such remarkable promise. He had shown the capacity to be special.She picked up the orders on her desk and reviewed them once more. They’d already made the jump to hyperspace, and she knew it would be less than an hour before they reached their rendezvous point to take on their new passenger. Kylo Ren had already transmitted the coordinates for where they would be headed next.
... She switched off the monitor. He’d be part of the detail when they reached the landing point on Jakku, she decided. Perhaps when someone was shooting back at him, he would understand what it meant to be a real stormtrooper, what it meant to serve the First Order, body and soul.
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UPDATE
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Först och främst skrev jag också ett stort långt svar som belyser varför Finn var toppen av linjens kadett , och därmed ganska på plats på Jakku
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För det andra insåg jag just att hela "Sanitation" saken kanske inte är sant i första hand: " Finns det några kanon bevis på att FN-2187 faktiskt arbetat med sanitet? "
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