“There’s no doubt the First Order control the galaxy.”
Dre, that’s not what we see in the two movies thus far. The First Order seem to have a serious Arsenal but we don’t ever see any garrisons or colonial troops on any planets like we did so frequently with the Empire.
In fact the FO don’t have a presence on any of the planets we see in the ST, they turn up and attack like raiders then depart.
It’s what RJ put into the crawl and dialogue. If he didn’t want the viewer to have the impression, that the FO is an unstoppable force, he wouldn’t have put it in.
Episode VIII
The Last Jedi
The FIRST ORDER reigns.
Having decimated the peaceful
Republic, Supreme Leader Snoke
now deployes his merciless
legions to seize military
control of the galaxy.
Only General Leia Organa’s
band of RESISTANCE fighters
stand against the rising
tyranny, certain that Jedi
Master Luke Skywalker will
return and restore a spark of
hope to the fight
But the Resistance has been
exposed. As the First Order
speeds toward the rebel base,
the brave heroes mount a
desperate escape…
It opens with the worst, the shocker. The First Order Reigns. But from the rest of the crawl, this is technically inaccurate because they don’t yet reign over anything new. Troops have been sent out, but nothing conquered yet. While the second paragraph goes on to say that Leia and the Resistance stand against the rising tyranny. And what are they waiting for? Luke to come and restore a spark of hope to the fight. The movie goes on to reveal that Leia has friends and allies who could save them, but don’t. It is not implied that they have been crushed, but that that have chosen not to respond and the first paragraph of the crawl already provided the reason. So there is plenty of room to doubt that the First Order controls anything more now than they did at the opening of TFA. They have launched the attack fleets, but not yet done anything. Wiping out the resistance and the hero of the old Rebel Alliance seems to be their first priority. They know what a danger Leia can be and she slips through their fingers thanks to Luke and Rey. The OT crawls presented the Empire as an unstoppable force and look what they did - they stopped them.