Love long winded posts like that RL, gives me a lot to chew on and think about. I’ll say, no matter what, the people who think the victories of ROTJ were shat on will think that no matter how you frame the crawl. You’re either okay with there being more after the happy ending, or not. I really like the idea of star destroyers jumping away in ROTJ and I’d love to see that. When it comes to IX, I’m not sure how it’ll go, and I like your thought. I’ll say personally I’ll be pretty annoyed if it’s an ROTJ happy ending redux “but we really mean it this time” sort of thing. If they’re properly concluding the story they’ve been telling thus far in the ST, there’ll be a big victory, but it’ll be understood that the war in the general sense (if not the specific sense) will never be truly over, but that’s okay because they have what it takes to keep fighting.

I like your ROTJ crawl a lot. I personally have a crazy notion to state the Luke is trying to bring balance to the force. But I don’t know if I can fit it.

As for the red star destroyer, you could probably just add a couple red stripes a la the FO special forces tie fighters, which would be a lot easier to accomplish.