Damn it you’re right. I swear this movie is impossible to work with. Unless we cut out that it WAS the message. We could assume that they heard Palpatine’s broadcast. As much as Hal said he isn’t going to put that in the movie I feel it is almost too essential to not include.
I feel you… this has been my issue too lol… Everytime you try to move a scene around, it requires another scene to function almost like it is intricately pieced together so editing out of order is difficult. It is a really nice introduction idea though, could still be used IMO