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Anything weird that happens in an adventure, you can later blame on some other agent altogether.
Rocks fell and everyone nearly died in some random adventure a year ago on the other side of the continent? That was me!
This gives your villains an aura of forethought and planning that no PC could ever hope to match.
Commentary by memnarch (who has not seen the movie)
Man, that is a long time planning this out. There hadn't even been a sign of time shenanigans yet! I guess this has been the overarching theme for the sequel comics plot. I also wonder how long the GM has planned this speech. Just as long as this particular scene with these kinds of hints? I know I couldn't pull out all of these five-dollar words on a dime.
So if Babu Frik né Boba Fett wants to destroy Han, Luke, and Chewie, that means finding out more about them is the goal for the comic. And with only Chewie living, I suppose that could be one way they get Babu to be helpful, at least for the moment. Pete at least would have no problem pushing Chewie under the bus here; there's no immediate danger to Chewbacca given that he's a prisoner of the First Order, so it's hardly betraying the party. And maybe that's sort of what the movie is as well, given that there's still no panicking or fighting happening here over Threepio's red eyes.
Transcript
Babu Frik: I resolved to trespass onto that dread vessel, the Millennium Falcon.
Babu Frik: As I crawled unseen through the ship’s secret arteries, baleful voices, blazing forth from the shattered ruins of my yesteryears, ripped from me an involuntary shudder, whose clamorous echo all but proclaimed my presence as they spake my name!
{flashback begins: when Finn and Rey meet Han and Chewie on the Falcon in the Erevana docking bay}
Rey: So... you’re Xasha now?
Xasha: Yeah, I stole the identity of some bounty hunter.
Chewbacca: She used to work for Boba Fett, helping him track down Obi-Wan.
[SFX]: thump
Finn: Boba Fett? Who’s Boba Fett? And Obi-Wan?
[SFX]: clang... clang...
BB-8: What’s that noise?
{flashback ends}
Babu Frik: Han Solo had butchered my partner Xasha and stolen her very soul! Was there no limit to his perfidy!
Babu Frik: I swore I would reclaim my destiny by destroying Solo, Starkiller, and the treacherous Wookiee!
Babu Frik: Yet I could not simply blast them there and then. No! I would escape and fashion a revenge so cold that they would plead not for mercy, but for simple warmth.
Rey: Honestly, you would have saved us a lot of story hassle if you had just shot them.