^Agreed on all points. I think that the destroyed shuttle idea would be the best of the scenarios if done well, but it would probably be a great deal of work. For the destroyer alone idea, there could be some dialogue offscreen from the large brown alien, though he only has one line of dialogue in the film. It may be changed enough to make it work. I’ve also been thinking about the Finn dialogue change. He could say ‘The First Order, they’ve come’ using that word from his ‘come get it’ line at the end of the movie. Or if he ever says something approximating ‘they’ve tracked us’, that could be inserted where ‘It’s the Republic’ was originally, so no need to lip sync it, and the line makes a bit more sense: ‘They’ve tracked us! It’s the First Order, they’ve done it!’

I’m not particularly good with audio, so just some ideas for the experts here 😃