If I managed to get your tears flowing, then I have done my job by wrecking this god damn ship.

Oh no, I don't hate the ship. I hate that I saw no way to make it happy in the end. Stupid Snoke. Stupid Dark Side. Why must they always ruin things for people!?

Now, I'm sure you guys are wondering: what happened afterwards? Let me give it to you in bullet points:

*Amara died in Ben's arms (my poor ship)

*General Hux does eventually recover from his coma (I'm not happy about it either)

*Snoke is in fact dead (no, for real)

*Instead of falling further into the dark, before the First Order can piece together what happened, Ben commandeers a ship (he also has Amara with him...how he manages to not get caught surprises even me)

*Ben and Amara will escape from Starkiller base to another planet, where he will give her a funeral pyre

Speaking of that last one...there is another part after this! Consider it a bonus chapter, a little more of a better ending (though, really, Amara is dead, so how can this really be better?)