Save for Han Solo’s mercenary ways on display in Star Wars: A New Hope, we’ve never really seen apolitical figures who didn’t give a shit about the war raging through the galaxy.
Learning this new information makes Johnson’s entry into the Star Wars canon all the more interesting, as it not only explores something that the franchise really hasn’t delved into, it sounds like a completely Rian Johnson idea.
Already, shades of Looper seem to show in this description, as we’re now going to be privy to the class of citizen that doesn’t know, or care, about the struggles of The Resistance against The First Order.