Here’s Poe’s intel briefing scene to the Resistance without any direct mentions of Palpatine:
I’m actually surprised how well that worked! I love that people are starting to piece things together for their edits. I feel like you’d still want to cut Merry’s/Charlie’s line about cloning. It already felt like it came out of left field and now that Palpatine isn’t even mentioned it’s just random.
I left it because it makes it seem like they believe the Sith fleet could be manned or assembled by clones.