By the way, I finally got around to Lost Stars. I'm not sure what my expectations even were going in, but I was really impressed. Easily the best of the Journey to TFA stuff. I'm really looking forward to Claudia Grey's next SW book. As far as direct connections to TFA go, we see some of the Battle of Jakku, including the crash of the Star Destroyer Inflictor (I believe this has been mentioned here already). No talk of the Super Star Destroyer, though, which I'm still guessing is the Ravager from Aftermath. I was hoping for some clue about the mysterious Fleet Admiral, but whatever, it looks like the Aftermath sequel is coming out in a few months anyway. The big takeaway from Lost Stars is that the Empire remains far more unified after Jakku than the New Republic realizes. The novel ends with the fleet massing in some obscure nebula with one of the supporting characters poised to become an antagonist. The whole conceit of the book is that it follows sort of mid-level players without showing what the top brass is up to, so I have no idea if this regrouped Imperial fleet is set up to evolve into the First Order, but hopefully that gets addressed in the other Aftermath books.