Instead of going dark side Ben steals the Millennium Falcon and runs away from home. And then ten years later General Hux is dealing with all of these construction delays on Starkiller because this $&%(ing smuggler trash keeps boosting their shipments and no-one can catch him, so he’s all FINE I WILL GO AFTER HIM MY GODDAMN SELF YOU INCOMPETENT TWATS. so yeah instead of blowing up the Hosnian system he ends up in a dive bar on a nowhere planet being sweet-talked by this unexpectedly smooth/dorky MF pilot who he is going to kill OK, just any minute now. Totally.