The United Systems Military (USM) decided to keep her alive, naming her "Number 8." Due to the cloning process, she was a bionic, super-humanly strong warrior queen who had inherited genetic traits from the alien, and had acidic blood.The village""s wells dried up and the river turned to sand.The crops were swallowed by the earth and the animals laid down and turned to dust.A fire set in the fields was a diversion, allowing the evil Maharaja""s men to steal the village""s children.Consensus was mixed about the reworked version, although most critics felt that the additional material did only a little o enhance the film""s themes or expand upon the plot.]Paul ""Taxi Driver"" Schrader and Mardik ""Mean Streets"" Martin contributed the superb (and un-nominated) screenplay hat was loosely based on Jake La Motta""s book of the same name - it chronicled the boxer""s own rise and tragic, self-destructive, violent fall.Kylo Ren (newly-motivated after being reprimanded by Snoke) piloted his own Starfighter to lead the assault of TIE-fighters against the Resistance fleet.