So I like A Gentle Restructure’s moving of the Hosnian destruction to the end as a failure of the Resistance to destroy the superlaser in time. However, I still can’t get past having another Death Star. I want the Senate to be destroyed via dreadnought. How do we make this work? I feel like there could be a way to accomplish this using the opening scene of TLJ, but I fear for how the holes that may create in Poe’s arc for that film. I also don’t wanna entirely lose the attack run on Starkiller Base.
Poe doesn’t really have an arc, but if you’re gonna have planet destruction you might as well take a Star Destroyer from IX. Maybe take the Kijimi sequence and use it.
I don’t want a planetary destruction, though. Just a concentrated blow on one spot like the one delivered by the dreadnought.
Gotcha. That’s harder without having a new VFX shot, as the film barely establishes where we are or what happened as it is. You could possibly repurpose/recolour a shot from Rogue One on Jedha, to show the destruction but not the whole planet.