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'Star Wars Episode 8' spoilers, plot news: New details emerge about Rey's family

There are tons of theories about who Force-sensitive Rey (Daisy Ridley) is related to, but the prequel comic to "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" may have just revealed the answer to this mystery prior to the release of "Star Wars: Episode 8."

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Reddit user Beeslo came up with an explanation as to why Rey is strong with the force and is such a great pilot too (she piloted the Millennium Falcon without trouble). For one, she is believed to be the sister of Poe Dameron (Oscar Isaac).

In the "Star Wars" limited comic series "Shattered Empire," which takes place just after the Battle of Endor, Luke Skywalker gives Rebel fighter Shara Bey one of the two Force trees he came across, intending to use these trees to train a new generation of Jedi.

Shara, who planted the tree outside her home, happens to be the mother of Poe Dameron, who is expected to play a bigger role in "Star Wars: Episode 8." According to Beeslo, Shara and her husband, who was also a Rebel fighter, might have had a second child.

That child would be Rey and she likely benefited a great deal from the Force tree, which would make sense of the fact that she was Force-powerful in the first film and expectedly in "Star Wars: Episode 8." Beeslo adds that Poe, who should remember she had a sister but didn't in "The Force Awakens), was somehow tricked into thinking his little sister was dead.

This might be what would "Star Wars: Episode 8" will play around to explain who Rey's parents are or who she is related to. The movie will also be a perfect time for Rey and Poe to share some screen time. There has to be a reason why they did not interact even just once in "The Force Awakens."

"Episode 7" director J.J. Abrams has once said that Rey's parents aren't in "Star Wars: Episode 8," only to backtrack and say that she simply "doesn't discover them" in the first film.

While these are merely speculations, it will be interesting to see it all pan out in "Star Wars: Episode 8." The film will be in cinemas Dec. 15, 2017.