Det verkar som om TIE-fighters inte riktar sig mot Finn och Rey specifikt , de riktade sig helt enkelt till personer som de såg att köra mot ett fartyg . Efter att ha förstört sina transportmedel (och vad de trodde var det enda rymdvärdiga fartyget i rymdporten) vände de sig sedan mot staden.
Det var först när presenningen kom ut från Falken att de verkar ha insett att det fanns ett andra skepp på parkeringsplatsen.
She pulled back on the yoke. The freighter rose into the sky, roaring with new life.
In the town below, she saw Unkar Plutt crouch out of his ruined booth and shake his fist at the ship.
But he was the least of her concerns. The two TIEs banked away from Niima Outpost and pursued them. - The Force Awakens: Junior Novelisation
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Below, the puffy-faced figure of Unkar Plutt emerged from a collapsed structure to scream at the sky. “Hey! That’s miiiiine!”
Finding the oddly named craft surprisingly responsive to manual control, an increasingly optimistic Rey spun it around and accelerated, blasting away from the port. The pair of TIE fighters that had been shooting up the town immediately gave chase. - Force Awakens: Official Novelisation