One more slight update. I put the previous version to music and realized that there is a dramatic musical sting which happens at the fourth and sixth lines of the second paragraph. To capitalize on this I shifted the reveal of the First Order and its fortress down a line.

It is a time of desolation.
Luke Skywalker, striving
to restore the legendary
Jedi Order, has vanished.

With the New Republic
overwhelmed by chaos
and despair, the sinister
FIRST ORDER has risen
from the shadows of a
hidden Imperial fortress
to proclaim that anyone
who seeks the lost Jedi
shall be destroyed.

Appalled by this decree,
a few faithful Senators
have secretly lent their
support to the mission
of a brave RESISTANCE
to find the last Jedi and
restore peace and justice
to the darkening stars…