So, inspired by the Palpatine-less edit that is in the works, I was thinking about removing the other the thing in the ST that really bothers me. The destruction of the New Republic.

My thought is that starting with something like TFA:Restructured, we have SKB get destroyed before it can fire at all.

The TLJ crawl and film would be reformatted to remove references to the destruction of the republic, and when the call for help is sent out and we’re told there is no response, the viewer would assume that the Republic is still just being stubborn like in TFA.

Then when we get to RoS, we add some voice over to the arriving fleets saying the Republic has sent help. Maybe even alter the crawl to say that the Republic is openly sponsoring the Resistance now.

Edit: Also, are there any good finished edits of TLJ that remove Canto Bight?