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Pyramids are cool.
Want something mysterious for your players to investigate? Make it a pyramid. Instant coolness factor, plus the bonus of everything they've ever heard about pyramids being associated with treasure and deathtraps and curses and tombs possibly full of undead things.
Basically, a pyramid is more fun than almost any other shape.
Commentary by memnarch (who has not seen the movie)
That's a very neat explanation for the evil pyramids. So was comic-Ochi related to the AnaZone launch then? I'm pretty sure that Kylo wouldn't have simply wanted the pyramid in the first place if it was just some BestoonTuber's prize.
And in the spirit of minor details being extremely important, Babu interrupting himself like that makes me incredibly suspicious. Something Babu knows about Rey and how she's gotten that weird attention from the Dark Side perhaps? I would have said "figured out she's related to Luke", but then I realized that Rey would likely have caused some kind of revenge-by-proxy reaction already if that was the meaning there.
Speaking of Luke though, now that we're even further past just swearing revenge and into luck-based plans, I predict that Babu has problems when Threepio tells him that the First Order basically stole all of the revenge already. It will be even more entertaining when a character points out just how much random chance there was in making this plan. Seriously, a galaxy is a really really large place!
Transcript
Babu Frik: Then, my symphony of ultimate vengeance approached its first glorious note! An Overture of Doom to be sung to Starkiller, Solo, and the beast Chewbacca!
Babu Frik: Across the gulf of space, my mind, immeasurably superior to theirs, slowly and surely drew my plans against them.
Babu Frik: I laid a trap so cunning that, should a lesser intellect behold it, their very thoughts would unravel.
Babu Frik: Ochi of BestoonTube had crafted a view-harvesting treasure hunt. Five mysterious pyramids, inviting the fortunate, or the foolish, to a hidden planet.
Babu Frik: For one pyramid, a dagger he made the key. I left his corpse rotting on Tatooine, bent the dagger’s runes to my own design, and baited the snare of false hope.
Babu Frik: I knew the day would dawn when my riddle would draw the chosen fools inexorably to Kijimi, to a place thereon that never was.
Babu Frik: To those whose sins wronged me not, the trail was but folly and falsehood; they would depart, broken in spirit, muttering at shadows.
Babu Frik: I shifted into the form of a lowly blacksmith, while Zorii prowled the streets for seekers of the fabled “Factory Gate”.
Zorii: They actually were looking for a blacksmith, of all things. But that one’s a Jedi, which made me think they might be connected.
Babu Frik: What? That’s—
Babu Frik: Never mind. I knew this droid. From Cloud City. She was their unwavering companion!
Babu Frik: But I had to tread carefully. I could not simply ask. This droid has morality. Loyalty. Faith unshakeable. She would never betray her friends.
C-3PO: {robotic voice} I would have entertained a decent offer.