So I was just thinking about this while talking about the movie with a friend tonight. When Palpatine raises his hands to form a new fleet of star destroyers, I think that might be an attempt to retcon the non explanation for the growth and resources of the FO, just like creating Snoke, gone is the political machine of TLJ, and TFA’s status quo has also now been completely explained, Palpatine was behind it all! Sheev out playing holochess while we all playing checkers…

EDIT: wait…nevermind, Poe then says his followers have been building the fleet for years, I don’t even know anymore.