In the first installment of the sequel
trilogy, The Force Awakens (2015),
the
opening crawl reveals that Luke
Skywalker had mysteriously vanished
some time in the 30 years following
the
events of Return of the Jedi. Luke
went
into hiding after his nephew and
apprentice, Ben Solo, turned to the
dark side and was later dubbed Kylo
Ren. When Ren killed all of his fellow
apprentices and ushered in the
despotic reign of the First Order, Luke
felt responsible, and disappeared. At
the end of the film, the Resistance
manage to reconstruct a map, which
traces the location of the temple from
the Empire's archives to his location,
and he is subsequently found on the
planet Ahch-To by the young
scavenger, Rey, who presents him
with
the lightsaber previously wielded by
both Luke and his father.