Parece que os TIE-combatentes não estavam atacando especificamente Finn e Rey , eles estavam simplesmente mirando em pessoas que viram correndo em direção a um navio . Tendo destruído seus meios de transporte (e o que eles achavam que era o único navio espacial no espaçoporto), eles se voltaram para atacar a cidade.
Foi somente quando a lona saiu do Falcon que eles parecem ter percebido que havia um segundo navio no estacionamento.
She pulled back on the yoke. The freighter rose into the sky, roaring with new life.
In the town below, she saw Unkar Plutt crouch out of his ruined booth and shake his fist at the ship.
But he was the least of her concerns. The two TIEs banked away from Niima Outpost and pursued them. - The Force Awakens: Junior Novelisation
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Below, the puffy-faced figure of Unkar Plutt emerged from a collapsed structure to scream at the sky. “Hey! That’s miiiiine!”
Finding the oddly named craft surprisingly responsive to manual control, an increasingly optimistic Rey spun it around and accelerated, blasting away from the port. The pair of TIE fighters that had been shooting up the town immediately gave chase. - Force Awakens: Official Novelisation