I’m probably not going to move the Han scene up like that because it doesn’t seem to me that the following scene bears the change believably. 😕
I wish it worked better.

I’ll have to think and stuff about how to structure the post-duel scenes. I guess Kijimi’s destruction really can be pretty much snipped with few lateral effects. This makes it feel more like the First Order and Final Order were meant to come together in the end, rather than “Muwhahaha, that was just a false start and HERE is the REAL doomsday machine!”

Here’s the current state of the crawl. The first sentence is temporary and needs something more inspired. And the second paragraph needs another clause. Not sure if “rumored” could be replaced with something like “stashed.”

Episode IX
THE RISE OF SKYWALKER
The flame of rebellion burns. To suffocate a growing uprising, the tyrannical First Order has silenced communication between neighboring systems.

General Leia Organa has dispatched her brave agents across the stars to unite the disparate rebelling worlds in the name of Resistance.

Meanwhile, Supreme Leader Kylo Ren has traveled to Mustafar, chasing whispers of a rumored Imperial fleet that would allow him to destroy any threat to his power…