Poe to the Rescue Poe to the Rescue was the first episode of the " " series . It details Commander Poe Dameron , along with C - 3PO and BB - 8 infiltrating and rescuing Admiral Ackbar from the First Order . Plot summary . The Resistance leader Admiral Ackbar is being held as a prisoner aboard a First Order " Resurgent " - class Star Destroyer . Captain Phasma and another officer enter the cell to interrogate Ackbar about the location of the Resistance base . The Admiral is still defiant and throws a watering can at the officer . Undaunted , Phasma warns Ackbar that Kylo Ren is coming to interrogate him and that he is not as " warm and cuddly as her . " Meanwhile , C - 3PO , who is sporting a red arm on an acidic planet , is picked up by the Resistance pilot Poe Dameron in a captured First Order Atmospheric Assault Lander . C - 3PO informs Poe that Admiral Ackbar is being held aboard a Star Destroyer in the Bakura sector . The two are also joined by Poe ' s droid BB - 8 , whom Threepio argues with during the journey . For the rescue mission , Poe disguises his lander as a First Order ship . When C - 3PO waves and talks about his red arm , Poe asks about it . But the droid is too embarrassed to talk about it . Shortly later , Poe ' s ship exits hyperspace and docks in the Star Destroyer ' s hangar bay . The same First Order officer greets the shuttle , thinking that Kylo Ren has arrived . However , Poe and the droids flatten him with the ship ' s door and quickly overpower his squad of stormtroopers . Moving into the ship ' s corridors , Poe uses a stolen stormtrooper helmet as a bowl to knock out another squad of stormtroopers like bowling pins . Poe soon finds Ackbar ' s cell and tells the Admiral he has come to rescue him . C - 3PO and BB - 8 however accidentally release a whole host of Alien s and other creatures from the cell including Jawa s and a Wampa . In the end , Poe blasts Ackbar ' s cell door open with his blaster . The newly - freed alien prisoners run over Captain Phasma and two of her stormtroopers . Phasma orders hers troops to stop the rebels from escaping but they and the aliens make it back to the atmospheric lander . Phasma then sends several TIE / fo space superiority fighter s and TIE / sf space superiority fighter s after them . Poe ' s ship narrowly avoids colliding with Kylo Ren ' s command shuttle . Kylo is forced to take evasive action to avoid crashing into the TIEs . Upon landing in the Star Destroyer ' s hangar bay , he is greeted by the same First Order officer ; whom he hurls aside with The Force . Kylo then reprimands Phasma for failing him for the first time . Meanwhile , the TIEs pursue Poe ' s ship . C - 3PO moans about the stress the pursuit is causing him while Ackbar thinks that they will not make it . However , Poe tells the , to hang on before leading them into an asteroid field . Poe hides the stolen atmospheric lander behind a large asteroid . Two First Order TIE Fighter Pilot s in their TIE / sf fighter spot the ship and destroy it . However , it turns out to be a decoy and Poe destroys their fighter with his T - 70 X - wing fighter . Meanwhile , Ackbar and C - 3PO have boarded an old Delta - 7 " Aethersprite " - class light interceptor , identical to the " Azure Angel " . Watching the fray , C - 3PO praises Poe for being full of surprises . However , they are soon pursued by the remaining TIE fighters . Ackbar ' s ship is soon hit by enemy fire and C - 3PO falls off with part of the ship . BB - 8 rescues him and fixes him back to Ackbar ' s ship . Poe then flies behind the two TIEs and blasts them to pieces . Having accomplished their mission , the rebels head back to the Resistance base . Ackbar asks Threepio about his new red arm but the protocol droid is too embarrassed to talk about it ; prompting Poe to ask why he keeps on bringing attention to it . Continuity . The events of this episode take place after C - 3PO gets his red arm in the Star Wars one - shot comic " " . The special makes several comic references to the red arm and C - 3PO ' s supposed dislike for it .