The original script showed a Star Destroyer plummeting from space to crash land on Jakku moments before we are introduced to a masked Rey, inside salvaging for parts.
Some fans have always felt that the opening moments in Star Wars: The Force Awakens immediately following the crawl where underwhelming.
We still get Rey salvaging parts, but while the Star Destroyer moment was storyboarded it never made it into the final film.
Here, we see two Republic ships towing the blasted out Star Destroyer, cutting it loose into Jakku’s gravitational field.