After the Battle of Endor, San Tekka helped Luke Skywalker recover secret Jedi lore that the Empire had tried to erase, and Leia Organa hopes the old scout can now help find her brother.
Following decades of adventure, San Tekka retired to live simply on Jakku, where he follows the dictates of the once-forbidden Church of the Force.
The Church of the Force is an "underground" sort of faith that operates illegally - due to the laws inflicted by The Empire (and, more secretly, The Sith). The Church of the Force is "loosely affiliated worshipers of the Jedi ideals, who steadfastly believe that one day their light would return to the galaxy."
Tekka is not a Jedi. Instead, Tekka is part of a "collective of worshippers" at Tuanul village, "who praise the virtues of the Force without being graced by the ability to wield it."
As The Empire fell, they essentially inflicted a bit of the ol' Scorched Earth on the knowledge they'd gained of the universe at large. They "destroyed records that would have been vital to the New Republic's attempts at galactic reconstruction."
As such, the New Republic relied on people like Lor San Tekka, who is a "font of obscure information" about the Outer Rim and esoteric bits of knowledge like what is contained on his "antiquated data storage unit," this is Lor's "most valued possession."
"This will begin to make things right."
Tekka gives this data storage unit to Poe Dameron shortly before Tuanul village is destroyed by stormtroopers from the First Order.
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