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You can't go past a good raving descent into madness.
At least, you should make sure that the PCs in a game can't go past it. They should be exposed to the full experience to really get the feel of it. And to let you satisfy your unfulfilled dramatic desires.
Commentary by memnarch (who has not seen the movie)
Yep, there's the First Order right on cue. Interesting that Rey gets to sense Chewie here. I guess the GM thinks it's important to have at least some of the party members on the ground realize Chewie's not dead. I wonder if something like that happened in the movie as well.
Poe/Jim is so fixated on finding the Factory Gate, he doesn't realize that he'd still need to leave this room in order to find it. It's not like the First-Order-made gate is going to show up right there in the room with them. He does have a veeery small point though; the players came to Babu to get a copy of the knife. They're now leaving without that. So we're falling back to the old "who knows what comes next" part of the plot, though I suspect a large part of it will involve running away from that ship. And probably a bunch of the troopers that were already on the ground.
Transcript
Rey: I dash up to the roof. What’s happening?
GM: The black wedge of Kylo Ren’s star destroyer thrums overhead.
Rey: Uh oh.
GM: Rey, you sense something. Roll Force Sense.
Rey: 13.
GM: It’s Chewie. He’s on board the Steadfast. Alive.
Rey: Is Babu still raving?
Babu Frik: They call me mad? Mad! And yet who is truly insane? I, who sculpted stratagems of exquisite cruelty, carving the formless maelstrom of Fate into monumental perfection, or the vagaries of Entropy, grinding my masterworks to dust in the jaws of Chaos?!
Babu Frik: Ha! ... Ha ha! ... Ha ha haaa! ...
Babu Frik: Yes. ’Tis Existence itself that festers with madness! Not I!
Rey: Hey! We gotta go!
Poe: But we haven’t found the Factory Gate!
C-3PO: And I’m enjoying the ravings.
GM: Zorii leads you out into the snow-swirled night.
Zorii: Come on, while he’s preoccupied.
Finn: Why are you helping us?
Zorii: You heard his pizza plans. Also, he arranges his bookshelves by colour.
Finn: Wow. There’s depraved and then... there’s that.